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Granted Patent B2
US 9,184,185 · App. 14/620,409 · Granted Nov 10, 2015

Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device

Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki (Setagaya, JP); Junichiro Sakata (Atsugi, JP); Hiroyuki Miyake (Atusgi, JP); Hideaki Kuwabara (Isehara, JP)
Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
H01L27/124H01L27/1214H01L27/1225H01L27/1262H01L29/45H01L29/7869H01L29/78606
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Patent No.
US 9,184,185
App. No.
14/620,409
Granted
Nov 10, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

An object is to reduce the manufacturing cost of a semiconductor device. An object is to improve the aperture ratio of a semiconductor device. An object is to make a display portion of a semiconductor device display a higher-definition image. An object is to provide a semiconductor device which can be operated at high speed. The semiconductor device includes a driver circuit portion and a display portion over one substrate. The driver circuit portion includes: a driver circuit TFT in which source and drain electrodes are formed using a metal and a channel layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor; and a driver circuit wiring formed using a metal. The display portion includes: a pixel TFT in which source and drain electrodes are formed using an oxide conductor and a semiconductor layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor; and a display wiring formed using an oxide conductor.

Claims (22)

1. A semiconductor device comprising a pixel portion and a driver circuit portion each including a transistor, the transistor comprising:

a first conductive layer;

a first insulating layer over the first conductive layer;

an oxide semiconductor layer over the first insulating layer;

a second insulating layer over the oxide semiconductor layer;

a second conductive layer and a third conductive layer over the second insulating layer;

a third insulating layer over the second conductive layer and the third conductive layer; and

a fourth conductive layer over the third insulating layer,

wherein a first length of the second insulating layer is smaller than a first length of the first conductive layer in a channel length direction, and

wherein a second length of the second insulating layer is smaller than a second length of the first conductive layer in a channel width direction.

2. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the first conductive layer comprises copper.

3. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the oxide semiconductor layer comprises indium, gallium, and zinc.

4. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the fourth conductive layer comprises zinc.

5. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the fourth conductive layer has a light-transmitting property.

6. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the fourth conductive layer of the pixel portion is a pixel electrode.

7. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the second insulating layer comprises silicon oxynitride.

8. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the fourth conductive layer of the driver circuit portion is electrically connected to the first conductive layer of the driver circuit portion.

9. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the first conductive layer and the fourth conductive layer of the driver circuit portion are supplied with a same potential.

10. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the pixel portion comprises a capacitor having a light-transmitting property.

11. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the oxide semiconductor layer comprises a region in contact with the second insulating layer, and

wherein a carrier concentration of the region is less than 1 ×10 17 /cm 3 .

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-169601 · Jul 18, 2009 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 14230731 · Mar 31, 2014
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