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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substrate table of an immersion lithographic apparatus configured to prevent contamination with immersion liquid. SOLUTION: The substrate table WT includes a drainage groove, i.e. a barrier 40 which surrounds an outer peripheral edge of the substrate W and a barrier 100 which surrounds another object 20 like a sensor present on substantially the same plane with a top surface of the substrate. The barriers 40 and 100 can collect any liquid which is spilt from the liquid supply system while the substrate W is exposed to reduce the risk of contamination of delicate components of the lithographic projection apparatus. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substrate table of an immersion lithographic apparatus which is configured to prevent contamination with immersion liquid. SOLUTION: The substrate table WT is provided with a drainage ditch or barrier 40 surrounding an outer circumferential edge of the substrate W and a barrier 100 surrounding other objects 20 like sensors positioned in the same plane substantially as the upper surface of the substrate W. The barriers 40 and 100 are configured to collect all of liquid spilled from a liquid supply system while the substrate W is exposed, so thereby reducing the risk of contamination of fine components in the lithographic projection apparatus. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithographic projection apparatus which can reduce the consumption of purge gas. SOLUTION: In a purge system of the lithographic projection apparatus, a flow rate of the purge gas to the system is reduced substantially once a contamination level has fallen below a threshold level. The control is performed on the basis of a detected level of contamination or a timetable. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithographic device provided with a liquid storage between a projection system and a substrate and a method for monitoring a liquid silicon dioxide level held in the liquid storage to remove silicon oxide in a defecator. SOLUTION: Two defecators are disposed in series along a conduit in which water used in a dipping system is stored. Although the two defecators each absorb carbon dioxide and silicon dioxide, they include an ion-exchange resin of stronger affinity to carbon dioxide. A conductivity sensor or a carbon dioxide sensor between the two defecators is disposed. The upstream defecator absorbs carbon dioxide and silicon dioxide until saturated and selectively desorbs silicon dioxide at a saturation point. Silicon dioxide advances downstream in the conduit, and is absorbed by the downstream defecator. Carbon dioxide appears in a liquid flowing downstream if the upstream defecator saturates carbon dioxide, and is absorbed by the downstream defecator. The sensor senses carbon dioxide to initiate demanding to wash or exchange the defecator. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an upgraded system as well as a method that discharges a mixture of liquid and gas from a component of lithography equipment. SOLUTION: This is lithography equipment including a liquid supply system for immersing, in liquid, a space between a projection system and a substrate, an outlet for eliminating a mixture of liquid and and gas that passes a gap between a liquid sealing structure of the liquid supply system and the substrate, and a discharge system for taking out the mixture through the outlet, wherein the discharge system includes a separator tank for separating the liquid from the gas in the mixture, and a separator tank pressure controller connected to a non-liquid immersion area of the separator tank and maintaining stable pressure in the non-liquid immersion area. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substrate table of an immersion lithographic apparatus, which is so configured as to prevent contamination with immersion liquid. SOLUTION: A substrate table WT is provided with a drainage ditch, namely, a barrier 40 surrounding an outer peripheral edge of a substrate W, and a barrier 100 surrounding another object 20 like a sensor existing on practically the same plane as an upper face of the substrate W. Since the barriers 40 and 100 can collect any liquid spilt from a liquid supply system during exposure of the substrate W, the risk of contamination of delicate components of a lithographic projection apparatus is reduced. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substrate table of an immersion lithographic apparatus which is configured to prevent contamination with immersion liquid. SOLUTION: The substrate table WT is provided with a drainage ditch or barrier 40 surrounding an outer circumferential edge of the substrate W and a barrier 100 surrounding other objects 20 like sensors positioned in the same plane substantially the upper surface of the substrate W. The barriers 40 and 100 are configured to collect all of liquid spilled from a liquid supply system while the substrate W is exposed, so thereby reducing the risk of contamination of fine components in the lithographic projection apparatus. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substrate table of an immersion lithographic apparatus configured to prevent contamination with immersion liquid. SOLUTION: The substrate table WT includes a drainage groove, i.e. a barrier 40 which surrounds an outer peripheral edge of the substrate W and a barrier 100 which surrounds another object 20 like a sensor present on substantially the same plane with a top surface of the substrate. The barriers 40 and 100 can collect any liquid which is spilt from the liquid supply system while the substrate W is exposed to reduce the risk of contamination of delicate components of the lithographic projection apparatus. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved system and method for evacuating a mixture of liquid and gas from components in a lithographic apparatus. SOLUTION: The lithographic apparatus includes a liquid supply system configured to fill a space between a projection system and a substrate with a liquid, an outlet configured to remove a mixture of liquid and gas passing through a gap between a liquid confinement structure of the liquid supply system and the substrate, and an evacuation system configured to draw the mixture through the outlet, wherein the evacuation system has a separator tank arranged to separate liquid from gas in the mixture and a separator tank pressure controller, connected to a non-liquid-filled region of the separator tank, configured to maintain stable pressure within the non-liquid-filled region. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substrate table of a immersion lithographic equipment which is made so as to prevent contamination due to an immersion liquid. SOLUTION: A substrate table WT is provided with a drainage groove, i.e. a barrier 40 which surrounds an outer periphery of a substrate W and a barrier 100 which surrounds another object 20 such as a sensor which exists in the substantially same surface as the upper surface of the substrate W. Since the barriers 40 and 100 can collect all liquid which falls from a liquid feed system while exposing the substrate W, a risk that fine components of the lithographic projection equipment is contaminated is reduced. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI