Patents Examined by Calvin Y Choi
  • Patent number: 11309435
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a bandgap reference circuit, including: first and second vertically stacked structures, the first and second vertically stacked structures each including: a P-type substrate; a P-well region within the P-type substrate; an N-type barrier region between the P-type substrate and the P-well region, the P-well region and the N-type barrier region forming a PN junction; a field effect transistor (FET) above the P-well region, separated from the P-well region by a buried insulator layer, the P-well region forming a back gate of the FET; and a first voltage source coupled to the P-well and applying a forward bias to a diode formed at the PN junction between the P-well region and the N-type barrier region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
    Inventors: Don Raymond Blackwell, Peter P. Hang, Van Ton-That, Timothy S. Miller
  • Patent number: 11309443
    Abstract: A photosensitive module is provided. The photosensitive module includes a base, an integrated package substrate, and a photosensitive element. The integrated package substrate is connected to the base. The integrated package substrate has a plurality of first electronic components, and the first electronic components are housed inside the integrated package substrate without being exposed to external environment. The photosensitive element is connected to the integrated package substrate, and the photosensitive element is configured to receive a light beam traveling along an optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: TDK Taiwan Corp.
    Inventors: Chen-Er Hsu, Sin-Jhong Song, Chi-Fu Wu, Hao-Yu Wu, Tsutomu Fukai, Ming-Hung Wu
  • Patent number: 11309451
    Abstract: A flat panel detector and a manufacturing method thereof. The flat panel detector includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a driving circuit, the second substrate includes a photosensitive element, the first substrate and the second substrate are arranged opposite to each other so as to be assembled, and the driving circuit is electrically connected with the photosensitive element to drive the photosensitive element. The flat panel detector not only can improve the filling rate of a photodiode in a pixel unit and increase the photosensitive area of the pixel unit in the flat panel detector, but also can effectively prevent static electricity and scratches generated during use and improve the photoelectric characteristics and yield of the flat panel detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuecheng Hou, Chia Chiang Lin, Chuncheng Che
  • Patent number: 11302835
    Abstract: Techniques to use energy band gap engineering (or band offset engineering) to produce a photodetector semiconductor assembly that can be tuned to absorb light in one or more wavelengths. For example, the assembly can be tuned to receive infrared (IR) and/or ultraviolet (UV) light. The photodetector assembly can operate as a photodiode, a phototransistor, or can include both a photodiode and a phototransistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Mohamed Azize
  • Patent number: 11296250
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor heterojunction. The semiconductor heterojunction includes a bottom semiconductor, a top semiconductor and an electrode substrate. An upper surface of the bottom semiconductor includes a first facet. A lower surface of the top semiconductor includes a second facet, and the lower surface of the top semiconductor is contacted with the upper surface of the bottom semiconductor. The electrode substrate is disposed below the bottom semiconductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Michael Hsuan-Yi Huang, An-Ting Lee, Chih-Shan Tan, Pei-Lun Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11296249
    Abstract: A photosensitive device, a manufacturing method thereof, a detection substrate and an array substrate are provided. The photosensitive device is formed on a substrate, and it includes a photosensitive element and a thin film transistor. The photosensitive element includes a first electrode layer on the substrate; a second electrode layer on a side of the first electrode layer distal to the substrate; and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The thin film transistor is electrically connected to the photosensitive element, and it includes a first gate electrode on the substrate; an active layer on a side of the first gate electrode distal to the substrate; and a second gate electrode on a side of the active layer distal to the substrate. The first electrode layer and the second gate electrode are located in the same layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tianmin Zhou, Rui Huang, Lizhong Wang, Jipeng Song, Tao Yang, Zhaohui Qiang
  • Patent number: 11296251
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave detector includes: an insulating film having a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface; a first layer to perform photoelectric conversion by an incident electromagnetic wave and change in potential, the first layer being made of a first two-dimensional atomic layer material; and a second layer to receive the change in potential through the first insulating film and generate change in electrical quantity, the second layer being made of a second two-dimensional atomic layer material and provided on the first surface. In this manner, the sensitive electromagnetic wave detector detecting an incident electromagnetic wave as change in electrical quantity and having high response speed to an incident electromagnetic wave can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei Ogawa, Masaaki Shimatani, Shoichiro Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11289416
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, memory openings vertically extending through the alternating stack, memory opening fill structures located in the memory openings, where each of the memory opening fill structures contains a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel that extend vertically, and each memory film includes a crystalline blocking dielectric metal oxide layer, and a metal oxide amorphous dielectric nucleation layer located between each of the vertically neighboring electrically conductive layers and insulating layers, and located between each of the crystalline blocking dielectric metal oxide layers and each of the electrically conductive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Masanori Tsutsumi, Naohiro Hosoda, Shuichi Hamaguchi, Kazuki Isozumi, Genta Mizuno, Yusuke Mukae, Ryo Nakamura, Yu Ueda
  • Patent number: 11289610
    Abstract: In a standard cell including nanowire FETs, pads connected to nanowires are arranged at a predetermined pitch in X direction along which the nanowires extend. A cell width of the standard cell is an integral multiplication of the pitch. In a case where the standard cell is arranged to constitute the layout of a semiconductor integrated circuit device, the pads are regularly arranged in the X direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Shimbo
  • Patent number: 11289473
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a substrate including a first region and a second region, a first gate pattern on the substrate of the first region, and a second gate pattern on the substrate of the second region. The first gate pattern comprises a first high-k dielectric pattern, a first N-type metal-containing pattern, and a first P-type metal-containing pattern that are sequentially stacked. The second gate pattern comprises a second high-k dielectric pattern and a second P-type metal-containing pattern that are sequentially stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiseok Lee, Chan-Sic Yoon, Dongoh Kim, Myeong-Dong Lee
  • Patent number: 11282977
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a silicon carbide detector and a preparation method therefor. The silicon carbide detector comprises: a wafer, the wafer sequentially comprises, from bottom to top, a substrate, a silicon carbide P+ layer, an N-type silicon carbide insertion layer, an N+ type silicon carbide multiplication layer, an N-type silicon carbide absorption layer and a silicon carbide N+ layer; the doping concentration of the N-type silicon carbide insertion layer gradually increases from bottom to top, and the doping concentration of the N-type silicon carbide absorption layer gradually decreases from bottom to top; a mesa is etched on the wafer, and the mesa is etched to an upper surface of the silicon carbide P+ layer; an N-type electrode is arranged on an upper surface of the mesa, and a P-type electrode is arranged on an upper surface of a non-mesa region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: The 13th Research institute of China Electronics Technolegy Group Corporation
    Inventors: Xingye Zhou, Zhihong Feng, Yuanjie Lv, Xin Tan, Yuangang Wang, Xubo Song, Jia Li, Yulong Fang
  • Patent number: 11276793
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a photoelectric conversion element, a first light-shielding layer disposed on the substrate and having a first aperture, a light-transmitting layer disposed on the first light-shielding layer, at least one second light-shielding layer disposed in the light-transmitting layer and having a second aperture, and a light-condensing structure disposed on the light-transmitting layer. The orthogonal projection of the second aperture on the bottom surface of the substrate has a long axis of symmetry and a short axis of symmetry perpendicular to the long axis of symmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Wei-Ko Wang
  • Patent number: 11276755
    Abstract: Monolithic FETs including a fin of a first semiconductor composition disposed on a sub-fin of a second composition. In some examples, an InGaAs fin is grown over GaAs sub-fin. The sub-fin may be epitaxially grown from a seeding surface disposed within a trench defined in an isolation dielectric. The sub-fin may be planarized with the isolation dielectric. The fin may then be epitaxially grown from the planarized surface of the sub-fin. A gate stack may be disposed over the fin with the gate stack contacting the planarized surface of the isolation dielectric so as to be self-aligned with the interface between the fin and sub-fin. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sean T. Ma, Matthew V. Metz, Willy Rachmady, Gilbert Dewey, Chandra S. Mohapatra, Jack T. Kavalieros, Anand S. Murthy, Tahir Ghani
  • Patent number: 11276642
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods and structures for forming a 3D integrated wiring structure are disclosed. The method can include forming an insulating layer on a front side of a first substrate; forming a semiconductor layer on a front side of the insulating layer; patterning the semiconductor layer to expose at least a portion of a surface of the insulating layer; forming a plurality of semiconductor structures over the front side of the first substrate, wherein the semiconductor structures include a plurality of conductive contacts and a first conductive layer; joining a second substrate with the semiconductor structures; performing a thinning process on a backside of the first substrate to expose the insulating layer and one end of the plurality of conductive contacts; and forming a conductive wiring layer on the exposed insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jifeng Zhu, Jun Chen, Si Ping Hu, Zhenyu Lu
  • Patent number: 11251320
    Abstract: A layered structure used for detecting incident light includes a substrate having a surface with a high Miller index crystal orientation and a superlattice structure formed over the substrate at the surface. The superlattice structure is aligned to the high Miller index crystal orientation and exhibits a red-shifted long wave infrared response range based on the crystal orientation as compared to a superlattice structure formed over a substrate at a surface with a (100) crystal orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: IQE plc
    Inventors: Dmitri Lubyshev, Joel Mark Fastenau, Amy Wing Kwan Liu, Michael Vincent Kattner, Philip Lee Frey, Scott Alan Nelson, Mark Justin Furlong
  • Patent number: 11239077
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of mandrel cuts from a first set of mandrels of a base structure using lithography, surrounding the first set of mandrels and a second set of mandrels of the base structure with spacer material to form mandrel-spacer structures, forming a flowable material layer on exposed surfaces of the mandrel-spacer structures, and performing additional processing, including forming a plurality of dielectric trenches within the base structure based on patterns formed in the flowable material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chi-Chun Liu, Nelson Felix, Yann Mignot, Ekmini Anuja De Silva, John Arnold, Allen Gabor
  • Patent number: 11211419
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards image sensors including composite backside illuminated (CBSI) structures to enhance performance. In some embodiments, a first trench isolation structure extends into a backside of a substrate to a first depth and comprises a pair of first trench isolation segments. A photodetector is in the substrate, between and bordering the first trench isolation segments. A second trench isolation structure is between the first trench isolation segments and extends into the backside of the substrate to a second depth less than the first depth. The second trench isolation structure comprises a pair of second trench isolation segments. An absorption enhancement structure overlies the photodetector, between the second trench isolation segments, and is recessed into the backside of the semiconductor substrate. The absorption enhancement structure and the second trench isolation structure collectively define a CBSI structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Chuang Wu, Dun-Nian Yaung, Feng-Chi Hung, Jen-Cheng Liu, Jhy-Jyi Sze, Keng-Yu Chou, Yen-Ting Chiang, Ming-Hsien Yang, Chun-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11211338
    Abstract: A substrate stacking apparatus that stacks first and second substrates on each other, by forming a contact region where the first substrate held by a first holding section and the second substrate held by a second holding section contact each other, at one portion of the first and second substrates, and expanding the contact region from the one portion by releasing holding of the first substrate by the first holding section, wherein an amount of deformation occurring in a plurality of directions at least in the first substrate differs when the contact region expands, and the substrate stacking apparatus includes a restricting section that restricts misalignment between the first and second substrates caused by a difference in the amount of deformation. In the substrate stacking apparatus above, the restricting section may restrict the misalignment such that an amount of the misalignment is less than or equal to a prescribed value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Sugaya, Kazuya Okamoto, Hajime Mitsuishi, Minoru Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11187944
    Abstract: A display device in which parasitic capacitance between wirings can be reduced is provided. Furthermore, a display device in which display quality is improved is provided. Furthermore, a display device in which power consumption can be reduced is provided. The display device includes a signal line, a scan line, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a semiconductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyake, Makoto Kaneyasu
  • Patent number: 11189745
    Abstract: The problem of the present disclosure is to provide a photo sensor circuit that uses oxide semiconductor transistors and the operation of which is stable. The photo sensor circuit includes: a photo transistor; a first switching transistor; a second switching transistor; and a capacitance element. The photo transistor includes: a gate connected to a first wiring; a source connected to a second wiring; and a drain. The first switching transistor includes: a gate connected to a third wiring; a source connected to a fourth wiring; and a drain connected to the drain of the photo transistor. The capacitance element includes: a first terminal connected to the drain of the photo transistor; and a second terminal connected to the source of the first switching transistor. The second switching transistor includes: a gate connected to a gate line; a source connected to a signal line; and a drain connected to the first terminal of the capacitance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Masashi Tsubuku, Takanori Tsunashima, Marina Mochizuki