Patents by Inventor Kenichi Okazaki

Kenichi Okazaki 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: 20230005969
    Abstract: To improve field-effect mobility and reliability of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor film, a gate electrode, an insulating film over the gate electrode, the oxide semiconductor film over the insulating film, and a pair of electrodes over the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film includes a first oxide semiconductor film and a second oxide semiconductor film over the first oxide semiconductor film. The first oxide semiconductor film and the second oxide semiconductor film, include the same element. The first oxide semiconductor film includes a region having lower crystallinity than the second oxide semiconductor film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Daisuke KUROSAKI, Yasutaka NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230006164
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to improve the reliability of a light-emitting device. Another object of the invention is to provide flexibility to a light-emitting device having a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor film. A light-emitting device has, over one flexible substrate, a driving circuit portion including a thin film transistor for a driving circuit and a pixel portion including a thin film transistor for a pixel. The thin film transistor for a driving circuit and the thin film transistor for a pixel are inverted staggered thin film transistors including an oxide semiconductor layer which is in contact with a part of an oxide insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Shingo EGUCHI, Yoshiaki OIKAWA, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Hotaka MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 11543718
    Abstract: To suppress a variation in characteristics of a transistor due to a released gas from an organic insulating film so that reliability of a display device is increased. The display device includes a transistor, an organic insulating film which is provided over the transistor in order to reduce unevenness due to the transistor, and a capacitor over the organic insulating film. An entire surface of the organic insulating film is not covered with components (a transparent conductive layer and an inorganic insulating film) of the capacitor, and a released gas from the organic insulating film can be released to the outside from exposed part of an upper surface of the organic insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Yokoyama, Shigeki Komori, Manabu Sato, Kenichi Okazaki, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11538928
    Abstract: In a transistor including an oxide semiconductor, a change in electrical characteristics is suppressed and reliability is improved. The transistor includes an oxide semiconductor film over a first insulating film; a second insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film; a metal oxide film over the second insulating film; a gate electrode over the metal oxide film; and a third insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film and the gate electrode. The oxide semiconductor film includes a channel region overlapping with the gate electrode, a source region in contact with the third insulating film, and a drain region in contact with the third insulating film. The source region and the drain region contain one or more of hydrogen, boron, carbon, nitrogen, fluorine, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, titanium, and a rare gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kenichi Okazaki, Junichi Koezuka, Tomonori Nakayama, Motoki Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20220406944
    Abstract: A semiconductor device which has favorable electrical characteristics, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device with high productivity, and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device with a high yield are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka NAKAZAWA, Yukinori SHIMA, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Junichi KOEZUKA, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11531243
    Abstract: The display device includes a first substrate provided with a driver circuit region that is located outside and adjacent to a pixel region and includes at least one second transistor which supplies a signal to the first transistor in each of the pixels in the pixel region, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first interlayer insulating film including an inorganic insulating material over the first transistor and the second transistor, a second interlayer insulating film including an organic insulating material over the first interlayer insulating film, and a third interlayer insulating film including an inorganic insulating material over the second interlayer insulating film. The third interlayer insulating film is provided in part of an upper region of the pixel region, and has an edge portion on an inner side than the driver circuit region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Hosaka, Yukinori Shima, Kenichi Okazaki, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11532755
    Abstract: To provide a novel oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film includes In, M, and Zn. The M is Al, Ga, Y, or Sn. In the case where the proportion of In in the oxide semiconductor film is 4, the proportion of M is greater than or equal to 1.5 and less than or equal 2.5 and the proportion of Zn is greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihisa Shimomura, Junichi Koezuka, Kenichi Okazaki, Yasumasa Yamane, Yuhei Sato, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11532650
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a high aperture ratio is provided. A liquid crystal display device with low power consumption is provided. A display device includes a transistor and a capacitor. The transistor includes a first insulating layer, a first semiconductor layer in contact with the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer in contact with the first semiconductor layer, and a first conductive layer electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer via an opening portion provided in the second insulating layer. The capacitor includes a second conductive layer in contact with the first insulating layer, the second insulating layer in contact with the second conductive layer, and the first conductive layer in contact with the second insulating layer. The second conductive layer includes a composition similar to that of the first semiconductor layer. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are configured to transmit visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kenichi Okazaki, Daisuke Kurosaki, Yasutaka Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20220384526
    Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel circuit including a light-receiving element and a first transistor, and a second pixel circuit including a light-emitting element and a second transistor. The light-receiving element includes an active layer between a first pixel electrode and a common electrode, and the light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer between a second pixel electrode and the common electrode. The first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are positioned on the same plane. The active layer and the light-emitting layer contain different organic compounds. A source or a drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to the first pixel electrode, and a source or a drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to the second pixel electrode. The first transistor includes a first semiconductor layer containing a metal oxide, and the second transistor includes a second semiconductor layer containing polycrystalline silicon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kenichi OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220359691
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device with stable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a third insulating layer, a fourth insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, and a first conductive layer. The second insulating layer is positioned over the first insulating layer and the island-shaped semiconductor layer is positioned over the second insulating layer. The second insulating layer has an island shape having an end portion outside a region overlapping with the semiconductor layer. The fourth insulating layer covers the second insulating layer, the semiconductor layer, the third insulating layer, and the first conductive layer, is in contact with part of a top surface of the semiconductor layer, and is in contact with the first insulating layer outside the end portion of the second insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Masami JINTYOU, Takahiro IGUCHI, Yukinori SHIMA, Kenichi OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220350213
    Abstract: The manufacturing yield of a display device is improved. The resistance of a display device to ESD is increased. The display device includes a substrate, a display portion, a connection terminal, a first wiring, and a second wiring. The first wiring is electrically connected to the connection terminal and includes a portion positioned between the connection terminal and the display portion. The second wiring is electrically connected to the connection terminal, is positioned between the connection terminal and an end portion of the substrate, and includes a portion in which a side surface is exposed at an end portion of the substrate. The display portion includes a transistor. The transistor includes a semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, and a gate electrode. The semiconductor layer and the second wiring include a metal oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kenichi OKAZAKI, Yukinori SHIMA, Daisuke KUROSAKI, Masataka NAKADA
  • Patent number: 11489077
    Abstract: The impurity concentration in the oxide semiconductor film is reduced, and a highly reliability can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Masahiro Watanabe, Mitsuo Mashiyama, Kenichi Okazaki, Motoki Nakashima, Hideyuki Kishida
  • Patent number: 11489076
    Abstract: To improve field-effect mobility and reliability in a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. A semiconductor device includes a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. The transistor includes a region where the maximum value of field-effect mobility of the transistor at a gate voltage of higher than 0 V and lower than or equal to 10 V is larger than or equal to 40 and smaller than 150; a region where the threshold voltage is higher than or equal to minus 1 V and lower than or equal to 1 V; and a region where the S value is smaller than 0.3 V/decade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Junichi Koezuka, Kenichi Okazaki, Yukinori Shima, Shinpei Matsuda, Haruyuki Baba, Ryunosuke Honda
  • Patent number: 11482626
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device having stable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer containing a metal oxide, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a third insulating layer containing a nitride, and a first conductive layer. The first insulating layer includes a projecting first region that overlaps with the semiconductor layer and a second region that does not overlap with the semiconductor layer and is thinner than the first region. The second insulating layer is provided to cover a top surface of the second region, a side surface of the first region, and the semiconductor layer. The first conductive layer is provided over the second insulating layer and a bottom surface of the first conductive layer over the second region includes a portion positioned below a bottom surface of the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kenichi Okazaki, Masami Jintyou, Takahiro Iguchi, Yukinori Shima
  • Publication number: 20220328692
    Abstract: To reduce defects in an oxide semiconductor film in a semiconductor device. To improve electrical characteristics of and reliability in the semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a gate electrode and a gate insulating film over a substrate, forming an oxide semiconductor film over the gate insulating film, forming a pair of electrodes over the oxide semiconductor film, forming a first oxide insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film and the pair of electrodes by a plasma CVD method in which a film formation temperature is 280° C. or higher and 400° C. or lower, forming a second oxide insulating film over the first oxide insulating film, and performing heat treatment at a temperature of 150° C. to 400° C. inclusive, preferably 300° C. to 400° C. inclusive, further preferably 320° C. to 370° C. inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Junichi KOEZUKA, Yukinori SHIMA, Suzunosuke HIRAISHI, Kenichi OKAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11469387
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to improve the reliability of a light-emitting device. Another object of the invention is to provide flexibility to a light-emitting device having a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor film. A light-emitting device has, over one flexible substrate, a driving circuit portion including a thin film transistor for a driving circuit and a pixel portion including a thin film transistor for a pixel. The thin film transistor for a driving circuit and the thin film transistor for a pixel are inverted staggered thin film transistors including an oxide semiconductor layer which is in contact with a part of an oxide insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Eguchi, Yoshiaki Oikawa, Kenichi Okazaki, Hotaka Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20220320184
    Abstract: A high-definition or high-resolution display apparatus is provided. In the display apparatus, a first light-emitting device includes a first pixel electrode, a first light-emitting layer, and a common electrode. A second light-emitting device includes a second pixel electrode, a second light-emitting layer, and the common electrode. End portions of the first and second pixel electrodes are covered with a first insulating layer. A second insulating layer covers side surfaces of the first and second light-emitting layers. A first color conversion layer overlaps the first light-emitting device. A second color conversion layer overlaps the second light-emitting device. The first and second light-emitting devices each have a function of emitting blue light. The first and second color conversion layers each have a function of converting light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Kenichi OKAZAKI, Daiki NAKAMURA, Rai SATO
  • Patent number: 11462645
    Abstract: A semiconductor device which has favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device with high productivity is provided. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device with a high yield is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Nakazawa, Yukinori Shima, Kenichi Okazaki, Junichi Koezuka, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11456320
    Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal element, a transistor, a scan line, and a signal line. The liquid crystal element includes a pixel electrode, a liquid crystal layer, and a common electrode. The scan line and the signal line are each electrically connected to the transistor. The scan line and the signal line each include a metal layer. The transistor is electrically connected to the pixel electrode. A semiconductor layer of the transistor includes a stack of a first metal oxide layer and a second metal oxide layer. The first metal oxide layer includes a region with lower crystallinity than the second metal oxide layer. The transistor includes a first region connected to the pixel electrode. The pixel electrode, the common electrode, and the first region are each configured to transmit visible light. Visible light passes through the first region and the liquid crystal element and exits from the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kenichi Okazaki, Daisuke Kurosaki, Yasutaka Nakazawa, Kazunori Watanabe, Koji Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 11450691
    Abstract: To improve field-effect mobility and reliability of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor film, a gate electrode, an insulating film over the gate electrode, the oxide semiconductor film over the insulating film, and a pair of electrodes over the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film includes a first oxide semiconductor film and a second oxide semiconductor film over the first oxide semiconductor film. The first oxide semiconductor film and the second oxide semiconductor film, include the same element. The first oxide semiconductor film includes a region having lower crystallinity than the second oxide semiconductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kenichi Okazaki, Daisuke Kurosaki, Yasutaka Nakazawa