Patents by Inventor Hideaki YUKI

Hideaki YUKI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9455197
    Abstract: When a gate insulating film is formed on a silicon carbide substrate, the silicon carbide substrate is first oxidized with an oxidation reactant gas to form the gate insulating film on the surface of the silicon carbide substrate. The silicon carbide substrate on which the gate insulating film has been formed is nitrided with a nitriding reactant gas. The oxidation and the nitriding are performed continuously in the same diffusion furnace while a temperature of 1200° C. to 1300° C. inclusive is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Yuki, Kazuo Kobayashi, Yoichiro Tarui
  • Publication number: 20160181160
    Abstract: When a gate insulating film is formed on a silicon carbide substrate, the silicon carbide substrate is first oxidized with an oxidation reactant gas to form the gate insulating film on the surface of the silicon carbide substrate. The silicon carbide substrate on which the gate insulating film has been formed is nitrided with a nitriding reactant gas. The oxidation and the nitriding are performed continuously in the same diffusion furnace while a temperature of 1200° C. to 1300° C. inclusive is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki YUKI, Kazuo KOBAYASHI, Yoichiro TARUI
  • Patent number: 9188872
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes a photolithography process having steps of a developing solution immersing process. The steps of the developing solution immersing process includes step (a) of dropping a developing solution on a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate and forming a developing solution film so as to have a film thickness of more than 6 ?m and step (b) of reducing the film thickness of the developing solution film to 6 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sunao Aya, Shozo Shikama, Hideaki Yuki
  • Patent number: 9159585
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to the present invention includes the steps of (b) forming, on a back face of a dummy substrate and back faces of a plurality of semiconductor substrates, inorganic films having such thicknesses as to be resistant to a temperature of a thermal oxidizing treatment or a heat treatment and to sufficiently decrease an amount of oxidation or reducing gaseous species to reach the back faces of the dummy substrate and the plurality of semiconductor substrates, (c) disposing the dummy substrate and the plurality of semiconductor substrates in a lamination with surfaces turned in the same direction at an interval from each other, and (d) carrying out a thermal oxidizing treatment or post annealing over the surfaces of the semiconductor substrates in an oxidation gas atmosphere or a reducing gas atmosphere after the steps (b) and (c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshikazu Tanioka, Yoichiro Tarui, Kazuo Kobayashi, Hideaki Yuki, Yosuke Setoguchi
  • Patent number: 9063428
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device of the present invention includes steps of (a) preparing a silicon carbide substrate including a photoresist film formed on a principal surface, (b) dropping a first developing solution onto the photoresist film, (c) rotating the silicon carbide substrate to drain the first developing solution dropped onto the photoresist film after a lapse of a first development time since the end of the step (b), (d) dropping a second developing solution onto the photoresist film after the step (c), and (e) rotating the silicon carbide substrate to drain the second developing solution dropped onto the photoresist film after a lapse of a second development time since the end of the step (d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Yuki, Sunao Aya, Shozo Shikama
  • Publication number: 20140377709
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device of the present invention includes steps of (a) preparing a silicon carbide substrate including a photoresist film formed on a principal surface, (b) dropping a first developing solution onto the photoresist film, (c) rotating the silicon carbide substrate to drain the first developing solution dropped onto the photoresist film after a lapse of a first development time since the end of the step (b), (d) dropping a second developing solution onto the photoresist film after the step (c), and (e) rotating the silicon carbide substrate to drain the second developing solution dropped onto the photoresist film after a lapse of a second development time since the end of the step (d).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki YUKI, Sunao AYA, Shozo SHIKAMA
  • Publication number: 20140370445
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes a photolithography process having steps of a developing solution immersing process. The steps of the developing solution immersing process includes step (a) of dropping a developing solution on a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate and forming a developing solution film so as to have a film thickness of more than 6 ?m and step (b) of reducing the film thickness of the developing solution film to 6 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sunao AYA, Shozo SHIKAMA, Hideaki YUKI
  • Publication number: 20140242815
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to the present invention includes the steps of (b) forming, on a back face of a dummy substrate and back faces of a plurality of semiconductor substrates, inorganic films having such thicknesses as to be resistant to a temperature of a thermal oxidizing treatment or a heat treatment and to sufficiently decrease an amount of oxidation or reducing gaseous species to reach the back faces of the dummy substrate and the plurality of semiconductor substrates, (c) disposing the dummy substrate and the plurality of semiconductor substrates in a lamination with surfaces turned in the same direction at an interval from each other, and (d) carrying out a thermal oxidizing treatment or post annealing over the surfaces of the semiconductor substrates in an oxidation gas atmosphere or a reducing gas atmosphere after the steps (b) and (c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshikazu TANIOKA, Yoichiro TARUI, Kazuo KOBAYASHI, Hideaki YUKI, Yosuke SETOGUCHI