To provide a positive photoresist composition having excellent storage stability suitable for the manufacture of a system LCD and to provide a method for preparing the positive photoresist composition and a method for forming a resist pattern.
The positive photoresist composition for the manufacture of an LCD having an integrated circuit and a liquid crystal display unit formed on one substrate is prepared by dissolving the following components in an organic solvent. The components are: (A) an alkali-soluble resin; (B) a naphthoquinone diazide esterified product containing an esterified product of a compound expressed by general formula (I) and a 1,2-naphthoquinone diazide sulfonyl compound; (C) a phenolic hydroxyl group-containing compound having ≤1,000 molecular weight; and (D) a reduction inhibitor.
NIIKURA SATOSHI
OUCHI YASUHIDE
Masatake Shiga
Masakazu Aoyama
Suzuki Mitsuyoshi
Noriko Yanai