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Letter
Reactivity of Acid Generators for Chemically Amplified Resists with Low-Energy Electrons
Atsuro Nakano,
Takahiro Kozawa,
Seiichi Tagawa,
Tomasz Szreder1,
James F. Wishart1,
Toshiyuki Kai2 and
Tsutomu Shimokawa2
The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
1Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, U.S.A.
2JSR Corp., 100 Kawajiri-cho, Yokkaichi, Mie 510-8552, Japan
(Received November 22, 2005; accepted December 17, 2005; published online February 10, 2006)
In chemically amplified resists for ionizing radiations such as electron beams and extreme ultraviolet (EUV), low-energy electrons play an important role in the pattern formation processes. The reactivity of acid generators with low-energy electrons was evaluated using solvated electrons in tetrahydrofuran, which were generated by a pulsed electron beam. The rate constants of acid generators with the solvated electrons ranged from 0.6 to 1.9 ×1011 M-1 s-1.
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