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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2007
Applicants:
Akio Machida, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshio Fujino, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadahiro Kono, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/76 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
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.