Patents by Inventor Cheng-An Wang

Cheng-An Wang 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: 20240113195
    Abstract: Semiconductor structures and methods for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a plurality of first nanostructures formed over a substrate, and a dielectric wall adjacent to the first nanostructures. The semiconductor structure also includes a first liner layer between the first nanostructures and the dielectric wall, and the first liner layer is in direct contact with the dielectric wall. The semiconductor structure also includes a gate structure surrounding the first nanostructures, and the first liner layer is in direct contact with a portion of the gate structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia-Ni YU, Lung-Kun CHU, Chun-Fu LU, Chung-Wei HSU, Mao-Lin HUANG, Kuo-Cheng CHIANG, Chih-Hao WANG
  • Publication number: 20240112959
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a device includes forming a dummy gate over a plurality of fins. Thereafter, a first portion of the dummy gate is removed to form a first trench that exposes a first hybrid fin and a first part of a second hybrid fin. The method further includes filling the first trench with a dielectric material disposed over the first hybrid fin and over the first part of the second hybrid fin. Thereafter, a second portion of the dummy gate is removed to form a second trench and the second trench is filled with a metal layer. The method further includes etching-back the metal layer, where a first plane defined by a first top surface of the metal layer is disposed beneath a second plane defined by a second top surface of a second part of the second hybrid fin after the etching-back the metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kuan-Ting PAN, Zhi-Chang LIN, Yi-Ruei JHAN, Chi-Hao WANG, Huan-Chieh SU, Shi Ning JU, Kuo-Cheng CHIANG
  • Patent number: 11948949
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a device having a semiconductor substrate including a frontside and a backside. On the frontside of the semiconductor substrate are a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region. A gate electrode is arranged on the frontside of the semiconductor substrate and includes a horizontal portion, a first vertical portion, and a second vertical portion. The horizontal portion is arranged over the frontside of the semiconductor substrate and between the first and second source/drain regions. The first vertical portion extends from the frontside towards the backside of the semiconductor substrate and contacts the horizontal portion of the gate electrode structure. The second vertical portion extends from the frontside towards the backside of the semiconductor substrate, contacts the horizontal portion of the gate electrode structure, and is separated from the first vertical portion by a channel region of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Yuan Chen, Ching-Chun Wang, Hsiao-Hui Tseng, Jen-Cheng Liu, Jhy-Jyi Sze, Shyh-Fann Ting, Wei Chuang Wu, Yen-Ting Chiang, Chia Ching Liao, Yen-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11948390
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dog nose print recognition method and system. The dog nose print recognition method includes: collecting a nose image of a dog, acquiring the nose image, and processing the nose image to obtain a plurality of regional images to be recognized; performing key point detection on the plurality of regional images to be recognized to obtain key points corresponding to the regional images to be recognized, and using the key points to perform alignment processing of the regional images to be recognized to obtain aligned regional images to be recognized; and performing dog nose print feature vector extraction and recognition on the aligned regional images to be recognized, and determining a dog identity recognition result through the dog nose print feature vector extraction and recognition. The system includes modules corresponding to the steps of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: XINGCHONG KINGDOM (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yiduan Wang, Cheng Song, Baoguo Liu, Weipeng Guo
  • Patent number: 11948973
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming semiconductor strips protruding above a substrate and isolation regions between the semiconductor strips; forming hybrid fins on the isolation regions, the hybrid fins comprising dielectric fins and dielectric structures over the dielectric fins; forming a dummy gate structure over the semiconductor strip; forming source/drain regions over the semiconductor strips and on opposing sides of the dummy gate structure; forming nanowires under the dummy gate structure, where the nanowires are over and aligned with respective semiconductor strips, and the source/drain regions are at opposing ends of the nanowires, where the hybrid fins extend further from the substrate than the nanowires; after forming the nanowires, reducing widths of center portions of the hybrid fins while keeping widths of end portions of the hybrid fins unchanged, and forming an electrically conductive material around the nanowires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Cheng Chiang, Huan-Chieh Su, Shi Ning Ju, Kuan-Ting Pan, Chih-Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 11948839
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method to reduce power consumption in a fin structure. For example, the method includes forming a first and a second semiconductor fins on a substrate with different heights. The method also includes forming insulating fins between and adjacent to the first and the second semiconductor fins. Further, the method includes forming a first and second epitaxial stacks with different heights on each of the first and second semiconductor fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Cheng Ching, Chih-Hao Wang, Kuan-Lun Cheng
  • Patent number: 11948987
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a source feature and a drain feature, a plurality of semiconductor nanostructures extending between the source feature and the drain feature, a gate structure wrapping around each of the plurality of semiconductor nanostructures, a bottom dielectric layer over the gate structure and the drain feature, a backside power rail disposed over the bottom dielectric layer, and a backside source contact disposed between the source feature and the backside power rail. The backside source contact extends through the bottom dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lung-Kun Chu, Mao-Lin Huang, Chung-Wei Hsu, Jia-Ni Yu, Kuo-Cheng Chiang, Kuan-Lun Cheng, Chih-Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 11949040
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a plurality of diodes on a first substrate and forming a first pattern array on a second substrate. The method also includes transferring the plurality of diodes from the first substrate to the second substrate. The method further includes forming the first pattern array on a third substrate. In addition, the method includes transferring the plurality of diodes from the second substrate to the third substrate. The method also includes forming a second pattern array on a fourth substrate. The method further includes transferring the plurality of diodes from the third substrate to the fourth substrate. The pitch between the plurality of diodes on the first substrate is different from the pitch of the first pattern array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kai Cheng, Tsau-Hua Hsieh, Fang-Ying Lin, Tung-Kai Liu, Hui-Chieh Wang, Chun-Hsien Lin, Jui-Feng Ko
  • Patent number: 11948970
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor fin, a gate structure, and a dielectric isolation plug. The semiconductor fin extends along a first direction above a substrate and includes a silicon germanium layer and a silicon layer over the silicon germanium layer. The gate structure extends across the semiconductor fin along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The dielectric isolation plug extends downwardly from a top surface of the silicon layer into the silicon germanium layer when viewed in a cross section taken along the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo-Cheng Ching, Ching-Wei Tsai, Kuan-Lun Cheng, Chih-Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 11948635
    Abstract: A memory device includes a memory array including a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns. A closed loop bias generator is configured to output a column select signal to the memory array. A current limiter receives an output of the closed loop bias generator. The current limiter is coupled to a plurality of the columns of the memory array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung-Cheng Chou, Tien-Yen Wang
  • Publication number: 20240100367
    Abstract: A radiation therapy system may include a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device configured to acquire MRI data with respect to a region of interest (ROI). The MRI device may include a main magnet that is around a longitudinal axis and configured to generate a magnetic field. The MRI device may also include a radiation therapy device configured to perform a treatment on at least one portion of the ROI by delivering, based on the MRI data, therapeutic radiation to the at least one portion of the ROI. The radiation therapy device may be rotatable around the longitudinal axis. The MRI device may also include a first shielding structure configured to provide interference shielding for the MRI device or the radiation therapy device. The radiation therapy device may be rotatable relative to the first shielding structure around the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuguang LIU, Cheng NI, Peng WANG, Jianfeng LIU, Jian ZHANG, Yuelin SHAO
  • Publication number: 20240105546
    Abstract: A module device on a first substrate includes a power module, a housing, a pair of locking structures. The housing covers the power module. The locking structures are installed on a pair of opposite sides of the housing, and the locking structure includes a main body, a locking ring, a pair of ribs and anchoring portions. The locking ring extends from a side toward an inner side of the main body, and is a double-ring structure, which includes an inner and an outer ring. A first side of the outer ring is connected to the main body, a second side of the outer ring is connected to the inner ring. The ribs extend along a normal direction of the top surface of the main body. The anchoring portions are disposed at the end of the ribs, and an extending direction is perpendicular to an extending direction of the rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ji-Yuan Syu, Yuan-Cheng Huang, Yu-Chih Wang
  • Publication number: 20240103439
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for optimizing first-diffraction-order reconstruction of holograms, a device and a medium, and relates to the field of image processing. The method includes: acquiring a target image; determining a target image light field according to the target image; calculating a target diffraction field for the target image light field by performing backward propagation by a set distance; constructing a U-Net network model; and inputting the target diffraction field into a trained U-Net network model to acquire an optimized hologram. The trained U-Net network model is obtained by constructing a U-Net network model and training and optimizing the U-Net network model, thereby continuously improving the quality of the zero-diffraction-order reconstructed image of the initial hologram and finally achieving the effect of optimizing the first-diffraction-order reconstructed image of the hologram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Xingpeng YAN, Xinlei LIU, Xiaoyu JIANG, Xi WANG, Tao JING, Cheng SONG, Junhui LIU
  • Publication number: 20240104687
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for running a service, and an electronic device. An embodiment of the method includes: determining a target deployment manner of a graphics processing unit (GPU) according to performance data of each service in a service set, where the deployment manner includes: dividing the GPU into sub-GPUs of a respective size and determining a service configured to be run by each sub-GPU; and switching, for the service in the service set, running of the service from a sub-GPU indicated by a current deployment manner to a sub-GPU indicated by the target deployment manner. According to the embodiment, waste of the GPU can be reduced by running a plurality of services on the GPU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Zhichao LI, Sikai QI, Zherui LIU, Yibo ZHU, Chuanxiong GUO, Cheng TAN, Jian ZHANG, Jian WANG
  • Publication number: 20240105719
    Abstract: Examples of an integrated circuit with FinFET devices and a method for forming the integrated circuit are provided herein. In some examples, an integrated circuit device includes a substrate, a fin extending from the substrate, a gate disposed on a first side of the fin, and a gate spacer disposed alongside the gate. The gate spacer has a first portion extending along the gate that has a first width and a second portion extending above the first gate that has a second width that is greater than the first width. In some such examples, the second portion of the gate spacer includes a gate spacer layer disposed on the gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kuo-Cheng Ching, Huan-Chieh Su, Zhi-Chang Lin, Chih-Hao Wang
  • Publication number: 20240107895
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an array region defined thereon, a ring of magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) region surrounding the array region, a gap between the array region and the ring of MTJ region, and metal interconnect patterns overlapping part of the ring of MTJ region. Preferably, the array region includes a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) region and a logic region and the ring of MTJ region further includes a first MTJ region and a second MTJ region extending along a first direction and a third MTJ region and a fourth MTJ region extending along a second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chung-Liang Chu, Jian-Cheng Chen, Yu-Ping Wang, Yu-Ruei Chen
  • Publication number: 20240106260
    Abstract: An intelligent energy storage system, electrically connected to an external power source and a load, including a first energy storage device, a second energy storage device, at least one converter and a controller. The first energy storage device is adapted for storing electrical energy. The second energy storage device is electrically connected to the external power source and the load. The converter is electrically connected between the first and the second energy storage device. The controller is configured to detect at least one electrical property of the first or the second energy storage device to regulate an output voltage and current of the converter. In an energy storage mode, the external power source is used to charge the first energy storage device through the second energy storage device. In an energy transfer mode, the first energy storage device is used as power source to charge the second energy storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: TEAM YOUNG TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tz-Min Lin, Dy-Cheng Wang
  • Patent number: 11942478
    Abstract: A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The structure includes a first source/drain epitaxial feature, a second source/drain epitaxial feature disposed adjacent the first source/drain epitaxial feature, a first dielectric layer disposed between the first source/drain epitaxial feature and the second source/drain epitaxial feature, a first dielectric spacer disposed under the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer disposed under the first dielectric layer and in contact with the first dielectric spacer. The second dielectric layer and the first dielectric spacer include different materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Jui-Chien Huang, Kuo-Cheng Chiang, Chih-Hao Wang, Shi Ning Ju, Guan-Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 11942548
    Abstract: A multi-gate semiconductor device is formed that provides a first fin element extending from a substrate. A gate structure extends over a channel region of the first fin element. The channel region of the first fin element includes a plurality of channel semiconductor layers each surrounded by a portion of the gate structure. A source/drain region of the first fin element is adjacent the gate structure. The source/drain region includes a first semiconductor layer, a dielectric layer over the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer over the dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo-Cheng Ching, Ching-Wei Tsai, Carlos H. Diaz, Chih-Hao Wang, Wai-Yi Lien, Ying-Keung Leung
  • Patent number: 11943373
    Abstract: An identity certificate may be issued to a blockchain node. The issuance may include issuing a first identity certificate to a first terminal and receiving a second identity certificate issuance request that is from the first terminal. A second identity certificate may be issued to the first terminal, and a third identity certificate issuance request is received from the second terminal. A third identity certificate is issued to the second terminal, so that the second terminal forwards the third identity certificate to the third terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Mao Cai Li, Zong You Wang, Kai Ban Zhou, Chang Qing Yang, Hu Lan, Li Kong, Jin Song Zhang, Yi Fang Shi, Geng Liang Zhu, Qu Cheng Liu, Qiu Ping Chen