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PURPOSE:To widen the operating voltage range by providing on a second semiconductor layer a third semiconductor layer having a lower conduction band end higher than the lower conduction band end of the second semiconductor layer and becoming a gate section forming a barrier, thereby suppressing the gate leakage current. CONSTITUTION:On a semi-insulating InP substrate 11, an i-AlInAs layer 12 having a thickness of the order of 2000Angstrom , an i-GaInAs layer 13 becoming a channel forming layer and having a narrow band gap of the order of 1000Angstrom , a thin i-AlInAs layer 14 having a wide band gap and a thickness of 50Angstrom , an n-AlInAs 15 having a wide band gap, a thickness of the order of 500Angstrom and an impurity concentration of the order of 2X10 cm , and a p -GaAs layer 16 becoming a gate section and having a thickness of the order of 200Angstrom and an impurity concentration of the order of 5X10 cm are sequentially formed by an epitaxial growth. Then, with a metallic gate electrode 17 as a mask the p -GaAs layer 16 is selectively removed by an RIE (reactive ion etching) method, thereby leaving the p -GaAs layer 16 only under the gate electrode 17. Since the GaAs layer can be selectively etched by an RIE method with the AlInAs layer 15, such a HEMT 20 can easily be fabricated.
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PURPOSE:To avert the generation of the modified part of the state of an InP substrate surface as well as to perform the vapor growth of III-V compound semiconductor of good quality as well as to perform the vapor growth operation of a III-V compound semiconductor in an excellent reproducible manner by a method wherein, in the vapor growth method with which a III-V compound semiconductor layer containing As as a group V element will be formed on an InP substrate, the supply of the gas containing As atoms or As and the organic metal compound containing a group III element on the InP substrate, which is heated up to the prescribed temperature, is started almost simultaneously. CONSTITUTION:An InP substrate 1 in the state wherein phosphine PH3 gas is introduced into a reactor is heated up to the prescribed vapor growth temperature range of 600-700 deg.C, at 640 deg.C for example, the supply of phosphine PH3 gas is stopped at the prescribed point of time t1 in the state of the above-mentioned temperature. Subsequent ly, at the prescribed point of time t2, the raw gas of AsH3 and a group III element, namely, the organic metal compound gas of a group III element such as trimethylindium, trimethylaluminum and trimethylgallium of organic metal compound gas are introduced simultaneously, and a layer 2 of AlGaAs compound semiconductor is formed by vapor growth.
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PURPOSE:To manufacture various types of ICs with facility by a method wherein undoped semiconductor layers are epitaxially grown to be implanted with impurity ions as required so that various types of circuit elements may be built with facility and reliability in common epitaxial layers. CONSTITUTION:On the primary surface of an undoped semi-insulating, single- crystal substrate So, a first semiconductor layer 11, second semiconductor layer 12, third semiconductor layer 13 are epitaxially grown, in that order. Into the entire surface of the third semiconductor layer 13, ions of an impurity of one conductivity type, for example, Si or Se that are n type impurities, are driven. The third semiconductor layer 13 is subjected to etching, whereby all is removed with the exception of a portion to be occupied by the gate of a DH-MIS-FET that is the ultimate product. Next, with the retained portion of the third semiconductor layer 13 acting as a mask, ions of Si or Se that is same as the impurity inplanted into the third semiconductor layer 13, are inplanted into the interface between the first semiconductor layer 11 and the second semiconductor 12, for the formation of source/drain regions 4, 5. Annealing follows for the activation of the implaned ions.
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PURPOSE:To enable to reduce the length of one bit while increasing the lateral width of a transfer unit relatively by forming the entirely in a zigzag transfer structure without providing an isolation region between the respective transfer units. CONSTITUTION:The first region having a plurality of the first storage units phi1S, a plurality of the second storage units phi2S isolated from each other to be faced with the first region, and first and second transfer units phi1T and phi2T alternately arranged between the first region and the second region are formed on one main surface of one conductive type semiconductor substrate 1. The storage units phi1S and phi2S are displaced at 1/2 pitch in one direction with one another. When the transfer units phi1T and phi2T are regarded as a set, they are respectively commonly contacted with the corresponding storage units phi1S in the first region group, and are contacted with the adjacent storage unit phi2S in the second region group. Since the isolation region, e.g., channel stopper can be eliminated between the transfer units phi1T and phi2T according to this configuration, the widths of the transfer units and the storage units can be increased.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To specify a user's emotion and state from undefined information such as vital sign information using an information processing device. SOLUTION: Pulse information and body motion information of the user are acquired by an input part 91, and a feature extracting part 112 generates feature vectors associated with the pulse information and body motion information. In a learning part 94, the user's emotion and state are specified by comparing the generated feature vectors with feature vectors stored in a storage part 95, and output to an output part 92 via an output control part 114. The newly generated feature vectors are added to the vectors stored in the storage part 95, and the distribution of the vectors, the center of the distribution and the standard deviation are recalculated and stored in the storage part 95. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To relax the atmosphere in a cabin in relation to on-vehicle devices, the automobile and information processing methods. SOLUTION: A central processing unit 4 transfers from a step SP1 to a step SP2, and determines whether amplitude of the audio data rises to the predetermined threshold value or more during the predetermined period, and determines whether conversation of passengers is active or not on the basis of a signal level of a voice signal detected through a microphone 2. When a result is "YES", the central processing unit 4 transfers to a step SP3, and starts to output the audio data to a data recording device 3, and instructs to record the audio data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology whereby a user can simply set the composition of a plurality of video and audio signals, according to the characteristics of the contents. SOLUTION: Changes in the motion of an object are large, in a video image 151 for displaying a soccer game. A communication apparatus detects motion information of the object from the video image of contents, the analyzes the degree of a change in the motion on the basis of the detected motion information, and generates control information for controlling the composition between the video image of the contents displayed on a display apparatus 41A and a video image of a user X, in response to the result of the analysis. Thus, the video image 151 of the contents is displayed fully over an image frame of the display apparatus 41A, as shown in a contents display 171A, and a slave image 172A superimposed on the contents display 171A is displayed thinly and small without disturbing viewing of the contents. An information processing device or the like is applicable to communication systems for supporting remote communication among users. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a viewer with an impression or an evaluation which is intended by a content provider. SOLUTION: Contents and expected evaluation values are recorded in an optical disk 1. The expected evaluation values are set by the content provider by expecting the impression and the evaluation of a viewer to the contents. A response value input part 61 measures a response of the viewer when the contents are reproduced. A recognition evaluation value calculation part 63 calculates the impression and the evaluation of the viewer to the contents as a recognition evaluation value. A control evaluation value calculation part 53 compares the recognition evaluation value with the expected evaluation value read out from the optical disk 1. A system controller 7 varies the brightness of an image and a sound level in subsequence scenes or shots to keep a difference between the expected evaluation value and the recognition evaluation value within an allowable range based on a comparison result and changes a reproduction position or a reproduction order of the optical disk 1 so as to change the subsequent story evolution. The expected evaluation value can be received through a communication network. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving support technology for making a driver maintain safe driving by deciding a psychological state of the driver with high accuracy and also making the driver recognize the decision results and also to provide a driving mentality deciding device that is relatively easily applied to the existing vehicle. SOLUTION: An input system 10, a data management system 20, a decision control system 30 and an output system 40 are provided to the driving mentality deciding device. The input system 10 associates an actual distance to be secured between the vehicle of the driver and other vehicles with a vehicle speed at that time in actual driving and inputs the actual distance associated with the vehicle speed to the decision control system 30. The decision control system 30 reads a basic distance between vehicles to be reference of a psychological decision from a data management system 20 while made to correspond to a vehicle speed acquired by the input system 10, compares the actual distance between the vehicle inputted from the input system 10 with the basic distance between the vehicles read from the data management system 20 and decides the psychological state of the driver on the basis of the difference between the distances between the vehicles. The decision results are also outputted to the driver side via the output system 40.