Radiation imagery chemistry: process – composition – or product th – Including control feature responsive to a test or measurement
Patent
1995-06-07
1997-12-02
Hamilton, Cynthia
Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product th
Including control feature responsive to a test or measurement
430 22, G03F 7207, G03F 722
Patent
active
056934394
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for exposing a pattern, formed on a mask, on each of a plurality of partitioned areas on a photosensitive substrate by a step-and-repeat scheme includes a projection optical system for projecting the pattern of the mask on the photosensitive substrate, a substrate stage for holding the photosensitive substrate and two-dimensionally moving the photosensitive substrate within a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the projection optical system, a detection unit for projecting a pattern image having a predetermined shape on the photosensitive substrate and photoelectrically detecting light reflected by the photosensitive substrate to detect a position at each of a plurality of points on the photosensitive substrate along the optical axis of the projection optical system, and a measurement unit for, when each of a plurality of measurement points in a partitioned area on which a pattern of the mask is to be exposed next coincides with or approaches the pattern image, detecting an offset amount between an imaging plane of the projection optical system and the next partitioned area along the optical axis during a stepping operation of the substrate stage, wherein the imaging plane and the next partitioned area are relatively moved along the optical axis in accordance with the measured offset amount before the pattern of the mask is exposed on the next partitioned area.
REFERENCES:
Wuestenhagen, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, vol. 16, No. 7, pp. 2306-2307, Dec. 1973.
Murakami Seiro
Nishi Kenji
Tanaka Yasuaki
Hamilton Cynthia
Nikon Corporation
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