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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a silicon purification apparatus and a silicon purification method capable of removing high-vapor pressure impurities having a vapor pressure higher than that of silicon and metal impurities from a silicon raw material at the same time. SOLUTION: In the silicon purification apparatus 1, the inside of a melting furnace 11 is kept in vacuum state by a vacuum pump 21, a silicon raw material 10 housed in a crucible 12 in the melting furnace 11 is heated and melted by a heater 13 to be a molten silicon 10a, a cooling body 14 is immersed in the molten silicon 10a to cool the molten silicon 10a, and purified silicon 30 is crystallized out at a silicon crystallizing-out part 29 of the cooling body 14. The heater 13 is controlled by a control means 18 so that the temperature of the silicon raw material 10 is at a temperature of 1,415-1,500°C. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substrate surface processor capable of preventing the detour of processing liquid to a non-processing surface at the opposite side of the processing surface of a substrate upon conveying the substrate to effect one side processing. SOLUTION: The substrate surface processor 20 for processing the surface of the substrate 21 is constituted of a processing liquid tank 23 for receiving the processing liquid 22, a plurality of conveyance rollers 24 whose one part or the whole of them are dipped into the processing liquid 22 received in the processing liquid tank 23, and which are provided so as to be free of rotation to convey the substrate 21; and a roller driving means for driving the rotation of the conveyance rollers 24. In this case, the length W2 in the rotating axial direction of the conveyance rollers 24 is longer than the width W1 of the substrate 21, and recesses and projections constituting grooves extended into the rotary axial line direction are formed on the surface of the conveyance rollers 24. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing method good in ink transfer, a printing apparatus, a printing plate used in it, and a pattern film. SOLUTION: The printing method includes a process in which with the use of a repellent intaglio in which a projection 3 is an ink-affinitive layer 13, and a recess 2 is an ink-repellent layer 12, the whole surface of the repellent intaglio is coated with an ink layer 14, a process in which a substrate 1 is contacted with the repellent intaglio through the ink layer 14, and process in which by making the substrate 1 secede from the repellent intaglio, the ink layer arranged on the upper surface of the ink-repellent layer of the repellent intaglio is transferred to the substrate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture a thin-film transistor element by reducing the number of photolithographic processes. SOLUTION: The thin-film transistor element has a gate electrode layer arranged on the main surface 1a of a substrate, a gate insulating layer, a first semiconductor layer 4 and a second semiconductor layer arranged so as to coat the first semiconductor layer 4. The thin-film transistor element further has a source electrode layer 6a and a drain electrode layer 6b arranged on the upper side of the gate insulating layer through the gate insulating layer, the first semiconductor layer 4 and the second semiconductor layer respectively. The source electrode layer 6a and the drain electrode layer 6b are opposed mutually while holding a channel region 12 in a plan view. When the direction vertical to the direction 71 of a straight line tying the source electrode layer 6a and the drain electrode layer 6b is set in the channel-width direction 72, the width of the opposed section of the source electrode layer 6a and the drain electrode layer 6b regarding the channel-width direction 72 is longer than a size Wch in the channel-width direction of the channel region 12. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a visual inspection method in which stains can be detected in a polycrystalline semiconductor wafer with a grain boundary also. SOLUTION: A computer 10 picks up a low angle and high angle image of each face by a front face imaging device 20 and a rear face imaging device 40. The computer 10 computes a brightness difference for each pixel at the same position of a polycrystalline silicon wafer 2 in the imaged low angle and high angle image, and generates stain candidate image data using a pixel, at a position in which the computed brightness difference is smaller than the preset brightness difference as a pixel candidate representing stains for each face. The computer 10 compares the stain candidate image data of two faces with each other for each pixel at a position where the two faces are opposed to each other, and generates inequality image data using the pixel at the position corresponding to a position of an opposing pixel in which data indicating whether or not it is a pixel candidate representing stains is inequal as an inequality pixel. When an area composed of inequality pixels among pixels of images indicated by the inequality image data satisfies preset stain conditions, it is determined that there are stains. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substrate surface processing apparatus capable of uniform processing by supplying processing liquid stably to the processing surface of a substrate, and capable of preventing the detour of processing liquid into the non-processing surface of the substrate with simple configuration. SOLUTION: The substrate surface processing apparatus 30 for processing the surface of the substrate 31 is provided with a configuration comprising a processing liquid tank 33 for receiving the processing liquid 32; a plurality of conveyance rollers 34 whose one part is dipped into the processing liquid 32 received in the processing liquid tank 33, and which are provided so as to be turned freely to convey the substrate 31; and a roller driving means for driving the rotation of the conveyance rollers 34. In this case, the conveyance rollers 34 are provided with the length in the rotating axial direction longer than the width of the substrate 31, and recesses and projections are formed on the surfaces thereof. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plasma processor capable of manufacturing a high quality thin-film device or the like, at a high speed. SOLUTION: The plasma processor includes a treatment chamber 1, having a substrate 5 to be processed located therein, a gas inlet 7 for introducing a gas into the treatment chamber 1, and a plasma source provided in the chamber 1 for applying the plasma processing to the substrate 5. The plasma source has a cathode electrode 2 (first electrode), a dielectric 4 provided on part of an electrode surface of the cathode electrode 2, and an anode electrode 3 (second electrode) provided on the dielectric 4, while the anode electrode 3 is provided to be capable of relatively stretching to the dielectric 4 in the longitudinal direction of the anode electrode 3. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a substrate which can surely manufacture the substrate from an ingot and readily, without scraps. SOLUTION: The condensing point 5a of a laser beam 5 is relatively moved to the ingot 1, in a state with the condensing point 5a of the laser beam 5 matching the interior of the ingot 1. A processing region 10 by substantially planar multiphoton absorption, extending in a direction perpendicular direction to the radiating direction of the laser beam 5 is formed in the interior of the ingot 1. In a part 11 of one side, bordered on the processing region 10 in the ingot 1 and a part 12 of other side are separated in the processing region 12, and the substrate 2, is manufactured from the ingot 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thin film crystal solar cell of high performance (high efficiency) of low cost LBSF (Localized BSF) structure and strip lateral electrode structure, and also to provide its manufacturing method. SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing a thin film crystal solar cell is characterized by containing: a process (A) wherein a solid phase impurity diffusing source layer is formed in a predetermined region, after a silicon film is formed on the whole surface on a maintenance substrate, or a silicon film is formed on the whole surface after the solid phase impurity diffusing source layer is formed in the predetermined region on the maintenance substrate; and a process (B) wherein the silicon film is crystallized or recrystallized by applying heat or optical energy, and a high concentration impurity region is formed in a predetermined region of the silicon film, thereby forming a crystal silicon layer having the high concentration impurity region. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plasma processing method and a plasma processing device for processing a pattern that is finer in dimension than plasma. SOLUTION: The plasma processing device includes an upper electrode 2 for generating plasma 1, a stage 3 on which a base material 6 to be subjected to plasma processing is disposed, a power supply 4 which applies a voltage to the upper electrode 2, a moving mechanism 5 disposed on the upper electrode 2, and a control unit 120. The control unit 120 controls the operation of the power supply 4 and the moving mechanism 5 to repeat generation of the plasma 1 and move of the upper electrode 2 through the moving mechanism 5. The moving mechanism 5 moves the upper electrode 2 so that an exposure area of the base material 6 to the plasma 1 before the move overlaps the exposure area after the move. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT