An object is to provide a semiconductor device of which a manufacturing process is not complicated and by which cost can be suppressed, by forming a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor film typified by zinc oxide, and a manufacturing method thereof. For the semiconductor device, a gate electrode is formed over a substrate; a gate insulating film is formed covering the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor film is formed over the gate insulating film; and a first conductive film and a second conductive film are formed over the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film has at least a crystallized region in a channel region.

Semiconductor device, and manufacturing method thereof

An electro-optical device having a plurality of pixels including a plurality of EL elements, wherein the electro-optical device provides a gray scale display by controlling a period of time at which the plurality of the EL elements emit light in one frame period; the plurality of the EL elements have a first electrode and a second electrode; the first electrode is held at a constant potential; and a potential of the second electrode changes in such a manner that a polarity of an EL driving voltage, which is a difference between the potentials applied to the first and second electrodes, is inverted for each one frame period.

Electro-optical device

A technique for forming a film of material (12) from a donor substrate (10). The technique has a step of introducing energetic particles (22) through a surface of a donor substrate (10) to a selected depth (20) underneath the surface, where the particles have a relatively high concentration to define a donor substrate material (12) above the selected depth. An energy source is directed to a selected region of the donor substrate to initiate a controlled cleaving action of the substrate (10) at the selected depth (20), whereupon the cleaving action provides an expanding cleave front to free the donor material from a remaining portion of the donor substrate.

Controlled cleaving process

A technique for forming a film of material ( 12 ) from a donor substrate ( 10 ). The technique has a step of forming a stressed region in a selected manner at a selected depth ( 20 ) underneath the surface. An energy source such as pressurized fluid is directed to a selected region of the donor substrate to initiate a controlled cleaving action of the substrate ( 10 ) at the selected depth ( 20 ), whereupon the cleaving action provides an expanding cleave front to free the donor material from a remaining portion of the donor substrate.

Method and device for controlled cleaving process

A photovoltaic cell device, e.g., solar cell, solar panel, and method of manufacture. The device has an optically transparent substrate comprises a first surface and a second surface. A first thickness of material (e.g., semiconductor material, single crystal material) having a first surface region and a second surface region is included. In a preferred embodiment, the surface region is overlying the first surface of the optically transparent substrate. The device has an optical coupling material provided between the first surface region of the thickness of material and the first surface of the optically transparent material.

Method and structure for fabricating solar cells using a layer transfer process

A process of manufacturing a semiconductor device by which a through hole such as contact hole with an obtuse opening edge can be formed in an insulation or passivation layer. At least two silicon oxynitride layers in which the nitrogen to oxygen ratio differs from each other are formed on a semiconductor substrate. The etching rate of the top layer is greater than that of the second layer from the top. The stacked silicon oxynitride layers are then selectively etched to form a through hole with an obtuse opening edge.

Method of forming through holes by differential etching of stacked silicon oxynitride layers

A method of producing a semiconductor device comprises removing all of the masking films used for forming desired semiconductor regions in the substrate, newly forming a first insulation film and selectively forming a second insulation film on predetermined portions of the first insulation film by the use of a polycrystalline silicon film as the mask.

Method of producing semiconductor device

This invention discloses a method of manufacturing an SST bipolar transistor, and the manufacturing method is capable of defining the size of a base region of the SST bipolar transistor. An insulating film and a spacer film serving as a spacer are sequentially formed in a bipolar transistor forming region on the main surface of a semiconductor substrate. Thereafter, the spacer film is patterned into a spacer film pattern for defining the size of the base region. A second insulating film, a base electrode pattern and a third insulating film are sequentially formed on the spacer film pattern. A first opening which reaches the spacer film pattern through the second insulating film, the base electrode pattern and the third insulating film is formed. The spacer film pattern is etched from the first opening to form a second opening having a diameter larger than that of the first opening. The insulating film exposed in the second opening is etched. The size of the base region on the major surface of the semiconductor substrate is defined by the size of the second opening.

Method of manufacturing super self-alignment technology bipolar transistor

In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to the present invention, a given position of a thermal oxide film formed on a monocrystalline silicon layer is opened to expose a surface of the monocrystalline silicon layer to serve as a getter site, a polycrystalline silicon layer is deposited on the thermal oxide film and the surface of the monocrystalline silicon layer, and the polycrystalline silicon layer is oxidized to convert the surface of the monocrystalline silicon layer directly contacting the polycrystalline silicon layer into an oxide film by thermal oxidation. That is, the position of interface between the oxide film and the monocrystalline silicon layer is shifted into the original monocrystalline silicon layer. During thermal oxidation of the polycrystalline silicon layer, a plurality of crystal defects to serve as getter sites are generated deeper than those generated by a conventional implagetter method in the monocrystalline silicon layer. In addition, the crystal defects generated in the manner described above do not extend to the surrounding region by subsequent annealing so that a region of the crystal defects is limited.

Method of gettering a semiconductor device and forming an isolation region therein

A metal layer is formed by selective CVD method on an emitter region formed by using a field oxide film as a mask. Opening for ion-implanting an impurity for forming external base region is formed in the field oxide film by utilizing the metal layer and a metal layer creep up a bird's beak of the field oxide film as masks. An impurity is doped in a semiconductor substrate through the opening formed in the field oxide film to form external base region. The distance between the emitter region and external base region is controlled by a length of the metal layer creep up the bird's beak.

Jiro Ohshima

Papers

Method of forming through holes by differential etching of stacked silicon oxynitride layers

Method of producing semiconductor device

Method of manufacturing super self-alignment technology bipolar transistor

Method of gettering a semiconductor device and forming an isolation region therein

Method of manufacturing bipolar transistor with self-aligned external base and emitter regions