摘要 |
In a laser annealing process: a bandlike area of a nonmonocrystalline semiconductor film is scanned and irradiated with continuous-wave laser light so as to produced fused regions in the first to third sections of the bandlike area as follows, where the third section contains a portion required to have higher crystallinity than other portions of the bandlike area. First, a first fused region having a substantially uniform width is formed in the first section. Then, at least a portion of the first fused region which is last fused is solidified, and thereafter at least a subportion of the solidified portion having a smaller width than the first fused region is re-fused. Subsequently, a second fused region having a stepwise or continuously increasing width is produced in the second section, and then a third fused region substantially uniformly having the increased width is produced in the third section. |