Abstract:
An X-ray exposing method is provided to transfer a circuit pattern of a higher resolution and to shorten an exposure process time by adjusting a peak wavelength of an X-ray. An X-ray irradiating process is performed to irradiate an X-ray by forming a material having an absorbing end formed in at least one of a wavelength region less than 0.45nm and a wavelength region more than 0.7nm on a surface of an X-ray mirror(3), and is performed by using X-ray mirror. An exposure process is performed to supply an X-ray of a wavelength region of 0.45nm to 0.7nm with an X-ray having a wavelength of 0.45nm to 0.7nm by setting an obliquely incident angle of the X-ray of the X-ray mirror under 1.5 degrees. An X-ray emission process is performed to emit the X-ray from a synchrotron radiation source(1).
Abstract:
An X-ray radiator comprises an X-ray mirror (3, 3a-3c, 11-14) containing a material having an X-ray absorption edge in only at least either the wavelength region below 0.45 nm or the wavelength region above 0.7 nm.
Abstract:
An exposure apparatus includes a chamber (1) for placing the article in a predetermined ambience; holding device (5) for holding the article in the chamber; a fluid supplying device (3) for supplying a temperature adjusting fluid into the holding device through a flow passageway (4); a detecting device (2) for detecting leakage of the fluid from the flow passageway; and a flow rate controlling device (9) for controlling the flow rate of the fluid to be supplied to the holding device on the basis of detection by the detecting device.
Abstract:
A method of controlling a conveying device having a gripping hand for gripping an article to be conveyed and a conveying mechanism for conveying the gripping hand, wherein a pressing force applied to the gripping hand through the article being conveyed is detected and the conveying operation of the conveying mechanism is stopped when the pressing force exceeds a predetermined. limit.
Abstract:
An X-ray exposure apparatus using radiation light as exposure light is disclosed, wherein the apparatus includes: a display device; a detecting device for detecting in each exposure the amount of exposure as absorbed by a mask during the exposure; a memory for memorizing an accumulated dose of the mask; and a controller for causing the display device to display a dose of the mask, wherein the does to be displayed corresponds to the sum of the accumulated dose as memorized in the memory and the amount of exposure as detected by the detecting device. Also disclosed is a mask structure suitably usable in such an exposure apparatus.
Abstract:
A method of supporting or mounting a precision instrument for supporting a mask and a wafer in a vacuum container. It is particularly applicable to a SOR-X ray exposure apparatus wherein the mask and the wafer are disposed in a desired level of the reduced pressure, and exposure energy such as X-rays contained in synchrotron radiation is projected onto the wafer through the mask to print the pattern of the mask onto the wafer. In x-y-z coordinates with the x direction being vertical, the precision instrument in hung at at least two points which are spaced in the x direction, to the inside wall of the vacuum container. At one of the supporting points, the precision instrument is given latitude of x, y and z direction movement, and at the other supporting point, the precision instrument is fixed or is given a latitude only in the x direction. By this, when the vacuum container deforms by the difference between the internal and external pressures, the precision instrument can be supported correctly.