Patents by Inventor Blake Ryan Pasker

Blake Ryan Pasker 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).

  • Integrated circuit capacitor having antireflective dielectric
    Patent number: 7595525
    Abstract: A capacitor (100) is disclosed that is formed as part of an integrated circuit (IC) fabrication process. The capacitor (100) has conductive top and bottom electrodes (140, 144) and a nonconductive capacitor dielectric (142). In one example, the dielectric (142) includes first and second thin dielectric layers (112, 114) that sandwich a layer of antireflective material (118). The thin layers (112, 114) provide the dielectric behavior necessary for the capacitor while the antireflective layer (118) promotes reduced feature sizes by mitigating reflected standing waves, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Bill Alan Wofford, Blake Ryan Pasker, Xinfen Chen, Binghua Hu
  • TaN integrated circuit (IC) capacitor
    Patent number: 7573086
    Abstract: A capacitor is disclosed that is formed as part of an integrated circuit (IC) fabrication process. The capacitor generally comprises a top conductive plate, a capacitor dielectric and a bottom conductive plate that respectively comprise a patterned layer of tantalum nitride TaN, a layer of a nitride based material and a layer of patterned polysilicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael LeRoy Huber, Gregory Lee Hendy, Evelyn Anne Lafferty, George Nicholas Harakas, Salvatore Frank Pavone, Blake Ryan Pasker, Courtney Michael Hazelton, James Wayne Klawinsky
  • Integrated circuit capacitor having antireflective dielectric
    Patent number: 7118959
    Abstract: A capacitor (100) is disclosed that is formed as part of an integrated circuit (IC) fabrication process. The capacitor (100) has conductive top and bottom electrodes (140, 144) and a nonconductive capacitor dielectric (142). In one example, the dielectric (142) includes first and second thin dielectric layers (112, 114) that sandwich a layer of antireflective material (118). The thin layers (112, 114) provide the dielectric behavior necessary for the capacitor while the antireflective layer (118) promotes reduced feature sizes by mitigating reflected standing waves, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Bill Alan Wofford, Blake Ryan Pasker, Xinfen Chen, Binghua Hu