Patents Examined by Igwe U. Anya
  • Patent number: 11398590
    Abstract: A detection substrate, a preparation method thereof, a detection device and a detection method are provided. A detection substrate includes a base substrate, wherein the base substrate includes multiple through holes, and electrode columns are embedded in the multiple through holes; the base substrate comprises a detection region and a bonding pad region, the detection region includes a driving circuit, and the bonding pad region is provided with bonding pads; and the bonding pads are connected with the electrode columns through the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhijun Lv, Liwen Dong, Xiaoxin Song, Feng Zhang, Zhao Cui, Wenqu Liu, Detian Meng, Libo Wang
  • Patent number: 11398564
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first and second metal members, and a semiconductor element. The first metal member is electrically connected to a first terminal. The semiconductor element includes first and second electrodes, first to third semiconductor regions, and a gate electrode. The second metal member is provided on the second electrode, and electrically connected to the second electrode and a second terminal. The semiconductor element includes a first portion that overlaps the second metal member in the first direction, and a second portion that does not overlap the second metal member in the first direction. A length in the second direction of the first semiconductor region between an adjacent pair of the gate electrodes is greater than a length in the second direction of the first semiconductor region between an adjacent pair of the gate electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masatoshi Arai
  • Patent number: 11398507
    Abstract: An array substrate includes an insulation layer and one or more stepped holes each penetrating through the insulation layer in a direction perpendicular to the insulation layer. Each stepped hole includes a first hole and a second hole under the first hole, a radius of the first hole at a bottom is a first radius, a radius of the second hole at a top is a second radius which is substantially smaller than the first radius, and a difference between the first radius and the second radius is 0.2 ?m to 0.6 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Leilei Cheng, Bin Zhou, Jun Liu, Luke Ding, Qinghe Wang, Yongchao Huang
  • Patent number: 11387349
    Abstract: A trench gate depletion-type VDMOS device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The device comprises a drain region; a trench gate including a gate insulating layer on an inner wall of a trench and a gate electrode filled in the trench and surrounded by the gate insulating layer; a channel region located around the gate insulating layer; a well region located on both sides of the trench gate; a source regions located within the well region; a drift region located between the well region and the drain region; a second conductive-type doped region located between the channel region and the drain region; and a first conductive-type doped region located on both sides of the second conductive-type doped region and located between the drift region and the drain region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: CSMC TECHNOLOGIES FAB2 CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Gu, Shikang Cheng, Sen Zhang
  • Patent number: 11387397
    Abstract: A method for making light emitting device LED arrays includes the steps of providing a plurality of LEDs having a desired configuration (e.g., VLED, FCLED, PLED); attaching the LEDs to a carrier substrate and to a temporary substrate; forming one or more metal layers and one or more insulator layers configured to electrically connect the LEDs to form a desired circuitry; and separating the LEDs along with the layered metal layers and insulator layers that form the desired circuitry from the carrier substrate and the temporary substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SemiLEDs Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: David Trung Doan, Trung Tri Doan
  • Patent number: 11387384
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) transferring method is provided. The LED transferring method includes disposing a transfer substrate, on which a plurality of LEDs of different colors are sequentially arranged in at least one row or at least one column, between a target substrate and a laser oscillator, and simultaneously transferring the plurality of LEDs from the transfer substrate to predetermined points of the target substrate by radiating a laser beam toward the target substrate from the laser oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangmoo Park, Minsub Oh, Doyoung Kwag, Byungchul Kim, Eunhye Kim, Dongyeob Lee, Yoonsuk Lee
  • Patent number: 11380626
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a package structure, including a mounting pad having a mounting surface, a semiconductor chip disposed on the mounting surface of the mounting pad, wherein the semiconductor chip includes: a first surface perpendicular to a thickness direction of the semiconductor chip, a second surface opposite to the first surface and facing the mounting surface, and a third surface connecting the first surface and the second surface, a magnetic device disposed in the semiconductor chip, a first magnetic field shielding at least partially surrounding the third surface, a second magnetic field shielding, including a top surface facing the second surface of the semiconductor chip, and a molding surrounding the semiconductor chip, wherein the entire top surface of the second magnetic field shielding is in direct contact with the molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Harry-Hak-Lay Chuang, Chia-Hsiang Chen, Meng-Chun Shih, Ching-Huang Wang, Tien-Wei Chiang
  • Patent number: 11380757
    Abstract: In one aspect, a semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate formed of silicon carbide; and an edge termination having a first metal layer and a second metal layer, wherein the first metal layer is deposited and patterned spacedly on the semiconductor substrate and the second metal layer is deposited and patterned onto at least a portion of the spaced first metal layer and onto the semiconductor substrate between said spaced first metal layer, and wherein the first metal layer comprises a high work function metal, while the second metal layer comprises a low work function metal. In one embodiment, the high work function metal includes Silver, Aluminum, Chromium, Nickel, and Gold; and the low work function metal includes Titanium and Nickel Silicide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventors: Zheng Zuo, Ruigang Li, Da Teng
  • Patent number: 11374091
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a substrate having an IGBT region, a diode region, and a high resistance region between the IGBT region and the diode region, a first electrode provided on an upper surface of the substrate and a second electrode provided on a back surface as a surface on an opposite side to the upper surface of the substrate, wherein in the high resistance region, a contact resistance between the upper surface of the substrate and the first electrode or a contact resistance between the back surface of the substrate and the second electrode is higher than in the diode region, and a width of the high resistance region is equal to or greater than a thickness of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kota Kimura
  • Patent number: 11362207
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to an embodiment comprises: a cell portion in which a vertical type MOSFET is formed; and a termination portion arranged adjacent to the cell portion. The termination portion includes a connection trench gate provided along a first direction. The cell portion includes: a plurality of first column regions provided along a second direction intersecting the first direction; and a plurality of trench gates provided along the second direction such that two trench gates are arranged between the two adjacent first column regions. The plurality of trench gates extend from the cell portion to the termination portion and are connected to the connection trench gate. The plurality of first column regions extend from the cell portion to the termination portion, and the termination portion includes a plurality of second column regions different from the plurality of first column regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakai, Satoru Tokuda, Ryuuji Umemoto, Katsumi Eikyu, Hiroshi Yanagigawa
  • Patent number: 11355592
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a silicon carbide layer including first and second trenches, a first silicon carbide region of n-type, a second silicon carbide region of p-type disposed between the first trench and the second trench and having a depth deeper than depths of the first and second trenches, and a third silicon carbide region of n-type on the second silicon carbide region, a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode. The second silicon carbide region includes a first region of which a depth becomes deeper toward the second trench, and a second region of which a depth becomes deeper toward the first trench. In the second silicon carbide region, a first concentration distribution of a p-type impurity has a first concentration peak at a first position, and has a second concentration peak at a second position closer to the second trench than the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Shinya Kyogoku
  • Patent number: 11355651
    Abstract: The semiconductor device of the present invention includes a first conductivity type semiconductor layer made of a wide bandgap semiconductor and a Schottky electrode formed to come into contact with a surface of the semiconductor layer, and has a threshold voltage Vth of 0.3 V to 0.7 V and a leakage current Jr of 1×10?9 A/cm2 to 1×10?4 A/cm2 in a rated voltage VR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Aketa, Yuta Yokotsuji
  • Patent number: 11348920
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first source/drain structure, a channel layer, a second source/drain structure, a gate structure and an epitaxial layer. The channel layer is above the first source/drain structure. The second source/drain structure is above the channel layer. The gate structure is on opposite first and second sidewalls of the channel layer when viewed in a first cross-section taken along a first direction. The gate structure is also on a third sidewall of the channel layer but absent from a fourth sidewall of the channel layer when viewed in a second cross-section taken along a second direction different from the first direction. The epitaxial layer is on the fourth sidewall of the channel layer when viewed in the second cross-section and forming a P-N junction with the channel layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hung-Li Chiang, Szu-Wei Huang, Chih-Chieh Yeh, Yee-Chia Yeo
  • Patent number: 11342420
    Abstract: Current conducting devices and methods for their formation are disclosed. Described are vertical current devices that include a substrate, an n-type material layer, a plurality of p-type gates, and a source. The n-type material layer disposed on the substrate and includes a current channel. A plurality of p-type gates are disposed on opposite sides of the current channel. A source is disposed on a distal side of the current channel with respect to the substrate. The n-type material layer comprises beta-gallium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Francis J. Kub, Travis J. Anderson, Marko J. Tadjer, Andrew D. Koehler, Karl D. Hobart
  • Patent number: 11335787
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first and second electrodes, a semiconductor part between the first and second electrodes, first to third control electrodes between the semiconductor part and the first electrode, first and second control terminals electrically connected respectively to the first and second control electrodes. The first to third control electrodes each are provided in a trench of the semiconductor part. The third control electrode is provided between the first and second control electrodes. The semiconductor part includes first and third layers of a first conductivity type, and second and fourth layers of a second conductivity type. The second layer is provided between the first layer and the first electrode. The third layer is selectively provided between the second layer and the first electrode. The fourth layer is provided between the first layer and the second electrode. The first electrode is electrically connected to the second and third layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsunori Sakano, Ryohei Gejo
  • Patent number: 11322585
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer has bottom and upper surfaces opposite to each other in a first direction. The semiconductor layer includes a first region of a first conductivity type at the bottom surface, a second region of the first conductivity type at the bottom surface surrounding the first region, a third region of the first conductivity type above the first and second regions, and a fourth region of a second conductivity type extending from the upper surface into the third region. In a first cross sectional plane along the first direction, an outer edge of the first region is within an outer edge of the fourth region by a first distance. In a second cross sectional plane along the first direction, an outer edge of the first region is within an outer edge of the fourth region by a second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoko Hanagata
  • Patent number: 11322581
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first, second, and third electrodes, first and fourth semiconductor regions of a first conductivity type, and second and third semiconductor regions of a second conductivity type. The third semiconductor region is provided around the second semiconductor region along a first plane crossing a first direction from the first electrode toward the first semiconductor region and is separated from the second semiconductor region. The fourth semiconductor region is provided around the third semiconductor region along the first plane, and has a greater impurity concentration of the first conductivity type than the first semiconductor region. The second electrode is provided on the second semiconductor region and is electrically connected to the second semiconductor region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11322593
    Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first silicon carbide semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, a second silicon carbide semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, a first silicon carbide semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, a trench, and a gate electrode on a gate insulating film. Between the gate insulating film and any one among the first silicon carbide semiconductor layer, the second silicon carbide semiconductor layer, and the first silicon carbide semiconductor region is an interface section where a concentration of oxygen varies, the interface section having closer to the gate insulating film than to the any one among the first silicon carbide semiconductor layer, the second silicon carbide semiconductor layer, and the first silicon carbide semiconductor region, a region where a rate of increase of the oxygen included in the interface section is greatest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Utsumi, Tsuyoshi Araoka
  • Patent number: 11316084
    Abstract: A radiation-emitting semiconductor device (1) is specified, comprising a semiconductor body (2) having an active region (20) provided for generating radiation, a carrier (3) on which the semiconductor body is arranged and an optical element (4), wherein the optical element is attached to the semiconductor body by a direct bonding connection. Furthermore, a method for producing of radiation-emitting semiconductor devices is specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Roland Heinrich Enzmann, Hubert Halbritter, Martin Rudolf Behringer
  • Patent number: 11309420
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a fabrication method. The method includes: providing a substrate having fins and forming an initial gate structure across the fins, which covers a portion of a top surface and sidewall surfaces of the fins, and includes an initial first region and an initial second region on the initial first region. A bottom boundary of the initial second region is higher than the top surface of the fins, and a size of the initial first region is larger than a size of the initial second region. A first etching process is performed on sidewalls of the initial gate structure to form a gate structure, which includes a first region formed by etching the initial first region, and a second region formed by etching the initial second region. A size of the first region is smaller than a size of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation, Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation
    Inventors: Haiyang Zhang, Bo Su