| abstract |
Provided is a highly active actinic-ray-sensitive acid generator which, upon irradiation with actinic rays, comes to have cationic-polymerization performance or crosslinking reaction performance and which enables curable compositions containing the acid generator to have satisfactory storage stability. This actinic-ray-sensitive acid generator comprises sulfonium salt (A), which is represented by general formula (1), and sulfonium salt (B), which is represented by general formula (2), and has a content of the sulfonium salt (B) of 0.01-2 mol% with respect to the total number of moles of the sulfonium salt (A) and the sulfonium salt (B). |