Patent ID: 8836915

Claim:
An immersion lithographic apparatus comprising: a substrate table configured to support a substrate; a projection system configured to direct a patterned beam of radiation onto a substrate; a liquid handling system configured to supply and confine immersion liquid to a space defined between the projection system and a substrate, or the substrate table, or both; and a controller to adjust an angle of a lower surface of the liquid handling system relative to the top surface of the substrate for during motion of the substrate and/or substrate table relative to the liquid handling system, dependent upon a position of the substrate and/or substrate table relative to the liquid handling system and/or a direction of relative movement between the substrate and/or substrate table and the liquid handling system, wherein the angle is adjusted such that a leading edge of the liquid handling system is further from the top surface of the substrate and/or substrate table than a trailing edge of the liquid handling system.