Abstract:
An electron-tube cathode made by forming on the base material an emitter mainly comprising alkaline earth metal oxides prepared by depositing carbonates of alkaline earth metals including at least barium on the base material and pyrolyzing the carbonates in a vacuum, wherein the carbonates comprise a mixture of at least two kinds of alkaline earth metal carbonate crystal grains having different configurations. The cathode is improved in both cut-off variation and emission characteristics and is useful as a cathode of CRTs and a cathode of electron tubes used as electron guns of electron microscopes.
Abstract:
Each of liquid application nozzles (4, 4a, 124) comprises a first block (41) having therein a liquid reservoir (43) extending in a longitudinal direction and an inner discharge portion composed of a multiplicity of small holes (44) formed in a bottom of the liquid reservoir (43) to extend along the longitudinal direction, a second block (42) having an inner space, which forms a gas reservoir (46) extending outside the first block (41) in the longitudinal direction, and an outer discharge portion composed of a multiplicity of small holes (48) and formed at the bottom of the inner space along the longitudinal direction and adapted to form a gas stream to surround from outside a linear-shaped liquid flow flowing down from the small holes (44), whereby a thin coating can be formed in a short time while suppressing consumption of a liquid and unevenness in coating is made hard to generate.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit capacitor (20) includes a bottom electrode structure (24) having an adhesion metal portion (34), a noble metal portion (36), and a second noble metal layer (40). A process of manufacture includes annealing the adhesion metal portion (34) and the noble metal portion (36) prior to the deposition of second noble metal layer (40) for purposes of forming barrier region (38). The electrode (24) preferably contacts metal oxide layer (26), which is made of a perovskite or perovskite-like layered superlattice material. A temporary capping layer (59) is formed and removed in manufacture, which serves to increase polarization potential from the device by at least 40 %.
Abstract:
Metal alkoxycarboxylate-based liquid precursor solutions are used to form electronic devices (100) that include mixed layered superlattice materials (112) of a type having discrete oxygen octahedral layers (124 and 128) collated with a superlattice-generator layer (116). The precursor solutions include a plurality of metal moieties in effective amounts for yielding the layered superlattice materials. These metal moieties are mixed to include an A/B portion capable of forming an A/B layer (124), a perovskite-like AB layer portion capable of forming a perovskite-like AB octahedral layer (128), and a superlattice-generator portion capable of forming the superlattice-generator layer (116). The precursors are deposited in liquid form upon a substrate and annealed to provide the layered superlattice materials.
Abstract:
A precursor solution (P22) formed of a liquid polyoxyalkylated metal complex in a solvent is applied to a substrate in the formation of a metal oxide thin film (P26). The liquid thin film is baked (P28) in air to a temperature up to 500 DEG C while UV radiation having a wavelength ranging from 180 nm to 300 nm is applied. The thin film can be twice-baked at increasing temperatures while UV radiation is applied at one or both bakings. The film is then annealed (P32) at temperature ranging from about 700 DEG C to 850 DEG C to produce a thin-film solid metal oxide product. Alternatively, the UV radiation may be applied to the liquid precursor, the thin film may be annealed with UV radiation, or combinations of such applications of UV radiation to the precursor, to the thin film before or after baking, and/or UV annealing may be used.
Abstract:
A precursor liquid comprising several metal 2-ethylhexanoates, such as strontium, tantalum and bismuth 2-ethylhexanoates, in a xylenes/methyl ethyl ketone solvent is prepared, a substrate (5, 858) is placed within a vacuum deposition chamber (2), a small amount of hexamethyl-disilazane is added to the precursor liquid, is misted, and the mist is flowed into the deposition chamber to deposit a layer of the precursor liquid on the substrate. The liquid is dried, baked, and annealed to form a thin film (506, 860) of a layered superlattice material, such as strontium bismuth tantalate, on the substrate. Then an integrated circuit (600, 850) is completed to include at least a portion of the layered superlattice material film in a component (604, 872) of the integrated circuit.
Abstract:
Purpose: The characteristic variation of a ferroelectric capacitor of a semiconductor device is reduced and the characteristic variation, namely, the characteristic deterioration with time of the capacitor is suppressed. Constitution: The capacitor is constituted of lower electrode (111a) having a planar shape which extends in a first direction D1 and having a width in a second direction D2 perpendicular to the first direction D1, a plurality of upper electrodes (112a) which are arranged above the electrode (111a) so that the electrodes (112a) are opposed to the electrodes (111a), and ferroelectric layers arranged between both electrodes (111a and 112a). The dimensions of the electrodes (112a) in the first direction D1 are smaller than those in the second direction D2.
Abstract:
A liquid primer is misted, flowed into a deposition chamber (2) and deposited on a substrate (5). A liquid precursor (64) is misted, flowed into a deposition chamber (2) and deposited on the substrate (5). The primer and precursor are dried to form a solid thin film, which is then annealed to form a part of an electronic component (1112) in an integrated circuit (1110), such as the dielectric (1130) in a memory cell. The primer is a solvent, and the precursor includes a metal carboxylate, a metal alkoxide, or a metal alkoxycarboxylate in a precursor solvent. Preferably, the primer and the precursor solvent are the same solvent, such as 2-methodyethanol, xylenes, n-butyl acetate or hexymethyl-disilazane.
Abstract:
UV radiation is applied to a substrate in a deposition chamber to desorb water and other contaminates from it. A liquid precursor is misted, flowed into the deposition chamber and deposited on a substrate while UV radiation is applied to the mist. The film of liquid on the substrate is dried and annealed on the substrate while the UV radiation is applied to form a solid thin film of a metal oxide. The thin film is then incorporated into an electronic device of an integrated circuit fabricated on the substrate. The application of UV radiation to both the mist during deposition and the thin film after deposition significantly increases the quality of the resulting integrated circuits. The process has been found to be particularly excellent for making BST, strontium bismuth tantalate, and strontium bismuth niobate.
Abstract:
An in-line type electron gun comprises a control electrode (12) and an accelerating electrode (13) having side beam holes (16b), (16c) arranged so that the central axes (18b), (18c) common to the holes (16b), (16c) are displaced from the central axes (21b), (21c) of the holes at the end face of the accelerating electrodes of a focusing electrode (14), a final accelerating electrode (15) having side beam holes (23b), (23c) common to the central axes (24b), (24c) at the opposite end faces of the electrodes (14), (15) so that the central axes (24b), (24c) are displaced from the central axes (18b), (18c) common to the side beam holes (16b), (16c) of the electrodes (12), (13) toward the tubular axis (19) side.