Patents Examined by Farid Khan
  • Patent number: 9299836
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including source drain stressors and methods of manufacturing the same are provided. The methods may include forming a recess region in the substrate at a side of a gate pattern, and an inner surface of the recess region may include a first surface of a (100) crystal plane and a second surface of one of {111} crystal planes. The method may further include performing a first selective epitaxial growth (SEG) process to form a base epitaxial pattern on the inner surface of the recess region at a process pressure in a range of about 50 Torr to about 300 Torr. The method may also include performing a second selective epitaxial growth (SEG) process to form a bulk epitaxial pattern on the base epitaxial pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Hyuk Kim, Hoi Sung Chung, Dongsuk Shin, Naein Lee
  • Patent number: 9293381
    Abstract: There are proposed a stack type semiconductor device and a method of fabricating and testing the same. A stack type semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of contact pads externally exposed, a via array electrically connected to the contact pads, a semiconductor substrate configured to have vias, forming the via array, electrically conductive with each other or insulated from each other, and a bias pad configured to supply a bias to the semiconductor substrate, wherein the semiconductor substrate may be subject to back-grinding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Sun Jong Yoo
  • Patent number: 9287454
    Abstract: A method for producing a light-emitting device includes the steps of: forming a layer containing In on a substrate in a reactor in which a Mg-containing raw material has been used; and forming an active layer including a nitride semiconductor on the layer containing In.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Kawashima
  • Patent number: 9287368
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nitride semiconductor device includes a substrate; semiconductor stacked layers including a nitride semiconductor provided on the substrate, and having a buffer layer, a carrier running layer provided on the buffer layer, and a barrier layer provided on the carrier running layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode provided on the semiconductor stacked layers and in contact with the semiconductor stacked layers; and a gate electrode provided on the semiconductor stacked layers and provided between the source electrode and the drain electrode. The gate electrode has a stacked structure, and a gate metal layer, a barrier metal layer, a first interconnection layer, and a second interconnection layer including Al are sequentially stacked from a side of a surface of the semiconductor stacked layers in the stacked structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiko Kuraguchi, Akira Yoshioka, Yoshiharu Takada
  • Patent number: 9276020
    Abstract: A display device and a method of manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, a display device includes a substrate having a pixel region, a transistor region and a capacitor region, a transistor arranged within the transistor region of the substrate and a capacitor arranged within the capacitor region of the substrate, wherein the capacitor includes a lower electrode arranged on the substrate, a gate insulating layer arranged on the lower electrode and an upper electrode arranged on the gate insulating layer and overlapping the lower electrode, the upper electrode includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer arranged on the first conductive layer, wherein the first conductive layer is opaque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Gi You
  • Patent number: 9269870
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a light-emitting device. The light-emitting device comprises: a substrate; an intermediate layer formed on the substrate; a transparent bonding layer; a first semiconductor window layer bonded to the semiconductor layer through the transparent bonding layer; and a light-emitting stack formed on the first semiconductor window layer. The intermediate layer has a refractive index between the refractive index of the substrate and the refractive index of the first semiconductor window layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chien-Fu Huang, Shiuan-Leh Lin, Chih-Chiang Lu, Chia-Liang Hsu
  • Patent number: 9263513
    Abstract: InP epitaxial material is directly bonded onto a Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) wafer having Vertical Outgassing Channels (VOCs) between the bonding surface and the insulator (buried oxide, or BOX) layer. H2O and other molecules near the bonding surface migrate to the closest VOC and are quenched in the buried oxide (BOX) layer quickly by combining with bridging oxygen ions and forming pairs of stable nonbridging hydroxyl groups (Si—OH). Various sizes and spacings of channels are envisioned for various devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: Di Liang
  • Patent number: 9257309
    Abstract: A multi-chip package may include a package substrate, a first semiconductor chip, a second semiconductor chip and a supporting member. The first semiconductor chip may be arranged on an upper surface of the package substrate. The first semiconductor chip may be electrically connected with the package substrate. The second semiconductor chip may be arranged on an upper surface of the first semiconductor chip. The second semiconductor chip may be electrically connected with the first semiconductor chip. The second semiconductor chip may have a protrusion overhanging an area beyond a side surface of the first semiconductor chip. The supporting member may be interposed between the protrusion of the second semiconductor chip and the package substrate to prevent a deflection of the protrusion. Thus, the protrusion may not be deflected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee-Jin Lee, Woo-Dong Lee
  • Patent number: 9257380
    Abstract: Methods of forming a microelectronic packaging structure and associated structures formed thereby are described. Those methods may include attaching a die to a carrier material, wherein the carrier material comprises a top layer and a bottom layer separated by an etch stop layer; forming a dielectric material adjacent the die, forming a coreless substrate by building up layers on the dielectric material, and then removing the top layer carrier material and etch stop layer from the bottom layer carrier material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ravi K. Nalla, John S. Guzek, Javier Soto Gonzalez, Drew W. Delaney, Hamid R. Azimi
  • Patent number: 9257602
    Abstract: Provided is a hetero-substrate that may include a base substrate, a buffer layer disposed on the base substrate, and a first semiconductor layer disposed on the buffer layer, the first semiconductor layer including a nitride semiconductor. A defect blocking layer is disposed on the first semiconductor layer. The defect blocking layer may include a plurality of metal droplets. A second semiconductor layer may be disposed on the defect blocking layer, the second semiconductor layer including a nitride semiconductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Chisun Kim
  • Patent number: 9257444
    Abstract: According to example embodiments, a method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming a preliminary stack structure including upper and lower preliminary stack structures by alternately stacking a plurality of interlayer insulating and sacrificial layers on a cell, first pad area, dummy area and second pad area of a substrate; removing an entire portion of the upper preliminary stack structure on the second pad area; forming a first mask defining openings over parts of the first and second pad areas; etching an etch depth corresponding to ones of the plurality of interlayer insulating and sacrificial layers through a remaining part of the preliminary stack structure exposed by the first mask; and repetitively performing a first staircase forming process that includes shrinking sides of the first mask and etching the etch depth through remaining parts of the plurality of interlayer insulating and sacrificial layers exposed by the shrunken first mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Ik Oh, Dae-Hyun Jang, Kyoung-Sub Shin
  • Patent number: 9240464
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a power MOSFET employs a hard mask film over a portion of the wafer surface as a polishing stopper, between two successive polishing steps. After embedded epitaxial growth is performed in a state where a hard mask film for forming trenches is present in at least a scribe region of a wafer, primary polishing is performed by using the hard mask film as a stopper, and secondary polishing is then performed after the hard mask film is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Eguchi, Daisuke Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 9240522
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device includes a semiconductor lamination including a p-type semiconductor layer, an active semiconductor layer, and an n-type semiconductor layer; opposing electrode structure including a first electrode structure formed above the p-type semiconductor layer, and a second electrode structure formed above the n-type semiconductor layer; and brightness grade producing structure including a surface layer of at least one of the p-type semiconductor layer and the n-type semiconductor layer and producing brightness grade gradually changing from one edge to opposite edge of light output plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanobu Akagi
  • Patent number: 9219000
    Abstract: Forming an alignment mark on a semiconductor structure using an optical lithography to form a metal alignment mark on a substrate of the structure, using the formed metal alignment mark to form a first feature of a semiconductor device being formed on the substrate using optical lithography, and using the formed metal alignment mark to form a second, different feature for the semiconductor using electron beam lithography. In one embodiment, the first feature is an ohmic contact, the second feature is a Schottky contact, the metal alignment mark is a refractory metal or a refractory metal compound having an atomic weight greater than 60 such as TaN and the semiconductor device is a GaN semiconductor device. A semiconductor structure having a metal alignment mark on a zero layer of the structure, the metal alignment mark is a TaN and the semiconductor is GaN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Paul J. Duval, Kamal Tabatabaie, William J. Davis
  • Patent number: 9214448
    Abstract: A bundled memory includes a substrate, a first memory die, a second memory die, a scribe line, and an electrical connection. The first memory die has a first input/output bus, and the second memory die has a second input/output bus, where the first memory die and the second memory die are formed over the substrate. The scribe line is formed between the first memory die and the second memory die. The electrical connection is formed over the scribe line for electrically connecting to the first input/output bus and the second input/output bus, where the electrical connection is electrically connected to an external input/output bus, where a size of the external input/output bus of the bundled memory is larger than or equal to a size of the first input/output bus and a size of the second input/output bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Etron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Bor-Doou Rong, Chun Shiah
  • Patent number: 9202780
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate in which a cell region and a contact region are defined, a pad structure including a plurality of first conductive layers and a plurality of first insulating layers formed alternately with each other in the contact region of the substrate, wherein an end of the pad structure is patterned stepwise, portions of the first conductive layers exposed at the end of the pad structure are defined as a plurality of pad portions, and the plurality of pad portions have a greater thickness than unexposed portions of the plurality of first conductive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Ki Hong Lee, Seung Ho Pyi, Seok Min Jeon
  • Patent number: 9202967
    Abstract: A method for producing a thin-film semiconductor body is provided. A growth substrate is provided. A semiconductor layer with funnel-shaped and/or inverted pyramid-shaped recesses is epitaxially grown onto the growth substrate. The recesses are filled with a semiconductor material in such a way that pyramid-shaped outcoupling structures arise. A semiconductor layer sequence with an active layer is applied on the outcoupled structures. The active layer is suitable for generating electromagnetic radiation. A carrier is applied onto the semiconductor layer sequence. At least the semiconductor layer with the funnel-shaped and/or inverted pyramid-shaped recesses is detached, such that the pyramid-shaped outcoupling structures are configured as projections on a radiation exit face of the thin-film semiconductor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Leirer, Anton Vogl, Andreas Biebersdorf, Rainer Butendeich, Christian Rumbolz
  • Patent number: 9190385
    Abstract: A method of making electronic packages includes providing a leadframe strip that includes a plurality of leadframes, wherein the leadframes comprise a plurality of leads, etching a surface of each of the leadframes to form an opening, wherein each of the leads has a lead tip that connects to a die paddle within the opening, isolating each of the leads from the die paddle, adhering a tape to a bottom side of the leadframe strips, leads, and die paddle, attaching a die to the die paddle, placing ball bumps on each of the lead tips, and connecting the die to the ball bumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Carsem (M) SDN. BHD.
    Inventors: Mow Lum Yee, Kam Chuan Lau, Kok Siang Goh, Shang Yan Choong, Voon Joon Liew, Chee Sang Yip
  • Patent number: 9177807
    Abstract: Even when a semiconductor device having field effect transistors driven by relatively different power supply voltages provided over a semiconductor substrate is manufactured by the gate-last process, the breakdown voltage of the transistor on the higher voltage side can be ensured. When forming, over the substrate by the gate-last process, a MOSFET of a core region driven by a first power supply voltage and a MOSFET of a high-voltage region driven by a second power supply voltage higher than the first power supply voltage, the thickness of the hard mask film formed over a dummy gate film of the high-voltage region is made thicker than that of the hard mask film formed over a dummy gate film of the core region, prior to a process of patterning a dummy gate of the MOSFET of the core region and the MOSFET of the high-voltage region. Thereby, the breakdown voltage of MOSFET of the high-voltage region can be ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Hirofumi Shinohara
  • Patent number: 9177802
    Abstract: An integrated circuit containing an analog MOS transistor may be formed by implanting drain extensions with exactly four sub-implants wherein at least one sub-implant implants dopants in a substrate of the integrated circuit at a source/drain gate edge of the analog MOS transistor at a twist angle having a magnitude of 5 degrees to 40 degrees with respect to the source/drain gate edge of the analog MOS transistor, for each source/drain gate edge of the analog MOS transistor, wherein a zero twist angle sub-implant is perpendicular to the source/drain gate edge. No more than two sub-implants put the dopants in the substrate at any source/drain gate edge of the analog MOS transistor. All four sub-implants are performed at a same tilt angle. No halo implants are performed on the analog MOS transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiang-Zheng Bo, Alwin Tsao, Douglas T. Grider