[미국특허]
Apparatus for maintaining immersion fluid in the gap under the projection lens during wafer exchange using a co-planar member in an immersion lithography machine
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
G03B-027/58
G03F-007/20
G03B-027/52
출원번호
US-0785539
(2007-04-18)
등록번호
US-9081298
(2015-07-14)
발명자
/ 주소
Binnard, Michael
출원인 / 주소
NIKON CORPORATION
대리인 / 주소
Oliff PLC
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An apparatus and method maintain immersion fluid in the gap adjacent to the projection lens during the exchange of a work piece in a lithography machine. The apparatus and method include an optical assembly that projects an image onto a work piece and a stage assembly including a work piece table th
An apparatus and method maintain immersion fluid in the gap adjacent to the projection lens during the exchange of a work piece in a lithography machine. The apparatus and method include an optical assembly that projects an image onto a work piece and a stage assembly including a work piece table that supports the work piece adjacent to the optical assembly. An environmental system is provided to supply and remove an immersion fluid from the gap between the optical assembly and the work piece on the stage assembly. After exposure of the work piece is complete, an exchange system removes the work piece and replaces it with a second work piece. An immersion fluid containment system maintains the immersion liquid in the gap during removal of the first work piece and replacement with the second work piece.
대표청구항▼
1. A lithographic projection apparatus, comprising: a substrate table which holds a substrate;a projection system which projects a patterned beam of radiation onto the substrate through a liquid which is confined in a space between the projection system and the substrate, wherein the substrate, the
1. A lithographic projection apparatus, comprising: a substrate table which holds a substrate;a projection system which projects a patterned beam of radiation onto the substrate through a liquid which is confined in a space between the projection system and the substrate, wherein the substrate, the substrate table, or both forms a part of a boundary of the space;a member having a flat upper surface and forming a part of a boundary of the space in place of the substrate, the substrate table, or both;an actuator which moves the member independently from the substrate table in a horizontal direction; anda controller configured to control movement of the substrate table and the member so that the substrate table and the member are positioned adjacent to each other by a relative movement between the substrate table and the member in the horizontal direction, and the substrate table and the member are configured to, while being controlled by the controller to be adjacent to each other and moved relative to and below the projection system, maintain the liquid in the space in contact with the projection system while the controller controls the movement so that a border between the substrate table and the member moves in an area directly below the projection system during transitioning between a first state in which the substrate, the substrate table, or both forms the part of the boundary and a second state in which the member forms the part of the boundary in place of the substrate, the substrate table or both. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the actuator moves the member in a same plane as the substrate, the substrate table, or both, and to follow the substrate, the substrate table, or both, across the projection system. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a separate actuator which moves the substrate table. 4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the controller separately controls the member and the substrate table. 5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the actuator moves both the member and the substrate table. 6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the substrate table and the member are movable to be adjacent to each other and to be away from each other. 7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the member is at a same vertical level as the substrate table and neither the member nor the substrate table is moved out of the vertical level (i) to replace the substrate, the substrate table, or both, with the member as a part of the boundary of the space, and/or (ii) to replace the member with the substrate, the substrate table, or both as a part of the boundary of the space, or both. 8. A lithographic projection apparatus, comprising: a substrate table which holds a substrate;a projection system which projects a patterned beam of radiation onto the substrate through a liquid which is confined in a space between the projection system and the substrate, wherein the substrate, the substrate table, or both forms a part of a boundary of the space;a member having a flat upper surface and forming a part of a boundary of the space in place of the substrate, the substrate table, or both;a moving system which moves the substrate table and the member; anda controller configured to control the moving system to (i) move at least one of the substrate table and the member, one of which is arranged opposite to the projection system, relative to each other such that the substrate table and the member are positioned adjacent to each other and (ii) move the substrate table and the member while adjacent to each other relative to and below the projection system to replace the one of the substrate table and the member with the other one of the substrate table and the member to form the part of the boundary of the space,wherein the substrate table and the member are configured to, while being controlled by the controller to be adjacent to each other and moved relative to and below the projection system, maintain the liquid in the space in contact with the projection system while the controller controls movement of the substrate table and the member so that a border between the substrate table and the member moves in an area directly below the projection system during transitioning between a first state in which the substrate, the substrate table, or both forms the part of the boundary and a second state in which the member forms the part of the boundary in place of the substrate, the substrate table or both. 9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the moving system moves the member to follow the substrate, the substrate table, or both, across the projection system. 10. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the moving system moves the substrate table.
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