Patents by Inventor Brian Edward Hornung

Brian Edward Hornung 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: 20230230975
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor device containing MOS transistors both with and without source/drain extension regions in a semiconductor substrate having a semiconductor material on either side of a gate structure including a gate electrode on a gate dielectric formed in a semiconductor material. In devices with source/drain extensions, a diffusion suppression species of one or more of indium, carbon and a halogen are used. The diffusion suppression implant can be selectively provided only to the semiconductor devices with drain extensions while devices without drain extensions remain diffusion suppression implant free.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Mahalingam Nandakumar, Brian Edward Hornung
  • Patent number: 11616058
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor device containing MOS transistors both with and without source/drain extension regions in a semiconductor substrate having a semiconductor material on either side of a gate structure including a gate electrode on a gate dielectric formed in a semiconductor material. In devices with source/drain extensions, a diffusion suppression species of one or more of indium, carbon and a halogen are used. The diffusion suppression implant can be selectively provided only to the semiconductor devices with drain extensions while devices without drain extensions remain diffusion suppression implant free.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahalingam Nandakumar, Brian Edward Hornung
  • Publication number: 20220209012
    Abstract: An integrated circuit is fabricated by forming transistors having gates of orthogonal orientations and implanting, at two first rotations, a first pocket implant using a first dopant type with a masking pattern on a substrate surface layer, the two first rotations respectively forming two first pocket implantation angles and two first pocket implantation beam orientations, and implanting, at two second rotations, a retrograde gate-edge diode leakage (GDL) reduction pocket implant using a second dopant type with the masking pattern on the substrate surface layer, the two second rotations respectively forming two GDL-reduction implantation angles and two GDL-reduction implantation beam orientations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Brian Edward Hornung, Mahalingam Nandakumar
  • Publication number: 20220189954
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor device containing MOS transistors both with and without source/drain extension regions in a semiconductor substrate having a semiconductor material on either side of a gate structure including a gate electrode on a gate dielectric formed in a semiconductor material. In devices with source/drain extensions, a diffusion suppression species of one or more of indium, carbon and a halogen are used. The diffusion suppression implant can be selectively provided only to the semiconductor devices with drain extensions while devices without drain extensions remain diffusion suppression implant free.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahalingam Nandakumar, Brian Edward Hornung
  • Patent number: 11205575
    Abstract: A method of forming an integrated circuit includes forming a first layer having a first material type over a first side of a semiconductor wafer. A second layer having a second different material type is removed from a second opposing side of the semiconductor wafer using a first process that removes the second material type at a greater rate than the first material type. Subsequent to removing the second layer, the first layer is removed using a second different process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Byron Joseph Palla, Stephen Alan Keller, Brian Edward Hornung, Brian K. Kirkpatrick, Douglas Ticknor Grider
  • Publication number: 20210193467
    Abstract: In a described example, an integrated circuit (IC) includes a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor formed in a semiconductor substrate. The transistor includes a gate structure formed over a surface of the substrate and source and drain regions having a first conductivity type formed in the substrate on both sides of the gate structure. A well region having a second opposite conductivity type is between the source and drain regions under the gate structure. The well region includes a well dopant and a through-gate co-implant species. The well dopant and the co-implant species have a retrograde profile extending from the surface of the substrate into the well region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: MAHALINGAM NANDAKUMAR, BRIAN EDWARD HORNUNG, LI JEN CHOI
  • Publication number: 20200343099
    Abstract: A method of forming an integrated circuit includes forming a first layer having a first material type over a first side of a semiconductor wafer. A second layer having a second different material type is removed from a second opposing side of the semiconductor wafer using a first process that removes the second material type at a greater rate than the first material type. Subsequent to removing the second layer, the first layer is removed using a second different process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Byron Joseph Palla, Stephen Alan Keller, Brian Edward Hornung, Brian K. Kirpatrick, Douglas Ticknor Grider
  • Publication number: 20100032813
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, such as an integrated circuit, has an oxide chemically grown on a silicon surface, and densified by annealing at, e.g., 950° C. for 4 to 5 seconds in an N2 ambient, or at an equivalent thermal profile in a similarly non-oxidizing ambient. The densified chemical oxide has an etch rate the same as that of thermally grown silicon dioxide in common etchants used in IC fabrication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Deborah J. Riley, Haowen Bu, Brian Edward Hornung
  • Publication number: 20090170259
    Abstract: One embodiment relates to a method of forming an integrated circuit. In this method, at least one dopant species of a first conductivity type is implanted in a first manner along a first axis to form first pocket implant regions extending at least partially under some gates. At least one dopant species of the first conductivity type is then implanted in a second manner that differs from the first manner along a second axis that is laterally rotated with respect to the first axis to form second pocket implant regions extending at least partially under other gates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Brian Edward Hornung, Rajesh Gupta, Mike Voisard