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7622370 Process and system for laser crystallization processing of film regions on a substrate to minimize edge areas, and a structure of such film regions  
A process and system for processing a thin film sample are provided. In particular, a beam generator can be controlled to emit at least one beam pulse. The beam pulse is then masked to produce at...
7618904 Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device  
When a laser beam is irradiated onto a semiconductor film, a steep temperature gradient is produced between a substrate and the semiconductor film. For this reason, the semiconductor film...
7618882 Method for manufacturing semiconductor device and laser irradiation apparatus  
It is an object to achieve continuous crystal growth without optical interference using a compact laser irradiation apparatus. A megahertz laser beam is split and combined to crystallize a...
7618852 Phase transition method of amorphous material using cap layer  
The present invention provides a phase transition method of an amorphous material, comprising steps of: depositing the amorphous material on a dielectric substrate; forming a cap layer on the...
7615502 Laser anneal of vertically oriented semiconductor structures while maintaining a dopant profile  
A method to laser anneal a silicon stack (or a silicon-rich alloy) including a heavily doped region buried beneath an undoped or lightly doped region is disclosed. By F selecting laser energy at a...
7615424 Laser irradiation apparatus and method for manufacturing semiconductor device using the laser irradiation apparatus  
An object of the present invention is to provide a laser irradiation method being able to control the irradiation position of the laser beam accurately compared with the conventional irradiation...
7615384 Semiconductor display device and method of manufacturing the same  
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device with the use of a laser crystallization method is provided which can prevent grain boundaries from being formed in a channel forming region of a TFT...
7612379 Multi-gate thin film transistor having recrystallized channel regions with different grain sizes  
An image display system has a multi-gate thin film transistor (TFT) disposed on a transparent substrate. The multi-gate TFT includes a silicon film layer, a first electrode and a reflecting layer....
7611933 Process for manufacturing a thin-film transistor (TFT) device and TFT device manufactured by the process  
A process for manufacturing a thin-film transistor device includes forming a dielectric insulation layer on a substrate, forming an amorphous silicon layer on the dielectric insulation layer,...
7611932 Method of manufacturing a thin film transistor  
A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor is provided. The method includes forming an amorphous silicon layer on a substrate, forming a source region, a drain region, and a region of a...
7611807 Method for forming poly-silicon film  
In the present invention, a method is used for forming a poly-silicon film that uses sequential lateral solidification (SLS) with two laser irradiations using a mask for patterning the laser beam...
7608869 Thin film transistor and method of fabricating the same  
A thin film transistor and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes: sequentially depositing an amorphous silicon layer, a capping layer, and a metal catalyst layer;...
7608527 Laser irradiation method and method for manufacturing crystalline semiconductor film  
Even when the laser irradiation is performed under the same condition with the energy distribution of the beam spot shaped as appropriate, the energy given to the irradiated surface is not yet...
7606064 Method for reducing a reset current for resetting a portion of a phase change material in a memory cell of a phase change memory device and the phase change memory device  
According to one embodiment, at least a portion of the phase change material including a first crystalline phase is converted to one of a second crystalline phase and an amorphous phase. The second...
7605029 Method of manufacturing semiconductor device  
According to the present invention, an impurity region, to which a rare gas element (also called a rare gas) and one kind or a plurality of kinds of elements selected from the group consisting of...
7601984 Field effect transistor with amorphous oxide active layer containing microcrystals and gate electrode opposed to active layer through gate insulator  
A novel amorphous oxide applicable, for example, to an active layer of a TFT is provided. The amorphous oxide comprises microcrystals.
7601565 Thin film transistor and method of fabricating the same  
A thin film transistor and method of fabricating the same are provided. In the thin film transistor, a seed or a grain boundary exists in a semiconductor layer pattern but not in a junction region....
7588976 Display device, method of production of the same, and projection type display device  
A display device able to raise a light resistance of pixel transistors without depending upon a light shielding structure and a method of production of same, wherein an average crystal grain size...
7585715 Semiconductor device and process for fabricating the same  
A semiconductor device comprising at least two thin film transistors on a substrate having an insulating surface thereon, provided that the thin film transistors are isolated by oxidizing the outer...
7585709 Display panels and fabrication methods thereof  
A display panel including a pixel array region. The pixel array region includes a plurality of pixel cells disposed in a matrix configuration. Each pixel cell has an active device. A relative...
7575985 Method of fabricating semiconductor device  
In a manufacturing process of a semiconductor device using a substrate having low heat resistance, such as a glass substrate, there is provided a method of efficiently carrying out crystallization...
7569441 Laser irradiation apparatus, laser irradiation method, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device  
An aggregation of crystals extending long in the scanning direction (a long crystal grain region) is formed when a continuous wave laser oscillator (a CW laser oscillator) is employed for annealing...
7569440 Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and manufacturing system thereof  
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprises the steps of: forming an amorphous silicon film on a substrate having an insulating surface; processing said amorphous silicon film by...
7569439 Thin film semiconductor device, production process and information displays  
A thin film semiconductor device has a semiconductor thin film with a film thickness of 200 nm or less. The semiconductor thin film is formed over a dielectric substrate with a warping point of...
7569307 Laser mask and crystallization method using the same  
A laser mask includes a mask pattern with edges having inverted shapes to alleviate the effects of diffraction of laser beams to reduce overlap regions such that crystallization characteristics are...
7566625 Semiconductor device manufacturing method, heat treatment apparatus, and heat treatment method  
For manufacture of a semiconductor device using a low heat resistant substrate such as a glass substrate, a method of heat treatment for activating an impurity element that is used to dope a...
7566602 Methods of forming single crystalline layers and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices having such layers  
In a method of forming a single crystalline semiconductor layer, an amorphous layer may be formed on a seed layer that includes a single crystalline material. The single crystalline layer may be...
7563661 Crystallization method for semiconductor film, manufacturing method for semiconductor device, and laser irradiation apparatus  
A semiconductor film formed over a substrate is irradiated by a first laser beam which is incident on a bottom surface of the substrate at an angle and by a second laser beam which is incident on...
7563660 Silicon film, crystalline film and method for manufacturing the same  
A silicon film, crystalline film and method for manufacturing the same are provided. The silicon film and/or crystalline film may be an epitaxy-formed layer. A method for manufacturing a silicon...
7563659 Method of fabricating poly-crystalline silicon thin film and method of fabricating transistor using the same  
A method of fabricating a poly-Si thin film and a method of fabricating a poly-Si TFT using the same are provided. The poly-Si thin film is formed at a low temperature using inductively coupled...
7563658 Method for manufacturing semiconductor device  
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor film, including the steps of forming a transparent conductive film, forming a first conductive film over the transparent...
7560365 Method of semiconductor thin film crystallization and semiconductor device fabrication  
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate, forming an amorphous silicon layer over the substrate, forming a heat retaining layer on the amorphous silicon layer,...
7560321 Crystallization method, thin film transistor manufacturing method, thin film transistor, display, and semiconductor device  
According to a crystallization method, in the crystallization by irradiating a non-single semiconductor thin film of 40 to 100 nm provided on an insulation substrate with a laser light, a light...
7557412 Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same  
The sizes of crystal masses are made to be a uniform in a crystalline silicon film obtained by a thermal crystallization method in which a metal element is used. An amorphous silicon film to be...
7557020 Method for fabricating thin film transistor using metal catalyst layer  
A method of fabricating a thin film transistor can include forming a metal catalyst layer on a substrate on which an amorphous silicon layer and a capping layer are formed. The metal catalyst may...
7556993 Thin film semiconductor device, polycrystalline semiconductor thin film production process and production apparatus  
A process for producing an image display device using a thin film semiconductor device is provided which includes forming a polycrystalline semiconductor thin film on a substrate. A substantially...
7553716 Method for manufacturing a semiconductor thin film  
A little amount of nickel is introduced into an amorphous silicon film formed on a glass substrate to crystallize the amorphous silicon film by heating. In this situation, nickel elements remain in...
7553715 Crystallization method and apparatus thereof  
A method of crystallizing an amorphous silicon thin film on a substrate includes loading a substrate onto a stage, the substrate having an amorphous silicon thin film thereon and having first and...
7553714 Method of manufacturing thin film transistor having polycrystalline silicon layer, thin film transistor manufactured using the method and flat panel display comprising the thin film transistor  
A method for manufacturing a thin film transistor having a more uniform threshold voltage, and a flat panel display device that includes the thin film transistor. The method includes forming an...
7547914 Single-crystal layer on a dielectric layer  
The process relates to the production of a layer of a single-crystal first material on a second material. The second material has at least one aperture exposing a surface portion of a...
7547593 Method of fabricating semiconductor device  
The objective of the invention is to provide a method of fabricating semiconductor device using a laser crystallization method capable of preventing a grain boundary from being formed on the...
7544584 Localized compressive strained semiconductor  
One aspect of the present subject matter relates to a method for forming strained semiconductor film. According to an embodiment of the method, a crystalline semiconductor bridge is formed over a...
7544572 Multi-operational mode transistor with multiple-channel device structure  
A multiple operating mode transistor is provided in which multiple channels having different respective operational characteristics are employed. Multiple channels have threshold voltages that are...
7544550 Method of fabricating semiconductor device and semiconductor fabricated by the same method  
A semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same are provided. The method includes: depositing a silicon layer containing amorphous silicon on a substrate; defining source and drain...
7544549 Method for manufacturing semiconductor device and MOS field effect transistor  
Upon manufacture of a semiconductor device provided with a source region and a drain region formed by activating, through anneal, an n-type first dopant ion-implanted in a p-type device forming...
7541615 Display device including thin film transistors  
A display including a driving substrate is provided. Arrayed on the driving substrate is a plurality of pixel electrodes and thin film transistors for driving the pixel electrodes. Each thin film...
7541230 Method and apparatus for crystallizing semiconductor with laser beams  
Laser beams emitted by a plurality of laser sources are divided into a plurality of sub-beams, which are irradiated onto selected portions of an amorphous semiconductor on a substrate to...
7541228 Semiconductor device, method of manufacturing the same, and method of designing the same  
An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device formed by laser crystallization by which formation of grain boundaries in the TFT channel formation region can be avoided,...
7534670 Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same  
Provided is a technique of effectively removing a metallic element that has catalytic action in terms of the crystallization of a semiconductor film and remains in a semiconductor film obtained...
7528023 Apparatus for crystallizing semiconductor with laser beams  
Laser beams emitted by a plurality of laser sources are divided into a plurality of sub-beams, which are irradiated onto selected portions of an amorphous semiconductor on a substrate to...