Abstract:
Provided are a coating formation agent for pattern micro-fabrication, and a method for forming a micropattern using the same, which enables: suppression and/or control of variation of the micro-fabrication size without being accompanied by defect generation following the micro-fabrication process even in ultramicro-fabrication particularly on the order of no greater than 120 nm, or a micro-fabrication process of a resist pattern with an increased aspect ratio; maintainance of a favorable resist pattern configuration after the micro-fabrication process while keeping the desired micro-fabrication size; and also avoidance of defects resulting from development of bacteria and the like after application of the coating formation agent for pattern micro-fabrication. The coating formation agent for pattern micro-fabrication of the present invention is a coating formation agent used for forming a micropattern by coating on a substrate having a photoresist pattern, the coating formation agent including: as component (a), a water soluble polymer; and, as component (b), at least one selected from quaternary ammonium hydroxide, alicyclic ammonium hydroxide and morpholinium hydroxide.
Abstract:
A polarization gain medium such as an emitting laser diode provides the optical pumping. An atomic vapor cell is positioned in the laser cavity providing spontaneous push-pull optical pumping inside the laser cavity. This causes the laser beam to be modulated at hyperfine-resonance frequency. A clock signal is obtained from electrical modulation across the laser diode.
Abstract:
A method for creating a content with higher advertising function, and an appropriate device for distributing such content are disclosed. A user's PC (100) logs on to a PVad service server (200) and makes a request for distribution of a PVad (a promotion video including an advertisement element). The PVad service server (200) distributes the PVad requested. A PVad is stored by correlating with a PV-ID that is to identify an artist etc. incorporated in a promotion video, and an ad-ID that is to identify an advertised subject incorporated in the promotion video. The PVad service server (200) stores distribution logs for the PVad on a PVad view log counter database (400). An advertiser's PC (600) makes a request for a view data. The PVad service server (200) retrieves a view log from the PVad view log counter database (400) based on an ad-ID, and sends the view log retrieved as a “view data for advertiser”.
Abstract:
An electron beam negative working resist composition is diclosed including: (A) an alkali-soluble resin, (B) an acid-crosslinkable substance, (C) an acid generating agent, and (D) a sensitizing substance, the sensitizing substance (D) being a substance which serves to accumulate electrons or energy through electron beam exposure and to reemit the accumulated electrons or energy into a resist film. Thus, the electron beam negative working resist composition can achieve a desired high sensitivity.
Abstract:
Proposed is a novel undercoating composition to form an undercoating layer interposed between the surface of a substrate and a photoresist layer with an object to decrease the adverse influences by the reflection of light on the substrate surface in the pattern-wise exposure of the photo-resist layer to ultraviolet light without the undesirable phenomena of intermixing between layers and notching along with a large selectivity ratio in the etching rates between the patterned resist layer and the undercoating layer in a dry-etching treatment. The undercoating composition comprises (A) an ultraviolet absorber which is a benzophenone compound or an aromatic azomethine compound each having at least one unsubstituted or alkyl-substituted amino group on the aryl groups and (B) a crosslinking agent which is preferably a melamine compound having at least two methylol groups or alkoxymethyl groups bonded to the nitrogen atoms in a molecule in a weight proportion (A):(B) in the range from 1:1 to 1:10.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device wherein the device is manufactured according to extracted process parameters. The process parameters are extracted as a set of optimum process parameters which satisfy an intended specification using process functions. The process functions describe a characteristic of the semiconductor device, and are determined using experimental values and/or simulated values. The process parameters may then be transmitted online to a factory.
Abstract:
Proposed is a novel undercoating composition used in the photolithographic patterning of a photoresist layer by intervening between the substrate surface and the photoresist layer to decrease the adverse influences of the reflecting light from the substrate surface. The undercoating composition of the invention comprises (a) a melamine compound substituted by methylol groups and/or alkoxymethyl groups and (b) a polyhydroxy benzophenone compound, diphenyl sulfone compound or diphenyl sulfoxide compound, optionally, with admixture of (c) an alkali-insoluble resin of a (meth)acrylic acid ester.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a novel chemical-sensitization type negative-working photoresist composition capable of exhibiting high sensitivity to actinic rays and giving a patterned resist layer with high resolution and excellently orthogonal cross sectional profile of the patterned resist layer without occurrence of microbridges. The composition comprises (a) a poly(hydroxystyrene)-based resin; (b) a compound capable of releasing an acid by the irradiation with actinic rays such as tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) isocyanurate; and (c) a crosslinking agent such as a urea resin and melamine resin, each in a specified weight proportion, the poly(hydroxystyrene)-based resin as the component (a) having such a dispersion of the molecular weight distribution that the ratio of the weight-average molecular weight M.sub.w to the number-average molecular weight M.sub.n does not exceed 1.4 and being substantially free from low molecular weight fractions including unpolymerized monomer and oligomers having a molecular weight smaller than 1000.
Abstract:
A method of forming a resist pattern, comprising: a step of forming a resist film on a substrate using a resist composition containing a base component (A) which exhibits decreased solubility in an organic solvent under action of acid and an acid-generator component (B) which generates acid upon exposure; a step of subjecting the resist film to exposure; a step of patterning the resist film by a negative-tone development using a developing solution containing the organic solvent to form a resist pattern; a step of applying a coating material to the resist pattern, thereby forming a coating film; a step of performing a thermal treatment at a temperature lower than the softening point of the resist pattern, thereby heat shrinking the coating film to narrow an interval between the resist pattern; and a step of removing the coating film.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method and system for polarizing a solid compound of interest via spin transfer from an optically-pumped alkali vapor. In one embodiment, the method provides a cell which contains a solid compound as well as pure alkali metal and some amount of buffer gas. The cell is heated to vaporize some of the pure alkali. Resonant laser light is passed through the cell to polarize the atomic vapor, a process known as “optical pumping.” Optical pumping can transfer order from photons to atoms, causing a buildup of vapor atoms in one angular momentum state. This vapor polarization is then transferred through the surface of the solid compound in order to polarize the nuclei in the bulk of the compound. This can produce nuclear polarizations in the sample many times larger than the limit set by thermal equilibrium. The method can be used in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).