Patent ID: 8135487

Claim:
A temperature setting method for a thermal processing plate mounting and thermally processing a substrate thereon, the thermal processing plate being divided into a plurality of regions, and a temperature being capable of being set for each of the regions, and a temperature correction value for adjusting an in-plane temperature of the thermal processing plate being capable of being set for each of the regions of the thermal processing plate, said method comprising the steps of: measuring states of an etching pattern within the substrate for a substrate for which a series of photolithography processing including the thermal processing on the thermal processing plate and an etching treatment thereafter have been finished; calculating the temperature correction values for the regions of the thermal processing plate from a measurement result of the states of the etching pattern within the substrate using a function relating correction amounts for the states of the etching pattern to the temperature correction values for the thermal processing plate; and setting the temperature for each of the regions of the thermal processing plate by each of the calculated temperature correction values.