Patents by Inventor Bernd Heinemann

Bernd Heinemann 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).

  • Publication number: 20230230793
    Abstract: An ion beam extraction apparatus (100), being configured for creating an ion beam (1), in particular adapted for a neutral beam injection apparatus of a fusion plasma plant, comprises an ion source device (10) being arranged for creating ions, and a grid device (20) comprising at least two grids (21, 22) being arranged adjacent to the ion source device (10) and having a mutual grid distance d along a beam axis z, wherein the grids (21, 22) are electrically insulated relative to each other, the grids (21, 22) are arranged for applying different electrical potentials for creating an ion extraction and acceleration field (3) along the beam axis z, and he ion source device (10) and the grid device (20) are arranged in an evacuable ion beam space (30) extending along the beam axis z, wherein at least one of the grids is a movable grid (21), which can be shifted along the beam axis z, and the grid device (20) is coupled with a grid drive device (40) having a drive motor (41), which is arranged for moving the movabl
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Christian HOPF, Bernd HEINEMANN, Markus FROESCHLE, Moritz ECKERSKORN, Niek DEN HARDER
  • Patent number: 9508824
    Abstract: A method of producing a semiconductor device, comprising a substrate layer made of a semiconductor material of a first conductivity type and having a first insulation region, and a vertical bipolar transistor having a first vertical portion of a collector made of monocrystalline semiconductor material of a second conductivity type and disposed in an opening of the first insulation region, a second insulation region lying partly on the first vertical portion of the collector and partly on the first insulation region and having an opening in the region of the collector, in which opening a second vertical portion of the collector made of monocrystalline material is disposed, the portion including an inner region of the second conductivity type, a base made of monocrystalline semiconductor material of the first conductivity type, a base connection region surrounding the base in the lateral direction, a T-shaped emitter made of semiconductor material of the second conductivity type and overlapping the base connect
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: IHP GmbH—Innovations for High Perforamce Microelectronics/Leibniz-Institut fur Innovative Mikroelektronik
    Inventors: Alexander Fox, Bernd Heinemann, Steffen Marschmeyer
  • Publication number: 20150140771
    Abstract: A method of producing a semiconductor device, comprising a substrate layer made of a semiconductor material of a first conductivity type and having a first insulation region, and a vertical bipolar transistor having a first vertical portion of a collector made of monocrystalline semiconductor material of a second conductivity type and disposed in an opening of the first insulation region, a second insulation region lying partly on the first vertical portion of the collector and partly on the first insulation region and having an opening in the region of the collector, in which opening a second vertical portion of the collector made of monocrystalline material is disposed, the portion including an inner region of the second conductivity type, a base made of monocrystalline semiconductor material of the first conductivity type, a base connection region surrounding the base in the lateral direction, a T-shaped emitter made of semiconductor material of the second conductivity type and overlapping the base connect
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Alexander FOX, Bernd HEINEMANN, Steffen Marschmeyer
  • Patent number: 8933537
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, comprising a substrate layer made of a semiconductor material of a first conductivity type and having a first insulation region, and a vertical bipolar transistor having a first vertical portion of a collector made of monocrystalline semiconductor material of a second conductivity type and disposed in an opening of the first insulation region, a second insulation region lying partly on the first vertical portion of the collector and partly on the first insulation region and having an opening in the region of the collector, in which opening a second vertical portion of the collector made of monocrystalline material is disposed, said portion including an inner region of the second conductivity type, a base made of monocrystalline semiconductor material of the first conductivity type, a base connection region surrounding the base in the lateral direction, a T-shaped emitter made of semiconductor material of the second conductivity type and overlapping the base connection region, wherein t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: IHP GmbH—Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics/Leibniz-Institut fur Innovative Mikroelekronik
    Inventors: Alexander Fox, Bernd Heinemann, Steffen Marschmeyer
  • Patent number: 8546249
    Abstract: A method of depositing polycrystalline silicon exclusively on monocrystalline first silicon surface portions of a substrate surface which besides the first surface portions additionally has insulator surface portions, comprising the steps of depositing boron on the first silicon surface portions in an amount which in relation to the first silicon surface portions respectively corresponds to more than a monolayer of boron, and depositing silicon on the first silicon surface portions treated in that way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: IHP GmbH—Innovations for High Performance
    Inventors: Bernd Tillack, Bernd Heinemann, Yuji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120001192
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, comprising a substrate layer made of a semiconductor material of a first conductivity type and having a first insulation region, and a vertical bipolar transistor having a first vertical portion of a collector made of monocrystalline semiconductor material of a second conductivity type and disposed in an opening of the first insulation region, a second insulation region lying partly on the first vertical portion of the collector and partly on the first insulation region and having an opening in the region of the collector, in which opening a second vertical portion of the collector made of monocrystalline material is disposed, said portion including an inner region of the second conductivity type, a base made of monocrystalline semiconductor material of the first conductivity type, a base connection region surrounding the base in the lateral direction, a T-shaped emitter made of semiconductor material of the second conductivity type and overlapping the base connection region, wherein t
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Alexander Fox, Bernd Heinemann, Steffen Marschmeyer
  • Patent number: 8035167
    Abstract: A complementary bipolar semiconductor device (CBi semiconductor device) comprising a substrate of a first conductivity type, active bipolar transistor regions in the substrate, in which the base, emitter and collector of vertical bipolar transistors are arranged, vertical epitaxial-base npn bipolar transistors in a first subset of the active bipolar transistor regions, vertical epitaxial-base pnp bipolar transistors in a second subset of the active bipolar transistor regions, collector contact regions which are respectively arranged adjoining an active bipolar transistor region, and shallow field insulation regions which respectively laterally delimit the active bipolar transistor regions and the collector contact regions, wherein arranged between the first or the second or both the first and also the second subset of active bipolar transistor regions on the one hand and the adjoining collector contact regions on the other hand is a respective shallow field insulation region of a first type with a first depth
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: IHP-GmbH—Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics/Leibniz-Institut fur Innovativ Mikroelektronik
    Inventors: Dieter Knoll, Bernd Heinemann, Karl-Ernst Ehwald
  • Patent number: 7880270
    Abstract: A vertical heterobipolar transistor comprising a substrate of semiconductor material of a first conductivity type and an insulation region provided therein, a first semiconductor electrode arranged in an opening of the insulation region and comprising monocrystalline semiconductor material of a second conductivity type, which is either in the form of a collector or an emitter, and which has a first heightwise portion and an adjoining second heightwise portion which is further away from the substrate interior in a heightwise direction, wherein only the first heightwise portion is enclosed by the insulation region in lateral directions perpendicular to the heightwise direction, a second semiconductor electrode of semiconductor material of the second conductivity type, which is in the form of the other type of semiconductor electrode, a base of monocrystalline semiconductor material of the first conductivity type, and a base connection region having a monocrystalline portion which in a lateral direction laterall
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: IHP GmbH—Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics/Leibniz-Institut fur innovative Mikroelektronik
    Inventors: Bernd Heinemann, Holger Rücker, Jürgen Drews, Steffen Marschmeyer
  • Patent number: 7777255
    Abstract: A bipolar transistor has a base with an epitaxial base layer and a raised base connection region which in a lateral direction in parallel relationship with the substrate surface encloses the emitter which is surrounded by a spacer of insulating material. The epitaxial base layer is raised in a heightwise direction perpendicularly to the substrate surface. An emitter of a T-shaped cross-sectional profile is separated laterally from the outer base portion by a spacer of insulating material. Its vertical bar of the T-shape adjoins with its lower end the inner base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: IHP GmbH—Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics / Leibniz-Instut für innovative Mikroelektronik
    Inventors: Holger Rücker, Bernd Heinemann
  • Publication number: 20100055880
    Abstract: A method of depositing polycrystalline silicon exclusively on monocrystalline first silicon surface portions of a substrate surface which besides the first surface portions additionally has insulator surface portions, comprising the steps of depositing boron on the first silicon surface portions in an amount which in relation to the first silicon surface portions respectively corresponds to more than a monolayer of boron, and depositing silicon on the first silicon surface portions treated in that way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Bernd L. Tillack, Bernd Heinemann, Yuji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20100019326
    Abstract: A complementary bipolar semiconductor device (CBi semiconductor device) comprising a substrate of a first conductivity type, active bipolar transistor regions in the substrate, in which the base, emitter and collector of vertical bipolar transistors are arranged, vertical epitaxial-base npn bipolar transistors in a first subset of the active bipolar transistor regions, vertical epitaxial-base pnp bipolar transistors in a second subset of the active bipolar transistor regions, collector contact regions which are respectively arranged adjoining an active bipolar transistor region, and shallow field insulation regions which respectively laterally delimit the active bipolar transistor regions and the collector contact regions, wherein arranged between the first or the second or both the first and also the second subset of active bipolar transistor regions on the one hand and the adjoining collector contact regions on the other hand is a respective shallow field insulation region of a first type with a first depth
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Dieter Knoll, Bernd Heinemann, Karl-Ernst Ehwald
  • Patent number: 7595534
    Abstract: The invention relates to layers in substrate wafers. The aim of the invention is to provide layers in substrate wafers with which the drawbacks of conventional assemblies are overcome in order to achieve, on the one hand, an adequate resistance to latch-up in highly scaled, digital CMOS circuits with comparatively low costs and, on the other hand, to ensure low substrate losses/couplings for analog high-frequency circuits and, in addition, to influence the component behavior in a non-destructive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: IHP GmbH-Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics/Institut fur Innovative Mikroelektronik
    Inventors: Bernd Heinemann, Karl-Ernst Ehwald, Dieter Knoll, Bernd Tillack, Dirk Wolansky, Peter Schley
  • Publication number: 20090206335
    Abstract: The invention relates to a BiCMOS device comprising a substrate having a first type of conductivity and a number of active regions that are provided therein and are delimited in a lateral direction by flat field-insulating regions. Vertical npn bipolar epitaxial base transistors are disposed in a first partial number of the active regions while vertical pnp bipolar epitaxial base transistors are arranged in a second partial number of the active regions of the BiCMOS device. One transistor type or both transistor types are provided with both a collector region and a collector contact region in one and the same respective active region. In order to improve the high frequency characteristics, an insulation doping region that is configured so as to electrically insulate the collector and the substrate is provided between the collector region and the substrate exclusively in a first transistor type in which the type of conductivity of the substrate corresponds to that of the collector region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Bernd Heinemann, Jürgen Drews, Steffen Marschmayer, Holger Rücker
  • Publication number: 20090179303
    Abstract: A vertical heterobipolar transistor comprising a substrate of semiconductor material of a first conductivity type and an insulation region provided therein, a first semiconductor electrode arranged in an opening of the insulation region and comprising monocrystalline semiconductor material of a second conductivity type, which is either in the form of a collector or an emitter, and which has a first heightwise portion and an adjoining second heightwise portion which is further away from the substrate interior in a heightwise direction, wherein only the first heightwise portion is enclosed by the insulation region in lateral directions perpendicular to the heightwise direction, a second semiconductor electrode of semiconductor material of the second conductivity type, which is in the form of the other type of semiconductor electrode, a base of monocrystalline semiconductor material of the first conductivity type, and a base connection region having a monocrystalline portion which in a lateral direction laterall
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Bernd Heinemann, Holger Rücker, Jürgen Drews, Steffen Marschmayer
  • Patent number: 7323390
    Abstract: The semiconductor device according to the invention includes a substrate, a field insulating region which delimits an active region of the semiconductor substrate, a collector, at least one collector contact region associated with the collector, and a base with an associated base connection region. The collector and the collector contact region are formed in the same active region. In addition the base connection region extends partially over the active region and is separated from the surface of the active region by an insulator layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: IHP GmbH - Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics/Institut fur innovative Mikroelektronik
    Inventors: Bernd Heinemann, Dieter Knoll, Karl-Ernst Ehwald, Holger Rücker
  • Patent number: 7307336
    Abstract: The invention concerns a bipolar transistor with an epitaxially grown base and a self-positioned emitter, whereby the base is formed from a first substantially monocrystalline epitaxial region (1) which is arranged in parallel relationship to the surface of the semiconductor substrate (2) and a second substantially polycrystalline and highly doped region (3) of the same conductivity type which is arranged in perpendicular relationship to the substrate surface and encloses the first region at all sides and that said second region, at least at one side but preferably at all four sides, is conductingly connected to a third, preferably highly doped or metallically conducting, high temperature-resistant polycrystalline layer (4) which is arranged in parallel relationship to the surface of the semiconductor substrate and forms or includes the outer base contact to a metallic conductor track system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: IHP GmbH - Innovations for High Performance Microelectronic / Institut fur innovative Mikroelektronik
    Inventors: Karl-Ernst Ehwald, Alexander Fox, Dieter Knoll, Bernd Heinemann, Steffen Marschmayer, Katrin Blum
  • Publication number: 20070278621
    Abstract: A bipolar transistor has a base with an epitaxial base layer and a raised base connection region which in a lateral direction in parallel relationship with the substrate surface encloses the emitter which is surrounded by a spacer of insulating material. The epitaxial base layer is raised in a heightwise direction perpendicularly to the substrate surface. An emitter of a T-shaped cross-sectional profile is separated laterally from the outer base portion by a spacer of insulating material. Its vertical bar of the T-shape adjoins with its lower end the inner base portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Holger Rucker, Bernd Heinemann
  • Patent number: 7304348
    Abstract: A lateral CMOS-compatible RF-DMOS transistor (RFLDMOST) with low ‘on’ resistance, characterised in that disposed in the region of the drift space (20) which is between the highly doped drain region (5) and the control gate (9) and above the low doped drain region LDDR (22, 26) of the transistor is a doping zone (24) which is shallow in comparison with the penetration depth of the source/drain region (3, 5), of inverted conductivity type to the LDDR (22, 26) (hereinafter referred to as the inversion zone) which has a surface area-related nett doping which is lower than the nett doping of the LDDR (22, 26) and does not exceed a nett doping of 8E12 At/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: IHP GmbH - Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics/Institut fur Innovative Mikroelektronik
    Inventors: Karl-Ernst Ehwald, Holger Rücker, Bernd Heinemann
  • Patent number: 7205188
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing high-speed vertical npn bipolar transistors and complementary MOS transistors on a chip. In order to produce these high-speed vertical npn bipolar transistors and complementary MOS transistors on a chip, all technological method steps for producing the vertical structure of the collector, base and emitter in the active region of the npn bipolar transistors as well as for laterally structuring the collector regions, base regions and emitter regions are performed before the troughs and the gate insulating layer for the MOS transistors are produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: IHP GmbH-Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics/Institute for Innovative Mikroele
    Inventors: Dieter Knoll, Bernd Heinemann
  • Patent number: 7019341
    Abstract: A silicon-germanium hetero bipolar transistor comprising a silicon collector layer, a boron-doped silicon-germanium base layer, a silicon emitter layer and an emitter contact area. The transistor is fabricated using an epitaxy process on a surface of pure silicon. An electrically inert material is incorporated into the epitaxial layers in order to link the defects in the semiconductor structure and to reduce the outdiffusion of the dopant. Thus, a transistor for high-frequency applications can be fabricated in two ways: to increase the dopant dose of the base region or to reduce the thickness of the base layer. In particular, the concentration profile of germanium in the base layer has a general shape of a triangle or trapezoid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: IHP GmbH - Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics/Instut fur Innovative Mikroelektronik
    Inventors: Gunther Lippert, Hans-Jörg Osten, Bernd Heinemann