Patents by Inventor Shinobu Furukawa
Shinobu Furukawa 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).
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Patent number: 7875494Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to form an organic transistor including an organic semiconductor having high crystallinity without loosing an interface between an organic semiconductor of a channel where carriers are spread out and a gate insulating layer and deteriorating a yield. A semiconductor device according to the present invention has a stacked structure of organic semiconductor layers, and at least the upper organic semiconductor layer is in a polycrystalline or a single crystalline state and the lower organic semiconductor layer is made of a material serving as a channel. Carrier mobility can be increased owing to the upper organic semiconductor layer having high crystallinity; thus, insufficient contact due to the upper organic semiconductor layer can be compensated by the lower organic semiconductor layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2010Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinobu Furukawa, Ryota Imahayashi
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Publication number: 20100301346Abstract: A thin film transistor in which an effect of photo current is small and an On/Off ratio is high is provided. In a bottom-gate bottom-contact (coplanar) thin film transistor, a channel formation region overlaps with a gate electrode, a first impurity semiconductor layer is provided between the channel formation region and a second impurity semiconductor layer which is in contact with a wiring layer. A semiconductor layer which serves as the channel formation region and the first impurity semiconductor layer preferably overlap with each other in a region where they overlap with the gate electrode. The first impurity semiconductor layer and the second impurity semiconductor layer preferably overlap with each other in a region where they do not overlap with the gate electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidekazu MIYAIRI, Yasuhiro JINBO, Hiromichi GODO, Takafumi MIZOGUCHI, Shinobu FURUKAWA
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Publication number: 20100297809Abstract: It is an object to form a high quality gate insulating film which is dense and has a strong insulation resistance property, and to propose a high reliable organic transistor in which a tunnel leakage current is little. One mode of the organic transistor of the present invention has a step of forming the gate insulating film by forming the conductive layer which becomes the gate electrode activating oxygen (or gas including oxygen) or nitrogen (or gas including nitrogen) or the like using dense plasma in which density of electron is 1011 cm?3 or more, and electron temperature is a range of 0.2 eV to 2.0 eV with plasma activation, and reacting directly with a portion of the conductive layer which becomes the gate electrode to be insulated.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryota IMAHAYASHI, Shinobu FURUKAWA, Atsuo ISOBE, Yasuyuki ARAI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20100136740Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to form an organic transistor including an organic semiconductor having high crystallinity without loosing an interface between an organic semiconductor of a channel where carriers are spread out and a gate insulating layer and deteriorating a yield. A semiconductor device according to the present invention has a stacked structure of organic semiconductor layers, and at least the upper organic semiconductor layer is in a polycrystalline or a single crystalline state and the lower organic semiconductor layer is made of a material serving as a channel. Carrier mobility can be increased owing to the upper organic semiconductor layer having high crystallinity; thus, insufficient contact due to the upper organic semiconductor layer can be compensated by the lower organic semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2010Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinobu FURUKAWA, Ryota IMAHAYASHI
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Patent number: 7671448Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to form an organic transistor including an organic semiconductor having high crystallinity without loosing an interface between an organic semiconductor of a channel where carriers are spread out and a gate insulating layer and deteriorating a yield. A semiconductor device according to the present invention has a stacked structure of organic semiconductor layers, and at least the upper organic semiconductor layer is in a polycrystalline or a single crystalline state and the lower organic semiconductor layer is made of a material serving as a channel. Carrier mobility can be increased owing to the upper organic semiconductor layer having high crystallinity; thus, insufficient contact due to the upper organic semiconductor layer can be compensated by the lower organic semiconductor layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2006Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinobu Furukawa, Ryota Imahayashi
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Publication number: 20090267077Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an organic transistor having a low drive voltage. It is also another object of the present invention to provide an organic transistor, in which light emission can be obtained, which can be manufactured simply and easily. According to an organic light-emitting transistor, a composite layer containing an organic compound having a hole-transporting property and a metal oxide is used as part of the electrode that injects holes among source and drain electrodes, and a composite layer containing an organic compound having an electron-transporting property and an alkaline metal or an alkaline earth metal is used as part of the electrode that injects electrons, where either composite layer has a structure of being in contact with an organic semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinobu FURUKAWA, Ryota IMAHAYASHI
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Patent number: 7563638Abstract: The present invention provides a method by which molecules in an organic semiconductor layer can be oriented so as to make molecules in an organic semiconductor layer be oriented without damaging the organic semiconductor layer by rubbing and by which molecules in an organic semiconductor layer are oriented without losing the planarity of an interface between a gate insulating film and an organic semiconductor layer by rubbing the gate insulating film, in manufacturing an organic semiconductor having molecular orientation.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2005Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shinobu Furukawa
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Patent number: 7560735Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an organic transistor having a low drive voltage. It is also another object of the present invention to provide an organic transistor, in which light emission can be obtained, which can be manufactured simply and easily. According to an organic light-emitting transistor, a composite layer containing an organic compound having a hole-transporting property and a metal oxide is used as part of the electrode that injects holes among source and drain electrodes, and a composite layer containing an organic compound having an electron-transporting property and an alkaline metal or an alkaline earth metal is used as part of the electrode that injects electrons, where either composite layer has a structure of being in contact with an organic semiconductor layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2006Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinobu Furukawa, Ryota Imahayashi
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Publication number: 20090134383Abstract: It is an object of the present invention, in a case of using a conductive material as part of an electrode for an organic transistor, to provide an organic transistor having a structure whose characteristics are not controlled by the work function of the conductive material. Moreover, it is other objects of the present invention to provide an organic transistor having favorable carrier mobility and to provide an organic transistor which is excellent in durability. A composite layer containing an organic compound and an inorganic material is used for an electrode for an organic field effect transistor, that is, at least part of one of a source electrode and a drain electrode in the organic field effect transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2006Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co, ltdInventors: Ryota Imahayashi, Shinobu Furukawa, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20080099757Abstract: It is an object to provide an organic field effect transistor including an electrode which can reduce an energy barrier at an interface between a conductive layer and a semiconductor layer, and a semiconductor device including the organic field effect transistor. A composite layer containing an organic compound and an inorganic compound is provided in at least part of one of a source electrode and a drain electrode in an organic field effect transistor, and as the organic compound, a carbazole derivative represented by the general formula (1) is used. By providing the composite layer in at least part of one of the source electrode and the drain electrode, an energy barrier at an interface between a conductive layer and a semiconductor layer can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2007Publication date: May 1, 2008Inventors: Shinobu Furukawa, Ryota Imahayashi, Kaoru Kato
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Publication number: 20080048183Abstract: It is an object to provide an electrode for an organic field-effect transistor having a semiconductor layer formed of an organic semiconductor material (in the present invention, referred to as an organic field-effect transistor), which can reduce the energy barrier at an interface with the semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2005Publication date: February 28, 2008Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuharu Ohsawa, Yoshiharu Hirakata, Shinobu Furukawa
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Publication number: 20080042128Abstract: A nonvolatile memory has a problem in that applied voltage is high. This is because a carrier needs to be injected into a floating gate through an insulating film by a tunneling effect. In addition, there is concern about deterioration of the insulating film by performing such carrier injection. An object of the present invention is to provide a memory in which applied voltage is lowered and deterioration of an insulating film is prevented. One feature is to use a layer in which an inorganic compound having a charge-transfer complex is mixed with an organic compound as a layer functioning as a floating gate of a memory. A specific example is an element having a transistor structure where a layer in which an inorganic compound having a charge-transfer complex is mixed with an organic compound and which is sandwiched between insulating layers is used as a floating gate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2005Publication date: February 21, 2008Inventors: Shinobu Furukawa, Ryota Imahayashi
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Publication number: 20070190675Abstract: A highly functional and reliable display device with lower power consumption and higher light-emitting efficiency is provided. A light-emitting material is irradiated with light; the light-emitting material irradiated with light is dispersed in a solution containing a binder, and a solution containing the light-emitting material irradiated with light and the binder is formed; a first electrode layer is formed; the solution is applied on the first electrode layer, and a light-emitting layer containing the light-emitting material irradiated with light and the binder is formed; and a second electrode layer is formed over the light-emitting layer, and a light-emitting element is manufactured. An insulating layer may be provided between the first electrode layer and the light-emitting layer or between the second electrode layer and the light-emitting layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2007Publication date: August 16, 2007Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Shinobu FURUKAWA, Masafumi MORISUE, Gen FUJII
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Publication number: 20060270066Abstract: It is an object to form a high quality gate insulating film which is dense and has a strong insulation resistance property, and to propose a high reliable organic transistor in which a tunnel leakage current is little. One mode of the organic transistor of the present invention has a step of forming the gate insulating film by forming the conductive layer which becomes the gate electrode activating oxygen (or gas including oxygen) or nitrogen (or gas including nitrogen) or the like using dense plasma in which density of electron is 1011 cm?3 or more, and electron temperature is a range of 0.2 eV to 2.0 eV with plasma activation, and reacting directly with a portion of the conductive layer which becomes the gate electrode to be insulated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2006Publication date: November 30, 2006Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryota Imahayashi, Shinobu Furukawa, Atsuo Isobe, Yasuyuki Arai, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20060237731Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an organic transistor having a low drive voltage. It is also another object of the present invention to provide an organic transistor, in which light emission can be obtained, which can be manufactured simply and easily. According to an organic light-emitting transistor, a composite layer containing an organic compound having a hole-transporting property and a metal oxide is used as part of the electrode that injects holes among source and drain electrodes, and a composite layer containing an organic compound having an electron-transporting property and an alkaline metal or an alkaline earth metal is used as part of the electrode that injects electrons, where either composite layer has a structure of being in contact with an organic semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinobu FURUKAWA, Ryota IMAHAYASHI
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Publication number: 20060214160Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to form an organic transistor including an organic semiconductor having high crystallinity without loosing an interface between an organic semiconductor of a channel where carriers are spread out and a gate insulating layer and deteriorating a yield. A semiconductor device according to the present invention has a stacked structure of organic semiconductor layers, and at least the upper organic semiconductor layer is in a polycrystalline or a single crystalline state and the lower organic semiconductor layer is made of a material serving as a channel. Carrier mobility can be increased owing to the upper organic semiconductor layer having high crystallinity; thus, insufficient contact due to the upper organic semiconductor layer can be compensated by the lower organic semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2006Publication date: September 28, 2006Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinobu Furukawa, Ryota Imahayashi
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Publication number: 20060094153Abstract: The present invention provides a method by which molecules in an organic semiconductor layer can be oriented so as to make molecules in an organic semiconductor layer be oriented without damaging the organic semiconductor layer by rubbing and by which molecules in an organic semiconductor layer are oriented without losing the planarity of an interface between a gate insulating film and an organic semiconductor layer by rubbing the gate insulating film, in manufacturing an organic semiconductor having molecular orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2005Publication date: May 4, 2006Inventor: Shinobu Furukawa