Abstract: A fluorine-containing sulfonate salt resin or fluorine-containing sulfonate ester resin having a structure of the following general formula (A) and a fluorine-containing N-sulfonyloxyimide resin having a repeating unit of the general formula (17). And a resist composition using the above resin such that the resist composition can attain high resolution, wide DOF, small LER and high sensitivity and form a good pattern shape.

Abstract: A sulfonate resin having a repeating unit of the following general formula (3): where X each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom; n represents an integer of 1 to 10; R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a C1-C3 alkyl group or a C1-C3 fluorine-containing alkyl group; R2 represents either RAO or RBRCN; and M+ represents a monovalent cation. The sulfonate resin has an onium sulfonate incorporated in a side chain thereof with an anion moiety of the sulfonate salt fixed to the resin and can suitably be used as a resist resin having a high solubility in propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate.

Abstract: A resist composition according to the present invention includes at least a base resin, a photoacid generator and a solvent, wherein the photoacid generator comprises a fluorine-containing sulfonic acid salt of the following general formula (4). In the formula, X independently represents a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom; n represents an integer of 1 to 6; R1 represents a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl, alkenyl, oxoalkyl, aryl or aralkyl group; any of hydrogen atoms on carbons in R1 may be substituted with a substituent; R2 represents RAO or RBRCN; and A represents a divalent group. This fluorine-containing sulfonic acid salt can serve as a photoacid generator having high solubility in a resist solvent and thus can suitably be used for a resist composition such that the resist composition shows high resolution, wide DOF, small LER and high sensitivity to form a good pattern shape in lithographic processes.

Abstract: In the present invention, a target alkoxycarbonylfluoroalkanesulfonic acid salt is obtained by using a halofluoroalkanoic acid ester as a starting raw material, sulfinating the halofluoroalkanoic acid ester in the presence of an amine (as a first step), and then, oxidizing the resulting sulfination product (as a second step). Further, an alkoxycarbonylfluoroalkanesulfinic acid onium salt, which is useful as a photoacid generator, is obtained by salt exchange reaction of the alkoxycarbonylfluoroalkanesulfonic acid salt.

Abstract: A resist composition according to the present invention includes at least a base resin, a photoacid generator and a solvent, wherein the photoacid generator comprises a fluorine-containing sulfonic acid salt of the following general formula (4). In the formula, X independently represents a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom; n represents an integer of 1 to 6; R1 represents a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl, alkenyl, oxoalkyl, aryl or aralkyl group; any of hydrogen atoms on carbons in R1 may be substituted with a substituent; R2 represents RAO or RBRCN; and A represents a divalent group. This fluorine-containing sulfonic acid salt can serve as a photoacid generator having high solubility in a resist solvent and thus can suitably be used for a resist composition such that the resist composition shows high resolution, wide DOF, small LER and high sensitivity to form a good pattern shape in lithographic processes.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a sulfonate resin having a repeating unit of the following general formula (3): where X each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom; n represents an integer of 1 to 10; R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a C1-C3 alkyl group or a C1-C3 fluorine-containing alkyl group; R2 represents either RAO or RBRCN; and M+ represents a monovalent cation. The sulfonate resin has an onium sulfonate incorporated in a side chain thereof with an anion moiety of the sulfonate salt fixed to the resin and can suitably be used as a resist resin having a high solubility in propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there are provided a fluorine-containing sulfonate salt resin or fluorine-containing sulfonate ester resin having a structure of the following general formula (A) and a fluorine-containing N-sulfonyloxyimide resin having a repeating unit of the general formula (17). It is possible obtain a resist composition using the above resin such that the resist composition can attain high resolution, wide DOF, small LER and high sensitivity and form a good pattern shape.

Abstract: In the present invention, a target alkoxycarbonylfluoroalkanesulfonic acid salt is obtained by using a halofluoroalkanoic acid ester as a starting raw material, sulfinating the halofluoroalkanoic acid ester in the presence of an amine (as a first step), and then, oxidizing the resulting sulfination product (as a second step). Further, an alkoxycarbonylfluoroalkanesulfinic acid onium salt, which is useful as a photoacid generator, is obtained by salt exchange reaction of the alkoxycarbonylfluoroalkanesulfonic acid salt.