Patents Examined by Wasiul Haider
  • Patent number: 11610993
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of forming a semiconductor apparatus including a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is formed on a first substrate and includes at least one first semiconductor device. The second portion is formed on a second substrate including a bulk substrate material and includes at least one second semiconductor device. A carrier substrate is attached to the second portion. The bulk substrate material is removed from the second substrate. The first portion and the second portion are bonded to form the semiconductor apparatus where the at least one second semiconductor device is stacked above the at least one first semiconductor device along a Z direction substantially perpendicular to a substrate plane of the first substrate. The at least one first semiconductor device and the at least one second semiconductor device are positioned between the carrier substrate and the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Mark I. Gardner, H. Jim Fulford
  • Patent number: 11605721
    Abstract: An electrode with multiple metallic-layers structure formed by a magnetron sputtering technique for a semiconductor device and method for producing same is disclosed. The ceramic device includes at least one from selected group consisting of ZnO-MOV (metal oxide varistors), BaTiO3-PTC (positive temperature coefficient) thermistors, Mn3O4-NTC (negative temperature coefficient) thermistors, and capacitors. The multiple metallic-layers include a sputtered buffer layer and a sputtered electrical contact layer. The buffer layer includes at least one alloy selected form group consisting of NiCr (Ni from 50-90 wt %), TiNi (Ti from 40-60 wt %), and AlNi (Al from 40-70 wt %) and the thickness of this layer is from greater than zero to less than 100 nm. The electrical contact layer includes at least one of Cu, Ag, Pt, Au, or combination. More specifically, the electrode includes one of NiCr/Cu system, NiCr/Ag system, NiCr/Cu/Ag system, TiNi/Cu/Ag system, or AlNi/Cu/Ag system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Inventors: Kaixuan Shi, Haodian Shi, Yanqing Wu, Anping Hu, Xibei Yu
  • Patent number: 11605738
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and discloses a thin film transistor, a method for fabricating the same, a method for controlling the same, a display panel, and a display device. The thin film transistor includes: a base substrate, a semiconductor active layer on one side of the base substrate, a source electrically connected with one end of the semiconductor active layer, a drain electrically connected with the other end of the semiconductor active layer, a gate insulated from the semiconductor active layer, the source, and the drain, and a modulation electrode insulated from the semiconductor active layer, the gate, the source, and the drain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junjie Li, Yuanyuan Li
  • Patent number: 11600646
    Abstract: Current concentration in a channel region is reduced in a case where diffusion occurs of impurities from an element isolation region. A semiconductor element includes the element isolation region formed on a semiconductor substrate, a source region, a drain region, a gate, and the channel region. The gate is arranged on a surface of the semiconductor substrate between the source region and the drain region with an insulating film interposed between the gate and the semiconductor substrate. The channel region is arranged directly below the gate and between the source region and the drain region and is arranged adjacent to the element isolation region, and has a shape in which a channel length that is a distance between the drain region and the source region is shortened in the vicinity of the element isolation region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Susumu Tonegawa
  • Patent number: 11588059
    Abstract: A structural body according to an embodiment includes a conductive substrate. A main surface of the conductive substrate includes a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region and lower in height than the first region. The first region is provided with one or more recesses having a bottom, a position of which is lower than a position of the second region. A surface region of the conductive substrate on a side of the main surface includes a porous structure at a position between the second region and the one or more recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Mitsuo Sano, Susumu Obata, Kazuhito Higuchi, Kazuo Shimokawa
  • Patent number: 11588044
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) structure and related method. A BJT according to the disclosure may include a base over a semiconductor substrate. A collector is over the semiconductor substrate and laterally abuts a first horizontal end of the base. An emitter is over the semiconductor substrate and laterally abuts a second horizontal end of the base opposite the first horizontal end. A horizontal interface between the emitter and the base is smaller than a horizontal interface between the collector and the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander M. Derrickson, Mankyu Yang, Richard F. Taylor, III, Jagar Singh, Alexander L. Martin
  • Patent number: 11581438
    Abstract: The invention provides a fin structure for a fin field effect transistor, including a substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of silicon fins, wherein a top of each one of the silicon fins is a round-like shape in a cross-section view. An isolation layer is disposed on the substrate between the silicon fins at a lower portion of the silicon fins while an upper portion of the silicon fins is exposed. A stress buffer layer is disposed on a sidewall of the silicon fins between the isolation layer and the lower portion of the silicon fins. The stress buffer layer includes a nitride portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Hao Che Feng, Hung Jen Huang, Hsin Min Han, Shih-Wei Su, Ming Shu Chiu, Pi-Hung Chuang, Wei-Hao Huang, Shao-Wei Wang, Ping Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11581304
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device that includes a substrate. The substrate includes a well and a peripheral insulating wall laterally surrounding the well. At least one lateral bipolar transistor is formed in the well, and the at least one transistor has a base region extending under parallel collector and emitter regions. The peripheral insulating wall is widened in a first direction, parallel to the collector and emitter regions, so that the base region penetrates into the peripheral insulating wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS
    Inventor: Olivier Ory
  • Patent number: 11581302
    Abstract: An ESD protection diode in a semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a diode group that has a plurality of grouped VNW diodes, each of the VNW diodes having a VNW having a lower end and an upper end, that are formed on the semiconductor substrate and have a semiconductor material; and a top plate that is formed above the diode group and is a conductive layer electrically connected to the upper ends of the VNWs of the respective VNW diodes, and there is fabricated the semiconductor device that is capable of, even when large current flows through the VNW diode, suppressing current concentration and preventing damage of the VNW diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11569387
    Abstract: A semiconductor Fin FET device includes a fin structure disposed over a substrate. The fin structure includes a channel layer. The Fin FET device also includes a gate structure including a gate electrode layer and a gate dielectric layer, covering a portion of the fin structure. Side-wall insulating layers are disposed over both main sides of the gate electrode layer. The Fin FET device includes a source and a drain, each including a stressor layer disposed in a recess formed by removing the fin structure not covered by the gate structure. The stressor layer includes a first to a third stressor layer formed in this order. In the source, an interface between the first stressor layer and the channel layer is located under one of the side-wall insulating layers closer to the source or the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun Hsiung Tsai, Kei-Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 11569381
    Abstract: The invention relates to a deep depletion MIS transistor (100), comprising: a source region (S) and a drain region (D) made of doped semiconductor diamond of a first conductivity type; a channel region (C) made of doped semiconductor diamond of the first conductivity type, arranged between the source region and the drain region; a drift region (DR) made of doped semiconductor diamond of the first conductivity type, arranged between the channel region and the drain region; and a conductive gate (111) arranged on the channel region and separated from the channel region by a dielectric layer (113).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES
    Inventors: Julien Pernot, Nicolas Rouger, David Eon, Etienne Gheeraert, Gauthier Chicot, Toan Thanh Pham, Florin Udrea
  • Patent number: 11563111
    Abstract: A trench is formed by removing a portion of each of the charge accumulation film and the insulating film located between the control gate electrode and the memory gate electrode. The insulating film is formed in the trench so that the upper surface of each of the insulating film and the charge accumulation film is covered with the insulating film. When exposing the upper surface of the control gate electrode and the memory gate electrode, the upper surface of each of the insulating film and the charge accumulation film is not exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Amo
  • Patent number: 11557662
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a junction field effect transistor (JFET) on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. The JFET includes a gate with a first gate segment contacting the channel on a first lateral side of the channel, and a second gate segment contacting the channel on a second, opposite, lateral side of the channel. The first gate segment and the second gate segment extend deeper in the semiconductor layer than the channel. The JFET further includes a drift region contacting the channel, and may include a buried layer having the same conductivity type as the channel, extending at least partway under the drift region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Zachary Ka Fai Lee
  • Patent number: 11552027
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a semiconductor packaging device including a shield structure configured to block magnetic and/or electric fields from a first electronic component and a second electronic component. The first and second electronic components may, for example, be inductors or some other suitable electronic components. In some embodiments, a first IC chip overlies a second IC chip. The first IC chip includes a first substrate and a first interconnect structure overlying the first substrate. The second IC chip includes a second substrate and a second interconnect structure overlying the second substrate. The first and second electronic components are respectively in the first and second interconnect structures. The shield structure is directly between the first and second electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei-Yu Chien, Chien-Hsien Tseng, Dun-Nian Yaung, Nai-Wen Cheng, Pao-Tung Chen, Yi-Shin Chu, Yu-Yang Shen
  • Patent number: 11545586
    Abstract: A Group III-Nitride (III-N) device structure is provided which comprises: a heterostructure having three or more layers comprising III-N material, an anode within a recess that extends through two or more of the layers, wherein the anode is in electrical contact with the first layer, a cathode comprising donor dopants, wherein the cathode is on the first layer of the heterostructure; and a conducting region in the first layer in direct contact to the cathode and conductively connected to the anode. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Harald Gossner, Peter Baumgartner, Uwe Hodel, Domagoj Siprak, Stephan Leuschner, Richard Geiger, Han Wui Then, Marko Radosavljevic, Sansaptak Dasgupta
  • Patent number: 11545523
    Abstract: The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; a plurality of nanowires positioned above and parallel to a top surface of the substrate, wherein the plurality of nanowires comprises channel regions and source/drain regions positioned on each of both sides of the channel regions; a gate stack positioned surrounding the channel regions; and a magnetic storage structure positioned above a drain region of the plurality of nanowires and positioned adjacent to the gate stack. The magnetic storage structure comprises a bottom ferromagnetic layer positioned above the drain region and having a variable magnetic polarity, a tunnel barrier layer positioned on the bottom ferromagnetic layer, and a top ferromagnetic layer positioned on the tunnel barrier layer and having a fixed magnetic polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chang-Chieh Lin
  • Patent number: 11538929
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first and third semiconductor layers of a first conductivity type, and second, fourth and fifth semiconductor layers of a second conductivity type. The first semiconductor layer is provided on the fifth semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer is provided on the first semiconductor layer. The third and fourth semiconductor layers are arranged along the second semiconductor layer. In a plane parallel to an upper surface of the second semiconductor layer, the fourth semiconductor layer has a surface area greater than a surface area of the third semiconductor layer. The device further includes first to third electrodes, and first control electrode. The first to third electrodes are electrically connected to the third to fifth semiconductor layers, respectively. The first control electrode is provided in a first trench extending into the first semiconductor layer from an upper surface of the third semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Suwa, Tomoko Matsudai, Yoko Iwakaji, Hiroko Itokazu, Takako Motai
  • Patent number: 11532611
    Abstract: The application provides a SCR and a manufacturing method thereof. The SCR comprises: a P-type heavily doped region 20 and an N-type heavily doped region 28 forming an anode formed on the upper part of an N-type well 60, a P-type heavily doped region 26 and an N-type heavily doped region 24 forming a cathode formed on the upper part of a P-type well 70, an active region of the N-type well 60 is between the N-type heavily doped region 28 and an interface of the N-type well 60 and the P-type well 70, a STI is provided between the N-type heavily doped region 24 and the interface, the STI is adjacent to the N-type heavily doped region 24, and an active region of the P-type well 70 is provided between the STI and the interface. The present application can improve trigger voltage of the SCR and save layout area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Shanghai Huali Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tianzhi Zhu, Guanqun Huang, Haoyu Chen, Hua Shao
  • Patent number: 11532608
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a protected element, a contact region, wiring, and a channel stopper region. The protected element is configured including a p-n junction diode between an anode region and a cathode region, and is arranged in an active layer of a substrate. The periphery of the diode is surrounded by an element isolation region. The contact region is arranged at a portion on a main face of the anode region, and is set with a same conductivity type as the anode region, and set with a higher impurity concentration than the anode region. The wiring is arranged over the diode. One end portion of the wiring is connected to the contact region and another end portion extends over a passivation film. The channel stopper region is arranged at a portion on the main face of the anode region under the wiring between the contact region and the element isolation region, and is set with an opposite conductivity type to the contact region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Kataoka
  • Patent number: 11532708
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first field-effect transistor positioned over a substrate, a second field-effect transistor stacked over the first field-effect transistor, a third field-effect transistor stacked over the second field-effect transistor, and a fourth field-effect transistor stacked over the third field-effect transistor. A bottom gate structure is disposed around a first channel structure of the first field-effect transistor and positioned over the substrate. An intermediate gate structure is disposed over the bottom gate structure and around a second channel structure of the second field-effect transistor and a third channel structure of the third field-effect transistor. A top gate structure is disposed over the intermediate gate structure and around a fourth channel structure of the fourth field-effect transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Lars Liebmann, Jeffrey Smith, Daniel Chanemougame, Paul Gutwin