Patents by Inventor Franz Hofman

Franz Hofman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20120181609
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a semiconductor device by providing a first substrate; providing a doped layer in a surface region of the first substrate; providing a buried oxide layer on the doped layer; providing a semiconductor layer on the buried oxide layer to obtain a semiconductor-on-insulator (SeOI) wafer; removing the buried oxide layer and the semiconductor layer from a first region of the SeOI wafer while maintaining the buried oxide layer and the semiconductor layer in a second region of the SeOI water; providing an upper transistor in the second region by forming a back gate in or by the doped layer; and providing a lower transistor in the first region by forming source and drain regions in or by the doped layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Gerhard Enders, Wolfgang Hoenlein, Franz Hofman, Carlos Mazure
  • Patent number: 6184045
    Abstract: A memory cell contains at least one transistor and one capacitor connected to an upper bit line. The capacitor contains a first capacitor electrode arranged above the transistor, and is connected to the transistor. The upper bit line can be created in self-adjusted fashion on the basis of trenches which are of different widths, which extend transversely to one another, and which are arranged between the first capacitor electrodes. At least a part of each first capacitor electrode can be created from a layer which is structured by the trenches. Trenches can be narrowed by spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Hofman, Lothar Risch, Wolfgang Roesner, Wolfgang Krautschneider
  • Patent number: 6147376
    Abstract: A memory cell contains at least one transistor and one capacitor connected to an upper bit line. The capacitor contains a first capacitor electrode arranged above the transistor, and is connected to the transistor. The upper bit line can be created in self-adjusted fashion on the basis of trenches which are of different widths, which extend transversely to one another, and which are arranged between the first capacitor electrodes. At least a part of each first capacitor electrode can be created from a layer which is structured by the trenches. Trenches can be narrowed by spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Hofman, Lothar Risch, Wolfgang Roesner, Wolfgang Krautschneider
  • Patent number: 5817552
    Abstract: For each storage cell, the DRAM cell arrangement has a vertical MOS transistor, the first source/drain region of which is connected to a memory node of a storage capacitor, the channel region of which is annularly enclosed by a gate electrode and the second source/drain region of which is connected to a buried bit line. The DRAM cell arrangement can be produced with a storage-cell area of 4F.sup.2 by using only two masks, F being the minimum producible structure size in the respective technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Roesner, Lothar Risch, Franz Hofman, Wolfgang Krautschneider