Patents Examined by Ajay Arora
  • Patent number: 11495522
    Abstract: In examples, an electronic device comprises a printed circuit board (PCB), an orifice extending through the PCB, and a semiconductor die suspended above the orifice by aluminum bond wires. The semiconductor die is vertically aligned with the orifice and the bond wires coupled to the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Barry Jon Male, Marco Corsi
  • Patent number: 11488927
    Abstract: A press-pack semiconductor fixture 200 includes a housing defining an interior passage. A first conductor and a second conductor are mechanically coupled with the housing. The mechanical coupling of the first conductor and the second conductor with the housing is effective to apply a clamping force to a press pack semiconductor. A number of apertures or openings are provided in the housing, the first conductor, and the second conductor to permit fluidic flow 290 between the interior passage 239 and spaces or structures exterior to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Thomas Kendzia, III, Gilbert Taylor Miller
  • Patent number: 11488890
    Abstract: Systems and methods for utilizing the dead space around the periphery of a chip for sealing a direct liquid cooled module are disclosed. One of the functions of a direct liquid cooled module is to provide cooling liquid to components located on a chip. A groove member for receiving a sealing member may be applied to the top surface of the chip. The groove member may be directly deposited to the top surface or coupled thereto via an adhesive and/or epoxy. The groove member may be in the form of opposing sidewalls or a u-shaped structure each of which form a partial enclosure for receipt of the sealing member. The groove member may be located entirely within the dead space or at least partially within the dead space and partially within a central area in which the chip components are located. The sealing member may be an O-ring or a gasket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jorge Padilla, Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Connor Burgess, Padam Jain, Yuan Li, Feini Zhang
  • Patent number: 11488937
    Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, a lower package structure on the package substrate that includes a mold substrate, a semiconductor chip in the mold substrate having chip pads exposed through the mold substrate, spacer chips in the mold substrate and spaced apart from the semiconductor chip, and a redistribution wiring layer on the mold substrate that has redistribution wirings electrically connected to the chip pads, first and second stack structures on the lower package structure spaced apart from each other, each of the first and second stack structures including stacked memory chips, and a molding member covering the lower package structure and the first and second stack structures, wherein the mold substrate includes a first covering portion covering side surfaces of the semiconductor chip and the spacer chips, and a second covering portion covering a lower surface of the semiconductor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Chung, Myungkee Chung, Younglyong Kim
  • Patent number: 11482490
    Abstract: The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first electrode including a first vertical column, and a first bottom branch unit at a first vertical level and including a first set of bottom plates extending from the first vertical column and parallel to a first direction; two second electrodes respectively including a second vertical column, and a second bottom branch unit at a second vertical level higher than the first vertical level and including a first set of bottom plates extending from the second vertical column and parallel to the first direction; and a first insulation layer positioned between the first and second bottom branch unit. The first sets of bottom plates of the first and second bottom branch unit are partially overlapped. The first insulation layer and the first and second electrode together configure a programmable structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hsih-Yang Chiu
  • Patent number: 11482462
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress a crack in a sealing resin and a warpage in a semiconductor device in a power semiconductor device. A power semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor element; a terminal; a chassis; and a sealing resin sealing the semiconductor element and the terminal in the chassis. The sealing resin includes: a first sealing resin covering at least the semiconductor element; and a second sealing resin formed on an upper portion of the first sealing resin, and in an operation temperature of the semiconductor element, the first sealing resin has a smaller linear expansion coefficient than the second sealing resin, and a difference of a linear expansion coefficient between the first sealing resin and the terminal is smaller than a difference of a linear expansion coefficient between the second sealing resin and the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Taishi Sasaki, Yuki Yoshioka, Hiroyuki Harada, Yusuke Kaji
  • Patent number: 11476188
    Abstract: Embedded die packaging for semiconductor devices and methods of fabrication wherein conductive vias are provided to interconnect contact areas on the die and package interconnect areas. Before embedding, a protective masking layer is provided selectively on regions of the electrical contact areas where vias are to be formed by laser drilling. The material of the protective masking layer is selected to control absorption properties of surface of the pad metal to reduce absorption of laser energy during laser drilling of micro-vias, thereby mitigating overheating and potential damage to the semiconductor device. The masking layer is resistant to surface treatment of other regions of the electrical contact areas, e.g. to increase surface roughness to promote adhesion of package dielectric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: GaN Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Cameron McKnight-MacNeil
  • Patent number: 11476115
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a compound semiconductor substrate comprises: a step to form an SiC (silicon carbide) layer on a Si (silicon) substrate, a step to form a LT (Low Temperature)-AlN (aluminum nitride) layer with a thickness of 12 nanometers or more and 100 nanometers or less on the SiC layer at 700 degrees Celsius or more and 1000 degrees Celsius or less, a step to form a HT (High Temperature)-AlN layer on the LT-AlN layer at a temperature higher than the temperature at which the LT-AlN layer was formed, a step to form an Al (aluminum) nitride semiconductor layer on the HT-AlN layer, a step to form a GaN (gallium nitride) layer on the Al nitride semiconductor layer, and a step to form an Al nitride semiconductor layer on the GaN layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Air Water Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsuhisa Narukawa, Hiroki Suzuki, Sumito Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11476204
    Abstract: A flip-chip packaging substrate and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes stacking a plurality of insulating layers having conductive posts in a manner that the conductive posts are stacked on and in contact with one another. The insulating layers and the conductive posts serve as a core layer structure of the flip-chip packaging substrate. As such, the conductive posts having small-sized end surfaces can be fabricated according to the practical need. Therefore, when the thickness of the core layer structure is increased, the present disclosure not only increases the rigidity of the flip-chip packaging substrate so as to avoid warping, but also ensures the design flexibility of the small-sized end surfaces of the conductive posts, allowing high-density electrical connection points and fine-pitch and high-density circuit layers to be fabricated on the core layer structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: PHOENIX PIONEER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pao-Hung Chou, Chun-Hsien Yu, Shih-Ping Hsu, Tung-Yao Kuo
  • Patent number: 11462636
    Abstract: A method for fabricating high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes the steps of: forming a buffer layer on a substrate; forming a first barrier layer on the buffer layer; forming a patterned mask on the first barrier layer; forming a second barrier layer adjacent to two sides of the patterned mask; removing the patterned mask to form a recess; forming a gate electrode in the recess; and forming a source electrode and a drain electrode adjacent to two sides of the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Po-Yu Yang
  • Patent number: 11462490
    Abstract: A security chip includes: a first medium layer; a second medium layer disposed on the first medium layer, where the first medium layer is an optically denser medium relative to the second medium layer, and a roughness of an upper surface of the first medium layer is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, so that light entering the second medium layer from the first medium layer is able to be totally reflected and/or scattered; and a semiconductor chip disposed on the second medium layer. Based on the above technical solution, light incident from a lower surface of the first medium layer is able to be totally reflected or scattered by the upper surface of the first medium layer, so that most of light cannot reach a logic or storage area on the front of the security chip, thereby achieving the purpose of resisting a laser attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Lu, Jian Shen
  • Patent number: 11462580
    Abstract: Implementations of image sensor packages may include a plurality of microlenses coupled over a color filter array (CFA), a low refractive index layer directly coupled to and over the plurality of microlenses, an adhesive directly coupled to and over the low refractive index layer, and an optically transmissive cover directly coupled to and over the adhesive. Implementations may include no gap present between the optically transmissive cover and the plurality of microlenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Oswald L. Skeete, Brian Anthony Vaartstra, Derek Gochnour
  • Patent number: 11450753
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a semiconductor device and method of manufacturing. Embodiments of the disclosure enable placing of protective structures without modifying spacing rules. The device includes a first device region defined above a substrate, the first device region being isolated from the substrate by a buried insulating layer. The first device region includes a first power rail, a first signal line traversing at least a first portion of the first device region, and a first plurality of edge cells positioned in the substrate adjacent the first device region. A first edge cell includes a substrate contact connecting the first power rail to the substrate and a first signal line antenna diode connecting the first signal line to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. INC.
    Inventors: Stefan Block, Herbert Johannes Preuthen, Ulrich Hensel
  • Patent number: 11450766
    Abstract: A high electron mobility transistor, including an active area, a buffer layer on the active area, a channel layer on the buffer layer, a barrier layer on the channel layer, and gate, source and drain on the barrier layer, and a trench isolation structure adjacent and surrounding the channel layer and the barrier layer to apply stress and modify two-dimension hole gas (2DHG) of the high electron mobility transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Po-Yu Yang
  • Patent number: 11444606
    Abstract: Provided is a spike pulse generation circuit comprising a single silicon device configured to non-periodically or periodically generate a spike pulse. More particularly, the spike pulse generation circuit comprising the single silicon device can utilize a positive feedback loop and a negative feedback loop to be mutually connected so as to selectively output a spike pulse related to a neural oscillation function similar to biological oscillation, thereby being capable of serving as a ring oscillator and performing a neuron function operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Sang Sig Kim, Kyoung Ah Cho, Doo Hyeok Lim
  • Patent number: 11430746
    Abstract: Implementations of a semiconductor device may include a first largest planar surface, a second largest planar surface and a thickness between the first largest planar surface and the second largest planar surface; and one of a permanent die support structure, a temporary die support structure, or any combination thereof coupled to one of the first largest planar surface, the second largest planar surface, the thickness, or any combination thereof. The first largest planar surface, the second largest planar surface, and the thickness may be formed by at least two semiconductor die. The warpage of one of the first largest planar surface or the second largest planar surface may be less than 200 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Seddon, Francis J. Carney
  • Patent number: 11424175
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor device and a heating structure. The semiconductor substrate includes a device region and a heating region surrounding the device region. The semiconductor device is located on the device region. The heating structure is located on the heating region and includes an intrinsic semiconductor area, at least one heating element and at least one heating pad. The intrinsic semiconductor area is surrounding the semiconductor device. The at least one heating element is located at a periphery of the intrinsic semiconductor area. The at least one heating pad is joined with the at least one heating element, wherein the at least one heating pad includes a plurality of contact structures, and a voltage is supplied from the plurality of contact structures to control a temperature of the at least one heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Tsung Shih, Chewn-Pu Jou, Stefan Rusu, Feng-Wei Kuo
  • Patent number: 11424428
    Abstract: Display devices and methods of manufacturing display devices are provided in which a sealing layer is provided on a metal layer, and the metal layer may be removed thereby facilitating removal of the sealing layer, for example, during a repair process. A display device includes a first substrate and a display assembly on the first substrate. The display assembly includes a plurality of sub-pixels, and a portion of the first substrate extends laterally beyond a periphery of the display assembly. A protective layer is provided on the portion of the first substrate that extends laterally beyond the periphery of the display assembly, and a sealing layer is disposed on the protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeonjun Oh, Jaehyeong Kim
  • Patent number: 11424329
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including first to fourth points defined using In ion intensity, Si concentration, and C concentration obtained from SIMS data. The active layer of the device is a first region between the first point and the second point. In addition, the C concentration in a third region between the third point and the fourth point is higher than the C concentration in a second region adjacent to the fourth region along a second direction. Also, the Si concentration in the second region is higher than the Si concentration in the third region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SUZHOU LEKIN SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Seob Han, Kwang Sun Baek, Young Suk Song
  • Patent number: 11424261
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present application are directed to an integrated circuit (IC) comprising a memory cell with a large operation window and a high erase speed. In some embodiments, the IC comprises a semiconductor substrate and a memory cell. The memory cell comprises a control gate electrode, a select gate electrode, a charge trapping layer, and a common source/drain region. The common source/drain is defined by the semiconductor substrate and is n-type. The control gate electrode and the select gate electrode overlie the semiconductor substrate and are respectively on opposite sides of the common source/drain. Further, the control gate electrode overlies the charge trapping layer and comprises a metal with a p-type work function. In some embodiments, the select gate electrode comprises a metal with an n-type work function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-Chi Wu, Cheng-Bo Shu, Chien Hung Liu