Patents Examined by Steven H. Loke
  • Patent number: 10832990
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device capable of being miniaturized and preventing reduction of mountability to a wiring substrate. The semiconductor device includes a conductive support having a support surface and a mounting surface facing opposite sides in a thickness direction z, and an end surface intersecting with the mounting surface and facing outside; a semiconductor element having an element back surface facing the support surface and an electrode formed on the element back surface, in which the electrode is connected to the support surface; and an external terminal conducted to the mounting surface and exposed to the outside; wherein the external terminal includes a Ni layer having P and an Au layer, and respectively connected to and laminated with at least one portion of each of the mounting surface and the end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mamoru Yamagami
  • Patent number: 10833076
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device with a substrate and a plurality of fins is provided where the fin width is less than 11 nanometers, the fin height is greater than 155 nanometers and the spacing between any two neighboring fins is less than 30 nanometers and each of the fins is in a non-collapsed state. An integrated circuit device with a substrate and a plurality of fins is also provided where the fin width is less than 15 nanometers, the fin height is greater than 190 nanometers and the spacing between any two neighboring fins is less than 30 nanometers and each of the fins is in a non-collapsed state. A method for forming a fin-based transistor structure is also provided where a plurality of fins on a substrate are pre-treated with at least one of a self-assembled monolayer, a non-polar solvent, and a surfactant. One or more of these treatments is provided to reduce the adhesion and/or cohesive forces to prevent the occurrence of fin collapse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nabil G. Mistkawi, Glenn A. Glass
  • Patent number: 10833041
    Abstract: A fan-out semiconductor package may include a support member having a through-hole, a semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole, a component embedded structure disposed adjacent to and spaced apart from the semiconductor chip in the through-hole by a predetermined distance, an encapsulant, and a connection member. The semiconductor chip has an active surface having connection pads disposed thereon and an inactive surface opposing the active surface. The component embedded structure has a plurality of passive components embedded therein. The encapsulant encapsulates at least portions of the support member, the component embedded structure, and the semiconductor chip. The connection member is disposed on the support member, the component embedded structure, and the active surface of the semiconductor chip. The connection member includes redistribution layers and vias electrically connecting the redistribution layers to the plurality of passive components and the connection pads of the semiconductor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Oh Hwang, Ki Jung Sung
  • Patent number: 10825987
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for fabrication of memory cells are described. An electrode layer may have an initial thickness variation after being formed. The electrode layer may be smoothened prior to forming additional layers of a memory cell, thus decreasing the thickness variation. The subsequent layer fabricated may have a thickness variation that may be dependent on the thickness variation of the electrode layer. By decreasing the thickness variation of the electrode layer prior to forming the subsequent layer, the subsequent layer may also have a decreased thickness variation. The decreased thickness variation of the subsequent layer may impact the electrical behavior of memory cells formed from the subsequent layer. In some cases, the decreased thickness variation of the subsequent layer may allow for more predictable voltage thresholds for such memory cells, thus increasing the read windows for the memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pengyuan Zheng, Yongjun J. Hu, Yao Jin, Hongqi Li, Andrea Gotti
  • Patent number: 10825874
    Abstract: A display device has a first region and a second region, the display device including a substrate, a display portion on the substrate, a first base layer on the display portion and corresponding to the first region, a plurality of first optical functional particles inside the first base layer at a first concentration and having chromatic color, a second base layer on the display portion and corresponding to the second region, and a plurality of second optical functional particles inside the second base layer at a second concentration that is higher than the first concentration and having chromatic color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehyun Kim, Dalho Kim, Jongwoo Kim, Hyun Kim, Changwoo Shim, Sanghun Lee
  • Patent number: 10826015
    Abstract: An OLED panel and an OLED device are provided. The OLED panel includes a display area and a non-display area around the display area; a substrate, a driving device layer and a light emitting device layer arranged in the display area, and the driving device layer includes multiple thin film transistors, the light emitting device layer includes multiple organic light emitting diodes, and an encapsulation layer covering the light emitting device layer. The non-display area includes an electrostatic discharge portion, the electrostatic discharge portion is made of a transparent conductive thin film and is located on a side of the encapsulation layer facing away from the substrate. The non-display area includes at least one blocking portion, the blocking portion is arranged around the display area, and is located between the substrate and the encapsulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chujie Yu, Jiazhu Zhu, Shanfu Yuan, Tao Peng, Ruiyuan Zhou
  • Patent number: 10818595
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure includes forming first and second features in a scribe region of a semiconductor substrate in which the first feature has a first electrical resistance, the second feature has a second electrical resistance, and the first electrical resistance is different form the second electrical resistance; forming an interlayer dielectric layer over the first and second features; and forming a first contact in the interlayer dielectric layer and connected to the first feature and a second contact in the interlayer dielectric layer and connected to the second feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yen-Hsung Ho, Chia-Yi Tseng, Chih-Hsun Lin, Kun-Tsang Chuang, Yung-Lung Hsu
  • Patent number: 10804336
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including transistors disposed in a display area and signal lines arranged in a non-display area located along an edge of the display area, at least one of the signal lines being electrically connected to the transistors; and an input sensing unit disposed over the display unit and including sensing electrodes disposed on the display area, sensing lines arranged on the non-display area, and a first dummy pattern disposed on the non-display area and spaced apart from the sensing electrodes as compared with the sensing line, wherein the first dummy pattern overlaps a first signal line of the signal lines, the first signal line being spaced farthest from the display area, a planar shape of an overlap pattern formed by overlapping the first dummy pattern and the first signal line coincides with a planar shape of an alignment mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeon Tae Kim, Chung Yi, Young Kwan Kim, Young Soo No
  • Patent number: 10796967
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a vertical transistor on a substrate. The vertical transistor includes at least one fin. A bottom source/drain is disposed on the substrate and around the at least one fin. A spacer layer is disposed on the bottom source/drain and around the at least one fin. A gate structure is disposed on the spacer layer and around the at least one fin. The gate length is the same or substantially the same on each side of the at least one fin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Xin Miao, Wenyu Xu, Chen Zhang
  • Patent number: 10790332
    Abstract: Techniques to fabricate an RF filter using 3 dimensional island integration are described. A donor wafer assembly may have a substrate with a first and second side. A first side of a resonator layer, which may include a plurality of resonator circuits, may be coupled to the first side of the substrate. A weak adhesive layer may be coupled to the second side of the resonator layer, followed by a low-temperature oxide layer and a carrier wafer. A cavity in the first side of the resonator layer may expose an electrode of the first resonator circuit. An RF assembly may have an RF wafer having a first and a second side, where the first side may have an oxide mesa coupled to an oxide layer. A first resonator circuit may be then coupled to the oxide mesa of the first side of the RF wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce A. Block, Paul B. Fischer, Nebil Tanzi, Gregory Chance, Han Wui Then, Sansaptak Dasgupta, Marko Radosavljevic
  • Patent number: 10784444
    Abstract: A light detection element including: a carbon nanotube structure; a first electrode and a second electrode, electrically connected to the carbon nanotube structure; wherein the carbon nanotube structure includes at least one carbon nanotube, the carbon nanotube includes two metallic carbon nanotube segments and one semiconducting carbon nanotube segment between the two metallic carbon nanotube segments, one of the two metallic carbon nanotube segments is electrically connected to the first electrode, the other one of the two metallic carbon nanotube segments is electrically connected to the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiang-Tao Wang, Peng Liu, Kai-Li Jiang, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 10763324
    Abstract: A method is provided for forming an integrated thin film resistor (TFR) in a semiconductor integrated circuit device. A first dielectric layer is deposited on an integrated circuit (IC) structure including conductive contacts, a resistive film (e.g., comprising SiCCr, SiCr, CrSiN, TaN, Ta2Si, or TiN) is deposited over the first dielectric layer, the resistive film is etched to define the dimensions of the resistive film, and a second dielectric layer is deposited over the resistive film, such that the resistive film is sandwiched between the first and second dielectric layers. An interconnect trench layer may be deposited over the second dielectric layer and etched, e.g., using a single mask, to define openings that expose surfaces of the IC structure contacts and the resistive film. The openings may be filled with a conductive interconnect material, e.g., copper, to contact the exposed surfaces of the conductive contacts and the resistive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Paul Fest
  • Patent number: 10763820
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electronic device formed in a cavity may include, on a first substrate having a bottom surface and a top surface, forming a first side wall of a certain height along a periphery on the bottom surface to surround an electronic circuit disposed on the bottom surface; forming a via communicating between the bottom surface and the top surface, forming of the via including stacking a first stop layer and a second stop layer sequentially on a portion of the bottom surface of the first substrate corresponding to the via and etching the first substrate to form a through-hole corresponding to the via, a rate of etching the first substrate being greater than that of the first stop layer and a rate of etching the first stop layer being greater than that of the second stop layer; forming a second side wall of a certain height along a periphery on a top surface of the second substrate; and aligning and bonding the first side wall and the second side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Atsushi Takano
  • Patent number: 10763292
    Abstract: A method includes bonding a first semiconductor chip on a second semiconductor chip, applying an etching process to the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip until a metal surface of the second semiconductor chip is exposed, wherein as a result of applying the etching process, an opening is formed in the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip and plating a conductive material in the opening to from a conductive plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeng-Shyan Lin, Shu-Ting Tsai, Dun-Nian Yaung, Jen-Cheng Liu, Feng-Chi Hung, Shih-Pei Chou, Min-Feng Kao, Szu-Ying Chen
  • Patent number: 10763427
    Abstract: A method of forming a 3D Hall effect sensor and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include forming a p-type well in a substrate; forming a first n-type well in a first region surrounded by the p-type well in top view; forming a second n-type well in a second region surrounding the p-type well; implanting n-type dopant in the first and second n-type wells; and implanting p-type dopant in the p-type well and the first n-type well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Eng Huat Toh, Ruchil Kumar Jain, Yongshun Sun, Shyue Seng Tan
  • Patent number: 10763381
    Abstract: Disclosed is an opto-electronic device including a semiconducting substrate, a layered interface including at least one layer, the layered interface having a first surface in contact with a surface of the semiconducting substrate and the layered interface being adapted for passivating the surface of the semiconducting substrate, the layered interface having a second surface and the layered interface being adapted for electrically insulating the first surface from the second surface, and a textured surface structure including a plurality of nanowires and a transparent dielectric coating, the textured surface structure being in contact with the second surface of the layered interface, the plurality of nanowires protruding from the second surface and the plurality of nanowires being embedded between the second surface and the transparent dielectric coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: TOTAL S.A., ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Pere Roca I Cabarrocas, Wanghua Chen, Martin Foldyna, Gilles Poulain
  • Patent number: 10741686
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes implanting impurity ions into a SiC layer in a direction of <10-11>±1 degrees, <10-1-1>±1 degrees, <10-12>±1 degrees, or <10-1-2>±1 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kono, Tomohiro Nitta
  • Patent number: 10741661
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a conductive layer, a thin film transistor and manufacturing methods therefor, an array substrate and a display device, in the field of displays. The conductive layer comprises: a metal layer and an organophosphorus-metal complex covering the metal layer. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the organophosphorus-metal complex is manufactured on the surface of the metal layer to form the conductive layer. The conductive layer is adopted as an electrode material. In one aspect, the organophosphorus-metal complex has conductivity and can prevent the surface of metal from making contact with oxygen, thereby avoiding metal oxidation under the premise of not affecting the performances of the electrode when serving as a material of the electrode in a TFT. In the other aspect, the organophosphorus-metal complex can increase a binding force between the metal and photoresist and avoids stripping of the photoresist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haixu Li
  • Patent number: 10734514
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes trench structures that extend from a first surface into a semiconductor body. The trench structures include a gate structure and a contact structure that extends through the gate structure, respectively. Transistor mesas are between the trench structures. Each transistor mesa includes a body zone forming a first pn junction with a drift structure and a second pn junction with a source zone. Diode regions directly adjoin one of the contact structures form a third pn junction with the drift structure, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Aichinger, Romain Esteve, Dethard Peters, Roland Rupp, Ralf Siemieniec
  • Patent number: 10734575
    Abstract: A method of forming a resistive random access memory device which contains uniform layer composition is provided. The method enables the in-situ deposition of a bottom electrode layer (i.e., a metal layer), a resistive switching element (i.e., at least one metal oxide layer), and a top electrode layer (i.e., a metal nitride layer and/or a metal layer) with compositional control. Resistive random access memory devices which contain uniform layer composition enabled by the in-situ deposition of the bottom electrode layer, the resistive switching element, and the top electrode layer provide significant benefits for advanced memory technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Reznicek, Oscar van der Straten, Adra Carr, Praneet Adusumilli