Patent ID: 8476346

Claim:
A resist pattern thickening material, comprising: a resin; a cyclic compound expressed by the following general formula 1; at least one of a compound expressed by the following general formula 2 and a compound expressed by the following general formula 3; and water, where Q represents at least one of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an acetyl group, and a hydroxyalkyl group, and k represents an integer of 6, 7, or 8, where R represents a cyclic structure, A represents a monovalent organic group containing a carboxyl group, m represents an integer of 1 or larger, B represents at least one of a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an amino group, an alkyl group-substituted amino group in which a number of the alkyl group is 1 or 2, a carbonyl group, and an alkoxycarbonyl group, and n represents an integer of 0 or larger, where S represents an aromatic hydrocarbon structure, X represents a compound expressed by the general formula 4, Y represents at least one of a hydroxyl group, an amino group, an alkyl group-substituted amino group in which a number of the alkyl group is 1 or 2, an alkoxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, and an alkyl group, p represents an integer of 1 or larger, and q represents an integer of 0 or larger, and where R1 and R2 are identical to or different from each other, and each represent at least one of a hydrogen atom and a substituent, and Z represents at least one of a hydroxyl group, an amino group, an alkyl group-substituted amino group in which a number of the alkyl group is 1 or 2, and an alkoxy group.