Patents by Inventor Takuro INAMOTO

Takuro INAMOTO 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: 10297450
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for manufacturing a SiC substrate having a flattened surface, including etching the surface of the SiC substrate by irradiating the surface of the SiC substrate with atomic hydrogen while the SiC substrate having an off angle is heated. In the etching, the SiC substrate may be heated within a range of 800° C. or higher and 1200° C. or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujii, Mariko Sato, Takuro Inamoto
  • Patent number: 10181514
    Abstract: In a case where a semiconductor layer is epitaxially grown on a step shape formed due to CBL (current blocking layer) formation, the crystallinity of the semiconductor layer lowers. Also, a GaN layer that is epitaxially regrown on the CBL is not formed continuously by epitaxial growth, and therefore the crystallinity of the GaN layer lowers. A vertical semiconductor device manufacturing method is provided that comprises: a step of epitaxially growing a gallium nitride-based n-type semiconductor layer on a gallium nitride-based semiconductor substrate; a step of epitaxially growing a gallium nitride-based p-type semiconductor layer on the n-type semiconductor layer; and a step of ion-implanting p-type impurities to form a p+-type embedded region selectively in a predetermined depth range across the boundary between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Matsuyama, Shinya Takashima, Katsunori Ueno, Takuro Inamoto, Masaharu Edo
  • Patent number: 10068762
    Abstract: Providing a manufacture method of a gate insulating film formed on an SiC substrate having thereon an SiON film, achieving both of the maintenance of an SiON film structure and the formation of a high-quality insulating film. A manufacture method of a gate insulating film for an SiC semiconductor device comprises preparing a transfer plate comprising a transfer substrate and an insulating film formed thereon; preparing a surface-processed substrate comprising an SiC substrate and an epitaxial silicon oxynitride film as an atomic monolayer formed thereon; and transferring the insulating film from the transfer plate onto the silicon oxynitride film of the surface-processed substrate to produce the surface-processed substrate having a transferred insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuro Inamoto, Takeshi Fujii, Mariko Sato
  • Patent number: 10037886
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device having a contact formed between a p-type silicon carbide semiconductor body and a metal electrode, includes forming on a surface of the p-type silicon carbide semiconductor body, a graphene layer so as to reduce a potential difference generated in a conjunction interface between the p-type silicon carbide semiconductor body and the metal electrode; forming an insulator layer comprising a hexagonal boron nitride on a surface of the graphene layer; and forming the metal electrode on a surface of the insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujii, Mariko Sato, Takuro Inamoto
  • Publication number: 20180097063
    Abstract: In a case where a semiconductor layer is epitaxially grown on a step shape formed due to CBL (current blocking layer) formation, the crystallinity of the semiconductor layer lowers. Also, a GaN layer that is epitaxially regrown on the CBL is not formed continuously by epitaxial growth, and therefore the crystallinity of the GaN layer lowers. A vertical semiconductor device manufacturing method is provided that comprises: a step of epitaxially growing a gallium nitride-based n-type semiconductor layer on a gallium nitride-based semiconductor substrate; a step of epitaxially growing a gallium nitride-based p-type semiconductor layer on the n-type semiconductor layer; and a step of ion-implanting p-type impurities to form a p+-type embedded region selectively in a predetermined depth range across the boundary between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Hideaki MATSUYAMA, Shinya TAKASHIMA, Katsunori UENO, Takuro INAMOTO, Masaharu EDO
  • Publication number: 20180005828
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for manufacturing a SiC substrate having a flattened surface, including etching the surface of the SiC substrate by irradiating the surface of the SiC substrate with atomic hydrogen while the SiC substrate having an off angle is heated. In the etching, the SiC substrate may be heated within a range of 800° C. or higher and 1200° C. or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Takeshi FUJII, Mariko SATO, Takuro INAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170243732
    Abstract: Providing a manufacture method of a gate insulating film formed on an SiC substrate having thereon an SiON film, achieving both of the maintenance of an SiON film structure and the formation of a high-quality insulating film. A manufacture method of a gate insulating film for an SiC semiconductor device comprises preparing a transfer plate comprising a transfer substrate and an insulating film formed thereon; preparing a surface-processed substrate comprising an SiC substrate and an epitaxial silicon acid nitride film as an atomic monolayer formed thereon; and transferring the insulating film from the transfer plate onto the silicon acid nitride film of the surface-processed substrate to produce the surface-processed substrate having a transferred insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Takuro Inamoto, Takeshi Fujii, Mariko Sato
  • Publication number: 20160307756
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device having a contact formed between a p-type silicon carbide semiconductor body and a metal electrode, includes forming on a surface of the p-type silicon carbide semiconductor body, a graphene layer so as to reduce a potential difference generated in a conjunction interface between the p-type silicon carbide semiconductor body and the metal electrode; forming an insulator layer comprising a hexagonal boron nitride on a surface of the graphene layer; and forming the metal electrode on a surface of the insulation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi FUJII, Mariko SATO, Takuro INAMOTO