Semiconductor device, polycrystalline semiconductor thin film, process for producing polycrystalline semiconductor thin film, field effect transistor, and process for producing field effect transistor
AssigneeIdemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
InventorsKoki Yano, Kazuyoshi Inoue
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel semiconductor device which is excellent in stability, uniformity, reproducibility, heat resistance, durability and the like, and can exert excellent transistor properties. The semiconductor device is a thin-film transistor, and this thin-film transistor uses, as an active layer, a polycrystalline oxide semiconductor thin film containing In and two or more metals other than In and having an electron carrier concentration of less than 1×1018/cm3.
Claims10
A polycrystalline semiconductor thin film which contains indium, a positive bivalent element and oxygen,
- the thin film having a crystallinity with a locking curve half value width of 1° or less in an X-ray diffraction method,
- wherein crystals are aligned in a predetermined direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.