Heat treatment method and heat treatment apparatus of thin film

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PATENT NO 8852966
APP PUB NO 20130078744A1
SERIAL NO

13609947

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A semiconductor wafer, on the surface of which a silicon dioxide base material and an amorphous silicon thin film are formed in this order, is carried into a chamber. An insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is connected with a power supply circuit to a flash lamp, and the IGBT makes an energization period to the flash lamp to be 0.01 millisecond or more and 1 millisecond or less, consequently making a flash light irradiation time to be 0.01 millisecond or more and 1 millisecond or less. Since a flash heat treatment is performed with a remarkably short flash light irradiation time, the excessive heating of the thin film of amorphous silicon is suppressed and harmful influence such as the exfoliation of the film is prevented.

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SCREEN HOLDINGS CO LTDJAPAN

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Fuse, Kazuhiko Kyoto, JP 54 372
Kato, Shinichi Kyoto, JP 342 5182
Kiyama, Hiroki Kyoto, JP 10 144

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