Patents Examined by Nicholas Tobergte
  • Patent number: 9437521
    Abstract: A thermally conductive sheet, comprising a curable resin composition, thermally conductive fibers, and thermally conductive particles, wherein the thermally conductive sheet has a compressibility of 40% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Aramaki, Takuhiro Ishii, Masahiko Ito, Shinichi Uchida, Atsuya Yoshinari, Syunsuke Uchida
  • Patent number: 9437420
    Abstract: A capacitor can include a crystallized metal oxide dielectric layer having a first dielectric constant and an amorphous metal oxide dielectric layer, on the crystallized metal oxide dielectric layer, where the amorphous metal oxide dielectric layer has a second dielectric constant that is less than the first dielectric constant and is greater than a dielectric constant of aluminum oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., NaMLab gGmbH
    Inventors: Kyu-Ho Cho, Youn-Soo Kim, Han-Jin Lim, Steve Knebel, Uwe Schroeder
  • Patent number: 9431476
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first capacitor structure, a second capacitor structure, and an insulation pattern. The first capacitor structure includes a first lower electrode, a first dielectric layer and a first upper electrode sequentially stacked on a substrate. The second capacitor structure includes a second lower electrode, a second dielectric layer and a second upper electrode sequentially stacked on the substrate, and is adjacent to the first capacitor structure. The insulation pattern partially fills a space between the first and second capacitor structures, and an air gap is formed between the first and second capacitor structures on the insulation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Seung Cho, Sung-Eui Kim, Ji-Young Kim, Hoon Jeong, Chan-Won Kim, Jong-Bom Seo, Seung-Jun Lee, Jun-Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 9425298
    Abstract: A bipolar junction transistor comprises a semiconductor layer disposed on an insulating material, at least a portion of the semiconductor layer forming a base region. The bipolar junction transistor further comprises a transistor emitter laterally disposed on a first side of the base region, where in the transistor emitter is a first doping type and has a first width, and wherein the first width is a lithographic feature size. The bipolar junction transistor further comprises a transistor collector laterally disposed on a second side of the base region, wherein the transistor collector is the first doping type and the first width. The bipolar junction transistor further comprises a central base contact laterally disposed on the base region between the transistor emitter and the transistor collector, wherein the central base contact is a second doping type and has a second width, and wherein the second width is a sub-lithographic feature size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fabio Carta, Daniel C. Edelstein, Stephen M. Gates, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari, Tak H. Ning
  • Patent number: 9425302
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a source electrode portion and a drain electrode formed on a semiconductor stacked body so as to be at an interval from each other, and a gate electrode formed between the source electrode portion and the drain electrode at an interval from the source electrode portion and the drain electrode. The source electrode portion includes a first recess electrode being directly in contact with a two-dimensional electron gas layer formed in the first nitride semiconductor layer, and a surface electrode formed between the gate electrode and the first recess electrode and connected conductively to the two-dimensional electron gas layer. A source potential is applied to the surface electrode and the recess electrode, and a width of the surface electrode in a gate-source direction is 0.4 times or more a distance between a gate-side end of the surface electrode and a source-side end of the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Kanaga, Hiroaki Kawano, Shingo Matsuda, Katsuhiko Kawashima
  • Patent number: 9425120
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device in which connection portions of a semiconductor chip are electrically connected to connection portions of a wiring circuit substrate or a semiconductor device in which connection portions of a plurality of semiconductor chips are electrically connected to each other, the method comprising a step of sealing at least part of the connection portions with an adhesive for a semiconductor comprising a compound having a group represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 represents an electron-donating group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD
    Inventors: Kazutaka Honda, Akira Nagai, Makoto Satou
  • Patent number: 9418840
    Abstract: Silicon-containing gas, carbon-containing gas, and chlorine-containing gas are introduced into a reacting furnace. Next, a SiC epitaxial film is grown on the front surface of a 4H-SiC substrate by a halide CVD method in a mixed gas atmosphere made of the plurality of gasses introduced. In the SiC epitaxial film growing, a SiC epitaxial film of a first predetermined thickness is grown at a first growth rate. The first growth rate is increased from an initial growth rate to a higher growth rate. Furthermore, the SiC epitaxial film is grown, at a second growth rate, until the thickness of the SiC epitaxial film reaches a second predetermined thickness. By so doing, it is possible to improve the crystallinity of a silicon carbide semiconductor film grown in a gas atmosphere containing halide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kawada, Yoshiyuki Yonezawa
  • Patent number: 9419153
    Abstract: A solar cell segment includes a substrate defining a rear side including a number of base doped regions and emitter doped regions. A dielectric layer and at least one metallizing layer are disposed on the rear side of the substrate. The at least one metallizing layer is structured in an interdigital comb-shaped contact deck arrangement and defines base contact decks for a number of base doped regions and emitter contact decks for a number of base doped regions. The at least one metallization layer is disposed between the rear side of the substrate and the dielectric layer. At least one first row of first contact openings is formed in the dielectric layer lying in a region of the base contact decks and at least one second row of second contact openings is formed in the dielectric layer lying in a region of the emitter contact decks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: SolarWorld Innovations GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Joachim Krokoszinski
  • Patent number: 9412925
    Abstract: A high-power LED lamp cooling device and its manufacturing method, which includes: manufacturing a semiconductor crystal bar in advance into cone-shaped crystal bar with one end having large diameter and the other having small diameter, making color mark on each wafer as the large-diameter end surface of the tail end when the cone-shaped semiconductor crystal bar is cut into slices; cutting and pelletizing the conical surface to obtain polygonal cylindrical N-type or P-type semiconductor elements, arranging them in a matrix form between two beryllium-oxide ceramic chips provided with conductive circuits, connecting head end of N-type semiconductor elements to tail end of the P-type semiconductor elements in series to manufacture high-power LED lamp cooling device. The high-power LED lamp cooling device can achieve: good cooling effect, high working efficiency, low energy consumption and capable of reducing light failure of LED lamp, and prolonging service life of the high-power LED lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignees: SUZHOU WEIYUAN NEW MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiming Chen, Wei Gu
  • Patent number: 9412680
    Abstract: A semiconductor module includes a first semiconductor element, a second semiconductor element, a first heat spreader electrically and thermally connected to the first semiconductor element, a second heat spreader electrically and thermally connected to the second semiconductor element, a DCB substrate including a first metal foil on a top surface of a ceramic insulating substrate and including a second metal foil on a bottom surface, the first metal foil being electrically and thermally joined to the first heat spreader and the second heat spreader, and a cooler thermally connected to the second metal foil of the DCB substrate. The first semiconductor element is disposed on an upstream side, and the second semiconductor element is disposed on a downstream side with respect to a flowing direction of a refrigerant of the cooler. An area of the second heat spreader is greater than an area of the first heat spreader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Gohara, Nobuhide Arai, Shinichiro Adachi, Yoshitaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9406722
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a pixel unit formed on the semiconductor substrate; and a peripheral circuit unit formed on the semiconductor substrate, at a periphery of the pixel unit, in which the pixel unit includes: a photoelectric conversion film which converts incident light into charges; and a floating diffusion which holds the charges, the peripheral circuit unit includes a transistor including a gate electrode and two source and drain diffusion regions, and the two source and drain diffusion regions have a higher impurity concentration than an impurity concentration of the floating diffusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiya Moriyama, Hiromasa Fujimoto, Kosaku Saeki, Nobuyoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9401372
    Abstract: A method of forming fins in a dual isolation complimentary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device that includes a p-type field effect transistor device (pFET) and an n-type field effect transistor (nFET) device and a CMOS device with dual isolation are described. The CMOS device includes an n-type field effect transistor (nFET) region, the nFET region including one or more fins comprised of strained silicon, the one or fins in the nFET region being formed on an insulator. The CMOS device also includes a p-type field effect transistor (pFET) region, the pFET region including one or more fins comprised of silicon (Si) or silicon germanium (SiGe) on epitaxially grown silicon and including a shallow trench isolation (STI) fill to isolate the one or more fins of the pFET region from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bruce B. Doris, Hong He, Ali Khakifirooz, Junli Wang
  • Patent number: 9397016
    Abstract: In some embodiments, selective electroless plating for electronic substrates is presented. In this regard, a method is introduced including receiving a coreless substrate strip, attaching solder balls to a backside of the coreless substrate strip, and forming a backside stiffening mold amongst the solder balls. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Weng Khoon Mong, A. Vethanayagam Rudge, Bok Sim Lim, Mun Leong Loke, Kang Eu Ong, Sih Fei Lim, Tean Wee Ong
  • Patent number: 9397026
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor chip mounted on an island, and a plurality of leads spaced form the island and connected by wires to the semiconductor chip. An insulating film encapsulates the island, the semiconductor chip, the wires and the leads, and the insulating resin has a concave portion that is in contact with the leads. Each lead has a bottom surface exposed from the insulating resin, and the concave portion of the insulating resin exposes side surfaces which surround the bottom surface of each of the leads located under a bottom surface of the insulating resin. When the semiconductor device is soldered to a circuit board, the concave portion prevents contact between the solder and the insulating resin and improves self-alignment of the semiconductor device on the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: SII Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Yoshino
  • Patent number: 9391244
    Abstract: A white-light emitting lighting device comprising one or more light emitting light sources (preferably solid state semiconductor light emitting diodes) that emit off-white light during operation, wherein the off-white light includes a spectral output including at least one spectral component in a first spectral region from about 360 nm to about 475 nm, at least one spectral component in a second spectral region from about 475 nm to about 575 nm, and at least one deficiency in at least one other spectral region, and an optical component that is positioned to receive at least a portion of the off-white light generated by the one or more light sources, the optical component comprising an optical material for converting at least a portion of the off-white light to one or more predetermined wavelengths, at least one of which has a wavelength in at least one deficient spectral region, such that light emitted by the lighting device comprises white light, wherein the optical material comprises quantum confined semico
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: QD VISION, INC.
    Inventors: John R. Linton, Emily M. Squires, Rohit Modi
  • Patent number: 9390920
    Abstract: Methods for depositing nanomaterial onto a substrate are disclosed. Also disclosed are compositions useful for depositing nanomaterial, methods of making devices including nanomaterials, and a system and devices useful for depositing nanomaterials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: QD VISION, INC.
    Inventors: Seth Coe-Sullivan, Maria J. Anc, Leeann Kim, John E. Ritter, Marshall Cox, Craig Breen, Vladimir Bulovic, Ioannis Kymissis, Robert F. Praino, Jr., Peter T. Kazlas
  • Patent number: 9391137
    Abstract: Provided are a power semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same, in particular a power semiconductor device such as an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) including a cell region with a trench structure formed to include a dummy trench and a first trench and a termination region with a termination ring formed surrounding the cell region. Such a power semiconductor device is designed to operable with high power conditions such as when an operating voltage is 600 V, 1200 V and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Magnachip Semiconductor, Ltd.
    Inventor: In Su Kim
  • Patent number: 9391013
    Abstract: 3D integrated circuit packages with window interposers and methods to form such semiconductor packages are described. For example, a semiconductor package includes a substrate. A top semiconductor die is disposed above the substrate. An interposer having a window is disposed between and interconnected to the substrate and the top semiconductor die. A bottom semiconductor die is disposed in the window of the interposer and interconnected to the top semiconductor die. In another example, a semiconductor package includes a substrate. A top semiconductor die is disposed above the substrate. An interposer is disposed between and interconnected to the substrate and the top semiconductor die. A bottom semiconductor die is disposed in a same plane as the interposer and interconnected to the top semiconductor die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Debendra Mallik, Ram S. Viswanath, Sriram Srinivasan, Mark T. Bohr, Andrew W. Yeoh, Sairam Agraharam
  • Patent number: 9390945
    Abstract: A semiconductor device has a substrate and insulating layer formed over a surface of the substrate. A first conductive layer is formed over the surface of the substrate. A second conductive layer is formed over an opposing surface of the substrate. A conductive via is formed through the substrate. An opening is formed in the insulating layer while leaving the first conductive layer intact. The opening narrows with a non-linear side or linear side. The opening can have a rectangular shape. A semiconductor die is mounted over the surface of the substrate. An underfill material is deposited between the semiconductor die and substrate. The opening in the insulating layer reduces a flow rate of the underfill material proximate to the opening. The flow rate of the underfill material proximate to the opening is substantially equal to a flow rate of the underfill material away from the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: STATS ChipPAC Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: KyungHoon Lee, JoungIn Yang, Sang Mi Park, DaeSik Choi, YiSu Park
  • Patent number: 9391086
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a stacked body in which a spacer film and an electrode film are alternately stacked each in a plurality of layers, and a pillar member disposed in the stacked body and penetrating the stacked body in a thickness direction. The pillar member includes an inter-electrode insulating film, a charge accumulation film, a tunnel insulating film, and a channel semiconductor film in this order from a side in contact with the stacked body. The stacked body has a taper angle of 90° in a vertical cross section of the stacked body including the pillar member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Eiichi Soda, Kazunori Horiguchi