Patents by Inventor Andreas Schueppen

Andreas Schueppen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6764923
    Abstract: An SOI wafer includes a substrate, and an insulating intermediate layer and a surface layer successively thereon. At least one laterally limited suicide area is formed in and/or on the surface layer. Then an oxide layer is provided on the surface layer of the SOI wafer and/or on a second silicon wafer, before the two wafers are bonded to each other along the oxide layer. The substrate and the insulating intermediate layer are removed to leave a bonded multi-layered wafer. At least one device component is fabricated in and/or on the surface layer to include the silicide area as a functional element of the device component. Different types of components, e.g. MOS and bipolar transistors, can be fabricated together on the same wafer, and HF characteristics are improved by the low ohmic suicide area(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Atmel Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Harry Dietrich, Volker Dudek, Andreas Schueppen
  • Patent number: 6720238
    Abstract: A manufactured multi-layered silicon wafer with a buried insulating layer and buried areas with different parameters is formed by bonding together a first wafer and a second wafer. Before the bonding, areas with modified layer parameters, which will be buried by bonding with the second wafer, are created on the surface of the first wafer, which also has an insulating intermediate layer. A further insulating layer is then applied, and the surface of the first wafer is bonded to the surface of the second wafer. The substrate layer and the insulating intermediate layer of the first wafer are subsequently removed. This eliminates the conventional thinning of the second wafer. In addition, areas with vertical gradients can be created in the layer parameters without processing the second wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: ATMEL Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Harry Dietrich, Volker Dudek, Andreas Schueppen
  • Patent number: 6716721
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a silicon wafer with an insulating intermediate layer, the surface of a first wafer, which has an insulating intermediate layer, is bonded to the surface of a second wafer, and then the substrate layer and the insulating intermediate layer of the fist wafer are removed. The new silicon surface created in this manner has a high layer quality which is achieved at a low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Atmel Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Harry Dietrich, Volker Dudek, Andreas Schueppen
  • Publication number: 20020173119
    Abstract: With the previously known methods for manufacturing a silicon wafer with an insulating intermediate layer, especially in the case of a thicker silicon layer lying upon the insulating intermediate layer, great expenditure is required in order to create a layer with the quality and surface required for producing integrated circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Applicant: ATMEL Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Harry Dietrich, Volker Dudek, Andreas Schueppen
  • Publication number: 20020173118
    Abstract: In the previously known methods, the buried layers, such as suicide for example, are produced on SOI wafers by thinning the wafer bonded onto the SOI wafer to the desired thickness, and then isolating the layers grown on the SOI wafer by means of a trench process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Applicant: ATMEL Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Harry Dietrich, Volker Dudek, Andreas Schueppen
  • Publication number: 20020173086
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing components on an SOI wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Applicant: ATMEL Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Harry Dietrich, Volker Dudek, Andreas Schueppen