Patents Examined by Thanhha Pham
  • Patent number: 10141309
    Abstract: CMOS inverters including gate-all-around vertical transistors are fabricated without requiring center gate contacts, thereby allowing close positioning of the transistors. The gate contact and the drain contact of the transistors are shared. Wiring of inverter input, output and power supply lines is simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Karthik Balakrishnan, Kangguo Cheng, Pouya Hashemi, Alexander Reznicek
  • Patent number: 10128201
    Abstract: Devices and methods for forming a device are disclosed. At least one die is provided. A redistribution layer having a fan-out region extends concentrically outwards from an outer perimeter of the at least one die. A seal ring is disposed in the fan-out region of the redistribution layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Shunqiang Gong, Juan Boon Tan, Shan Gao
  • Patent number: 10128274
    Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel including: a substrate; a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate; a source electrode and a drain electrode overlapping the semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode overlapping the semiconductor layer; and a first ohmic contact disposed between the semiconductor layer and the source electrode and a second ohmic contact disposed between the semiconductor layer and the drain electrode. The semiconductor layer includes a channel part that does not overlap the source electrode and the drain electrode. The first ohmic contact includes a first edge and the second ohmic contact includes a second edge. The first and second edges face each other across the channel part of the semiconductor layer. The first edge of the first ohmic contact is protruded from the source electrode toward the channel part and the second edge of the second ohmic contact is protruded from the drain electrode toward the channel part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae Woo Jeong
  • Patent number: 10128454
    Abstract: A display device includes an anode, a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a blue light emitting layer, a hole blocking layer, an electron transport layer and/or an electron injection layer, and a cathode, which are stacked in this order, and has the following characteristics (i), (ii), and (iii): (i) the hole mobility of the blue light emitting layer?the electron mobility of the blue light emitting layer, (ii) the hole mobility of the hole transport layer?the electron mobility of the blue light emitting layer, and (iii) |the HOMO value of the blue light emitting layer?the HOMO value of the hole blocking layer|?0.4 eV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Koji Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 10121700
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and fabrication methods thereof are provided. An exemplary fabrication method includes providing a base substrate; forming gate structures over the base substrate; forming doped source/drain regions in the base substrate at two sides of each of the gate structures; forming an oxide layer on each of the doped source/drain regions; forming a metal layer on the oxide layer; and performing a reactive thermal annealing process, such that the metal layer reacts with a material of the oxide layer and a material of the doped source/drain regions to form a metal contact layer on each of the doped source/drain regions. The metal contact layer includes a first metal contact layer on the doped source/drain region, an oxygen-containing metal contact layer on the first metal contact layer, and a second metal contact layer on the oxygen-containing metal contact layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (SHANGHAI) CORPORATION, SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (BEIJING) CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yong Li
  • Patent number: 10121937
    Abstract: The structural characteristics of the light-exiting surface of a light emitting device are controlled so as to increase the light extraction efficiency of that surface when the surface is roughened. A light emitting surface comprising layers of materials with different durability to the roughening process exhibits a higher light extraction efficiency than a substantially uniform light emitting surface exposed to the same roughening process. In a GaN-type light emitting device, a thin layer of AlGaN material on or near the light-exiting surface creates sharper features after etching compared to the features created by conventional etching of a surface comprising only GaN material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Rajwinder Singh, John Edward Epler
  • Patent number: 10112822
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an anti-stiction layer and at least one metal layer. The first substrate includes a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) structure. The second substrate is bonded to the first substrate and disposed over the MEMS structure. The second substrate comprises at least one through hole. The anti-stiction layer is disposed on a surface of the MEMS structure. The at least one metal layer is disposed over the second substrate and covers the at least one through hole of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai-Fung Chang, Lien-Yao Tsai, Len-Yi Leu
  • Patent number: 10109780
    Abstract: What is specified is: an optoelectronic semiconductor component (1) comprising a carrier (5) and a semiconductor body (2), wherein the semiconductor body is fastened on the carrier and has a semiconductor layer sequence having an active region (20) provided for generating and/or receiving radiation, a first semiconductor layer (21) and a second semiconductor layer (22). The active region is arranged between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The carrier is electrically conductive and is divided into a first carrier body (51) and a second carrier body (52), wherein the first carrier body and the second carrier body are electrically insulated from one another. The first carrier body has a first external contact (61) of the semiconductor component on the side remote from the semiconductor body, wherein the first contact is electrically conductively connected to the first semiconductor layer via the first carrier body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventor: Siegfried Herrmann
  • Patent number: 10103156
    Abstract: A device and methods for forming the device are disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate prepared with a memory cell region and forming memory cell pairs in the cell region. The memory cell pair comprises of first and second split gate memory cells. Each memory cell includes a first gate serving as an access gate, a second gate adjacent to the first gate, the second gate serving as a storage gate, a first source/drain (S/D) region adjacent to the first gate and a second S/D region adjacent to the second gate. The method also includes forming silicide contacts on the substrate on the gate conductors and first S/D regions and exposed buried common source lines (SLs) in pick-up regions, such that increasing the displacement distance in the wordline and source line (WLSL) region to an extended displacement distance DE avoids shorting between the first offset access gate conductors and adjacent access gate conductors of the rows of memory cell pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Xinshu Cai, Khee Yong Lim, Kiok Boone Elgin Quek
  • Patent number: 10079178
    Abstract: Formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The method includes forming a bottom layer, a middle layer and an upper layer over a substrate, developing the upper layer to form an upper pattern with a first opening exposing the middle layer and a sidewall of the upper pattern. The upper pattern has a top surface. The method further includes conformally forming a protective layer over the upper pattern and the exposed middle layer, anisotropically etching the protective layer to leave a portion of the protective layer over the sidewall of the upper pattern and expose the middle layer, etching the middle layer not covered by the upper pattern and the portion of the protective layer to form a middle pattern with a second opening exposing the bottom layer, and etching the bottom layer though the second opening of the middle pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Po-Ju Chen, Yi-Wei Chiu, Fang-Yi Wu, Chih-Hao Chen, Wen-Yen Chen
  • Patent number: 10079296
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an indium gallium nitride layer over an active layer. The semiconductor device further includes an annealed region beneath the indium gallium nitride layer, the annealed region comprising indium atoms driven from the indium gallium nitride layer into the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chen-Hao Chiang, Po-Chun Liu, Chi-Ming Chen, Min-Chang Ching, Chung-Yi Yu, Chia-Shiung Tsai, Ru-Liang Lee
  • Patent number: 10079281
    Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor device includes incorporating dopants of a first conductivity type into a nearby body region portion of a semiconductor substrate having a base doping of the first conductivity type. The incorporation of the dopants of the first conductivity type is masked by a mask structure at at least part of an edge region of the semiconductor substrate. The method further includes forming a body region of a transistor structure of a second conductivity type in the semiconductor substrate. The nearby body region portion of the semiconductor substrate is located adjacent to the body region of the transistor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Schmidt, Erwin Lercher
  • Patent number: 10079278
    Abstract: A method for forming a bipolar junction transistor includes forming a collector intrinsic region, an emitter intrinsic region and an intrinsic base region between the collector intrinsic region and the emitter intrinsic region. A collector extrinsic contact region is formed in direct contact with the collector intrinsic region; an emitter extrinsic contact region is formed on the emitter intrinsic region and a base extrinsic contact region is formed in direct contact with the intrinsic base region. Carbon is introduced into at least one of the collector extrinsic contact region, the emitter extrinsic contact region and the base extrinsic contact region to suppress diffusion of dopants into the junction region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin K. Chan, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari, Tak H. Ning
  • Patent number: 10074694
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a first wiring extending in a first direction, a second wiring extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and a resistance change film provided between the first wiring and the second wiring. The second wiring includes a first conductive layer and a first intermediate layer including a first region provided between the first conductive layer and the resistance change film. The first intermediate layer includes a material having nonlinear resistance characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Takagi, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Masaki Yamato, Hiroyuki Ode, Toshiharu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10068873
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for attaching the integrated circuit (IC) packages to printed circuit boards (PCBs) to form smooth solder joints. A polymer flux may be provided in the process to mount an IC package to a PCB. The polymer flux may be provided on connectors of the IC package, or provided on PCB contact pad and/or pre-solder of the PCB. When the IC package is mounted onto the PCB, the polymer flux may cover a part of the connector, and may extend to cover a surface of the molding compound on the IC package. The polymer flux may completely cover the connector as well. The polymer flux delivers a fluxing component that facilitates smooth solder joint formation as well as a polymer component that offers added device protection by encapsulating individual connectors. The polymer component may be an epoxy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsien-Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 10056423
    Abstract: A multispectral imaging device, comprising a pixel array, each said pixel comprises at least a first subpixel and a second subpixel, each subpixel comprises at least an infrared light conversion layer; a visible light conversion layer and a color filter layer; said visible light conversion layer is arranged between said infrared light conversion layer and said color filter layer; wherein, infrared conversion efficiency in said first subpixel is larger than infrared conversion efficiency in said second subpixel, and infrared light transmittance of the color filter layer in said first subpixel is larger than infrared light transmittance of the color filter layer in said second subpixel. The multispectral imaging device realizes imaging in multiple wavebands and in an increased dynamic range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Inventor: Zhongshou Huang
  • Patent number: 10037949
    Abstract: A semiconductor package that includes EMI shielding and a fabricating method thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, the fabricating method of a semiconductor package includes forming a substrate, attaching semiconductor devices to a top portion of the substrate, encapsulating the semiconductor devices using an encapsulant, forming a trench in the encapsulant, and forming a shielding layer on a surface of the encapsulant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Amkor Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hee Sung Kim, Yeoung Beom Ko, Dae Byoung Kang, Jae Jin Lee, Joon Dong Kim, Dong Jean Kim
  • Patent number: 10037920
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device includes receiving a substrate with a gate structure and forming a spacer layer over the substrate and the gate structure. The method further includes implanting carbon into the spacer layer at an angle tilted away from a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, which increases etch resistance of the spacer layer on sidewalls of the gate structure. The method optionally includes implanting germanium into the spacer layer at the first direction, which decreases etch resistance of the spacer layer overlaying the gate structure and the substrate. The method further includes etching the spacer layer to expose the gate structure, resulting in a first portion of the spacer layer on the sidewalls of the gate structure. Due to increased etch resistance, the first portion of the spacer layer maintains its profile and thickness in subsequent fabrication processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun Hsiung Tsai, Jian-An Ke
  • Patent number: 10026759
    Abstract: Disclosed are an array substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display panel. The array substrate includes a first metal layer including a first pattern; a second metal layer including a second pattern; a conduction layer located above the first metal layer and the second metal layer and including a third pattern; a first via hole adapted to connect the first pattern and the third pattern; a second via hole adapted to connect the second pattern and the third pattern; and a conductive material shielding ring surrounding the third pattern, where the conductive material shielding ring is insulated from the third pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanping Liao, Bin Feng, Xibin Shao, Zhenyu Zhang, Qiliang Gong
  • Patent number: 10014402
    Abstract: A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device structure is provided. The HEMT device structure includes a channel layer formed over a substrate and an active layer formed over the channel layer. The HEMT device structure also includes a gate structure formed over the active layer, and the gate structure includes: a p-doped gallium nitride (p-GaN) layer or a p-doped aluminum gallium nitride (p-GaN) layer formed over the active layer, and a portion of the p-GaN layer or p-AlGaN layer has a stepwise or gradient doping concentration. The HEMT device structure also includes a gate electrode over the p-GaN layer or p-AlGaN layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuei-Ming Chen, Chi-Ming Chen, Chung-Yi Yu