Patents Examined by Calvin Lee
  • Patent number: 11706538
    Abstract: An imaging system according to the present disclosure includes: an imaging device that is mounted in a vehicle, and captures and generates an image of a peripheral region of the vehicle; and a processing device that is mounted in the vehicle, and executes processing related to a function of controlling the vehicle on the basis of the image. The imaging device includes: a first control line, a first voltage generator that applies a first voltage to the first control line, a first signal line, a plurality of pixels that applies a pixel voltage to the first signal line, a first dummy pixel that applies a voltage corresponding to the first voltage of the first control line to the first signal line in a first period, a converter including a first converter that performs AD conversion on the basis of a voltage of the first signal line in the first period to generate a first digital code, and a diagnosis section that performs diagnosis processing on the basis of the first digital code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kawazu, Atsushi Suzuki, Junichiro Azami, Motohashi Yuichi
  • Patent number: 11695034
    Abstract: A capacitor structure may include a lower electrode on a substrate, a dielectric layer on the substrate, and an upper electrode on the dielectric layer. The lower electrode may include a metal nitride having a chemical formula of M1Ny (M1 is a first metal, and y is a positive real number). The dielectric layer may include a metal oxide and nitrogen (N), the metal oxide having a chemical formula of M2Ox (M2 is a second metal, and x is a positive real number). A maximum value of a detection amount of nitrogen (N) in the dielectric layer may be greater than a maximum value of a detection amount of nitrogen (N) in the lower electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seongyul Park, Jaewan Chang, Suhwan Kim, Hyunjun Kim
  • Patent number: 11682646
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) chip package includes a substrate and a wafer comprising an IC chip arranged on the substrate. The substrate includes first mounting pads unconnected to electrical connections in the substrate. The wafer includes second mounting pads that are disposed around corners of the IC chip, that extend radially outward relative to circuitry in the IC chip, that are unconnected to circuitry in the IC chip, and that mate with the first mounting pads on the substrate, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD.
    Inventors: Manish Nayini, Richard S. Graf, Janak G. Patel, Nazmul Habib
  • Patent number: 11665911
    Abstract: The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a lower interconnect disposed within a dielectric structure over a substrate. A memory device includes a data storage structure disposed between a bottom electrode and a top electrode. The bottom electrode is electrically coupled to the lower interconnect. A sidewall spacer includes an interior sidewall that continuously extends from along an outermost sidewall of the top electrode to below an outermost sidewall of the bottom electrode. The sidewall spacer further includes an outermost sidewall that extends from a bottom surface of the sidewall spacer to above a top of the bottom electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuan-Tai Tseng, Chung-Chiang Min, Shih-Chang Liu
  • Patent number: 11658032
    Abstract: A method includes providing a semiconductor structure having an active region and an isolation structure adjacent to the active region, the active region having source and drain regions sandwiching a channel region for a transistor, the semiconductor structure further having a gate structure over the channel region. The method further includes etching a trench in one of the source and drain regions, wherein the trench exposes a portion of a sidewall of the isolation structure, epitaxially growing a first semiconductor layer in the trench, epitaxially growing a second semiconductor layer over the first semiconductor layer, changing a crystalline facet orientation of a portion of a top surface of the second semiconductor layer by an etching process, and epitaxially growing a third semiconductor layer over the second semiconductor layer after the changing of the crystalline facet orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen-Chin Chen, Cheng-Yi Wu, Yu-Hung Cheng, Ren-Hua Guo, Hsiang Liu, Chin-Szu Lee
  • Patent number: 11637148
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a substantially flat area and a curved area extending from the substantially flat area; a first pixel electrode arranged in the curved area; a first emission layer disposed on the first pixel electrode; a second pixel electrode arranged in the substantially flat area; a second emission layer disposed on the second pixel electrode; a first functional layer having a first thickness disposed between the first pixel electrode and the first emission layer; and a second functional layer having a second thickness disposed between the second pixel electrode and the second emission layer. The first thickness is greater than the second thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sangmin Hong
  • Patent number: 11637214
    Abstract: A device may include: a highly doped n+ Si region; an intrinsic silicon multiplication region disposed on at least a portion of the n+ Si region, the intrinsic silicon multiplication having a thickness of about 90-110 nm; a highly doped p? Si charge region disposed on at least part of the intrinsic silicon multiplication region, the p? Si charge region having a thickness of about 40-60 nm; and a p+ Ge absorption region disposed on at least a portion of the p? Si charge region; wherein the p+ Ge absorption region is doped across its entire thickness. The thickness of the n+ Si region may be about 100 nm and the thickness of the p? Si charge region may be about 50 nm. The p+ Ge absorption region may confine the electric field to the multiplication region and the charge region to achieve a temperature stability of 4.2 mV/°C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Zhihong Huang, Di Liang, Yuan Yuan
  • Patent number: 11637110
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a conductive region and an insulating region; gate electrodes including sub-gate electrodes spaced apart from each other and stacked in a first direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate and extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and gate connectors connecting the sub-gate electrodes disposed on the same level; channel structures penetrating through the gate electrodes and extending in the conductive region of the substrate; and a first dummy channel structure penetrating through the gate electrodes and extending in the insulating region of the substrate and disposed adjacent to at least one side of the gate connectors in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jihye Kim, Jaehoon Lee, Jiyoung Kim, Bongtae Park, Jaejoo Shim
  • Patent number: 11631810
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes one or more lower interconnects arranged within a dielectric structure over a substrate. A bottom electrode is disposed over one of the one or more lower interconnects. The bottom electrode includes a first material having a first electronegativity. A data storage layer separates the bottom electrode from a top electrode. The bottom electrode is between the data storage layer and the substrate. A reactivity reducing layer includes a second material and has a second electronegativity that is greater than or equal to the first electronegativity. The second material contacts a lower surface of the bottom electrode that faces the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao-Yang Chen, Chun-Yang Tsai, Kuo-Ching Huang, Wen-Ting Chu, Pili Huang, Cheng-Jun Wu
  • Patent number: 11623069
    Abstract: The proposed device comprises a plurality of electroactive material actuator units arranged as a set. Control data for driving individual units is transferred over three shared power lines. The electroactive material actuator of each unit is driven depending on control data received from the power lines via a demodulator, a controller, and a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Achim Hilgers, Mark Thomas Johnson
  • Patent number: 11626436
    Abstract: An imaging device, includes: an imaging unit in which are disposed a plurality of pixels, each including a filter that is capable of changing a wavelength of light passing therethrough to a first wavelength and to a second wavelength and a light reception unit that receives light that has passed through the filter, and that captures an image via an optical system; an analysis unit that analyzes the image captured by the imaging unit; and a control unit that controls the wavelength of the light to be transmitted, by the filter based upon a result of analysis by the analysis unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sota Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11621309
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a metal reflective layer including a phase modulation surface on which oblong phase modulation elements are formed; a first electrode provided on the metal reflective layer; an organic emission layer that is provided on the first electrode and that emits light; and a second electrode provided on the organic emission layer, wherein the oblong phase modulation elements are arranged to form a geometric phase lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Sunghoon Lee, Seokho Song, Wonjae Joo
  • Patent number: 11616119
    Abstract: Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a laterally-extending container-shaped first capacitor electrode, and having a laterally-extending container-shaped second capacitor electrode laterally offset from the first capacitor electrode. Capacitor dielectric material lines interior surfaces and exterior surfaces of the container-shaped first and second capacitor electrodes. A shared capacitor electrode extends vertically between the first and second capacitor electrodes, and extends along the lined interior and exterior surfaces of the first and second capacitor electrodes. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Che-Chi Lee
  • Patent number: 11616136
    Abstract: A power amplifier comprising a GaN-based high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device, wherein a power added efficiency (PAE) of the power amplifier is greater than 32% at P1DB during operation of the power amplifier between 26.5 GHz and 30.5 GHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Wolfspeed, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Bothe, Evan Jones, Dan Namishia, Chris Hardiman, Fabian Radulescu, Terry Alcorn, Scott Sheppard, Bruce Schmukler
  • Patent number: 11616077
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first substrate having a first side for forming memory cells and an opposing second side, a doped region formed in the first side of the first substrate, a first connection structure formed over the second side of the first substrate and coupled to the doped region through a first VIA, and a transistor formed in a first side of a second substrate and coupled to the first connection structure. The first VIA extends from the second side of the first substrate to the doped region. The memory cells include a plurality of word lines formed over the first side of the first substrate, a plurality of insulating layers disposed between the plurality of word lines, and a common source structure coupled to and extending from the doped region, and further extending through the plurality of word lines and the plurality of the insulating layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Yong Oh, Youn Cheul Kim
  • Patent number: 11605786
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device and an apparatus including the same are disclosed. The organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layer includes an emission layer, the emission layer includes a first compound, a second compound, a third compound, and a fourth compound, the first compound is represented by Formula 1, the second compound is represented by Formula 2, the third compound is represented by Formula 3, the fourth compound is represented by any one of Formulae 4-1 to 4-3, each as respectively described in the detailed description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunyoung Kim, Minje Kim, Eungdo Kim, Hyojeong Kim, Hyosup Shin, Seokgyu Yoon, Youngki Lee, Jungsub Lee, Jiyoung Lee, Hyejin Jung, Kunwook Cho, Hyeongu Cho, Minsoo Choi, Youngeun Choi, Hyein Jeong
  • Patent number: 11600598
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a cell chip including a first substrate, a source layer on the first substrate, a stacked structure on the source layer, and a channel layer passing through the stacked structure and coupled to the source layer, flipping the cell chip, exposing a rear surface of the source layer by removing the first substrate from the cell chip, performing surface treatment on the rear surface of the source layer to reduce a resistance of the source layer, forming a peripheral circuit chip including a second substrate and a circuit on the second substrate, and bonding the cell chip including the source layer with a reduced resistance to the peripheral circuit chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Jin Ha Kim
  • Patent number: 11600640
    Abstract: A display including a bending region is provided. The display includes a pixel layer including a plurality of pixel and a substrate disposed under the pixel layer and including a first area on which the pixel layer is disposed and a second area extending out of the pixel layer from the first area, at least a partial area of the second area being bendable, wherein the substrate includes: a wiring layer including at least one first wiring electrically connected with at least one pixel of the plurality of pixels and connected from the first area to the second area, and at least one second wiring disposed in the at least partial area and electrically connected with the at least one first wiring in the second area. Further, other embodiments may be possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungchul An, Suyeon Kim, Sangseol Lee, Kwangtai Kim, Hyungsup Byeon
  • Patent number: 11600657
    Abstract: An integrated circuit system, structure and/or component is provided that includes an integrated electrical power source in a form of a unique, environmentally-friendly energy harvesting element or component. The energy harvesting component provides a mechanism for generating autonomous renewable energy, or a renewable energy supplement, in the integrated circuit system, structure and/or component. The energy harvesting element includes a first conductor layer, a low work function layer, a dielectric layer, and a second conductor layer that are particularly configured to promote electron migration from the low work function layer, through the dielectric layer, to the facing surface of the second conductor layer in a manner that develops an electric potential between the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer. An energy harvesting component includes a plurality of energy harvesting elements electrically connected to one another to increase a power output of the electric harvesting component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: Clark D Boyd
  • Patent number: 11594593
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a method for forming a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor comprising an enhanced interfacial layer to reduce breakdown failure. In some embodiments, a bottom electrode layer is deposited over a substrate. A native oxide layer is formed on a top surface of the bottom electrode layer and has a first adhesion strength with the top surface. A plasma treatment process is performed to replace the native oxide layer with an interfacial layer. The interfacial layer is conductive and has a second adhesion strength with the top surface of the bottom electrode layer, and the second adhesion strength is greater than the first adhesion strength. An insulator layer is deposited on the interfacial layer. A top electrode layer is deposited on the insulator layer. The top and bottom electrode layers, the insulator layer, and the interfacial layer are patterned to form a MIM capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsing-Lien Lin, Chii-Ming Wu, Chia-Shiung Tsai, Chung-Yi Yu, Rei-Lin Chu