摘要:
A projection type exposure apparatus and method comprising an exposure illumination light source, an exposure illumination system, a mask or reticle on which an original pattern to be projected on the exposed matter is drawn, an optical projection system, a stage for retaining the exposed matter and a mechanism for finely moving the stage along the exposure optical axis. The apparatus is provided with an exposure detection pattern area on the mask, detection illumination means for projecting on the exposure detection pattern area a light ray which is the same or almost the same in wavelength as exposure light having a desired directivity, exposure detection means for detecting the transmitted or reflected light diffracted by 1 degree after the light carrying the image formed on the exposed matter by the light passed through the above-noted optical projection system after projection by the detection illumination means onto the exposure pattern and then diffracted goes in reverse through the above-noted optical projection system and forms an image again on the exposure pattern on the above-noted mask and a control circuit for driving and controlling the above-noted fine movement mechanism by using the signal obtained by the exposure detection means.
摘要:
A method for detecting a period of a periodically varying signal and/or an inclination of a specimen utilizing an exposure apparatus wherein a coherent light is divided into first and second lights and the first light is irradiated onto the specimen at a predetermined angle, and a reflected light thereof and a reference light as the second light interfere with each other so as to form interference fringes, the interference fringes are detected, and the inclination of the specimen is detected from a pitch representing a period of the interference fringes. The method includes detecting a spectrum of a signal intensity obtained from the detected interference fringes or the periodically varying signal, subjecting the detected spectrum data to a fast complex Fourier transformation, calculating a true spectrum peak position j.sub.R in accordance with a relationship j.sub.R =j.sub.0 +.DELTA., where j.sub.0 is a detected spectrum peak position and .DELTA. is a correcting value estimated from the Fourier transformed spectrum data adjacent to j.sub.0, and calculating the pitch P of the period of the signal intensity information in accordance with a relationship P=N/j.sub.R, where N is the number of sample data points for the complex Fourier transformation. Further, the method includes calculating the inclination of the specimen from the pitch P.
摘要:
A method of inspecting a DNA chip and an apparatus therefor that allow a picture to be reconstructed in the following steps: A plurality of irradiation spots are formed on a DNA probe array mounted on a stage. Then, the stage is displaced in X, Y directions so as to execute a scanning, thereby irradiating substantially all the entire surface of the DNA probe array. Next, a plurality of emitted fluorescent lights, which are generated from the plurality of irradiation spot portions on the DNA probe array, are converged and are then detected simultaneously by multi detectors. Finally, a data processing apparatus processes the detected signals, thereby reconstructing the picture.
摘要:
It is possible to enhance the utilization efficiency of a light source and impart an orientation control performance and a pretilt angle to an orientation film in a short treatment time. Substrates to which orientation films are applied are mounted on stages which are sequentially transported to a main irradiation region and a sub-irradiation region. Light flux irradiated from a light source device having a single light source receives polarization treatment at a polarization unit, thus generating main polarized light and sub-polarized light. The main polarized light is irradiated to the orientation film formed on the substrate which is transported to a main irradiation region, thus imparting orientation control performance to the orientation film. Subsequently, the substrate is transported to a sub-irradiation region, and sub-polarized light is irradiated to the orientation film to which orientation control performance is already imparted, thus imparting a pretilt angle to the orientation film.
摘要:
A production method of a semiconductor device, includes the steps of emitting an excimer laser from a light source, forming the excimer laser in a particular shape, illuminating a pattern on a mask for a phase shifter method with the particular shaped excimer laser, and exposing a resist on a wafer with the excimer laser which passed through the mask. The resist on the wafer is developed and the wafer is etched to form a pattern.
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:
The present invention resides in method and apparatus for measuring a minute displacement, comprising applying a light of a first wavelength at a predetermined angle to a diffraction grating formed on an object whose position is to be detected, subjecting each of the resulting diffracted light and regular reflected light and a light of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength to heterodyne interference with each other to generate a measurement signal and a reference signal, and measuring a phase difference between the measurement signal and the reference signal to thereby determine a minute displacement of the object.
摘要:
A reduction projection type aligner in a reduction projection exposing device for exposing a circuit pattern on a mask through a reduction projection lens onto a wafer by the step and repeat of the wafer, which comprises: a light source for irradiating coherent irradiation light, a reflection mirror for reflecting the coherent irradiation light irradiated from the light source, a detection optical system for detecting an interference pattern by optically causing interference between an alignment pattern reflection light obtained by entering the coherent irradiation light irradiated from the light source through the reduction projection lens to the alignment pattern portion of the wafer, which is then reflected at the alignment pattern portion and then passed through the reduction projection lens and a reflection light reflected at the reflection mirror, and means for aligning a mask and a wafer relatively by detecting the position of the wafer by the video image signals in the interference pattern detected by the detection optical system.
摘要:
An exposure apparatus comprises a light source, a mask plate having an exposure pattern area section and an alignment/reflection area section, a projection lens, a movable stage for holding a workpiece having a workpiece alignment mark, an alignment control and a driver for the movable stage. Before the exposure pattern area section is illuminated by the light source to be projected through the projection lens onto the workpiece, the workpiece is properly aligned with the mask. Alignment between the mask plate and the workpiece is performed by the effective use of the alignment/reflection area section specifically arranged and having a specific structure. The alignment/reflection area section is on that surface of the mask plate which does not face the light source and includes a reflection portion for conducting light from another light source to the workpiece and conducting light scattered from the workpiece and passing through the projection lens to the alignment control and a mask alignment mark portion of providing, when illuminated, an image of the mask alignment mark portion to the alignment control so that it detects the positional relation between the mask alignment mark portion and the workpiece alignment mark and produces a control signal for achieving alignment between the mask plate and the workpiece.
摘要:
Information reproducing apparatus for producing information on an optical information recording medium includes a first light source which gives forth a beam of light of a wavelength .lambda..sub.1 and a second light source which gives forth a beam of light of a wavelength .lambda..sub.2 different from the wavelength .lambda..sub.1. An optical element selectively reflects the light of the wavelength .lambda..sub.1 and selectively transmits the light of the wavelength .lambda..sub.2. The first and second light sources, the optical element and the recording medium are positionally arranged so that the light beams from the first and second light sources may be projected on a predetermined position of the recording medium and a substantially identical position to the predetermined position through the optical element, respectively, and the arrangement of these elements is also such that the respective projected light beams may fall on the optical element after being reflected by the recording medium. First and second photodetectors detect light reflected from the optical element and light transmitted light through the same in accordance with the wavelength of the light beams falling on the optical element, respectively, and develop focusing and tracking control signals.