Patent ID: 7281869

Claim:
A coating and developing system comprising: a carrier block for receiving a substrate carried thereto by a carrier; a processing block for processing a substrate transferred thereto from the carrier block to form films including a resist film on the substrate; an interface block for carrying a substrate to an exposure system, receiving a substrate processed by the exposure system and returning the substrate to the processing block to subject the substrate to a developing process and to transfer the substrate processed by the developing process to the carrier block; wherein a) the processing block is provided with a plurality of film forming unit blocks stacked up in layers and a developing unit block stacked up in layers with respect to the film forming unit blocks, b) the plurality of film forming unit blocks stacked up in layers include a liquid resist applying unit block for applying a liquid resist to a substrate and a liquid-processing unit block for applying a chemical solution for forming an antireflection film to a substrate; c) each of the unit blocks includes a liquid-processing unit for applying a chemical solution to a substrate, a heating unit for heating a substrate, and a carrying means for carrying a substrate from one to other of the liquid-processing unit and the heating unit; and d) each of the unit blocks is provided, on the side of the carrier block, with a transfer stage group including transfer stages stacked up in layers to transfer a substrate from one to another of the carrying means of the unit blocks, and substrate transfer means for transferring a substrate from one to another of the transfer stages.