US4882260A
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Positive-working photosensitive quinone diazide composition with alkali insoluble dye and alkali soluble dye
Assignee: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co Ltd
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Filing: 1987-06-05
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Granted: 1989-11-21
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Expires: 2007-06-05
Abstract
Abstract The photosensitive composition, which is suitable as a photoresist material in fine patterning works for the manufacture of semiconductor devices, contains, as a photoextinctive agent, a combination of an alkali-insoluble dye and an alkali-soluble dye each having absorptivity of light in the wavelength region from 230 to 500 nm in a specified amount and in a specified ratio between them. By virtue of the formulation of combined dyes, the undesirable phenomenon of halation by the underlying aluminum coating layer on the substrate surface is greatly decreased so that patterned resist layer obtained with the composition is a high-fidelity reproduction of the original pattern even in a submicron range of fineness with good rectangularity of the cross sectional form of the patterned lines.
Inventors
- 👤 Hidekatsu Kohara
- 👤 Nobuo Tokutake
- 👤 Masanori Miyabe
- 👤 Toshimasa Nakayama
- 👤 Shingo Asaumi
- 👤 Hatsuyuki Tanaka
- 👤 Yoshiaki Arai
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-02 18:56
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03F; G03F7/00; G03F7/004; G03F7/025; G03F7/09; G03F7/091; G03F7/04
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
137 words
A positive-working photosensitive composition which is a mixture consisting essentially of: (A) an alkali soluble film-forming polymeric resin; (B) a photosensitizer which is a quinome diozide; (C) an alkali-insoluble dye soluble in oils and organic solvents having absorptivity of light in the wavelength region from 230 to 500 nm having no phenolic hydroxy group; and (D) an alkali-soluble dye soluble in oils and organic solvents having absorptivity of light in the wavelength region from 230 to 500 nm having at least one phenolic hydroxy group in a molecule; the total amount of the components (C) and (D) being in the range from 0.5 to 10% by weight based on the total amount of the components (A) and (B), and the components (C) and (D) are contained in a weight ratio in the range from 1:1 to 1:4.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
137 words
A positive-working photosensitive composition which is a mixture consisting essentially of: (A) an alkali soluble film-forming polymeric resin; (B) a photosensitizer which is a quinome diozide; (C) an alkali-insoluble dye soluble in oils and organic solvents having absorptivity of light in the wavelength region from 230 to 500 nm having no phenolic hydroxy group; and (D) an alkali-soluble dye soluble in oils and organic solvents having absorptivity of light in the wavelength region from 230 to 500 nm having at least one phenolic hydroxy group in a molecule; the total amount of the components (C) and (D) being in the range from 0.5 to 10% by weight based on the total amount of the components (A) and (B), and the components (C) and (D) are contained in a weight ratio in the range from 1:1 to 1:4.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
74 words
The positive-working photosensitive composition as claimed in claim 1 wherein the alkali-insoluble dye as the component (C) is an azobenzene compound represented by the general formula ##STR6## in which R 1 is an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R 2 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and R 3 and R 4 are each an alkyl group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
120 words
THe positive-working photosensitive composition as claimed in claim 1 wherein the alkali-soluble dye as the component (D) is an azo compound having at least one phenolic hydroxy group in a molecule selected from the compounds represented by one of the general formulas ##STR7## in which R 5 is a hydrogen atom or a hydroxy group and R 6 is a hydrogen atom or a hydroxy group and R 6 is a hydrogen atom, nitro group or dialkylamino group, ##STR8## in which one of R 7 and R 8 is a hydroxy group, the other being a hydrogen atom, and ##STR9## in which R 9 is a divalent group selected from the class consisting of 4-hydroxybenzylidene, 2-hydroxyphenylimino and 2-hydroxy α-naphthylimino groups.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
23 words
The positive-working photosensitive composition as claimed in claim 1 wherein the film-forming polymeric resin as the component (A) is a cresol novolac resin.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
128 words
The positive-working photosensitive composition as claimed in claim 4 wherein the cresol novolac resin is a binary mixture of a first cresol novolac resin having a weight-average molecular weight of at least 5000, of which the cresol moiety is composed of 60 to 80% of m-cresol moiety and 40 to 20% of p-cresol moiety, and a second cresol novolac resin having a weight-average molecular weight of smaller than 5000, of which the cresol moiety is composed of 10 to 40% of m-cresol moiety and 90 to 60% of p-cresol moiety, in such a proportion that the cresol moiety in the binary mixture of the first and second cresol novolac resins is composed of 30 to 46.5% of the m-cresol moiety and 70 to 53.5% of the p-cresol moiety.
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