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US08174678B2 Lithographic apparatus with adjusted exposure slit shape enabling reduction of focus errors due to substrate topology and device manufacturing method 有权
具有调节曝光狭缝形状的平版印刷设备,其能够减少由于衬底拓扑和器件制造方法引起的焦点误差

Lithographic apparatus with adjusted exposure slit shape enabling reduction of focus errors due to substrate topology and device manufacturing method
Abstract:
A lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system to condition a radiation beam; a patterning device support to support a patterning device, the patterning device capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam; a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate, and a projection system to project the patterned radiation beam in a scanning exposure along a scanning direction onto a target portion of the substrate. The illumination system is configured to form in a plane of the patterning device a slit shaped image. The slit shaped image has a curved shape with a slit curvature in the scanning direction, with a length in the scanning direction and a width perpendicular to the scanning direction. The slit shaped image is configured to create a curved pattern image portion of the patterned radiation beam in an image plane of the projection system.
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