Sony Corporation

Toshio Fujino

Akio Machida

Tadahiro Kono

Junichi Sato

Kazushi Nakano

Dharam Pal Gosain

Michinori Shiomi

Shinsuke Haga

Yukihisa Hitsuda

Katsuji Takagi

Goshi Biwa

Akira Ohmae

Ippei Nishinaka

Hiroki Naito

Tatsuo Ohashi

Yusuke Kataoka

Sayaka Aoki

Norio Fukasawa

Hideyuki Nishioka

Tsuyoshi Sahoda

A light-emitting device assembly includes a light-emitting device including a light-emitting layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode, and a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion provided on a base, in which the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion are separated from each other by a separation portion, the base is exposed from the separation portion, a wide portion is on a first connecting portion side of the separation portion, the first electrode includes a first portion and a second portion, the second portion of the first electrode is connected to the first connecting portion, the first portion of the first electrode extends from the second portion of the first electrode, and an orthographic projection image of the first portion of the first electrode with respect to the base and the wide portion of the separation portion overlap with each other at least in part.

Light-emitting device assembly, method of producing the same, and display apparatus

An embodiment of the invention provides a laser annealing method, including the steps of radiating a laser beam to an amorphous film on a substrate while scanning the laser beam for the amorphous film, crystallizing the amorphous film, detecting a light quantity of laser beam reflected from the substrate and a scanning speed of the laser beam while the radiation and the scanning of the laser beam are carried out for the amorphous film, and controlling a radiation level and the scanning speed of the laser beam based on results of comparison of the light quantity of laser beam reflected from the substrate, and the scanning speed of the laser beam with respective preset references.

Laser annealing method and laser annealing apparatus

A semiconductor processing apparatus includes: a stage on which a substrate having a semiconductor film to be processed is to be mounted; a supply section that supplies a plurality of energy beams onto the semiconductor film mounted on the stage in such a way that irradiation points of the energy beams are aligned at given intervals; and a control section that moves the plurality of energy beams and the substrate relative to each other in a direction not in parallel to alignment of the irradiation points of the plurality of energy beams supplied by the supply section, and scans the semiconductor film with the irradiation points of the plurality of energy beams in parallel to thereby control a heat treatment on the semiconductor film.

Semiconductor processing apparatus and semiconductor processing method

A thin film semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor thin film configured to have an active region turned into a polycrystalline region through irradiation with an energy beam, and a gate electrode configured to be provided to traverse the active region. Successive crystal grain boundaries extend along the gate electrode in a channel part that is the active region overlapping with the gate electrode, and the crystal grain boundaries traverse the channel part and are provided cyclically in a channel length direction.

Thin film semiconductor device having crystal grain boundaries cyclically traversing a channel part and method for manufacturing same

A method for crystallizing a semiconductor thin film is provided. The method includes continuously irradiating an energy beam on a semiconductor thin film while scanning at a given speed. The energy beam is scanned in parallel lines while keeping pitches of not larger than an irradiation radius of the energy beam to grow band-shaped crystal grains in a direction different from a scanning direction of the energy beam.

Method for crystallizing a semiconductor thin film

A method for manufacturing thin film semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor thin film includes a semiconductor thin film and a gate electrode and has an active region turned into a polycrystalline region through irradiation with an energy beam. The gate electrode is provided to traverse the active region. In a channel part that is the active region overlapping with the gate electrode, a crystalline state is changed cyclically in a channel length direction, and areas each having a substantially same crystalline state traverse the channel part.

Method for manufacturing thin film semiconductor

A display including a driving substrate is provided. Arrayed on the driving substrate is a plurality of pixel electrodes and thin film transistors for driving the pixel electrodes. Each thin film transistor includes a semiconductor thin film having an active region made to be polycrystalline by irradiation with an energy beam, and a gate electrode provided so as to cross the active region. In a channel part of the active region overlapping with the gate electrode, the crystal state is varied periodically along the channel length direction, and substantially the same crystal state crosses the channel part.

Display device including thin film transistors

Disclosed are a method of producing a crystalline semiconductor material capable of improving the crystallinity and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device using the crystalline semiconductor material. An amorphous film is uniformly irradiated with a pulse laser beam (energy beam) emitted from an XeCl excimer laser by 150 times so as to heat the amorphous film at such a temperature as to partially melt crystal grains having the {100} orientations with respect to the vertical direction of a substrate and melt amorphous film or crystal grains having face orientations other than the {100} orientations. Silicon crystals having the {100} orientations newly occur between a silicon oxide film and liquid-phase silicon and are bonded to each other at random, to newly form crystal grains having the {100} orientations. Such a crystal grain creation step is repeated, to form a crystalline film which has crystal grains preferentially grown in the {100} orientations with respect to the vertical direction of the substrate and thereby has sharp square-shaped crystal grain boundaries.

Method of producing crystalline semiconductor material and method of fabricating semiconductor device

A thin film semiconductor device is provided that includes a semiconductor thin film and a gate electrode. The semiconductor thin film has an active region turned into a polycrystalline region through irradiation with an energy beam. The gate electrode is provided to traverse the active region. In a channel part that is the active region overlapping with the gate electrode, a crystalline state is changed cyclically in a channel length direction, and areas each having a substantially same crystalline state traverse the channel part.

Thin film semiconductor device

A manufacturing method for a crystalline semiconductor material including a plurality of semiconductor crystal grains is provided. The manufacturing method includes forming an amorphous or polycrystalline semiconductor layer on a substrate having a flat surface; forming a plurality of projections each having a side wall surface substantially perpendicular to the flat surface of the substrate, a height set in the range of about 1 nm to less than or equal to about &#xbc; of the thickness of the semiconductor layer, and a lateral dimension set in the range of about 3 &#x3bc;m to about 18 &#x3bc;m in a direction parallel to the flat surface of the substrate; and heating the semiconductor layer a number of times by using a pulsed laser thereby forming the crystalline semiconductor material including the crystal grains each having a specific plane orientation with respect to a direction perpendicular to the flat surface of the substrate so that the crystal grains respectively correspond to the projections. Accordingly, the position, size, and plane orientation of a crystal can be controlled by a simple step, and a crystalline semiconductor material excellent in planarity as a film can be formed.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Toshio Fujino