Patents Examined by Farid Khan
  • Patent number: 8283752
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device, a first semiconductor chip includes a first circuit and a first inductor, and a second semiconductor chip includes a second circuit and chip-side connecting terminals. An interconnect substrate is placed over the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip. The interconnect substrate includes a second inductor and substrate-side connecting terminals. The second inductor is located above the first inductor. The chip-side connecting terminals and the two substrate-side connecting terminals are connected through first solder balls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Yasutaka Nakashiba
  • Patent number: 8278710
    Abstract: An LDMOSFET transistor (100) is provided which includes a substrate (101), an epitaxial drift region (104) in which a drain region (116) is formed, a first well region (107) in which a source region (112) is formed, a gate electrode (120) formed adjacent to the source region (112) to define a first channel region (14), and a grounded substrate injection suppression guard structure that includes a patterned buried layer (102) in ohmic contact with an isolation well region (103) formed in a predetermined upper region of the substrate so as to be spaced apart from the first well region (107) and from the drain region (116), where the buried layer (102) is disposed below the first well region (107) but not below the drain region (116).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Vishnu K. Khemka, Stephen J. Cosentino, Tahir A. Khan, Adolfo C. Reyes, Ronghua Zhu
  • Patent number: 8278739
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing is: forming an insulating film over a substrate; forming an amorphous semiconductor film over the insulating film; forming over the amorphous semiconductor film, a silicon nitride film in which a film thickness is equal to or more than 200 nm and equal to or less than 1000 nm, equal to or less than 10 atomic % of oxygen is included, and a relative proportion of nitrogen to silicon is equal to or more than 1.3 and equal to or less than 1.5; irradiating the amorphous semiconductor film with a continuous-wave laser light or a laser light with repetition rate of equal to or more than the wave length of 10 MHz transmitting the silicon nitride film to melt and later crystallize the amorphous semiconductor film to form a crystalline semiconductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoaki Moriwaka
  • Patent number: 8274161
    Abstract: A linear, serial chip/substrate assembly processing machine for stepwise advancing a pre-assembled chip/die substrate on a support plate through a series of sealable chambers beginning at a loading station and ending up at an unloading station after various melting and vacuuming of chip/substrate components has been stepwise indexed through those various chambers to the final joining thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: SemiGear Inc
    Inventors: Jian Zhang, Chunghsin Lee
  • Patent number: 8263985
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor light emitting device. The semiconductor light emitting device comprises a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer on the first conductive semiconductor layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer comprising a plurality of recesses on the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung Min Choi
  • Patent number: 8258002
    Abstract: A phase change memory device resistant to stack pattern collapse is presented. The phase change memory device includes a silicon substrate, switching elements, heaters, stack patterns, bit lines and word lines. The silicon substrate has a plurality of active areas. The switching elements are connected to the active areas. The heaters are connected to the switching elements. The stack patterns are connected to the heaters. The bit lines are connected to the stack patterns. The word lines are connected to the active areas of the silicon substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Heon Yong Chang
  • Patent number: 8253176
    Abstract: A photodiode device and methods of manufacturing the same are provided. The photodiode device comprises a light absorption layer defining a light-facing side and a back-light side; a via passing through the absorption layer, the via defining a side wall and a bottom surface; a conformal isolation layer covering the side wall and the bottom surface; a first patterned conductive layer disposed on the back-light side, the first patterned conductive layer having a first portion covering a first portion of the conformation isolation layer; a second patterned conductive layer disposed on the light-facing side of the absorption layer; and an opening through the conformal isolation layer, wherein the opening is filled with the second patterned conductive layer such that the second patterned conductive layer is connected with the first portion of the first patterned conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Solapoint Corporation
    Inventors: Chan Shin Wu, Tai-Hui Liu
  • Patent number: 8253136
    Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device of the present invention includes a substrate (1), first wires (2), memory cells each including a resistance variable element (5) and a portion of a diode element (6), second wires (11) which respectively cross the first wires (2) to be perpendicular to the first wires (2) and each of which contains a remaining portion of the diode element (6), and upper wires (13) formed via an interlayer insulating layer (12), respectively, and the first wires (2) are connected to the upper wires (13) via first contacts (14), respectively, and the second wires (11) are connected to the upper wires (13) via second contacts (15), respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takumi Mikawa, Yoshio Kawashima, Ryoko Miyanaga
  • Patent number: 8252678
    Abstract: A serial thermal processing arrangement for treating a pre-assembled chip/wafer assembly of semiconductor material in a rotary processor, through a series of intermittent, rotatively advanced, movements into independent, temperature and pressure controlled, circumferentially disposed chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: SemiGear, Inc
    Inventor: Jian Zhang
  • Patent number: 8247822
    Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device comprises a substrate, a first conductive type semiconductor layer positioned on the substrate, a light-emitting structure positioned on the first conductive type semiconductor layer, and a second conductive type semiconductor layer positioned on the light-emitting structure. The substrate includes an upper surface and a plurality of protrusions positioned on the upper surface. Each of the protrusions includes a top surface, a plurality of wall surfaces, and a plurality of inclined surfaces sandwiched between the top surface and the wall surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Huga Optotech Inc.
    Inventors: Chih Ching Cheng, Tzong Liang Tsai, Shu Hui Lin
  • Patent number: 8242031
    Abstract: A method of depositing a silicon and nitrogen containing film on a substrate. The method includes introducing silicon-containing precursor to a deposition chamber that contains the substrate, wherein the silicon-containing precursor comprises at least two silicon atoms. The method further includes generating at least one radical nitrogen precursor with a remote plasma system located outside the deposition chamber. Moreover, the method includes introducing the radical nitrogen precursor to the deposition chamber, wherein the radical nitrogen and silicon-containing precursors react and deposit the silicon and nitrogen containing film on the substrate. Furthermore, the method includes annealing the silicon and nitrogen containing film in a steam environment to form a silicon oxide film, wherein the steam environment includes water and acidic vapor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhijit Basu Mallick, Srinivas D. Nemani, Ellie Yieh
  • Patent number: 8242542
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor island having at least one electrical dopant atom and encapsulated by dielectric materials including at least one dielectric material layer. At least two portions of the at least one dielectric material layer have a thickness less than 2 nm to enable quantum tunneling effects. A source-side conductive material portion and a drain-side conductive material portion abuts the two portions of the at least one dielectric material layer. A gate conductor is located on the at least one dielectric material layer between the source-side conductive material portion and the drain-side conductive material portion. The potential of the semiconductor island responds to the voltage at the gate conductor to enable or disable tunneling current through the two portions of the at least one dielectric material layer. Design structures for the semiconductor device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zhong-Xiang He, Qizhi Liu
  • Patent number: 8236602
    Abstract: A phase change memory device resistant to stack pattern collapse is presented. The phase change memory device includes a silicon substrate, switching elements, heaters, stack patterns, bit lines and word lines. The silicon substrate has a plurality of active areas. The switching elements are connected to the active areas. The heaters are connected to the switching elements. The stack patterns are connected to the heaters. The bit lines are connected to the stack patterns. The word lines are connected to the active areas of the silicon substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Heon Yong Chang
  • Patent number: 8227296
    Abstract: A stacked semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor element bonded on a circuit base. The first semiconductor element is electrically connected to a connection part of the circuit base via a first bonding wire. A second semiconductor element is bonded on the first semiconductor element via a second adhesive layer with a thickness of 50 ?m or more. The second adhesive layer is formed of an insulating resin layer whose glass transition temperature is 135° C. or higher and whose coefficient of linear expansion at a temperature equal to or lower than the glass transition temperature is 100 ppm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Atsushi Yoshimura, Hideko Mukaida
  • Patent number: 8217515
    Abstract: A semiconductor mounting substrate according to the present invention comprises: a substrate; a semiconductor device, mounted on this substrate; solder bumps, which connect the semiconductor device and the substrate; a first resin, filled in a space between the semiconductor device and the substrate; and electronic components, mounted on a face side of the semiconductor device where the semiconductor device is mounted, wherein bond strength reinforcing resin section is provided at least between a side face in the vicinity of a corner part of the semiconductor device and a substrate surface of the substrate in a position corresponding to the corner part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Kimura, Hideki Niimi, Yuji Fuwa, Tsuyoshi Sakaue
  • Patent number: 8212276
    Abstract: A light emitting diode includes an n-GaN layer on a substrate, an active layer exposing a part of the n-GaN layer, a p-GaN layer on the active layer, a cathode contacting the exposed n-GaN layer and extending from one side of the active layer toward the other side, and an anode formed on the p-GaN layer and including a plurality of sub-electrodes spaced apart from both sides of the cathode and an edge of the active layer at the same distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Epiplus Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Myeong-Kook Gong
  • Patent number: 8207057
    Abstract: A method of forming a microball grid array includes adhering a microball precursor material to a transfer medium under conditions to reflect a selective charge pattern. The method includes transferring the microball precursor material from the transfer medium across a gap and to an integrated circuit substrate under conditions to reflect the selective charge pattern. The method includes achieving the microball grid array without the aid of a mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Erasenthiran Poonjolai, Lakshmi Supriva
  • Patent number: 8207582
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices including dual gate structures and methods of forming such semiconductor devices are disclosed. For example, semiconductor devices are disclosed that include a first gate stack that may include a first conductive gate structure formed from a first material, and a second gate stack that may include a dielectric structure formed from an oxide of the first material. For another example, methods including forming a high-K dielectric material layer over a semiconductor substrate, forming a first conductive material layer over the high-K dielectric material layer, oxidizing a portion of the first conductive material layer to convert the portion of the first conductive material layer to a dielectric material layer, and forming a second conductive material layer over both the conductive material layer and the dielectric material layer are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Jaydeb Goswami
  • Patent number: 8188587
    Abstract: A semiconductor die package, and methods of making the same. The package includes a leadframe and a clip structure. The clip structure is formed, such that a portion of the clip structure points towards the semiconductor die and is coplanar with the leadframe. The semiconductor die package further includes a housing material covering at least a portion of the leadframe, the semiconductor die, and the clip structure. The housing material has an external recess that holds a portion of the clip structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Armand VIncent C. Jereza
  • Patent number: 8164116
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor base; a hetero semiconductor region which is in contact with the semiconductor base and which has a band gap different from that of the semiconductor base; a first electrode connected to the hetero semiconductor region; and a second electrode forming an ohmic contact to the semiconductor base. The hetero semiconductor region includes a laminated hetero semiconductor region formed by laminating a plurality of semiconductor layers in which crystal alignment is discontinuous at a boundary between at least two layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Hayashi, Yoshio Shimoida, Masakatsu Hoshi, Hideaki Tanaka, Shigeharu Yamagami