Patents by Inventor Ching-Shan Lin

Ching-Shan Lin 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: 11859306
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a silicon carbide ingot includes the following. A raw material containing carbon and silicon and a seed located above the raw material are provided in a reactor. A first surface of the seed faces the raw material. The reactor and the raw material are heated, where part of the raw material is vaporized and transferred to the first surface of the seed and a sidewall of the seed and forms a silicon carbide material on the seed, to form a growing body containing the seed and the silicon carbide material. The growing body grows along a radial direction of the seed, and the growing body grows along a direction perpendicular to the first surface of the seed. The reactor and the raw material are cooled to obtain a silicon carbide ingot. A diameter of the silicon carbide ingot is greater than a diameter of the seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Patent number: 11821105
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a silicon carbide seed crystal and a method of manufacturing a silicon carbide ingot. The silicon carbide seed crystal has a silicon surface and a carbon surface opposite to the silicon surface. A difference D between a basal plane dislocation density BPD1 of the silicon surface and a basal plane dislocation density BPD2 of the carbon surface satisfies the following formula (1), a local thickness variation (LTV) of the silicon carbide seed crystal is 2.5 ?m or less, and a stacking fault (SF) density of the silicon carbide seed crystal is 10 EA/cm2 or less: D=(BPD1?BPD2)/BPD1?25%??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Patent number: 11788204
    Abstract: A silicon carbide wafer is provided, wherein within a range area of 5 mm from an edge of the silicon carbide wafer, there are no low angle grain boundaries formed by clustering of basal plane dislocation defects, and the silicon carbide wafer has a bowing of less than 15 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Patent number: 11781241
    Abstract: A silicon carbide seed crystal and method of manufacturing the same, and method of manufacturing silicon carbide ingot are provided. The silicon carbide seed crystal has a silicon surface and a carbon surface opposite to the silicon surface. A difference D between a basal plane dislocation density BPD1 of the silicon surface BPD1 and a basal plane dislocation density BPD2 of the carbon surface satisfies the following formula (1): D=(BPD1?BPD2)/BPD1?25%??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Publication number: 20230067197
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a silicon carbide seed crystal and a method of manufacturing a silicon carbide ingot. The silicon carbide seed crystal has a silicon surface and a carbon surface opposite to the silicon surface. A difference D between a basal plane dislocation density BPD1 of the silicon surface and a basal plane dislocation density BPD2 of the carbon surface satisfies the following formula (1), a local thickness variation (LTV) of the silicon carbide seed crystal is 2.5 ?m or less, and a stacking fault (SF) density of the silicon carbide seed crystal is 10 EA/cm2 or less: D=(BPD1?BPD2)/BPD1?25%??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Publication number: 20230002929
    Abstract: A silicon carbide crystal includes a seed layer, a bulk layer, and a stress buffering structure formed between the seed layer and the bulk layer. The seed layer, the bulk layer, and the stress buffering structure are each formed with a dopant that cycles between high and low dopant concentration. The stress buffering structure includes a plurality of stacked buffer layers and a transition layer over the buffer layers. The buffer layer closest to the seed layer has the same variation trend of the dopant concentration as the buffer layer closest to the transition layer, and the dopant concentration of the transition layer is equal to the dopant concentration of the seed layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: CHING-SHAN LIN, JIAN-HSIN LU, CHIEN-CHENG LIOU, MAN-HSUAN LIN
  • Publication number: 20220403546
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing silicon carbide seed crystal and method of manufacturing silicon carbide ingot are provided. The silicon carbide seed crystal has a silicon surface and a carbon surface opposite to the silicon surface. A difference D between a basal plane dislocation density BPD1 of the silicon surface BPD1 and a basal plane dislocation density BPD2 of the carbon surface satisfies the following formula (1): D=(BPD1?BPD2)/BPD1?25%??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Publication number: 20220049374
    Abstract: A silicon carbide wafer is provided, wherein within a range area of 5 mm from an edge of the silicon carbide wafer, there are no low angle grain boundaries formed by clustering of basal plane dislocation defects, and the silicon carbide wafer has a bowing of less than 15 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Publication number: 20220049372
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a silicon carbide ingot includes the following. A raw material containing carbon and silicon and a seed located above the raw material are provided in a reactor. A first surface of the seed faces the raw material. The reactor and the raw material are heated, where part of the raw material is vaporized and transferred to the first surface of the seed and a sidewall of the seed and forms a silicon carbide material on the seed, to form a growing body containing the seed and the silicon carbide material. The growing body grows along a radial direction of the seed, and the growing body grows along a direction perpendicular to the first surface of the seed. The reactor and the raw material are cooled to obtain a silicon carbide ingot. A diameter of the silicon carbide ingot is greater than a diameter of the seed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Publication number: 20220025549
    Abstract: A silicon carbide wafer and a method of fabricating the same are provided. In the silicon carbide wafer, a ratio (V:N) of a vanadium concentration to a nitrogen concentration is in a range of 2:1 to 10:1, and a portion of the silicon carbide wafer having a resistivity greater than 1012 ?·cm accounts for more than 85% of an entire wafer area of the silicon carbide wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ching-Shan Lin, Chien-Cheng Liou, Jian-Hsin Lu
  • Publication number: 20220024773
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a silicon carbide material is provided. The method includes the following steps. A first annealing process is performed on a wafer or on an ingot that forms the wafer after wafer slicing. The conditions of the first annealing process include: a heating rate of 10° C./minute to 30° C./minute, an annealing temperature of 2000° C. or less, and a constant temperature annealing time of 2 minutes or more and 4 hours or less for performing the first annealing process. After performing the first annealing process, an average resistivity of the wafer or the ingot is greater than 1010 ?·cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Publication number: 20220025548
    Abstract: A silicon carbide ingot is provided, which includes a seed end, and a dome end opposite to the seed end. In the silicon carbide ingot, a ratio of the vanadium concentration to the nitrogen concentration at the seed end is in a range of 5:1 to 11:1, and a ratio of the vanadium concentration to the nitrogen concentration at the dome end is in a range of 2:1 to 11:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Publication number: 20220025543
    Abstract: A silicon carbide seed crystal and method of manufacturing the same, and method of manufacturing silicon carbide ingot are provided. The silicon carbide seed crystal has a silicon surface and a carbon surface opposite to the silicon surface. A difference D between a basal plane dislocation density BPD1 of the silicon surface BPD1 and a basal plane dislocation density BPD2 of the carbon surface satisfies the following formula (1): D=(BPD1?BPD2)/BPD1?25%??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Publication number: 20220025542
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a silicon carbide seed crystal and a method of manufacturing a silicon carbide ingot. The silicon carbide seed crystal has a silicon surface and a carbon surface opposite to the silicon surface. A difference D between a basal plane dislocation density BPD1 of the silicon surface and a basal plane dislocation density BPD2 of the carbon surface satisfies the following formula (1), a local thickness variation (LTV) of the silicon carbide seed crystal is 2.5 ?m or less, and a stacking fault (SF) density of the silicon carbide seed crystal is 10 EA/cm2 or less: D=(BPD1?BPD2)/BPD1?25%??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Publication number: 20220024073
    Abstract: A crystal ingot cutting device and a crystal ingot cutting method are provided. The crystal ingot cutting device includes a driving unit, at least one cutting wire and a plurality of abrasive particles. The cutting wire is connected to the driving unit, wherein the driving unit drives a crystal ingot to move to the cutting wire and drives the cutting wire to reciprocate. A moving speed of the crystal ingot is 10˜700 ?m/min, and a reciprocating speed of the cutting wire is 1800˜5000 m/min. The plurality of abrasive particles are arranged on the cutting wire, and a particle size of each abrasive particle is 5˜50 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Publication number: 20220025547
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a silicon carbide wafer includes the following. A raw material containing carbon and silicon and a seed located above the raw material are provided in a reactor. A nitrogen content in the reactor is reduced, which includes the following. An argon gas is passed into the reactor, where a flow rate of passing the argon gas into the reactor is 1,000 sccm to 5,000 sccm, and a time of passing the argon gas into the reactor is 2 hours to 48 hours. The reactor and the raw material are heated to form a silicon carbide material on the seed. The reactor and the raw material are cooled to obtain a silicon carbide ingot. The silicon carbide ingot is cut to obtain a plurality of silicon carbide wafers. A semiconductor structure is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Shan Lin
  • Patent number: 11041255
    Abstract: A silicon carbide crystal and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The silicon carbide crystal includes an N-type seed layer, a barrier layer, and a semi-insulating ingot, which are sequentially stacked and are made of silicon carbide. The N-type seed layer has a resistivity within a range of 0.01-0.03 ?·cm. The barrier layer includes a plurality of epitaxial layers sequentially formed on the N-type seed layer by an epitaxial process. The C/Si ratios of the epitaxial layers gradually increase in a growth direction away from the N-type seed layer. A nitrogen concentration of the silicon carbide crystal gradually decreases from the N-type seed layer toward the semi-insulating ingot by a diffusion phenomenon, so that the semi-insulating crystal has a resistivity larger than 107 ?·cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ching-Shan Lin, Jian-Hsin Lu, Chien-Cheng Liou, I-Ching Li
  • Patent number: 10990131
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of touch sensors is provided. A flexible touch sensing component can be formed on a first substrate by a release layer. Next, the flexible touch sensing component is transferred to a second substrate after a releasing step. Furthermore, by the support of the second substrate, the flexible touch sensing component can be processed and then adhered a desired cover. After releasing the second substrate from the flexible touch sensing component, the touch sensor is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Shan Lin, Chun-Yan Wu, Chung-Chin Hsiao, Hwai-Hai Chiang
  • Publication number: 20210054525
    Abstract: A silicon carbide crystal includes a seed layer, a bulk layer and a stress buffering structure formed between the seed layer and the bulk layer. The seed layer, the bulk layer and the stress buffering structure are each formed with a dopant that cycles between high and low dopant concentration. The stress buffering structure includes a plurality of stacked buffer layers and a transition layer over the buffer layers. The buffer layer closest to the seed layer has the same variation trend of the dopant concentration as the buffer layer closest to the transition layer, and the dopant concentration of the transition layer is equal to the dopant concentration of the seed layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: CHING-SHAN LIN, JIAN-HSIN LU, CHIEN-CHENG LIOU, MAN-HSUAN LIN
  • Patent number: 10851470
    Abstract: A silicon carbide crystal and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The silicon carbide crystal includes a seed layer, a bulk layer, and a stress buffering structure formed between the seed layer and the bulk layer. The seed layer, the bulk layer, and the stress buffering structure are each formed with a dopant that cycles between high and low concentration. Therefore, the crystal defects can be significantly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: GLOBALWAFERS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ching-Shan Lin, Jian-Hsin Lu, Chien-Cheng Liou, Man-Hsuan Lin