Patents by Inventor Jhyy-Cheng Liou

Jhyy-Cheng Liou 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: 20120090398
    Abstract: A MEMS structure includes a substrate, a structural dielectric layer, and a diaphragm. A structural dielectric layer is disposed over the substrate. The diaphragm is held by the structural dielectric layer at a peripheral end. The diaphragm includes multiple trench/ridge rings at a peripheral region surrounding a central region of the diaphragm. A corrugated structure is located at the central region of the diaphragm, surrounded by the trench/indent rings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: SOLID STATE SYSTEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsing Lee, Tsung-Min Hsieh, Li-Chi Tsao, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Patent number: 8093087
    Abstract: Method for fabricating MEMS device has a first surface and a second surface and having a MEMS region and an IC region. A MEMS structure is formed over the first surface. A structural dielectric layer is formed over the first surface. The structural dielectric layer has a dielectric member and the spaces surrounding the MEMS structure is filled with the dielectric member. The substrate is patterned by etching process from the second surface of the substrate to expose a portion of the dielectric member filled in the space surrounding the MEMS structure. A wettable thin layer is formed to cover an exposed portion of the substrate at the second surface. An etching process is performed on the dielectric member filled in the spaces surrounding the MEMS structure. The MEMS structure is exposed and released by the etching process. The etching process comprises an isotropic etching process with a wet etchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Solid State System Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Min Hsieh, Chien-Hsing Lee, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Publication number: 20110300659
    Abstract: Method for fabricating MEMS device has a first surface and a second surface and having a MEMS region and an IC region. A MEMS structure is formed over the first surface. A structural dielectric layer is formed over the first surface. The structural dielectric layer has a dielectric member and the spaces surrounding the MEMS structure is filled with the dielectric member. The substrate is patterned by etching process from the second surface of the substrate to expose a portion of the dielectric member filled in the space surrounding the MEMS structure. A wettable thin layer is formed to cover an exposed portion of the substrate at the second surface. An etching process is performed on the dielectric member filled in the spaces surrounding the MEMS structure. The MEMS structure is exposed and released by the etching process. The etching process comprises an isotropic etching process with a wet etchant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SOLID STATE SYSTEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Min Hsieh, Chien-Hsing Lee, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Patent number: 8030112
    Abstract: A method for fabricating MEMS device includes: providing a single crystal substrate, having first surface and second surface and having a MEMS region and an IC region; forming SCS mass blocks on the first surface in the MEMS region; forming a structural dielectric layer over the first surface of the substrate, wherein a dielectric member of the structural dielectric layer is filled in spaces surrounding the SCS mass blocks in the MEMS region, the IC region has a circuit structure with an interconnection structure formed in the structural dielectric layer; patterning the single crystal substrate by an etching process on the second surface to expose a portion of the dielectric member filled in the spaces surrounding the SCS mass blocks; performing isotropic etching process at least on the dielectric portion filled in the spaces surrounding the SCS mass blocks. The SCS mass blocks are exposed to release a MEMS structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Solid State System Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Min Hsieh, Chien-Hsing Lee, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Publication number: 20110183456
    Abstract: A method for fabricating MEMS device includes: providing a single crystal substrate, having first surface and second surface and having a MEMS region and an IC region; forming SCS mass blocks on the first surface in the MEMS region; forming a structural dielectric layer over the first surface of the substrate, wherein a dielectric member of the structural dielectric layer is filled in spaces surrounding the SCS mass blocks in the MEMS region, the IC region has a circuit structure with an interconnection structure formed in the structural dielectric layer; patterning the single crystal substrate by an etching process on the second surface to expose a portion of the dielectric member filled in the spaces surrounding the SCS mass blocks; performing isotropic etching process at least on the dielectric portion filled in the spaces surrounding the SCS mass blocks. The SCS mass blocks are exposed to release a MEMS structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: SOLID STATE SYSTEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Min Hsieh, Chien-Hsing Lee, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Publication number: 20110156106
    Abstract: A hermetic microelectromechanical system (MEMS) package includes a CMOS MEMS chip and a second substrate. The CMOS MEMS Chip has a first substrate, a structural dielectric layer, a CMOS circuit and a MEMS structure. The structural dielectric layer is disposed on a first side of the first structural substrate. The structural dielectric layer has an interconnect structure for electrical interconnection and also has a protection structure layer. The first structural substrate has at least a hole. The hole is under the protection structure layer to form at least a chamber. The chamber is exposed to the environment in the second side of the first structural substrate. The chamber also comprises a MEMS structure. The second substrate is adhered to a second side of the first substrate over the chamber to form a hermetic space and the MEMS structure is within the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: SOLID STATE SYSTEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsing Lee, Tsung-Min Hsieh, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Publication number: 20080032470
    Abstract: A method for fabricating non-volatile memory on a substrate includes forming a plurality of doped lines in the substrate along a first direction, wherein the doped lines serve as a plurality of bit lines, and portions of each of the doped lines serves as source/drain regions for a plurality of memory cells. A charge storage stacked layer is formed over the substrate, wherein the charge storage stacked layer includes a charge trapping layer. A conductive layer is formed over the charge storage layer. The conductive layer and the charge storage stacked layer are patterned to form a plurality of word lines along a second direction, intersecting with the first directing. The remaining portion of the charge trapping layer is just under the word lines, not covering the isolation region between the word lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: SOLID STATE SYSTEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsing Lee, Tsung-Min Hsieh, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Patent number: 7233527
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a layout of nonvolatile memory device. The memory cell has a gate electrode, a first doped electrode, and a second doped electrode. The first doped electrode is coupled to the bit line. The gate electrode is coupled to one separated word line. A shared coupled capacitor structure is coupled between all of memory cells of the adjacent bit lines from the second doped electrode. The capacitor structure has at least two floating-gate MOS capacitors. Each floating-gate MOS capacitor has a floating-gate transistor having a floating gate, a first S/D region and a second S/D region; and a MOS capacitor coupled to the floating gate. The first S/D region is coupled to the second doped electrode of the corresponding one of the transistor memory cells, and the second S/D region is shared with an adjacent one of the floating-gate transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Solid State System Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsing Lee, Chin-Hsi Lin, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Patent number: 7227232
    Abstract: A contactless Mask ROM is described, comprising a plurality of MOS-type memory cells. The memory cells include a plurality of first memory cells and a plurality of second memory cells. The first memory cells have a first channel conductivity so that they are depletion-mode MOS transistors, and the second memory cells have a second channel conductivity so that they are enhanced-mode MOS transistors. In the contactless Mask ROM, a memory cell shares two diffusions with two adjacent memory cells that are aligned with the memory cell along a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Solid State System Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jhyy-Cheng Liou, Chin-Hsi Lin
  • Patent number: 7200038
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a layout of nonvolatile memory device. The memory cell has a gate electrode, a first doped electrode, and a second doped electrode. The first doped electrode is coupled to the bit line. The gate electrode is coupled to one separated word line. A shared coupled capacitor structure is coupled between all of memory cells of the adjacent bit lines from the second doped electrode. The capacitor structure has at least two floating-gate MOS capacitors. Each floating-gate MOS capacitor has a floating-gate transistor having a floating gate, a first S/D region and a second S/D region; and a MOS capacitor coupled to the floating gate. The first S/D region is coupled to the second doped electrode of the corresponding one of the transistor memory cells, and the second S/D region is shared with an adjacent one of the floating-gate transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Solid State System Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsing Lee, Chin-Hsi Lin, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Publication number: 20060284234
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device, including composite gate structures formed on a substrate in series along a bit line (BL) direction. Each of the composite gate structures has a first storage gate, a second storage gate, and a selection gate between the two storage gates. Each of the composite gate structures is respectively coupled to two world line (WL) connection terminals at the two storage gates and a selection terminal at the selection gate. Each of the storage gates corresponds to a memory bit cell. Multiple doped regions are in the substrate between the composite gate structures. A first selection doped region are formed in the substrate and coupled between a BL connection terminal and a first edge one of the composite gate structure. A second selection doped region is formed in the substrate and coupled between a second edge one of the composite gate structures and a voltage terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Tsung-Min Hsieh, Chien-Hsing Lee, Chin-Hsi Lin, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Publication number: 20060284240
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device includes composite gate structures formed on a substrate in series along a bit line direction. The composite gate structure has a first storage gate structure, a second storage gate structure, and a selection gate between the two storage gate structures. Each of the composite gate structures is respectively coupled to two world line connection terminals at the two storage gate structures and a selection terminal at the selection gate. Each of the storage gate structures corresponds to a memory bit cell. Multiple doped regions are in the substrate between the composite gate structures. A first selection doped region are formed in the substrate and coupled between a BL connection terminal and a first edge one of the composite gate structure. A second selection doped region is formed in the substrate and coupled between a second edge one of the composite gate structures and a voltage terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Tsung-Min Hsieh, Chien-Hsing Lee, Chin-Hsi Lin, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Patent number: 7119394
    Abstract: A structure of non-volatile memory has a plurality of buried bit lines in a substrate, extending along a first direction. Selection gate structure lines are located between the buried bit lines. A plurality of stack dielectric films on the both sides of the selection gate structure lines serving as a charge storage region, does not extend to the bit lines and a dielectric layer contacting a surface of substrate adjacent to stacked dielectric films. Word lines are over the substrate, wherein stacked dielectric films and a dielectric layer are interposed between WL and substrate on the region excluding the selection gate structure line, extending along a second direction different from the first direction. Since the charge storage layer does not completely cover between the selection gate structure lines and the bit lines, an additional control gate is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Solid State System Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Min Hsieh, Jhyy-Cheng Liou, Chien-Hsing Lee, Chin-Hsi Lin
  • Patent number: 7094649
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-level read only memory cell that can store two bits and the fabrication method thereof. The multi-level ROM cell has the storage capacity of two bits and the resultant NAND type ROM memory array can provide four logic states of two bits, thus increasing the data storage capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Solid State System Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsing Lee, Chin-Hsi Lin, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Patent number: 7061042
    Abstract: A memory array device has a plurality of gate structure lines, adjacently disposed over a substrate along a direction, wherein at least a portion of the gate structure lines have memory function. A plurality of first doped regions, in the substrate at a side of a first line of the gate structure lines. A plurality of second doped regions, in the substrate at a side of a last line of the gate structure lines. Wherein the first doped regions and the second doped regions respectively for a plurality of pairs of doped region with respect to a plurality of bit lines. In other words, the conventional source/drain regions for each memory cell are saved. Instead, the gate lines are adjacently disposed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Solid State System Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsing Lee, Chin-Hsi Lin, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Publication number: 20060108674
    Abstract: A package structure of a memory card includes a substrate. The substrate has connection pads on a first surface and conductive lead structures respectively coupled with the connection pads and extending to a second surface of the substrate. At least one chip is disposed over the substrate at the first surface. A plurality of bonding structures is respectively coupled between the conductive lead structures and the connection pads. A first packaging material layer with a desired thickness is formed on the substrate, wherein the first packaging material layer has an opening region not cover the chip and the bonding structures. A second packaging material layer with the same thickness as that of the first packaging material layer fills the opening region of the first packaging material layer. A packaging method for the memory card is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventors: Jhyy-Cheng Liou, Cheng-Yi Yang, Ting-Chung Hu
  • Patent number: 7046549
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a layout of nonvolatile memory device. The memory cell has a gate electrode, a first doped electrode, and a second doped electrode. The first doped electrode is coupled to the bit line. The gate electrode is coupled to one separated word line. A shared coupled capacitor structure is coupled between all of memory cells of the adjacent bit lines from the second doped electrode. The capacitor structure has at least two floating-gate MOS capacitors. Each floating-gate MOS capacitor has a floating-gate transistor having a floating gate, a first S/D region and a second S/D region; and a MOS capacitor coupled to the floating gate. The first S/D region is coupled to the second doped electrode of the corresponding one of the transistor memory cells, and the second S/D region is shared with an adjacent one of the floating-gate transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Solid State System Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsing Lee, Chin-Hsi Lin, Jhyy-Cheng Liou
  • Publication number: 20060086967
    Abstract: A structure of non-volatile memory has a plurality of buried bit lines in a substrate, extending along a first direction. Selection gate structure lines are located between the buried bit lines. A plurality of stack dielectric films on the both sides of the selection gate structure lines serving as a charge storage region, does not extend to the bit lines and a dielectric layer contacting a surface of substrate adjacent to stacked dielectric films. Word lines are over the substrate, wherein stacked dielectric films and a dielectric layer are interposed between WL and substrate on the region excluding the selection gate structure line, extending along a second direction different from the first direction. Since the charge storage layer does not completely cover between the selection gate structure lines and the bit lines, an additional control gate is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventors: Tsung-Min Hsieh, Jhyy-Cheng Liou, Chien-Hsing Lee, Chin-Hsi Lin
  • Patent number: 7027332
    Abstract: A memory driving circuit has a register for receiving a new-coming data and a delayed clock, and exporting a current-existing data. The delayed clock has a delay to a clock. A pre-detecting circuit receives the current-existing data, the new-coming data, and a pre-enable signal, and exports an output signal. Wherein, the current-existing data is compared with the new-coming data. The output signal indicates a disable state if the two data are the same. Otherwise, the output signal indicates an enable state, wherein the pre-enable signal is also used to enable or disable the pre-detecting circuit. An output driving circuit receives the current-existing data and an enabling signal, and exports a first output signal. A pre-driving circuit receives the output signal of the pre-detecting circuit and an enable control signal, and exports a second output signal. An I/O pad receives the first output signal and the second output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Solid State System Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng-Chang Kuo, Jhyy-Cheng Liou, Ting-Chung Hu
  • Publication number: 20060067118
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a layout of nonvolatile memory device. The memory cell has a gate electrode, a first doped electrode, and a second doped electrode. The first doped electrode is coupled to the bit line. The gate electrode is coupled to one separated word line. A shared coupled capacitor structure is coupled between all of memory cells of the adjacent bit lines from the second doped electrode. The capacitor structure has at least two floating-gate MOS capacitors. Each floating-gate MOS capacitor has a floating-gate transistor having a floating gate, a first S/D region and a second S/D region; and a MOS capacitor coupled to the floating gate. The first S/D region is coupled to the second doped electrode of the corresponding one of the transistor memory cells, and the second S/D region is shared with an adjacent one of the floating-gate transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: Chien-Hsing Lee, Chin-Hsi Lin, Jhyy-Cheng Liou