IP Library Granted Patent US 11,699,762
Granted Patent B2
US 11,699,762 · App. 17/392,766 · Granted Jul 11, 2023

Semiconductor device, display device including the semiconductor device, display module including the display device, and electronic device including the semiconductor device, the display device, and the display module

Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo, JP); Kenichi Okazaki (Tochigi, JP); Masahiro Katayama (Tochigi, JP); Masataka Nakada (Tochigi, JP)
Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
H01L29/7869H01L27/1225H01L27/1255H01L27/14609H01L27/14612H01L27/14634H01L29/4908H01L29/78603H01L29/78645H01L29/78648H01L29/78696H10K59/1216
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Patent No.
US 11,699,762
App. No.
17/392,766
Granted
Jul 11, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

To provide a semiconductor device including a planar transistor having an oxide semiconductor and a capacitor. In a semiconductor device, a transistor includes an oxide semiconductor film, a gate insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film, a gate electrode over the gate insulating film, a second insulating film over the gate electrode, a third insulating film over the second insulating film, and a source and a drain electrodes over the third insulating film; the source and the drain electrodes are electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film; a capacitor includes a first and a second conductive films and the second insulating film; the first conductive film and the gate electrode are provided over the same surface; the second conductive film and the source and the drain electrodes are provided over the same surface; and the second insulting film is provided between the first and the second conductive films.

Claims (19)

1. A transistor comprising:

an island-shaped oxide semiconductor film;

a single-layer gate insulating film over the island-shaped oxide semiconductor film; and

a gate electrode over the single-layer gate insulating film,

wherein, in a cross-sectional view parallel to a channel length direction of the transistor, an edge of the single-layer gate insulating film is located on a top surface of the island-shaped oxide semiconductor film,

wherein a first insulating film comprising a region in contact with a side surface of the gate electrode, a region in contact with a top surface of the single-layer gate insulating film, and a region in contact with the top surface of the island-shaped oxide semiconductor film, is provided,

wherein the top surface of the single-layer gate insulating film comprises a region projecting from the gate electrode,

wherein the transistor is a top-gate transistor,

wherein, in the cross-sectional view, the island-shaped oxide semiconductor film comprises a first region overlapping with the single-layer gate insulating film and a second region not overlapping with the single-layer gate insulating film, the second region having a smaller thickness than the first region, and

wherein at least one of a source electrode and a drain electrode comprises a region in contact with a top surface of the second region.

2. The transistor according to claim 1 , wherein the island-shaped oxide semiconductor film comprises In, Ga, and Zn.

3. The transistor according to claim 1 , wherein the island-shaped oxide semiconductor film comprises a crystal part.

4. The transistor according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a conductive layer under the island-shaped oxide semiconductor film,

wherein the conductive layer comprises a region overlapping with the island-shaped oxide semiconductor film with a second insulating film therebetween.

5. The transistor according to claim 1 ,

wherein the island-shaped oxide semiconductor film further comprises a third region in contact with the first insulating film,

wherein the second region has a higher conductivity than the first region, and

wherein the third region has a higher conductivity than the first region.

Priority Claims (2)
JP 2014-020517 · Feb 5, 2014 · national
JP 2014-037209 · Feb 27, 2014 · national
Continuity (5)
Continuation 17028014 · Sep 22, 2020
Continuation 16361452 · Mar 22, 2019
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