SILICON-CONTAINING RESIST COMPOSITION AND ITS USE

• Main Authors: WILLIAM ROSS BRUNSFOLD, DAVID E ZEGER, DOUGLAS CHARLES RA TULIP JR, ARI AFUZAARI ARUDAKAANII, RIN CHIN FAN, KATNANI AHMAD D
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 11.08.2000
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES,e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTORDEVICES; PHYSICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain the negative tone resist composition comparatively high in silicon content and high in sensitivity and resolution by incorporating a silicon-containing polymer having a phenol group, soluble in an aqueous base, a cross-linking agent, an acid generator and a solvent, and allowing the phenolic polymer containing silicon to have a specific structure. SOLUTION: The composition is a silicon-containing negative resist composition and contains a silicon-containing polymer having a phenol group, soluble in an aqueous base, a cross-linking agent capable of cross-linking the silicon- containing polymer at the sites of the phenolic hydroxyl group, an acid generator and a solvent. The silicon-containing phenolic polymer soluble in an aqueous basic solution has structures represented by the formula in which R1 is an acid-insensitive (inactive) blocking group; Z is an H atom or a -Si(CH3)3; and X is <=1 mol fraction. This silicon-containing polymer has an number average molecular weight of about 800-about 200,000.