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US 7,118,847 · App. 10/970,837 · Granted Oct 10, 2006

Polymer and photoresist compositions

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Patent No.
US 7,118,847
App. No.
10/970,837
Granted
Oct 10, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed are spirocyclic olefin polymers, methods of preparing spirocyclic olefin polymers, photresist compositions including spirocyclic olefin resin binders and methods of forming relief images using such photoresist compositions.

Claims (12)

1. A polymer comprising as polymerized units

(i) one or more spirocyclic olefin monomers of formulae I or II

 wherein Z=CH 2 , C(O), C(S), O or S; X and Y are independently chosen from CH 2 , C(O), C(S), O or NR 2 ; and R 2 =(C 1 –C 8 )alkyl or substituted (C 1 –C 8 )alkyl; provided that at least one of X, Y and Z is selected from C(O) and C(S); and

(ii) one or more cyclic olefin monomers having one or more substituent groups chosen from (C 1 –C 12 )halohydroxyalkyl; wherein the spirocyclic monomer is optionally substituted.

2. The polymer of claim 1 wherein the cyclic olefin monomer is chosen from cyclopentene, cyclopentadiene, dicylopentene, cyclohexene, cyclohexadiene, cycloheptene, cycloheptadiene, cyclooctene, cyclooctadiene, norbornene, and maleic anhydride.

3. The polymer of claim 1 wherein the (C 1 –C 12 )halohydroxyalkyl substituent is (CH 2 ) n ′C(CF 3 ) 2 OH where n′=0 to 4.

4. The polymer of claim 1 further comprising as polymerized units one or more cyclic olefin monomers having one or more substituent groups chosen from carbo(C 1 –C 20 )alkoxy and (CH 2 )n′C(CF 3 ) 2 —O-LG; wherein n′=0 to 4, wherein LG is a leaving group having 4 or more carbon atoms with at least one quaternary carbon atom bonded directly to the carboxyl group.

5. The polymer of claim 4 wherein the carbo(C 1 –C 20 )alkoxy substituent has the formula C(O)O-LG, wherein LG is a leaving group having 4 or more carbon atoms with at least one quaternary carbon atom bonded directly to the carboxyl group.

6. The polymer of claim 5 wherein the leaving group is chosen from isobutyl, 2,3-dimethylbutyl, 2,3,4-trimethylpentyl and alicyclic leaving groups.

7. A photoresist composition comprising one or more polymers of claim 1 and one or more photoactive components.

8. The photoresist of claim 7 wherein the photoactive component is chosen from photoacid generators and photobase generators.

9. A method of forming a relief image comprising the steps of applying a coating layer of the photoresist composition of claim 8 , exposing the photoresist coating layer to patterned actinic radiation; and developing the exposed photoresist coating layer to provide a relief image.