Patents Examined by Raj R Gupta
  • Patent number: 12046685
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first diffusion region of a first type with embedded therein, a second and a third diffusion region of a second type different from the first type. The second and third diffusion regions are more doped than the first region. The second and third diffusion regions are each connected to a respective contact. A dielectric layer covers at least an edge of the second and third diffusion regions, and the region in between the second and third diffusion regions. A piezoelectric layer is disposed on, over, adjacent to or in contact with the dielectric layer. A first structure is in a first soft ferromagnetic material and is arranged to perform mechanical stress on the piezoelectric layer in response to a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: MELEXIS BULGARIA LTD
    Inventors: Appo Van Der Wiel, Jeroen Didden
  • Patent number: 12046671
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a trench, and a gate structure. The trench is disposed in the semiconductor substrate. The gate structure is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The gate structure includes a gate electrode, a first gate oxide layer, and a second gate oxide layer. A first portion of the gate electrode is disposed in the trench, and a second portion of the gate electrode is disposed outside the trench. The first gate oxide layer is disposed between the gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate. At least a portion of the first gate oxide layer is disposed in the trench. The second gate oxide layer is disposed between the second portion of the gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate in a vertical direction. A thickness of the second gate oxide layer is greater than a thickness of the first gate oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Che-Hua Chang, Shin-Hung Li, Tsung-Yu Yang, Ruei-Jhe Tsao
  • Patent number: 12046628
    Abstract: The present invention provides a monolithic LED array precursor comprising a plurality of LED structures, an LED device comprising the monolithic LED array, and a method of manufacture thereof. In particular, the present disclosure provides a monolithic LED array having improved light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Plessey Semiconductors Limited
    Inventors: Andrea Pinos, Samir Mezouari
  • Patent number: 12040252
    Abstract: Structures for a microfluidic channel and methods of forming a structure for a microfluidic channel. The structure comprises a trench in a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor layer inside the trench. The trench has an entrance and a sidewall extending from the entrance into the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor layer has a first portion surrounding a portion of the trench to define a cavity and a second portion positioned to obstruct the entrance to the trench. The second portion of the semiconductor layer is thicker than the first portion of the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
    Inventors: Ramsey Hazbun, Cameron Luce, Siva P. Adusumilli, Mark Levy
  • Patent number: 12041864
    Abstract: Surface supported quantum wells with a confined surface state capture and stably confine neutral atoms and molecules in a nanometer precise environment. Depending on the physico-chemical conditions in the capturing process, the degree of occupancy, the temperature of the solid substrate, and/or the history of external stimuli like electromagnetic field pulses, these atoms, molecules or clusters assume unique configurations. The atoms or molecules are able to remain coupled to the quantum-well specific electronic state in the confinement and as such exhibit local and delocalized quantum entanglement. The capturing potential arises from the superposition of Pauli repulsion between the captured object and the quantum well-specific confined electronic state. This occurs within on-surface atomic or supramolecular assemblies or surface supported coordination or covalent networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: Paul Scherrer Institut, University of Basel, University of Heidelberg, Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare Pentru Technologii Izotopice Si Moleculare
    Inventors: Thomas Jung, Aisha Ahsan, Sk Rejaul, Mehdi Heydari, Lutz H. Gade, Luiza Tania Buimaga-Iarinca, Ioan Cristian Morari
  • Patent number: 12041803
    Abstract: A light emitting diode device and a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel, and a display apparatus are provided. The light emitting diode device includes a quantum dot light emitting layer and a hole transport layer on a side of the quantum dot light emitting layer. The hole transport layer includes a perovskite material and an organic hole transport material. The high carrier mobility of the perovskite material can improve the carrier transport performance of the hole transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gang Yu
  • Patent number: 12002848
    Abstract: An LDMOS having multiple field plates and manufacturing method. The LDMOS has a semiconductor substrate with an upper surface, an interlayer dielectric layer with an upper surface, a gate conducting layer, a field plate barrier layer, a first field plate and a second field plate. The gate conducting layer has a plate portion and a channel portion, the height of the plate portion to the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate is greater than the height of the channel portion to the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. The field plate barrier layer disposes in the interlayer dielectric layer between the plate portion and the drain. The first field plate disposes in the interlayer dielectric layer and extends from the field plate barrier layer through the interlayer dielectric layer to the upper surface of the interlayer dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yanjie Lian
  • Patent number: 11990517
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes: a first electrode disposed on a substrate and extending in a first direction; a second electrode disposed above the first electrode and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and at least one switching particle disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and bonded to the first electrode and the second electrode via van der Waals bond, wherein the switching particle controls flow of current between the first electrode and the second electrode, based on a difference of voltages of the first electrode and the second electrode applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Woojong Yu, Thanh Luan Phan, Hyungjin Kim
  • Patent number: 11984504
    Abstract: IC apparatus, and manufacturing methods therefor, that include a power transistor and a thermoelectric device. The power transistor is constructed in a plurality of layers formed over a semiconductor substrate. The thermoelectric device is formed in one or more of the plurality of layers and is sensitive to temperature differences within the IC apparatus resulting from operation of the power transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Henry Litzmann Edwards, Andres Arturo Blanco, Orlando Lazaro
  • Patent number: 11984503
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to semiconductor devices having high-voltage transistors integrated on a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate and methods of forming the same. The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device including a bulk substrate having an upper surface, a semiconductor layer above the bulk substrate, an insulating layer between the semiconductor layer and the bulk substrate, a source region and a drain region on the bulk substrate, the source region and the drain region are raised above the upper surface of the bulk substrate, in which the source region and the drain region include an epitaxial semiconductor material, a gate dielectric between the source region and the drain region, the gate dielectric having a first portion on the bulk substrate and a second portion on the semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode above the gate dielectric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: GlobalFoundries Dresden Module One LLC &Co. KG
    Inventors: Ruchil Kumar Jain, Alban Zaka
  • Patent number: 11985835
    Abstract: The film structure according to an embodiment of the present invention includes at least one active monolayer having an energy level quantized in at least one axial direction and at least one barrier alternately stacked with the at least one active monolayer. Current flows through the active monolayer, and the current flow may be limited by the quantized energy level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY)
    Inventors: Myungmo Sung, Hongbum Kim, Jinwon Jung, Jinseon Park
  • Patent number: 11978728
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, an emission layer provided on the substrate and a reflective layer provided on the emission layer. The emission layer has an emission region that emits light, the reflective layer has a first opening, the emission region overlaps the first opening in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate and a first width of the emission region is smaller than a second width of the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoyoung Ahn, Junhee Choi, Kyungwook Hwang, Jinjoo Park
  • Patent number: 11955425
    Abstract: Interconnect structures that maximize integrated circuit (IC) density and corresponding formation techniques are disclosed. An exemplary IC device includes a gate layer extending along a first direction. An interconnect structure disposed over the gate layer includes odd-numbered interconnect routing layers oriented along a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction and even-numbered interconnect routing layers oriented along a third direction that is substantially parallel to the first direction. In some implementations, a ratio of a gate pitch of the gate layer to a pitch of a first of the even-numbered interconnect routing layers to a pitch of a third of the even-numbered interconnect routing layers is 3:2:4. In some implementations, a pitch of a first of the odd-numbered interconnect routing layers to a pitch of a third of the odd-numbered interconnect routing layers to a pitch of a seventh of the odd-numbered interconnect routing layers is 1:1:2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCOTR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fang Chen, Jhon Jhy Liaw, Min-Chang Liang
  • Patent number: 11949010
    Abstract: A metal-oxide-semiconductor device can include: a base layer; a source region extending from an upper surface of the base layer to internal portion of the base layer and having a first doping type; a gate structure located on the upper surface of the base layer and at least exposing the source region, and a semiconductor layer located on the upper surface of the base layer and having the first doping type, where the semiconductor layer is used as a partial withstand voltage region of the device, and the source region is located at a first side of the gate structure, the semiconductor layer is located at a second side of the gate structure, and the first side and the second side of the gate structure are opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Silergy Semiconductor Technology (Hangzhou) LTD
    Inventors: Budong You, Chunxin Xia
  • Patent number: 11949044
    Abstract: A display device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The display device includes a first alignment electrode and a second alignment electrode spaced apart from each other, a light emitting element between the first alignment electrode and the second alignment electrode, a first auxiliary electrode at a first side of the light emitting element in a plan view, and separated from the first alignment electrode, and a second auxiliary electrode at a second side of the light emitting element in a plan view, and separated from the second alignment electrode, wherein an alignment signal is configured to be applied to the first alignment electrode, and wherein a first auxiliary signal of a phase that is different from a phase of the alignment signal is configured to be applied to the first auxiliary electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Buem Joon Kim, Hyun Deok Im
  • Patent number: 11935923
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a lateral bipolar transistor with gated collector and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: an extrinsic base region vertically over a semiconductor substrate and comprising asymmetrical sidewall spacers on opposing sidewalls of the extrinsic base region; a collector region on the semiconductor substrate and separated from the extrinsic base region by at least a first spacer of the asymmetrical sidewall spacers; and an emitter region on the semiconductor substrate and separated from the extrinsic base region by a second spacer of the asymmetrical sidewall spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Derrickson, Vibhor Jain, Judson R. Holt, Jagar Singh, Mankyu Yang
  • Patent number: 11935918
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device comprises a high voltage semiconductor device (HVSD) on a frontside of a semiconductor body and further comprises an electrode on a backside of the semiconductor body opposite the frontside. The HVSD may, for example, be a transistor or some other suitable type of semiconductor device. The electrode has one or more gaps directly beneath the HVSD. The one or more gaps enhance the effectiveness of the electrode for improving the breakdown voltage of the HVSD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Harry-Hak-Lay Chuang, Hsin Fu Lin, Tsung-Hao Yeh
  • Patent number: 11929542
    Abstract: System in package (SiP) modules are compact packages that include components such as processors, memory, sensors, and passive components on a single substrate. One low cost and compact way to integrate an antenna into a SiP module is to suspend an antenna in molding compound so that the antenna is embedded in the real estate of the molding compound layer. To embed the antenna, the molding compound is first deposited. A cavity can be cut in the molding compound to hold the antenna. The cavity can be filled with conductive material to form the antenna. Further molding compound can be deposited to cover the antenna and enclose the antenna in the molding compound layer. Ground structures can also be suspended in the molding compound. Such an embedded antenna can be particularly useful for radio applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventor: Romulo Maggay
  • Patent number: 11908894
    Abstract: A method of making a deformable electronic device comprises forming a multilayer device structure comprising functional layers on a flexible substrate. At least one, some or all of the functional layers comprises a stack of 2D monolayers, and a number or proportion of misaligned interfaces within each stack of 2D monolayers is controlled to obtain a predetermined bending stiffness. Each of the misaligned interfaces comprises a twist angle and/or lattice mismatch between adjacent 2D monolayers. The functional layers may include electronically active layers and other layers having a dielectric, insulating, and/or protective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventors: Pinshane Huang, Arend van der Zande, Elif Ertekin, Edmund Han, Jaehyung Yu, Mohammad Abir Hossain
  • Patent number: 11908931
    Abstract: Provided is a monolithic metal-insulator transition device. The monolithic metal-insulator transition device includes a substrate including a driving region and a switching region, first and second source/drain regions on the driving region, a gate electrode between the first and second source/drain regions, an inlet well region formed adjacent to an upper surface of the substrate on the switching region, a control well region having a different conductivity type from the inlet well region between the inlet well region and a lower surface of the substrate, a first wiring electrically connecting the first source/drain region and the control well region, and a second wiring electrically connecting the second source/drain region and the inlet well region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Tae Moon Roh, Hyun-Tak Kim, Sun Ae Kim