公开(公告)号：US20200373430A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16635295

申请日：2018-08-22

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yukinori SHIMA ,  Masataka NAKADA ,  Masayoshi DOBASHI ,  Kenichi OKAZAKI

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F1/1345

Abstract: A semiconductor device that can be highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, a third semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a third insulating layer, a fourth insulating layer, a first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer. The second semiconductor layer is positioned over the first semiconductor layer, the second conductive layer is positioned on the second semiconductor layer, and the second insulating layer is provided so as to cover a top surface and a side surface of the second conductive layer. The second conductive layer and the second insulating layer include a first opening, and the third semiconductor layer is provided in contact with a top surface of the second insulating layer, a side surface of the first opening, and the second semiconductor layer. The first insulating layer is positioned between the first conductive layer and the third semiconductor layer, the third insulating layer is positioned between the first insulating layer and the first conductive layer, and the fourth insulating layer is provided so as to surround the first conductive layer.

公开(公告)号：US20200335529A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-22

申请号：US16918472

申请日：2020-07-01

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Junichi KOEZUKA ,  Kenichi OKAZAKI ,  Yukinori SHIMA ,  Shinpei MATSUDA ,  Haruyuki BABA ,  Ryunosuke HONDA

IPC: H01L27/12 ,  H01L29/778 ,  H01L29/786 ,  H01L29/66

Abstract: To improve field-effect mobility and reliability in a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. A semiconductor device includes a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. The transistor includes a region where the maximum value of field-effect mobility of the transistor at a gate voltage of higher than 0 V and lower than or equal to 10 V is larger than or equal to 40 and smaller than 150; a region where the threshold voltage is higher than or equal to minus 1 V and lower than or equal to 1 V; and a region where the S value is smaller than 0.3 V/decade.

公开(公告)号：US20200211425A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-02

申请号：US16634955

申请日：2018-07-27

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Yukinori SHIMA ,  Masami JINTYOU

IPC: G09F9/30 ,  H01L51/50

Abstract: A semiconductor device that can be highly integrated is provided.The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a third insulating layer, and a first conductive layer. The third insulating layer is positioned over the semiconductor layer and includes a first opening over the semiconductor layer. The first conductive layer is positioned over the semiconductor layer, the first insulating layer is positioned between the first conductive layer and the semiconductor layer, and the second insulating layer is provided in a position that is in contact with a side surface of the first opening, the semiconductor layer, and the first insulating layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first portion overlapping with the first insulating layer, a pair of second portions between which the first portion is sandwiched and which overlap with the second insulating layer, and a pair of third portions between which the first portion and the pair of second portions are sandwiched and which overlap with neither the first insulating layer nor the second insulating layer. The first portion has a smaller width than the first opening and has a thinner shape of the semiconductor layer than the second portions, and the second portions have a thinner shape of the semiconductor layer than the third portions.

公开(公告)号：US20200161435A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-21

申请号：US16739647

申请日：2020-01-10

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yasuharu Hosaka ,  Toshimitsu OBONAI ,  Yukinori SHIMA ,  Masami JINTYOU ,  Daisuke KUROSAKI ,  Takashi HAMOCHI ,  Junichi KOEZUKA ,  Kenichi OKAZAKI ,  Shunpei YAMAZAKI

IPC: H01L29/24 ,  H01L29/786 ,  C04B35/622 ,  C04B35/453 ,  H01L27/12 ,  H01L29/778 ,  C23C14/58 ,  C23C14/08 ,  C04B35/01 ,  C03C17/245

Abstract: A metal oxide film includes indium, M, (M is Al, Ga, Y, or Sn), and zinc and includes a region where a peak having a diffraction intensity derived from a crystal structure is observed by X-ray diffraction in the direction perpendicular to the film surface. Moreover, a plurality of crystal parts is observed in a transmission electron microscope image in the direction perpendicular to the film surface. The proportion of a region other than the crystal parts is higher than or equal to 20% and lower than or equal to 60%.

公开(公告)号：US20200020810A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-16

申请号：US16582225

申请日：2019-09-25

Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Junichi KOEZUKA ,  Masami JINTYOU ,  Yukinori SHIMA ,  Takashi HAMOCHI ,  Yasutaka NAKAZAWA

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L27/12 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F1/1339 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  H01L29/45 ,  H01L29/10

Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device including a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor is used and on-state current is high. In a semiconductor device including a first transistor provided in a driver circuit portion and a second transistor provided in a pixel portion, the first transistor and the second transistor have different structures. Furthermore, the first transistor and the second transistor are transistors having a top-gate structure in which conductive films serving as a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode do not overlap. Furthermore, in an oxide semiconductor film, an impurity element is contained in a region which does not overlap with the gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode.

公开(公告)号：US20190280020A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-12

申请号：US16420858

申请日：2019-05-23

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Junichi KOEZUKA ,  Yasutaka NAKAZAWA ,  Yukinori SHIMA ,  Masami JINTYOU ,  Masayuki SAKAKURA ,  Motoki NAKASHIMA

IPC: H01L27/12 ,  H01L29/786

Abstract: The stability of a step of processing a wiring formed using copper, aluminum, gold, silver, molybdenum, or the like is increased. Moreover, the concentration of impurities in a semiconductor film is reduced. Moreover, the electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device are improved. In a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film, an oxide film in contact with the oxide semiconductor film, and a pair of conductive films being in contact with the oxide film and including copper, aluminum, gold, silver, molybdenum, or the like, the oxide film has a plurality of crystal parts and has c-axis alignment in the crystal parts, and the c-axes are aligned in a direction parallel to a normal vector of a top surface of the oxide semiconductor film or the oxide film.

公开(公告)号：US20190103497A1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-04

申请号：US16194664

申请日：2018-11-19

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Junichi KOEZUKA ,  Kenichi OKAZAKI ,  Masami JINTYOU ,  Yukinori SHIMA

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L29/24 ,  H01L29/04 ,  H01L27/12 ,  H01L21/02 ,  H01L29/66 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  H01L27/32

Abstract: To improve field-effect mobility and reliability of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. Provided is a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film. The semiconductor device includes a first insulating film, the oxide semiconductor film over the first insulating film, a second insulating film and a third insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film, and a gate electrode over the second insulating film. The oxide semiconductor film includes a first oxide semiconductor film, a second oxide semiconductor film over the first oxide semiconductor film, and a third oxide semiconductor film over the second oxide semiconductor film. The first to third oxide semiconductor films contain the same element. The second oxide semiconductor film includes a region where the crystallinity is lower than the crystallinity of one or both of the first oxide semiconductor film and the third oxide semiconductor film.

公开(公告)号：US20180247958A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-30

申请号：US15963141

申请日：2018-04-26

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Junichi KOEZUKA ,  Kenichi OKAZAKI ,  Yukinori SHIMA ,  Shinpei MATSUDA ,  Haruyuki BABA ,  Ryunosuke HONDA

IPC: H01L27/12 ,  H01L29/786 ,  H01L29/778 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L29/24

CPC classification number: H01L27/1225 ,  H01L27/127 ,  H01L29/24 ,  H01L29/66969 ,  H01L29/7781 ,  H01L29/7782 ,  H01L29/7786 ,  H01L29/7869 ,  H01L29/78696

Abstract: To improve field-effect mobility and reliability in a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. A semiconductor device includes a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. The transistor includes a region where the maximum value of field-effect mobility of the transistor at a gate voltage of higher than 0 V and lower than or equal to 10 V is larger than or equal to 40 and smaller than 150; a region where the threshold voltage is higher than or equal to minus 1 V and lower than or equal to 1 V; and a region where the S value is smaller than 0.3 V/decade.

公开(公告)号：US20180012912A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-11

申请号：US15697627

申请日：2017-09-07

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Junichi KOEZUKA ,  Yukinori SHIMA ,  Masami JINTYOU ,  Takashi HAMOCHI ,  Satoshi HIGANO ,  Yasuharu HOSAKA ,  Toshimitsu OBONAI

IPC: H01L27/12 ,  H01L49/02 ,  H01L29/45 ,  H01L29/786

CPC classification number: H01L27/1255 ,  H01L28/20 ,  H01L28/24 ,  H01L28/60 ,  H01L29/45 ,  H01L29/7869 ,  H01L29/78693

Abstract: A novel semiconductor device in which a metal film containing copper (Cu) is used for a wiring, a signal line, or the like in a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film is provided. The semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor film having conductivity on an insulating surface and a conductive film in contact with the oxide semiconductor film having conductivity. The conductive film includes a Cu—X alloy film (X is Mn, Ni, Cr, Fe, Co, Mo, Ta, or Ti).

公开(公告)号：US20170236723A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-17

申请号：US15584223

申请日：2017-05-02

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Yasuharu HOSAKA ,  Toshimitsu OBONAI ,  Junichi KOEZUKA ,  Yukinori SHIMA ,  Masahiko HAYAKAWA ,  Takashi HAMOCHI ,  Suzunosuke HIRAISHI

IPC: H01L21/477 ,  H01L21/28 ,  H01L29/786 ,  H01L21/02

Abstract: To suppress a change in electrical characteristics and to improve reliability in a semiconductor device using a transistor including an oxide semiconductor. The semiconductor device includes a gate electrode over an insulating surface, an oxide semiconductor film overlapping with the gate electrode, a gate insulating film which is between the gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor film and is in contact with a surface of the oxide semiconductor film, a protective film in contact with an opposite surface of the surface of the oxide semiconductor film, and a pair of electrodes in contact with the oxide semiconductor film. In the gate insulating film or the protective film, the amount of gas having a mass-to-charge ratio m/z of 17 released by heat treatment is greater than the amount of nitrogen oxide released by heat treatment.