Combined With Thin-film Or Thick-film Passive Component (epo) Patents (Class 257/E27.113)
  • Patent number: 7563658
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor film, including the steps of forming a transparent conductive film, forming a first conductive film over the transparent conductive film, forming a second conductive film over the first conductive film, etching the second conductive film with a gas including chlorine, and etching the first conductive film with a gas including fluorine. During etching of the second conductive film with a gas including chlorine, the transparent conductive film is protected by the first conductive film. During etching of the first conductive film with the gas including fluorine, the transparent conductive film does not react with the gas including fluorine. Therefore, no particle is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ishizuka, Satoru Okamoto, Shigeharu Monoe, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20090127603
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment comprises: a field-effect transistor formed on a substrate; an interlayer insulation film formed on the substrate on which the field-effect transistor is formed; and a ferroelectric capacitor including a lower electrode connected via a plug to one of source/drain regions of the field-effect transistor, and formed on the interlayer insulation film, a ferroelectric film having a perovskite crystal structure used as a basic structure, and an upper electrode, wherein a lattice matching region in which a lattice of the ferroelectric film is matched with a lattice of the lower electrode is formed in a range of a predetermined thickness of the ferroelectric film from the lower electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Koji Yamakawa, Soichi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 7531839
    Abstract: TFT structures optimal for driving conditions of a pixel portion and driving circuits are obtained using a small number of photo masks. First through third semiconductor films are formed on a first insulating film. First shape first, second, and third electrodes are formed on the first through third semiconductor films. The first shape first, second, third electrodes are used as masks in first doping treatment to form first concentration impurity regions of one conductivity type in the first through third semiconductor films. Second shape first, second, and third electrodes are formed from the first shape first, second, and third electrodes. A second concentration impurity region of the one conductivity type which overlaps the second shape second electrode is formed in the second semiconductor film in second doping treatment. Also formed in the second doping treatment are third concentration impurity regions of the one conductivity type which are placed in the first and second semiconductor films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Hamada, Yasuyuki Arai
  • Patent number: 7531837
    Abstract: A multi-channel thin film transistor structure including a first conducting layer, an insulating layer, a semiconductor layer and a second conducting layer is provided. The first conducting layer formed on a substrate includes a gate electrode. The insulating layer covers the first conducting layer. The semiconductor layer formed on the insulating layer includes a plurality of semiconductor islands located above the gate electrode. The second conducting layer formed on the insulating layer and on the semiconductor layer includes a source electrode and a drain electrode. Each one of the semiconductor islands is coupled electrically with the source electrode at one end and coupled electrically with the drain electrode at the other end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Prime View International Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chuan-Feng Liu
  • Patent number: 7514713
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including an active device array substrate, a second substrate, a sealant, and a liquid crystal layer is provided. The active device array substrate has a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, and includes a first substrate, pixels, signal lines, floating lines, and a common circuit layer. The signal lines are electrically connected with the pixels. The floating lines are disposed in fan-out areas of the peripheral area. Each of the floating lines is aligned with one of the signal lines respectively. The common circuit layer is disposed on an area of the peripheral area outside the fan-out areas. An overall thickness of the floating line and the signal line aligned therewith is equal to a thickness of the common circuit layer. The sealant covers the floating lines, a part of the signal lines and the common circuit layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Shu-Fen Tsai, Chen-Yu Tu, Jen-Wen Wan
  • Publication number: 20090045485
    Abstract: The present invention provides a capacitor including: an under electrode; an upper electrode; and a dielectric film which is provided between the under electrode and the upper electrode, wherein at least a portion of the dielectric film is composed of an aluminum oxide film deposited by an atomic layer deposition method and a titanium oxide film deposited by the atomic layer deposition method. An aluminum composition ratio x and a titanium composition ratio y in the dielectric film preferably comply with 7?[x/(x+y)]×100?35.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: ELPIDA MEMORY, INC.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki HIROTA
  • Patent number: 7491593
    Abstract: An exemplary method for fabricating a thin film transistor array substrate (200) includes: providing an insulating substrate (201); coating a transparent conductive layer (202) and a gate metal layer (203) on the substrate; forming a gate electrode (213) and a pixel electrode (212) using a first photo-mask process; forming a gate insulating layer (204), an amorphous silicon layer (205), a doped amorphous silicon layer (206), and a source/drain metal layer (207) on the substrate; forming a plurality of source electrodes (227) and a plurality of drain electrodes (228) using a second photo-mask process; depositing a metal layer (208) on the substrate and the pixel electrodes; and forming a passivation layer (209) on the source electrodes, the drain electrodes and the channels and a plurality of metal contact layers (218) using a third photo-mask process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Innolux Display Corp.
    Inventor: Yao-Nan Lin
  • Patent number: 7479655
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to manage variation of electrical characteristics of an element in a semiconductor device due to a vapor deposition process by measuring electrical characteristics of a TEG. A substrate 100 of an active matrix EL panel includes a vapor deposition region 101 having a film formed by a vapor deposition method. In the vapor deposition region 101, a pixel region 102 is provided. A TEG 109 is provided in the vapor deposition region 101 having a film formed in a vapor deposition step and outside of the pixel region 102. A measurement terminal portion 110 for measuring the TEG 109 is provided outside of a sealing region 103.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Arasawa, Tomoyuki Iwabuchi
  • Patent number: 7476899
    Abstract: Extraction wirings are respectively connected to a signal line of a switching element and a scanning line thereof, and led out to one side portion of a transparent insulating substrate. Conductive terminals respectively united with the extraction wiring are formed in tip end portions thereof, and a plurality of contact holes connected to the conductive terminals are formed on the conductive terminals so that a diver IC is mounted thereon by using conductive resin. Each of the extraction wirings is provided with a semiconductor film pattern in the vicinity of the contact hole for blocking the moisture in the conductive resin to reach the extraction wirings through an interlayer insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideto Motoshima, Masatoshi Tani, Shoichi Sonohata
  • Patent number: 7453145
    Abstract: An electronics unit includes a low multi-point metallic mount on which an insulating layer is arranged. A conductor track system is arranged on the insulating layer and electronic power components are arranged on the conductor track system. The insulating layer is a sintered electrically insulating polymer layer on which the conductor track system, which comprises a sintered glass frit with a noble metal filling, is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Waldemar Brinkis, Erich Mattmann, Bernd Thyzel, Klaus Weber
  • Publication number: 20080265293
    Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) including a nanowire semiconductor layer having nanowires aligned in one direction in a channel region is disclosed. The nanowire semiconductor layer is selectively formed in the channel region. A method for fabricating the TFT, a liquid crystal display (LCD) device using the TFT, and a method for manufacturing the LCD device are also disclosed. The TFT fabricating method includes forming alignment electrodes on the insulating film such that the alignment electrodes face each other, to define a channel region, forming an organic film, to expose the channel region, coating a nanowire-dispersed solution on an entire surface of a substrate including the organic film, forming a nanowire semiconductor layer in the channel region by generating an electric field between the alignment electrodes such that nanowires of the nanowire semiconductor layer are aligned in a direction, and removing the organic film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Bo Hyun Lee, Tae Hyoung Moon, Jae Hyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20080203392
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a base substrate having a display area and a peripheral area which surrounds the display area, a pixel electrode formed on the display area, a pad part formed on the peripheral area, an adhesion part formed on the peripheral area and having a plurality of holes formed in an area adjacent to the pad part on the peripheral area and a conductive adhesion member formed on the pad part and the adhesion part to make electrical contact with the pad part and a terminal of an integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hyun-Young KIM, Kwan-Wook JUNG, Seung-Gyu TAE
  • Patent number: 7408233
    Abstract: A MIS type semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same characterized in that impurity regions are selectively formed on a semiconductor substrate or semiconductor thin film and are activated by radiating laser beams or a strong light equivalent thereto from above so that the laser beams or the equivalent strong light are radiated onto the impurity regions and on an boundary between the impurity region and an active region adjoining the impurity region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yasuhiko Takemura
  • Publication number: 20080135839
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a thin film transistor, in which source and drain electrodes are formed through a solution process, even all stages which include formation of electrodes on a substrate, formation of an insulator layer, and formation of an organic semiconductor layer are conducted through the solution process. In the method, the fabrication is simplified and a fabrication cost is reduced. It is possible to apply the organic thin film transistor to integrated circuits requiring high speed switching because of high charge mobility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Woo Lee, Young Hun Byun, Yi Yeol Lyu, Sang Yoon Lee, Bon Won Koo
  • Publication number: 20080079000
    Abstract: A display panel has a protection film having a recess. The recess is arranged above a storage electrode and corresponds to a location of the storage electrode in a plan view. A width of the recess is larger in plan view than a width of the storage electrode, and a pixel electrode is arranged on the protection film. The capacitance of a storage capacitor formed by charges stored in the pixel electrode and the storage electrode is determined by a thickness of the protection film and an overlapping area of the pixel electrode and the storage electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chae CHUNG, Jeong LEE, Yong LEE
  • Patent number: 7242087
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board includes a substrate layer composed of insulating material, a protection circuit of a thin-film capacitor element, the protection circuit including a first wiring layer on the substrate layer, a dielectric layer, and a counter electrode layer. At least a portion of each of the first wiring layer and the counter electrode layer serves as a terminal. The front surface of each of the first wiring layer and the counter electrode layer, except the terminal portion, is covered with an insulating coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nakano, Yoshiomi Tsuji, Yoshinari Higa