Patents Examined by Mamadou L Diallo
  • Patent number: 11973057
    Abstract: One embodiment is a microelectronic assembly including an assembly support structure; a first die including a pair of hot via comprising through-substrate-via (TSVs) extending through the first die between first and second sides thereof and a plurality of ground vias surrounding the pair of hot vias and extending through the first die between the first and second sides thereof. The first die further includes a pair of signal interconnect structures electrically connected to the pair of hot vias disposed on the second side of the first die. The assembly further includes a second die between the assembly support structure and the first die the pair of signal interconnect structures disposed on the first side thereof. The first die is connected to the second die via a signal die-to-die (DTD) interconnect structure including the signal interconnect structures of the first and second dies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Ed Balboni, Ozan Gurbuz, William B. Beckwith, Paul Harlan Rekemeyer
  • Patent number: 11974482
    Abstract: A display substrate and related devices are provided. The display substrate includes a plurality of first sub-pixels, second sub-pixels and third sub-pixels. In a first direction, the first sub-pixels and the third sub-pixels are arranged alternately to form a plurality of first sub-pixel rows, the second sub-pixels form a plurality of second sub-pixel rows, the first sub-pixel rows and the second sub-pixel rows are arranged alternately in a second direction, connection lines of center points of two first sub-pixels and two third sub-pixels form a first virtual quadrilateral, the two first sub-pixels are located at two vertex angles of the first virtual quadrilateral which are opposite to each other, one second sub-pixel is located within the first virtual quadrilateral, and the first virtual quadrilateral includes two interior angles each being equal to 90° and two interior angles each being not equal to 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qian Xu, Tong Niu, Yan Huang, Guomeng Zhang, Chang Luo, Jianpeng Wu, Peng Xu, Fengli Ji, Yi Zhang, Benlian Wang, Ming Hu
  • Patent number: 11974439
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory includes a memory cell region that includes multiple memory cells stacked above a semiconductor substrate, first and second dummy regions on opposite sides of the memory cell region, each dummy region including multiple dummy cells stacked above the semiconductor substrate, and a wiring that electrically connects dummy cells of the first and second dummy regions that are at a same level above the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoo Hishida, Sadatoshi Murakami, Ryota Katsumata, Masao Iwase
  • Patent number: 11963378
    Abstract: A display panel and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area. A light transmittance of the first display area is greater than a light transmittance of the second display area, and the display panel includes: a substrate; and a light-emitting element layer including a first electrode, a light-emitting structure located on the first electrode, and a second electrode assembly located on the light-emitting structure. The second electrode assembly includes: a light-transmitting electrode, at least partially located in the first display area; a light-transmitting block located in the first display area and stacked with the light-transmitting electrode; and a second electrode located in the second display area. A material of the second electrode and a material of the light-transmitting electrode nonbind with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Rusheng Liu, Jingsong Tang, Hongrui Li, Rubo Xing
  • Patent number: 11961826
    Abstract: Bonded wafer device structures, such as a wafer-on-wafer (WoW) structures, and methods of fabricating bonded wafer device structures, including an array of contact pads formed in an interconnect level of at least one wafer of the bonded wafer device structure. The array of contact pads formed in an interconnect level of at least one wafer may have an array pattern that corresponds to an array pattern of contact pads that is subsequently formed over a surface of the bonded wafer structure. The array of contact pads formed in an interconnect level of at least one wafer of the bonded wafer device structure may enable improved testing of individual wafers, including circuit probe testing, prior to the wafer being stacked and bonded to one or more additional wafers to form a bonded wafer structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Inventors: Harry-Hak-Lay Chuang, Wei-Cheng Wu, Wen-Tuo Huang
  • Patent number: 11963347
    Abstract: A memory device includes a transistor, an anti-fuse element, a source/drain contact, a first gate via, and a second gate via. The transistor is over a substrate. The anti-fuse element is over the substrate and is connected to the transistor in series. The source/drain contact is connected to a source/drain region of the transistor. The first gate via is connected to a first gate structure of the transistor. The first gate structure of the transistor extends along a first direction in a top view. The second gate via is connected to a second gate structure of the anti-fuse element. The second gate via is between the first gate via and the source/drain contact along the first direction in the top view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chiung-Ting Ou, Ming-Yih Wang, Jian-Hong Lin
  • Patent number: 11948900
    Abstract: A bonded body according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a metal member, and a bonding layer. The bonding layer is provided between the substrate and the metal member. The bonding layer includes a first particle including carbon, a first region including a metal, and a second region including titanium. The second region is provided between the first particle and the first region. A concentration of titanium in the second region is greater than a concentration of titanium in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Maki Yonetsu, Seiichi Suenaga, Sachiko Fujisawa, Takayuki Naba
  • Patent number: 11942444
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices having interconnect structures with vertically offset bonding surfaces, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate at least partially covered by a first dielectric material having an upper surface, and an interconnect structure extending therefrom. The interconnect structure can include a plurality of conductive elements, and a continuous region of a first insulating material at least partially between the plurality of conductive elements. The plurality of conductive elements and the continuous region can have coplanar end surfaces. The interconnect structure can further include a perimeter structure at least partially surrounding the plurality of conductive elements and the continuous region. The perimeter structure can have an uppermost surface that can be vertically offset from the upper surface of the first dielectric material and/or the coplanar end surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Kyle K. Kirby
  • Patent number: 11935853
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided, comprising a substrate with a frontside and a backside opposite the frontside; control circuitry disposed over the frontside of the substrate; a memory array disposed over and electrically coupled to the control circuitry; a through-silicon via (TSV) disposed under the memory array, the TSV extending through the substrate from the control circuitry to the backside of the substrate; and a bond pad disposed on the backside of the substrate and electrically coupled to the control circuitry via the TSV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventors: Eric N. Lee, Akira Goda
  • Patent number: 11929335
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure for wafer level bonding includes a bonding dielectric layer disposed on a substrate and a bonding pad disposed in the bonding dielectric layer. The bonding pad includes a top surface exposed from the bonding dielectric layer, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, and a sidewall between the top surface and the bottom surface. A bottom angle between the bottom surface and sidewall of the bonding pad is smaller than 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Chien-Ming Lai
  • Patent number: 11930648
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including: a first level including first memory arrays, a plurality of first transistors, and a plurality of first metal layers; a second level disposed on top of the first level, where the second level includes second memory arrays; a third level disposed on top of the second level, where the third level includes a plurality of third transistors and a plurality of third metal layers, where the third level is bonded to the second level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonding regions and a plurality of metal to metal bonding regions, where the first level includes first filled holes, where the second level includes second filled holes, where the second filled holes are aligned to the first filled holes with a more than 1 nm but less than 40 nm alignment error, and where the third level includes decoder circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Jin-Woo Han, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11923341
    Abstract: An electronic device with embedded access to a high-bandwidth, high-capacity fast-access memory includes (a) a memory circuit fabricated on a first semiconductor die, wherein the memory circuit includes numerous modular memory units, each modular memory unit having (i) a three-dimensional array of storage transistors, and (ii) a group of conductors exposed to a surface of the first semiconductor die, the group of conductors being configured for communicating control, address and data signals associated the memory unit; and (b) a logic circuit fabricated on a second semiconductor die, wherein the logic circuit also includes conductors each exposed at a surface of the second semiconductor die, wherein the first and second semiconductor dies are wafer-bonded, such that the conductors exposed at the surface of the first semiconductor die are each electrically connected to a corresponding one of the conductors exposed to the surface of the second semiconductor die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SUNRISE MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Khandker Nazrul Quader, Robert Norman, Frank Sai-keung Lee, Christopher J. Petti, Scott Brad Herner, Siu Lung Chan, Sayeef Salahuddin, Mehrdad Mofidi, Eli Harari
  • Patent number: 11923351
    Abstract: A stacked-chip package of the inventive concepts includes a first chip and a second chip stacked on the first chip. The first chip may include a first cell array region, a first core circuit region including a first core terminal, and a first peripheral circuit region including a plurality of first peripheral circuit terminals. The second chip may include a second cell array region on the first cell array region, a second core circuit region on the first core circuit region and including a second core terminal, and a through via on the first peripheral circuit region and connected to at least one first peripheral circuit terminal of the plurality of first peripheral circuit terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daeho Lee, Taeje Cho
  • Patent number: 11923274
    Abstract: The subject application discloses a substrate. The substrate includes a first conductive layer, a first bonding layer, a first dielectric layer, and a conductive via. The first bonding layer is disposed on the first conductive layer. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the first bonding layer. The conductive via penetrates the first dielectric layer and is electrically connected with the first conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventor: Wen Hung Huang
  • Patent number: 11916038
    Abstract: Substrates that are bonding targets are bonded in ambient atmosphere via bonding films, including oxides, formed on bonding faces of the substrates. The bonding films, which are metal or semiconductor thin films formed by vacuum film deposition and at least the surfaces of which are oxidized, are formed into the respective smooth faces of two substrates having the smooth faces that serve as the bonding faces. The bonding films are exposed to a space that contains moisture, and the two substrates are overlapped in the ambient atmosphere such that the surfaces of the bonding films are made to be hydrophilic and the surfaces of the bonding films contact one another. Through this, a chemical bond is generated at the bonded interface, and thereby the two substrates are bonded together in the ambient atmosphere. The bonding strength ? can be improved by heating the bonded substrates at a temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki Saitoh, Takayuki Moriwaki, Takehito Shimatsu, Miyuki Uomoto
  • Patent number: 11911839
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first die, the first die including a first dielectric layer and a plurality of first bond pads formed within apertures in the first dielectric layer, and a second die bonded to the first die, the second die including a second dielectric layer and a plurality of second bond pads protruding from the second dielectric layer. The first die is bonded to the second die such that the plurality of second bond pads protrude into the apertures in the first dielectric layer to establish respective metallurgical bonds with the plurality of first bond pads. A reduction in the distance between the respective bond pads of the dies results in a lower temperature for establishing a hybrid bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Priyal Shah, Rahul Agarwal, Raja Swaminathan, Brett P. Wilkerson
  • Patent number: 11908777
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, a plurality of leads that each includes a lead body portion which has a mounting portion which includes an upper surface whereon a semiconductor chip is bonded, and a lead connecting portion for external connection which projects downward from a lower surface of the lead body portion, a first sealing resin that seals a space that is defined by each lead body portion and each lead connecting portion of the plurality of leads in a region below the upper surface of each lead body portion of the plurality of leads, and a second sealing resin that seals the semiconductor chip in a region above the upper surface of each lead body portion of the plurality of leads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mamoru Yamagami
  • Patent number: 11901402
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first dielectric layer above a semiconductor layer, lower-bandgap dielectric layer above the first dielectric layer, the lower-bandgap dielectric layer having a bandgap energy less than a bandgap energy of the first dielectric layer, a first capacitor plate above the lower-bandgap dielectric layer in a first plane of first and second directions, a second dielectric layer above the first capacitor plate, a second capacitor plate above the second dielectric layer in a second plane of the first and second directions, the first and second capacitor plates spaced apart from one another along a third direction, and a conductive third capacitor plate above the second dielectric layer in the second plane, the third capacitor plate spaced apart from the second capacitor plate in the second plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Elizabeth Costner Stewart, Thomas Dyer Bonifield, Jeffrey Alan West, Byron Lovell Williams
  • Patent number: 11901336
    Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip including a first wiring layer including a first wiring structure and providing a first rear surface, and a first through via for first through via for power electrically connected to the first wiring structure; and a second semiconductor chip including a second wiring layer including a second wiring structure and providing a second rear surface, and a second through via for second through via for power electrically connected to the second wiring structure, wherein the first and second semiconductor chips have different widths, wherein the first semiconductor chip receives power through the first wiring structure and the first through via for first through via for power, wherein the second semiconductor chip receives power through the second wiring structure and the second through via for second through via for power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyuekjae Lee, Dae-woo Kim, Eunseok Song
  • Patent number: 11901299
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic packages. In an embodiment, the electronic package comprises, a package substrate, an interposer on the package substrate, a first die cube and a second die cube on the interposer, wherein the interposer includes conductive traces for electrically coupling the first die cube to the second die cube, a die on the package substrate, and an embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) in the package substrate, wherein the EMIB electrically couples the interposer to the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Md Altaf Hossain, Ankireddy Nalamalpu, Dheeraj Subbareddy, Robert Sankman, Ravindranath V. Mahajan, Debendra Mallik, Ram S. Viswanath, Sandeep B. Sane, Sriram Srinivasan, Rajat Agarwal, Aravind Dasu, Scott Weber, Ravi Gutala