Abstract:
An alignment method for an exposure mask and an object to be exposed, wherein exposure is carried out while the exposure mask having a light blocking film formed at a membrane portion thereof is closely contacted to the object to be exposed and light from a light source is projected to the object to be exposed, through the exposure mask, and wherein alignment of the exposure mask and the object to be exposed is carried out prior to the exposure, the method comprising the steps of preparing an exposure mask having a light blocking film provided on a base material constituting the membrane portion and having a structure for performing position detection, flexing the membrane portion and detecting, by use of the structure, a relative position of the exposure mask and the object to be exposed, in a state in which the exposure mask is contacted to the object to be exposed, and aligning the exposure mask and the object to be exposed, with each other, on the basis of a result of the position detection.
Abstract:
An exposure method for exposing a workpiece on the basis of near-field light escaping from an opening of a mask, wherein nonpolarized exposure light from a light source is projected onto an exposure mask having a light blocking film and a plurality of rectangular openings formed in the light blocking film, the openings having a width in a widthwise direction not greater than one-third of the exposure light and having its lengthwise directions extending in two or more directions along the mask surface, so that near-field light escaping from the openings is produced thereby to perform exposure of a pattern on the basis of the openings.
Abstract:
L'invention concerne un système de mesure de distance de grande précision. Il comprend un élément produisant un champ magnétique, tel qu'un aimant 10, et un dispositif supraconducteur à interférences quantiques ou SQUID 7 relié à un élément mobile dont la distance du mouvement doit être mesurée avec précision. Il est en outre prévu une partie de détection de flux magnétique destinée à délivrer des signaux correspondant à des variations du flux magnétique, dans le champ magnétique, passant à travers le dispositif supraconducteur, et une unité 9 de traitement des signaux. L'aimant 10 et le dispositif 7 sont logés à l'intérieur d'un boîtier blindé 14. Domaine d'application : appareils de fabrication par photolithographie de microcircuits électroniques, etc.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an exposure apparatus, an exposure method and an exposure mask, for improved optical lithography. Specifically, in accordance with one preferred form of the invention, the exposure apparatus is arranged to be used with an exposure mask having an elastically deformable holding member and a light blocking film provided on the holding member and being formed with an opening pattern, wherein for exposure the exposure mask is flexed to be brought into contact with an object to be exposed. The exposure apparatus includes a distance detecting system for detecting a distance between the exposure mask before being flexed and the object to be exposed, and a distance controlling system for controlling the distance between the exposure mask before being flexed and the object to be exposed, on the basis of a signal from the distance detecting system.
Abstract:
A cantilever unit comprises a cantilever for supporting a probe and a displacement amount detecting means, the displacement amount detecting means being integrated with the cantilever. An information processing apparatus comprises the cantilever unit and optionally an information recording medium stationed in close vicinity to the unit, wherein an information in the medium is reproduced at a signal on the basis of a displacement amount of the cantilever. An atomic force microscope and magnetic force microscope comprise the cantilever unit, respectively.
Abstract:
A micro-displacement type information detection probe device capable of following all of the undulation on the mu m order, etc. and the periodical surface unevenness on the nm order, etc. of the recording medium or the substrate in performing recording, reproduction, etc. by use of tunnel current, etc. is provided. By forming a cantilever 701 of the first stage by extending the insulation layer laminated on the substrate, providing a layer structure 708 - 710 having a piezoelectric material sandwiched between the electrode members on the cantilever of the first stage, forming further a cantilever 702 of the second stage on the extension from the tip end of the first cantilever having said layer structure and also forming an information detection probe 703 at the free end of the cantilever of said second stage, and utilizing the reverse piezoelectric effect formed by application of a voltage between the electrodes of said layer structure, the cantilever 701 of the above first stage is displaced.
Abstract:
A micro-displacement type information detection probe device capable of following all of the undulation on the mu m order, etc. and the periodical surface unevenness on the nm order, etc. of the recording medium or the substrate in performing recording, reproduction, etc. by use of tunnel current, etc. is provided. By forming a cantilever 701 of the first stage by extending the insulation layer laminated on the substrate, providing a layer structure 708 - 710 having a piezoelectric material sandwiched between the electrode members on the cantilever of the first stage, forming further a cantilever 702 of the second stage on the extension from the tip end of the first cantilever having said layer structure and also forming an information detection probe 703 at the free end of the cantilever of said second stage, and utilizing the reverse piezoelectric effect formed by application of a voltage between the electrodes of said layer structure, the cantilever 701 of the above first stage is displaced.
Abstract:
Apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing information onto/from a medium through a probe electrode by using a scanning tunnel microscope comprises: a voltage applying circuit to apply a voltage between the medium and the probe electrode, in which the recording operation and/or the reproducing operation of the information onto/from the medium are/is executed by applying the voltage by the voltage applying circuit; a distance adjusting mechanism to adjust a distance between the medium and the probe electrode in a manner such that the voltage applied by the voltage applying circuit and the current flowing between the medium and the probe electrode to which the voltage has been applied by the voltage applying circuit satisfy the current-voltage characteristics such that the current between the medium and the probe electrode also changes in accordance with a change in the applied voltage.