Patents Examined by Reema Patel
  • Patent number: 12271084
    Abstract: An array substrate, a method for manufacturing the array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes: a base substrate including a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region; and a light-leakage protection film layer formed on the base substrate. The light-leakage protection film layer is arranged at the peripheral region and includes at least one first film layer, a light transmittance of each first film layer is smaller than or equal to a first threshold, and reflectivity of the first film layer is smaller than or equal to a second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: FUZHOU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinliang Wang, Jixiang Chen, Wenchao Wang, Sangjin Park
  • Patent number: 12266532
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate having upper and lower surfaces and a hydrogen containing region containing hydrogen and a lifetime control region is provided. The carrier concentration distribution of the hydrogen containing region has: a first local maximum point; a second local maximum point closest to the first local maximum point among local maximum points positioned between the first local maximum point and the upper surface; a first intermediate point of the local minimum between the first and second local maximum points; and a second intermediate point closest to the second local maximum point among local minimum points or flat points where the carrier concentration remains constant positioned between the second local maximum point and the upper surface. The lifetime control region is positioned at least between the first and second local maximum points. The first intermediate point has a lower carrier concentration than the second intermediate point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Agata, Takahiro Tamura, Toru Ajiki
  • Patent number: 12267999
    Abstract: Methods of manufacture and memory cells manufactured according to the methods are described. The manufacture has a lower thermal budget and experiences less heating by including a blocking layer including MgO. The method of manufacture may include annealing following deposition of the MgO, with the annealing occurring at temperatures below 900° C. or below 800° C. The blocking layers may be a first blocking layer made of SiO2 and a second blocking layer made of MgO. The memory cells may have a CMOS Under Array (CuA) structure. The memory cells may be part of a three-dimensional NAND memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: ENTEGRIS, INC.
    Inventor: SungHae Lee
  • Patent number: 12266526
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a template layer disposed over a substrate and having a trench therein, a buffer structure disposed over a bottom surface of the trench and comprising a metal oxide, a single crystal semiconductor structure disposed within the trench and over the buffer structure and a gate structure disposed over a channel region of the single crystal semiconductor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Martin Christopher Holland
  • Patent number: 12266544
    Abstract: A method for processing an integrated circuit includes forming a plurality of transistors. The method utilizes a reversed tone patterning process to selectively drive dipoles into the gate dielectric layers of some of the transistors while preventing dipoles from entering the gate dielectric layers of other transistors. This process can be repeated to produce a plurality of transistors each having different threshold voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lung-Kun Chu, Jia-Ni Yu, Chun-Fu Lu, Kuo-Cheng Chiang, Chih-Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 12261040
    Abstract: A substrate stripping method and an epitaxial wafer, relating to the technical field of semiconductors. The method comprises: providing a substrate (1), the substrate (1) having a recess, and the recess being distributed on a first surface (1a) of the substrate (1); forming a hydrophilic layer (3) in the recess; forming, on the first surface (1a), an etching sacrificial layer (4) covering the first surface (1a), the etching sacrificial layer (4) and the recess defining a flowing space (A); growing an epitaxial layer (5) on the etching sacrificial layer (4); and soaking the etching sacrificial layer (4) and the substrate (1) in an etching liquid, and corroding the etching sacrificial layer (4) by means of the etching liquid until the epitaxial layer (5) is separated from the substrate (1). The method can rapidly and uniformly etch the etching sacrificial layer (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: HC Semitek (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongpo Hu, Binzhong Dong, Peng Li, Jiangbo Wang
  • Patent number: 12256546
    Abstract: Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a first structure containing semiconductor material, and having a second structure contacting the first structure. The first structure has a composition along an interface with the second structure. The composition includes additive to a concentration within a range of from about 1018 atoms/cm3 to about 1021 atoms/cm3. The additive includes one or more of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yiping Wang, Andrew Li, Haoyu Li, Matthew J. King, Wei Yeeng Ng, Yongjun Jeff Hu
  • Patent number: 12255238
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a set of power rails, a set of active regions, a first set of conductive lines and a first and a second set of vias. The set of power rails is configured to supply a first or second supply voltage, and is on a first level of a back-side of a substrate. The set of active regions is a second level of a front-side of the substrate. The first set of conductive lines extend in a second direction and overlap the set of active regions. The first set of vias is between and electrically couples the set of active regions and the first set of conductive lines together. The second set of vias is between and electrically couples the first set of conductive lines and the set of power rails together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Wei Peng, Chih-Min Hsiao, Jiann-Tyng Tzeng
  • Patent number: 12249512
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, which includes: a first conductive layer arranged over a substrate; a dielectric layer arranged over the first conductive layer; a plurality of first conductive plugs penetrating through the dielectric layer; a plurality of spacers surrounding the respective first conductive plugs; a lining layer covering the dielectric layer, the spacer and the first conductive plugs, wherein the lining layer and the first conductive plugs include manganese (Mn); a second conductive plug penetrating through the lining layer; and a second conductive layer over the lining layer and the second conductive plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jar-Ming Ho
  • Patent number: 12249580
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device includes: forming first electrical components in a substrate in a first device region of the semiconductor device; forming a first interconnect structure over and electrically coupled to the first electrical components; forming a first passivation layer over the first interconnect structure, the first passivation layer extending from the first device region to a scribe line region adjacent to the first device region; after forming the first passivation layer, removing the first passivation layer from the scribe line region while keeping a remaining portion of the first passivation layer in the first device region; and dicing along the scribe line region after removing the first passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsien-Wei Chen, Ying-Ju Chen, Ming-Fa Chen
  • Patent number: 12243934
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor structure suspending over the substrate and comprising a source region, a drain region, and a channel region disposed between the source region and the drain region. The channel region includes a doped two-dimensional (2D) material layer comprising a first portion on an upper surface of the channel region. The semiconductor device also includes an interfacial layer surrounding the channel region including the first portion of the doped 2D material layer, and a gate electrode surrounding the interfacial layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ching-Hua Lee, Miao-Syuan Fan, Ta-Hsiang Kung, Jung-Wei Lee
  • Patent number: 12243782
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes fabricating devices with tunable gate height and effective capacitance. A method includes forming a first metal gate stack in a dummy region of a semiconductor substrate and a second metal gate stack in an active device region of the semiconductor substrate, and performing a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process using a slurry including charged abrasive nanoparticles. The first and second metal gate stacks are different in composition. The charged abrasive nanoparticles include a first concentration in the active device region different from a second concentration in the dummy region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING C0., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Chang Wen, Chang-Yun Chang, Keng-Yao Chen, Chen-Yu Tai, Yi-Ting Fu
  • Patent number: 12237323
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device comprises a source region and a drain region in a substrate and laterally spaced. A gate stack is over the substrate and between the source region and the drain region. The drain region includes two or more first doped regions having a first doping type in the substrate. The drain region further includes one or more second doped regions in the substrate. The first doped regions have a greater concentration of first doping type dopants than the second doped regions, and each of the second doped regions is disposed laterally between two neighboring first doped regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng-Fu Hsu, Ta-Yuan Kung, Chen-Liang Chu, Chih-Chung Tsai
  • Patent number: 12238996
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area disposed around the display area. The peripheral area includes a bending region and a contact region adjacent to the bending region. A first connection line includes a first portion disposed in the contact region, and a second portion disposed in both the bending region and the contact region, and including a first layer and a second layer. At least part of the second layer of the second portion overlaps the first layer of the second portion. In the contact region, the first layer of the second portion is electrically connected to the first portion, and the second layer of the second portion is electrically connected to the first layer of the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Ae Park, Sun-Ja Kwon, Byung Sun Kim, Yang Wan Kim, Su Jin Lee, Jae Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 12211925
    Abstract: Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having oxide sub-fins, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having oxide sub-fins, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes an oxide sub-fin structure having a top and sidewalls. An oxidation catalyst layer is on the top and sidewalls of the oxide sub-fin structure. A vertical arrangement of nanowires is above the oxide sub-fin structure. A gate stack is surrounding the vertical arrangement of nanowires and on at least the portion of the oxidation catalyst layer on the top of the oxide sub-fin structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventors: Leonard P. Guler, Biswajeet Guha, Tahir Ghani, Swaminathan Sivakumar
  • Patent number: 12211899
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a semiconductor device, which includes: a substrate made of a first material; an insulating layer formed on an upper surface of the substrate; a trench formed at the insulating layer to penetrate the insulating layer toward the substrate; and a seed layer disposed in the trench. The seed layer is made of a second material, the second material lattice-mismatches with respect to the first material, the seed layer includes a threading dislocation extending at least partially in a first direction non-parallel to the upper surface of the substrate and parallel to a <110> direction of a (111) plane and a threading dislocation extending at least partially in a second direction, and the extension of the threading dislocation is terminated at a sidewall of the trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hyung-jun Kim, Seung Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12211918
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with different configurations of nanostructured channel regions and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a fin structure disposed on a substrate, a stack of nanostructured horizontal channel (NHC) regions disposed on the fin structure, a nanostructured vertical channel (NVC) region disposed within the stack of NHC regions, a source/drain (S/D) region disposed on the fin structure, and a gate structure disposed on the NHC regions and on portions of the NVC region that are not covered by the NHC regions and the fin structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chansyun David Yang, Keh-Jeng Chang, Chan-Lon Yang, Perng-Fei Yuh
  • Patent number: 12205888
    Abstract: Semiconductor packages and methods of forming the same are disclosed. An semiconductor package includes two dies, an encapsulant, a first metal line and a plurality of dummy vias. The encapsulant is disposed between the two dies. The first metal line is disposed over the two dies and the encapsulant, and electrically connected to the two dies. The plurality of dummy vias is disposed over the encapsulant and aside the first metal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd
    Inventors: Ching-Yu Huang, Han-Ping Pu, Ming-Kai Liu, Ting-Chu Ko, Yung-Ping Chiang, Chang-Wen Huang, Yu-Sheng Hsieh
  • Patent number: 12199216
    Abstract: A display device comprises a substrate, a first electrode on the substrate and extending in a first direction, a second electrode on the substrate and extending in the first direction, the second electrode being spaced apart from the first electrode in a second direction, a first insulating layer on the first electrode and the second electrode, light-emitting elements on the first insulating layer, the light-emitting elements being disposed on the first electrode and the second electrode, a second insulating layer disposed on the light-emitting elements, a first contact electrode disposed on the first electrode and electrically contacting the light-emitting elements, and a second contact electrode disposed on the second electrode and electrically contacting the light-emitting elements. The second insulating layer comprises patterns that cover at least part of the light-emitting elements and are spaced apart from one another in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Won Lee, Hyun Min Cho
  • Patent number: 12191160
    Abstract: A method for making a semiconductor device may include forming first and second superlattices adjacent a semiconductor layer. Each of the first and second superlattices may include stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers including stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. The second superlattice may have a greater thermal stability with respect to non-semiconductor atoms therein than the first superlattice. The method may further include heating the first and second superlattices to cause non-semiconductor atoms from the first superlattice to migrate toward the at least one non-semiconductor monolayer of the second superlattice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: ATOMERA INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Keith Doran Weeks, Nyles Wynn Cody, Marek Hytha, Robert J. Mears