IP Library Granted Patent US 11,967,618
Granted Patent B2
US 11,967,618 · App. 17/832,984 · Granted Apr 23, 2024

Crystalline oxide semiconductor film and semiconductor device

Inventors: Isao Takahashi (Kyoto, JP); Takashi Shinohe (Kyoto, JP); Rie Tokuda (Kyoto, JP); Masaya Oda (Kyoto, JP); Toshimi Hitora (Kyoto, JP)
Assignee: FLOSFIA INC.
H01L29/227C23C16/40C30B25/02C30B29/16H01L21/02433H01L29/045H01L29/12H01L29/24H01L29/739H01L29/778H01L29/78H01L29/808H01L29/812H01L29/872
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Patent No.
US 11,967,618
App. No.
17/832,984
Granted
Apr 23, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A crystalline oxide semiconductor film with an enhanced electrical property is provided. By use of a mist CVD apparatus, a crystalline oxide semiconductor film with a corundum structure and a principal plane that is an a-plane or an m-plane was obtained on a crystalline substrate by atomizing a raw-material solution containing a dopant that is an n-type dopant to obtain atomized droplets, carrying the atomized droplets by carrier gas onto the crystalline substrate that is an a-plane corundum-structured crystalline substrate or an m-plane corundum-structured crystalline substrate placed in a film-formation chamber, and the atomized droplets were thermally reacted to form the crystalline oxide semiconductor film on the crystalline substrate.

Claims (37)

1. A crystalline oxide semiconductor film comprising:

a corundum-structured crystalline oxide semiconductor as a major component;

a principal plane that is an a-plane or an m-plane; and

a carrier concentration that is 1.0×10 18 /cm 3 or more, wherein the crystalline oxide semiconductor film has electrical resistivity that is 50 mΩcm or less.

2. The crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 1 ,

wherein the crystalline oxide semiconductor film comprises a full width at half maximum of 300 arcsec or more.

3. The crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 1 ,

wherein the crystalline oxide semiconductor film comprises an off-angle.

4. The crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 1 ,

wherein the crystalline oxide semiconductor film comprises a dopant that comprises tin, germanium, or silicon.

5. The crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 1 ,

wherein the corundum-structured crystalline oxide semiconductor further comprises at least one of indium or aluminum.

6. A semiconductor device comprising:

at least an electrode and the crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 1 as a semiconductor layer.

7. A semiconductor system comprising:

the semiconductor device of claim 6 .

8. The crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 1 , comprising:

a surface area of at least 3 mm 2 without cracks.

9. A crystalline oxide semiconductor film comprising:

a corundum-structured crystalline oxide semiconductor as a major component;

a principal plane that is an a-plane or an m-plane;

a carrier concentration that is 1.0×10 18 /cm 3 or more; and

a surface area of at least 3 mm 2 without cracks.

10. The crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 9 ,

wherein the crystalline oxide semiconductor film comprises a dopant that comprises tin.

11. The crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 9 , wherein the principal plane is the m-plane with an off-angle inclined to a direction of an a-axis from the m-plane.

12. The crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 9 , wherein the crystalline oxide semiconductor film comprises an n-type dopant.

13. A semiconductor device comprising:

the crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 9 ;

a first electrode electrically connected to the crystalline oxide semiconductor film; and

a second electrode electrically connected to the crystalline oxide semiconductor film.

14. The crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 9 , wherein the crystalline oxide semiconductor film has an electrical resistivity that is 10 mΩcm or less.

15. The crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 9 ,

wherein the crystallin oxide semiconductor film has a mobility that is 50 cm 2 /Vs or more.

16. The crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 11 , wherein the off-angle inclined to the direction of the a-axis from the m-plane is in a range of 0.5° to 3.0°.

17. The crystalline oxide semiconductor film of claim 16 comprising:

a mobility that is 90 cm 2 /Vs or more.

Priority Claims (2)
JP 2016-217661 · Nov 7, 2016 · national
JP 2017-137447 · Jul 13, 2017 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16347360
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