Abstract: A semiconductor device with an electrode wiring structure comprises at least one diffused region provided in a semiconductor substrate, a silicon oxide layer covering the substrate surface, a silicon nitride layer provided on the silicon oxide layer, a through-hole reaching the diffused region through the silicon oxide layer from an upper surface of the silicon nitride layer, a silicon semiconductor layer filled in the through-hole and serving as an electrode wiring layer, and an interconnection layer electrically connected to the diffused region through the silicon semiconductor layer. According to the structure, since the silicon oxide layer is covered with the silicon nitride layer, unwanted contaminations such as phosphorus, boron, etc., previously contained in the silicon oxide layer are not added to the silicon semiconductor layer during its growth process. Therefore, the electrode wiring layer of silicon semiconductor having controlled conductivity can be provided.

Abstract: A vapor phase growth apparatus is disclosed, which comprises a boat accommodating therein a plurality of semiconductor substrates, an inner tube surrounding the boat, an outer tube disposed outside the inner tube, a heater disposed outside the outer tube, a reaction gas injection nozzle disposed inside the inner tube and operating to eject a reaction gas against the semiconductor substrates, and a hydrogen halide gas injection nozzle disposed between the inner tube and the outer tube and operating to inject the hydrogen halide gas, wherein exhaust openings for exhausting the reaction gas are formed through a wall of the inner tube, thereby suppressing deposition of a reactant on an outer surface of the inner tube and an inner surface of the outer tube. The reaction gas injected from the reaction gas injection nozzle flows in the portion formed between the inner tube and the outer tube along with in the inner tube.

Abstract: A system for analyzing a metal impurity at the surface of a single crystal semiconductor comprising: an incident device for allowing X-ray to be incident, at an incident angle less than a total reflection angle, onto the surface of a wafer in the form of a thin plate comprised of a single crystal semiconductor (e.g., silicon); a wafer fixing/positioning stage wherein when it is assumed that the wafer surface is partitioned by a lattice having an interval d, and that the wavelength of the X-ray from the incident device is .lambda., an angle that the X-ray and the wafer surface form is .theta., and an arbitrary integer is n, the stage is adapted to fix the crystal orientation of the wafer so as to satisfy the condition of "2d sin .theta..noteq.n.lambda.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer on the semiconductor layer, including a discontinuity therein, a monocrystalline silicon layer on a portion of semiconductor layer defined by the discontinuity, a non-monocrystalline silicon layer on the monocrystalline silicon layer, and a wiring layer on the non-monocrystalline silicon layer.

Abstract: A multi-layered insulation film of non-doped CVD SiO.sub.2 (silicon dioxide) film and BPSG (boro-phospho-silicate glass) film is formed on a silicon substrate. Films have a contact hole exposing impurity diffused region formed in silicon substrate. A semiconductor layer is formed in the contact hole. An Al (aluminum) film is formed on the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer contacts the BPSG film so that the contact resistance between the semiconductor layer and the Al (aluminum) film can be reduced, and a variation of the contact resistance between respective semiconductor devices can also be reduced.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer on the semiconductor layer, including a discontinuity therein, a monocrystalline silicon layer on a portion of semiconductor layer defined by the discontinuity, a non-monocrystalline silicon layer on the monocrystalline silicon layer, and a wiring layer on the non-monocrystalline silicon layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor substrate having a surface region of P type and a surface region of N type is formed, then an insulating membrane is formed on the semiconductor substrate. The first contact hole which is formed in said region of P type and the second contact hole which is connected to said region of N type are formed by the same process as that for said insulating membrane. Non-doped silicon layer is grown in said first and second contact holes by the same selective growth process, in a single reactive furnace. A diffusion source layer containing impurities of P type is formed on said first contact hole and a diffusion source layer containing impurities of N type on said second contact hole. Impurities are diffused from said diffusion layers to said silicon layers, and said diffusion source layer is then removed. A metal wire layer is formed by connecting it to said silicon layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, for example, an MOSFET. According to this method, an n-well region is formed in a predetermined portion of a p-type semiconductor substrate, after which a field oxide film is formed on that portion of the n-well region which is in contact with the p-type semiconductor substrate. Next, a gate oxide film is formed on the p-type semiconductor substrate and the n-well region, and when a polycrystal silicon film is formed on the field oxide film and the gate oxide film. Thereafter, a polycrystal silicon film containing boron is formed on that portion of the above polycrystal silicon film formed on the p-channel MOSFET forming region, a polycrystal silicon film containing phosphorus being formed on that portion of the polycrystal film formed on the n-channel MOSFET forming region.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device has the steps of: forming a first thin single-crystal semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate of one conductivity type which contains oxygen, the first thin single-crystal semiconductor layer having a higher resistivity than that of the semiconductor substrate and having the same conductivity type as that of the semiconductor substrate; ion-implanting an electrically inactive impurity in the first thin single-crystal semiconductor layer; forming a second thin single-crystal semiconductor layer on the first thin single-crystal semiconductor layer, the second thin single-crystal semiconductor layer having the same conductivity type as that of the semiconductor substrate and having a higher resistivity than that of the semiconductor substrate; performing annealing for not less than four hours at a temperature of 550.degree. C. to 900.degree. C.