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Tsutomu Murakawa

Shunpei Yamazaki

Toshihiko Takeuchi

Hiroki Komagata

Hiromi Sawai

Katsuaki Tochibayashi

Noritaka Ishihara

Shinya Sasagawa

Daisuke Matsubayashi

Yusuke Nonaka

Tomoaki Moriwaka

Ryo Tokumaru

Kosei Nei

Sho Nagamatsu

Kentaro Sugaya

Kazuya Sugimoto

Hajime Kimura

Hiroyuki Miyake

Kiyoshi Kato

Masayuki Sakakura

Kenichi Okazaki

Masashi Tsubuku

Koji Kusunoki

Kouhei Toyotaka

Shuhei Nagatsuka

Yuugo Goto

Hiroki Inoue

Koichiro Kamata

Yoshitaka Yamamoto

Yasumasa Yamane

Ryo Arasawa

Takuya Matsuo

Erika Takahashi

Hiroaki Honda

Masatoshi Yokoyama

Shota Sambonsuge

Yusuke Shino

Kaori Ikada

Jun Koyama

Junichi Koezuka

Hideomi Suzawa

Hisao Ikeda

Toshinari Sasaki

Atsuo Isobe

Yuichi Sato

Keiji Sato

Daisuke Kurosaki

Takashi Hamada

Tetsuya Kakehata

Masashi Fujita

Motoki Nakashima

Yuhei Sato

Tetsunori Maruyama

Naoto Yamade

Ryota Hodo

Sachiaki Tezuka

Yuichi Yanagisawa

Shinpei Matsuda

Toshimitsu Obonai

Shigeyasu Mori

Kazuaki Ohshima

Hiroshi Matsukizono

Tomokazu Yokoi

Takahiro Tsuji

Yoshinori Ando

Akihiro Oda

Yosuke Kanzaki

Hiroshi Kanemura

Daigo Shimada

Takahiro Tuji

A semiconductor device includes a first layer and a second layer over the first layer. The first layer and the second layer each include a transistor. The transistor in the first layer and the transistor in the second layer each include a first oxide, a first conductor and a second conductor over the first oxide, a first insulator placed to cover the first conductor, the second conductor, and the first oxide, a second insulator over the first insulator, a second oxide placed between the first conductor and the second conductor over the first oxide, a third insulator over the second oxide, a third conductor over the third insulator, and a fourth insulator in contact with a top surface of the second insulator, a top surface of the second oxide, a top surface of the third insulator, and a top surface of the third conductor.

Semiconductor device

A semiconductor device with less variations in transistor characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes: a first insulator; a first oxide over the first insulator; a first conductor and a second conductor over the first oxide; a first layer and a second layer which are in contact with a side surface of the first oxide; a second insulator over the first insulator, the first layer, the second layer, the first conductor, and the second conductor; a third insulator over the second insulator; a second oxide between the first conductor and the second conductor and over the first oxide; a fourth insulator over the second oxide; and a third conductor over the fourth insulator. Each of the first layer and the second layer includes a metal contained in the first conductor and the second conductor. The first insulator in a region in contact with the second insulator includes a region where a concentration of the metal is lower than that of the first layer or the second layer.

Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device

A semiconductor device in which a variation of transistor characteristics is small is provided. The semiconductor device includes a transistor. The transistor includes a first insulator, a first oxide over the first insulator, a first conductor, a second conductor, and a second oxide, which is positioned between the first conductor and the second conductor, over the first oxide, a second insulator over the second oxide, and a third conductor over the second insulator. A top surface of the first oxide in a region overlapping with the third conductor is at a lower position than a position of a top surface of the first oxide in a region overlapping with the first conductor. The first oxide in the region overlapping with the third conductor has a curved surface between a side surface and the top surface of the first oxide, and the curvature radius of the curved surface is greater than or equal to 1 nm and less than or equal to 15 nm.

A semiconductor device with small fluctuations in transistor characteristics can be provided. The semiconductor device includes a first oxide, a second oxide and a third oxide over the first oxide, a first conductor over the second oxide, a second conductor over the third oxide, a fourth oxide over the first oxide and between the second oxide and the third oxide, a first insulator over the fourth oxide, and a third conductor over the first insulator. The first oxide includes a groove in a region not overlapping with the second oxide and the third oxide. The first oxide includes a first layered crystal substantially parallel to the surface where the first oxide is formed. In the groove, the fourth oxide includes a second layered crystal substantially parallel to the surface where the first oxide is formed. A concentration of aluminum atoms at an interface between the first oxide and the fourth oxide and in the vicinity of the interface is less than or equal to 5.0 atomic %.

A semiconductor device which has favorable electrical characteristics and can be highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulator; an oxide over the first insulator; a second insulator over the oxide; a first conductor over the second insulator; a third insulator in contact with a top surface of the first insulator, a side surface of the oxide, a top surface of the oxide, a side surface of the second insulator, and a side surface of the first conductor; and a fourth insulator over the third insulator. The third insulator includes an opening exposing the first insulator, and the fourth insulator is in contact with the first insulator through the opening.

Semiconductor device having plurality of insulators

To provide a semiconductor device with less variations, a first insulator is deposited; a stack of first and a second oxides and a first conductor is formed over the first insulator; a second insulator is formed over the first insulator and the stack; an opening is formed in the second insulator; a top surface of the second oxide is exposed by removing a region of the first conductor, second and third conductors are formed over the second oxide, and then cleaning treatment is performed; a first oxide film is deposited in contact with a side surface of the first oxide and top and side surfaces of the second oxide; heat treatment is performed on an interface between the second oxide and the first oxide film through the first oxide film; and the second insulator is exposed and a fourth conductor, a third insulator, and a third oxide are formed in the opening.

Method for manufacturing semiconductor device

A semiconductor device that can be scaled down or highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first layer and a second layer over the first layer. The first layer and the second layer each include a transistor. The transistor in the first layer and the transistor in the second layer each include a first oxide, a first conductor and a second conductor over the first oxide, a first insulator placed to cover the first conductor, the second conductor, and the first oxide, a second insulator over the first insulator, a second oxide placed between the first conductor and the second conductor over the first oxide, a third insulator over the second oxide, a third conductor over the third insulator, and a fourth insulator in contact with a top surface of the second insulator, a top surface of the second oxide, a top surface of the third insulator, and a top surface of the third conductor. The first insulator and the fourth insulator are less likely than the second insulator to allow oxygen to pass through.

A semiconductor device with high productivity is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first and a second transistor and a first and a second capacitor. The first and the second transistor include gate electrodes and back gate electrodes. The second transistor is provided in a layer above the first transistor, and the second capacitor is provided in a layer above the first capacitor. One electrode of the first capacitor is electrically connected to one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the first transistor and electrically connected to one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the second transistor. The other electrode of the first capacitor is formed in the same layer as the back gate electrode of the second transistor.

Semiconductor device including transistor and capacitor

A semiconductor device having a high on-state current is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first oxide; a first conductor and a second conductor provided over the first oxide to be separated from each other; and a second oxide provided over the first oxide and between the first conductor and the second conductor. Each of the first oxide and the second oxide has crystallinity, the first oxide includes a region where a c-axis is aligned substantially perpendicularly to a top surface of the first oxide, and the second oxide includes a region where the c-axis is aligned substantially perpendicularly to the top surface of the first oxide, a region where the c-axis is aligned substantially perpendicularly to a side surface of the first conductor, and a region where the c-axis is aligned substantially perpendicularly to a side surface of the second conductor.

Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the semiconductor device

A semiconductor device having favorable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a conductor, a first insulator in contact with a side surface of the conductor, a second insulator in contact with a top surface of the conductor and a top surface of the first insulator, and an oxide over the second insulator. The oxide includes a region that overlaps with the conductor with the second insulator interposed therebetween. The maximum height of a roughness curve (Rz) of the top surface of the conductor is 6.0 nm or smaller. The region includes crystals, and c-axes of the crystals are aligned in the normal direction of the top surface of the conductor.

Oxide semiconductor device

A semiconductor device with a high on-state current is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulator, a first oxide over the first insulator, a second oxide over the first oxide, a first conductor and a second conductor over the second oxide, a third oxide over the second oxide, a second insulator over the third oxide, a third conductor that is located over the second insulator and overlaps with the third oxide, a third insulator that is located over the first insulator and in contact with a side surface of the first oxide, a side surface of the second oxide, a side surface of the first conductor, a top surface of the first conductor, a side surface of the second conductor, and a top surface of the second conductor, and a fourth insulator over the third conductor, the second insulator, the third oxide, and the third insulator. The fourth insulator is in contact with a top surface of each of the third conductor, the second insulator, and the third oxide.

Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device having plurality of insulator

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