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Ronald Keith Smeltzer

Grzegorz Kaganowicz

Lawrence A Goodman

Chung P Wu

Lawrence K White

Harry Louis Pinch

Wesley H Morris

A method of making a liquid crystal display which has a layer of polysilicon on a surface of a substrate, a gate of a conductive material over and insulated from a portion of the polysilicon layer, a layer of an insulating material over the gate, and a metal layer on the insulating layer. The method includes forming a layer of an insulating material over the metal layer and then subjecting the device to a plasma containing hydrogen to diffuse the hydrogen through the insulating layers and the metal layer into the polysilicon layer.

Hydrogenation of polysilicon thin film transistors

A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) semiconductor device is made by forming a layer of single crystalline silicon on the surface of an insulating substrate. Portions of the silicon layer are removed, such as by etching, to form islands of the single crystalline silicon on the substrate with the islands having sharp corners between their side walls and their top surface. The silicon islands are then exposed to vapors of hydrogen chloride which etch the corners and form the islands with smooth, rounded corners between the side walls and the top surface.

Method of making silicon-on-insulator islands

A MOS/SOI field-effect transistor is made by applying a layer of a photoresist over the surface of a single-crystalline silicon layer which is on a substrate of an insulating material, such as sapphire. The surface of the silicon layer is along a (100) crystallographic plane. The photoresist layer is defined to provide an area of the photoresist layer over the area of the silicon layer where the transistor is to be formed with the edges of the photoresist area being along the edges of (100) crystallographic planes which are perpendicular to the surface of the silicon layer. The portion of the silicon layer around the photoresist layer is etched with an anisotropic plasma etch which etches the silicon layer along the (100) crystallographic planes which are perpendicular to the surface of the silicon layer to form an island of the silicon. The etching is achieved by a two step process in which the first step etches part way through the silicon layer and the second step etches completely through with an overetch. This forms the silicon island with sides which extend along (100) crystallographic planes substantially perpendicular to the top surface and which are smooth, undamaged and have rounded edges with the top surface. After removing the photoresist, a MOS field-effect transistor is formed on the island.

Method of making stabilized silicon-on-insulator field-effect

A method of fabricating a low-resistivity polycrystalline silicon film deposited on a substrate comprises the steps of doping the polycrystalline silicon film with boron in situ while depositing the film, to a concentration greater than 1.times.10.sup.20 atoms/cm.sup.3, and then irradiating the film with a laser pulse. The present method may be utilized to fabricate a polycrystalline silicon film having a relatively small temperature coefficient of resistivity by electrically connecting a first irradiated part of the film with a second non-irradiated part in a manner allowing the two parts, having different temperature coefficients of resistivity, to compensate each other.

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