Patent ID: 7846644

Claim:
A process for forming a patterned thin film comprising: (a) providing a substrate; (b) applying a composition comprising a photopatternable deposition inhibitor material to the substrate, wherein the deposition inhibitor material comprises an organosiloxane that is a selective deposition inhibitor; (c) exposing the photopattemable deposition inhibitor material to imaging actinic radiation to form a pattern which is composed of deposition inhibitor material in a second exposed state that is different from an first as-coated state; (d) patterning the deposition inhibitor material to provide selected areas effectively not having the deposition inhibitor material by processing the exposed photopatternable deposition inhibitor material; and (e) depositing layer of functional material on the substrate by a vapor phase deposition process; wherein the functional material is substantially deposited only in the selected areas of the substrate not having the deposition inhibitor material, wherein the functional material is a metal or comprises a metal-containing compound, and wherein the functional material is deposited by a vapor phase deposition process that is an atomic layer deposition process.