Patent ID: 7405803

Claim:
An exposure apparatus that forms a pattern on an object via a projection optical system, said apparatus comprising: a setting device that sets an exposure condition whose a setting value is variable in at least one setting information among a plurality of setting information, related to a projection condition of a pattern subject to projection by said projection optical system; an adjustment system that adjusts an imaging state of a pattern by said projection optical system; and a calculating device which decides optimal adjustment amounts of said adjustment system under a plurality of exposure conditions that have different setting values in said at least one setting information to optimize said imaging state for each exposure condition, respectively, based on information related to wavefront aberration of said projection optical system and a plurality of Zernike Sensitivity Charts that correspond to said plurality of exposure conditions and are different from each other, the calculating device making at least one of said plurality of Zernike Sensitivity Charts by interpolation calculation based on different Zernike Sensitivity Charts from said at least one Zernike Sensitivity Chart.