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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1999
Keiko Chiba, Utsunomiya, JP;
Shunichi Uzawa, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuaki Amemiya, Oomiya, JP;
Yutaka Watanabe, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An exposure method for printing a pattern onto a workpiece to be exposed, includes a first exposure step for forming, on the workpiece and by exposure, a transferred image of a first absorbing material pattern formed on a mask and having no periodic structure, and a second exposure step for printing, on the workpiece and by exposure, a diffraction pattern to be produced through Fresnel diffraction due to a second absorbing material pattern formed on the mask and having a periodic structure, the diffraction pattern having a period corresponding to 1/n of a period of the transferred image of the periodic structure pattern, where n is an integer not less than 2, and wherein the first and second exposure steps are performed simultaneously.