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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for designing a photomask by which OPC can be easily carried out and the time required for designing can be decreased while the accuracy of the OPC is maintained, and to provide a photomask produced by the above method and a semiconductor device manufactured by using the photomask. SOLUTION: In a model base OPC, the result of measuring the line width of a test pattern is compared with the calculation result of the model to judge whether or not the fitting residual falls within the tolerance of error (-a, +a). When the residual exceeds the tolerance, the influences of the fitting residual on characteristics such as the connection relation of the pattern with upper and lower layers and the connection are analyzed to determine practically necessary tolerance (-b, +c), wherein each of a, b, c is a constant. If the measurement point shows the fitting difference exceeding the range of (-a, +a) but within the range of (-b, +c), the fitting accuracy is regarded sufficiently high, and inspection of the model is completed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To materialize accurate exposure by controlling the angle of incidence of EUV light impinging on a reflection type mask in an exposure method and an exposure system of using light reflected from the reflection type mask while the reflection type mask is irradiated with the EUV light. SOLUTION: In the exposure method and the exposure system of irradiating a wafer 9 with the EUV light reflected from the reflection-type mask 4 while the reflection type mask 4 is irradiated at a prescribed angle with the EUV light emitted from an EUV light source 1, a change in an angle of incidence of the EUV light impinging on the reflection-type mask 4 is detected, an angle of incidence of the EUV light impinging on the reflection-type mask 4 is corrected on the basis of the detected change of the angle of incidence to carry out an exposure operation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chemical sensor, a biomolecule detection device, and a biomolecule detection method that enable biomolecules to be detected with high precision.SOLUTION: A chemical sensor of the present invention comprises a substrate, an optical layer, and an intermediate layer. The substrate has a plurality of photodiodes formed thereon and arranged in a flat shape. The optical layer is laminated on the substrate, and waveguides for guiding incident light to each of the photodiodes are formed in the optical layer. The intermediate layer is laminated on the optical layer, and a probe retaining region capable of retaining a probe material is formed for each waveguide in the intermediate layer.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image pickup apparatus that enables detection of infrared light or ultraviolet light and visible light in the same manner.SOLUTION: An image pickup apparatus 1A comprises a lens system 20, and an image pickup unit 10 on which light having passed through the lens system 20 is incident. The image pickup unit 10 has a plurality of first image pickup elements 11 which receive light in a first wavelength band, and a plurality of second image pickup elements 12 which receive light in a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band. The lens system 20 or the image pickup unit 10 comprises an optical element 30A which causes light in the first wavelength band having a light quantity smaller than the light quantity of light in the second wavelength band to reach the image pickup unit.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging method capable of suppressing occurrence of binocular rivalry and preventing significant deterioration of the amount of light reaching an imaging element.SOLUTION: An imaging method using an imaging device comprises an optical system and an imaging element array for converting light passing through the optical system to electric signals. When a pixel group composed of unit pixel rows selected for every two or more rows is set to a first pixel group PG, imaging elements composing the first pixel group are set to a first imaging element group 41, and a pixel group composed of a second imaging element group 42 composed of imaging elements not included in the first imaging element group 41 is set to a second pixel group PG, parallax information for obtaining a stereoscopic image is acquired in the first imaging element group 41, image information for obtaining an image is acquired in the second imaging element group 42, image information is acquired at pixels where the parallax information in the first imaging element group 41 is acquired based on the acquired image information, and thereafter the stereoscopic image is obtained from the parallax information and the image information at all pixels.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an antireflection coating using an immersion lithography technology, capable of sufficiently reducing reflectivity at the interface between a resist layer and a silicon semiconductor substrate even if exposure light diagonally enters one layer. SOLUTION: A 2-layer structure antireflection coating is formed between a resist layer and a silicon oxide film formed on the surface of a silicon semiconductor substrate, and is used for exposing the resist layer by an exposure system whose numerical aperture is 0.93-1.2, with a wavelength of 190-195 nm. N 1 , k 1 , d 1 , n 2 , k 2 , d 2 satisfy an equation ä(n 1 -n 10 )/(n 1m -n 10 )} 2 +ä(k 1 -k 10 )/(k 1m -k 10 )} 2 +ä(d 1 -d 10 )/(d 1m -d 10 )} 2 +ä(n 2 -n 20 )/(n 2m -n 20 )} 2 +ä(k 2 -k 20 )/(k 2m -k 20 )} 2 +ä(d 2 -d 20 )/(d 2m -d 20 )} 2 ≤1, when a specified set is selected as sets of value [n 10 , k 10 , d 10 , n 20 , k 20 , d 20 ], with a complex index of the refraction N 1 , N 2 of an upper layer and a lower layer, constituting the antireflection coating, as N 1 =n 1 -k 1 i, N 2 =n 2 -k 2 i and film thickness of the upper layer and lower layer as d 1 , d 2 . COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for setting light intensity distribution by which the optimized intensity distribution of exposure light is set to demonstrate the maximum performance even at a through pitch. SOLUTION: The method for setting light intensity distribution is comprised of the steps to diffract lights emitted from an exposure light source that are supposed to be emitted from four point light sources located at the specified positions, by a pattern having Q kinds of specified pitches P q formed on an exposure mask, to obtain light intensity distribution by calculation when the images are formed, to calculate a value S q as an NILS value from the obtained light intensity distribution, to calculate a map of an average value S OPT of a sum of products of weight rates WT q and values S q set at the respective pitches P q , and to design the light source intensity distribution to the angle of lights which are emitted from the exposure light sources so that the map of the average value S OPT can be obtained and enter the exposure mask. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an on-chip lens that can be improved in reproducibility as compared with a heat reflowing system and is shading corrected easily and stably. SOLUTION: An exposed and developed photoresist such as an ultraviolet ray-photosensitive resin etc., is directly formed in the surface of a lens after the photoresist is exposed to ultraviolet rays by using the so-called gray-tone mask. Consequently, individual lenses can be formed in lenses having free curved surfaces and the shapes of the lenses can be changed independently in accordance with the heights of images, as compared with the case where the conventional on-chip lens formed by heat reflowing method is inevitably formed in a four-quadrant symmetrical spherical-surface lens. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture an optical component made of a hardenable optical element material, for example an optical lens whose both faces are spherical curved faces, finely and precisely compared to a conventional mechanically manufacturing method. SOLUTION: A formation method for a hardenable optical element material and a manufacturing method for an optical component includes: a first main face formation step in which a hardened object 3a is obtained by hardening the hardenable optical component element material 3 after applying it to the surface of a formation substrate 2 having the inverted pattern of the first main face of the formed object to be obtained finally, that is, the optical component 1; and a second main face formation step in which the second main face of the formed object to be obtained finally is formed by etching. Prior to etching mentioned above, a registration 4 is applied to the surface of the hardened object 3a formed by hardening in the first main face formation step, and a shape for the registration 4 is selected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI