Patents Examined by Eric Ashbahian
  • Patent number: 9488855
    Abstract: Provided are an array substrate, a method for fabricating the same and a display device. The array substrate comprises: a transparent pixel electrode, a first data line and a first transparent common electrode, the array substrate further comprises: a second data line and an insulating layer having a via hole disposed in an non-aperture region of the array substrate, the second data line is connected to an extension of the transparent pixel electrode and connected to the second transparent common electrode through the via hole in the insulting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Li, Lei Tang, Ying Zhang, Yang Pei, Zhenwei Wang
  • Patent number: 9484504
    Abstract: A light emitting device and method of manufacture are described. In an embodiment, the light emitting device includes a micro LED device bonded to a bottom electrode, a top electrode in electrical contact with the micro LED device, and a wavelength conversion layer around the micro LED device. The wavelength conversion layer includes phosphor particles. Exemplary phosphor particles include quantum dots that exhibit luminescence due to their size, or particles that exhibit luminescence due to their composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Bibl, Kelly McGroddy
  • Patent number: 9437606
    Abstract: A method of making a semiconductor device including forming a sacrificial feature over a substrate, forming a plurality of etch through regions having an etch through material and an etch stop region having an etch stop material over the sacrificial feature, forming a stack of alternating layers of a first material and a second material over the plurality of the etch through regions and the plurality of the etch stop regions, etching the stack to form a plurality of openings through the stack and through the etch through regions to expose the sacrificial feature, such that the etch through material is etched preferentially compared to the first and the second materials of the stack, removing the sacrificial feature through the plurality of openings and etching the stack to form a slit trench up to or only partially through the etch stop region, such that the first and the second materials of the stack are etched preferentially compared to the etch stop material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Raghuveer S. Makala, Johann Alsmeier, Yao-Sheng Lee, Masanori Terahara, Hirofumi Watatani, Jayavel Pachamuthu
  • Patent number: 9431490
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having a first side, a second side opposite the first side and an outer rim. The semiconductor body includes an active region, an edge termination region arranged between the active region and the outer rim, a first doping region in the active region and connected to a first electrode arranged on the first side, a second doping region in the active region and the edge termination region and connected to a second electrode arranged on the second side, a drift region between the first doping region and the second doping region, the drift region including a first portion adjacent to the first side and a second portion arranged between the first portion and the second doping region, and an insulating region arranged in the edge termination region between the second doping region and the first portion of the drift region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Schulze, Franz Hirler, Anton Mauder
  • Patent number: 9431506
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of semiconductor memories, in particular to a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor structure integrated with a resistance random access memory (RRAM). The MOS transistor structure comprises a MOS transistor and a RRAM formed on a substrate, wherein a gate dielectric layer of said MOS transistor extends to the surface of a drain region of said MOS transistor; and the part of the gate dielectric layer on the surface of the drain region of said MOS transistor forms a resistance-variable storage layer of said RRAM. In this invention, the high-quality dielectric layer of the MOS transistor and the resistance-variable storage layer of the RRAM are obtained by primary atomic layer deposition which integrates the RRAM and MOS transistor together without increasing steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Fudan University
    Inventors: Xi Lin, Pengfei Wang, Qingqing Sun, Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 9385198
    Abstract: Various heterostructures and methods of forming heterostructures are disclosed. A structure includes a substrate, a template layer, a barrier layer, and a device layer. The substrate comprises a first crystalline material. The template layer comprises a second crystalline material, and the second crystalline material is lattice mismatched to the first crystalline material. The template layer is over and adjoins the first crystalline material, and the template layer is at least partially disposed in an opening of a dielectric material. The barrier layer comprises a third crystalline material, and the third crystalline material is a binary III-V compound semiconductor. The barrier layer is over the template layer. The device layer comprises a fourth crystalline material, and the device layer is over the barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Martin Christopher Holland, Georgios Vellianitis, Richard Kenneth Oxland, Krishna Kumar Bhuwalka, Gerben Doornbos
  • Patent number: 9368578
    Abstract: Obtaining a structure comprised of first and second layers of a first semiconductor materials and a strain relief buffer (SRB) layer between the first and second layers, forming a sidewall spacer on the sidewalls of an opening in the second layer, and forming a third semiconductor material in the opening, wherein the first, second and third semiconductor materials are different. A device includes first and second layers of first and second semiconductor materials and an SRB layer positioned above the first layer. The second layer is positioned above a first portion of the SRB layer, a region of a third semiconductor material is in an opening in the second layer and above a second portion of the SRB layer, and an insulating material is positioned between the region comprised of the third semiconductor material and the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
    Inventors: Bartlomiej Jan Pawlak, Steven Bentley, Ajey Jacob
  • Patent number: 9349445
    Abstract: Select devices for memory cell applications and methods of forming the same are described herein. As an example, one or more non-ohmic select devices can include at least two tunnel barrier regions formed between a first metal material and a second metal material, and a third metal material formed between each of the respective at least two tunnel barrier regions. The non-ohmic select device is a two terminal select device that supports bi-directional current flow therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David H. Wells, Bhaskar Srinivasan, John K. Zahurak
  • Patent number: 9318674
    Abstract: Light emitting devices include a Light Emitting Diode (LED) chip having an anode contact and a cathode contact on a face thereof. A solder mask extends from the gap between the contacts onto one or both of the contacts. The LED chip may be mounted on a printed circuit board without an intervening submount. Related fabrication methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher P. Hussell, Peter S. Andrews, Jesse C. Reiherzer
  • Patent number: 9312335
    Abstract: A lateral bipolar transistor includes trench emitter and trench collector regions to form ultra-narrow emitter regions, thereby improving emitter efficiency. The same trench process is used to form the emitter/collector trenches as well as the trench isolation structures so that no additional processing steps are needed to form the trench emitter and collector. In embodiments of the present invention, the trench emitter and trench collector regions may be formed using ion implantation into trenches formed in a semiconductor layer. In other embodiments, the trench emitter and trench collector regions may be formed by out-diffusion of dopants from heavily doped polysilicon filled trenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Incorporated
    Inventors: Shekar Mallikarjunaswamy, François Hébert
  • Patent number: 9312435
    Abstract: An optoelectronic semiconductor device includes a first light source that emits green, white or white-green light and includes a semiconductor chip that emits in the blue spectral range, and a first conversion element attached directly to the semiconductor chip, a second light source that emits red light, having a semiconductor chip, that emits in a blue spectral range, and having a second conversion element attached directly to the semiconductor chip, and/or having a semiconductor chip that emits in a red spectral range, a third light source that emits blue light and has a semiconductor chip emitting in the blue spectral range, and a filler body having a matrix material into which a conversion agent is embedded, wherein the filler body is disposed downstream of the light sources collectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Gärtner, Ales Markytan, Albert Schneider, Stephan Kaiser
  • Patent number: 9293572
    Abstract: In a high speed switching power semiconductor device having a sense pad, a high voltage is generated during switching operations in well regions under the sense pad due to a displacement current flowing through its flow path with a resistance, whereby the power semiconductor device sometimes breaks down by dielectric breakdown of a thin insulating film such as a gate insulating film. In a power semiconductor device according to the invention, sense-pad well contact holes are provided on well regions positioned under the sense pad and penetrate a field insulating film thicker than the gate insulating film to connect to the source pad, thereby improving reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Furukawa, Yasuhiro Kagawa, Naruhisa Miura, Shiro Hino, Shuhei Nakata, Kenichi Ohtsuka, Shoyu Watanabe, Masayuki Imaizumi
  • Patent number: 9293623
    Abstract: Techniques for manufacturing a device are disclosed. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a method for forming a solar cell. The method may comprise: implanting p-type dopants into a substrate via a blanket ion implantation process; implanting n-type dopants into the substrate via the blanket ion implantation process; and performing a first annealing process to form the p-type region and performing a second annealing process to form a second n-type region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas P. T. Bateman, Deepak A. Ramappa
  • Patent number: 9293573
    Abstract: Provided are a nitride semiconductor device having an excellent boundary between a nitride semiconductor and a gate insulating film, resulting in improved device characteristics, and a manufacturing method therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Akutsu, Tetsuya Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 9281389
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device including: a source electrode formed on one side of an N-type AlGaN layer; N-type and P-type AlGaN layers formed on the other side of the P-type AlGaN layer and formed in a direction perpendicular to the source electrode; a gate electrode formed on one side of the N-type and P-type AlGaN layers; and a drain electrode formed on the other side of the N-type and P-type AlGaN layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Park, In Hyuk Song, Dong Soo Seo, Kwang Soo Kim, Kee Ju Um
  • Patent number: 9281180
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a method for producing a gallium trichloride gas, the method including: a first step of reacting a metallic gallium and a chlorine gas to produce a gallium monochloride gas; and a second step of reacting the produced gallium monochloride gas and a chlorine gas to produce a gallium trichloride gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: National University Corporation Tokyo University of Agriculture
    Inventors: Akinori Koukitu, Yoshinao Kumagai
  • Patent number: 9276077
    Abstract: A metallization scheme employing a first refractory metal barrier layer, a Group IIIA element layer, a second refractory metal barrier layer, and an oxidation-resistant metallic layer is employed to form a source region and a drain region that provide electrical contacts to a compound semiconductor material layer. The first and second refractory metal barrier layer are free of nitrogen, and thus, do not introduce additional nitrogen into the compound semiconductor layer, while allowing diffusion of the Group IIIA element to form locally doped regions underneath the source region and the drain region. Ohmic contacts may be formed at a temperature as low as about 500° C. This enables fabrication of FET whose source and drain are self-aligned to the gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventor: Anirban Basu
  • Patent number: 9263585
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various methods of forming stressed channel regions on 3D semiconductor devices, such as, for example, FinFET semiconductor devices, through use of epitaxially formed materials. In one example, the method includes forming a plurality of spaced-apart trenches in a semiconducting substrate, wherein the trenches define at least a portion of a fin for the device, and performing an epitaxial deposition process to form an epitaxially formed stress-inducing material in the trenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel T. Pham, Robert J. Miller, Kungsuk Maitra
  • Patent number: 9245944
    Abstract: A silicon carbide device includes an epitaxial silicon carbide layer having a first conductivity type and a buried lateral silicon carbide edge termination region within the epitaxial silicon carbide layer and having a second conductivity type. The buried lateral silicon carbide edge termination region is covered by a silicon carbide surface layer including a doping of ions of a transition metal or including an increased density of intrinsic point defects in comparison to a density of intrinsic point defects of the buried lateral silicon carbide edge termination region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Roland Rupp, Christian Hecht, Bernd Leonhard Zippelius
  • Patent number: 9219061
    Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of reducing an inter-source electrode resistance RSS(on) and reducing a chip size is provided. A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a chip partitioned into three areas including a first area, a second area, and a third area, and a common drain electrode provided on a back surface of the chip, in which the second area is formed between the first and third areas, a first MOSFET is formed in the first area and the third area, and a second MOSFET is formed in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka Suzuki, Takahiro Korenari