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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2013
Promerus, Llc, Brecksville, OH (US);
Pramod Kandanarachchi, Brecksville, OH (US);
Kazuyoshi Fujita, Tokyo, JP;
Steven Smith, Broadview Heights, OH (US);
Larry F Rhodes, Silver Lake, OH (US);
Promerus, LLC, Brecksville, OH (US);
Abstract
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide for non-self imageable norbornene-type polymers useful for immersion lithographic processes, methods of making such polymers, compositions employing such polymers and immersion lithographic processes that make use of such compositions. More specifically the embodiments of the present invention are related to norbornene-type polymers useful for forming top-coat layers for overlying photoresist layers in immersion lithographic process and the process thereof.