Patents Examined by Eric Ward
  • Patent number: 11929408
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed for improved and structurally optimized transistors, such as RF power amplifier transistors. A transistor may include a drain metal portion raised from a surface of a substrate, a drain metal having a notched region, a gate manifold body with angled gate tabs extending from the gate manifold, and/or a source-connected shielding. The transistor may include a high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT), a gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon transistor, a GaN-on-silicon-carbide transistor, or other type of transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Shamit Som, Wayne Mack Struble, Jason Matthew Barrett, Nishant R Yamujala, John Stephen Atherton
  • Patent number: 11917883
    Abstract: A color control member includes a color control layer including a quantum dot and a color filter layer on the color control layer, wherein a low refractive layer may be between the color control layer and the color filter layer. The low refractive layer includes a base resin and a plurality of sets of hollow particles dispersed in the base resin, and each of the hollow particles of each set of the sets of hollow particles may have a spherical shape. The sets of hollow particles may have respective average diameters, and a ratio of two average diameters of the respective average diameters of the sets of hollow particles is about 2:1 to about 60:1, and the low refractive layer including the hollow particles may be formed through a continuous process at a low temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youyoung Jin, Keunchan Oh, Gak Seok Lee, Sanghun Lee, Chang-Soon Jang
  • Patent number: 11908929
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having an active portion and a gate pad portion on a semiconductor substrate includes: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type. The active portion has: first semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type; a first electrode provided on the first semiconductor regions; and first trenches. The gate pad portion has: a gate electrode pad provided above the second semiconductor layer; second trenches provided beneath the gate electrode pad; and second semiconductor regions of the second conductivity type, each provided in the first semiconductor layer so as to be in contact with a respective one of bottoms of the second trenches. Each of the second trenches is continuous with a respective one of the first trenches. The second semiconductor layer is continuous from the active portion to the gate pad portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiji Okumura
  • Patent number: 11908924
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a base substrate. A first thin-film transistor is disposed on the base substrate. The first thin-film transistor includes a first input electrode, a first output electrode, a first semiconductor pattern disposed below a first insulating layer, and a first control electrode disposed on the first insulating layer and below a second insulating layer. A second thin-film transistor includes a second input electrode, a second output electrode, a second semiconductor pattern disposed on the second insulating layer, and a second control electrode disposed on an insulating pattern formed on the second semiconductor pattern and exposes a portion of the second semiconductor pattern. The first semiconductor pattern includes a crystalline semiconductor. The second semiconductor pattern incudes an oxide semiconductor. The first semiconductor pattern, the first control electrode, the second semiconductor pattern, and the second control electrode are overlapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaybum Kim, Seryeong Kim, Junhyung Lim, Taesang Kim
  • Patent number: 11901445
    Abstract: A transistor may include a buffer layer, source and drain contacts on the buffer layer, a barrier layer on the buffer layer, a conductive member on the barrier layer, a dielectric stack, and a gate metal. The barrier layer may be between the source and drain contacts. The conductive member may include a p-doped III-V compound. The dielectric stack may be on the barrier layer and on the conductive member. The dielectric stack may include a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer. First and second trenches may extend through the dielectric stack to the conductive member and to the first dielectric layer, respectively. The gate metal may be on the dielectric stack, and may contact the conductive member through the first trench and may contact the first dielectric layer through the second trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiacheng Lei, James Jerry Joseph, Lawrence Selvaraj Susai, Shyue Seng Tan
  • Patent number: 11901446
    Abstract: A silicon carbide MOSFET device that includes a silicon carbide substrate of a first dopant type; a first silicon carbide layer of the first dopant type on top of the silicon carbide substrate; a second silicon carbide layer of a second dopant type embedded in a top portion of the first silicon carbide layer; a third silicon carbide layer of the first dopant type embedded in a top portion of the second silicon carbide layer; a gate oxide layer overlapped to the first silicon carbide layer, the second silicon carbide layer and the third silicon carbide layer; and a fourth silicon carbide layer at least partially overlapping with the second silicon carbide layer along a direction normal to the silicon carbide substrate. The first silicon carbide layer has lower doping than the silicon carbide substrate and defines a drift region. The third silicon carbide layer has higher doping than the first silicon carbide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Unity Power Technology Limited
    Inventor: Kuk Fong Yip
  • Patent number: 11893913
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display substrate, a display panel and a display device. The display substrate includes: a base substrate including a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area; a common electrode located in the peripheral area and surrounding the display area; a panel crack detection line located in the peripheral area and surrounding the display area, wherein the panel crack detection line is located on one side of the common electrode away from the display area; and at least one electrostatic discharge circuit located in the peripheral area, wherein the at least one electrostatic discharge circuit includes at least one first thin film transistor including an active layer, a gate, a source and a drain, the source and the drain are electrically connected to the panel crack detection line, and the gate is electrically connected to the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Jiang, Linhong Han, Huijun Li, Huijuan Yang, Yu Wang, Lu Bai, Jie Dai, Lulu Yang, Yi Qu, Siyu Wang, Hao Zhang, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11889689
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and at least one memory structure. The first conductive layer includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, a fourth portion, and a fifth portion. The first portion is provided between the second portion and the third portion in a second direction. The second conductive layer includes a sixth portion, a seventh portion, and an eighth portion, a ninth portion, and a tenth portion. The sixth portion is provided between the seventh portion and the eighth portion in the second direction. The second portion is provided between the sixth portion and the eighth portion in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagashima, Fumitaka Arai
  • Patent number: 11888052
    Abstract: The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method comprises manufacturing a semiconductor material layer comprising two laminated semiconductor layers between which an etching transition layer is provided; and etching a part of one of semiconductor layers located in a selected region until etching is stopped after reaching or entering the etching transition layer, subjecting the part of the etching transition layer located in the selected region to thermal decomposition through thermal treatment to be completely removed, and realizing termination of thermal decomposition on another semiconductor layer, so as to precisely form a trench structure in the semiconductor material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO-TECH AND NANO-BIONICS (SINANO), CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Qian Sun, Shuai Su, Yu Zhou, Yaozong Zhong, Hongwei Gao, Jianxun Liu, Xiaoning Zhan, Meixin Feng, Hui Yang
  • Patent number: 11888003
    Abstract: A photodetector includes: a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface; a first semiconductor layer that is of a first conductivity type, and is included in the semiconductor substrate and closer to the first main surface than to the second main surface; a second semiconductor layer that is of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, and is included in the semiconductor substrate and interposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second main surface; a multiplication region that causes avalanche multiplication to a charge generated in the semiconductor substrate through photoelectric conversion; a circuit region disposed alongside the first semiconductor layer in a direction parallel to the first main surface; at least one isolation transistor disposed in the circuit region; and an isolation region interposed between the first semiconductor layer and the circuit region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akito Inoue, Yuki Sugiura, Yutaka Hirose
  • Patent number: 11881683
    Abstract: A semiconductor device fabrication method in which a growing process is followed by a capping process in which a phosphor containing material cap layer is deposited over a final GaAs based layer. The wafer, containing many such substrates, can be removed from the reaction chamber to continue processing at a later time without creating an oxide layer on the final GaAs based layer. In continuing processing, a decomposition process selectively decomposes the phosphor containing material cap layer, after which a regrowing process is performed to grow additional layers of the device structure. The capping, decomposition and regrowth processes can be repeated multiple times on the semiconductor devices on the wafer during device fabrication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Constance J. Chang-Hasnain, Jiaxing Wang, Jonas H. Kapraun, Emil Kolev
  • Patent number: 11881511
    Abstract: A transistor is disclosed. The transistor includes a substrate, a superlattice structure that includes a plurality of heterojunction channels, and a gate that extends to one of the plurality of heterojunction channels. The transistor also includes a source adjacent a first side of the superlattice structure and a drain adjacent a second side of the superlattice structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nidhi Nidhi, Rahul Ramaswamy, Sansaptak Dasgupta, Han Wui Then, Marko Radosavljevic, Johann C. Rode, Paul B. Fischer, Walid M. Hafez
  • Patent number: 11869771
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an anchorage element of a passivation layer, comprising: forming, in a semiconductor body made of SiC and at a distance from a top surface of the semiconductor body, a first implanted region having, along a first axis, a first maximum dimension; forming, in the semiconductor body, a second implanted region, which is superimposed to the first implanted region and has, along the first axis, a second maximum dimension smaller than the first maximum dimension; carrying out a process of thermal oxidation of the first implanted region and second implanted region to form an oxidized region; removing said oxidized region to form a cavity; and forming, on the top surface, the passivation layer protruding into the cavity to form said anchorage element fixing the passivation layer to the semiconductor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Simone Rascuna′, Mario Giuseppe Saggio
  • Patent number: 11869956
    Abstract: A channel stop and well dopant migration control implant (e.g., of argon) can be used in the fabrication of a transistor (e.g., PMOS), either around the time of threshold voltage adjust and well implants prior to gate formation, or as a through-gate implant around the time of source/drain extension implants. With its implant depth targeted about at or less than the peak of the concentration of the dopant used for well and channel stop implants (e.g., phosphorus) and away from the substrate surface, the migration control implant suppresses the diffusion of the well and channel stop dopant to the surface region, a more retrograde concentration profile is achieved, and inter-transistor threshold voltage mismatch is improved without other side effects. A compensating through-gate threshold voltage adjust implant (e.g., of arsenic) or a threshold voltage adjust implant of increased dose can increase the magnitude of the threshold voltage to a desired level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Mahalingam Nandakumar
  • Patent number: 11869982
    Abstract: Junction field effect transistors (JFETs) and related manufacturing methods are disclosed herein. A disclosed JFET includes a vertical channel region located in a mesa and a first channel control region located on a first side of the mesa. The first channel control region is at least one of a gate region and a first base region. The JFET also includes a second base region located on a second side of the mesa and extending through the mesa to contact the vertical channel region. The vertical channel can be an implanted vertical channel. The vertical channel can be asymmetrically located in the mesa towards the first side of the mesa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Vipindas Pala, Sudarsan Uppili
  • Patent number: 11862713
    Abstract: Doping techniques for fin-like field effect transistors (FinFETs) are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes forming a fin structure, forming a doped amorphous layer over a portion of the fin structure, and performing a knock-on implantation process to drive a dopant from the doped amorphous layer into the portion of the fin structure, thereby forming a doped feature. The doped amorphous layer includes a non-crystalline form of a material. In some implementations, the knock-on implantation process crystallizes at least a portion of the doped amorphous layer, such that the portion of the doped amorphous layer becomes a part of the fin structure. In some implementations, the doped amorphous layer includes amorphous silicon, and the knock-on implantation process crystallizes a portion of the doped amorphous silicon layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sai-Hooi Yeong, Sheng-Chen Wang, Bo-Yu Lai, Ziwei Fang, Feng-Cheng Yang, Yen-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11854828
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first well, a second well, a metal gate, a poly gate, a source region, and a drain region. The first well and the second well are within the substrate. The metal gate is partially over the first well. The poly gate is over the second well. The poly gate is separated from the metal gate, and a width ratio of the poly gate to the metal gate is in a range from about 0.1 to about 0.2. The source region and the drain region are respectively within the first well and the second well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Alexander Kalnitsky, Wei-Cheng Wu, Harry-Hak-Lay Chuang
  • Patent number: 11849647
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure may include a magnetic tunnel junction layer on top and in electrical contact with a microstud, a hard mask layer on top of the magnetic tunnel junction layer, and a liner positioned along vertical sidewalls of the magnetic tunnel junction layer and vertical sidewalls of the hard mask layer. A top surface of the liner may be below a top surface of the hard mask layer. The semiconductor structure may include a spacer on top of the liner. The liner may separate the spacer from the magnetic tunnel junction layer and the hard mask layer. The semiconductor structure may include a first metal layer below and in electrical contact with the microstud and a second metal layer above the hard mask layer. A bottom portion of the second metal layer may surround a top portion of the hard mask layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Li, Yann Mignot, Ashim Dutta, Tsung-Sheng Kang, Wenyu Xu
  • Patent number: 11843053
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor comprises an active pattern including a lower pattern and a plurality of sheet patterns that are spaced apart from the lower pattern in a first direction, a source/drain pattern on the lower pattern and in contact with the plurality of sheet patterns, and a gate structure on opposing sides of the source/drain pattern in a second direction different from the first direction, the gate structure including a gate electrode on the plurality of sheet patterns, wherein the source/drain pattern includes an epitaxial region that comprises a semiconductor material and a cavity region that is inside the epitaxial region and that is surrounded by the semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventors: Su Jin Jung, Ki Hwan Kim, Sung Uk Jang, Young Dae Cho
  • Patent number: 11830916
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first and second nitride semiconductor layers. The second layer on the first nitride has a first region, a second region, and a third region between the first and second regions. A first gate electrode is in the first region and extends parallel to a surface of a substrate. A first source electrode is in the first region and extends in the first direction. A second gate electrode in the second region and extends in the first direction. A second source electrode is in the second region and extends in the first direction. A drain electrode coupled to a first and a second wiring. The first wiring directly contacts the second nitride semiconductor layer in the first region. The second wiring directly contacts the second nitride semiconductor layer in the second region. An insulation material is in the third region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Yoshioka, Yasuhiro Isobe, Hung Hung, Hitoshi Kobayashi, Tetsuya Ohno, Toru Sugiyama