Patents Examined by John Lin
  • Patent number: 12349428
    Abstract: A JFET is provided with a very low gate current. In tests the excess gate current above the theoretical minimum current for a similarly sized reverse biased p-n junction was not observed. The JFET includes a lightly doped top gate and doped regions beneath the drain of the JFET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventor: Edward John Coyne
  • Patent number: 12342535
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present application provide a memory forming method and a memory. The method includes: providing a substrate including at least word line structures and active regions, and bottom dielectric layers and bit line contact layers located on a top surface of the substrate, the bottom dielectric layer having bit line contact openings exposing the active regions in the substrate, and the bit line contact layers covering the bottom dielectric layers and filling the bit line contact openings; etching part of the bit line contact layers to form the bit line contact layers of different heights; forming conductive layers, top surfaces of the conductive layers being at the same height in a direction perpendicular to an extension direction of the word line structures; and the top surfaces of the conductive layers being at different heights in the extension direction of the word line structures; forming top dielectric layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Lingguo Zhang, Lintao Zhang, Thomas Jongwan Kwon, Xiangui Zhou, Xu Liu
  • Patent number: 12336201
    Abstract: A structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a conductor-insulator-conductor capacitor. The conductor-insulator-conductor capacitor is disposed on the semiconductor substrate and includes a first conductor, a nitrogenous dielectric layer and a second conductor. The nitrogenous dielectric layer is disposed on the first conductor and the second conductor is disposed on the nitrogenous dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jian-Shiou Huang, Chia-Shiung Tsai, Cheng-Yuan Tsai, Hsing-Lien Lin, Yao-Wen Chang
  • Patent number: 12324303
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same are provided. An organic light-emitting display device includes: a substrate, an organic light-emitting device on the substrate, an encapsulation layer on the substrate and the organic light-emitting device, the encapsulation layer covering the organic light-emitting device, the encapsulation layer including an encapsulation hole, a black matrix covering the encapsulation layer, the black matrix including a black matrix hole over the encapsulation hole, and a color filter in the encapsulation hole and the black matrix hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YongBaek Lee, Ho-Jin Kim, Goeun Jung, Dongyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 12279473
    Abstract: A flexible organic light-emitting display device includes a display panel which displays an image with light, including: an organic light-emitting device which emits the light; and a plurality of organic layers stacked around the organic light-emitting device, a portion of the plurality of organic layers being exposed outside the display panel, and a metal oxide layer on the display panel, the metal oxide layer contacting the portions of the plurality of organic layers exposed outside the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sooyoun Kim, Seunghun Kim, Wooyong Sung, Seungyong Song, Taehoon Yang
  • Patent number: 12262556
    Abstract: A power amplifier that includes a substrate, and an emitter layer, a base layer, and a collector layer laminated in this order on a major surface of the substrate includes an electrical insulator provided adjacent to the emitter layer, an emitter electrode provided between the substrate and both the emitter layer and the electrical insulator, a base electrode electrically connected to the base layer, and a collector electrode electrically connected to the collector layer. The emitter electrode, the electrical insulator, and the base layer are provided between the substrate and the base electrode in a direction perpendicular to the major surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shaojun Ma, Shigeki Koya, Masayuki Aoike, Shinnosuke Takahashi, Yasunari Umemoto, Masatoshi Hase
  • Patent number: 12255220
    Abstract: A first light receiving element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of pixels, a photoelectric converter that is provided as a layer common to the plurality of pixels, and contains a compound semiconductor material, and a first electrode layer that is provided between the plurality of pixels on light incident surface side of the photoelectric converter, and has a light-shielding property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Manda, Ryosuke Matsumoto, Suguru Saito, Shigehiro Ikehara, Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Shunsuke Maruyama
  • Patent number: 12250855
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel portion in which a pixel is arranged in a matrix, the pixel including an inverted staggered thin film transistor having a combination of at least two kinds of oxide semiconductor layers with different amounts of oxygen and having a channel protective layer over a semiconductor layer to be a channel formation region overlapping a gate electrode layer and a pixel electrode layer electrically connected to the inverted staggered thin film transistor. In the periphery of the pixel portion in this display device, a pad portion including a conductive layer made of the same material as the pixel electrode layer is provided. In addition, the conductive layer is electrically connected to a common electrode layer formed on a counter substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kengo Akimoto, Shigeki Komori, Hideki Uochi, Rihito Wada, Yoko Chiba
  • Patent number: 12230709
    Abstract: Present disclosure provides a transistor structure, including a substrate, a first gate extending along a longitudinal direction over the substrate, the first gate including a gate electrode, a second gate over the substrate and apart from the first gate, a source region of a first conductivity type in the substrate, aligning to an edge in proximity to a side of the first gate, a P-type well surrounding the source region, a drain region of the first conductivity type in the substrate, an N-type well surrounding the drain region, the second gate is entirely within a vertical projection area of the N-type well and a bottom surface of the P-type well and a bottom surface of the N-type well are substantially at a same depth from the first gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Tung-Yang Lin, Hsueh-Liang Chou
  • Patent number: 12218171
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an image sensor. The image sensor includes a first semiconductor substrate having a photodetector and a floating diffusion node. A transfer gate is disposed over the first semiconductor substrate, where the transfer gate is at least partially disposed between opposite sides of the photodetector. A second semiconductor substrate is vertically spaced from the first semiconductor substrate, where the second semiconductor substrate comprises a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. A readout transistor is disposed on the second semiconductor substrate, where the second surface is disposed between the transfer gate and a gate of the readout transistor. A first conductive contact is electrically coupled to the transfer gate and extending vertically from the transfer gate through both the first surface and the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Takahashi, Jhy-Jyi Sze
  • Patent number: 12193221
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate and an isolation structure disposed in the semiconductor substrate. The isolation structure includes a lining layer disposed along a boundary between the semiconductor substrate and the isolation structure, a first oxide fill layer disposed over the lining layer, a dielectric barrier structure surrounding the first oxide fill layer in a closed loop, and a second oxide fill layer disposed over the dielectric barrier structure and adjacent to the lining layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: WINBOND ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Wei-Che Chang, Kai Jen, Yu-Po Wang
  • Patent number: 12142558
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first lower line and a second lower line on a substrate, the first and second lower lines extending in a first direction, being adjacent to each other, and being spaced apart along a second direction, orthogonal the first direction, an airgap between the first and second lower lines and spaced therefrom along the second direction, a first insulating spacer on a side wall of the first lower line facing the second lower line, wherein a distance from the first airgap to the first lower line along the second direction is equal to or greater than an overlay specification of a design rule of the semiconductor device, and a second insulating spacer between the airgap and the second lower line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoya Inoue, Dong Won Kim, Young Woo Cho, Ji Won Kang, Song Yi Han
  • Patent number: 12113015
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for vertical transistor fuse latches are described. An apparatus may include a substrate and a memory array that is coupled with the substrate. The apparatus may also include a latch that is configured to store information from a fuse for the memory array. The latch may be at least partially within an additional substrate separate from and above the substrate. The latch may include a quantity of p-type vertical transistors and a quantity of n-type vertical transistors each at least partially disposed within the additional substrate above the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fatma Arzum Simsek-Ege, Yuan He
  • Patent number: 11950403
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for widened conductive line structures and staircase structures for semiconductor devices are described herein. One memory device includes an array of vertically stacked memory cells, the array including a vertical stack of horizontally oriented conductive lines. Each conductive line comprises a first portion extending in a first horizontal direction and a second portion extending in a second horizontal direction, wherein the second portion of each conductive line is of a width greater than the first portion of each conductive line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Yuichi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11877469
    Abstract: A display device may include a display substrate, an encapsulation substrate, and a sealing member. The display substrate may include a pixel defining layer. The sealing member may include a first portion having an inner portion between the display substrate and the encapsulation substrate and overlapping an edge portion of the pixel defining layer and an outer portion extending from the inner portion and located outside the inner portion; and a second portion between the outer portion and the display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Kim, Junehyoung Park, Jeongwoo Park, Wonsang Park
  • Patent number: 11862654
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an image sensor, and a method for forming the image sensor, in which an inter-pixel trench isolation structure is defined by a low-transmission layer. In some embodiments, the image sensor comprises an array of pixels and the inter-pixel trench isolation structure. The array of pixels is on a substrate, and the pixels of the array comprise individual photodetectors in the substrate. The inter-pixel trench isolation structure is in the substrate. Further, the inter-pixel trench isolation structure extends along boundaries of the pixels, and individually surrounds the photodetectors, to separate the photodetectors from each other. The inter-pixel trench isolation structure is defined by a low-transmission layer with low transmission for incident radiation, such that the inter-pixel trench isolation structure has low transmission for incident radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheng Yu Huang, Chun-Hao Chuang, Keng-Yu Chou, Wei-Chieh Chiang, Chin-Chia Kuo, Wen-Hau Wu, Hua-Mao Chen, Chih-Kung Chang
  • Patent number: 11854950
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a semiconductor module and a semiconductor device that are compatible with various rated currents. A semiconductor module includes a lead frame, and a semiconductor element joined with the lead frame. The lead frame includes a first joining structure and a second joining structure. The first joining structure includes a void part as a part at which the lead frame does not exist, and the second joining structure includes a void part as a part at which the lead frame does not exist. Each of the first joining structure and the second joining structure has a shape such that one of the first joining structure and the second joining structure complements at least part of the void part of the other assuming that the first joining structure and the second joining structure are overlapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Komo, Arata Iizuka, Takeshi Omaru
  • Patent number: 11849573
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for an array of vertically stacked memory cells having a bottom electrode contact for an array of vertically stacked memory cells. The bottom electrode contact is formed in a periphery region. The bottom electrode contact is electrically coupled to a number of bottom electrodes of capacitors that are also formed in the periphery region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Yokoyama, Si-Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 11832434
    Abstract: A memory cell includes: a substrate; an active layer spaced apart from a surface of the substrate and extending in a direction which is parallel to the surface of the substrate; a bit line coupled to one side of the active layer and extending in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate; a capacitor coupled to another side of the active layer and spaced apart from the surface of the substrate; and a word line vertically spaced apart from the active layer and extending in a direction intersecting with the active layer, wherein the word line includes a first notch-shaped sidewall and a second notch-shaped sidewall that face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Hwan Kim, Dong Sun Sheen, Su Ock Chung, Il Sup Jin, Seon Yong Cha
  • Patent number: 11832482
    Abstract: A double-sided emissive transparent organic light-emitting diode display and method of manufacturing the same are provided. A double-sided emissive transparent organic light-emitting diode display includes: a substrate, a plurality of pixel areas, each including, on the substrate: a light transmitting area, and a light-emitting area, the light-emitting area including: a bottom light-emitting area including a bottom-emissive organic light-emitting diode, and a top light-emitting area including: a top-emissive organic light-emitting diode, a plurality of bottom driving elements under the top-emissive organic light-emitting diode, the bottom driving elements being configured to drive the bottom-emissive organic light-emitting diode, and a plurality of top driving elements under the top-emissive organic light-emitting diode, the top driving elements being configured to drive the top-emissive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taehan Kim, Binn Kim