Patents Examined by Amar Movva
  • Patent number: 11557563
    Abstract: A sintered member is provided between a semiconductor chip and a terminal. The sintered member is made of a sinter sheet by heating and pressing the same. The semiconductor chip is connected to the terminal via the sintered member. Convex portions are formed at a front-side surface of the semiconductor chip. Concave portions, each of which has such a shape corresponding to that of each convex portion of the semiconductor chip, are formed at a surface of the sintered member facing to the semiconductor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohito Iwashige, Katsuya Kumagai, Takeshi Endoh
  • Patent number: 11538765
    Abstract: A semiconductor sub-assembly and a semiconductor power module capable of having the reduced thickness of a chip and reduced thermal resistance are provided. The semiconductor sub-assembly includes a single or a plurality of semiconductor chips having a first electrode that is formed on the lower surface thereof, a second electrode that is formed on the upper surface thereof, and a plurality of chip-side signal electrode pads that are formed at one end of the upper surface thereof. The semiconductor chip is embedded in the embedded structure and a plurality of extension signal electrode pads are connected to each of the chip-side signal electrode pads. The extension signal electrode pad is formed on the embedded substrate in a size greater than the chip-side signal electrode pad when viewed on the plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Hiyoshi Michiaki, Sung Min Park
  • Patent number: 11538780
    Abstract: Embodiments of a three-dimensional (3D) memory device and fabrication methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, the 3D memory device includes a peripheral circuitry formed on a first substrate. The peripheral circuitry includes a plurality of peripheral devices on a first side of the first substrate, a first interconnect layer, and a deep-trench-isolation on a second side of the first substrate, wherein the first and second sides are opposite sides of the first substrate and the deep-trench-isolation is configured to provide electrical isolation between at least two neighboring peripheral devices. The 3D memory device also includes a memory array formed on a second substrate. The memory array includes at least one memory cell and a second interconnect layer, wherein the second interconnect layer of the memory array is bonded with the first interconnect layer of the peripheral circuitry, and the peripheral devices are electrically connected with the memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Chen, Wei Liu, Cheng Gan
  • Patent number: 11532735
    Abstract: Semiconductor structures including active fin structures, dummy fin structures, epitaxy layers, a Ge containing oxide layer and methods of manufacture thereof are described. By implementing the Ge containing oxide layer on the surface of the epitaxy layers formed on the source/drain regions of some of the FinFET devices, a self-aligned epitaxy process is enabled. By implementing dummy fin structures and a self-aligned etch, both the epitaxy layers and metal gate structures from adjacent FinFET devices are isolated in a self-aligned manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Cheng Chiang, Kuan-Lun Cheng, Chih-Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 11527544
    Abstract: A three-dimensional memory device includes an electrode structure including a plurality of interlayer dielectric layers and a plurality of electrode layers which are alternately stacked on a first substrate, each of the plurality of electrode layers having a pad part which does not overlap with another electrode layer positioned on the electrode layer; a pass transistor positioned below the first substrate; and a first contact passing through the electrode structure from the pad part of one of the plurality of electrode layers, and coupling the pad part and the pass transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Hyun Sung, Jin Ho Kim, Sung Lae Oh
  • Patent number: 11521945
    Abstract: The present application provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a bonding pad disposed over a semiconductor substrate; a first spacer disposed over a top surface of the bonding pad; a second spacer disposed over a sidewall of the bonding pad; a dielectric layer between the bonding pad and the semiconductor substrate. The dielectric layer includes silicon-rich oxide; and a conductive bump disposed over the first passivation layer. The conductive bump is electrically connected to a source/drain (S/D) region in the semiconductor substrate through the bonding pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chun-Chi Lai
  • Patent number: 11517982
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a support member and a mount member mounting on the support member. The support member and the mount member are sealed by a resin member. The support member includes a surface having a laser irradiation mark. The mount member includes a surface having a rough portion with an accumulation of material of the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Kobayashi, Takumi Nomura, Yukinori Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11521981
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor memory device includes a peripheral circuit structure including a first row decoder region, a second row decoder region, and a control circuit region between the first and second row decoder regions, a first electrode structure and a second electrode structure on the peripheral circuit structure, spaced apart in a first direction, and each including stacked electrodes, a mold structure on the peripheral circuit structure between the first and second electrode structures and including stacked sacrificial layers, vertical channel structures penetrating the first and second electrode structures, a separation insulating pattern provided between the first electrode structure and the mold structure and penetrating the mold structure, and a separation structure intersecting the first electrode structure in the first direction and extending to the separation insulating pattern, wherein a maximum width of the separation insulating pattern in a second direction is greater than a maximum width of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwangyoung Jung, Sangyoun Jo, Kohji Kanamori, Jeehoon Han
  • Patent number: 11521992
    Abstract: An array substrate manufacturing method includes forming a plurality of first lead lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of connecting lines over a substrate. Each first lead line is insulated from any pixel electrode, and each connecting line is insulated from any first lead line and is configured to electrically couple at least two pixel electrodes such that a set of pixel electrodes electrically coupled by each set of connecting lines substantially form an equivalent lead line. The method further includes detecting whether there is a short circuit between one equivalent lead line and a first lead line, and severing each of the plurality of connecting lines such that any two of the plurality of pixel electrodes are not electrically coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukun Jia, Niannian Wang, Miao Wang, Dalin Fan, Fan Yang, Ge Zhang, Zongrui Feng
  • Patent number: 11515475
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to memory devices and methods of forming the same. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to resistive random-access (ReRAM) memory devices. The present disclosure provides a memory device including an opening in a dielectric structure, the opening having a sidewall, a first electrode on the sidewall of the opening, a spacer layer on the first electrode, a resistive layer on the first electrode and upon an upper surface of the spacer layer, and a second electrode on the resistive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Curtis Chun-I Hsieh, Wei-Hui Hsu, Wanbing Yi, Yi Jiang, Kai Kang, Juan Boon Tan
  • Patent number: 11515391
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of channels, source/drain layers, and a gate structure. The channels are sequentially stacked on a substrate and are spaced apart from each other in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate. The source/drain layers are connected to the channels and are at opposite sides of the channels in a second direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate. The gate structure encloses the channels. The channels have different lengths in the second direction and different thicknesses in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Krishna Kumar Bhuwalka, Seong-Je Kim, Jong-Chol Kim, Hyun-Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 11502101
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes; a lower stacked structure including lower metallic lines stacked in a first direction on a substrate, an upper stacked structure including a first upper metallic line and a second upper metallic line sequentially stacked on the lower stacked structure, a vertical structure penetrating the upper stacked structure and lower stacked structure and including a channel film, a connection pad disposed on the vertical structure, contacted with the channel film and doped with N-type impurities, a first cutting line cutting the lower metallic lines, the first upper metallic line and the second upper metallic line, a second cutting line spaced apart from the first cutting line in a second direction different from the first direction, and cutting the lower metallic lines, the first upper metallic line and the second upper metallic line, and sub-cutting lines cutting the first upper metallic line and the second upper metallic line between the first cutting line and the second cuttin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohji Kanamori, Jee Hoon Han, Seo-Goo Kang, Hyo Joon Ryu
  • Patent number: 11502016
    Abstract: A power amplifier module includes a substrate including, in an upper surface of the substrate, an active region and an element isolation region. The power amplifier module further includes a collector layer, a base layer, and an emitter layer that are stacked on the active region; an interlayer insulating film that covers the collector layer, the base layer, and the emitter layer; a pad that is thermally coupled to the element isolation region; and an emitter bump that is disposed on the interlayer insulating film, electrically connected to the emitter layer through a via hole provided in the interlayer insulating film, and electrically connected to the pad. In plan view, the emitter bump partially overlaps an emitter region which is a region of the emitter layer and through which an emitter current flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Kondo, Masahiro Shibata
  • Patent number: 11495623
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. In the display substrate of the present disclosure, a first transistor comprises a first gate electrode, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first active layer; and a second transistor comprises a second gate electrode, a third electrode, a fourth electrode, and a second active layers, wherein the first active layer comprises a silicon material, the second active layer comprises an oxide semiconductor material, and wherein the third electrode and the first gate electrode are disposed in the same layer, and the fourth electrode and the first electrode, the second electrodes are disposed in the same layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanan Niu, Kuanjun Peng, Jiushi Wang, Zhanfeng Cao, Feng Zhang, Qi Yao, Wusheng Li, Feng Guan, Lei Chen, Jintao Peng, Tingting Zhou
  • Patent number: 11495594
    Abstract: An electrostatic protection circuit and a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate, and a display device are provided. The electrostatic protection circuit includes: at least one first transistor and at least one second transistor. A gate electrode and a first electrode of the first transistor are connected to a first signal line, and a second electrode of the first transistor is connected to a second signal line. A gate electrode and a first electrode of the second transistor are connected to the second signal line, and a second electrode of the second transistor is connected to the first signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunping Long, Yong Qiao, Xinyin Wu
  • Patent number: 11482503
    Abstract: A method for soldering a die obtained using the semiconductor technique with a leadframe, comprising the steps of providing a leadframe, which has at least one surface made at least partially of copper; providing a die, which has at least one surface coated with a metal layer; applying to the surface a solder alloy comprising at least 40 wt % of tin or at least 50% of indium or at least 50% of gallium, without lead, and heating the alloy to a temperature of at least 380° C. to form a drop of solder alloy; providing a die, which has at least one surface coated with a metal layer; and setting the metal layer in contact with the drop of solder alloy to form the soldered connection with the leadframe. Moreover, a device obtained with said method is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Michele Calabretta, Crocifisso Marco Antonio Renna, Sebastiano Russo, Marco Alfio Torrisi
  • Patent number: 11476272
    Abstract: Memory stack structures extending through an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers is formed over a substrate. Each memory stack structure includes a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel. A sacrificial polycrystalline metal layer may be formed on each memory film, and a carbon precursor may be decomposed on a physically exposed surface of the sacrificial polycrystalline metal layer to generate adsorbed carbon atoms. A subset of the adsorbed carbon atoms diffuses through grain boundaries in the polycrystalline e metal layer to an interface with the memory film. The carbon atoms at the interface may be coalesced into at least one graphene layer by an anneal process. The at least one graphene layer functions as a vertical semiconductor channel, which provides a higher mobility than silicon. A metallic drain region may be formed at an upper end of each vertical semiconductor channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Peter Rabkin, Masaaki Higashitani
  • Patent number: 11462493
    Abstract: An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection scheme is provided that reduces EMI noise propagation among functional circuit blocks of an integrated circuit (IC). Traditional ESD protection schemes include an ESD bus electrically tied to the substrate of an integrated circuit (e.g., a P-well) and substrate well regions associated with electromagnetic interference (EMI) aggressor and sensitive circuits. These electrical couplings can propagate EMI noise on the ESD bus throughout the circuit blocks of the IC. Embodiments provide an ESD bus that is not tied to the substrate well regions associated with EMI aggressor and sensitive circuits of the IC, but instead is a separate conductive layer electrically coupled to an external ground. In this manner, the device circuits are isolated from EMI noise carried in the ESD bus, thereby protecting the various functional blocks from such noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Radu Mircea Secareanu, Michael A. Stockinger
  • Patent number: 11462562
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device comprising: a first stacked structure in which first insulating layers and first conductive layers are alternately stacked; a second stacked structure in which second insulating layers and second conductive layers are alternately stacked; a first memory pillar provided in the first stacked structure; a first dividing structure dividing the first conductive layers; a second memory pillar provided within the second stacked structure and connected to the first memory pillar; a second dividing structure dividing the second conductive layers; a first alignment mark pillar provided in the first stacked structure and projecting from the first stacked structure; a second alignment mark pillar provided on the first alignment mark pillar; an alignment mark surrounded by the second alignment mark pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Yumi Nakajima, Satoshi Nagashima
  • Patent number: 11456254
    Abstract: A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device includes; a first block and a second block arranged on a first substrate in a first direction, wherein each of the first block and the second block includes electrode layers stacked on the first substrate, a source layer interposed between the first block and the first substrate, and between the second block and the first substrate, a first insulating separation pattern interposed between the first block and the second block and extending in the first direction, wherein the first insulating separation pattern includes a line portion and a protruding portion, the line portion extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and the protruding portion having a width greater than a width of the line portion, a first source contact plug penetrating the protruding portion of the first insulating separation pattern to electrically connect the source layer, and at least one through via penetrating the source layer and at least one of the first block and th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jisoo Chung, Kang-Won Lee, Sung-Min Hwang