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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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Abstract

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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IPC · International Patent Classification
Section H — Electricity
  • H01L29/76
  • H01L29/04
USPC · US Patent Classification
257/59438/128438/151257/70257/69257/347438/48257/66257/64257/65438/141257/72438/157

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related publicationUS 20080087894 A117 Apr 2008

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