IP Library Granted Patent US 8,440,510
Granted Patent B2
US 8,440,510 · App. 13/104,574 · Granted May 14, 2013

Method for manufacturing semiconductor device

Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,440,510
App. No.
13/104,574
Granted
May 14, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The method for manufacturing the semiconductor device is as follows: forming a gate electrode; forming a first insulating film over the gate electrode; performing halogen doping treatment on the first insulating film so that the first insulating film is supplied with a halogen atom; forming an oxide semiconductor film over the first insulating film so as to overlap with the gate electrode; performing heat treatment on the oxide semiconductor film so that a hydrogen atom is removed in the oxide semiconductor film; performing oxygen doping treatment on the oxide semiconductor film from which the hydrogen atom is removed so that the oxide semiconductor film is supplied with an oxygen atom; performing heat treatment on the oxide semiconductor film to which the oxygen atom is supplied; forming a source electrode and a drain electrode on and in contact with the oxide semiconductor film; forming a second insulating film.

Claims (26)

1. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of:

forming a gate electrode;

forming a first insulating film over the gate electrode;

performing halogen doping treatment on the first insulating film so that the first insulating film is supplied with a halogen atom;

forming an oxide semiconductor film over the first insulating film so that the oxide semiconductor film overlaps with the gate electrode;

performing first heat treatment on the oxide semiconductor film so that a hydrogen atom in the oxide semiconductor film is removed;

performing oxygen doping treatment on the oxide semiconductor film from which the hydrogen atom is removed so that the oxide semiconductor film is supplied with an oxygen atom;

performing second heat treatment on the oxide semiconductor film to which the oxygen atom is supplied;

forming a source electrode and a drain electrode on and in contact with the oxide semiconductor film; and

forming a second insulating film on and in contact with the oxide semiconductor film.

2. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of forming a third insulating film containing nitrogen so that the third insulating film containing nitrogen covers the second insulating film.

3. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of processing the oxide semiconductor film into an island-shaped oxide semiconductor film.

4. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, according to claim 3 , wherein at least part of the first insulating film is processed into an island-shaped first insulating film in the step of processing the oxide semiconductor film into the island-shaped oxide semiconductor film.

5. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, according to claim 3 , wherein the second insulating film is in contact with the first insulating film.

6. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first insulating film and the second insulating film contains a constituent element of the oxide semiconductor film.

7. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first insulating film and the second insulating film has a stacked-layer structure comprising a third insulating film containing a constituent element of the oxide semiconductor film and a fourth insulating film containing an element different from the constituent element of the oxide semiconductor film.

8. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first insulating film and the second insulating film contains gallium.

9. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first insulating film and the second insulating film has a stacked-layer structure comprising a third insulating film containing gallium and a fourth insulating film containing a material different from gallium.

10. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, according to claim 1 , wherein chlorine is used in the halogen doping treatment.

11. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of forming a third insulating film over the first insulating film.

12. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, according to claim 11 ,

wherein the first insulating film contains an element different from a constituent element of the oxide semiconductor film, and

wherein the third insulating film contains the constituent element of the oxide semiconductor film.

13. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, according to claim 11 ,

wherein the first insulating film contains a material different from gallium, and

wherein the third insulating film contains gallium.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 11, 2011
From: YAMAZAKI, SHUNPEI
To: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 026261/0635 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2010-112037 · May 14, 2010 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20110281394A1 · Nov 17, 2011