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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithographic apparatus which includes an immersion liquid having a refractive index higher than that of water and has no possibility of agglomeration of contained particles during operation. SOLUTION: In a projection exposure type lithographic apparatus used as a stepper or a scanner, an aqueous solution of one or more alkali metal halides such as alkali metal fluoride, alkali metal chloride, and alkali metal bromide, is used as an immersion liquid having a refractive index higher than that of water. The refractive index is 1.5 or more. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method used to direct a radiation beam to illuminate non-perpendicularly a patterning array of individually controllable elements used for patterning the radiation beam. SOLUTION: The individually controllable elements can change a telecentricity of the radiation beam. Projection of the radiation beam onto the individually controllable elements can be by a concave mirror or use a folding mirror placed in an object field of the individually controllable elements. Alternatively, the individually controllable elements can change the optical axis of the radiation beam. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for directing a radiation beam to illuminate a patterning array in a direction other than a vertical direction of individually controllable elements used for patterning the radiation beam. SOLUTION: In a method of manufacturing a device, the individually controllable elements can change the telecentricity of a radiation beam PB. Projection of the radiation beam PB onto the individually controllable elements can be performed by using a concave mirror 21 or a folding mirror placed in an object field of the individually controllable elements. Alternatively, the individually controllable elements can change the optical axis of the radiation beam. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem, when using EUV radiation in lithographic projection equipment. SOLUTION: An illumination system IL of lithography equipment includes a plurality of radiation sources 10, a pupil facet mirror 20, and a plurality of field face mirrors 16 and each field facet 18 of the field facet mirror forms an image of one of the radiation sources 10 on one of a plurality of pupil facets 22 on the pupil facet mirror 20. Each pupil facet directs the received radiation source image toward a predetermined region and forms projection beams PB. The optical path length, between each field facet 18 and the pupil facet 22 in cooperation with this, is substantially the same for all of the pairs of field and pupil facet. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a device, a top coat material, and a substrate with top coat. SOLUTION: In immersion lithography, thicknesses d l , d tc and d r and refractive indexes n l , n tc and nr of an immersion fluid, top coat and resist are let to meet conditions: n l ≤n tc ≤n r , d l >about 5.λ and d tc ≤about 5.λ to prevent internal reflection from occurring in a final element, the immersion fluid and the top coat of a projection system. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithographic apparatus which includes an immersion liquid having a refractive index higher than that of water and has no possibility of agglomeration of contained particles during operation. SOLUTION: In a projection exposure type lithographic apparatus used as a stepper or a scanner, an aqueous solution of one or more alkali metal halides such as alkali metal fluoride, alkali metal chloride, and alkali metal bromide, is used as an immersion liquid having a refractive index higher than that of water. The refractive index is 1.5 or more. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithography apparatus comprising a diffusion unit having liquid containing a diffusion particle capable of diffusing a light beam in a radiation beam to be used for carrying out irradiation on an object such as a mask or wafer. SOLUTION: A diffusion particle may be a solid particle in liquid or an air bubble. The liquid and the diffusion particle can move vertically to radiation beam or vertically to the scanning direction of the radiation beam in, for example, a scanning lithography apparatus, in order to improve diffusion operation. Since the radiation beam to be irradiated is diffused and is homogenized, subsequent irradiation is improved. This apparatus can be used for manufacturing a CCD or the like. This is because this apparatus suitably exhibits homogeneity superior to 0.02% when it is seen by human being's eyes. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a device, a topcoat material, and a substrate with a topcoat. SOLUTION: In an immersion lithography, the conditions that if it is assumed that thickness of immersion fluid (immersion liquid 11) is d l , thickness of topcoat TC is d tc and thickness of resist R is d r , refractive index of liquid is n l , refractive index of topcoat is n tc and refractive index of resist is n r , n l ≤n tc ≤n r , thickness of immersion fluid (immersion liquid 11) d l is about five times wavelength of radiation (d l ≤5×λ) or more, and thickness d tc of topcoat TC is about five times wavelength of radiation (d tc ≤5×λ) or less are satisfied, not to allow internal reflection to occur in the final factor of a projecting system, immersion fluid (immersion liquid 11), and topcoat. In the method for manufacturing a device including a step that projects a patterned radiation beam onto a resist provided on the substrate through the liquid, λ is the wavelength of patterned radiation of the beam. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithographic apparatus in which the uniformity of a radiation beam is improved. SOLUTION: The lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system configured to provide a radiation beam, a patterning device configured to pattern the radiation beam to form a patterned radiation beam, and a projection system configured to project the patterned radiation beam onto a substrate. An optical assembly includes multiple optical elements two-dimensionally arranged between a radiation source and the patterning device to create a predetermined angular distribution of the radiation beam. In order to improve the uniformity of the radiation beam, the optical elements are selected from a predetermined number of optical elements having different shapes and/or sizes. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a uniformity correction module having movable blades which are at least partly immersed in a fluid and having a sufficiently small difference between a refractive index of each blade and a refractive index of the fluid to prevent a significant reflection and a refraction at a surface of each blade. SOLUTION: A uniformity correction module for improving the uniformity of a radiation distribution in a rectangular illumination slit having two longer sides and two shorter sides, includes a plurality of movable blades arranged along each longer side of the illumination slit and a chamber containing a fluid. Here, the movable blades are at least partly immersed in the fluid, and the difference between a refractive index of each blade and a refractive index of the fluid is sufficiently small to prevent the significant reflection and the refraction at a surface of each blade. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI