Patents Examined by Bitew A Dinke
  • Patent number: 11322590
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first active fin on the substrate, the first active fin including a first side surface and a second side surface opposing the first side surface, a second active fin on the substrate, the second active fin including a third side surface facing the second side surface and a fourth side surface opposing the third side surface of the second active fin, a first isolation layer on the first side surface of the first active fin, a second isolation layer between the second side surface of the first active fin and the third side surface of the second active fin, a third isolation layer on the fourth side surface of the second active fin and a merged source/drain on the first and second active fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jongki Jung, Myungil Kang, Yoonhae Kim, Kwanheum Lee
  • Patent number: 11309310
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type having a first principal surface on one side and a second principal surface on the other side, the semiconductor layer in which a device formation region and an outer region outside the device formation region are set, a channel region of a second conductivity type formed in a surface layer portion of the first principal surface of the semiconductor layer in the device formation region, an emitter region of a first conductivity type formed in a surface layer portion of the channel region, a gate electrode formed at the first principal surface of the semiconductor layer in the device formation region, the gate electrode facing the channel region across a gate insulating film, a collector region of a second conductivity type formed in a surface layer portion of the second principal surface of the semiconductor layer in the device formation region, an inner cathode region of a first conductivity type formed in the surface layer po
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei Shinsho
  • Patent number: 11309505
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate and multiple organic light-emitting units located in the display region on a first side of the substrate, where an area of at least one of organic light-emitting units in the second display region is smaller than an area of each of organic light-emitting units with a same light-emitting color in the first display region, and/or, density of the organic light-emitting units in the first display region is greater than density of the organic light-emitting units in the second display region. The second display region includes at least one quantum dot light-emitting unit, which does not overlap the organic light-emitting units; and each of the at least one quantum dot light-emitting unit emits light of a same color as at least one of the organic light-emitting units located in the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xue Jiang, Yu Cai, Feng Yu
  • Patent number: 11289541
    Abstract: A resistive random access memory (RRAM) device is provided. The RRAM device includes a gate structure on a substrate, and a source region and a drain region disposed on opposite sides of the gate structure on the substrate. The source region includes a semiconductor bulk, and the drain region includes a plurality of semiconductor fins adjacent to the semiconductor bulk, wherein the semiconductor fins are separated from each other by an isolation layer. The RRAM device further includes a plurality of RRAM units, wherein each of the RRAM units electrically contacts one of the semiconductor fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: WINBOND ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Frederick Chen
  • Patent number: 11289531
    Abstract: A detection panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a photo detection device are provided. The detection panel includes a plurality of detection pixel units in an array, the detection pixel unit includes a reflective structure on a base substrate, a detection circuit and a photoelectric conversion structure on the reflective structure; the photoelectric conversion structure includes a first electrode, a photodiode and a second electrode stacked sequentially, and the first electrode is electrically connected with the detection circuit, and the first electrode is an optically transparent electrode, and an orthographic projection of the reflective structure on the base substrate at least covers an orthographic projection of the photodiode on the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guan Zhang, Jianxing Shang
  • Patent number: 11289327
    Abstract: Methods and precursors for depositing silicon nitride films by atomic layer deposition (ALD) are provided. In some embodiments the silicon precursors comprise an iodine ligand. The silicon nitride films may have a relatively uniform etch rate for both vertical and the horizontal portions when deposited onto three-dimensional structures such as FinFETS or other types of multiple gate FETs. In some embodiments, various silicon nitride films of the present disclosure have an etch rate of less than half the thermal oxide removal rate with diluted HF (0.5%).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: ASM IP Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Antti J. Niskanen, Shang Chen, Viljami Pore
  • Patent number: 11282972
    Abstract: Crystalline material, phototransistor, and methods of fabrication thereof. The crystalline material comprising a plurality of stacked two-dimensional black phosphorous carbide layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
    Inventors: Wee Chong Tan, Kah-Wee Ang
  • Patent number: 11283034
    Abstract: A hybrid particle according to the present invention includes an inorganic core particle, an electron transport layer covering a surface of the inorganic core particle, and a light absorption layer covering the electron transport layer. The light absorption layer contains a compound having an organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite crystal structure or a metal complex. The compound or the metal complex is grown in a crystalline form on a surface of the electron transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shintaro Miyanishi, Hiroshi Sugimura, Tatsuhiro Morita
  • Patent number: 11276640
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of first wires formed in a first layer, a plurality of second wires formed to intersect the plurality of first wires in a second layer stacked on the first layer, a plurality of first vias formed at intersections of the plurality of first wires and the plurality of second wires, and an inductor formed in a third layer stacked on the first layer and the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Uchida
  • Patent number: 11264493
    Abstract: An apparatus including a circuit structure including a first side including a device layer including a plurality of devices and an opposite second side; an electrically conductive contact coupled to one of the plurality of devices on the first side; and an electrically conductive interconnect disposed on the second side of the structure and coupled to the conductive contact. A method including forming a transistor device including a channel between a source and a drain and a gate electrode on the channel defining a first side of the device; forming an electrically conductive contact to one of the source and the drain from the first side; and forming an interconnect on a second side of the device, wherein the interconnect is coupled to the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Morrow, Kimin Jun, Il-Seok Son, Donald W. Nelson
  • Patent number: 11264515
    Abstract: A resistor element encompasses a first resistive layer, a first protection strip implemented by a tandem connection of p-n junctions, an interlayer insulating film covering the first resistive layer and the first protection strip, a first external electrode on the interlayer insulating film, being connected to a terminal of the first resistive layer and a terminal of the first protection strip, and a second external electrode on the interlayer insulating film, being connected to another terminal of the first resistive layer and another terminal of the first protection strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taichi Karino
  • Patent number: 11257964
    Abstract: A sensor package structure includes a substrate, a sensor chip disposed on and electrically coupled to the substrate, an opaque support (e.g., a ring-shaped solder mask) disposed on the sensor chip, and a light permeable layer disposed on the opaque support. The sensor chip includes a sensing region. The opaque support surrounds the sensing region, and inner lateral sides of the opaque support form a light-scattering loop wall. The light permeable layer, the light-scattering loop wall of the opaque support, and the sensor chip jointly define an enclosed space therein. When light passes through the light permeable layer and impinges onto the light-scattering loop wall at an incident angle, the light-scattering loop wall scatters the light into multiple rays at angles different from the incident angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: KINGPAK TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Fu-Chou Liu, Chien-Chen Lee, Li-Chun Hung, Ya-Han Chang
  • Patent number: 11242984
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electroluminescent lighting device having high aperture ratio. The present disclosure provides an electroluminescent light device comprising: a substrate including an emission area and a non-emission area surrounding the emission area; a power line disposed in the emission area and defining an open area; a buffer layer covering the power line; an emission element disposed in the open area on the buffer layer; a link electrode overlapping the power line on the buffer layer, and having a first end connected to the emission element and a second end connected to the power line; a passivation layer deposited within a width of the power line covering the link electrode; an emission layer covering the emission area; and a cathode layer covering the emission area on the emission layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngkyun Moon, JongMin Kim, Seunghyun Youk
  • Patent number: 11245020
    Abstract: One example of an apparatus includes a conducting channel region. The conducting channel region includes a plurality of epitaxially grown, in situ doped conducting channels arranged in a spaced apart relation relative to each other. A source positioned at a first end of the conducting channel region, and a drain positioned at a second end of the conducting channel region. A gate surrounds all sides of the conducting channel region and fills in spaces between the plurality of epitaxially grown, in situ doped conducting channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruqiang Bao, Michael A. Guillorn, Terence Hook, Robert R. Robison, Reinaldo Vega, Tenko Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11233086
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a semiconductor structure of an image sensor, an associated chip and an electronic apparatus. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of pixel groups disposed on the bottom of the semiconductor substrate. Each of the pixel groups includes: a first pixel and a second pixel located in the same row and being adjacent to each other, and a third pixel and a fourth pixel located in another row and being adjacent to each other, wherein the first pixel and the third pixel are disposed diagonally. Each of the pixels includes four sub-pixels, and the four sub-pixels of each pixel share a floating diffusion region and the floating diffusion region is surrounded by photodetectors of the four sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ching-Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 11222930
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes a base substrate, organic electroluminescence components arranged on the base substrate in an array, and a photoelectric conversion component corresponding to each of the organic electroluminescence components. A luminescent spectrum of each organic electroluminescence component comprises a first waveband and a second waveband. The first waveband is determined by an emission peak of the luminescent spectrum, and is used to determine brightness and tone purity of light emitted by the organic electroluminescence component. The photoelectric conversion component is at least used to convert light of the second waveband emitted by a corresponding organic electroluminescence component into electric energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guangcai Yuan, Kang Guo, Xin Gu, Haixu Li
  • Patent number: 11189538
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method that includes providing an integrated circuit (IC) substrate having various devices and an interconnection structure that couples the devices to an integrated circuit; forming a first passivation layer on the IC substrate; forming a redistribution layer on the first passivation layer, the redistribution layer being electrically connected to the interconnection structure; forming a second passivation layer on the redistribution layer and the first passivation layer; forming a polyimide layer on the second passivation layer; patterning the polyimide layer, resulting in a polyimide opening in the polyimide layer; and etching the second passivation layer through the polyimide opening using the polyimide layer as an etch mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Fan Huang, Mao-Nan Wang, Kuo-Chin Chang, Hui-Chi Chen, Dian-Hau Chen, Yen-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11189570
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a line structure including a conductive line formed on a substrate and an insulation capping pattern that covers the conductive line; an insulation spacer covering a sidewall of the line structure; a conductive plug spaced apart from the conductive line in a first horizontal direction with the insulation spacer between the conductive plug and the conductive line; a conductive landing pad arranged on the conductive plug to vertically overlap the conductive plug; and a capping layer including a first portion between the conductive landing pad and the insulation capping pattern, wherein the first portion of the capping layer has a shape in which a width in the first horizontal direction gradually increases as a distance from the substrate increases between the conductive landing pad and the insulation capping pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-a Kim, Yong-kwan Kim, Se-keun Park, Ho-in Ryu
  • Patent number: 11183533
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a curved-surface detector includes: slimming a sensor substrate having photoelectric devices arranged therein to a predetermined thickness; seating the sensor substrate slimmed to the predetermined thickness on a jig curved so as to have a curved-surface shape such that the sensor substrate is curved so as to have a curved-surface shape; and joining a flexible scintillator substrate configured to emit light when being struck by radiation to an upper surface of the sensor substrate such that curvature of the sensor substrate curved so as to have a curved-surface shape by the jig is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Beom Kim
  • Patent number: 11177168
    Abstract: A method includes forming a trench in a low-K dielectric layer, where the trench exposes an underlying contact area of a substrate. A first tantalum nitride (TaN) layer is conformally deposited within the trench, where the first TaN layer is deposited using atomic layer deposition (ALD) or chemical vapor deposition (CVD). A tantalum (Ta) layer is deposited on the first TaN layer conformally within the trench, where the Ta layer is deposited using physical vapor deposition (PVD). An electroplating process is performed to deposit a conductive layer over the Ta layer. A via is formed over the conductive layer, where forming the via includes depositing a second TaN layer within the via and in contact with the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ya-Lien Lee, Hung-Wen Su, Kuei-Pin Lee, Yu-Hung Lin, Yu-Min Chang