摘要:
The present invention provides a light exposure apparatus, and its method, comprising: an illumination optical system including: a light source array formed of a plural separate light sources arranged one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally; condensing optical system for condensing light emitted from each light source of the light source array; a light integrator for spatially decomposing the light condensed by the condensing optics, and thus generating a multitude of pseudo-secondary light sources; and a condenser lens for overlapping the light rays emitted from the multitude of pseudo-secondary light sources generated by the light integrator, and thus illuminating an illumination target region having a pattern to be exposed; and a projection optical system for projecting transmitted or reflected light onto an exposure target region of an exposure target object in order to expose the pattern to be exposed that is illuminated by the illumination optical system.
摘要:
An exposure apparatus and method wherein a mask is illuminated with light and light one of transmitted through and reflected from the illuminated mask is imaged onto a substrate. At least during imaging transmission of light one of transmitted and reflected from the illuminated mask is partially inhibited. More particularly, a spatial filter is utilized for inhibiting at least a portion of O-order diffraction light.
摘要:
An exposure apparatus and method wherein a mask is illuminated with light and light one of transmitted through and reflected from the illuminated mask is imaged onto a substrate. At least during imaging transmission of light one of transmitted and reflected from the illuminated mask is partially inhibited. More particularly, a spatial filter is utilized for inhibiting at least a portion of O-order diffraction light.
摘要:
A laser-machining optical apparatus designed to efficiently work an object through a large area thereof by projecting an image of a mask to the object through a laser beam having a small sectional area and a high energy density. The apparatus has a laser head for oscillating laser light for working the specimen, a mask provided in the optical path of the laser light beam between the specimen and the laser head and having a working pattern formed on its surface, an objective provided in the optical path of the laser-light beam between the mask and the specimen, a mechanism on which the mask and the specimen are placed so that an optical imaging relationship is maintained therebetween with the objective interposed therebetween, and a two-dimensional scanning device provided in the optical path of the laser light beam between the laser head and the mask to two-dimensionally scan the surface of the mask with the laser light beam from the laser head.
摘要:
A projection exposure apparatus (1) comprises an incident light optical system for causing the light emitted from a light source 1 to enter an object of exposure (4) in diagonal direction, a detection apparatus (3) for causing an interference between the light reflected from the object of exposure (4) and a reference light and detecting the resultant interference fringe, a processing circuit for determining the inclination and height of the surface of the object of exposure (4) from the optical information on the interference fringe, and a stage (7) for supporting the object of exposure (4). The object of exposure (4) is subjected to projection exposure by driving the stage (7) according to the calculated inclination and height of the object of exposure (4).
摘要:
A lithographic method and a lithographic apparatus ar disclosed in which the height of a silicon wafer making up an object of lithography is accurately measured. A lithographic apparatus such as an electron beam apparatus having a height-measuring instrument built therein is effectively used for forming a pattern on the order of submicrons.
摘要:
A pattern position detecting method and an apparatus comprises spatial coherence variable means for illuminating a two-dimensional pattern formed on a wafer and its vicinity through a projection lens under the state that spatial coherence of pattern illumination light is elevated in one direction with respect to said two-dimensional pattern and lowered in the other direction perpendicular to said one direction. Two-dimensional reflection images from the pattern and its vicinity obtained through the lens are image-formed by an image-formation optical system. The intensity distribution of the two-dimensional reflection light is detected by light-intensity-distribution detection means so that a detection signal produced from this detection means indicates the position of the two-dimensional pattern.
摘要:
In an alignment detection optical system designed to observe an alignment pattern of a mask and an image of an alignment pattern of a wafer formed on the alignment pattern of the mask by a projection lens in a projection type aligner, there is provided a spatial filter designed to select only the reflected light having a desired reflection angle from the light reflected by the alignment pattern composed of steps formed on a surface of the wafer.
摘要:
A semiconductor focusing exposure apparatus in which an opposite face of a mask to a face to be illuminated by exposure light is illuminated with alignment light so that the light reflected from said opposite face may be used for alignment and which is equipped with a second moving arrangement which is separate from a moving arrangement for an x-y moving table supporting a wafer, for aligning the mask and the wafer in an orthogonal direction with respect to the optical axis of a focusing lens.Moreover, the center of the flux of alignment pattern light for illuminating the wafer is made incident upon a line of intersection on which a plane containing the optical axis of an alignment optical system and the optical axis of said focusing lens and the incident plane of said focusing lens intersect with each other.Still moreover, the optical path of the alignment light beam is aligned in parallel with a straight line joining an alignment mark formed on the diffraction pattern and the center of the entrance pupil of said focusing lens.
摘要:
A reflection-type optical focusing apparatus comprising an optical focusing system including at least two 4th-degree surface reflectors with their revolving symmetric axis formed by a line connecting the position of a point source and the point source focusing position, said reflectors being used in combination so that the light emitted from a point source placed at the point source position is focused to form a virtual point source at the point source focusing position, and a 4th-degree surface reflector with its cross-section, on a plane including the revolving symmetric axis, forming a part of an ellipse with its major axis having a certain inclination with respect to the revolving symmetric axis, said virtual point source being located at one focal point of the ellipse so that a light image in the shape of an arc band is obtained.