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Chemical-sensitization photoresist composition

US6063953A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 26, 1999
Grant dateMay 16, 2000
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Expiry dateJan 26, 2019

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S430/122
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Disclosed are novel high-sensitivity positive- and negative-working chemical-sensitization photoresist compositions capable of giving a highly heat-resistant patterned resist layer of high resolution having excellently orthogonal cross sectional profile without being influenced by standing waves. The composition contains, as an acid generating agent by irradiation with actinic rays, a specific cyano-substituted oximesulfonate compound such as .alpha.-(methylsulfonyloxyimino)-4-methoxybenzyl cyanide. The advantages obtained by the use of this specific acid-generating agent is remarkable when the film-forming resinous ingredient has such a molecular weight distribution that the ratio of the weight-average molecular weight to the number-average molecular weight does not exceed 3.5.

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