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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2019
Merck Patent Gmbh, Darmstadt, DE;
Robert Arent, Clinton, NJ (US);
Hengpeng Wu, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Guanyang Lin, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
Other;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a composition consisting essentially of a sulfonic acid component selected from the group consisting of camphor sulfonic acid, and a benzene sulfonic acid of structure (I), wherein R is H or a C-1 to C-18 n-alkyl, oxalic acid, a solvent component which consists essentially of an organic solvent component, or a mixture of an organic solvent components and water, wherein the organic solvent component consist of about 100 wt % to about 85 wt % of said solvent component, and further wherein said organic solvent component is either selected from solvent (III), (IV), (V), (VI) (wherein R is selected from the group consisting of —(-0-CH—CH—), —OH, —OH, and -0-C(═O)—CH, wherein n' is equal to 1, 2, 3, or 4), (VII) (wherein Ra is H or a C-1 to C-4 alkyl moiety), (VIII), (IX) (wherein Rb is a C-1 to C-18 alkyl moiety), (X), and (XI) or is a mixture, of at least two organic solvents selected from this group. The invention also relates to such compositions also containing a surfactant component, and also pertains to the process of using either of these compositions as a resist remover. Dipropylene glycol monomethyl ether (III),