Semiconductor thin film and semiconductor device
Granted 10 Aug 2010 · 4 office actions
Current assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. · originally Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
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Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Akiharu Miyanaga, Toru Mitsuki, Hisashi Ohtani +1 · Examiner: Joseph Nguyen
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After an amorphous semiconductor thin film is crystallized by utilizing a catalyst element, the catalyst element is removed by performing a heat treatment in an atmosphere containing a halogen element. A resulting crystalline semiconductor thin film exhibits {110} orientation. Since individual crystal grains have approximately equal orientation, the crystalline semiconductor thin film has substantially no grain boundaries and has such crystallinity as to be considered a single crystal or considered so substantially.
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| Type | Document | Date |
|---|---|---|
| related publication | US 20080087894 A1 | 17 Apr 2008 |
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