Abstract:
A positive image-forming material for use with infrared laser is provided. The material includes a substrate, a layer (A) containing not less than 50% by weight of a copolymer which contains, as a copolymerization component, not less than 10% by mol of at least one of the following monomers (a-1) to (a-3), wherein (a-1) is a monomer having in the molecule a sulfonamide group wherein at least one hydrogen atom is linked to a nitrogen atom, (a-2) is a monomer having in the molecule an active imino group represented by the following general formula (I): and (a-3) is a monomer selected from acrylamide, methacrylamide, acrylate, methacrylate and hydroxystyrene, which respectively have a phenolic hydroxyl group; and a layer (B) containing not less than 50% by weight of an aqueous alkali solution-soluble resin having a phenolic hydroxyl group. The layer (A) and the layer (B) contain a compound which generates heat upon absorbing light. An image forming material includes the following compounds (II) and (III): R1—SO2—SO2—R2 (II) R1—SO2—R2 (III) wherein R1 and R2 may be the same or different, and R1 and R2 represent a substituted or non-substituted alkyl, alkenyl or aryl group. The photosensitive image-forming material and positive photosensitive composition have excellent stability of sensitivity with regard to concentration of a developing solution, i.e., have excellent development latitude.
Abstract:
A photosensitive resin composition comprising an aromatic polyimide precursor, wherein a 10 &mgr;m thick layer of precursor has light transmittance at a wavelength of 365 nm of at least 1% and a 10 &mgr;m thick polyimide film made from the resin composition by imidation ring closure and deposited on a silicon substrate results in a residual stress of at most 25 MPa. The composition can be patterned through i-line exposure followed by development with alkaline solutions, and can be imidized into low-stress polyimide patterns. Electronic components having the polyimide patterns have high reliability.
Abstract:
A positive type photosensitive image-forming material for use with an infrared laser is provided. The material includes a substrate, a layer (A) containing not less than 50% by weight of a copolymer which contains, as a copolymerization component, not less than 10% by mol of at least one of the following monomers (a-1) to (a-3), wherein (a-1) is a monomer having in the molecule a sulfonamide group wherein at least one hydrogen atom is linked to a nitrogen atom, (a-2) is a monomer having in the molecule an active imino group represented by the following general formula (I): and (a-3) is a monomer selected from acrylamide, methacrylamide, acrylate, methacrylate and hydroxystyrene, which respectively have a phenolic hydroxyl group; and a layer (B) containing not less than 50% by weight of an aqueous alkali solution-soluble resin having a phenolic hydroxyl group. The layer (A) and the layer (B) are laminated on the substrate in that order. At least the layer (B) contains a compound which generates heat upon absorbing light. The image-forming material has excellent stability of sensitivity with regard to concentration of a developing solution, i.e., has excellent development latitude.
Abstract:
A negative image-recording material which can be imagewise exposed to IR radiation from IR lasers and ensures direct image formation from digital data of a computer or the like. The material, when used in a lithographic printing plate, ensures good hardenability in an image area and exhibits good printing durability, even if not heated for image formation, and ensures a large number of good prints from the printing plate. The recording material contains (A) an IR absorber, (B) a radical generator having an onium salt structure, (C) a radical-polymerizing compound, and (D) a reducing additive, and this is imagewise exposed to IR radiation for image formation. Preferably, the reducing additive (D) is highly reactive with radicals and a reaction product with a radical has high reductivity. Preferred examples of the reducing additive are ether-type hydrogen donors, alcohol-type hydrogen donors, vinyl ethers and phosphine-type compounds.
Abstract:
Imagable precursors for masks and for electronic parts comprise a polymeric layer applied to a substrate. The layer comprises at least one polymer having infra-red absorbing groups carried as pendent groups on the polymer backbone. Certain infra-red absorbing groups may also act to insolubilize the polymer in a developer, until it is imagewise exposed to infra-red radiation. Imagewise application of heat, resulting from imagewise exposure of the precursor to infra-red radiation, renders the polymer layer more soluble in the developer than prior to exposure to the infra-red radiation.
Abstract:
A positive resist composition comprising, in admixture, an alkali-soluble resin, a quinone diazide compound and a mixed solvent of (B) at least one organic solvent selected from the group consisting of &ggr;-butyrolactone, 3-methoxybutanol and cyclohexanone and (A) an organic solvent other than the solvents (B) which does not have simultaneously an alkylcarbonyl group and an alkoxy group in a molecule and has a boiling point of from 140 to 180° C. under atmospheric pressure (B), which composition has a large &ggr;-value and provides an improved profile and a large depth of focus.