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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2013
Asml Netherlands B.v., Veldhoven, NL;
Engelbertus Antonius Fransiscus Van Der Pasch, Oirschot, NL;
Ruud Antonius Catharina Maria Beerens, Roggel, NL;
Martinus Agnes Willem Cuijpers, Veldhoven, NL;
Christiaan Alexander Hoogendam, Westerhoven, NL;
Fransiscus Mathijs Jacobs, Asten, NL;
Willem Herman Gertruda Anna Koenen, Roermond, NL;
Erik Roelof Loopstra, Eindhoven, NL;
ASML NETHERLANDS B.V., Veldhoven, NL;
Abstract
A lithographic apparatus including a moveable object (WT) and a displacement measuring system arranged to determine a position quantity of the moveable object. The displacement measuring system includes an encoder (BC) and a grid structure. One of the encoder and the grid structure is connected to the moveable object. The grid structure includes a high precision grid portion (HG) and a low precision grid portion (LG). The encoder is arranged to cooperate with the high precision grid portion to determine the position quantity relative to the grid structure with a high precision. The encoder is arranged to cooperate with the low precision grid portion to determine the position quantity relative to the grid structure with a low precision.