Patents Examined by Eric Ward
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Patent number: 12249624Abstract: A method for manufacturing a SiC-based electronic device, comprising the steps of: implanting, on a front side of a solid body made of SiC having a conductivity of an N type, dopant species of a P type thus forming an implanted region, which extends in the solid body starting from the front side and has a top surface coplanar with the front side; and generating a laser beam directed towards the implanted region in order to generate heating of the implanted region to temperatures comprised between 1500° C. and 2600° C. so as to form a carbon-rich electrical-contact region at the implanted region. The carbon-rich electrical-contact region forms an ohmic contact.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.Inventors: Simone Rascuná, Mario Giuseppe Saggio, Giovanni Franco
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Patent number: 12249640Abstract: Doping techniques for fin-like field effect transistors (FinFETs) are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes forming a fin structure, forming a doped amorphous layer over a portion of the fin structure, and performing a knock-on implantation process to drive a dopant from the doped amorphous layer into the portion of the fin structure, thereby forming a doped feature. The doped amorphous layer includes a non-crystalline form of a material. In some implementations, the knock-on implantation process crystallizes at least a portion of the doped amorphous layer, such that the portion of the doped amorphous layer becomes a part of the fin structure. In some implementations, the doped amorphous layer includes amorphous silicon, and the knock-on implantation process crystallizes a portion of the doped amorphous silicon layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Sai-Hooi Yeong, Sheng-Chen Wang, Bo-Yu Lai, Ziwei Fang, Feng-Cheng Yang, Yen-Ming Chen
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Patent number: 12243820Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including a a front-end-of-line (FEOL) structure and a back-end-of-line (BEOL) structure connected to the FEOL structure, wherein the FEOL structure includes at least one source/drain region and at least one gate structure, and the BEOL structure includes: a plurality of 1st fine metal lines arranged in a row with a same pitch, each of the plurality of 1st fine metal lines having a same width; and at least one 1st wide metal line formed at a side of the plurality of 1st fine metal lines, the 1st wide metal line having a width greater than the width of the 1st fine metal line, and wherein each of the plurality of 1st fine metal lines includes a material different from a material included in the 1st wide metal line.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2024Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Taeyong Bae, Hoonseok Seo
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Patent number: 12243917Abstract: A method for producing an ohmic contact for an electronic part, wherein a layer consisting of a semiconductor is applied to a substrate is disclosed. A surface to be contacted of the applied semiconductor is wet-chemically etched, which is rinsed with radicals. An electrical conductor or a semiconductor is applied to the surface rinsed with radicals. An electronic component having several semiconductor layers on a substrate is also disclosed. A top layer on the one or more semiconductor layers is applied to the substrate. The top layer consists of an electrically non-conductive dielectric having an access through the top layer to a semiconductor layer, wherein adjacent semiconductor layers consist of different II-VI semiconductors. The access is at least partially filled with a II-VI semiconductor. A metallic contact applied to the II-VI semiconductor extends to the outer side of the top layer or projects outwardly relative to the top layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbHInventors: Alexander Pawlis, Johanna Janßen, Benjamin Bennemann, Christoph Krause
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Patent number: 12230699Abstract: Integrated circuits can include semiconductor devices with back-side field plates. The semiconductor devices can be formed on substrates that have conductive layers located within the substrates. The conductive layers can include at least one of a conducting material or a semi-conducting material that modifies an electric field produced by the semiconductor devices. The semiconductor devices can include one or more semiconductor layers that include one or more materials having a compound material that includes at least one Group 13 element and at least one Group 15 element.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Piedra, James G. Fiorenza, Puneet Srivastava
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Patent number: 12230581Abstract: A multi-device graded embedding package substrate includes a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and a third dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer includes a first conductive copper pillar layer and a first device cavity. The second dielectric layer includes a first wiring layer located in a lower surface of the second dielectric layer, a second conductive copper pillar layer and a heat dissipation copper block layer provided on the first wiring layer. The third dielectric layer includes a second wiring layer, a third conductive copper pillar layer provided on the second wiring layer. A first device is attached to the bottom of the first device cavity, and a terminal of the first device is in conductive connection with the second wiring layer. A second device is attached to the bottom of a second device cavity penetrating through the first, second and third dielectric layers.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Zhuhai ACCESS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xianming Chen, Lei Feng, Benxia Huang, Yejie Hong
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Patent number: 12230714Abstract: Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures with vertical sidewalls, and methods of fabricating self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures with vertical sidewalls, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor fin having sidewalls along a length of the semiconductor fin, each sidewall tapering outwardly from a top of the semiconductor fin toward a bottom of the semiconductor fin. A gate endcap isolation structure is spaced apart from the semiconductor fin and has a length parallel with the length of the semiconductor fin. The gate endcap isolation structure has a substantially vertical sidewall laterally facing one of the outwardly tapering sidewalls of the semiconductor fin.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Ritesh K. Das, Kiran Chikkadi, Ryan Pearce
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Patent number: 12230533Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor-on-insulator structure involves providing a donor substrate comprising a weakened zone delimiting a layer to be transferred, providing a receiver substrate, and bonding the donor substrate to the receiver substrate. The layer to be transferred is located on the bonding-interface side. A bonding wave is initiated at a first region on the periphery of the interface, and the wave is propagated toward a second region on the periphery of the interface opposite the first region. The difference in speed of propagation of the bonding wave between a central portion of the interface and a peripheral portion of the interface is controlled such that the speed of propagation of the bonding wave is lower in the central portion than in the peripheral portion. The donor substrate is detached along the weakened zone to transfer the layer to be transferred to the receiver substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SoitecInventors: Marcel Broekaart, Arnaud Castex
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Patent number: 12224349Abstract: Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures with vertical sidewalls, and methods of fabricating self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures with vertical sidewalls, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor fin having sidewalls along a length of the semiconductor fin, each sidewall tapering outwardly from a top of the semiconductor fin toward a bottom of the semiconductor fin. A gate endcap isolation structure is spaced apart from the semiconductor fin and has a length parallel with the length of the semiconductor fin. The gate endcap isolation structure has a substantially vertical sidewall laterally facing one of the outwardly tapering sidewalls of the semiconductor fin.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Ritesh K. Das, Kiran Chikkadi, Ryan Pearce
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Patent number: 12217975Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first well, a second well, a metal gate, a poly gate, a source region, and a drain region. The first well and the second well are within the substrate. The metal gate is partially over the first well. The poly gate is over the second well. The poly gate is separated from the metal gate, and a width ratio of the poly gate to the metal gate is in a range from about 0.1 to about 0.2. The source region and the drain region are respectively within the first well and the second well.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Alexander Kalnitsky, Wei-Cheng Wu, Harry-Hak-Lay Chuang
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Patent number: 12218220Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method includes: depositing a thin-film stacked structure on a substrate; forming a first hole in the thin-film stacked structure; growing an epitaxial silicon pillar in the first hole; etching the thin-film stacked structure and the epitaxial silicon pillar along a first direction to form a first trench, the first trench passing through a center of the epitaxial silicon pillar and dividing the epitaxial silicon pillar into a first half pillar and a second half pillar; forming a first isolation layer; forming a first channel region of a first doping type, and forming a second channel region of a second doping type; and forming a gate dielectric layer and a gate conductive layer on a surface of each of the first channel region and the second channel region.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Shuai Guo, Mingguang Zuo, Shijie Bai
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Patent number: 12211835Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a lower group III-N layer having a first composition over a substrate, and an upper group III-N layer having a different second composition over the lower group III-N layer. A gate electrode of a High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) is located over the upper group III-N layer. First and second resistor contacts make a conductive connection to the lower group III-N layer. An unbiased group III-N cover layer is located on the upper group III-N layer in a resistor area including a high Rs 2-DEG resistor, where the unbiased group III-N cover layer is positioned between the first and second contacts.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Dong Seup Lee, Hiroyuki Tomomatsu
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Patent number: 12206028Abstract: Junction field effect transistors (JFETs) and related manufacturing methods are disclosed herein. A disclosed JFET includes a vertical channel region located in a mesa and a first channel control region located on a first side of the mesa. The first channel control region is at least one of a gate region and a first base region. The JEFT also includes a second base region located on a second side of the mesa and extending through the mesa to contact the vertical channel region. The vertical channel can be an implanted vertical channel. The vertical channel can be asymmetrically located in the mesa towards the first side of the mesa.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.Inventor: Vipindas Pala
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Patent number: 12205950Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a first semiconductor device with an N type region biased by a first terminal and a second semiconductor device with a second region. An N type guard region is located laterally between the N type region of the first semiconductor device and the second region. A P type region is isolated in the N type guard region and is biased by a second terminal. The N type guard region is either electrically coupled to the second terminal through a resistor circuit or is characterized as floating.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventor: Guido Wouter Willem Quax
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Patent number: 12191258Abstract: The present application discloses a semiconductor device having integral alignment marks with decoupling features and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; a dielectric stack positioned on the substrate; two conductive features positioned in the dielectric stack; a decoupling unit positioned in the dielectric stack, between the two second conductive features, and comprising a bottle-shaped cross-sectional profile; and an alignment mark positioned on the decoupling unit. The alignment mark comprises a fluorescence material.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Shing-Yih Shih
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Patent number: 12193229Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods for fabricating semiconductor devices. In some examples, a method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a stack of layers having a first region and a second region. The stack of layers includes at least a first layer. The method then forms a hard mask layer on the stack of layers in the first region. Then, the method includes patterning the stack of layers in the second region of the semiconductor device. The patterning of the stack of layers in the second region removes a portion of the stack of layers in the second region, and exposes a side of the stack of layers. The method further includes covering at least the side of the stack of layers with a second layer that has a lower remove rate than the first layer, and then the method includes removing the hard mask layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bin Yuan, Zhu Yang, Xiangning Wang, Chen Zuo, Jingjing Geng, Zhen Guo, Zongke Xu, Qiangwei Zhang
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Patent number: 12191425Abstract: A display device may include: a base layer including a plurality of islands, at least one first bridge configured to connect the islands in a first direction, and at least one second bridge configured to connect the islands in a second direction; and at least one pixel including a plurality of sub-pixels in the base layer. Each of the sub-pixels may include: a first electrode and a second electrode in one island of the islands and spaced from each other; a third electrode and a fourth electrode in one bridge of the at least one first bridge and the at least one second bridge and spaced from each other; at least one first light emitting element between the first electrode and the second electrode; and at least one second light emitting element between the third electrode and the fourth electrode.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Eun A Yang, Jin Woo Choi, Hyun Min Cho
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Semiconductor structure comprising a word line with convex portions and manufacturing method thereof
Patent number: 12185527Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, an isolation structure formed in the substrate, and a word line including a first convex portion and a second convex portion. The first convex portion and the second convex portion are located in the isolation structure, and a depth of the first convex portion is greater than a depth of the second convex portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yachuan He, Hsin-Pin Huang -
Patent number: 12176265Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first layer that contains gold (Au) and is formed on one surface of a semiconductor substrate and a second layer that contains nickel (Ni) and is formed on the first layer. The semiconductor device is provided with a via hole that passes through the second layer, the first layer, and the semiconductor substrate from one surface to another surface opposite thereto, and a via wiring is formed on the inner surface of the via hole. The second layer is a mask used when the semiconductor substrate is etched to form the via hole, and the first layer is a base layer for forming the second layer on the semiconductor substrate. By using an Au-containing layer as the first layer, side etching on the first layer is prevented when the semiconductor substrate is etched, and disconnection of the via wiring is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Naoya Okamoto
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Patent number: 12178094Abstract: In a display device, a first power supply voltage line includes a first trunk wiring line, a plurality of branch wiring lines, and a second power supply voltage line includes a second trunk wiring line. The first trunk wiring line includes a first portion and a second portion. A line width of the first portion is smaller than a line width of the second portion. A frame region in a frame region provided with the first portion includes a first irregular frame edge having an irregular shape.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junichi Yamada, Naoki Ueda, Fumiyuki Kobayashi