Patent ID: 7977038

Claim:
A substrate processing method of performing a plurality of rounds of patterning on a film to be processed located at a same layer above a surface of a substrate, comprising: a thermal processing step of mounting and thermally processing the substrate on a thermal processing plate in each of the rounds of patterning, wherein a position in a rotation direction and in a horizontal direction of the substrate with respect to the thermal processing plate when the substrate is mounted on the thermal processing plate in said thermal processing step in each of second and subsequent rounds of patterning is aligned with a position of the substrate with respect to the thermal processing plate when the substrate is mounted on the thermal processing plate in said thermal processing step in a first round of patterning, and wherein adjusting the position of the thermal processing plate is performed by rotating the thermal processing plate to rotationally align the position of the substrate in the second round of patterning with the position of the substrate in the first round of patterning.