Radiation-sensitive resin composition

• Main Authors: SHIMOKAWA, TSUTOMU, DOUKI, KATSUJI, NISHIMURA, YUKIO, KAJITA, TORU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.01.2006
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CHEMISTRY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVINGCARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS; MATERIALS THEREFOR; METALLURGY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES,e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTORDEVICES; PHYSICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; USE OF INORGANIC OR NON-MACROMOLECULAR ORGANIC SUBSTANCES ASCOMPOUNDING INGREDIENTS

A radiation-sensitive resin composition used as a chemically amplified positive tone resist responsive to short wavelength active radiation such as KrF excimer laser and ArF excimer laser is disclosed. The resin composition comprises: (A) an acid-dissociable group-containing resin which is insoluble or scarcely soluble in alkali and becomes alkali soluble when the acid-dissociable group dissociates, the resin comprising a lactone cyclic structure of the following formula (1), wherein a is an integer from 1-3, b is an integer from 0-9, and R1 represents a monovalent organic group, and (B) a photoacid generator. The composition has high transmittance of radiation, exhibits high sensitivity, resolution, and pattern shape, and can produce semiconductors at a high yield without producing resolution defects during microfabrication.