Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7619207
APP PUB NO 20080105026A1
SERIAL NO

11594230

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The present invention relates to a method for calibrating a grating of an encoder measurement system between two adjacent calibrated locations, the method includes moving one of a sensor object including an encoder-type sensor and a grating along the other one of the sensor object and the grating with a speed, wherein the speed is selected such that disturbances in the grating substantially extending over a distance smaller than a distance between the two calibrated locations can not or only partly be followed by the one of the sensor object and the grating, and measuring during the moving the position of the sensor object with respect to the grating at a plurality of locations between the two calibrated locations.

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ASML NETHERLANDS B VVELDHOVEN

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Eussen, Emiel Jozef Melanie Eindhoven , NL 31 863
Loopstra, Erik Roelof Heeze , NL 325 13468
Loopstra, Onno Bram Veldhoven , NL 1 125
Van, Der Pasch Engelbertus Antonius Fransiscus Oirschot , NL 96 1871

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