Patents Examined by Long K. Tran
  • Patent number: 9831424
    Abstract: A nanoporous (NP) memory may include a non-porous layer and a nanoporous layer sandwiched between the bottom and top electrodes. The memory may be free of diodes, selectors, and/or transistors that may be necessary in other memories to mitigate crosstalk. The nanoporous material of the nanoporous layer may be a metal oxide, metal chalcogenide, or a combination thereof. Further, the memory may lack any additional components. Further, the memory may be free from requiring an electroformation process to allow switching between ON/OFF states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: James M. Tour, Gunuk Wang, Yang Yang
  • Patent number: 9831374
    Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for providing efficient direction of light to a photodetector with a tapered waveguide structure. In an embodiment, a taper structure of a semiconductor device comprises a substantially single crystalline silicon. A buried oxide underlies and adjoins the monocrystalline silicon of the taper structure, and a polycrystalline Si is disposed under the buried oxide. During operation of the semiconductor device light is redirected in the taper structure and received via a first side of a Germanium photodetector. In another embodiment, one or more mirror structures positioned on a far side of the Germanium photodetector may provide for a portion of the light to be reflected back to the Germanium photodetector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benjamin Vincent, Avi Feshali
  • Patent number: 9831298
    Abstract: The present specification relates to an organic light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junhyuk Jang, Yeon Keun Lee
  • Patent number: 9831179
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of line patterns formed apart from one another on a substrate, the plurality of line patterns having a first width and extending parallel to one another in a first direction. A first line pattern of the plurality of line patterns may include a wider portion having a second width in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction that is greater than the first width. One or more second line patterns may be located adjacent to the first line pattern and include a conformal portion conformally formed about the wider portion of the first line pattern. One or more third line patterns may be located adjacent to the second line pattern and include an end portion near the conformal portion of the one or more second line pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung-hoon Kim, Woo-sung Yang, Jee-hoon Hwang
  • Patent number: 9818668
    Abstract: A method relating generally to a substrate is disclosed. In such a method, the substrate has formed therein a plurality of vias. A liner layer is located on the substrate, including being located in a subset of the plurality of vias. At least one of the plurality of vias does not have the liner layer located therein. A thermally conductive material is disposed in the at least one of the plurality of vias to provide a thermal via structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Invensas Corporation
    Inventor: Guilian Gao
  • Patent number: 9818636
    Abstract: Compositions containing an adhesive material and a release additive are suitable for temporarily bonding two surfaces, such as a wafer active side and a substrate. These compositions are useful in the manufacture of electronic devices where a component, such as an active wafer, is temporarily bonded to a substrate, followed by further processing of the active wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC
    Inventors: Mark S. Oliver, Michael K. Gallagher, Karen R. Brantl
  • Patent number: 9806143
    Abstract: The present specification relates to an organic light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junhyuk Jang, Yeon Keun Lee
  • Patent number: 9805947
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides an electronic device and a fabrication method thereof. An electronic device according to an implementation of the disclosed technology may include: a first interlayer insulating layer formed over a substrate; first and second contact plugs passing through the first interlayer insulating layer to contact the substrate and alternately arranged to cross each other; a variable resistance element formed over the first interlayer insulating layer and coupled to the first contact plug; a second interlayer insulating layer formed over an entire structure including the first interlayer insulating layer; a third contact plug passing through the second interlayer insulating layer so as to be coupled to the variable resistance element, and a fourth contact plug passing through the second interlayer insulating layer so as to be contacted to the second contact plug; and conductive lines coupled to the third contact plug and the fourth contact plug, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Jung-Hyun Kang
  • Patent number: 9799560
    Abstract: A fin-type semiconductor device includes a gate structure and a source/drain structure. The fin-type semiconductor device also includes a gate hardmask structure coupled to the gate structure. The gate hardmask structure comprises a first material. The fin-type semiconductor device further includes a source/drain hardmask structure coupled to the source/drain structure. The source/drain hardmask structure comprises a second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stanley Seungchul Song, Jeffrey Junhao Xu, Kern Rim, Da Yang, John Jianhong Zhu, Junjing Bao, Niladri Narayan Mojumder, Vladimir Machkaoutsan, Mustafa Badaroglu, Choh Fei Yeap
  • Patent number: 9796584
    Abstract: A bio-sensing semiconductor structure is provided. A transistor includes a channel region and a gate underlying the channel region. A first dielectric layer overlies the transistor. A first opening extends through the first dielectric layer to expose the channel region. A bio-sensing layer lines the first opening and covers an upper surface of the channel region. A second dielectric layer lines the first opening over the bio-sensing layer. A second opening within the first opening extends to the bio-sensing layer, through a region of the second dielectric layer overlying the channel region. A method for manufacturing the bio-sensing semiconductor structure is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Che-Ming Chang, Chih-Jen Chan, Chung-Yen Chou, Lee-Chuan Tseng, Shih-Wei Lin, Yuan-Chih Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9793474
    Abstract: A method of forming a non-volatile memory device. The method includes providing a substrate having a surface region and forming a first dielectric material overlying the surface region of the substrate. A first electrode structure is formed overlying the first dielectric material and a p+ polycrystalline silicon germanium material is formed overlying the first electrode structure. A p+ polycrystalline silicon material is formed overlying the first electrode structure using the polycrystalline silicon germanium material as a seed layer at a deposition temperature ranging from about 430 Degree Celsius to about 475 Degree Celsius without further anneal. The method forms a resistive switching material overlying the polycrystalline silicon material, and a second electrode structure including an active metal material overlying the resistive switching material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: CROSSBAR, INC.
    Inventors: Xin Sun, Sung Hyun Jo, Tanmay Kumar
  • Patent number: 9793332
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a pixel electrode, a light emission layer over the pixel electrode, an opposite electrode covering the light emission layer, a plurality of upper layers over the opposite electrode, a light-shielding layer over the upper layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongki Lee, Jongsung Bae
  • Patent number: 9793286
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit (IC) that includes a high-k metal gate (HKMG) non-volatile memory (NVM) device and that provides small scale and high performance, and a method of formation. In some embodiments, the integrated circuit includes a logic region having a logic device disposed over a substrate and including a first metal gate electrode disposed over a first high-k gate dielectric layer and an embedded memory region disposed adjacent to the logic region. The embedded memory region has a non-volatile memory (NVM) device including a second metal gate electrode disposed over the high-k gate dielectric layer. By having HKMG structures in both the logic region and the memory region, IC performance is improved and further scaling becomes possible in emerging technology nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Cheng Wu, Tzu-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 9786722
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a double-side OLED display, the double-side OLED display includes a first light-emitting substrate, a second light-emitting substrate and a color film layer, the first light-emitting substrate and the second light-emitting substrate are disposed opposite, the color film layer is disposed between the first light-emitting substrate and the second light-emitting substrate, light from the first light-emitting substrate partially penetrates the color film layer and forms a second display image on a side of the second light-emitting substrate, light from the second light-emitting substrate partially penetrates the color film layer and forms a first display image on a side of the first light-emitting substrate. The disclosure is capable of simplifying the process and reducing the thickness of the product, meanwhile images on two sides do not influence each other during display on both sides, and directions of two images on both sides are identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yuejun Tang
  • Patent number: 9780094
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a replacement strap for a finFET fin that provides communication between a storage capacitor and the fin. The storage capacitor is located in a deep trench formed in a substrate and the fin is formed on a surface of the substrate. The replacement strap allows for electrical connection of the fin to the storage capacitor and is in direct physical communication with the fin and the storage capacitor. The replacement strap may be formed by removing a sacrificial strap and merging epitaxially grown material from the fin and epitaxially grown material from the capacitor. The epitaxially grown material grown from the fin grows at a slower rate relative to the epitaxially grown material grown from the capacitor. By removing the sacrificial strap prior to forming the replacement strap, epitaxial overgrowth that may cause shorts between adjacent capacitors is limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Veeraraghavan S. Basker, Alexander Reznicek
  • Patent number: 9780214
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first fin structure for a first fin field effect transistor (FET). The first fin structure includes a first base layer protruding from a substrate, a first intermediate layer disposed over the first base layer and a first channel layer disposed over the first intermediate layer. The first fin structure further includes a first protective layer made of a material that prevents an underlying layer from oxidation. The first channel layer is made of SiGe, the first intermediate layer includes a first semiconductor (e.g., SiGe) layer disposed over the first base layer and a second semiconductor layer (e.g., Si) disposed over the first semiconductor layer. The first protective layer covers side walls of the first base layer, side walls of the first semiconductor layer and side walls of the second semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gin-Chen Huang, Tzu-Hsiang Hsu, Chia-Jung Hsu, Feng-Cheng Yang, Teng-Chun Tsai
  • Patent number: 9768263
    Abstract: A fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device includes a substrate and a template material over the substrate. The template material absorbs lattice mismatches with the substrate. The FinFET device also includes a barrier material over the template material. The barrier material is free of point defects. The FinFET device further includes a channel material over the barrier material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Martin Christopher Holland, Matthias Passlack, Richard Kenneth Oxland
  • Patent number: 9761664
    Abstract: Integrated circuits with lateral bipolar transistors and methods for fabricating the same are provided. An exemplary integrated circuit includes a semiconductor layer overlying an insulator layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first region having a first thickness and a trench region having a second thickness less than the first thickness. The integrated circuit further includes an isolation region formed over the trench region of the semiconductor layer. Also, the integrated circuit includes a lateral bipolar transistor including a base formed in the trench region of the semiconductor layer, an emitter, and a collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Gao, Manjunatha Prabhu, Chien-Hsin Lee, Xiangxiang Lu, Vaddagere Nagaraju Vasantha Kumar
  • Patent number: 9754816
    Abstract: The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including preparing a semiconductor substrate, forming a first insulating layer over said semiconductor substrate, forming first grooves in the first insulating film, forming a gate electrode and a first interconnect in the first grooves, respectively, forming a gate insulating film over the gate electrode, forming a semiconductor layer over the gate insulating, forming a second insulating layer over the semiconductor layer and the first insulating film, forming a via in the second insulating layer, and forming a second interconnect such that the second interconnect is connected to the semiconductor layer through the via. The gate electrode, the first interconnect and the second interconnect are formed by Cu or Cu alloy, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hayashi, Naoya Inoue, Kishou Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9748408
    Abstract: The semiconductor drift device comprises a deep well of a first type of electrical conductivity provided for a drift region in a substrate of semiconductor material, a drain region of the first type of conductivity at the surface of the substrate, a plurality of source regions of the first type of conductivity in shallow wells of the first type of conductivity at the periphery of the deep well of the first type, and a deep well or a plurality of deep wells of an opposite second type of electrical conductivity provided for a plurality of gate regions at the periphery of the deep well of the first type. The gate regions are formed by shallow wells of the second type of electrical conductivity, which are arranged in the deep well of the second type between the shallow wells of the first type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: AMS AG
    Inventor: Martin Knaipp