Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Liquid immersion microscope
- Patent Title (中): 液浸式显微镜
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Application No.: US12083835Application Date: 2006-10-18
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Publication No.: US07868996B2Publication Date: 2011-01-11
- Inventor: Hiromasa Shibata , Manabu Komatsu , Toshio Uchikawa
- Applicant: Hiromasa Shibata , Manabu Komatsu , Toshio Uchikawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Nikon Corporation
- Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oliff & Berridge, PLC
- Priority: JP2005-307606 20051021
- International Application: PCT/JP2006/320761 WO 20061018
- International Announcement: WO2007/046429 WO 20070426
- Main IPC: G03B27/52
- IPC: G03B27/52

Abstract:
To provide a liquid immersion microscope device enabling nondestructive liquid immersion observation of a substrate without deteriorating quality of the substrate. To attain this, a liquid immersion microscope device of the present invention includes a supporting unit supporting a substrate as an observation target, an objective lens of a liquid immersion type, a first supplying unit supplying ultrapure water as a liquid for observation to a gap between a tip of the objective lens and the substrate, a first draining unit draining the liquid for observation after observation of the substrate, a second supplying unit supplying a liquid for cleaning, which is different from the liquid for observation drained by the first draining unit, to an area, of the substrate, that has been in contact with the liquid for observation, and a second draining unit draining the liquid for cleaning after the substrate is cleaned.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090251691A1 Liquid Immersion Microscope Public/Granted day:2009-10-08
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