Patent ID: 7514202
Filing Date: 2009-04-07
Classification: G03F,H01L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A thermal acid generator of generating an acid on heating at or above 100° C., having the general formula (1a): wherein R is a substituted or unsubstituted, straight, branched or cyclic alkyl group of 1 to 20 carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group of 6 to 14 carbon atoms, R 1 is each independently hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted, straight, branched or cyclic alkyl, alkenyl or oxoalkyl group of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, aralkyl or aryloxoalkyl group of 6 to 18 carbon atoms, or any two or more of R 1 may bond together to form a ring with the nitrogen atom.