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Exposure method, method of fabricating periodic microstructure, method of fabricating grid polarizing element and exposure apparatus

  • US 10,101,652 B2
  • Filed: 09/24/2015
  • Issued: 10/16/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An exposure method, comprising:

  • generating interfering light by crossing, at a predetermined angle, two or more light beams branched from output light from a coherent light source;

    arranging a light shielding member having a light transmissive part of a substantially rectangular shape above a substrate;

    irradiating the substrate with the interfering light through the light shielding member to shape, into the substantially rectangular shape, an interfering light irradiation region and to cause, at both sides of the interfering light irradiation region, non-interfering light irradiation regions to be generated, the interfering light irradiation region being a region on the substrate on which the interfering light is irradiated per one shot and interference fringes are formed, each of the non-interfering light irradiation regions being a region where only one of the two or more light beams is incident and the interference fringes are not formed;

    conveying, in a stepwise manner, the substrate in a conveying direction; and

    repeating said irradiating and said conveying so as to form a plurality of said interfering light irradiation regions each having the non-interfering light irradiation regions at the both sides thereof in the conveying direction;

    whereinthe substrate is conveyed such that one of said plurality of said interfering light irradiation regions is positioned without overlapping next one of said plurality of said interfering light irradiation regions and one of the non-interfering light irradiation regions is positioned with overlapping next one of the non-interfering light irradiation regions so as to separate said plurality of said interfering light irradiation regions solely by the overlapped non-interfering light irradiation regions in the conveying direction, andeach of said plurality of interfering light irradiation regions has a Gaussian distribution.

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