An object of the present invention is obtaining a semiconductor film with
uniform characteristics by improving irradiation variations of the
semiconductor film. The irradiation variations are generated due to
scanning while irradiating with a linear laser beam of the pulse
emission. At a laser crystallization step of irradiating a semiconductor
film with a laser light, a continuous light emission excimer laser
emission device is used as a laser light source. For example, in a method
of fabricating an active matrix type liquid crystal display device, a
continuous light emission excimer laser beam is irradiated to a
semiconductor film, which is processed to be a linear shape, while
scanning in a vertical direction to the linear direction. Therefore, more
uniform crystallization can be performed because irradiation marks can be
avoided by a conventional pulse laser.