Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a polycyclic polymer and a polycyclic resist composition useful for a photoresist composition transparent to a short wavelength of image focusing irradiation, and having resistance in a dry etching method. SOLUTION: The present invention uses the resist composition comprising the polycyclic polymer containing repeated aromatic pendant groups along a polymer principal chain. The polymer exhibits a light transparent property with respect to a deep UV wavelength, and is useful for an application to a high resolution photolithography. The polymer is useful, in particular, in chemically amplified positive and negative type gradation resists. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a photoresist composition using an acid as a catalyst, capable of forming an image with radiation of 193 nm and capable of forming a photoresist structure having high resolution and high etching resistance by development. SOLUTION: The photoresist composition comprises a combination of a cyclic olefin polymer, a photosensitive acid-generating agent and a substantially transparent bulky hydrophobic additive. The cyclic olefin polymer contains a cyclic olefin unit having a polar functional group which promotes dissolution in an aqueous alkali solution and the cyclic olefin unit having an acid-labile group which inhibits the dissolution in the aqueous alkali solution. The hydrophobic additive is selected from the group comprising a saturated steroid compound, a non-steroid cycloaliphatic compound and a non-steroid polycycloaliphatic compound having an acid-labile bond.