Patents Examined by Ori Nadav
  • Patent number: 9646678
    Abstract: Prior known static random access memory (SRAM) cells are required that a diffusion layer be bent into a key-like shape in order to make electrical contact with a substrate with a P-type well region formed therein, which would result in a decrease in asymmetry leading to occurrence of a problem as to the difficulty in micro-patterning. To avoid this problem, the P-type well region in which an inverter making up an SRAM cell is formed is subdivided into two portions, which are disposed on the opposite sides of an N-type well region NW1 and are formed so that a diffusion layer forming a transistor has no curvature while causing the layout direction to run in a direction parallel to well boundary lines and bit lines. At intermediate locations of an array, regions for use in supplying power to the substrate are formed in parallel to word lines in such a manner that one regions is provided per group of thirty two memory cell rows or sixty four cell rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Osada, Masataka Minami, Shuji Ikeda, Koichiro Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 9647138
    Abstract: A metal oxide semiconductor transistor includes a gate, a metal oxide active layer, a gate insulating layer, a source, and a drain. The metal oxide active layer has a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface faces to the gate. The gate insulating layer is disposed between the gate and the metal oxide active layer. The source and the drain are respectively connected to the metal oxide active layer. The second surface defines a mobility enhancing region between the source and the drain. An oxygen content of the metal oxide active layer in the mobility enhancing region is less than an oxygen content of the metal oxide active layer in the region outside the mobility enhancing region. The metal oxide semiconductor transistor has high carrier mobility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: E INK HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Chuang-Chuang Tsai, Hsiao-Wen Zan, Hsin-Fei Meng, Chun-Cheng Yeh
  • Patent number: 9645459
    Abstract: The present invention provides a TFT substrate and method for manufacturing the same. The method comprises the steps of: providing a substrate; forming a TFT structure above the substrate; further forming a color resist layer above the substrate, and forming a first opening area in the color resist layer at a location corresponding to the TFT structure; forming a first black matrix in the first opening area such that the TFT structure is covered by the first black matrix; and forming a pixel electrode above the color resist layer and the first black matrix, and the pixel electrode being electrically coupled to the TFT structure through the first black matrix. By applying the method described above, the present invention is sufficient to shield the light and reduce the light transmittance effect when the panel comprising the TFT substrate is bent, such that the contrast of the panel can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Shui-chih Lien, Yuan Xiong
  • Patent number: 9646958
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a core area. The core area has at least one edge region and a plurality of transistors disposed in the edge region. A plurality of dummy structures are disposed outside the core area and adjacent to the at least one edge region. Each channel of the transistors in a channel width direction faces at least one of the dummy structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Wang, Chih-Sheng Chang, Hsien-Hui Meng
  • Patent number: 9640737
    Abstract: Horizontal light emitting diodes include anode and cathode contacts on the same face and a transparent substrate having an oblique sidewall. A conformal phosphor layer having an average equivalent particle diameter d50 of at least about 10 ?m is provided on the oblique sidewall. High aspect ratio substrates may be provided. The LED may be directly attached to a submount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Donofrio, John Adam Edmond, James Ibbetson, David Todd Emerson, Michael John Bergmann, Kevin Haberern, Raymond Rosado, Jeffrey Carl Britt
  • Patent number: 9640609
    Abstract: Edge termination structures for semiconductor devices are provided including a plurality of spaced apart concentric floating guard rings in a semiconductor layer that at least partially surround a semiconductor junction. The spaced apart concentric floating guard rings have a highly doped portion and a lightly doped portion. Related methods of fabricating devices are also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Qingchun Zhang, Charlotte Jonas, Anant K. Agarwal
  • Patent number: 9634277
    Abstract: The present invention provides a structure of a white OLED device that includes a plurality of emissive layers, of which at least one emissive layer is made of a quantum dot and at least one emissive layer is made of an organic light emission material so as to combine the advantages of the quantum dot and the organic light emission material, where the manufacturing cost is low, the utilization of material is high, and the light emission efficiency is high thereby increasing the brightness of a display device and providing excellent performance for use in flat panel display devices, televisions, and other fields of display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qinghua Zou
  • Patent number: 9627393
    Abstract: A NAND flash memory has word lines in a memory array area and contact pads and lead lines in a word line hookup area, each of the word lines connected to a corresponding contact pad by a lead line. The word lines in the memory array area have a first height and low-profile areas of lead lines in the word line hookup area have a second height that is less than the first height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Hideki Hara
  • Patent number: 9613955
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to integrated circuits and more particularly, to a structure and method of forming a hybrid circuit including a tunnel field-effect transistor (TFET) and a conventional field effect transistor (FET). Embodiments of the present invention include a hybrid amplifier which features a TFET common-source feeding a common-gate conventional FET (e.g. a MOSFET). A TFET gate may be electrically isolated from an output from a conventional FET. Thus, a high impedance input may be received by a TFET with a high-isolation output (i.e. low capacitance) at a conventional FET. A hybrid circuit amplifier including a TFET and a conventional FET may have a very high input impedance and a low miller capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brent A. Anderson, Tamilmani Ethirajan, Edward J. Nowak
  • Patent number: 9608000
    Abstract: Protective dielectrics are discussed generally herein. In one or more embodiments, a three-dimensional vertical memory may include a protective dielectric material. A device may include an etch stop material, a first control gate (CG) over the etch stop material, a first CG recess adjacent the first CG, a trench adjacent the first CG recess, and an at least partially oxidized polysilicon on at least a portion of the etch stop material. The at least partially oxidized polysilicon may line a sidewall of the trench and may line the first CG recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: John Hopkins, Darwin Franseda Fan
  • Patent number: 9605358
    Abstract: A silicon carbide substrate, a silicon carbide ingot, and methods for manufacturing the silicon carbide substrate and the silicon carbide ingot capable of improving a yield of a semiconductor device having silicon carbide as constituent material are provided. In the silicon carbide substrate, patterns formed by crossing straight lines extending along the <11-20> direction and being observable by means of an X-ray topography are present at a number density of less than or equal to 0.1 patterns/cm2 on one main surface. As described above, in the silicon carbide substrate, the number density of the crossing patterns present on the main surface is reduced to less than or equal to 0.1 patterns/cm2. Therefore, when the semiconductor device is manufactured with use of a silicon carbide substrate, a lowering of a yield caused by the crossing patterns can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9601400
    Abstract: A high temperature, non-cavity package for non-axial electronics is designed using a glass ceramic compound with that is capable of being assembled and operating continuously at temperatures greater that 300-400° C. Metal brazes, such as silver, silver colloid or copper, are used to connect the semiconductor die, lead frame and connectors. The components are also thermally matched such that the packages can be assembled and operating continuously at high temperatures and withstand extreme temperature variations without the bonds failing or the package cracking due to a thermal mismatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Semtech Corporation
    Inventors: Victor Hugo Cruz, David Francis Courtney
  • Patent number: 9595628
    Abstract: A radiation detector comprises a silicon body in which are defined vertical pores filled with a converter material and situated within silicon depletion regions. One or more charge-collection electrodes are arranged to collect current generated when secondary particles enter the silicon body through walls of the pores. The pores are disposed in low-density clusters, have a majority pore thickness of 5 ?m or less, and have a majority aspect ratio, defined as the ratio of pore depth to pore thickness, of at least 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sandia Corporation
    Inventors: Murat Okandan, Mark S. Derzon, Bruce L. Draper
  • Patent number: 9583609
    Abstract: Elongated metal contacts with longitudinal axes that lie in a first direction are formed to make electrical connections to elongated source and drain regions with longitudinal axes that lie in the first direction, and elongated metal contacts with longitudinal axes that lie a second direction are formed to make electrical connections to elongated source and drain regions with longitudinal axes that lie the second direction, where the second direction lies orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Russell Carlton McMullan, Kamel Benaissa
  • Patent number: 9583424
    Abstract: An embodiment integrated circuit structure includes a substrate, a metal pad over the substrate, a post-passivation interconnect (PPI) structure over the substrate and electronically connected to the metal pad, a first polymer layer over the PPI structure, an under bump metallurgy (UBM) extending into an opening in the first polymer layer and electronically connected to the PPI structure, and a barrier layer on a top surface of the first polymer layer adjacent to the UBM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jing-Cheng Lin, Jui-Pin Hung, Hsien-Wen Liu, Min-Chen Lin
  • Patent number: 9577077
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for forming flash memory. In this method, a first tunnel oxide is formed over a semiconductor substrate. A self-assembled monolayer (SAM) is then formed on the first tunnel oxide. The SAM includes spherical or spherical-like crystalline silicon dots having respective diameters which are less than approximately 30 nm. A second tunnel oxide is then formed over the SAM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsu-Hui Su, Chih-Ming Chen, Szu-Yu Wang, Chung-Yi Yu, Chia-Shiung Tsai
  • Patent number: 9577089
    Abstract: First polysilicon (poly-1) is deposited into deep trenches that have been formed in a substrate. A first polysilicon polishing process is performed to planarize the exposed surfaces of the poly-1 so that the surfaces are flush with adjacent surfaces. Then, shallow trenches are formed in the substrate between the deep trenches, and second polysilicon (poly-2) is deposited into the shallow trenches. A second polysilicon polishing process is performed to planarize the exposed surface of the poly-2 so that the surface is flush with adjacent surfaces. Metal contacts to the poly-1 and the poly-2 are then formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Vishay-Siliconix
    Inventors: Kyle Terrill, Deva Pattanayak, Zhiyun Luo
  • Patent number: 9577030
    Abstract: Semiconductor structures having capacitors and metal wiring integrated in a same dielectric layer are described. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a plurality of semiconductor devices disposed in or above a substrate. One or more dielectric layers are disposed above the plurality of semiconductor devices. Metal wiring is disposed in each of the dielectric layers. The metal wiring is electrically coupled to one or more of the semiconductor devices. A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor is disposed in one of the dielectric layers, adjacent to the metal wiring of the at least one of the dielectric layers. The MIM capacitor is electrically coupled to one or more of the semiconductor devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Nick Lindert
  • Patent number: 9559690
    Abstract: An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Hailin Xue, Yingming Liu, Weijie Zhao, Hongjuan Liu, Xiaoliang Ding
  • Patent number: 9548236
    Abstract: The benefits of strained semiconductors are combined with silicon-on-insulator approaches to substrate and device fabrication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Langdo, Matthew T. Currie, Richard Hammond, Anthony J. Lochtefeld, Eugene A. Fitzgerald