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X-ray exposure apparatus

US4825453A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 17, 1985
Grant dateApr 25, 1989
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Expiry dateOct 17, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03F7/70866
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Disclosed is an X-ray exposure apparatus having a low attenuation chamber supplied with a gas absorbing little X-rays, the low attenuation chamber being interposed between an X-ray source and a mask so that X-rays transmitted through the low attenuation chamber are irradiated on the mask so as to transfer a mask pattern onto a resist on a wafer, the apparatus comprising detecting means for detecting the gas or components mixed in the gas in the low attenuation chamber, control means for controlling a quantity of supply of the gas into the low attenuation chamber in accordance with an output signal of the detecting means, and/or adjusting means for adjusting a quantity of exposure of said X-rays irradiated on the mask in accordance with an output signal of the detecting means.

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