Abstract:
A semiconductor device in which a semiconductor layer is formed on an insulating substrate with a front-end insulating layer interposed between the semiconductor layer and the insulating substrate is provided which is capable of preventing action of an impurity contained in the insulating substrate on the semiconductor layer and of improving reliability of the semiconductor device. In a TFT (Thin Film Transistor), boron is made to be contained in a region located about 100 nm or less apart from a surface of the insulating substrate so that boron concentration decreases at an average rate being about 1/1000-fold per 1 nm from the surface of the insulating substrate toward the semiconductor layer.
Abstract:
A base layer is formed on an insulating substrate, and a semiconductor layer is formed in localized fashion thereon. A gate insulating film is then formed so as to cover the semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode is formed on a portion of the gate insulating film. An impurity is then implanted into the semiconductor layer via the gate insulating film, and a source region, a drain region, and an LDD region are formed. The gate insulating film is etched with dilute hydrofluoric acid. An electrode-protecting insulating film is then formed so as to cover the gate electrode, and the entire surface of the surface layer portion of the electrode-protecting insulating film is etched away using dilute hydrofluoric acid. Carrier traps introduced into the electrode-protecting insulating film and the gate insulating film are thereby removed.
Abstract:
A thin-film transistor manufactured on a transparent substrate has a structure of a top gate type crystalline silicon thin-film transistor in which a light blocking film, a base layer, a crystalline silicon film, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode film arranged not to overlap at least a channel region are sequentially formed on the transparent substrate. The channel region has channel length L, LDD regions having LDD length d on both sides of the channel region, a source region, and a drain region are formed in the crystalline silicon film. The light blocking film is divided across the channel region. Interval x between the divided light blocking films is equal to or larger than channel length L and equal to or smaller than a sum of channel length L and a double of LDD length d (L+2d), allowing low the manufacturing cost and suppressed photo leak current.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a high-performance silicon oxide film as a gate insulation film and a semiconductor device having superior electric characteristics. The silicon oxide film according to the present invention includes CO2 in the film, wherein, when an integrated intensity of a peak is expressed by (peak width at half height)×(peak height) in an infrared absorption spectrum, the integrated intensity of a CO2-attributed peak which appears in the vicinity of a wave number of 2,340 cm−1 is 8E-4 times or more with respect to the integrated intensity of an SiO2-attributed peak which appears in the vicinity of a wave number of 1,060 cm−1.