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US 5,581,092 AGranted
Gate insulated semiconductor device
AssigneeSemiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
InventorYasuhiko Takemura
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Abstract
In order to provide TFTs having a low leak current property in its reverse biased state, the active semiconductor layer of the TFTs is doped with an impurity for increasing the band gap thereof, for example, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. Also, in order to compensate the decrease in conductivity due to the addition of the impurities, the source and drain regions are provided with or are by themselves formed with metal silicide layers. Further, these low leak current TFTs formed on a substrate are used as pixel transistors in an electro-optical device while peripheral circuits are formed on the same substrate using high mobility TFTs.
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A semiconductor device comprising:
- a substrate having an insulating surface;
- a semiconductor layer formed on said insulating surface, said semiconductor layer comprising a first region, at least one second region and a pair of third regions, said first region functioning as a channel and said pair of third regions functioning as source and drain regions;
- a gate insulating layer located adjacent to said semiconductor layer;
- and
- a gate electrode located adjacent to said gate insulating layer,
- wherein said first and second regions extend between said pair of third regions and said at least one second region extends between said first region and at least one of said third regions, and
- wherein a total concentration of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen in said at least one second region is higher than a total concentration of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen in said first region.
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A semiconductor device comprising:
- a substrate having an insulating surface;
- a semiconductor layer formed on said insulating surface, said semiconductor layer comprising a first region, a pair of second regions between which said first region extends, and a pair of third regions between which said first and second regions extend;
- a gate insulating layer located adjacent to the first region of said semiconductor layer;
- a pair of metal silicide layers contacting said pair of third regions;
- and
- a gate electrode located adjacent to said gate insulating layer,
- wherein said first region and said pair of second regions have an intrinsic or substantially intrinsic conductivity type, said pair of third regions are doped with one conductivity type impurity and have one conductivity type, a concentration of carbon, oxygen or nitrogen contained in said pairs of second and third regions is higher than that in said first region.
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A thin film semiconductor integrated circuit comprising:
- a substrate having an insulating surface, said substrate having an active matrix circuit portion and a peripheral circuit portion;
- a plurality of electrodes formed in the active matrix circuit portion;
- a plurality of first thin film transistors connected to said electrodes in the active matrix circuit portion;
- a plurality of second thin film transistors formed in said peripheral circuit portion, said second thin film transistors constituting at least an X-decoder/driver, a Y-decoder/driver, a memory circuit and a CPU circuit,
- wherein a concentration of carbon, nitrogen or oxygen contained in an active semiconductor layer of said first thin film transistors is higher than a concentration of carbon, nitrogen or oxygen contained in an active semiconductor layer of said second thin film transistors.
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A semiconductor device comprising:
- a substrate having an insulating surface;
- a semiconductor layer formed on said insulating surface, said semiconductor layer comprising a first region, at least one second region and a pair of third regions, said first region functioning as a channel and said pair of third regions functioning as source and drain regions;
- a gate insulating layer located adjacent to said semiconductor layer;
- and
- a gate electrode located adjacent to said gate insulating layer,
- wherein said first and second regions extend between said pair of third regions and said at least one second region extends between said first region and at least one of said third regions, and
- wherein a total concentration of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen in said pair of third regions is higher than a total concentration of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen in said at least one second region.
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A semiconductor device comprising:
- a substrate having an insulating surface;
- a semiconductor layer formed on said insulating surface, said semiconductor layer comprising a first region, at least one second region and a pair of third regions, said first region functioning as a channel and said pair of third regions functioning as source and drain regions;
- a gate insulating layer located adjacent to said semiconductor layer;
- and
- a gate electrode located adjacent to said gate insulating layer,
- wherein said first and second regions extend between said pair of third regions and said at least one second region extends between said first region and at least one of said third regions,
- wherein a total concentration of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen in said at least one second region is higher than a total concentration of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen in said first region, and
- wherein a total concentration of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen in said pair of third regions is higher than a total concentration of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen in said second at least one region.
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A semiconductor device comprising:
- a substrate having an insulating surface;
- a semiconductor layer formed on said insulating surface, said semiconductor layer comprising a first region, at least one second region and a pair of third regions, said first region functioning as a channel and said pair of third regions functioning as source and drain regions;
- a gate insulating layer located adjacent to said semiconductor layer;
- and
- a gate electrode located adjacent to said gate insulating layer,
- wherein said first and second regions extend between said pair of third regions and said at least one second region extends between said first region and at least one of said third regions, and
- wherein a band gap of said at least one second region is higher than a band gap of said first region.
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A semiconductor device comprising:
- a substrate having an insulating surface;
- a semiconductor layer formed on said insulating surface, said semiconductor layer comprising a first region, at least one second region and a pair of third regions, said first region functioning as a channel and said pair of third regions functioning as source and drain regions;
- a gate insulating layer located adjacent to said semiconductor layer;
- and
- a gate electrode located adjacent to said gate insulating layer,
- wherein said first and second regions extend between said pair of third regions and said at least one second region extends between said first region and at least one of third regions, and
- wherein band gaps of said pair of third regions are higher than a band gap of said at least one second region.
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A semiconductor device comprising:
- a substrate having an insulating surface;
- a semiconductor layer formed on said insulating surface, said semiconductor layer comprising a first region, at least one second region and a pair of third regions, said first region functioning as a channel and said pair of third regions functioning as source and drain regions;
- a gate insulating layer located adjacent to said semiconductor layer;
- and
- a gate electrode located adjacent to said gate insulating layer,
- wherein said first and second regions extend between said pair of third regions and said at least one second region extends between said first region and at least one of said third regions,
- wherein a band gap of said at least one second region is higher than a band gap of said first region, and
- wherein band gaps of said pair of third regions are higher than a band gap of said at least one second region.
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