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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/1336 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/1336 ;
Abstract
In a method for manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device including a gate oxide film formed on a surface channel layer, the gate oxide film is formed by a thermal oxidation treatment that is performed at conditions under which a recrystallization reaction between silicon dioxide (SiO ) and carbon (C) occurs to produce silicon carbide (SiC) with a Gibbs free energy G being negative. The recrystallization reaction is expressed by a chemical formula of SiO +3C→SiC+2CO+G . Accordingly, residual carbon can be reduced at an interface between the gate oxide film and the surface channel layer.