Fujitsu Corporation

Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Fujitsu Display Technologies Corporation

Yasuyoshi Mishima

Michiko Takei

Teruo Kurahashi

Kenichi Yanai

Tetsuya Hamada

Kazuhiro Takahara

Kenichi Oki

Tsutomu Tanaka

Nobuo Sasaki

Kazushige Hotta

Yukie Sakita

Koji Ohgata

Yoshio Nagahiro

Kenji Ishikawa

Kohta Yoshikawa

Mitsuru Chida

Hideharu Shido

Takeo Nagata

Akito Hara

Ken-ichi Yanai

Hirosato Ochimizu

Ken-ichi Oki

Masaomi Yamaguchi

Tamotsu Wada

Masahiro Okabe

Tatsuya Kakehi

Norihisa Matsumoto

Kohji Ohgata

Mari Hodate

Katsuyuki Suga

Manabu Sakamoto

Ken-iti Yanai

A method for manufacturing a P-type MOS transistor includes forming a gate insulating film on the substrate, forming a gate electrode from amorphous silicon containing no impurities on the gate insulating film, performing a heat treatment for controlling the film characteristics of the amorphous silicon, depositing a nickel (Ni) layer on the gate electrode, and forming nickel silicides from the gate electrode and the nickel (Ni).

Method for manufacturing a P-type MOS transistor, method for manufacturing a CMOS-type semiconductor apparatus having the P-type MOS transistor, and CMOS-type semiconductor apparatus manufactured using the manufacturing method

A method for fabricating an electron device on a substrate includes the steps of forming a dummy film over the substrate such that the dummy film covers a device region of the substrate and an outer region of the substrate outside the device region, forming a dummy pattern by patterning the dummy film such that the dummy pattern has a first height in the device region and a second height smaller than the first height in the outer region, forming another film over the substrate such that the film covers the dummy pattern in the device region and in the outer region with a shape conformal to a cross-sectional shape of the dummy pattern, and applying an anisotropic etching process acting generally perpendicularly to the substrate such that a surface of the substrate is exposed in the device region and in the outer region.

Fabrication process of a semiconductor device to form ultrafine patterns smaller than resolution limit of exposure apparatus

A semiconductor device fabrication method by which CMOS transistors with low-resistance metal gate electrodes each having a proper work function can be fabricated. A HfN layer in which nitrogen concentration in an nMOS transistor formation region differs from nitrogen concentration in a pMOS transistor formation region is formed. A MoN layer is formed over the HfN layer and heat treatment is performed. Nitrogen diffuses from the MoN layer into the HfN layer in which nitrogen concentration is low and a work function is set by the HfN layer according to nitrogen concentration which depends on the nitrogen content of the HfN layer before the heat treatment and the amount of nitrogen that diffuses into the HfN layer. On the other hand, nitrogen hardly diffuses from the MoN layer into the HfN layer which originally has a certain nitrogen content, and a work function is set by the HfN layer according to nitrogen concentration in the HfN layer before the heat treatment. By controlling the nitrogen content of each layer and the amount of nitrogen that diffuses, a low-resistance metal gate electrode having a predetermined work function can be formed in each of the nMOS transistor formation region and the pMOS transistor formation region.

Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device

The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises; forming an HfSiO filmon a silicon substrate; exposing the HfSiO filmto NHgas to thereby form an HfSiON film; forming an HfSiO filmon the HfSiON film; adhering Al to the surface of the HfSiO filmto thereby form an Al adhered layeron the surface of the HfSiO film; and forming a polysilicon filmon the HfSiO filmwith the Al adhered layerformed on the surface.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a substrate; an insulating film formed thereon; a first semiconductor layer where strain is induced in the directions parallel to the surface of the substrate, the first semiconductor layer being on the insulating film; a source region and a drain region formed in the first semiconductor layer; and a gate layered body formed of a gate insulating film and a gate electrode on the first semiconductor layer is disclosed. The method includes the steps of (a) forming a second semiconductor layer by epitaxial growth on the first semiconductor layer; (b) heating the second semiconductor layer; and (c) removing the second semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer is different in lattice constant in an in-plane direction from the first semiconductor layer. Step (b) induces the strain in the first semiconductor layer by exposing the surface of the second semiconductor layer to energy lines.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same, and semiconductor substrate and method of manufacturing the same

An MIM device includes a lower electrode of a metal nitride film, a hysteresis film of an oxide film containing Nb formed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode of a metal nitride film formed on the hysteresis film.

MIM device and electronic apparatus

On an insulation layerformed on a silicon substrate, there are formed in an NMOS transistor regionan NMOS transistorcomprising a silicon layer, a lattice-relaxed silicon germanium layerformed on the silicon layer, a tensile-strained silicon layerformed on the silicon germanium layerand a gate electrodeformed on the silicon layerwith a gate insulation filmformed therebetween and in a PMOS transistor regiona PMOS transistorcomprising a silicon layer, a compression-strained silicon germanium layer formed on the silicon layerand a gate electrodeformed on the silicon germanium layerwith a gate insulation filmformed therebetween.

Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same

A method of making a thin film transistor device, including forming and patterning a semiconductor film to form first and second semiconductor films in, respectively, low-voltage driven and high-voltage driven thin film transistor formation regions. The method also includes forming a first insulating film on the first and second semiconductor films, and forming a first gate electrode on the first insulating film in the low-voltage driven thin film transistor formation region. Additionally, a second insulating film is formed on the entire surface of the resultant structure above the substrate, and a second gate electrode is formed on the second insulating film in the high-voltage driven thin film transistor formation region. The method also includes etching the first and second insulating films, thus forming first and second gate insulating films below, respectively, the first and second gate electrodes, with the second gate insulating film being wider than the second gate electrode.

Method of manufacturing a thin film transistor device

In a case of a liquid crystal display apparatus, a gate insulating film of a TFT driven at a low voltage (3.3 V or 5 V) is constituted by one insulating film, and a thickness thereof is set to, for example, 30 nm. This TFT has a structure in which LDD regions (low concentration impurity regions) are not provided. A TFT having a CMOS structure, which is driven at a high voltage (18 V), has a gate insulating film constituted by two insulating films having a thickness of, for example, 130 nm in total. In an n-type TFT, a low concentration impurity region is provided on a drain side. A p-type TFT has a structure having no LDD region. A pixel TFT has a gate insulating film constituted by two insulating films, and LDD regions provided in both of its source/drain.

Thin film transistor device, method of manufacturing the same and liquid crystal panel

A current path pattern of semiconductor material is formed on the insulating principal surface of a substrate. A gate pattern three-dimensionally crosses the current path pattern in first and second cross areas. A channel region of the current path pattern is defined in an area superposed upon by the gate pattern. A gate insulating film is disposed between the current path pattern and gate pattern. The current path pattern has a lightly doped drain structure on both sides of the channel region in the first cross area, and is not provided with the lightly doped drain structure in regions in contact with the channel region in the second cross area. TFTs are provided having a small off-current and being not necessary for high precision position alignment during manufacture processes even if a gate length is short.

Thin film transistor, liquid crystal display substrate, and their manufacture methods

A first layer made of polysilicon is formed on the surface of an underlying substrate. The surface of the first layer is exposed to an environment which etches silicon oxide. If the surface of the first layer is covered with a silicon oxide film, the silicon oxide film is removed. An energy is supplied to the first layer, the energy allowing silicon crystal to re-grow. Solid phase growth of silicon occurs in the first layer to planarize the surface thereof. A polysilicon film having small root mean square of roughness can be formed.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device with polysilicon film

A liquid crystal display substrate including gate and drain bus lines that are electrically insulated from each other at cross areas, pixel electrodes between the cross areas, and first thin film transistors connecting corresponding drain bus lines and pixel electrodes. Each first thin film transistor includes a channel region where current flows in a first direction, and first and second impurity doped regions of, respectively, first and second impurity concentrations. The first and second doped regions sandwich the channel region. The second impurity concentration is higher than the first. Also, a second thin film transistor is formed in the peripheral circuit area, and includes a channel region where current flows in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. Third impurity doped regions, disposed on both sides of the channel region, have a third impurity concentration.

Liquid crystal display substrate having TFTS in both an image display area and in a peripheral circuit area

In an active matrix-type display device where scan bus lines (S.sub.i) and data bus lines (D.sub.j) are formed on different substrates, two kinds of scan bus lines (SP.sub.i, SN.sub.i) are provided. A first switching element (TFTN.sub.ij) is connected between a reference voltage supply line (V.sub.R) and a display electrode (E.sub.ij), and is controlled by a first scan bus line (SN.sub.i), and a second switching element (TFTP.sub.ij) is connected between the reference voltage supply bus line (V.sub.R) and the display electrode, and is controlled by a second scan bus line (SP.sub.i). The first switching element (TFTN.sub.ij) is turned ON by a positive or negative potential at the first scan bus line.

High quality active matrix-type display device

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a process of introducing impurities into a semiconductor layer with a gate electrode and a resist film as a mask after a resist film is formed on the top and the side of the gate electrode by soaking the gate electrode on a semiconductor layer in an electrolyte containing resist and applying voltage to the gate electrode.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Yasuyoshi Mishima