Patents Examined by Tu-Tu To
  • Patent number: 11973021
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and an inter-metal dielectric layer disposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The inter-metal dielectric layer includes: a first dielectric layer disposed on the first metal layer and in direct contact with the first metal layer, wherein the first dielectric layer has a stress value less than 0; a second dielectric layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, wherein the second dielectric layer has a stress value greater than 0; and a third dielectric layer disposed on the second dielectric layer, wherein the third dielectric layer has a stress value less than 0. A thickness of the third dielectric layer is greater than a thickness of the second dielectric layer, and the thickness of the second dielectric layer is greater than a thickness of the first dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Kai-Chun Chen, Shih-Ming Tseng, Hsing-Chao Liu, Hsiao-Ying Yang
  • Patent number: 11974462
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate; a plurality of data signal lines on the base substrate, and a plurality of pixel units; and each pixel unit has a transparent area and a non-transparent area; the pixel unit includes a plurality of sub-pixels in the non-transparent area. All sub-pixels in the display panel are arranged in an array, each column of sub-pixels corresponds to a respective one of the data signal lines, and at least part of the data signal lines are arranged around the transparent areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ling Wang, Yicheng Lin, Pan Xu, Guoying Wang, Guang Yan
  • Patent number: 11972954
    Abstract: An alternating stack of first material layers and second material layers can be formed over a semiconductor material layer. A patterning film is formed over the alternating stack, and openings are formed through the patterning film. Via openings are formed through the alternating stack at least to a top surface of the semiconductor material layer by performing a first anisotropic etch process that transfers a pattern of the openings in the patterning film. A cladding liner can be formed on a top surface of the patterning film and sidewalls of the openings in the pattering film. The via openings can be vertically extended through the semiconductor material layer at least to a bottom surface of the semiconductor material layer by performing a second anisotropic etch process employing the cladding liner as an etch mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Roshan Jayakhar Tirukkonda, Senaka Kanakamedala, Rahul Sharangpani, Raghuveer S. Makala, Monica Titus
  • Patent number: 11973093
    Abstract: A single photon avalanche (SPAD) device configured to detect visible to infrared light includes a substrate and a trench coupled to the substrate. The trench has a lattice mismatch with the substrate and has a height equal to or greater than its width. The device further includes a substantially defect-free semiconductor region that includes photosensitive material. The semiconductor region includes a well coupled to the trench and doped a first type. The well is configured to detect a photon and generate a current. The semiconductor region also includes a region formed in the well and doped a second type opposite to the first type. The well is configured to cause an avalanche multiplication of the current. The trench and the well form a first electrode and the region forms a second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SEMIKING LLC
    Inventors: Clifford Alan King, Anders Ingvar Aberg
  • Patent number: 11963397
    Abstract: A display region includes a plurality of pixel driving circuitry setting regions arranged sequentially in a first direction, and each pixel driving circuitry setting region extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction. Each display circuitry includes a plurality of subpixels in one-to-one correspondence with the pixel driving circuitry setting regions, each subpixel includes a subpixel driving circuitry and a light-emitting element coupled to each other, the subpixel driving circuitry is located in a corresponding pixel driving circuitry setting region, the light-emitting element is located at a side of the subpixel driving circuitry away from the substrate, a width of the light-emitting element is greater than a width of the corresponding pixel driving circuitry setting region in the first direction, and a length of the light-emitting element is smaller than a length of the corresponding pixel driving circuitry setting region in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE JOINT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Li, Yongqian Li, Jingquan Wang, Chen Xu, Dacheng Zhang, Zhidong Yuan, Can Yuan, Xuehuan Feng
  • Patent number: 11963405
    Abstract: A display and a display panel are provided. An additional VDD wire is arranged in an irregular-shaped region. The VDD wire is connected to a pixel arranged in the irregular-shaped region through a plurality of connection wires, such that the display may have a narrow side edge, and at the same time, a difference between impedances of the irregular-shaped region and a regular-shaped display region may not be large, and a display region may not be split.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miao Chang, Weilong Li, Lu Zhang, Siming Hu, Zhenzhen Han
  • Patent number: 11956975
    Abstract: Structures and methods are provided for integrating a resistance random access memory (ReRAM) in a back-end-on-the-line (BEOL) fat wire level. In one embodiment, a ReRAM device area contact structure is provided in the BEOL fat wire level that has at least a lower via portion that contacts a surface of a top electrode of a ReRAM device area ReRAM-containing stack. In other embodiments, a tall ReRAM device area bottom electrode is provided in the BEOL fat wire level and embedded in a dielectric material stack that includes a dielectric capping layer and an interlayer dielectric material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Soon-Cheon Seo, Dexin Kong, Takashi Ando, Paul Charles Jamison, Hiroyuki Miyazoe, Youngseok Kim, Nicole Saulnier, Vijay Narayanan, Iqbal Rashid Saraf
  • Patent number: 11948944
    Abstract: Stacked FET devices having wrap-around contacts to optimize contact resistance and techniques for formation thereof are provided. In one aspect, a stacked FET device includes: a bottom-level FET(s) on a substrate; lower contact vias present in an ILD disposed over the bottom-level FET(s); a top-level FET(s) present over the lower contact vias; and top-level FET source/drain contacts that wrap-around source/drain regions of the top-level FET(s), wherein the lower contact vias connect the top-level FET source/drain contacts to source/drain regions of the bottom-level FET(s). When not vertically aligned, a local interconnect can be used to connect a given one of the lower contact vias to a given one of the top-level FET source/drain contacts. A method of forming a stacked FET device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruilong Xie, Heng Wu, Jingyun Zhang, Julien Frougier
  • Patent number: 11950407
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques for a memory device including at least two memory cells. A first memory cell includes a first storage cell and a first transistor to control access to the first storage cell. A second memory cell includes a second storage cell and a second transistor to control access to the second storage cell. A shared contact electrode is shared between the first transistor and the second transistor, the shared contact electrode being coupled to a source area or a drain area of the first transistor, coupled to a source area or a drain area of the second transistor, and further being coupled to a bit line of the memory device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Juan G. Alzate Vinasco, Travis W. Lajoie, Abhishek A. Sharma, Kimberly L Pierce, Elliot N. Tan, Yu-Jin Chen, Van H. Le, Pei-Hua Wang, Bernhard Sell
  • Patent number: 11950432
    Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor substrate, a first bonding structure and a memory cell. The second semiconductor device is stacked over the first semiconductor device. The second semiconductor device includes a second semiconductor substrate, a second bonding structure in a second dielectric layer and a peripheral circuit between the second semiconductor substrate and the second bonding structure. The first bonding structure and the second bonding structure are bonded and disposed between the memory cell and the peripheral circuit, and the memory cell and the peripheral circuit are electrically connected through the first bonding structure and the second bonding structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Ku Shen, Ku-Feng Lin, Liang-Wei Wang, Dian-Hau Chen
  • Patent number: 11942578
    Abstract: A phosphor substrate having at least one light emitting element mounted on one surface, includes an insulating substrate, at least one electrode pair disposed on one surface of the insulating substrate and bonded to the light emitting element, and a phosphor layer disposed on one surface of the insulating substrate, including a phosphor in which a light emission peak wavelength, in a case where light emitted by the element is used as excitation light, is in a visible light region, in which a bonded surface of the electrode pair facing an outer side in a thickness direction of the insulating substrate, the bonded surface being bonded to the light emitting element, is positioned further on the outer side in the thickness direction than a non-bonded surface other than the bonded surface, and at least a part of the phosphor layer is disposed around the bonded surface of the one surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Masahiro Konishi
  • Patent number: 11942470
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first cell. The first cell is surrounded by a castle-shaped forbidden region. The first cell includes a first active region, a second active region, and at least one via. The first active region and the second active region extend along a first direction and are separated from each other along a second direction traverse to the first direction. The first active region partially overlaps an upper region of the castle-shaped forbidden region, and the second active region partially overlaps a lower region of the castle-shaped forbidden region. The at least one via is arranged outside the castle-shaped forbidden region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Wei Peng, Jiann-Tyng Tzeng
  • Patent number: 11929361
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a first power line, and a second power line. The first transistor has a first active region and a first gate structure, in which the first active region has a source region and a drain region on opposite sides of the first gate structure. The second transistor is below the first transistor, and has a second active region and a second gate structure, in which the second active region has a source region and a drain region on opposite sides of the second gate structure. The first power line is above the first transistor, in which the first power line is electrically connected to the source region of first active region. The second power line is below the second transistor, in which the second power line is electrically connected to the source region of second active region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., TSMC CHINA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xin-Yong Wang, Li-Chun Tien, Chih-Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 11929360
    Abstract: A device includes an electrical circuit having a first set of circuit elements. The device further includes a first set of conductive pillars over a first side of a substrate. The device further includes a first conductive rail electrically connected to each of the first set of conductive pillars, wherein each of the first set of conductive pillars is electrically connected to each of the first set of circuit elements by the first conductive rail. The device further includes a first plurality of power pillars extending through the substrate, wherein each of the first plurality of power pillars is electrically connected to the first conductive rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chung-Chieh Yang, Chung-Ting Lu, Yung-Chow Peng
  • Patent number: 11923349
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a die and a first connector. The first connector is disposed on the die. The first connector includes a first connecting housing, a first connecting element and a first connecting portion. The first connecting element is electrically connected to the die and disposed at a first side of the first connecting housing. The first connecting portion is disposed at a second side different from the first side of the first connecting housing, wherein the first connecting portion is one of a hole and a protrusion with respect to a surface of the second side of the first connecting housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-Hui Lai, Chen-Hua Yu, Chung-Shi Liu, Hao-Yi Tsai, Tin-Hao Kuo
  • Patent number: 11923292
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a conductive pad disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and a pillar pattern disposed on the conductive pad. The semiconductor device further includes a solder seed pattern disposed on the pillar pattern, and a solder portion disposed on the pillar pattern and the solder seed pattern. A first width of the solder seed pattern is less than a second width of a top surface of the pillar pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinkuk Bae, Hyunsoo Chung, Inyoung Lee, Donghyeon Jang
  • Patent number: 11923355
    Abstract: Devices and methods for manufacturing a deep trench capacitor fuse for high voltage breakdown defense. A semiconductor device comprising a deep trench capacitor structure and a transistor structure. The transistor structure may comprise a base, a first terminal formed within the base, and a second terminal formed within the base. The first terminal and the second terminal may be formed by doping the base. The deep trench capacitor structure may comprise a first metallic electrode layer and a second metallic electrode layer. The first terminal may be electrically connected to the first metallic electrode layer, and the second terminal may be electrically connected to the second metallic electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventor: Jen-Yuan Chang
  • Patent number: 11923407
    Abstract: Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a channel to conduct current, the channel including a first channel portion and a second channel portion, a first memory cell structure located between a first gate and the first channel portion, a second memory cell structure located between a second gate and the second channel portion, and a void located between the first and second gates and between the first and second memory cell structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Chris M. Carlson
  • Patent number: 11923406
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first insulating layer, a plurality of first electrodes penetrating the first insulating layer, a plurality of second electrodes penetrating the first insulating layer, the plurality of second electrodes being located between the plurality of first electrodes: a first high dielectric constant layer having a dielectric constant higher than a dielectric constant of the first insulating layer, a plurality of third electrodes penetrating the first high dielectric constant layer, the plurality of third electrodes being respectively connected to the plurality of first electrodes, and a plurality of fourth electrodes penetrating the first high dielectric constant layer, the plurality of fourth electrodes being located between the plurality of third electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Dae Sung Eom
  • Patent number: 11916014
    Abstract: A field effect device is provided. The field effect device includes an active gate structure, a gate contact within the active gate structure, wherein the gate contact is the same height as the active gate structure, and a gate cut dielectric on opposite sides of the gate contact and active gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reinaldo Vega, Takashi Ando, Cheng Chi, Praneet Adusumilli