Patent 7258962 was granted and assigned to JSR Corporation on August, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A positive-tone radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising: (A) a carbazole derivative shown by the following formula (1), (B) a photoacid generator containing a sulfonimide compound and an iodonium salt compound as essential components, and (C) an acid-dissociable group-containing resin which is insoluble or scarcely soluble in alkali, but becomes soluble in alkali when the acid-dissociable group dissociates is disclosed.