Patents Assigned to SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
  • Publication number: 20230133092
    Abstract: A SOI structured semiconductor silicon wafer and a method of making the same is disclosed, comprising: loading a semiconductor silicon wafer in a first batch vertical furnace, and conducting a long-time thermal treatment; conducting a sacrificial oxidation process in a second batch vertical furnace after the long-time thermal treatment; conducting a rapid thermal annealing treatment after the second step ; wherein during the long-time thermal treatment, the semiconductor silicon wafer is kept in a protection atmosphere of pure , heated-up until meet a target temperature after changing the atmosphere of pure argon into a mixture gas of 1-n % Ar and n % H2, and then annealed in the atmosphere of a mixture of 1-n % Ar and n % hydrogen gas or pure Ar, and n is a value no greater than 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicants: Zing Semiconductor Corporation, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Xing WEI, Rongwang DAI, Ziwen WANG, Minghao LI, Meng CHEN, Hongtao XU
  • Publication number: 20230138958
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for treating a wafer surface. By controlling the gas composition at each stage of the treatment process, and corresponding processes of heating and annealing, and cooling and thinning by oxidation, the final wafer is enabled to have a surface roughness of less than 5 ?. This effectively reduces the cost of the final treatment process and has good application prospects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xing Wei, Rong Wang Dai, Zi Wen Wang, Zhong Ying Xue, Meng Chen, Hong Tao Xu
  • Publication number: 20230133916
    Abstract: The present application provides a process of surface treatment of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer comprising: providing a SOI wafer comprising a back substrate, a top silicon layer and an insulating buried layer, wherein the insulating buried layer is located between the back substrate and the top silicon layer, and the top silicon layer has a surface roughness of larger than 10 ?; conducting a first planarization to a surface of the top silicon layer by conducting a batch annealing process at a first target temperature, and conducting a second planarization to a surface of the top silicon layer by conducting a rapid thermal annealing process at a second target temperature. The present application combines the batch annealing process and the rapid thermal annealing process to optimize the SOI wafer, especially the surface roughness of the SOI wafer. The SOI wafer planarized by the two thermal annealing processes has a good surface roughness of the top silicon layer which satisfies process requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicants: Zing Semiconductor Corporation, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Xing WEI, Rongwang DAI, Ziwen WANG, Minghao LI, Meng CHEN, Hongtao XU
  • Publication number: 20230134308
    Abstract: A SOI wafer and a method of final processing the same is disclosed. Rapid thermal annealing comprises a first heating process in an atmosphere of a mixture of argon gas and hydrogen gas, volume of the hydrogen gas being less than 10% of whole volume of the mixture, and a first annealing process in an atmosphere of argon gas and optionally hydrogen gas, volume of the hydrogen gas being no greater than 10% of whole volume of the mixture. Long-time thermal annealing comprises a second heating process in an atmosphere of a mixture of argon gas and hydrogen gas, volume of the hydrogen gas being less than 10% of whole volume of the mixture, and a second annealing process in an atmosphere of argon gas and optionally hydrogen gas, volume of the hydrogen gas being no greater than 10% of whole volume of the mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicants: Zing Semiconductor Corporation, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Xing WEI, Rongwang DAI, Ziwen WANG, Minghao LI, Hongtao XU, Meng CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230127051
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a gallium oxide semiconductor structure, a vertical gallium oxide-based power device, and a preparation method. An unintentionally doped gallium oxide layer (110) is transferred to a highly doped and highly thermally conductive heterogeneous substrate (200) by bonding and thinning; then a heavily doped gallium oxide layer (120) is formed on the gallium oxide layer by treating and ion implantation, thereby preparing the gallium oxide semiconductor structure including the heterogeneous substrate (200), the gallium oxide layer (110), and the heavily doped gallium oxide layer (120) stacked in sequence. In the vertical gallium oxide-based power device prepared on the basis of the gallium oxide semiconductor structure, the gallium oxide layer (110) is a thicker intermediate layer and a carrier concentration of the gallium oxide layer (110) is less than that of the heavily doped gallium oxide layer (120).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xin OU, Wenhui XU, Tiangui YOU, Zhenghao SHEN
  • Publication number: 20230040616
    Abstract: The invention provides a measuring method of resistivity of a wafer, comprising: choosing a wafer to be measured, conducting a thermal treatment for the wafer to remove a thermal doner in the wafer, conducting an oxidation process for the wafer to form an oxidized surface on the wafer, and measuring resistivity of the wafer. In the method, firstly, the wafer is oxidized to get the oxidized surface, so as to restrict surface variation when placing the wafer in a later process. Therefore, the resistivity measurement of the wafer surface only slightly varies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicants: Zing Semiconductor Corporation, SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xing WEI, Minghao LI, Zhongying XUE
  • Publication number: 20230037569
    Abstract: The present application provides a method for verification of conductivity type of a silicon wafer. The method comprises measuring the resistivity of the silicon wafer to obtain a first resistivity, placing the silicon wafer under atmosphere of air for a predicted time period, measuring the resistivity of the silicon wafer to obtain a second resistivity, and determining conductivity type of the silicon wafer by comparing the first resistivity and the second resistivity. The method can be applied to a silicon wafer having a high resistivity such as higher than 500 ohm-cm to rapidly and accurately determine conductivity type of the silicon wafer. Advantages of the method of the present application include accurate test results, easy operation, simple device requirement, and reduced cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicants: Zing Semiconductor Corporation, SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xing WEI, Minghao LI, Zhongying XUE
  • Publication number: 20230037252
    Abstract: A cryogenic memory cell and a memory device are provided. The cryogenic memory cell includes a spin moment transfer device. The spin moment transfer device converts a write current into a spin polarization current and changes a magnetic polarization direction under the action of the spin polarization current to achieve write storage of 0 and 1. The cryogenic memory cell also includes a nano-superconducting quantum interference device; a ground terminal of the nano-superconducting quantum interference device is in common-ground connection with a ground terminal of the spin moment transfer device, and the nano-superconducting quantum interference device undergoes a magnetic flux change under the action of a change in the magnetic polarization direction of the spin moment transfer device, thereby switching between a superconducting state and a non-superconducting state under a read current bias, to achieve read-out of 0 and 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Lei CHEN, Junwen ZENG, Zhen WANG
  • Patent number: 11568931
    Abstract: A read-out circuit and a read-out method for a three-dimensional memory, comprises a read reference circuit and a sensitive amplifier, the read reference circuit produces read reference current capable of quickly distinguishing reading low-resistance state unit current and reading high-resistance state unit current. The read reference circuit comprises a reference unit, a bit line matching module, a word line matching module and a transmission gate parasitic parameter matching module. With respect to the parasitic effect and electric leakage of the three-dimensional memory in the plane and vertical directions, the present invention introduces the matching of bit line parasite parameters, leakage current and transmission gate parasitic parameters into the read reference current, and introduces the matching of parasitic parameters of current mirror into the read current, thereby eliminating the phenomenon of pseudo reading and reducing the read-out time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
    Inventors: Yu Lei, Houpeng Chen, Zhitang Song
  • Patent number: 11560315
    Abstract: The present invention provides a graphene structure having graphene bubbles and a preparation method for the same. The preparation method comprises: providing a substrate; forming a hydrogen terminated layer on a top surface of the substrate and a graphene layer disposed on a top surface of the hydrogen terminated layer; and placing a probe on the graphene layer and applying a preset voltage to the probe, to excite a part of the hydrogen terminated layer at a position corresponding to the probe to convert into hydrogen, the hydrogen causing the graphene layer at a position corresponding to the hydrogen to bulge, so as to form a graphene bubble enveloping the hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China
    Inventors: Zengfeng Di, Pengfei Jia, Zhongying Xue, Xiaohu Zheng, Miao Zhang, Xi Wang
  • Publication number: 20220396485
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for preparing patterned graphene, and the method includes using a silicon carbide base as a solid-state carbon source, decomposing the silicon carbide under the action of high temperature and catalyst, to directly grow graphene on an insulating substrate. Through a first patterned trench and a second patterned trench in an accommodating passage, the pattern of the formed graphene can be directly controlled. Therefore, the present disclosure can accurately locate the position of the patterned graphene on the insulating substrate, it does not require transferring the graphene one more time, thereby avoiding contaminating the graphene and damaging its structure, and there is no need for photo-lithography, ion etching and other processes to treat the graphene in order to obtain patterned graphene, which further avoids damages to the graphene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Hongyan ZHU, Tianru WU, Jiebin GU, Chao ZHANG, Boxiang GAO
  • Publication number: 20220361032
    Abstract: A micro-power wireless access method and apparatus for the Internet of things for power transmission and transformation equipment involves a time synchronization process, a traffic channel access process, a control channel configuration information access process, and a control channel burst information access process. In the time synchronization process, an aggregation node determines a delay parameter and other parameters based on a timeslot in which traffic information randomly transmitted by a sensing terminal is located, and the sensing terminal adjusts transmission time of a corresponding frame based on the parameters. The traffic channel access process adopts a mode in which one-way reporting is mainly used, to minimize working time of a sensor. The present disclosure realizes limited two-way communication on a control channel, supports configuration of a sensor cycle, a threshold, and other parameters, and supports a retransmission mechanism on the control channel for important alarm information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicants: State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., Ltd. Research Institute, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., Ltd., State Grid Corporation of China
    Inventors: Jianhua Qin, Yongling Lu, Hong Liu, Chengbo Hu, Zhen Wang, Chao Yun, Min Zheng, Jun Jia, Guojiang Zhang, Lingling Xu, Fengbo Tao, Qiang Huang, Ziquan Liu, Xueqiong Zhu, Chong Tan
  • Publication number: 20220333269
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of detecting crystallographic defects, comprising: sampling wafer of an ingot in complying with a predetermined wafer sampling frequency; identifying crystallographic defects of the wafer to show the crystallographic defects of the wafer; characterizing observation of the crystallographic defects of the wafer and extracting a value characterizing the crystallographic defects; through a result of characterizing the crystallographic defects, obtaining a radial distribution of density of the wafer and categorizing the crystallographic defects; and obtaining an isogram of the crystallographic defects of the wafer to show a crystallographic defect distribution of the whole ingot according to the value characterizing the crystallographic defects and categories of the crystallographic defects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicants: Zing Semiconductor Corporation, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Xing WEI, Yun LIU, Xun WANG, Zhongying XUE
  • Publication number: 20220328761
    Abstract: A phase change material, a phase change memory cell, and a preparation method thereof. The phase change material comprises elements tantalum, antimony and tellurium, the phase change material having a chemical formula of TaxSbyTez, wherein x, y, and z represent atomic ratios of the elements respectively; and 1?x?25, 0.5?y:z?3, and x+y+z=100. The phase change thin film material TaxSbyTez has a high phase change speed, outstanding thermal stability, strong data retention capability, a long cycle life, and a high yield. Ta5.7Sb37.7Te56.6 has ten-year data retention capability at 165° C.; and applying same in a device cell of a phase change memory achieves an operating speed of 6 ns and endurance of more than 1 million write-erase cycles. The crystal grains of the phase change material TaxSbyTez of the present disclosure are small, and after annealing treatment at 400° C. for 30 minutes, the grain size is still smaller than 30 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Sannian SONG, Yuan XUE, Zhitang SONG
  • Publication number: 20220291145
    Abstract: The present application provides a method for characterizing defects in silicon crystal comprising the following steps: etching a surface of the silicon crystal to remove a predicted thickness of the silicon crystal; conducting a LLS scanning to a surface of the etched silicon crystal to obtain a LLS map of the surface, a LSE size of defects, and defect bulk density; based on at least one of the LLS map of the surface, the LSE size of defects and the defect bulk density, determining a type of defect existing in the silicon crystal and/or a defect zone of each type of defect on the surface. By applying the method, the characterizing period and the characterizing cost can be reduced, plural defects such as vacancy, oxygen precipitate and dislocation can be characterized simultaneously, the characterizing accuracy can be enhanced, and the defect type and the defect zone can be determined with high reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicants: Zing Semiconductor Corporation, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Xing WEI, Yun LIU, Zhongying XUE
  • Publication number: 20220290298
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-throughput vapor deposition apparatus and a vapor deposition method. A rotary workbench (2) is located in a reaction chamber (1); a gas introduction device (3) is located in the reaction chamber (1) and above the rotary workbench (2); a plurality of through holes (31) is provided on the gas introduction device (3); a gas isolation structure (4) divides an upper chamber (11) into an isolation gas chamber (111) and a reaction gas chamber (112) which are isolated from each other; an isolation gas is introduced into the isolation gas chamber (111) via an isolation gas introduction channel (5), and a reaction gas is introduced into the reaction gas chamber (112) via a reaction gas introduction channel (6), for carrying out thin film deposition on an area of a substrate corresponding to the reaction gas chamber (112).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Weimin Li, Wenjie YU, Lei ZHU, Yiying WANG
  • Patent number: 11443941
    Abstract: A method of making a silicon on insulator structure comprises: providing a bonded structure, the bonded structure comprises the first substrate, the second substrate and the insulating buried layer, the insulating buried layer is positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate; peeling off a layer of removing region of the first substrate from the bonded structure to obtain a first film; at a first temperature, performing a first etching to etch the first film to remove a first thickness of the first film; at a second temperature, performing a second etching to etch the first film to planarize the first film and remove a second thickness of the first film, the first temperature being lower than the second temperature, the first thickness being greater than the second thickness, and a sum of the first thickness and the second thickness being a total etching thickness of the first film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: Zing Semiconductor Corporation, SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xing Wei, Nan Gao, Zhongying Xue
  • Publication number: 20220286137
    Abstract: A superconducting integrated circuit design method based on placement and routing by different-layer JTLs comprises: cutting a bias line at a cell data interface of a cell library, and reserving a position of a via; placing and arranging cells on a logic cell layer according to a schematic circuit logic diagram; connecting clock lines of each of the cells by using a JTL and a splitter of the logic cell layer; and performing data connection on each of the cells by using JTLs of a transverse JTL routing layer and a longitudinal JTL routing layer which are not in the same layer as the logic cell layer, wherein the JTL of the transverse JTL routing layer is used as a transverse routing cell for data between the cells, the JTL of the longitudinal JTL routing layer is used as a longitudinal routing cell for data between the cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: JIE REN, RUO TING YANG, XIAO PING GAO, ZHEN WANG
  • Publication number: 20220255289
    Abstract: The present invention provides a laser, including: a medium, having a ground state, an intermediate state, and an excited state in ascending order of energy; an excitation system, configured to excite electrons in the medium from the ground state to the intermediate state; and an excitation laser, configured to drive electrons in the intermediate state at different spatial positions in the medium to the ground state through a stimulated emission process with a fixed phase relationship, to generate a laser with a shorter relative wavelength. Due to the use of an excitation laser to drive electrons from the intermediate state, the photons generated by the stimulated emission have coherence, thereby forming a laser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Shan QIAO, Zhinan ZENG, Xiaoyan LIANG
  • Patent number: 11402266
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for improving a counting rate of a superconducting nanowire single photon detector. The method includes: coupling an electrical attenuator in series with an output end of the superconducting nanowire single photon detector; the electrical attenuator includes an input end and an output end, and the input end of the electrical attenuator is coupled with the output end of the superconducting nanowire single photon detector. The present disclosure couples the electrical attenuator in series with the output end of the superconducting nanowire single photon detector. Since the configuration of the electrical attenuator is a resistor network, it can act as a series resistor and can also reduce the response pulse amplitude of the superconducting nanowire single photon detector. The present disclosure can improve the counting rate of the superconducting nanowire single photon detector, while keeping the detection efficiency high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Lixing You, Chaolin Lv, Weijun Zhang, Hao Li, Zhen Wang