Radiation imagery chemistry: process – composition – or product th – Imaging affecting physical property of radiation sensitive... – Radiation sensitive composition or product or process of making
Reexamination Certificate
2001-05-15
2003-01-14
Ashton, Rosemary (Department: 1752)
Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product th
Imaging affecting physical property of radiation sensitive...
Radiation sensitive composition or product or process of making
C430S905000, C522S149000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06506540
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a photopolymerizable composition and, more particularly, to a photopolymerizable composition which has an excellent adhesion to a substrate, shows good burn-out properties, and forms a pattern with good profiles.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Photopolymerizable compositions have so far been used in various fields such as resists for making a printing plate, resists for fine working, varnishes for a photo-sensitive coating, and adhesives for glass. Such photopolymeriable compositions are compounds which generally contain a polymer binder, a photopolymerizable monomer and a photopolymerization initiator. In particular, photopolymerization compositions containing, as the photopolymerizable monomer, acrylic compounds such as 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, pentaerythritol triacrylate and pentaerythritol trimethacrylate are preferably used as resists for use in fine working such as manufacturing of electronic parts.
Fine working using the photopolymerizable composition containing the above-described acrylic photopolymerizable monomer is commonly a so-called lithography treatment in which a pattern is formed on a substrate from the photopolymerizable composition, and the substrate is worked using the pattern as a mask. In recent years, this fine working technology has made further progress, and thus much finer working technology has been demanded. With such an increasing demand, the photopolymerizable compositions have been required to have good adhesion to a substrate and good burn-out properties upon baking for removing remaining patterns which become useless after patterning of the substrate, as well as good sensitivity and good resolution. Although conventional photopolymerizable compositions containing a polymer binder, a photopolymerizable monomer and a photopolymerization initiator show excellent sensitivity and resolution, they have insufficient adhesion to a substrate and insufficient burn-out properties, thus photopolymerizable compositions being excellent in these properties as well having eagerly been demanded.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
As a photopolymerizable composition which meets the demand, the inventors have formerly proposed a polymerizable composition containing a polymer binder, at least one photopolymerizable monomer selected from the group consisting of a specific salicylic acid ester and a phthalic acid diester, and a photopolymerization initiator. As a result of further investigations to obtain a photopolymerizable composition having better adhesion to a substrate, the inventors have found that a photopolymerizable composition having much better adhesion to a substrate and excellent burn-out properties can be obtained by using a specific compound as the photopolymerizable monomer, thus having completed the present invention based on the finding.
The present invention provides a photopolymerizable composition showing excellent sensitivity and resolution, and having excellent adhesion to a substrate and burn-out properties as well.
The present invention is a photopolymerizable composition comprisining (A) a polymer binder, (B) a photopolymerizable monomer and (C) a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the component (B) is at least one member selected from compounds represented by the following
wherein R
1
represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group having 1 to 9 carbon atoms and optionally having a hydroxyl group, or a substituent represented by the following formula (8):
wherein R
3
represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and p and q each represent an integer with the sum thereof being 14 or less,
R
2
represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and m and n each represent an integer with the sum thereof being 14 or less.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The invention is described in more detail below.
The photopolymerizable composition of the invention is a photopolymerizable composition containing the component (A), component (B) and component (C) as described above and, as the component (A), there are specifically illustrated polymerization or copolymerization products of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, methyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, ethyl acrylate, ethyl methacrylate, n-butyl acrylate, n-butyl methacrylate, isobutyl acrylate, isobutyl methacrylate, monomethyl fumarate, monoethyl fumarate, monopropyl fumarate, monomethyl maleate, monoethyl maleate, monopropyl maleate, sorbic acid, hydroxymethyl acrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate, 2-hydroxymethyl methacrylate, 2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate, hydroquinone monoacrylate, hydroquinone monomethacrylate, hydroquinone diacrylate, hydroquinone di-2-hydroxyethyl acrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, 2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl methacrylate, benzyl acrylate, benzyl methacrylate, phenoxy acrylate, phenoxy methacrylate, isobornyl acrylate, isobornyl methacrylate, ethylene glycol dimethacrylate, triethylene glycol diacrylate, triethylene glycol dimethacrylate, tetraethylene glycol diacrylate, tetraethylene glycol dimethacrylate, butylene glycol dimethacrylate, propylene glycol diacrylate, propylene glycol dimethacrylate, trimethylolethane triacrylate, trimethylolethane trimethacrylate, trimethylolpropane triacrylate, trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate, tetramethylolpropane tetraacrylate, tetramethylolpropane tetramethacrylate, 1,6-hexanediol diacrylate, 1,6-hexanediol dimethacrylate, cardoepoxy diacrylate, glycidyl methacrylate, glycidyl methacrylate, ethylene glycol diacrylate, fumaric esters of these illustrative compounds wherein (meth)acrylate is replaced by fumarate, maleic esters of these illustrative compounds wherein (meth)acrylate is replaced by maleate; crotonic acid esters of these illustrative compounds wherein (meth)acrylate is replaced by crotonate, itaconic acid esters of these illustrative compounds wherein (meth)acrylate is replaced by itaconate, styrene, acrylamide, methacrylamide, acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, etc.; and cellulose derivatives such as hydroxypropyl cellulose, ethylhydroxyethyl cellulose, hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose phthalate, hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose acetate, etc. The component (A) may be used alone or in combination of two or more of them. Among them, hydroxypropyl cellulose is preferably used in the invention.
Content of the component (A) may be 10 to 80 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the sum of the component (A), component (B) and component (C).
The component (B) is at least one member selected from compounds represented by the following formula (9):
wherein R
1
represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group having 1 to 9 carbon atoms and optionally having a hydroxyl group, or a substituent represented by the following formula (10):
wherein R
3
represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and p and q each represent an integer with the sum thereof being 14 or less,
R
2
represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and m and n each represent an integer with the sum thereof being 14 or less.
Incorporation of the component (B) in the photopolymerizable composition serves to improve adhesion between a pattern formed from the photopolymerizable composition and a substrate and provide excellent burn-out properties and good fine workability Use of the compound of the formula (9) wherein both m and n represent 0 much more improves the adhesion Specific examples of the compound represented by the formula (9) are compounds represented by the formula (11) through formula (18), with compounds of formula (11), formula (12), formula (15) and formula (16) being more preferred.
Content of the component (B) may be 10 to 80 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the sum of the component (A), component (B) and component (C). If the content of the component (B) is less than the above-described range, the resultant photopolymerizable composition is not improved whereas, if more than the range, there results deteriorated burn-out properties, thus such content not being preferred.
The photopolymerizable composi
Ishino Shinichiro
Kumazawa Akira
Obiya Hiroyuki
Tazawa Kenji
Ashton Rosemary
Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co. Ltd.
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