Patents by Inventor Katsumi Okashita

Katsumi Okashita 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).

  • Publication number: 20070190759
    Abstract: A plasma doping method that can control a dose precisely is realized. In-plane uniformity of the dose is improved. It has been found that, if a bias is applied by irradiating B2H6/He plasma onto a silicon substrate, there is a time at which a dose of boron is made substantially uniform, and the saturation time is comparatively long and ease to stably use, compared with a time at which repeatability of an apparatus control can be secured. The invention has been finalized focusing on the result. That is, if plasma irradiation starts, a dose is initially increased, but a time at which the dose is made substantially uniform without depending on a time variation is continued. In addition, if the time is further increased, the dose is decreased. The dose can be accurately controlled through a process window of the time at which the dose is made substantially uniform without depending on the time variation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Sasaki, Katsumi Okashita, Hiroyuki Ito, Bunji Mizuno, Tomohiro Okumura
  • Publication number: 20070176124
    Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma doping method that, even though a plasma doping treatment is repeated, can make a dose from a film to a silicon substrate uniform for each time. According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a plasma doping method that places a sample on a sample electrode in a vacuum chamber, generates plasma in the vacuum chamber, and causes impurity ions in the plasma to collide against a surface of the sample so as to form an impurity doped layer in the surface of the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Sasaki, Katsumi Okashita, Hiroyuki Ito, Bunji Mizuno, Tomohiro Okumura
  • Publication number: 20070166846
    Abstract: A plasma doping method that can control a dose precisely is realized. In-plane uniformity of the dose is improved. It has been found that, if a bias is applied by irradiating B2H6/He plasma onto a silicon substrate, there is a time at which a dose of boron is made substantially uniform, and the saturation time is comparatively long and ease to stably use, compared with a time at which repeatability of an apparatus control can be secured. The invention has been finalized focusing on the result. That is, if plasma irradiation starts, a dose is initially increased, but a time at which the dose is made substantially uniform without depending on a time variation is continued. In addition, if the time is further increased, the dose is decreased. The dose can be accurately controlled through a process window of the time at which the dose is made substantially uniform without depending on the time variation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Sasaki, Katsumi Okashita, Hiroyuki Ito, Bunji Mizuno, Tomohiro Okumura
  • Publication number: 20070111548
    Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma doping method that, even though a plasma doping treatment is repeated, can make a dose from a film to a silicon substrate uniform for each time. According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a plasma doping method that places a sample on a sample electrode in a vacuum chamber, generates plasma in the vacuum chamber, and causes impurity ions in the plasma to collide against a surface of the sample so as to form an impurity doped layer in the surface of the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Sasaki, Katsumi Okashita, Hiroyuki Ito, Bunji Mizuno, Tomohiro Okumura