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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2004
Mitsuo Inoue, Hyogo, JP;
Hidetada Tokioka, Hyogo, JP;
Shinsuke Yura, Hyogo, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of fabricating a thin-film of a semiconductor material includes: a scanning irradiation step of, in order to form a polycrystalline silicon film on the surface of a substrate, focusing first pulse laser light having a visible wavelength into a line shape having an intensity distribution of an approximately Gaussian shape in a width direction on the surface of the substrate and applying the light such that the line shape is shifted in the width direction; an edge processing step of, after performing the scanning irradiation step in one position in one direction, applying second pulse laser light having an ultraviolet wavelength to an end region of an edge parallel to the width direction of a region having undergone the scanning irradiation; and a step of applying the scanning irradiation step again to cover a region that is adjacent to the region covered by the scanning irradiation step as well as overlaps the end region having undergone the edge processing step.