Toshiba Memory Corporation

Kioxia Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hiroaki Ashidate

Katsuhiro Sato

Satoshi Nakaoka

Shinya Arai

Kazumasa Tanida

Keisuke Nakatsuka

Tomohiko Sugita

Yasunori Iwashita

Shinsuke Kimura

Yoshinori Kitamura

Kazutaka Suzuki

Shinsuke Muraki

Yuji Hashimoto

Koichi Sakata

Tomoyuki Takeishi

Ai Mori

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first metal pad in each of a plurality of first regions on a first substrate so that warpage is generated on the first substrate. The method further includes forming a second metal pad in each of a plurality of second regions on a second substrate via a predetermined pattern. The method further includes bonding, after forming the first metal pad and the second metal pad, the first substrate with the second substrate. Moreover, the method further includes: making a correction, at a time of forming the predetermined pattern in each of the plurality of second regions on the second substrate, to change a position of the predetermined pattern in each of the plurality of second regions in a direction of being closer to a center of the second substrate for a first direction and to change the position of the predetermined pattern in a direction of being farther from the center of the second substrate for a second direction.

Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same

A semiconductor device includes a first stacked body and a second stacked body bonded to the first stacked body. The first stacked body includes a first pad provided on a first bonding surface to which the first stacked body and the second stacked body are bonded. The second stacked body includes a second pad bonded to the first pad on the first bonding surface. When a direction from the first stacked body to the second stacked body is defined as a first direction, a direction intersecting with the first direction is defined as a second direction, a direction intersecting with the first direction and the second direction is defined as a third direction, dimensions of the first pad and the second pad in the third direction are defined as PXand PX, respectively, and dimensions of the first pad and the second pad in the second direction are defined as PYand PY, respectively, the dimensions of the first pad and the second pad satisfy at least one of Equations (1) and (2) below.PX1>PY1  (1)PY2>PX2  (2).

Semiconductor device, wafer, and wafer manufacturing method

A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first structure is formed on a first substrate. A first bonded body is formed by bonding a supporting substrate lower in rigidity than the first substrate to a first principal surface, on which the first structure is formed, of the first substrate. The first substrate is removed from the first bonded body. A second structure is formed on a second substrate. A third structure is formed on a third substrate. A second bonded body is formed by bonding a second principal surface, on which the second structure is formed, of the second substrate to a third principal surface, on which the third structure is formed, of the third substrate. The second substrate is removed from the second bonded body. A third bonded body is formed by bonding a fourth principal surface, which is exposed after the first substrate is removed, of the first bonded body to a fifth principal surface, which is exposed after the second substrate is removed, of the second bonded body. The supporting substrate is removed from the third bonded body.

Method for manufacturing semiconductor device

In one embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a magnification difference acquirer configured to acquire a value of difference in magnification between a first substrate and a second substrate. The apparatus further includes a deformation amount determiner configured to determine a value of deformation amount of a chuck that holds the first or second substrate, based on the value of the difference in magnification. The apparatus further includes a gap determiner configured to determine a value of a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate, based on the value of the deformation amount. The apparatus further includes a bonding controller configured to control the deformation amount to the determined value and control the gap to the determined value, before the first substrate and the second substrate are bonded together.

Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and method of manufacturing semiconductor device

According to embodiments, a substrate treatment apparatus includes a housing, a heater and a pipe. The housing stores solution containing phosphoric acid and houses a substrate including a silicon substrate. The heater heats the solution over a normal boiling point of the solution. The pipe supplies heated solution heated by the heater into the housing while generating air bubbles.

Substrate treatment apparatus and substrate treatment method

In one embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a substrate holder configured to hold a plurality of substrates such that the substrates are arranged in parallel to each other. The apparatus further includes a fluid injector including a plurality of openings that inject fluid to areas in which distances from surfaces of the substrates are within distances between centers of the substrates adjacent to each other, the fluid injector being configured to change injection directions of the fluid injected from the openings in planes that are parallel to the surfaces of the substrates by self-oscillation.

A substrate treatment apparatus according to an embodiment includes a treatment tank, a container, a measuring instrument, and a controller. The treatment tank stores a chemical solution to treat a substrate. The container contains a liquid including ammonia from which a gas discharged from the treatment tank is gas-liquid separated. The measuring instrument measures an amount of the ammonia included in the liquid over time. The controller controls the treatment of the substrate based on the amount of the ammonia.

Substrate treatment apparatus

A semiconductor storage device includes a first stacked body, a second stacked body, a first division film, a second division film, and a plurality of discrete films. The a first stacked body includes first electrode layers stacked in a first direction. The second stacked body, above the first stacked body, includes second electrode layers stacked in the first direction. The second semiconductor layer is electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer. The first division film, extending in the first direction through the first stacked body, divides the first stacked body in a second direction crossing the first direction. The second division film, extending in the first direction through the second stacked body, divides the second stacked body in the second direction. The discrete films, extending in the first direction through the second stacked body, are disposed above the first division film.

Semiconductor storage device and method of manufacturing the same

A semiconductor processing device according to an embodiment includes a processing tank configured to store a chemical therein to allow a semiconductor substrate to be immersed in the chemical. A gas supply part is provided below the semiconductor substrate accommodated in the processing tank and is configured to supply air bubbles to the chemical from below the semiconductor substrate. A chemical supply part is provided above the gas supply part and below the semiconductor substrate and is configured to discharge the chemical caused to circulate from the processing tank, towards the air bubbles appearing from the gas supply part.

Semiconductor processing device

A substrate processing device includes a bath configured to accommodate a plurality of substrates and configured to store a liquid for etching the plurality of substrates, a plurality of bubble generators configured to generate bubbles in the liquid, the bubble generators provided so as to correspond to each of the plurality of substrates, a measurement device configured to measure the generation state of the bubbles of at least one of the plurality of bubble generators, and a control device configured to individually control at least one of the plurality of bubble generators based on the measurement result of the measurement device.

Substrate processing device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device

A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a low-adhesion film, a pair of substrates, and a metal electrode. The low-adhesion film has lower adhesion to metal than a semiconductor oxide film. The pair of substrates is provided with the low-adhesion film interposed therebetween. The metal electrode passes through the low-adhesion film and connects the pair of substrates, and includes, between the pair of substrates, a part thinner than parts embedded in the pair of substrates. A portion of the metal electrode embedded in one substrate is provided with a gap interposed between the portion and the low-adhesion film on the other substrate.

Semiconductor device having gaps within the conductive parts

A semiconductor device includes a low-adhesion film, a pair of substrates, and a metal electrode. The low-adhesion film has lower adhesion to metal than a semiconductor oxide film. The pair of substrates is provided with the low-adhesion film interposed therebetween. The metal electrode passes through the low-adhesion film and connects the pair of substrates, and includes, between the pair of substrates, a part thinner than parts embedded in the pair of substrates. A portion of the metal electrode embedded in one substrate is provided with a gap interposed between the portion and the low-adhesion film on the other substrate.

Semiconductor device having a low-adhesive bond substrate pair

According to one embodiment, the method of manufacturing a solid-state imaging device includes: forming a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements by two-dimensionally arranging semiconductor areas of a second conductivity type at a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type in a matrix pattern; forming the photoelectric conversion elements in a rectangular shape in plan view, the photoelectric conversion elements being formed by forming a grid-like trench in plan view so as to partition the semiconductor layer; forming the photoelectric conversion element formed into the rectangular shape in plan view into a convex polygonal shape in plan view whose number of corners is larger than the number of corners of a rectangular; and forming an element isolation area including a light shielding member at a trench coated with an insulating film after coating an inner peripheral surface of the trench with the insulating film.

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