To provide a negative resist composition suppressing swelling of a resist pattern and a resist pattern forming method.
The negative resist composition contains: (A) an alkali-soluble resin component; (B) an acid generator component which generates an acid upon exposure; and (C) a crosslinker component. The alkali-soluble resin component (A) is a copolymer (A1) including: a constitutional unit (a1) having an alicyclic group having a fluorinated hydroxyalkyl group in a backbone; a constitutional unit (a2) having a hydroxyl group-containing chain or cyclic alkyl group and derived from an acrylic ester having a fluorinated alkyl group or a fluorine atom bonding to the α-position; and a constitutional unit (a3) having an alicyclic group having a fluorinated hydroxyalkyl group, and derived from an acrylic ester having a fluorinated alkyl group or a fluorine atom, bonding to the α-position.
Masatake Shiga
Masakazu Aoyama
Suzuki Mitsuyoshi
Noriko Yanai
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