Author: claimsbot

1. A method for making a tin hydride, comprising reacting a halo-stannane with a formate to form a Sn-formate compound and then subsequently thermolyzing the Sn-formate compound, wherein the tin hydride is a compound of the formula
(R\u2032)n(R\u2033)m(X)3-n-mSn(H)
wherein R\u2032 is alkyl, wherein R\u2033 is aryl attached to a polymer backbone, wherein X is F, Cl, Br, or I; wherein n is 0, 1, 2, or 3; wherein m is 0, 1, 2, or 3; and wherein n+m\u22663.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the tin hydride is a compound of the formula selected from the group consisting of R3SnH, R2XSnH, RX2SnH, and X3SnH, wherein R is selected from alkyl and aryl, and wherein X is selected from halogen.
3. A method of forming halo-boron compounds suitable for reduction to boranes, comprising:
reacting a boron compound selected from the group consisting of alcoholato-boron compounds, catecholato-boron compounds, amino-boron compounds, and anilino-boron compounds with a compound of the formula HX wherein X is selected from the group consisting of halogens, where \u201camino\u201d is an organic group containing a primary or secondary amine functionality bonded to the boron; and thereafter
separating a product halo-boron compound.
4. A method of forming halo-boron compounds suitable for reduction to boranes, comprising:
reacting a boron compound selected from the group consisting of alcoholato-boron compounds, catecholato-boron compounds, amino-boron compounds, and anilino-boron compounds with an oxidizing agent, where \u201camino\u201d is an organic group containing a primary or secondary amine functionality bonded to the boron the oxidizing agent comprising a corresponding halo-boron compound or halide salt of the boron compound; and thereafter
separating a product halo-boron compound.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A light source device comprising:
a light-emitting unit having a plurality of light-emitting elements,
a first optical unit that substantially collimates beams emitted from the light-emitting elements in a first direction, and
a second optical unit that condenses the beams substantially collimated by the first optical unit in a second direction intersecting the first direction,
wherein the light-emitting unit, the first optical unit, and the second optical unit are sequentially disposed in close contact with each other.
2. The light source device according to claim 1, wherein the light-emitting unit is arranged such that light-emitting surfaces of the plurality of light-emitting elements are aligned in the first direction, and a length of the light-emitting surfaces in the second direction is greater than a length of the light emitting surfaces in the first direction.
3. The light source device according to claim 1, wherein the first direction is a main scanning direction, and the second direction is a sub-scanning direction.
4. The light source device according to claim 1, wherein the light-emitting elements are organic EL elements.
5. The light source device according to claim 1, wherein the first optical unit is a micro-lens array.
6. The light source device according to claim 1, wherein the first optical unit is a prism sheet.
7. The light source device according to claim 1, wherein the second optical unit is a cylindrical lens.
8. The light source device according to claim 1, wherein the second optical unit is a linear Fresnel lens.
9. A line head module comprising the light source device according to claim 1.
10. The line head module according to claim 9, wherein light emitted by the light-emitting unit is guided to a photoconductor to expose the photoconductor.
11. A light source device comprising:
a light-emitting unit having a plurality of light-emitting elements,
a first optical unit that substantially collimates beams emitted from the light-emitting elements in a first direction, and
a second optical unit that condenses the beams substantially collimated by the first optical unit in a second direction intersecting the first direction,
wherein the light-emitting unit is arranged such that the plurality of light-emitting elements is aligned in the first direction,
the first optical unit includes a beam-condensing element group having a plurality of beam-condensing elements disposed near to every light-emitting element, and
the beam-condensing element group corresponding to one light-emitting element has more beam-condensing elements than beam-condensing element groups corresponding to other ones of the light-emitting elements having a greater quantity of light than the one light-emitting element.
12. A method of manufacturing a light source device including a light-emitting unit having a plurality of light-emitting elements, a first optical unit that substantially collimates beams emitted from the light-emitting elements in a first direction, and a second optical unit that condenses the beams substantially collimated by the first optical unit in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the light-emitting unit being arranged such that the plurality of light-emitting elements are aligned in the first direction, and the first optical unit including a beam-condensing element group having a plurality of beam-condensing elements disposed near to every light-emitting element, the method comprising:
measuring a quantity of light of the light-emitting elements, and
forming the beam-condensing element group so that a beam-condensing element group corresponding to one light-emitting element has a larger number of beam-condensing elements than a beam-condensing element group corresponding to other ones of the light-emitting elements each of which has a greater quantity of light than the one light-emitting element.

1. An antireflective coating composition comprising,
(i) a thermal acid generator;
(ii) a crosslinkable copolymer comprising at least one unit with structure (1) and at least one unit with structure (2) and further where the crosslinkable polymer is free of acrylate groups and where structure (1) and (2) are,
where, R is selected from H and C1-C6 alkyl and R1 is independently selected from H, hydroxyl, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkylenehydroxy, C1-C6 ester and C1-C6 carboxylic acid, and n=1-5; and
where, R and R10 are independently selected from H and (C1-C6)alkyl, and m is 1-5; and
(iii) a polymeric crosslinker comprising at least one unit of structure (6),
where R11 to R13 are independently selected from H, (C1-C6)alkyl and aromatic group, and, R14 and R15 are independently (C1-C10) alkyl.
2. The composition of claim 1, where the unit of structure (1) is further defined by structure (5),
where, R is selected from H and C1-C6 alkyl and R1 is independently selected from H, hydroxyl, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C8 alkylenehydroxy, C1-C6 ester and C1-C6 carboxylic acid, and p=1-4.
3. The composition of claim 1, where R14 and R15 are methyl.
4. The composition of claim 1, where the polymeric crosslinker further comprises a styrenic or (meth)acrylate unit.
5. The composition of claim 1, where the thermal acid generator is selected from iodonium salts, tosylates, derivatives of benzene sulfonic acid salts, and derivatives of naphthalene sulfonic acid salts.
6. The composition of claim 1 where the carbon content of the composition after curing is greater than 75% by weight.
7. A process for imaging a photoresist comprising the steps of,
a) forming a antireflective coating from an antireflective coating composition of claim 1 on a substrate;
b) forming a coating of a photoresist over an antireflective coating;
c) imagewise exposing the photoresist with an exposure equipment; and,
d) developing the coating with an aqueous alkaline developer.
8. The process according to claim 1 where radiation for imagewise exposure is selected from 248 nm, 193 nm and 157 nm.
9. The process according to claim 1 where the developer in an aqueous solution of tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide.
10. An antireflective coating composition comprising,
(i) a thermal acid generator;
(ii) a crosslinkable acrylate polymer comprising units of structure (3) and (4),
where, R2 to R7 are independently selected from H, C1-C6 alkyl and C1-C6 alkylenehydroxy, R8 is an nonaromatic, and R9 comprises an aromatic moiety group selected from unsubstituted phenyl; and,
(iii) a polymeric crosslinker comprising at least one unit of structure (6),
where R11 to R13 is independently selected from H, (C1-C6) alkyl and aromatic group, and, R14 and R15 are independently (C1-C10) alkyl.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A computer implemented method for integrated ciruit design and simulation, comprising:
generating a virtual model of a circuit using a model for each component of the circuit, wherein at least one model comprises a lumped equivalent circuit representation of an integrated circuit transformer structure having stacked primary and secondary conductors over a groud planewith, in which conductor length is a user-specified parameter;
performing a simulation of the circuit based on one or more user-specified parameter values for conductor length; and
presenting results of the simulation.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the lumped equivalent circuit representation of the integrated transformer comprises an RLC filter network.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein generating a virtual model comprises:
providing a user interface that allows a user to build a schematic depiction of the circuit using schemtic icon depictions of the circuit components; and
obtaining a model corresponding to each schematic icon depiction from a libray of predefined models.
4. The method of claim 2, wherein generating a virtual model comprises:
providing a user interface that allows a user to build a 3D circuit layout representation of the circuit;
performing a 3D EM analysis of the 3D circuit; and
generating a equivalent model for each circuit component using results of the 3D EM analysis.