Patent ID: 7742150

Claim:
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device comprising: a liquid immersion movement exposure of interposing a liquid between an exposure target substrate applied with exposure processing and a projection optical system of an exposure apparatus which carries out the exposure processing, and carrying out the exposure processing with respect to a plurality of exposure regions set on a surface of the exposure target substrate while relatively moving the exposure target substrate with respect to the projection optical system; a first liquid immersion movement of relatively moving the exposure target substrate with respect to the projection optical system without carrying out the exposure processing while interposing the liquid between the exposure target substrate and the projection optical system, in adjacent exposure regions of said each exposure region; and a second liquid immersion movement of relatively moving the exposure target substrate with respect to the projection optical system at a speed lower than a movement speed in the first liquid immersion movement, without carrying out the exposure processing, while interposing the liquid between the exposure target substrate and the projection optical system, in a distance that is longer than a movement distance in the first liquid immersion movement.