Patents by Inventor Yuji Tobisaka

Yuji Tobisaka 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: 20220113601
    Abstract: A transmissive micro display board is manufactured without providing a light shielding layer. A manufacturing method of a micro display board includes the steps of: (i) forming a circuit layer on a surface of a first substrate provided with a single-crystal silicon layer; (ii) attaching a second substrate by using an adhesive to the surface of the first substrate on which the circuit layer has been formed; (iii) thinning a rear surface of the first substrate; (iv) attaching a third substrate being a transparent substrate to the thinned surface of the first substrate by using an adhesive; (v) removing the second substrate from the first substrate; and (vi) exposing a surface of the circuit layer by removing the adhesive on the surface of the first substrate after detaching the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji TOBISAKA, Shigeru KONISHI, Makoto KAWAI
  • Patent number: 10103021
    Abstract: A thermally oxidized heterogeneous composite substrate provided with a single crystal silicon film on a handle substrate, said heterogeneous composite substrate being obtained by, prior to a thermal oxidization treatment at a temperature exceeding 850° C., conducting an intermediate heat treatment at 650-850° C. and then conducting the thermal oxidization treatment at a temperature exceeding 850° C. According to the present invention, a thermally oxidized heterogeneous composite substrate with a reduced number of defects after thermal oxidization can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Yuji Tobisaka, Kazutoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 9741603
    Abstract: A hybrid substrate has an SOI structure having a good silicon active layer, without defects such as partial separation of the silicon active layer is obtained without trimming the outer periphery of the substrate. An SOI substrate is obtained by sequentially laminating a first silicon oxide film and a silicon active layer in this order on a silicon substrate. A terrace portion that does not have the silicon active layer is formed in the outer peripheral portion of the silicon substrate surface. A second silicon oxide film is formed on the silicon active layer surface of the SOI substrate The bonding surfaces of the SOI substrate and a supporting substrate that has a thermal expansion coefficient different from that of the SOI substrate is subjected to an activation treatment. The SOI substrate and the supporting substrate are bonded with the second silicon oxide film being interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Tobisaka, Shoji Akiyama, Yoshihiro Kubota, Makoto Kawai, Kazutoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20160071761
    Abstract: A hybrid substrate has an SOI structure having a good silicon active layer, without defects such as partial separation of the silicon active layer is obtained without trimming the outer periphery of the substrate. An SOI substrate is obtained by sequentially laminating a first silicon oxide film and a silicon active layer in this order on a silicon substrate. A terrace portion that does not have the silicon active layer is formed in the outer peripheral portion of the silicon substrate surface. A second silicon oxide film is formed on the silicon active layer surface of the SOI substrate The bonding surfaces of the SOI substrate and a supporting substrate that has a thermal expansion coefficient different from that of the SOI substrate is subjected to an activation treatment. The SOI substrate and the supporting substrate are bonded with the second silicon oxide film being interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Tobisaka, Shoji Akiyama, Yoshihiro Kubota, Makoto Kawai, Kazutoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 9214380
    Abstract: Method of making a bonded SOS substrate with a semiconductor film on or above a sapphire substrate by implanting ions from a surface of the semiconductor substrate to form an ion-implanted layer; activating at least a surface of one of the sapphire substrate and the semiconductor substrate from which the ions have been implanted; bonding the surface of the semiconductor substrate and the surface of the sapphire substrate at a temperature of from 50° C. to 350° C.; heating the bonded substrates at a maximum temperature of from 200° C. to 350° C.; and irradiating visible light from a sapphire substrate side or a semiconductor substrate side to the ion-implanted layer of the semiconductor substrate to make the interface of the ion-implanted layer brittle at a temperature of the bonded body higher than the temperature at which the surfaces were bonded, to transfer the semiconductor film to the sapphire substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Atsuo Ito, Yuji Tobisaka, Makoto Kawai
  • Patent number: 9214379
    Abstract: A bonded SOS substrate having a semiconductor film on or above a surface of a sapphire substrate is obtained by a method with the steps of implanting ions from a surface of a semiconductor substrate to form an ion-implanted layer; activating at least a surface from which the ions have been implanted; bonding the surface of the semiconductor substrate and the surface of the sapphire substrate at a temperature of 50° C. to 350° C.; heating the bonded substrates at a maximum temperature from 200° C. to 350° C. to form a bonded body; and irradiating visible light from a sapphire substrate side or a semiconductor substrate side to the ion-implanted layer of the semiconductor substrate for embrittling an interface of the ion-implanted layer, while keeping the bonded body at a temperature higher than the temperature at which the surfaces of the semiconductor substrate and the sapphire substrate were bonded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Atsuo Ito, Yuji Tobisaka, Makoto Kawai
  • Publication number: 20140322546
    Abstract: A thermally oxidized heterogeneous composite substrate provided with a single crystal silicon film on a handle substrate, said heterogeneous composite substrate being obtained by, prior to a thermal oxidization treatment at a temperature exceeding 850° C., conducting an intermediate heat: treatment at 650-850° C. and then conducting the thermal oxidization treatment at a temperature exceeding 850° C. According to the present invention, a thermally oxidized heterogeneous composite substrate with a reduced number of defects after thermal oxidization can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Yuji Tobisaka, Kazutoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 8772132
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminated wafer is provided by forming a silicon film layer on a surface of an insulating substrate comprising the steps in the following order of: applying a surface activation treatment to both a surface of a silicon wafer or a silicon wafer to which an oxide film is layered and a surface of the insulating substrate followed by laminating in an atmosphere of temperature exceeding 50° C. and lower than 300° C., applying a heat treatment to a laminated wafer at a temperature of 200° C. to 350° C., and thinning the silicon wafer by a combination of grinding, etching and polishing to form a silicon film layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Yoshihiro Kubota, Atsuo Ito, Makoto Kawai, Kouichi Tanaka, Yuji Tobisaka, Yoshihiro Nojima
  • Publication number: 20140144188
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a glass base material, which is a base material of an optical fiber, the glass base material having a core rod as a central axis, comprises a holding unit having a plurality of scroll chucks connected in series along the core rod for holding an end of the core rod; and a burner that hydrolyzes a gas material, which is a base material of the glass base material, into glass particles and accumulates the glass particles around the core rod to form the glass base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichiro Takei, Yuji Tobisaka, Hiroshi Machida, Hiroyuki Kume, Tadakatsu Shimada, Kiyoshi Yokokawa
  • Publication number: 20140030870
    Abstract: Method of making a bonded SOS substrate with a semiconductor film on or above a sapphire substrate by implanting ions from a surface of the semiconductor substrate to form an ion-implanted layer; activating at least a surface of one of the sapphire substrate and the semiconductor substrate from which the ions have been implanted; bonding the surface of the semiconductor substrate and the surface of the sapphire substrate at a temperature of from 50° C. to 350° C.; heating the bonded substrates at a maximum temperature of from 200° C. to 350° C.; and irradiating visible light from a sapphire substrate side or a semiconductor substrate side to the ion-implanted layer of the semiconductor substrate to make the interface of the ion-implanted layer brittle at a temperature of the bonded body higher than the temperature at which the surfaces were bonded, to transfer the semiconductor film to the sapphire substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Atsuo Ito, Yuji Tobisaka, Makoto Kawai
  • Publication number: 20130309843
    Abstract: A bonded SOS substrate having a semiconductor film on or above a surface of a sapphire substrate is obtained by a method with the steps of implanting ions from a surface of a semiconductor substrate to form an ion-implanted layer; activating at least a surface from which the ions have been implanted; bonding the surface of the semiconductor substrate and the surface of the sapphire substrate at a temperature of 50° C. to 350° C.; heating the bonded substrates at a maximum temperature from 200° C. to 350° C. to form a bonded body; and irradiating visible light from a sapphire substrate side or a semiconductor substrate side to the ion-implanted layer of the semiconductor substrate for embrittling an interface of the ion-implanted layer, while keeping the bonded body at a temperature higher than the temperature at which the surfaces of the semiconductor substrate and the sapphire substrate were bonded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Atsuo Ito, Yuji Tobisaka, Makoto Kawai
  • Publication number: 20130288453
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminated wafer is provided by forming a silicon film layer on a surface of an insulating substrate comprising the steps in the following order of: applying a surface activation treatment to both a surface of a silicon wafer or a silicon wafer to which an oxide film is layered and a surface of the insulating substrate followed by laminating in an atmosphere of temperature exceeding 50° C. and lower than 300° C., applying a heat treatment to a laminated wafer at a temperature of 200° C. to 350° C., and thinning the silicon wafer by a combination of grinding, etching and polishing to form a silicon film layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Yoshihiro Kubota, Atsuo Ito, Makoto Kawai, Kouichi Tanaka, Yuji Tobisaka, Yoshihiro Nojima
  • Patent number: 8551862
    Abstract: To provide a method of manufacturing a laminated wafer by which a strong coupling is achieved between wafers made of different materials having a large difference in thermal expansion coefficient without lowering a maximum heat treatment temperature as well as in which cracks or chips of the wafer does not occur. A method of manufacturing a laminated wafer 7 by forming a silicon film layer on a surface 4 of an insulating substrate 3 comprising the steps in the following order of: applying a surface activation treatment to both a surface 2 of a silicon wafer 1 or a silicon wafer 1 to which an oxide film is layered and a surface 4 of the insulating substrate 3 followed by laminating in an atmosphere of temperature exceeding 50° C. and lower than 300° C., applying a heat treatment to a laminated wafer 5 at a temperature of 200° C. to 350° C., and thinning the silicon wafer 1 by a combination of grinding, etching and polishing to form a silicon film layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Yoshihiro Kubota, Atsuo Ito, Makoto Kawai, Kouichi Tanaka, Yuji Tobisaka, Yoshihiro Nojima
  • Patent number: 8497188
    Abstract: When a thermal expansion coefficient of a handle substrate is higher than that of a donor substrate, delamination is provided without causing a crack in the substrates. A method for producing a bonded wafer, with at least the steps of: implanting ions into a donor substrate (3) from a surface thereof to form an ion-implanted interface (5); bonding a handle substrate (7) with a thermal expansion coefficient higher than that of the donor substrate (3) onto the ion-implanted surface of the donor substrate to provide bonded substrates, subjecting the bonded substrates to a heat treatment to provide an assembly (1), and delaminating the donor substrate (3) of the assembly (1) at the ion-implanted interface wherein the assembly (1) has been cooled to a temperature not greater than room temperature by a cooling apparatus (20), so that a donor film is transferred onto the handle substrate (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kawai, Yuji Tobisaka, Shoji Akiyama
  • Patent number: 8420503
    Abstract: A method for easily manufacturing a transparent SOI substrate having: a main surface with a silicon film formed thereon; and a rough main surface located on a side opposite to a side where the silicon film is formed. A method for manufacturing transparent SOI substrate, having a silicon film formed on a first main surface of the transparent insulating substrate, while a second main surface of the transparent insulating substrate, an opposite to the first main surface, is roughened. The method includes at least the steps of: roughening the first main surface with an RMS surface roughness lower than 0.7 nm and the second main surface with an RMS surface roughness higher than the surface roughness of the first main surface to prepare the transparent insulating substrate; and forming the silicon film on the first main surface of the transparent insulating substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Shin—Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Makoto Kawai, Atsuo Ito, Yoshihiro Kubota, Kouichi Tanaka, Yuji Tobisaka, Hiroshi Tamura
  • Patent number: 8357586
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an SOI wafer, which is capable of: efficiently removing an ion-implanted defect layer existing in an ion implanted layer in the vicinity of a peeled surface peeled by an ion implantation peeling method; ensuring the in-plane uniformity of a substrate; and also achieving cost reduction and higher throughput. The method for manufacturing an SOI wafer includes at least the steps of: bonding a silicon wafer with or without an oxide film onto a handle wafer to prepare a bonded substrate, wherein the silicon wafer has an ion implanted layer formed by implanting hydrogen ions and/or rare gas ions into the silicon wafer; peeling the silicon wafer along the ion implanted layer, thereby transferring the silicon wafer onto the handle wafer to produce a post-peeling SOI wafer; immersing the post-peeling SOI wafer in an aqueous ammonia-hydrogen peroxide solution; and performing a heat treatment at a temperature of 900° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Yoshihiro Kubota, Atsuo Ito, Kouichi Tanaka, Makoto Kawai, Yuji Tobisaka, Hiroshi Tamura
  • Patent number: 8314006
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a bonded wafer with a good thin film over the entire substrate surface, especially in the vicinity of the lamination terminal point. The method for manufacturing a bonded wafer comprises at least the following steps of: forming an ion-implanted region by implanting a hydrogen ion or a rare gas ion, or the both types of ions from a surface of a first substrate which is a semiconductor substrate; subjecting at least one of an ion-implanted surface of the first substrate and a surface of a second substrate to be attached to a surface activation treatment; laminating the ion-implanted surface of the first substrate and the surface of the second substrate in an atmosphere with a humidity of 30% or less and/or a moisture content of 6 g/m3 or less; and a splitting the first substrate at the ion-implanted region so as to reduce thickness of the first substrate, thereby manufacturing a bonded wafer with a thin film on the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Tobisaka, Yoshihiro Kubota, Atsuo Ito, Kouichi Tanaka, Makoto Kawai, Shoji Akiyama, Hiroshi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20120126362
    Abstract: A bonded SOS substrate having a semiconductor film on or above a surface of a sapphire substrate is obtained by a method with the steps of implanting ions from a surface of a semiconductor substrate to form an ion-implanted layer; activating at least a surface from which the ions have been implanted; bonding the surface of the semiconductor substrate and the surface of the sapphire substrate at a temperature of 50° C. to 350° C.; heating the bonded substrates at a maximum temperature from 200° C. to 350° C. to form a bonded body; and irradiating visible light from a sapphire substrate side or a semiconductor substrate side to the ion-implanted layer of the semiconductor substrate for embrittling an interface of the ion-implanted layer, while keeping the bonded body at a temperature higher than the temperature at which the surfaces of the semiconductor substrate and the sapphire substrate were bonded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Atsuo Ito, Yuji Tobisaka, Makoto Kawai
  • Publication number: 20120119323
    Abstract: A method of making bonded SOS substrate with a semiconductor film on or above a sapphire substrate by implanting ions from a surface of the semiconductor substrate to form an ion-implanted layer; activating at least a surface of one of the sapphire substrate and the semiconductor substrate from which the ions have been implanted; bonding the surface of the semiconductor substrate and the surface of the sapphire substrate at a temperature of from 50° C. to 350° C.; heating the bonded substrates at a maximum temperature of from 200° C. to 350° C.; and irradiating visible light from a sapphire substrate side or a semiconductor substrate side to the ion-implanted layer of the semiconductor substrate to make the interface of the ion-implanted layer brittle at a temperature of the bonded body higher than the temperature at which the surfaces were bonded, to transfer the semiconductor film to the sapphire substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Shin-etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Atsuo Ito, Yuji Tobisaka, Makoto Kawai
  • Patent number: 8138064
    Abstract: A method for producing a silicon film-transferred insulator wafer is disclosed. The method includes a surface activation step of performing a surface activation treatment on at least one of a surface of an insulator wafer and a hydrogen ion-implanted surface of a single crystal silicon wafer into which a hydrogen ion has been implanted to form a hydrogen ion-implanted layer; a bonding step that bonds the hydrogen ion-implanted surface to the surface of the insulator wafer to obtain bonded wafers; a first heating step that heats the bonded wafers; a grinding and/or etching step of grinding and/or etching a surface of a single crystal silicon wafer side of the bonded wafers; a second heating step that heats the bonded wafers; and a detachment step to detach the hydrogen ion-implanted layer by applying a mechanical impact to the hydrogen ion-implanted layer of the bonded wafers thus heated at the second temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Yoshihiro Kubota, Atsuo Ito, Makoto Kawai, Kouichi Tanaka, Yuji Tobisaka, Yoshihiro Nojima