公开(公告)号：US20240145599A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-02

申请号：US18407630

申请日：2024-01-09

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Hidekazu MIYAIRI ,  Akiharu MIYANAGA ,  Kengo AKIMOTO ,  Kojiro SHIRAISHI

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L29/423 ,  H01L29/66

CPC classification number: H01L29/7869 ,  H01L29/42384 ,  H01L29/66969 ,  H01L29/78618 ,  H01L27/1225

Abstract: To offer a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor having excellent characteristics and high reliability and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device without variation. The summary is to include an inverted-staggered (bottom-gate structure) thin film transistor in which an oxide semiconductor film containing In, Ga, and Zn is used for a semiconductor layer and a buffer layer is provided between the semiconductor layer and source and drain electrode layers. An ohmic contact is formed by intentionally providing a buffer layer containing In, Ga, and Zn and having a higher carrier concentration than the semiconductor layer between the semiconductor layer and the source and drain electrode layers.

公开(公告)号：US20240055533A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-15

申请号：US18383526

申请日：2023-10-25

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Masayuki SAKAKURA ,  Ryosuke WATANABE ,  Junichiro SAKATA ,  Kengo AKIMOTO ,  Akiharu MIYANAGA ,  Takuya HIROHASHI ,  Hideyuki KISHIDA

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L27/12 ,  H01L29/04

CPC classification number: H01L29/7869 ,  H01L27/1225 ,  H01L29/04 ,  H01L29/045 ,  H01L29/78618 ,  H01L29/78693 ,  H01L29/78696

Abstract: To provide a transistor having a favorable electric characteristics and high reliability and a display device including the transistor. The transistor is a bottom-gate transistor formed using an oxide semiconductor for a channel region. An oxide semiconductor layer subjected to dehydration or dehydrogenation through heat treatment is used as an active layer. The active layer includes a first region of a superficial portion microcrystallized and a second region of the rest portion. By using the oxide semiconductor layer having such a structure, a change to an n-type, which is attributed to entry of moisture to the superficial portion or elimination of oxygen from the superficial portion, and generation of a parasitic channel can be suppressed. In addition, contact resistance between the oxide semiconductor layer and source and drain electrodes can be reduced.

公开(公告)号：US20190157461A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-23

申请号：US16233358

申请日：2018-12-27

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Hidekazu MIYAIRI ,  Akiharu MIYANAGA ,  Kengo AKIMOTO ,  Kojiro SHIRAISHI

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

Abstract: An embodiment is to include an inverted staggered (bottom gate structure) thin film transistor in which an oxide semiconductor film containing In, Ga, and Zn is used as a semiconductor layer and a buffer layer is provided between the semiconductor layer and a source and drain electrode layers. The buffer layer having higher carrier concentration than the semiconductor layer is provided intentionally between the source and drain electrode layers and the semiconductor layer, whereby an ohmic contact is formed.

公开(公告)号：US20180122958A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-03

申请号：US15846518

申请日：2017-12-19

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Masayuki SAKAKURA ,  Ryosuke WATANABE ,  Junichiro SAKATA ,  Kengo AKIMOTO ,  Akiharu MIYANAGA ,  Takuya HIROHASHI ,  Hideyuki KISHIDA

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L29/24 ,  H01L29/04 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L27/12 ,  H01L29/12

CPC classification number: H01L29/7869 ,  H01L21/2636 ,  H01L27/1225 ,  H01L29/04 ,  H01L29/045 ,  H01L29/12 ,  H01L29/24 ,  H01L29/41733 ,  H01L29/66969 ,  H01L29/78696

Abstract: It is an object to provide a highly reliable semiconductor device with good electrical characteristics and a display device including the semiconductor device as a switching element. In a transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, a needle crystal group provided on at least one surface side of the oxide semiconductor layer grows in a c-axis direction perpendicular to the surface and includes an a-b plane parallel to the surface, and a portion except for the needle crystal group is an amorphous region or a region in which amorphousness and microcrystals are mixed. Accordingly, a highly reliable semiconductor device with good electrical characteristics can be formed.

公开(公告)号：US20170162719A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-08

申请号：US15440427

申请日：2017-02-23

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Akiharu MIYANAGA ,  Masahiro TAKAHASHI ,  Hideyuki KISHIDA ,  Junichiro SAKATA

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L27/12 ,  H01L21/477 ,  H01L29/24 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L21/02

CPC classification number: H01L21/02554 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F1/167 ,  H01L21/02164 ,  H01L21/02172 ,  H01L21/02266 ,  H01L21/02422 ,  H01L21/02565 ,  H01L21/02631 ,  H01L21/477 ,  H01L27/1225 ,  H01L27/127 ,  H01L27/3262 ,  H01L29/24 ,  H01L29/66969 ,  H01L29/7869 ,  H01L29/78696

Abstract: An object is to provide a semiconductor device with stable electric characteristics in which an oxide semiconductor is used. The impurity concentration in the oxide semiconductor layer is reduced in the following manner: a silicon oxide layer including many defects typified by dangling bonds is formed in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer, and an impurity such as hydrogen or moisture (a hydrogen atom or a compound including a hydrogen atom such as H2O) included in the oxide semiconductor layer is diffused into the silicon oxide layer. Further, a mixed region is provided between the oxide semiconductor layer and the silicon oxide layer. The mixed region includes oxygen, silicon, and at least one kind of metal element that is included in the oxide semiconductor.

公开(公告)号：US20170040458A1

公开(公告)日：2017-02-09

申请号：US15242802

申请日：2016-08-22

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Akiharu MIYANAGA ,  Junichiro SAKATA ,  Masayuki SAKAKURA ,  Masahiro TAKAHASHI ,  Hideyuki KISHIDA ,  Shunpei YAMAZAKI

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L29/423 ,  H01L27/12 ,  H01L29/49

CPC classification number: H01L29/7869 ,  H01L27/1214 ,  H01L27/1222 ,  H01L27/1225 ,  H01L27/3262 ,  H01L29/42384 ,  H01L29/45 ,  H01L29/4908 ,  H01L29/78618

Abstract: An object is to provide a thin film transistor having favorable electric characteristics and a semiconductor device including the thin film transistor as a switching element. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode formed over an insulating surface, a gate insulating film over the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film which overlaps with the gate electrode over the gate insulating film and which includes a layer where the concentration of one or a plurality of metals contained in the oxide semiconductor is higher than that in other regions, a pair of metal oxide films formed over the oxide semiconductor film and in contact with the layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode in contact with the metal oxide films. The metal oxide films are formed by oxidation of a metal contained in the source electrode and the drain electrode.

Abstract translation: 目的是提供一种具有良好电特性的薄膜晶体管和包括薄膜晶体管作为开关元件的半导体器件。 薄膜晶体管包括形成在绝缘表面上的栅极电极，栅电极上的栅极绝缘膜，与栅极绝缘膜上的栅电极重叠的氧化物半导体膜，并且包括其中浓度为1或 包含在氧化物半导体中的多种金属高于其他区域，形成在氧化物半导体膜上并与该层接触的一对金属氧化物膜，以及与金属氧化物膜接触的源电极和漏电极 。 金属氧化物膜通过氧化源电极和漏电极中所含的金属而形成。

公开(公告)号：US20160240694A1

公开(公告)日：2016-08-18

申请号：US15137613

申请日：2016-04-25

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Masashi TSUBUKU ,  Kengo AKIMOTO ,  Hiroki OHARA ,  Tatsuya HONDA ,  Takatsugu OMATA ,  Yusuke NONAKA ,  Masahiro TAKAHASHI ,  Akiharu MIYANAGA

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L29/24

CPC classification number: H01L29/78696 ,  H01L29/045 ,  H01L29/1033 ,  H01L29/247 ,  H01L29/7869 ,  H01L29/78693

Abstract: An oxide semiconductor film which has more stable electric conductivity is provided. The oxide semiconductor film comprises a crystalline region. The oxide semiconductor film has a first peak of electron diffraction intensity with a full width at half maximum of greater than or equal to 0.4 nm−1 and less than or equal to 0.7 nm−1 in a region where a magnitude of a scattering vector is greater than or equal to 3.3 nm−1 and less than or equal to 4.1 nm−1. The oxide semiconductor film has a second peak of electron diffraction intensity with a full width at half maximum of greater than or equal to 0.45 nm−1 and less than or equal to 1.4 nm−1 in a region where a magnitude of a scattering vector is greater than or equal to 5.5 nm−1 and less than or equal to 7.1 nm−1.

公开(公告)号：US20150109201A1

公开(公告)日：2015-04-23

申请号：US14515559

申请日：2014-10-16

Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Akiharu MIYANAGA

IPC: G06F3/01

CPC classification number: G06F3/011 ,  G06F1/1613 ,  G06F1/1684 ,  G06F1/3231 ,  G06F1/3265 ,  G06F2203/011 ,  Y02D10/153 ,  Y02D10/173 ,  Y02D50/20

Abstract: Provided is a device capable of displaying an image with small power consumption by adjusting output of the device in accordance with the physical and mental state of a user, such as tiredness or excitement. An electronic device includes one or a plurality of sensor portions which collects data from a user; a chaotic attractor generation portion which calculates a chaotic attractor by arithmetic processing of the collected data; and a Lyapunov index generation portion which calculates an index indicating the degree to which the chaotic attractor is matched to chaos definition conditions. Output of the electronic device is changed in accordance with the physical and mental state of a user.

Abstract translation: 提供了一种能够通过根据用户的身体状态（例如疲劳或兴奋）调整设备的输出来显示具有小功耗的图像的设备。 电子设备包括从用户收集数据的一个或多个传感器部分; 混沌吸引子生成部，其通过所收集的数据的算术处理来计算混沌吸引子; 以及Lyapunov指标生成部，计算表示混沌吸引子与紊乱定义条件相匹配的程度的指标。 电子设备的输出根据用户的身体状态而改变。

公开(公告)号：US20150069393A1

公开(公告)日：2015-03-12

申请号：US14547285

申请日：2014-11-19

Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Masashi TSUBUKU ,  Takayuki INOUE ,  Suzunosuke HIRAISHI ,  Erumu KIKUCHI ,  Hiromichi GODO ,  Shuhei YOSHITOMI ,  Koki INOUE ,  Akiharu MIYANAGA ,  Shunpei YAMAZAKI

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L29/40

CPC classification number: H01L29/7869 ,  H01L29/408

Abstract: Manufactured is a transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer overlapping with part of the oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer overlapping with the oxide semiconductor layer, the source electrode layer, and the drain electrode layer, and a gate electrode overlapping with part of the oxide semiconductor layer with the gate insulating layer provided therebetween, wherein, after the oxide semiconductor layer which is to be a channel formation region is irradiated with light and the light irradiation is stopped, a relaxation time of carriers in photoresponse characteristics of the oxide semiconductor layer has at least two kinds of modes: τ1 and τ2, τ1

Abstract translation: 制造的是包括与氧化物半导体层的一部分重叠的氧化物半导体层，源极电极层和漏极电极层，与氧化物半导体层重叠的栅极绝缘层，源极电极层和漏极电极层的晶体管， 以及与所述氧化物半导体层的与氧化物半导体层的一部分重叠的栅电极，其间设置有栅极绝缘层，其中，在作为沟道形成区域的氧化物半导体层被照射光并停止光照射之后，弛豫时间 氧化物半导体层的光响应特性中的载流子具有至少两种模式：τ1和τ2，τ1<τ2，τ2为300秒以下。 此外，制造包括晶体管的半导体器件。

公开(公告)号：US20130214273A1

公开(公告)日：2013-08-22

申请号：US13832479

申请日：2013-03-15

Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.

Inventor： Shunpei YAMAZAKI ,  Masashi TSUBUKU ,  Kengo AKIMOTO ,  Hiroki OHARA ,  Tatsuya HONDA ,  Takatsugu OMATA ,  Yusuke NONAKA ,  Masahiro TAKAHASHI ,  Akiharu MIYANAGA

IPC: H01L29/04

CPC classification number: H01L29/78696 ,  H01L29/045 ,  H01L29/1033 ,  H01L29/247 ,  H01L29/7869 ,  H01L29/78693

Abstract: An oxide semiconductor film which has more stable electric conductivity is provided. Further, a semiconductor device which has stable electric characteristics and high reliability is provided by using the oxide semiconductor film. An oxide semiconductor film includes a crystalline region, and the crystalline region includes a crystal in which an a-b plane is substantially parallel with a surface of the film and a c-axis is substantially perpendicular to the surface of the film; the oxide semiconductor film has stable electric conductivity and is more electrically stable with respect to irradiation with visible light, ultraviolet light, and the like. By using such an oxide semiconductor film for a transistor, a highly reliable semiconductor device having stable electric characteristics can be provided.

Abstract translation: 提供了具有更稳定的导电性的氧化物半导体膜。 此外，通过使用氧化物半导体膜提供具有稳定的电特性和高可靠性的半导体器件。 氧化物半导体膜包括结晶区域，并且结晶区域包括其中a-b平面基本上平行于膜的表面并且c轴基本上垂直于膜的表面的晶体; 氧化物半导体膜具有稳定的导电性，并且相对于可见光，紫外线等的照射而言更加电稳定。 通过使用这种用于晶体管的氧化物半导体膜，可以提供具有稳定电特性的高可靠性半导体器件。