Asml Netherlands B.v.

Dennis Dominic Van Der Voort

Nicolaas Ten Kate

Ruud Antonius Catharina Maria Beerens

Lucas Henricus Johannes Stevens

Dirk Willem Harberts

Koen Gerhardus Winkels

Edwin Johannes Cornelis Bos

George Alois Leonie Leenknegt

A method for preparing a substrate for an exposure process of a lithographic manufacturing method, the method including imposing different local temperatures across the substrate so as to induce different thermal expansion across the substrate before the exposure process. This method is for compensating for deformation of the substrate induced when the substrate is positioned on a substrate table of a lithographic apparatus. There is also provided a local temperature applicator to implement this technique and to a lithographic apparatus including such a local temperature applicator.

Method for preparing a substrate and lithographic apparatus

A substrate support configured to support a substrate. The substrate support has a plurality of burls protruding from a base surface of the substrate support. The burls have distal ends for supporting a lower surface of the substrate with a gap between the base surface of the substrate support and the lower surface of the substrate. The substrate support has a liquid supply channel configured to supply a conductive liquid to the gap so as to bridge the gap between the base surface of the substrate support and the lower surface of the substrate, to allow charge to pass between the substrate support and the substrate. The substrate support has a controlled electrical potential such that charge distribution at the lower surface of the substrate can be manipulated.

Substrate support, lithographic apparatus, method for manipulating charge distribution and method for preparing a substrate

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