Patent ID: 8259283

Claim:
An immersion lithographic apparatus comprising: a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate; a projection system configured to project a patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate; a liquid handling structure configured to supply and at least partly confine a liquid to a space between the projection system and the substrate and/or the substrate table; and a device configured to remove liquid from the substrate and/or the substrate table, the device comprising: a body having a face arranged to be positioned proximate to and opposing a surface of the substrate and/or the substrate table, wherein the body defines a first conduit and a second conduit, both opening in the face, the first conduit, the second conduit, or both the first and second conduits, having a part at the opening thereof that is arranged at an acute angle to a normal to the face, and a fluid conduits connecting each of the first and second conduits to a vacuum source, a gas source, or both a vacuum source and a gas source, wherein the device configured to remove liquid is positioned in the apparatus so that it can remove liquid from a part of the substrate and/or substrate table at the same time that the patterned radiation beam is projected onto the substrate.