Radially Symmetric Regions Patents (Class 257/166)
  • Patent number: 11546996
    Abstract: An electronic device module includes: a substrate; a sealing portion disposed on the substrate; at least one electronic device mounted on the substrate and embedded in the sealing portion; and a roof wiring at least partially disposed on a surface of the sealing portion and electrically connecting the substrate to the at least one electronic device or electrically connecting electronic devices, among the at least one electronic device, to each other. The roof wiring includes: a surface wiring disposed on one surface of the sealing portion; and at least one post wiring connecting the surface wiring to the substrate or to the at least one electronic device, and wherein at least a portion of a circumferential surface of the at least one post wiring is bonded to the surface wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung Mok Jang
  • Patent number: 9691710
    Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a substrate, a plurality of pin pads, a radio frequency (RF) pad, a semiconductor component, at least one surface mount device (SMD) component, a mold compound, a printed circuit board (PCB) antenna and a conductive solder. The RF pad is used to receive or transmit an RF signal on the top side of the substrate. The SMD component is mounted on the RF pad. The mold compound on the top side of the substrate covers the semiconductor component and the SMD component. The PCB antenna is located on the mold compound. Wherein, the conductive solder and the SMD component are stacked between the RF pad and a feeding structure of the PCB antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: CYNTEC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Joseph D. S. Deng, Chia-Hsien Shen, Shu-Wei Chang, Kuan-Chih Huang
  • Patent number: 9142656
    Abstract: A phase control thyristor includes a main gate structure and a plurality of local emitter shorts dots arranged in a shorts pattern on a cathode side of the thyristor. The main gate structure includes longitudinal main gate beams extending from a center region of the cathode side towards a circumferential region. Neighboring main gate beams are arranged with a distance with respect to an associated intermediate middle line. The shorts pattern is more homogeneous in a region closer to a main gate beam than in a region closer to an associated middle line. Adaptions to match shorts patterns in neighboring segments of the cathode side surface are made in regions away from the main gate beams such that an electron hole plasma spreading from the main gate beam is not interfered by any inhomogeneity of the shorts dots pattern. The design rules enable an improvement of the thyristor operational characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: ABB TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventor: Peter Streit
  • Patent number: 8772794
    Abstract: Disclosed are a light emitting device package and a lighting system in which the light emitting device package includes a first cavity in a first region of the body, a second cavity in a second region of the body, first and second lead frames spaced apart from each other in the first cavity, a third lead frame spaced apart from the second lead frame in the second cavity, a first light emitting device on the first and second lead frames in the first cavity, a second light emitting device on the second and third lead frames in the second cavity, and a molding member in the first and second cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Buemyeon Lee
  • Patent number: 8410520
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that include a first registered jack and a junction coupled to the first registered jack. These systems and methods also include a first source unit connected to the junction and a first layer encasing at least part of the first registered jack, the junction, and the first source unit. In addition, these systems and methods include an o-ring preventing surrounding the first layer and a housing encasing the first layer and the o-ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Applied Optical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Raju Penumatcha, Vince Wouters
  • Patent number: 8084786
    Abstract: High frequency performance of (e.g., silicon) bipolar devices is improved by reducing the extrinsic base resistance Rbx. Emitter, base and collector regions are formed in or on a semiconductor substrate. The emitter contact has a portion that overhangs a portion of the extrinsic base contact, thereby forming a cave-like cavity between the overhanging portion of the emitter contact and the underlying regions of the extrinsic base contact. When the emitter contact and the extrinsic base contact are silicided, some of the metal atoms forming the silicide penetrate into the cavity so that the highly conductive silicided extrinsic base contact extends under the edge of the emitter contact closer to the base itself, thereby reducing Rbx. Smaller Rbx provides transistors with higher fMAX.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay P. John, James A. Kirchgessner, Vishal P. Trivedi
  • Patent number: 7420228
    Abstract: A bipolar transistor comprising a collector region of a first conduction type, and a subcollector region of the first conduction type at a first side of the collector region. The transistor further includes a base region of the second conduction type provided at a second side of the collector region, and an emitter region of the first conduction type which is provided above the base region on the side remote from the collection region. A carbon-doped semiconductor region is provided on the first side alongside the collector region. The bipolar transistor is characterized in that the carbon-doped semiconductor region has a carbon concentration of 1019-1021 cm?3 and the base region has a smaller cross section than the collector region and the collector region has, in the overlap region with the base region, a region having an increased doping compared with the remaining region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Josef Bock, Thomas Meister, Reinhard Stengl, Herbert Schafer
  • Patent number: 6963088
    Abstract: A semiconductor component is arranged in a semiconductor body and has at least one integrated radially symmetrical lateral resistance having a location-dependent sheet resistance, the radial dependence of which is preferably configured such that the differential resistance dR is radially constant or the power dissipated in the resistance is radially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Inventors: Uwe Kellner-Werdehausen, Franz-Josef Niedernostheide, Hans-Joachim Schulze, Frank Pfirsch
  • Patent number: 6603154
    Abstract: A lower electrode of a semiconductor is directly connected to a heat sink, while a first electrode and a second electrode are connected to a plate-shaped second conductor by means of a first conductor. Radiated heat of the semiconductor is directly conducted to the heat sink and absorbed. The heat is radiated by being further conducted to the plate-shaped second conductor via the first conductor, thereby allowing the semiconductor to have a reduced temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Sakai, Kazuhiro Nobori, Kazuo Arisue
  • Patent number: 6495865
    Abstract: A microcathode which integrates both an electron emitter, or cathode, and an extractor electrode. The electron emitter is attached to the back side of a thin film microstructure on a first surface of a substrate. Electrons are emitted from the electron emitter and into a via extending through the substrate. An electron beam is formed which is pulled through the via and out of the microcathode by an extractor electrode on a second surface of the substrate. The extractor electrode modulates the electron beam current, defines the beam profile, and accelerates the electrons toward an anode located outside of the microcathode. Microcathode of this invention are particularly suitable as electron emitting devices useful for various types of electron beam utilizing equipment such as flat cathode ray tube displays, microelectronic vacuum tube amplifiers, electron beam exposure devices and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Burgess R. Johnson, Barrett E. Cole, Robert D. Horning, Ulrich Bonne
  • Publication number: 20010021544
    Abstract: In a crystallization process of an amorphous semiconductor film, a first crystalline semiconductor film having crystalline regions, and dotted with amorphous regions within the crystalline regions, is obtained by performing heat treatment processing after introducing a metallic element which promotes crystallization on the amorphous semiconductor film. The amorphous regions are kept within a predetermined range by regulating the heat treatment conditions at this point. Laser annealing is performed on the first crystalline semiconductor film, to form a second crystalline semiconductor film. Electrical characteristics for a TFT manufactured based on the second crystalline semiconductor film can be obtained having less dispersion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideto Ohnuma, Chiho Kokubo, Koichiro Tanaka, Naoki Makita, Shuhei Tsuchimoto
  • Patent number: 6169292
    Abstract: A monolithic type active matrix semiconductor device comprises a substrate having an insulating surface, a first plurality of thin film transistors formed on the substrate, each having a first channel region comprising an amorphous silicon semiconductor film, and a second plurality of thin film transistors, each having a second channel region comprising a crystalline semiconductor film. The crystalline semiconductor film of the second plurality of thin film transistors has a substantially single crystalline structure (mono-domain structure) and is doped with a recombination center neutralizer at a concentration of 1×1016 to 1×1020 atoms/cm3. The crystalline semiconductor film of the second plurality of thin film transistors contains a catalyst element which is capable of promoting crystallization of silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Satoshi Teramoto
  • Patent number: 6066864
    Abstract: Given too great a dU/dt load of a thyristor, this can trigger in uncontrolled fashion in the region of the cathode surface. Since the plasma only propagates poorly there and the current density consequently reaches critical values very quickly, there is the risk of destruction of the thyristor due to local overheating. The proposed thyristor has a centrally placed BOD structure and a plurality of auxiliary thyristors (1.-5. AG) annularly surrounding the BOD structure. The resistance of the cathode-side base (8) is locally increased under the emitter region (11) allocated to the innermost auxiliary thyristor (1. AG). Since the width (L) and the sheet resistivity of this annular zone (15) critically influences the dU/dt loadability of the first auxiliary thyristor (1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Ruff, Hans-Joachim Schulze, Frank Pfirsch
  • Patent number: 6033924
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a field emission device (200) includes the steps of forming on the surface of a substrate (110) a cathode (112), forming on the cathode (112) a dielectric layer (114), forming an emitter well (115) in the dielectric layer (114), forming within the emitter well (115) an electron emitter structure (118) having a surface (123), forming on a portion of the dielectric layer (114) a gate electrode (116), depositing on the dielectric layer (114) a sacrificial layer (210), thereafter depositing on the surface (123) of the electron emitter structure (118) a coating material (220, 320, 420) that has an emission-enhancing material, and then removing the sacrificial layer (210).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Sung P. Pack, Babu R. Chalamala
  • Patent number: 5818074
    Abstract: A semiconductor thyristor has multiple different semiconductor layers with regions arranged in predetermined configurations to cause a plasma of carriers to flow in an expanding volume over a finite time to reach a full conduction condition, after the thyristor is switched into a conductive condition. A smooth current or connectivity transition occurs between a nonconductive state and a conductive state, thereby eliminating the typical, more instantaneous and discontinuous on-switching conductivity transitions. The finite and increased time to reach the full conduction inherently reduces the di/dt effect created by switching the thyristor. The reduced di/dt substantially reduces the radiated and conductive interference signals generated by switching the thyristor. The growth in the size of the plasma is controlled using configurations of the semiconductor structure and doping profiles within the semiconductor layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Beacon Light Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Nelson, David K. Umberger
  • Patent number: 5736755
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices having emitters having resistive emitter diffusion sections are in a radial pattern. Such devices include vertical PNP power devices. The radial pattern of holes defines resistive emitter diffusion sections between adjacent holes. The resistive emitter diffusion sections result in a lower emitter ballast resistance due to the higher emitter sheet resistance of PNP devices. This allows all the periphery of the emitter to be active, not just two sides. The device has improved emitter ballast resistance while at the same time remaining efficient with low saturation resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Delco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: John Rothgeb Fruth, John Kevin Kaszyca, Mark Wendell Gose
  • Patent number: 5654562
    Abstract: An insulated gate semiconductor device (10) is fabricated by providing at least one ballast resistor (40) having a sheet resistance of at least one square. The ballast resistor (40) is formed in the emitter region (17) between two adjacent portions of the base region (26) at the top surface of the semiconductor body in which the device (10) is fabricated. The ballast resistor (40) improves the latch resistance of the device (10) in overload conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: William L. Fragale, Paul J. Groenig, Vasudev Venkatesan
  • Patent number: 5637886
    Abstract: When an abrupt voltage noise is applied across an anode electrode (A) and a cathode electrode (K), displacement currents (I.sub.10 to I.sub.30) which are responsive to junction capacitances (C.sub.10 to C.sub.30) of respective unit thyristors (ST.sub.1, ST.sub.2, MT) are generated. The displacement currents (I.sub.10 to I.sub.30) flow into a compensation electrode (C) through paths in a P base layer (2) having resistances (R.sub.10 to R.sub.30), and further flow to an external power source through the cathode electrode (K) which is short-circuited with the compensation electrode (C). The paths of the three displacement currents (I.sub.10 to I.sub.30) are separated from each other by resistances (R.sub.12, R.sub.23). Therefore, a forward bias voltage of a junction (D.sub.10) caused by the displacement current (I.sub.10) is attenuated by the displacement current (I.sub.20), while a forward bias voltage of a junction (D.sub.20) caused by the displacement current (I.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsumi Satoh, Kenichi Honda, Kazuhiko Niwayama
  • Patent number: 5554863
    Abstract: A gate turn-off thyristor including: an n-type emitter semiconductor layer divided into a plurality of n-type areas; a p-type base semiconductor layer which cooperates with the n-type emitter semiconductor layer to form a first main circular surface; an n-type base semiconductor layer; and a p-type emitter semiconductor layer cooperating with the n-type base semiconductor layer to form a second main circular surface. An outer diameter of the p-type emitter semiconductor layer is smaller than that of the n-type emitter semiconductor layer. A first main electrode put in low resistance contact with the n-type emitter semiconductor layer is formed on the first main surface. A second main electrode put in low resistance contact with the p-type emitter layer and the n-type base semiconductor layer is formed on the second main surface. A control electrode is formed in the p-type base semiconductor on the first main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Haramachi Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sigeyasu Kouzuchi, Shuroku Sakurada, Takashi Saitoh, Hitoshi Komuro
  • Patent number: 5539245
    Abstract: A silicon wafer having a low concentration of carbon and a silicon wafer having a high concentration of carbon are joined and polished to prescribed thicknesses to form a semiconductor substrate according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Materials Silicon Corporation, Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Imura, Kenji Kusakabe
  • Patent number: 5455434
    Abstract: A thyristor includes a semiconductor body with a surface. The semiconductor body has an inner zone of a first conduction type; a cathode-side base zone of a second conduction type opposite the first type, the base zone having a recess formed therein; a layer of the second conduction type being disposed on the surface of the semiconductor body, being disposed in the cathode-side base zone, being thinner than the cathode-side base zone, and being joined to the cathode-side base zone; and an additional zone of the second conduction type being disposed in the recess, being joined to the layer, being thicker than the layer, and being spaced apart from the cathode-side base zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Frank Pfirsch