Symetrix Corporation

Other

Mitsubishi Materials Corporation

Jeffrey W Bacon

Carlos Alberto Paz De Araujo

Larry D McMillan

Joseph D Cuchiaro

Jolanta Bozena Celinska

Narayan Solayappan

Akihiro Matsuda

Hideo Nagai

Tatsuo Morita

Michael C Scott

Nobuyuki Soyama

Vikram Joshi

Katsumi Ogi

Kensuke Kageyama

Hiroto Uchida

Gota Kano

Myoungho Lim

Yoshio Yamaguchi

A liquid precursor for forming a transparent metal oxide thin film comprises a first organic precursor compound. In one embodiment, the liquid precursor is for making a conductive thin film. In this embodiment, the liquid precursor contains a first metal from the group including tin, antimony, and indium dissolved in an organic solvent. The liquid precursor preferably comprises a second organic precursor compound containing a second metal from the same group. Also, the liquid precursor preferably comprises an organic dopant precursor compound containing a metal selected from the group including niobium, tantalum, bismuth, cerium, yttrium, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, silicon, aluminum, zinc and magnesium. Liquid precursors containing a plurality of metals have a longer shelf life. The addition of an organic dopant precursor compound containing a metal, such as niobium, tantalum or bismuth, to the liquid precursor enhances control of the conductivity of the resulting transparent conductor. In a second embodiment, a liquid precursor for forming a transparent metal oxide nonconductive thin film comprises an organic precursor compound containing a metal from the group including cerium, yttrium, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, silicon, aluminum, niobium, tantalum, and bismuth. Liquid precursors of the invention preferably comprise a metal organic precursor compound, such as an ethylhexanoate, an octanoate, or a neodecanoate, dissolved in a solvent, such as xylenes, n-octane and n-butyl acetate.

Metal organic precursors for transparent metal oxide thin films and method of making same

A venturi mist generator creates a mist comprising droplets having a mean diameter less than one micron from liquid precursors containing multi-metal polyalkoxide compounds. The mist is mixed and then passed into a gasifier where the mist droplets are gasified at a temperature of between 100&deg; C. and 250&deg; C., which is lower than the temperature at which the precursor compounds decompose. The gasified precursor compounds are transported by carrier gas through insulated tubing at ambient temperature to prevent both condensation and premature decomposition. The gasified precursors are mixed with oxidant gas, and the gaseous reactant mixture is injected through a showerhead inlet into a deposition reactor in which a substrate is heated at a temperature of from 300&deg; C. to 600 &deg; C. The gasified precursors decompose at the substrate and form a thin film of solid material on the substrate. The thin film is treated at elevated temperatures of from 500&deg; C. to 900&deg; C. to form polycrystalline metal oxide material, in particular, ferroelectric layered superlattice material.

Method and apparatus for fabrication of thin films by chemical vapor deposition

A precursor for forming an aluminum oxide film comprises a liquid solution of an aluminum organic precursor compound in an organic solvent. In a second embodiment, the precursor comprises a suspension of aluminum oxide powder in a solution of an aluminum organic precursor compound. A precursor according to the invention is deposited on a substrate by dipping, rolling, spraying, misted deposition, spin on deposition, or chemical vapor deposition then heated to fabricate transparent aluminum oxide films. The electronic properties of the aluminum oxide films may be improved by depositing a plurality of layers of the precursor and annealing the precursor between layers.

Liquid precursors for aluminum oxide and method making same

A ferroelectric non-volatile memory in which each memory cell consists of a single electronic element, a ferroelectric FET. The FET includes a source, drain, gate and substrate. The fact that the drain to source current, lds, is always negative if a substrate to drain bias, Vss, of 0.8 volts or more is applied, permits the creation of a read and write truth table. A gate voltage equal to one truth table logic value is applied via a column decoder and a substrate bias equal to another truth table logic value is applied via a row decoder to write to the memory a resultant lds logic state, which can be read whenever a voltage is placed across the source and drain.

Ferroelectric field effect transistor, memory utilizing same, and method of operating same

Metal organic precursor compounds are dissolved in an organic solvent to form a nonaqueous liquid precursor. The liquid precursor is applied to the inner envelope surface of a fluorescent lamp and heated to form a metal oxide thin film layer. The metal oxide thin film layer may be a conductor, a protective layer or provide other functions. The films have a thickness of from 20 nm to 500 nm. A conductive layer comprising tin-antimony oxide with niobium dopant may be fabricated to have a differential resistivity profile by selecting a combination of precursor composition and annealing temperatures.

Fluorescent lamp and method of manufacturing same

A mist is generated by a venturi from liquid precursors containing compounds used in chemical vapor deposition, transported in carrier gas through tubing at ambient temperature, passed into a heated zone where the mist droplets are gasified at a temperature of between 100.degree. C. and 200.degree. C., which is lower than the decomposition temperature of the precursor compounds. The gasified liquid is injected through an inlet assembly into a deposition reactor in which there is a substrate heated to from 400.degree. C. to 600.degree. C., on which the gasified compounds decompose and form a thin film of layered superlattice compound.

Method and apparatus for preparing integrated circuit thin films by

A metal organic liquid precursor solution includes metal organic complexes dispersed in an ester solvent. The ester solvent has medium length carbon chains to prevent the precipitation of strongly electropositive metals in solution. A liquid precursor solution is used to make thin film metal oxides of uniform thickness and consistent quality.

Composition and process using ester solvents for fabricating metal oxide

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Jeffrey W Bacon