Patents Examined by Natalia A Gondarenko
  • Patent number: 11227921
    Abstract: A transistor includes a trench formed in a semiconductor substrate with the trench having a first sidewall and a second sidewall. A gate region includes a conductive material filled in the trench. A drift region having a first conductivity type is formed in the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the second sidewall. A drain region is formed in the drift region and separated from the second sidewall by a first distance. A dielectric layer is formed at the top surface of the semiconductor substrate covering the gate region and the drift region between the second sidewall and the drain region. A field plate is formed over the dielectric layer and isolated from the conductive material and the drift region by way of the dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Bernhard Grote, Ljubo Radic
  • Patent number: 11227993
    Abstract: A device includes a first conductive via plug, a first electrode, a storage element, a second electrode, a spacer, a barrier structure, a first dielectric layer. The first electrode is over the first conductive via plug. The storage element is over the first electrode. The second electrode is over the storage element. The spacer has a bottom portion extending along a top surface of the first electrode and a standing portion extending from the bottom portion and along a sidewall of the second electrode. The barrier structure extends from the bottom portion of the spacer and along a sidewall of the standing portion of the spacer. The first dielectric layer is substantially conformally over the spacer and the barrier structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fu-Ting Sung, Chern-Yow Hsu, Shih-Chang Liu
  • Patent number: 11222980
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a fin structure protruding from a first isolation insulating layer provided over a substrate, a gate dielectric layer disposed over a channel region of the fin structure, a gate electrode layer disposed over the gate dielectric layer, a base semiconductor epitaxial layer disposed over a source/drain region of the fin structure, and a cap semiconductor epitaxial layer disposed over the base semiconductor epitaxial layer. The cap semiconductor epitaxial layer has a different lattice constant than the base semiconductor epitaxial layer, and a surface roughness of the cap semiconductor epitaxial layer along a source-to-drain direction is greater than zero and smaller than a surface roughness of the base semiconductor epitaxial layer along the source-to-drain direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen-Hsien Tu, Wei-Fan Lee
  • Patent number: 11223009
    Abstract: A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device and a method of manufacturing the same, the device including a substrate; a memory unit including a lower electrode, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure, and an upper electrode sequentially stacked on the substrate; a passivation pattern on a sidewall of the memory unit; a via on the memory unit and contacting the upper electrode; and a wiring on the via and contacting the via, wherein a center portion of the upper electrode protrudes from a remaining portion of the upper electrode in a vertical direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Baeseong Kwon
  • Patent number: 11217598
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate having a channel layer, a first tunneling layer disposed on the channel layer, a second tunneling layer disposed on the first tunneling layer, a third tunneling layer disposed on the second tunneling layer, a charge trap layer disposed on the third tunneling layer, a charge barrier layer disposed on the charge trap layer, and a gate electrode layer disposed on the charge barrier layer. The first tunneling layer includes a first insulative material. The second tunneling layer includes a second insulative material. The third tunneling layer includes a second insulative material. The resistance switching material is a material whose electric resistance varies reversibly between a high resistance state and a low resistance state depending on a magnitude of an applied electric field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Bo Yun Kim
  • Patent number: 11211497
    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: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Gun You, Dong Hyun Kim, Byoung-Gi Kim, Yun Suk Nam, Yeong Min Jeon, Sung Chui Park, Dae Won Ha
  • Patent number: 11169424
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel electrode, a switching element connected to the pixel electrode, a pixel line connected to the switching element and disposed adjacent to the pixel electrode, and a light-transmitting shielding portion made of a conductive film having light-transmitting and disposed adjacent to both the pixel electrode and the pixel line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11171228
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer disposed above the substrate; a second nitride semiconductor layer disposed above the first nitride semiconductor layer and having a band gap larger than a band gap of the first nitride semiconductor layer; a third nitride semiconductor layer selectively disposed above the second nitride semiconductor layer and containing a p-type first impurity element; a high resistance region disposed in the third nitride semiconductor layer, the high resistance region containing a second impurity element and having a specific resistance higher than a specific resistance of the third nitride semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode disposed above the high resistance region, wherein an end of the high resistance region is inside a surface end of the third nitride semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Okita, Manabu Yanagihara, Masahiro Hikita
  • Patent number: 11158694
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. By simplifying the design of a part of a pixel drive circuit on a drive array substrate in a bending region of the display panel, the number of a drive transistor and other switching control tubes having the largest area in a partial region of the pixel drive circuit are reduced. Moreover, by removing an inorganic insulation layer having a larger stress, an organic buffer layer having a larger elastic modulus is filled. Therefore, the bending region has good bendability or foldability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Baonan Wang
  • Patent number: 11152496
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an integrated circuit (IC) structure, including: a semiconductor base on a first portion of a raised region of an insulative layer; a first inner emitter/collector (E/C) material on a second portion of the raised region of the insulative layer, wherein the inner E/C material is directly horizontally between the semiconductor base and a sidewall of the raised region; and a first outer E/C material on a first non-raised region of the insulative layer, wherein an upper portion of the first outer E/C material is adjacent the first inner E/C material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
    Inventors: Jagar Singh, Alexander L. Martin, Alexander M. Derrickson
  • Patent number: 11145719
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first and a second gate stacks disposed over a substrate, having spacers along sidewalls, respectively. The device also includes a source/drain (S/D) feature, a capping layer disposed along upper portions of the spacers, respectively and a dielectric layer along lower portions of the spacers, respectively. The dielectric layer physically contacts the capping layer and a top surface of the dielectric layer is above a top surface of the S/D feature. The device also includes a contact disposed over the S/D feature interfacing the capping layer and dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chih-Han Lin
  • Patent number: 11133441
    Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device, comprising: a light emitting element including a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 440 nm or more and 470 nm or less; a first fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 480 nm or more and 518 nm or less; a second fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 510 nm or more and less than 590 nm and having an x value of the chromaticity coordinate in CIE1931 in a range of 0.27 or more and 0.40 or less; and a third fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 590 nm or more and 670 nm or less. The light emitting device is capable of reducing the human eye fatigue and having a light emission spectrum with excellent visual work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazushige Fujio, Sadakazu Wakui
  • Patent number: 11121350
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a substrate with an electrode is a substrate with an electrode 32 for manufacturing an organic device 10 including a first electrode 14, an organic functional layer 16, and a second electrode 18. The substrate with an electrode includes a support substrate 34, a first electrode provided on an inner side of a device formation area DA on a surface 34a of the support substrate 34, and an antistatic conductive portion 36 provided on the surface described above and electrically connected to the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinichi Morishima, Masaya Shimogawara, Eiji Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 11114526
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type. The semiconductor substrate includes a first semiconductor region of a second conductivity type at a surface thereof, a second semiconductor region of the second conductivity type at the surface and surrounding the first semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region of the second conductivity type provided in the second semiconductor region at the surface and surrounding the first semiconductor region. The third semiconductor region has a concentration of a second conductivity type impurity higher than that of the second semiconductor region. A first insulating film is provided on a part of the first surface at which the second semiconductor region is provided. the first insulating film having an opening that exposes. A first electrode is provided on the first insulating film and electrically connected to the third semiconductor region via the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11114456
    Abstract: Embodiments of 3D memory devices and methods for forming the same are disclosed. In an example, a 3D memory device includes a substrate, a memory stack, and a NAND memory string. The memory stack includes a plurality of interleaved gate conductive layers and gate-to-gate dielectric layers above the substrate. Each of the gate-to-gate dielectric layers includes a silicon oxynitride layer. The NAND memory string extends vertically through the interleaved gate conductive layers and gate-to-gate dielectric layers of the memory stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Li Hong Xiao
  • Patent number: 11107905
    Abstract: A method of controlling an effective gate length in a vertical field effect transistor is provided. The method includes forming a vertical fin on a substrate, and forming a bottom spacer layer on the substrate adjacent to the vertical fin. The method further includes forming a dummy gate block adjacent to the vertical fin on the bottom spacer layer. The method further includes forming a top spacer adjacent to the vertical fin on the dummy gate block, and removing the dummy gate block to expose a portion of the vertical fin between the top spacer and bottom spacer layer. The method further includes forming an absorption layer on the exposed portion of the vertical fin. The method further includes heat treating the absorption layer and vertical fin to form a dopant modified absorption layer, and removing the dopant modified absorption layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xin Miao, Chen Zhang, Kangguo Cheng, Wenyu Xu
  • Patent number: 11101301
    Abstract: Disclosed are an array substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, a display panel and a display apparatus. The array substrate comprises several pixel units located on a base substrate and arranged in an array, with each of the pixel units comprising a thin-film transistor, and the thin-film transistor comprising a polycrystalline silicon active layer, wherein a length extension direction of a channel of the thin-film transistor is parallel to a pre-set direction; and the pre-set direction is a scanning direction of an excimer laser beam used when forming the polycrystalline silicon active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xueyan Tian
  • Patent number: 11101182
    Abstract: Integrated chips include vertically stacked channel layers, with a first stack in a first device region and a second stack in a second device region. A first dielectric layer is formed conformally on the vertically stacked channel layers in the first device region. A second dielectric layer is formed conformally on the vertically stacked channel layers in the second device region. Gate conductors are formed around the vertically stacked channel layers in both the first device region and the second device region, filling a space between surfaces of the respective first dielectric layer and second dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Choonghyun Lee, Juntao Li, Peng Xu
  • Patent number: 11094731
    Abstract: An image capturing device is provided. The device comprises a photodiode including a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type and a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, a third semiconductor region of the second conductivity type, an insulator arranged between the photodiode and the third semiconductor region and a channel stop region of the first conductivity type which covers a side and a bottom surface of the insulator. The channel stop region includes a fourth semiconductor region arranged between the insulator and the second semiconductor region and a fifth semiconductor region arranged between the insulator and the third semiconductor region. An impurity concentration in the fourth semiconductor region is higher than an impurity concentration in the fifth semiconductor region and the impurity concentration in the fifth semiconductor region is not less than an impurity concentration in the first semiconductor region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daichi Seto, Junji Iwata
  • Patent number: 11094908
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode comprises an anode; an organic layer disposed on the anode and including a plurality of phosphorescent light emitting layers; and a cathode disposed on the organic layer, wherein a phosphorescent light emitting layer having a highest degree of horizontal orientation of a dopant among the plurality of phosphorescent light emitting layers is disposed to be adjacent to the cathode, and wherein the anode includes a short reduction pattern which implements a narrow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juhyuk Kwon, Jaemin Moon, Sunhee Lee, Taemin Kim, JunHyoung Lee