Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithographic imaging method for use in the manufacture of an integrated circuit composed of patterned structure or other similarly patterned structures of very high resolution, the patterned structure having especially a feature with a half pitch of about 50 nm or less. SOLUTION: Lithographic imaging of a 50 nm (or less) half-pitch feature in a chemically amplified resist (usually used in the manufacture of an integrated circuit) is made possible by the use of reduced temperature post-exposure processing and a low activation energy chemically amplified resist. The post-exposure processing preferably involves ambient to moderately elevated temperature and the presence of a deprotection reaction-dependent co-reactant (e.g. water). COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photoresist composition containing a polymer having at least one methacrylate monomer and to provide a method of pattering a substrate using the photoresist composition. SOLUTION: The photoresist composition contains a methacrylate monomer of formula 1 where R 1 represents hydrogen (H), a linear or branched 1-20C alkyl group or a semi- or perfluorinated linear or branched 1-20C alkyl group; where R 2 represents an unsubstituted aliphatic group or a substituted aliphatic group having zero or one trifluoromethyl (CF 3 ) group bonded to each carbon of the substituted aliphatic group or a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group; and where R 3 represents hydrogen (H), methyl (CH 3 ), trifluoromethyl (CF 3 ), difluoromethyl (CHF 2 ) or fluoromethyl (CH 2 F). COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a series of surface coupled linker molecules able to be brought into an optically active form used for preparing a bio-molecule microarray. SOLUTION: A composition contains a solid substrate, an organic coupling group having one terminal part coupled to the solid substrate and having at least another terminal part containing an alcoholic or carbonyl functional group, and a protection group unstable against an acid selected from a group comprising an acetal or a ketal coupled to the alcoholic or carbonyl functional group. The present invention describes also a composition containing the solid substrate, the organic coupling group having the one terminal part coupled to the solid substrate, and having at least another terminal part containing an aldehyde. The present invention provides also a composition containing the solid substrate, and at least one photoacid generator or sensitizer coupled to the solid substrate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a resist composition which is transparent in the wavelength range of UV to a shorter wave and can utilize oxygen reactive ion etching using an additive in place of phenols. SOLUTION: The photoresist composition contains a polymer having an acid labile group, hydroxycarborane and a photo-acid generating agent. When the composition is used as an upper layered resist for two-layer thin film imaging lithography, the resist has superior transmittance to an illuminant of a wavelength in the extreme-ultraviolet region and has superior workability in the production of a semiconductor device.