PURPOSE: To form an insulating film of high reliability, and improve operation characteristics of a semiconductor device by using the film.
CONSTITUTION: An SiOx film 2 and an amorphous Si film 3 are laminated in order on a single-crystal Si substrate 1. Only the amorphous Si film 3 is selectively heated by excimer laser annealing of XeCl or KrF in an N2O atmosphere or a NH3 atmosphere. The Si film 3 is turned into an SiOxNy film 4 or an SixNy film 5 by nitriding or oxidizing nitriding. By using this two-layered lamination film system as a gate insulating film 6, a MOSFET is constituted. Differently from the conventional gate insulating film which is subjected to an RTN(rapid thermal nitriding) process, nitrogen is scarcely distributed in the SiOx film, so that electron trap is not generated in the film. The threshold voltage and the mutual conductance of the MOSFET can be stably maintained for a long term. As the result of a low temperature process, adverse influence is not exerted upon an impurity profile.