Patent 12074025 was granted and assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on August, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of forming a pattern in a photoresist includes forming a photoresist layer over a substrate, and selectively exposing the photoresist layer to actinic radiation to form a latent pattern. The latent pattern is developed by applying a developer composition to the selectively exposed photoresist layer to form a pattern. The developer composition includes a first solvent having Hansen solubility parameters of 15<δ