Active solid-state devices (e.g. – transistors – solid-state diode – Non-single crystal – or recrystallized – semiconductor... – Amorphous semiconductor material
Reexamination Certificate
2009-05-15
2011-10-18
Richards, N Drew (Department: 2895)
Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diode
Non-single crystal, or recrystallized, semiconductor...
Amorphous semiconductor material
C257S057000, C257SE29291, C257SE33004
Reexamination Certificate
active
08039842
ABSTRACT:
A thin film transistor with favorable electric characteristics is provided, which includes a gate electrode layer; a first insulating layer covering the gate electrode layer; a pair of impurity semiconductor layers forming source and drain regions, which are provided with a distance therebetween and at least partly overlap with the gate electrode layer; a microcrystalline semiconductor layer which is provided over the first insulating layer in part of a channel formation region, and at least partly overlaps with the gate electrode layer and does not overlap with at least one of the pair of impurity semiconductor layers; a second insulating layer between and in contact with the first insulating layer and the microcrystalline semiconductor layer; and an amorphous semiconductor layer over the first insulating layer, covering the second insulating layer and the microcrystalline semiconductor layer. The first insulating layer is a silicon nitride layer and the second insulating layer is a silicon oxynitride layer.
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Carpenter Robert
Costellia Jeffrey L.
Nixon & Peabody LLP
Richards N Drew
Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co,. Ltd.
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