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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1995
Tetsuya Kondo, Yokohama, JP;
Kei Murata, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshikazu Nagai, Yokosuka, JP;
Katunori Ohshima, Yokohama, JP;
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A stamper for use in producing high-density recording disks of the type in which an information signal pattern is formed as successive minute pits in a recording surface, is formed of glass and is manufactured by an image reversal photolithography process in which a film of a positive type of photoresist is scanned by a modulated light beam, baking is then executed to produce cross-linking of molecular chains within the portions of the photoresist which have been exposed to the scanning beam, and the photoresist is then subjected to overall flood exposure to light, whereby the photoresist portions which were not exposed to the scanning light beam can be removed by applying an alkaline solution. A photoresist pattern is thereby formed, to be used as an etching mask which can be patterned to a higher degree of resolution than has been possible hitherto, whereby a glass stamper for producing very high-capacity recording disks can be manufactured.