Patents by Inventor HONG-SHYANG WU

HONG-SHYANG WU 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).

  • Patent number: 11942541
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a substrate, a source region, a drain region, a first gate structure and a second gate structure is provided. The source region and a drain region are formed in the substrate. The first gate structure is formed on the substrate and adjacent to the source region. The second gate structure is formed on the substrate and adjacent to the drain region. The second gate structure is electrically coupled to the drain region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang Wu, Kuo-Ming Wu
  • Publication number: 20240096975
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a gate structure formed on the substrate; a source region and a drain region formed in the substrate on either side of the gate structure, the source region and the drain region both having a first type of conductivity; and a dielectric layer having a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion of the dielectric layer is formed on a portion of the gate structure, and the second portion of the dielectric layer is formed on the substrate and extending to a portion of the drain region, wherein the dielectric layer includes at least one recess on the second portion. An associated fabricating method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang WU, Kuo-Ming WU
  • Publication number: 20240047574
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first well of a first conductivity type near a surface of a semiconductor substrate, and a second well of a second conductivity type near the surface of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device includes a transistor comprising: (i) a first source/drain region formed in the first well; (ii) a second source/drain region formed in the second well; and (iii) a gate structure formed near the surface of the semiconductor substrate and separated from the second source/drain region at least with a portion of a third well of the second conductive type. The semiconductor device includes an isolation structure formed near the surface of the semiconductor substrate and further separating the second source/drain region from the gate structure. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of field plates formed above at least one of the portion of the third well or the isolation structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang Wu, Kuo-Ming Wu
  • Patent number: 11855158
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a gate structure formed on the substrate; a source region and a drain region formed in the substrate on either side of the gate structure, the source region and the drain region both having a first type of conductivity; and a dielectric layer having a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion of the dielectric layer is formed on a portion of the gate structure, and the second portion of the dielectric layer is formed on the substrate and extending to a portion of the drain region, wherein the dielectric layer includes at least one recess on the second portion. An associated fabricating method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang Wu, Kuo-Ming Wu
  • Patent number: 11848321
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device comprises an output circuit configured to be electrically connected between a driving circuit and an external load circuit, and a protection circuit electrically connected to the output circuit and the driving circuit. The protection circuit comprises a first transistor having a base electrode, a collector electrode and an emitter electrode and a second transistor having a base electrode, a collector electrode and an emitter electrode. The base electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to the collector electrode of the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang Wu, Kuo-Ming Wu
  • Publication number: 20230402532
    Abstract: A device and methods of forming the same are described. The device includes a substrate and a first bipolar junction transistor (BJT) disposed over the substrate. The first BJT includes a first base region, a first emitter region, and a first collector region. The device further includes a second BJT disposed over the substrate adjacent the first BJT, and the second BJT includes a second base region, a second emitter region, and a second collector region. The device further includes an interconnect structure disposed over the first and second BJTs, and the interconnect structure includes a first conductive line electrically connected to the first emitter region and the second base region and a second conductive line electrically connected to the first collector region and the second collector region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang WU, Kuo-Ming WU
  • Publication number: 20230389387
    Abstract: In a color display, a color filter layer includes a dielectric layer with an array of photonic crystals, an electroluminescent material disposed on the color filter layer, and electrodes arranged to electrically energize the electroluminescent material to output white light. Each photonic crystal includes a two-dimensional (2D) array of features. The 2D array of features includes a central cavity within which the features of the 2D array of features are omitted. Each photonic crystal is tuned to a resonant wavelength by a periodicity of the two-dimensional array of features. The array of photonic crystals may include, for example, red, green, and blue photonic crystals arranged to form an array of pixels spanning a display area of the color display, in which each pixel includes at least one red photonic crystal, at least one green photonic crystal, and at least one blue photonic crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang Wu, Kuo-Ming Wu
  • Patent number: 11832496
    Abstract: In a color display, a color filter layer includes a dielectric layer with an array of photonic crystals, an electroluminescent material disposed on the color filter layer, and electrodes arranged to electrically energize the electroluminescent material to output white light. Each photonic crystal includes a two-dimensional (2D) array of features. The 2D array of features includes a central cavity within which the features of the 2D array of features are omitted. Each photonic crystal is tuned to a resonant wavelength by a periodicity of the two-dimensional array of features. The array of photonic crystals may include, for example, red, green, and blue photonic crystals arranged to form an array of pixels spanning a display area of the color display, in which each pixel includes at least one red photonic crystal, at least one green photonic crystal, and at least one blue photonic crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company LTD
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang Wu, Kuo-Ming Wu
  • Publication number: 20230380238
    Abstract: In a color display, a color filter layer includes a dielectric layer with an array of photonic crystals, an electroluminescent material disposed on the color filter layer, and electrodes arranged to electrically energize the electroluminescent material to output white light. Each photonic crystal includes a two-dimensional (2D) array of features. The 2D array of features includes a central cavity within which the features of the 2D array of features are omitted. Each photonic crystal is tuned to a resonant wavelength by a periodicity of the two-dimensional array of features. The array of photonic crystals may include, for example, red, green, and blue photonic crystals arranged to form an array of pixels spanning a display area of the color display, in which each pixel includes at least one red photonic crystal, at least one green photonic crystal, and at least one blue photonic crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang Wu, Kuo-Ming Wu
  • Publication number: 20230282525
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a device includes: a gallium nitride device on a substrate, the gallium nitride device including an electrode; a dielectric layer on and around the gallium nitride device; an isolation layer on the dielectric layer; a semiconductor layer on the isolation layer, the semiconductor layer including a silicon device; a through via extending through the semiconductor layer, the isolation layer, and the dielectric layer, the through via electrically and physically coupled to the electrode of the gallium nitride device; and an interconnect structure on the semiconductor layer, the interconnect structure including metallization patterns electrically coupled to the through via and the silicon device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang Wu, Kuo-Ming Wu
  • Publication number: 20230275149
    Abstract: A gate-all-around (GAA) high voltage transistor of the laterally double-diffused metal-oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) type has a loop-shaped gate electrode disposed below a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The loop-shaped gate electrode surrounds a vertical channel formed by a first source/drain region, a body region, and a diffusion region. The first source/drain region is on top, the body region is in the middle, and the diffusion region is underneath. A loop-shaped shallow trench isolation (STI) region surrounds the loop-shaped gate electrode. The diffusion region begins inside the loop-shaped gate electrode, extends under the loop-shaped gate electrode and the loop-shaped STI region, and rises outside the loop-shaped STI region to join with a second source/drain region. This structure allows pitch to be reduced by 40% or linear drive current to be doubled in comparison to an asymmetric NMOS transistor providing otherwise equivalent functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang Wu, Kuo-Ming Wu
  • Publication number: 20230061900
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a substrate, a source region, a drain region, a first gate structure and a second gate structure is provided. The source region and a drain region are formed in the substrate. The first gate structure is formed on the substrate and adjacent to the source region. The second gate structure is formed on the substrate and adjacent to the drain region. The second gate structure is electrically coupled to the drain region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: HONG-SHYANG WU, KUO-MING WU
  • Publication number: 20220344323
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device comprises an output circuit configured to be electrically connected between a driving circuit and an external load circuit, and a protection circuit electrically connected to the output circuit and the driving circuit. The protection circuit comprises a first transistor having a base electrode, a collector electrode and an emitter electrode and a second transistor having a base electrode, a collector electrode and an emitter electrode. The base electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to the collector electrode of the second transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: HONG-SHYANG WU, KUO-MING WU
  • Publication number: 20210217855
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a gate structure formed on the substrate; a source region and a drain region formed in the substrate on either side of the gate structure, the source region and the drain region both having a first type of conductivity; and a dielectric layer having a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion of the dielectric layer is formed on a portion of the gate structure, and the second portion of the dielectric layer is formed on the substrate and extending to a portion of the drain region, wherein the dielectric layer includes at least one recess on the second portion. An associated fabricating method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang WU, Kuo-Ming WU
  • Patent number: 10964789
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a gate structure formed on the substrate; a source region and a drain region formed in the substrate on either side of the gate structure, the source region and the drain region both having a first type of conductivity; and a dielectric layer having a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion of the dielectric layer is formed on a portion of the gate structure, and the second portion of the dielectric layer is formed on the substrate and extending to a portion of the drain region, wherein the dielectric layer includes at least one recess on the second portion. An associated fabricating method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang Wu, Kuo-Ming Wu
  • Publication number: 20180337240
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a gate structure formed on the substrate; a source region and a drain region formed in the substrate on either side of the gate structure, the source region and the drain region both having a first type of conductivity; and a dielectric layer having a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion of the dielectric layer is formed on a portion of the gate structure, and the second portion of the dielectric layer is formed on the substrate and extending to a portion of the drain region, wherein the dielectric layer includes at least one recess on the second portion. An associated fabricating method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang WU, Kuo-Ming WU
  • Patent number: 10121867
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a gate structure formed on the substrate; a source region and a drain region formed in the substrate on either side of the gate structure, the source region and the drain region both having a first type of conductivity; and a dielectric layer having a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion of the dielectric layer is formed on a portion of the gate structure, and the second portion of the dielectric layer is formed on the substrate and extending to a portion of the drain region, wherein the dielectric layer includes at least one recess on the second portion. An associated fabricating method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong-Shyang Wu, Kuo-Ming Wu
  • Publication number: 20170194439
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a gate structure formed on the substrate; a source region and a drain region formed in the substrate on either side of the gate structure, the source region and the drain region both having a first type of conductivity; and a dielectric layer having a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion of the dielectric layer is formed on a portion of the gate structure, and the second portion of the dielectric layer is formed on the substrate and extending to a portion of the drain region, wherein the dielectric layer includes at least one recess on the second portion. An associated fabricating method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: HONG-SHYANG WU, KUO-MING WU