Patents Examined by Vernon P Webb
  • Patent number: 10381585
    Abstract: A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a insulating medium layer and at least one Schottky diode unit. The at least one Schottky diode unit is located on a surface of the insulating medium layer. The at least one Schottky diode unit includes a first electrode, a semiconductor structure and a second electrode. The semiconductor structure comprising a first end and a second end. The first end is laid on the first electrode, the second end is located on the surface of the insulating medium layer. The semiconducting structure includes a carbon nanotube structure. The second electrode is located on the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Dan Zhao, Xiao-Yang Xiao, Ying-Cheng Wang, Yuan-Hao Jin, Tian-Fu Zhang, Qun-Qing Li
  • Patent number: 10374180
    Abstract: A thin film transistor includes a gate, an insulating medium layer and a Schottky diode. The Schottky diode includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a semiconducting structure. The first electrode is located on the surface of the insulating medium layer and includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The second electrode is located on the surface of the insulating medium layer and includes a third metal layer and a fourth metal layer. The semiconductor structure includes a first end and a second end. The first end is sandwiched by the first metal layer and the second metal layer, the second end is sandwiched by the third metal layer and the fourth metal layer. The semiconductor structure includes a carbon nanotube structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Dan Zhao, Xiao-Yang Xiao, Ying-Cheng Wang, Yuan-Hao Jin, Tian-Fu Zhang, Qun-Qing Li
  • Patent number: 10361132
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to structures with thinned dielectric material and methods of manufacture. The method includes depositing a high-k dielectric on a substrate. The method further includes depositing a titanium nitride film directly on the high-k while simultaneously etching the high-k dielectric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Ruqiang Bao, Takashi Ando, Aritra Dasgupta, Kai Zhao, Unoh Kwon, Siddarth A. Krishnan
  • Patent number: 10355179
    Abstract: An LED package structure includes a carrier mounted with a plurality of LED chips, a first glue-layer, a second glue-layer and an encapsulation resin filled within the first and the second glue-layers. The first glue-layer is formed on a top surface of the carrier and has a thin-film structure which is substantially flat on a top surface thereof. The second glue-layer is stacked on the first glue-layer. The second glue-layer has a height higher than that of the first glue-layer. The second glue-layer has a volume greater than that of the first glue-layer. The present invention also provides a method of LED package structure to stably produce a dam structure with uniform shape and high ratio of height/width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignees: LITE-ON ELECTRONICS (GUANGZHOU) LIMITED, LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kuo-Ming Chiu
  • Patent number: 10276567
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices are provided. The semiconductor device includes an active fin which extends along a first direction and has a protruding shape, a gate structure which is disposed on the active fin to extend along a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a spacer which is disposed on at least one side of the gate structure, wherein the gate structure includes a first area and a second area which is adjacent to the first area in the second direction, wherein a first width of the first area in the first direction is different from a second width of the second area in the first direction, and the spacer extends continuously along both the first area and the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju-Youn Kim, Hyun-Jo Kim, Hwa-Sung Rhee
  • Patent number: 10256146
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and method of forming the same, the semiconductor device includes a first and second fin shaped structures, a first and second gate structures and a first and second plugs. The first and second fin shaped structures are disposed on a first region and a second region of a substrate and the first and second gate structure are disposed across the first and second fin shaped structures, respectively. A dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate, covering the first and second gate structure. The first and second plugs are disposed in the dielectric layer, wherein the first plug is electrically connected first source/drain regions adjacent to the first gate structure and contacts sidewalls of the first gate structure, and the second plug is electrically connected to second source/drain regions adjacent to the second gate structure and not contacting sidewalls of the second gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Yu-Hsiang Hung, Ssu-I Fu, Chao-Hung Lin, Chih-Kai Hsu, Jyh-Shyang Jenq
  • Patent number: 10211057
    Abstract: A transistor component includes in a semiconductor body a source zone and a drift zone of a first conduction type, and a body zone of a second conduction type complementary to the first conduction type, the body zone arranged between the drift zone and the source zone. The transistor component further includes a source electrode in contact with the source zone and the body zone, a gate electrode adjacent the body zone and dielectrically insulated from the body zone by a gate dielectric layer, and a diode structure connected between the drift zone and the source electrode. The diode structure includes a first emitter zone adjoining the drift zone in the semiconductor body, and a second emitter zone of the first conduction type adjoining the first emitter zone. The second emitter zone is connected to the source electrode and has an emitter efficiency ? of less than 0.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Franz Hirler, Anton Mauder, Thomas Raker, Hans-Joachim Schulze, Wolfgang Werner
  • Patent number: 10204980
    Abstract: A semiconductor device may include an element region and a peripheral voltage withstanding region. The peripheral voltage withstanding region includes inner circumferential guard rings; and outer circumferential guard rings having a width narrower than a width of the inner circumferential guard rings. An interval between the inner circumferential guard rings is narrower than an interval between the outer circumferential guard rings. Each of the inner circumferential guard rings includes a first high concentration region and a first low concentration region. Each of the outer circumferential guard rings includes a second high concentration region and a second low concentration region. A width of a part of each first low concentration region that is exposed on a front surface of the semiconductor device is wider than a width of a part of each second low concentration region that is exposed on the front surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Yasuda, Tatsuji Nagaoka, Yasushi Urakami, Sachiko Aoi
  • Patent number: 10204990
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an N-type silicon carbide substrate, an N-type silicon carbide layer formed on the N-type silicon carbide substrate, a P-type region selectively formed in a surface layer of the N-type silicon carbide layer, an N-type source region formed in the P-type region, a P contact region formed in the P-type region, a gate insulating film formed on a portion of a region from the N-type source region, through the P-type region, to the N-type silicon carbide layer, a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, an interlayer insulating film covering the gate electrode, and a first source electrode electrically connected to a surface of the P contact region and the N-type source region. An end of the interlayer insulating film covering the gate electrode has a slope of a predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Harada, Yasuyuki Hoshi, Akimasa Kinoshita, Yasuhiko Oonishi
  • Patent number: 10196262
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing an interaction system of a microelectromechanical type for a storage medium, the interaction system provided with a supporting element and an interaction element carried by the supporting element, envisages the steps of: providing a wafer of semiconductor material having a substrate with a first type of conductivity (P) and a top surface; forming a first interaction region having a second type of conductivity (N), opposite to the first type of conductivity (P), in a surface portion of the substrate in the proximity of the top surface; and carrying out an electrochemical etch of the substrate starting from the top surface, the etching being selective with respect to the second type of conductivity (N), so as to remove the surface portion of the substrate and separate the first interaction region from the substrate, thus forming the supporting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Barillaro, Alessandro Diligenti, Caterina Riva, Roberto Campedelli, Stefano Losa
  • Patent number: 10186591
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor device includes: a first nitride semiconductor layer; a second nitride semiconductor layer located on the first nitride semiconductor layer and having a band gap larger than a band gap of the first nitride semiconductor layer; a p-type semiconductor layer located on the second nitride semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode located on the p-type semiconductor layer. A first interface and a second interface are located in parallel between the gate electrode and the p-type semiconductor layer. The first interface has a first barrier with respect to holes moving in a direction from the p-type semiconductor layer to the gate electrode. The second interface has a second barrier with respect to the holes moving in a direction from the p-type semiconductor layer to the gate electrode. The second barrier is higher than the first barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Okawa
  • Patent number: 10153302
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pixel structure is provided. A patterned semiconductor material layer, an insulation material layer, and a gate electrode material layer are formed in sequence on a substrate to form a stacked structure. A patterned photoresist layer is formed on the stacked structure by using a photomask. A portion of the stacked structure is removed to pattern the patterned semiconductor material layer into a patterned semiconductor layer by using the patterned photoresist layer as a mask. Another portion of the stacked structure is etched by using a portion of the patterned photoresist layer as a mask until a portion of the semiconductor layer in the stacked structure is exposed. Then, an exposed portion of the semiconductor layer is modified to increase a conductivity of the exposed portion of the semiconductor layer. Finally, the patterned photoresist layer is removed. A pixel structure manufactured by the method is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsi-Ming Chang, Yen-Yu Huang
  • Patent number: 10121938
    Abstract: A light source module is provided. The light source module includes a flexible printed circuit board, plural light-emitting diodes and plural first light-absorbing portions. The flexible printed circuit board has a first edge and a second edge opposite to the first edge. The light-emitting diodes are disposed on the flexible printed circuit board near the first edge. The first light-absorbing portions are disposed on the flexible printed circuit board near the second edge, in which the first light-absorbing portions are alternately arranged with the light-emitting diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Yin Chang, Chin-Ting Weng
  • Patent number: 10109718
    Abstract: A semiconductor component and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor component, wherein the semiconductor component includes a transient voltage suppression structure that includes at least two diodes and a Zener diode. In accordance with embodiments, a semiconductor material is provided that includes an epitaxial layer. The at least two diodes and the Zener diode are created at the surface of the epitaxial layer, where the at least two diodes may be adjacent to the Zener diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Umesh Sharma, Harry Yue Gee, Der Min Liou, David D Marreiro, Sudhama C Shastri
  • Patent number: 10081538
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) acoustic pressure sensor device and a method for making same. The MEMS device includes: a substrate; a fixed electrode provided on the substrate; and a multilayer structure, which includes multiple metal layers and multiple metal plugs, wherein the multiple metal layers are connected by the multiple metal plugs. A cavity is formed between the multilayer structure and the fixed electrode. Each metal layer in the multilayer structure includes multiple metal sections. The multiple metal sections of one metal layer and those of at least another metal layer are staggered to form a substantially blanket surface as viewed from a moving direction of an acoustic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INCORPORATION
    Inventor: Chuan-Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 10043792
    Abstract: An apparatus including an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device comprising a semiconductor having first, second and third regions arranged to form a transistor, wherein the first region is doped with a first impurity of a first conductivity type and is separated from the second region which is doped with a second impurity of a second conductivity type opposite the first type, and wherein a dimensional constraint of the regions defines an operational threshold of the ESD protection device. In one example, the separation between a collector and an emitter of a bipolar transistor defines a trigger voltage to cause the electrostatic discharge protection device to become conducting. In another example, a width of a bipolar transistor base controls a holding voltage of the electrostatic discharge protection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward John Coyne, Patrick Martin McGuinness, Paul Malachy Daly, Bernard Patrick Stenson, David J. Clarke, Andrew David Bain, William Allan Lane
  • Patent number: 10026847
    Abstract: In a semiconductor element including an oxide semiconductor film as an active layer, stable electrical characteristics are achieved. A semiconductor element includes a base film which is an oxide film at least a surface of which has crystallinity; an oxide semiconductor film having crystallinity over the base film; a gate insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film; a gate electrode overlapping with at least the oxide semiconductor film, over the gate insulating film; and a source electrode and a drain electrode which are electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film. The base film is a film containing indium and zinc. With the structure, a state of crystals in the oxide semiconductor film reflects that in the base film; thus, the oxide semiconductor film can have crystallinity in a large region in the thickness direction. Accordingly, the electrical characteristics of the semiconductor element including the film can be made stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Tatsuya Honda, Suzunosuke Hiraishi, Hiroshi Kanemura, Masashi Oota
  • Patent number: 10014346
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first interconnect, a second interconnect, a first fringe and a second fringe. The first interconnect is connected to a first memory cell. The second interconnect is connected to a second memory cell and is arranged at a first interval from the first interconnect in a first direction. The first fringe is formed on one end of the first interconnect. The second fringe is formed on one end of the second interconnect. The first fringe and the second fringe are arranged at the first interval in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Nitta
  • Patent number: 9997550
    Abstract: A photodetector is formed in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) type semiconductor layer. The photodetector includes a first region and a second region of a first conductivity type separated from each other by a central region of a second conductivity type so as to define a phototransistor. A transverse surface of the semiconductor layer is configured to receive an illumination. The transverse surface extends orthogonally to an upper surface of the central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS SA
    Inventor: Bruno Rauber
  • Patent number: 9975762
    Abstract: A stacked semiconductor structure includes a first substrate. A multilayer interconnect is disposed over the first substrate. Metal sections are disposed over the multilayer interconnect. First bonding features are over the metal sections. A second substrate has a front surface. A cavity extends from the front surface into a depth D in the second substrate. A movable structure is disposed over the front surface of the second substrate and suspending over the cavity. The movable structure includes a dielectric membrane, metal units over the dielectric membrane and a cap dielectric layer over the metal units. Second bonding features are over the cap dielectric layer and bonded to the first bonding features. The second bonding features extend through the cap dielectric layer and electrically coupled to the metal units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chia-Hua Chu, Chun-Wen Cheng