Patents Examined by Brigitte A Paterson
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Patent number: 11769709Abstract: A miniaturized oscillating heat pipe (OHP) embedded within an integrated circuit (IC) is provided. The miniaturized oscillating heat pipe (OHP) integrally formed within an integrated circuit (IC) is fabricated to form a monolithic IC device using silicon (or similar future semiconductors) fabrication techniques. The OHP is operable to transfer high local heat fluxes within the IC device to more accessible locations on the IC device for heat rejection to an available heat sink.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: THERMAVANT TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Christopher D. Smoot, Joe Boswell, Corey Wilson
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Patent number: 11756969Abstract: A method for fabricating an image sensor array having a first group of photodiodes for detecting light at visible wavelengths a second group of photodiodes for detecting light at infrared or near-infrared wavelengths, the method including growing a germanium-silicon layer on a semiconductor donor wafer; defining pixels of the image sensor array on the germanium-silicon layer; defining a first interconnect layer on the germanium-silicon layer, wherein the interconnect layer includes a plurality of interconnects coupled to the first group of photodiodes and the second group of photodiodes; defining integrated circuitry for controlling the pixels of the image sensor array on a semiconductor carrier wafer; defining a second interconnect layer on the semiconductor carrier wafer, wherein the second interconnect layer includes a plurality of interconnects coupled to the integrated circuitry; and bonding the first interconnect layer with the second interconnect layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Artilux, Inc.Inventors: Yun-Chung Na, Szu-Lin Cheng, Shu-Lu Chen, Han-Din Liu, Hui-Wen Chen, Che-Fu Liang
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Patent number: 11756937Abstract: A display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same. The display apparatus includes a circuit board; and a plurality of pixels formed on the circuit board, wherein at least one of a blue light emitting diode chip, a red light emitting diode part, and a green light emitting diode chip is disposed in each of the pixels, and the blue light emitting diode chip, the red light emitting diode part and the green light emitting diode chip are covered by a coupling structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Motonobu Takeya
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Patent number: 11735610Abstract: The disclosure discloses a global shutter CMOS image sensor, which adopts non-uniform storage diffusion region doping to reduce the junction leakage at storage points, so as to ensure that with the increase of the depth of photodiodes and the increase of pixels, all carriers in rows read subsequently can be transferred to storage diffusion regions, the loss of the carriers in the storage diffusion regions is not caused when a global shutter transistor is turned on, and the carriers can be completely transferred from the storage diffusion regions to floating diffusion regions through second transfer transistors even if the number of rows of pixel units increases during reading-out row by row. The disclosure further discloses a method for making the global shutter CMOS image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Shanghai Huali Microelectronics CorporationInventors: Zhi Tian, Zhen Gu, Hua Shao, Haoyu Chen
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Patent number: 11695008Abstract: Two or more types of fin-based transistors having different gate structures and formed on a single integrated circuit are described. The gate structures for each type of transistor are distinguished at least by the thickness or composition of the gate dielectric layer(s) or the composition of the work function metal layer(s) in the gate electrode. Methods are also provided for fabricating an integrated circuit having at least two different types of fin-based transistors, where the transistor types are distinguished by the thickness and composition of the gate dielectric layer(s) and/or the thickness and composition of the work function metal in the gate electrode.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Curtis Tsai, Chia-Hong Jan, Jeng-Ya David Yeh, Joodong Park, Walid M. Hafez
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Patent number: 11688611Abstract: A method for manufacturing a capacitor includes: providing a substrate and a multilayer structure; forming a recess in the multilayer structure; forming a first electrode layer on a surface of the recess; performing a selective etching treatment to remove the first and second stack material layers; performing a selective vapor phase etching treatment to the first electrode layer to form a smaller thickness of the first electrode layer; and forming a dielectric layer and a second electrode layer in which the dielectric layer is between the first and second electrode layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Jen-I Lai, Chun-Heng Wu
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Patent number: 11652074Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises: a first set of one or more metal pads on a first substrate surface, the first set of one or more metal pads to couple with contacts of an integrated circuit die, a second set of one or more metal pads on the first substrate surface, the second set of one or more metal pads to couple with semiconductor surfaces of the integrated circuit die, one or more thermal regions below the first substrate surface, wherein the one or more thermal regions comprise thermally conductive material and are coupled with the second set of one or more metal pads, dielectric material adjacent the one or more thermal regions, and one or more conductive contacts on a second substrate surface, opposite the first substrate surface, the one or more conductive contacts coupled with the first set of one or more metal pads, and the one or more conductive contacts to couple with contacts of a printed circuit board. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Feras Eid, Johanna Swan
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Patent number: 11637184Abstract: A drift layer is formed of silicon carbide and has a first conductivity type. A trench bottom protective layer is provided on a bottom portion of a gate trench and has a second conductivity type. A depletion suppressing layer is provided between a side surface of the gate trench and the drift layer, extends from a lower portion of a body region up to a position deeper than the bottom portion of the gate trench, has the first conductivity type, and has an impurity concentration of the first conductivity type higher than that of the drift layer. The impurity concentration of the first conductivity type of the depletion suppressing layer is reduced as the distance from the side surface of the gate trench becomes larger.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei Adachi, Katsutoshi Sugawara, Yutaka Fukui, Hideyuki Hatta, Rina Tanaka
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Patent number: 11609246Abstract: A test and measurement device is described with at least one measurement channel, a measurement input, an analog to digital converter, and an acquisition unit. The test and measurement device has a trigger clock configured to generate repeated trigger clock timings, the trigger clock timings controlling the acquisition unit. In addition, a method for applying a trigger is described.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Markus Freidhof
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Patent number: 11521982Abstract: The present disclosure may provide a semiconductor device having a stable structure and a low manufacturing degree of the difficulty. The device may include conductive layers and insulating layers which are alternately stacked; a plurality of pillars passing through the conductive layers and the insulating layers; and a plurality of deposition inhibiting patterns, each deposition inhibiting pattern being formed along a portion of an interface between a side-wall of each of the pillars and each of the conductive layers and along a portion of an interface between each of the insulating layers and each of the conductive layers.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventor: Young Jin Lee
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Patent number: 11508733Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes: a substrate including active regions; a device isolation film defining the active regions; a word line arranged over the active regions and the device isolation film and extending in a first horizontal direction; and a gate dielectric film arranged between the substrate and the word line and between the device isolation film and the word line, in which, in a second horizontal direction orthogonal to the first horizontal direction, a width of a second portion of the word line over the device isolation film is greater than a width of a first portion of the word line over the active regions. To manufacture the integrated circuit device, an impurity region is formed in the substrate and the device isolation film by implanting dopant ions into the substrate and the device isolation film, and a thickness of a portion of the impurity region is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyungjun Noh, Junsoo Kim, Dongsoo Woo, Namho Jeon
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Patent number: 11495556Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes: providing a semiconductor chip comprising an active surface; forming a conductive bump over the active surface of the semiconductor chip; and coupling the conductive bump to a substrate. The conductive bump includes a plurality of bump segments including a first group of bump segments and a second group of bump segments. Each bump segment has a same segment thickness in a direction orthogonal to the active surface of the semiconductor chip, and each bump segment has a volume defined by a multiplication of the same segment thickness with an average cross-sectional area of the bump segment in a plane parallel to the active surface of the semiconductor chip. A ratio of a total volume of the first group of bump segments to a total volume of the second group of bump segments is between 0.03 and 0.8.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.Inventors: Pei-Haw Tsao, An-Tai Xu, Huang-Ting Hsiao, Kuo-Chin Chang
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Patent number: 11488983Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an array substrate and a method for manufacturing the array substrate. The array substrate includes a substrate having a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region, the display region including sub-pixels arranged in an array, and a plurality of thin film transistors located on the substrate, including a plurality of first thin film transistors located within the peripheral region and a second thin film transistor located within each sub-pixel of the display region, wherein there is a first distance in a row and/or column direction between first active layers of the first thin film transistors and second active layers of nearest neighbor second thin film transistors, and there is a second distance in a row and/or column direction between adjacent second active layers, wherein the first distance is substantially equal to the second distance.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Chen Xu, Hongfei Cheng
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Patent number: 11482529Abstract: Described is a low power, high-density a 1T-1C (one transistor and one capacitor) memory bit-cell, wherein the capacitor comprises a pillar structure having ferroelectric material (perovskite, improper ferroelectric, or hexagonal ferroelectric) and conductive oxides as electrodes. In various embodiments, one layer of the conductive oxide electrode wraps around the pillar capacitor, and forms the outer electrode of the pillar capacitor. The core of the pillar capacitor can take various forms.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Kepler Computing Inc.Inventors: Sasikanth Manipatruni, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Ramamoorthy Ramesh
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Patent number: 11476260Abstract: Described is a low power, high-density a 1T-1C (one transistor and one capacitor) memory bit-cell, wherein the capacitor comprises a pillar structure having ferroelectric material (perovskite, improper ferroelectric, or hexagonal ferroelectric) and conductive oxides as electrodes. In various embodiments, one layer of the conductive oxide electrode wraps around the pillar capacitor, and forms the outer electrode of the pillar capacitor. The core of the pillar capacitor can take various forms.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Kepler Computing Inc.Inventors: Sasikanth Manipatruni, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Ramamoorthy Ramesh
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Patent number: 11476261Abstract: Described is a low power, high-density a 1T-1C (one transistor and one capacitor) memory bit-cell, wherein the capacitor comprises a pillar structure having ferroelectric material (perovskite, improper ferroelectric, or hexagonal ferroelectric) and conductive oxides as electrodes. In various embodiments, one layer of the conductive oxide electrode wraps around the pillar capacitor, and forms the outer electrode of the pillar capacitor. The core of the pillar capacitor can take various forms.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Kepler Computing Inc.Inventors: Sasikanth Manipatruni, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Ramamoorthy Ramesh
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Patent number: 11462533Abstract: An ESD protection circuit, an array substrate and a display device are disclosed. The ESD protection circuit includes a plurality of first ESD units, each of which includes: a first active layer, a first insulating layer, a first metallic layer, a second insulating layer and a second metallic layer which are disposed on a base substrate; the first active layer includes a plurality of first connection terminals; the first metallic layer includes a plurality of first conductive terminals; the second metallic layer includes a plurality of second conductive terminals an orthographic projection of the first metallic layer and an orthographic projection of the second metallic layer the base substrate are at least partly overlapped with an orthographic projection of the first active layer on the base substrate respectively; and the first conductive terminals and the second conductive terminals are electrically connected with different first connection terminals, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Chen Ting Liu, Zhiming Hu, Chunxiang Nan, Xiaodong Pan, Lili Cao, Ping Wang, Xiaochuan Ma
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Patent number: 11462557Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a source structure formed on a base, an etch prevention layer formed on the source structure, bit lines, a stack structure located between the etch prevention layer and the bit lines and including conductive layers and insulating layers that are alternately stacked on each other, and a channel structure passing through the stack structure and the etch prevention layer, wherein a lower portion of the channel structure is located in the source structure and a sidewall of the lower portion of the channel structure is in direct contact with the source structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventor: Nam Jae Lee
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Patent number: 11456307Abstract: A flash memory is provided and includes a substrate including a memory cell region; a memory transistor array including memory transistors and selecting transistors in the memory cell region; a functional layer covering outer surfaces of the memory transistors and selecting transistors, as well as surfaces of the substrate between adjacent memory transistors and selecting transistors; a dielectric layer covering top surfaces of the memory transistors and selecting transistors and fills gaps between each selecting transistor and a corresponding adjacent memory transistor; and air gaps formed between adjacent memory transistors. Each selecting transistor is used for selecting one column of memory transistors in the memory transistor array. The functional layer has a roughened surface capable of absorbing water. The air gaps in the flash memory are water vapor induced air gaps.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignees: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation, Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) CorporationInventors: Liang Chen, Shengfen Chiu
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Patent number: 11447869Abstract: A method includes: forming an n-type diffusion layer as a second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer on a first-conductivity-type crystalline semiconductor substrate; and forming an anti-reflective film by a CVD method to extend from a light receiving surface side to a side surface of the semiconductor substrate, by placing the semiconductor substrate on a mount in a film forming chamber with a back surface brought into contact with the mount, evacuating and decompressing the film forming chamber, and supplying source gas into the film forming chamber. In the film formation, a tray has a through hole, and the anti-reflective film is formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate excluding the contact surface by bringing the semiconductor substrate into close contact with the contact surface by causing the through hole to have a negative pressure relative to the pressure in the film forming chamber by the evacuation.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Yokogawa, Takahiro Kawasaki