Patent ID: 8084187

Claim:
A resist composition comprising: a compound having a molecular weight of 1,000 or less and containing at least one sulfonamide group (—SO 2 NH—); wherein the compound containing at least one sulfonamide group contains the structure represented by the following formula (1) R 1 -L 1 -SO 2 NH-L 2 -R 2 (1) wherein L 1 represents a single bond, a carbonyl group, a carbonyloxy group, a sulfonyl group or a sulfonyloxy group, L 2 represents a single bond, a carbonyl group, a carbonyloxy group, a sulfonyl group or a sulfonyloxy group, and each of R 1 and R 2 independently represents an organic group, provided that in the case where L 2 is a single bond, R 2 is an aryl group.