Patent ID: 8377349

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: bringing a pattern part for transfer formed on a template and a viscous material disposed on a material to be processed into contact with each other; and adjusting a distance between a surface of the material to be processed and a surface of the pattern part for transfer that faces the material to be processed to a desired distance, in a contact situation of the pattern part for transfer and the viscous material, the adjusting of the distance including adjusting a pressure after the pattern part for transfer and the viscous material are brought into contact with each other, wherein the adjusting of the distance is carried out by irradiating a region that is formed by superposing a first pattern part for an optical alignment formed in the template and a second pattern part for an optical alignment formed in a side of the material to be processed with a light via the template, measuring a light intensity of a diffraction light emitted from the region, and using the measured light intensity as a basis of the adjusting, the first pattern part being formed of a pattern having a plurality of concave portions and a plurality of convex portions arranged at equal intervals, and the adjusting of the distance and the pressure is carried out based on a relationship between an evaluation value of defects of a transfer pattern formed by transferring the pattern part for transfer onto the viscous material, and the distance and the pressure, the relationship being obtained by an experiment or a simulation.