Patent ID: 8080765

Claim:
A coating and developing apparatus comprising: a carrier block provided to receive a carrier holding therein a substrate; a processing block arranged back of the carrier block, the processing block having a coating block provided to form a coating film on a surface of a substrate before exposure which is removed from the carrier, and having a developing block provided to develop a substrate after exposure; and an interface block arranged back of the processing block to receive a substrate before exposure from the processing block and to transfer a substrate after exposure to the processing block, wherein the developing block is constituted by stacking unit blocks each including: a substrate transfer path extending linearly from a carrier-block side to an interface-block side within the developing block; a developing unit disposed on one side of the substrate transfer path and configured to develop a substrate with a developing solution; a heating unit disposed on the other side of the substrate transfer path and configured to heat a substrate; and a substrate transfer mechanism configured to transfer a substrate along the substrate transfer path and configured to transfer a substrate between the developing unit and the heating unit, and wherein the heating unit includes: a hot plate configured to heat a substrate and located at a distance from the substrate transfer path along a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the substrate transfer path; and a cooling plate configured to cool a substrate and located nearer to the substrate transfer path than the hot plate.