Imprint apparatus and method of manufacturing article
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTsuyoshi Arai
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Abstract
The present invention provides an imprint apparatus which performs an imprint process of transferring a pattern onto a substrate, the apparatus comprising a deforming unit configured to deform the pattern surface by applying a force to the mold, an obtaining unit configured to obtain thickness information of the mold, a calculation unit configured to calculate a force to be applied to the mold based on the thickness information of the mold obtained by the obtaining unit, so that the pattern surface has a target shape in the imprint process, and a control unit configured to control the deforming unit to apply the force calculated by the calculation unit to the mold in the imprint process.
Claims8
An imprint apparatus which forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold having a pattern surface on which a pattern is formed, the apparatus comprising:
- an obtaining unit configured to specify the mold to be used to form the pattern of the imprint material on the substrate among a plurality of molds having the same pattern and to obtain thickness information of the specified mold;
- a calculation unit configured to calculate a force to be applied to a surface of the specified mold such that the pattern surface is deformed to a convex surface, based on the thickness information of the specified mold obtained by the obtaining unit;
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- a deforming unit configured to deform the pattern surface of the specified mold by applying the force calculated by the calculation unit from an outside of the specified mold to the surface such that the pattern surface forms the convex surface that bulges toward the substrate.
An imprint apparatus which forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold having a pattern surface on which a pattern is formed, the apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit configured to store a correspondence between a plurality of molds having the same pattern and a force to be applied to a surface of each of the plurality of molds having the same pattern so that the pattern surface is deformed to a convex surface;
- an obtaining unit configured to specify a mold to be used to form the pattern of the imprint material on the substrate among the plurality of molds having the same pattern, and obtain a force to be applied to the surface of the specified mold based on the correspondence stored in the storage unit;
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- a deforming unit configured to deform the pattern surface by applying the force obtained by the obtaining unit from outside of the specified mold to the surface such that the pattern surface forms the convex surface that bulges toward the substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.