Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090090925 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - There are a silicon laser device having a IV-group semiconductor such as silicon or germanium equivalent to the silicon as a basic constituent element on a substrate made of the silicon, and the like by a method capable of easily forming the silicon laser device by using a general silicon process, and a manufacturing method thereof. The silicon laser device is an ultrathin silicon laser that includes a first electrode unit injecting electrons, a second electrode unit injecting holes, a light emitting unit electrically connected to the first electrode unit and the second electrode unit, wherein the light emitting unit is made of single-crystal silicon and has a first surface (top surface) and a second surface (bottom surface) opposed to the first surface, a waveguide made of a first dielectric, which is disposed in the vicinity of the light emitting unit, by setting surface directions of the first and second surfaces as a surface (100) and thinning a thickness of the light emitting unit in a direction perpendicular to the first and second surfaces, and a mirror formed by alternately adjoining the first dielectric and a second dielectric. | 04-09-2009 |
20090166616 | OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SURFACE TREATMENT METHOD OF OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR - Oxygen defects formed at the boundary between the zinc oxide type oxide semiconductor and the gate insulator are terminated by a surface treatment using sulfur or selenium as an oxygen group element or a compound thereof, the oxygen group element scarcely occurring physical property value change. Sulfur or selenium atoms effectively substitute oxygen defects to prevent occurrence of electron supplemental sites by merely applying a gas phase or liquid phase treatment to an oxide semiconductor or gate insulator with no remarkable change on the manufacturing process. As a result, this can attain the suppression of the threshold potential shift and the leak current in the characteristics of a thin film transistor. | 07-02-2009 |
20090179200 | Semiconductor device - A self emission silicon emission display is provided at a low price, which contains silicon and oxygen which exist in abundance on the earth as the main component and which can be easily formed by conventional silicon process. A light emission element includes a first electrode for injecting electrons, a second electrode for injecting holes, and a light emission part electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, where the light emission part includes amorphous or polycrystalline silicon consisting of a single layer or plural layers and where the dimension of the silicon in at least one direction is controlled to be several nanometers. | 07-16-2009 |
20090261325 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A metallic oxide semiconductor device with high performance and small variations. It is a field effect transistor using a metallic oxide film for the channel, which includes a channel region and a source region and comprises a drain region with a lower oxygen content than the channel region in the metallic oxide, in which the channel region exhibits semiconductor characteristics and the oxygen content decreases with depth below the surface. | 10-22-2009 |
20100140614 | OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE - A phenomenon of change of a contact resistance between an oxide semiconductor and a metal depending on an oxygen content ratio in introduced gas upon depositing an oxide semiconductor film made of indium gallium zinc oxide, zinc tin oxide, or others in an oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor. A contact layer is formed with an oxygen content ratio of 10% or higher in a region from a surface, where the metal and the oxide semiconductor are contacted, down to at least 3 nm deep in depth direction, and a region to be a main channel layer is further formed with an oxygen content ratio of 10% or lower, so that a multilayered structure is formed, and both of ohmic characteristics to the electrode metal and reliability such as the suppression of threshold potential shift are achieved. | 06-10-2010 |
20100330738 | Oxide semiconductor target and manufacturing method of oxide semiconductor device by using the same - An oxide semiconductor target of a ZTO (zinc tin complex oxide) type oxide semiconductor material of an appropriate (Zn/(Zn+Sn)) composition having high mobility and threshold potential stability and with less restriction in view of the cost and the resource and with less restriction in view of the process, and an oxide semiconductor device using the same, in which a sintered Zn tin complex oxide with a (Zn/(Zn+Sn)) composition of 0.6 to 0.8 is used as a target, the resistivity of the target itself is at a high resistance of 1 Ωcm or higher and, further, the total concentration of impurities is controlled to 100 ppm or less. | 12-30-2010 |
20110042667 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing a thin film transistor (TFT) through a process including back exposure, in which oxide semiconductor is used for a channel layer; using an electrode over a substrate as a mask, negative resist is exposed to light from the back of the substrate; the negative resist except its exposed part is removed; and an electrode is shaped by etching a conductive film using the exposed part as an etching mask. | 02-24-2011 |
20110049508 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - In a manufacturing method for thin film transistors, the following procedure is taken: a sacrifice layer comprised of a metal oxide semiconductor is formed over a conductive layer comprised of a metal oxide semiconductor; a metal film is formed over the sacrifice layer; the metal film is processed by dry etching; and the portion of the sacrifice layer exposed by this dry etching is subjected to wet etching. | 03-03-2011 |
20120025148 | SPUTTERING TARGET OF OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS AND THE MANUFACTURING METHODS OF OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LAYERS - A technique capable of forming an oxide semiconductor target with a high quality in a low cost is provided. In a step of manufacturing zinc tin oxide (ZTO target) used in manufacturing an oxide semiconductor forming a channel layer of a thin-film transistor, by purposely adding the group IV element (C, Si, or Ge) or the group V element (N, P, or As) to a raw material, excessive carriers caused by the group III element (Al) mixed in the step of manufacturing the ZTO target are suppressed, and a thin-film transistor having good current (Id)-voltage (Vg) characteristics is achieved. | 02-02-2012 |
20120280227 | OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Features are forming a gate electrode on an insulating substrate; forming a first semiconducting layer mainly composed of an indium oxide and having a film thickness of 5 nm or more onto the gate electrode interposing a gate insulating film; forming a second semiconducting layer mainly composed of zinc and tin oxides without containing indium and having a film thickness of 5 to 50 nm on the first semiconducting layer, and including a step of forming a source electrode and a drain electrode on the second semiconducting layer. In this manner, by combining the materials of the first semiconducting layer and the second semiconducting layer with each other, a semiconductor device with a reduced dependency on the film thickness of the semiconducting layer, little characteristic variations on a large area substrate is provided. | 11-08-2012 |
20130043469 | Thin-Film Transistor and Method for Manufacturing the Same - In a TFT that adopts an oxide semiconductor as an active layer and has a resistance layer interposed between the active layer and one of a source and drain electrode, while Vth close to 0 V and a small off current are sustained, an on-current is increased. In a thin-film transistor including a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, the semiconductor layer that links the source electrode and drain electrode is made of a metal oxide. The semiconductor layer includes three regions of first, second, and third regions. The first region is connected with the source electrode, the third region is connected with the drain electrode, and the second region is connected between the first region and third region. The resistivities of the three regions have the relationship of the first region>the second region>the third region. | 02-21-2013 |
20130099229 | Semiconductor Device, RFID Tag Using the Same and Display Device - Disclosed is an oxide semiconductor layer ( | 04-25-2013 |
20130187154 | OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Disclosed is a technique for suppressing fluctuation of device characteristics in thin film transistors using an oxide semiconductor film as a channel layer. In a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor film as a channel layer ( | 07-25-2013 |
20140175437 | Oxide Semiconductor Device and Surface Treatment Method of Oxide Semiconductor - Oxygen defects formed at the boundary between the zinc oxide type oxide semiconductor and the gate insulator are terminated by a surface treatment using sulfur or selenium as an oxygen group element or a compound thereof, the oxygen group element scarcely occurring physical property value change. Sulfur or selenium atoms effectively substitute oxygen defects to prevent occurrence of electron supplemental sites by merely applying a gas phase or liquid phase treatment to an oxide semiconductor or gate insulator with no remarkable change on the manufacturing process. As a result, this can attain the suppression of the threshold potential shift and the leak current in the characteristics of a thin film transistor. | 06-26-2014 |