Patent ID: 7556913

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a metal or a metal compound pattern, comprising: a coating step of coating a photosensitive resin of negative-type on a surface of a substrate, the resin having water soluble and ion-exchangeable characteristics; an exposing step of exposing the coated photosensitive resin to a light with a mask; a removing step of removing a light-unexposed portion of the coated photosensitive resin and maintaining a light-exposed portion which forms a resin pattern corresponding to the metal or metal compound pattern by developing the photosensitive resin subjected to the exposing step with a developing water solution; subsequent to the removing step, an absorbing step of making the resin pattern absorb a water solution containing metal components; and a burning step of burning the resin pattern that has absorbed the solution containing metal components, to remove a resin component therefrom and maintain the patterned metal components which become the metal or metal compound pattern thereon, wherein performance of said absorbing step makes the resin pattern absorb an amount of the water solution containing metal components sufficient to form the metal or metal compound pattern to have a thickness of at least 15 nm to about 78 nm.