Patents Examined by Natalia A Gondarenko
  • Patent number: 10692949
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display device and method of fabricating the same are discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Bin Lee, Jeong-Mook Choi
  • Patent number: 10693016
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a thin film transistor on a first base substrate, the thin film transistor including a gate electrode disposed on the first base substrate, an active pattern disposed on the first base substrate and including a semiconductor layer including of amorphous silicon and an ohmic contact layer which is on the semiconductor layer, a drain electrode disposed on the ohmic contact layer and having a first thickness, and a source electrode disposed on the ohmic contact layer and having a second thickness which is greater than the first thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pil Soon Hong, Hyunyoung Jung, Chulwon Park, Gwui-Hyun Park, Jeongmin Park
  • Patent number: 10692887
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method used in forming an array of memory cells comprises uses no more than two photolithographic masking steps are used in forming both: (a) sense lines longitudinally extending in a column direction that are individually directly above and electrically coupled to the upper source/drain regions of multiple of the second pedestals in the column direction; and (b) spaced elevationally-extending vias laterally between immediately-adjacent of the sense lines directly above and electrically coupled to the upper source/drain regions of multiple of the first pedestals. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Werner Juengling
  • Patent number: 10692999
    Abstract: A SiC MOSFET device having low specific on resistance is described. The device has N+, P-well and JFET regions extended in one direction (Y-direction) and P+ and source contacts extended in an orthogonal direction (X-direction). The polysilicon gate of the device covers the JFET region and is terminated over the P-well region to minimize electric field at the polysilicon gate edge. In use, current flows vertically from the drain contact at the bottom of the structure into the JFET region and then laterally in the X direction through the accumulation region and through the MOSFET channels into the adjacent N+ region. The current flowing out of the channel then flows along the N+ region in the Y-direction and is collected by the source contacts and the final metal. Methods of making the device are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: MONOLITH SEMICONDUCTOR INC.
    Inventors: Sujit Banerjee, Kevin Matocha, Kiran Chatty
  • Patent number: 10692853
    Abstract: An electrostatic discharge robust semiconductor transistor (transistor) includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a substrate contact region of the first conductivity type coupled with the semiconductor substrate, a source region of a second conductivity type, a channel region of the second conductivity type, a gate region of the first conductivity type, a drain region having a first drain region of the first conductivity type and a second drain region of the second conductivity type, and an electrical conductor coupled over the second drain region and a portion of the first drain region. A portion of the first drain region not covered by the electrical conductor forms a resistive electrical ballast region configured to protect the transistor from electrostatic discharge (ESD) induced voltage pulses. In implementations the transistor includes a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) junction field effect transistor (SCR JFET) or a laterally diffused metal-oxide semiconductor (SCR LDMOS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Shuji Fujiwara, Richard Scott Burton
  • Patent number: 10680034
    Abstract: A module assembly device (402) is configured for assembling a module assembly (114) for a detector array (110) of an imaging system (100). The module assembly device includes a base (400) having a long axis (401). The module assembly device further includes a first surface (406) of the base and side walls (408) protruding perpendicular up from the first surface and extending in a direction of the long axis along at least two sides of the base. The first surface and side walls form a recess (404) configured to receive the module substrate on the surface and within the side walls. The module assembly device further includes protrusions (403) protruding from the side walls in a direction of the side walls. The protrusions and side walls interface forming a ledge which serves as a photo-detector array tile support (410) configured to receive the photo-detector array tile (118) over the ASIC and the module substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Marc Anthony Chappo
  • Patent number: 10665653
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus can include a substrate including a display area and a bending area; a pixel array layer including a driving wiring in the display area, and a thin film transistor electrically connected to the driving wiring; a planarization layer covering the pixel array layer; a light emitting device layer disposed on the planarization layer, the light emitting device layer being electrically connected to the thin film transistor; a routing wiring disposed in the bending area, the routing wiring being electrically connected to the driving wiring; a wiring contact part including a contact hole for electrically connecting the driving wiring to the routing wiring; and an encapsulation layer covering the light emitting device layer and the wiring contact part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eunah Kim
  • Patent number: 10665554
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a first die on a first substrate, a second die on a second substrate separate from the first substrate, a transmission line in a redistribution layer on a wafer, and a magnetic structure surrounds the transmission line. The first transmission line electrically connects the first die and the second die. The magnetic structure is configured to increase the characteristic impedance of the transmission line, which can save the current and power consumption of a current mirror and amplifier in a 3D IC chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) semiconductor package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Wen-Shiang Liao, Huan-Neng Chen
  • Patent number: 10665463
    Abstract: A method of forming one or more contact regions in a high-voltage field effect transistor (HFET) includes providing a semiconductor material, including a first active layer and a second active layer, with a gate dielectric disposed on a surface of the semiconductor material. A first contact to the semiconductor material is formed that extends through the second active layer into the first active layer, and a passivation layer is deposited, where the gate dielectric is disposed between the passivation layer and the second active layer. An interconnect is formed extending through the first passivation layer and coupled to the first contact. An interlayer dielectric is deposited proximate to the interconnect, and a plug is formed extending into the interlayer dielectric and coupled to the first portion of the interconnect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Power Integrations, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexey Kudymov, LinLin Liu, Jamal Ramdani
  • Patent number: 10658521
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor structure includes at least a first channel region and a second channel region. The first channel region and the second channel region each include metal gate structures surrounding a different nanosheet channel layer. The metal gate structures of the first and second channel regions are respectively separated from each other by an unfilled gap. The method includes forming a gap fill layer between and in contact with gate structures surrounding nanosheet channel layers in multiple channel regions. Then, after the gap fill layer has been formed for each nanosheet stack, a masking layer is formed over the gate structures and the gap fill layer in at least a first channel region. The gate structures and the gap fill layer in at least a second channel region remain exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Indira Seshadri, Ekmini Anuja De Silva, Jing Guo, Ruqiang Bao, Muthumanickam Sankarapandian, Nelson Felix
  • Patent number: 10651301
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having an upper surface, a trench electrode placed inside a trench formed on the upper surface, and a trench insulating film placed between the trench electrode and the semiconductor substrate, and the semiconductor substrate includes a drift layer, a floating layer for electric field reduction, a hole barrier layer, a body layer and an emitter layer, and the emitter layer, the body layer and the hole barrier layer are separated from the drift layer by the floating layer for electric field reduction, and a path of a carrier passing through an inverted layer formed in the body layer includes the body layer, the hole barrier layer, a non-inverted region of the floating layer for electric field reduction, and the drift layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Kanda, Hitoshi Matsuura
  • Patent number: 10651234
    Abstract: A device and method for providing the device are described. The device includes a substrate, a MnxN layer overlying the substrate, a multi-layered structure that is non-magnetic at room temperature and a first magnetic layer. The MnxN layer has 2?x?4.75. The multi-layered structure comprises alternating layers of Co and E, wherein E comprises at least one other element that includes Al. The composition of the multi-layered structure is represented by Co1-xEx, with x being in the range from 0.45 to 0.55. The first magnetic layer includes a Heusler compound. The first magnetic layer is in contact with the multi-layered structure and the first magnetic layer forms part of a magnetic tunnel junction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaewoo Jeong, Mahesh G. Samant, Stuart S. P. Parkin, Yari Ferrante
  • Patent number: 10644127
    Abstract: An electronic device including a transistor structure, and a process of forming the electronic device can include providing a workpiece including a substrate, a first layer, and a channel layer including a compound semiconductor material; and implanting a species into the workpiece such that the projected range extends at least into the channel and first layers, and the implant is performed into an area corresponding to at least a source region of the transistor structure. In an embodiment, the area corresponds to substantially all area occupied by the transistor structure. In another embodiment, the implant can form crystal defects within layers between the substrate and source, gate, and drain electrodes. The crystal defects may allow resistive coupling between the substrate and the channel structure within the transistor structure. The resistive coupling allows for better dynamic on-state resistance and potentially other electrical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Moens, Abhishek Banerjee
  • Patent number: 10629742
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first and second fin patterns on a substrate and extending apart from each other, a field insulating film on the substrate and surrounding parts of the first and second fin patterns, a first gate structure on the first fin pattern and intersecting the first fin pattern, a second gate structure on the second fin pattern and intersecting the second fin pattern, and a separating structure protruding from a top surface of the field insulating film and separating the first and second gate structures, the field insulating film and the separating structure including a same insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Gun You, Dong Hyun Kim, Byoung-Gi Kim, Yun Suk Nam, Yeong Min Jeon, Sung Chul Park, Dae Won Ha
  • Patent number: 10629715
    Abstract: An electrostatic discharge protection device includes a substrate, first and second emitter regions disposed in the substrate, laterally spaced from one another on a side of the substrate, and having opposite conductivity types, and first and second base regions having opposite conductivity types and in which the first and second emitter regions are disposed in a thyristor arrangement, respectively. The first base region includes a buried doped layer that extends under the second base region. Each of the buried doped layer and the second base region includes a respective non-uniformity in dopant concentration profile. A spacing between the buried doped layer and the second base region at the respective non-uniformities establishes a breakdown trigger voltage for the thyristor arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Evgueniy Nikolov Stefanov
  • Patent number: 10629678
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having an insulated gate bipolar transistor portion and a freewheeling diode portion. The method includes introducing an impurity to a rear surface of a semiconductor substrate, performing first heat treating to activate the impurity to form a field stop layer, performing a first irradiation to irradiate light ions from the rear surface of semiconductor substrate to form, in the semiconductor substrate, a first low-lifetime region, performing a second irradiation to irradiate the light ions from the rear surface of the semiconductor substrate to form, in the field stop layer, a second low-lifetime region, and performing second heat treating to reduce a density of defects generated in the field stop layer when the second irradiation is performed. Each of the first and second low-lifetime regions has a carrier lifetime thereof shorter than that of any region of the semiconductor device other than the first and second low-lifetime regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Souichi Yoshida, Seiji Noguchi, Kenji Kouno, Hiromitsu Tanabe
  • Patent number: 10608083
    Abstract: Methods are provided to construct field-effect transistors comprising low-resistance metallic gate structures. A field-effect transistor includes a nanosheet stack and a metal gate which covers a gate region of the nanosheet stack. The nanosheet stack includes nanosheet channel layers and an etch stop layer disposed above an upper nanosheet channel layer. The metal gate includes a work function metal which encapsulates the nanosheet channel layers, and a gate electrode disposed above and in contact with the work function metal. An upper surface of the work function metal is recessed to be substantially coplanar with the etch stop layer. The gate electrode has a resistivity which is less than a resistivity of the work function metal. The etch stop layer protects the portion of the work function metal disposed between the etch stop layer and the upper nanosheet channel layer from being etched when recessing the work function metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Chen Zhang, Wenyu Xu, Xin Miao
  • Patent number: 10607980
    Abstract: A device includes a glass substrate and a capacitor. The capacitor includes a first metal coupled to a first electrode, a dielectric structure, and a via structure comprising a second electrode of the capacitor. The first metal structure is separated from the via structure by the dielectric structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Je-Hsiung Jeffrey Lan, Niranjan Sunil Mudakatte, Changhan Hobie Yun, Daeik Daniel Kim, Chengjie Zuo, David Francis Berdy, Mario Francisco Velez, Jonghae Kim
  • Patent number: 10593673
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is provided in which an nFET nanosheet stack of suspended silicon channel material nanosheets is present in an nFET device region and a pFET nanosheet stack of suspended silicon germanium alloy channel material nanosheets is present in a pFET device region. The silicon channel material nanosheets of the nFET nanosheet stack are off-set by one nanosheet from the silicon germanium alloy channel material nanosheets of the pFET nanosheet stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xin Miao, Jingyun Zhang, Alexander Reznicek, Choonghyun Lee
  • Patent number: 10580853
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having an insulated gate bipolar transistor portion and a freewheeling diode portion. The method includes introducing an impurity to a rear surface of a semiconductor substrate, performing first heat treating to activate the impurity to form a field stop layer, performing a first irradiation to irradiate light ions from the rear surface of semiconductor substrate to form, in the semiconductor substrate, a first low-lifetime region, performing a second irradiation to irradiate the light ions from the rear surface of the semiconductor substrate to form, in the field stop layer, a second low-lifetime region, and performing second heat treating to reduce a density of defects generated in the field stop layer when the second irradiation is performed. Each of the first and second low-lifetime regions has a carrier lifetime thereof shorter than that of any region of the semiconductor device other than the first and second low-lifetime regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Souichi Yoshida, Seiji Noguchi, Kenji Kouno, Hiromitsu Tanabe