With non-contact and contact IC chips becoming common, it is necessary to
mass-produce enormous amount of IC chips, which are utilizable for human
beings, animals and plants, commercial products, banknotes, and the like,
at low cost. For example, it is necessary to manufacture IC chips to be
applied to commercial products, banknotes, and the like at a cost of 1 to
several yen per IC chip, preferably, at a cost less than 1 yen, and it is
desired to realize a structure of an IC chip that can be mass-produced at
low cost and a manufacturing process of the IC chip.A method of
manufacturing a thin film integrated circuit device according to the
present invention includes steps of forming a peel-off layer over a
thermally oxidized silicon substrate, forming a plurality of thin film
integrated circuit devices over the peel-off layer with a base film
interposed therebetween, forming a groove between the plurality of thin
film integrated circuit devices, and separating the plurality of thin
film integrated circuit devices by introducing one of a gas and a liquid
including halogen fluoride into the groove to remove the peel-off layer.