Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Alpad Corporation

Kioxia Corporation

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Susumu Obata

Kazuhito Higuchi

Akihiro Kojima

Yoshiaki Sugizaki

Kazuo Shimokawa

Mitsuo Sano

Keiichiro Matsuo

Akiya Kimura

Yosuke Akimoto

Toshiya Nakayama

Hideo Nishiuchi

Hiroshi Koizumi

Takeshi Miyagi

Michinobu Inoue

Hisashi Ito

Takayoshi Fujii

Tatsuya Ohguro

Tomomichi Naka

Takayuki Tajima

Yasuhide Okada

Miyuki Izuka

Hideto Furuyama

Yasuhito Yoshimizu

Hideo Tamura

Miyoko Shimada

Chiharu Ota

Takuma Suzuki

Toshiyuki Terada

Eiichi Hosomi

Nozomu Takahashi

Hidefumi Yasuda

Fuyuma Ito

Hideo Shiozawa

Yusaku Asano

Nobuhito Kuge

Takahiro Sogou

Sozo Kanie

Atsushi Murakawa

Kazumi Takahashi

Kazuhisa Goto

Yui Kagi

Yoshiaka Sugizaki

Masafumi Sugimoto

According to an embodiment, a capacitor includes a conductive substrate, a conductive layer, a dielectric layer therebetween, and first and second internal electrodes. The substrate has first and second main surfaces. One partial region of the first main surface is provided with first recesses. A region of the second surface corresponding to a combination of the one partial region and another partial region is provided with second recesses. The conductive layer covers the main surfaces and side walls and bottom surfaces of the recesses. The first internal electrode is provided on the one partial region and electrically connected to the conductive layer. The second internal electrode is provided on the another partial region and electrically connected to the substrate.

Capacitor and etching method

According to one embodiment, an etching apparatus includes a first container including an opening covered by a semiconductor substrate; a second container including an opening covered by a catalyst layer; a first flow path configured to communicate with the first container; a second flow path configured to communicate with the second container; a cation exchange film interposed between the first flow path and the second flow path and allowing at least protons to pass through; and an electric field applier configured to apply an electric field to the semiconductor substrate.

Etching apparatus and etching method

A semiconductor wafer includes a surface having at least one recess including an inner wall surface. The inner wall surface is exposed.

Semiconductor wafer and method of manufacturing semiconductor apparatus

According to an embodiment, an etching method includes forming a first layer on a substrate having a main surface including first and second regions adjacent to each other, the first layer including a portion covering the first region and having a plurality of openings or one or more openings defining a plurality of island-shaped portions, and the first layer further including a portion as a continuous layer covering the second region, forming a catalyst layer an a portion(s) of the main surface exposed in the openings by plating, forming a second layer to cover a portion of the catalyst layer adjacent to a boundary between the first and second regions and expose a portion of the catalyst layer spaced apart from the boundary, and etching the substrate in a presence of the catalyst layer and the second layer.

Etching method

According to an embodiment, a capacitor includes a conductive substrate, a conductive layer, and a dielectric layer. The conductive substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface and is provided with a plurality of recesses on the first main surface. The conductive substrate is further provided with a plurality of holes in one or more portions each sandwiched between two adjacent ones of the recesses such that a region on a side of the first main surface has a larger porosity than a region on a side of the second main surface. The conductive layer covers the first main surface, side walls and bottom surfaces of the recesses, and walls of the holes. The dielectric layer is interposed between the conductive substrate and the conductive layer.

Capacitor

A semiconductor device of embodiments includes a silicon carbide layer having a first face and a second face, a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer on the first face. The silicon carbide layer includes a first silicon carbide region of a first conductive type; a second silicon carbide region of a second conductive type disposed between the first silicon carbide region and the first face; a third silicon carbide region of a second conductive type between the first silicon carbide region and the first face; a fourth silicon carbide region; a fifth silicon carbide region; a sixth silicon carbide region of a second conductive type between the first silicon carbide region and the first face and between the second silicon carbide region and the third silicon carbide region; and a crystal defect. The crystal defect is in the sixth silicon carbide region.

Semiconductor device

A structural body according to an embodiment includes a conductive substrate. A main surface of the conductive substrate includes a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region and lower in height than the first region. The first region is provided with one or more recesses having a bottom, a position of which is lower than a position of the second region. A surface region of the conductive substrate on a side of the main surface includes a porous structure at a position between the second region and the one or more recesses.

Structural body and method of manufacturing the same

According to one embodiment, a capacitor includes a conductive substrate, a conductive layer, a dielectric layer, and first and second external electrodes. The conductive substrate has a first main surface provided with recess(s), a second main surface, and an end face extending between edges of the first and second main surfaces. The conductive layer covers the first main surface and side walls and bottom surfaces of the recess(s). The dielectric layer is interposed between the conductive substrate and the conductive layer. The first external electrode includes a first electrode portion facing the end face and is electrically connected to the conductive layer. The second external electrode includes a second electrode portion facing the end face and is electrically connected to the conductive substrate.

Capacitor and capacitor module

A capacitor according to an embodiment includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface and provided with one or more first through holes each extending from the first surface to the second surface, a first conductive layer covering the first surface, the second surface, and side walls of the one or more first through holes, a second conductive layer facing the first surface, the second surface, and the side walls of the one or more first through holes, with the first conductive layer interposed therebetween, and a dielectric layer interposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer.

Capacitor having trenches on both surfaces

According to an embodiment, a structure includes a substrate including a semiconductor material, wherein the substrate is provided with one or more recesses each of which has a depth direction that is equal to a thickness direction of the substrate, and the one or more recesses include a sidewall on which a plurality of grooves each extending in the depth direction are provided.

Structure and method of producing the same

According to an embodiment, a capacitor includes a conductive substrate, a conductive layer and a dielectric layer. The conductive substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface. The first main surface includes sub-regions. Each sub-region is provided with recesses or projections each having a shape extending in one direction and arranged in a width direction thereof. One or more of the sub-regions and another one or more of the sub-regions are different from each other in a length direction of the recesses or protrusions. The conductive layer covers sidewalls and bottom surfaces of the recesses or sidewalls and top surfaces of the projections. The dielectric layer is interposed between the conductive substrate and the conductive layer.

According to an embodiment, a method of forming a porous layer includes forming a porous layer containing a noble metal on a surface made of a semiconductor by displacement plating. The plating solution used in the displacement plating contains a noble metal source, hydrogen fluoride, and an adjusting agent adjusting a pH value or zeta potential. The noble metal source produces an ion containing the noble metal in water. The plating solution has a pH value in a range of 1 to 6.

Etching method and plating solution

According to one embodiment, in a processing system and determining method, a X-ray intensity of character X-rays generated by irradiating a catalytic layer of a noble metal formed on a surface of a substrate with X-rays is detected. In the processing system and the determining method, either the detected X-ray intensity or a parameter calculated using the X-ray intensity is obtained as a determination parameter. In the processing system and the determining method, based at least on the determination parameter, whether or not the catalytic layer has been formed into a state suitable for etching the surface of the substrate is determined.

Processing system for a catalytic layer of a noble metal formed on a surface of a substrate

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