A resist composition containing: (A) a resin containing a repeating unit having an acid-labile group and not containing a repeating unit having an aromatic substituent; (B) a photo-acid generator shown by a general formula (B-1); and (C) a solvent, where W1 represents a cyclic divalent hydrocarbon group having 4 to 12 carbon atoms and containing a heteroatom; W2 represents a cyclic monovalent hydrocarbon group having 4 to 14 carbon atoms and not containing a heteroatom; Rf represents a divalent organic group shown by the following general formula; and M+ represents an onium cation. This provides a resist composition and a patterning process that uses the resist composition that show a particularly favorable mask dimension dependency (mask error factor: MEF), LWR, and critical dimension uniformity (CDU) particularly in photolithography where a high-energy beam such as an ArF excimer laser beam is used as a light source.
一种抗蚀剂组合物,含有(A) 含有具有酸亲和基的重复单元且不含具有芳香取代基的重复单元的
树脂;(B) 通式(B-1)所示的光酸发生器;以及 (C) 溶剂,其中 W1 代表具有 4 至 12 个碳原子且含有一个杂原子的环状二价烃基;W2 代表具有 4 至 14 个碳原子且不含杂原子的环状一价烃基团; Rf 代表如下通式所示的二价有机基团;以及 M+ 代表鎓阳离子。这就提供了一种抗蚀剂组合物和一种使用该抗蚀剂组合物的图案化工艺,尤其是在使用高能光束(如 ArF 准分子激光束)作为光源的光刻技术中,该抗蚀剂组合物和图案化工艺显示出特别有利的掩膜尺寸相关性(掩膜误差因子:MEF)、低温均匀性和临界尺寸均匀性(CDU)。