Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Katsuji Takasu

Masafumi Sano

Yutaka Hirai

Hisanori Tsuda

Yoshiyuki Osada

Satoshi Omata

Hiroshi Echizen

A device for forming a deposited film is provided. It comprises (a) a reaction chamber; (b) a heating means for heating a substrate placed in the reaction chamber; (c) a starting gas introducing means for introducing starting gases into the reaction chamber, the gas introducing means having a means for introducing two or more kinds of gases alternately and intermittently into the reaction chamber; (d) a decomposing means for decomposing the starting gases in the reaction chamber so as to form a deposited film on the substrate heated by said heating means in the reaction chamber, the decomposing means having a light source which irradiates at least one kind of light into the reaction chamber to decompose the starting gases.

Method for forming deposited film

Device for forming deposited film

A method of producing a thin film field effect transistor. An insulating thin film layer is formed on a gate electrode subsequent to the gate electrode being formed on a substrate. A multilayer structure is formed on the insulating thin film layer subsequent to the insulating thin film layer being formed on the gate electrode by alternately laminating a number of non-monocrystalline semiconductor material layers and a number of non-monocrystalline material layers.

Method of producing a thin film field effect transistor

A light emitting device has a luminescent layer having at least two layers of a non-single crystalline material containing silicon atoms, carbon atoms and fluorine atoms laminated and having a homojunction, and at least a pair of electrodes connected electrically to said luminescent layer, the non-single crystalline silicon layer having an optical band gap of 2.0 eV or higher and a localized level density at mid-gap of 5.times.10.sup.16 cm.sup.-3.ev.sup.-1 or less.

Light emitting device

A method for forming a deposited film by forming a gaseous atmosphere of a hydrogenated silicon compound of the general formula Si.sub.n H.sub.m wherein n is an integer of 1 or more, and m is an integer of 2 or more in a chamber housing a substrate therein and forming a deposited film containing silicon on said substrate by excitation of said compound to effect decomposition or polymerization thereof comprises introducing a gaseous radical polymerization initiator into said chamber and utilizing light energy, thereby exciting said compound to effect decomposition or polymerization thereof.

A light emitting device includes a luminescent layer having at least two layers comprising non-single crystalline silicon containing hydrogen atoms laminated and having a homo-junction, and at least a pair of electrodes connected electrically to the luminescent layer, the non-single crystalline silicon layer having an optical band gap of 2.0 eV or higher and a localized level density at mid-gap of 10.sup.16 cm.sup.-3.eV.sup.-1 or less.

A thin film mesa type FET having a gate electrode formed on a substrate. An insulating thin film layer is formed on the gate electrode. A multilayer structure is formed on the insulating thin film layer by alternately laminating a number of non-monocrystalline semiconductor material layers and a number of non-monocrystalline insulating material layers. The thickness of the semiconductor layers is 5 to 500 .ANG..

Thin film mesa transistor of field effect type with superlattice

A light emitting device has a luminescent layer having at least two layers of a non-single crystalline material containing silicon atoms, carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms laminated and having a homojunction, and at least a pair of electrodes connected electrically to said luminescent layer, the non-single crystalline silicon layer having an optical band gap of 2.0 eV or higher and a localized level density at mid-gap of 5.times.10.sup.16 cm.sup.-3 .multidot.eV.sup.-1 or less.

Non-single crystal electroluminescent device

An electroluminescent device, which emits light by recombination of the carriers injected or excited by light of energy of electrical field, comprising an active layer which includes a semiconductor layer of a super-lattice structure. The layer in the super-lattice structure is changed in effective band gap by an electrical field externally applied to vary the emitted light wavelength. The semiconductor layer of said super-lattice structure comprising an non-single crystalline semiconductor material.

Electroluminescent device

A method for forming a deposited film comprises forming in a vacuum chamber housing a substrate therein a deposited film containing silicon on the substrate by subjecting a gas represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, can be the same or different and are each independently hydrogen or a hydrocarbon group, to polymerization.

A method for forming a deposition film by introducing a starting gas for formation of a deposition film into a reaction chamber housing a substrate therein and forming a deposition film on the substrate by irradiation with light comprises performing deposition by using a monochromatic light and a continuous polychromatic light in combination and projecting the lights on the substrate on which the deposition film is to be formed.

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Atsugi, Japan

Katsuji Takasu