Patents by Inventor Elisabeth J. Spiertz

Elisabeth J. Spiertz 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: 4704347
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, in which there is applied to a surface of a semiconductor substrate a base layer of photosensitive lacquer, which is coated with a top layer of photosensitive lacquer. By means of a first patterned irradiation, there is formed in the top layer a mask of which a contact copy is formed in the base layer during a second irradiation. A material which can be discolored is used for the top layer. During the first irradiation, the top layer is locally discolored, whereupon the layer thus discolored is used as a mask during the second irradiation. By the use of the discoloring top layer, additional processing steps, which would ensure from a wet development of the top layer, are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1987
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Franciscus A. Vollenbroek, Jan G. Dil, Henricus J. J. Kroon, Elisabeth J. Spiertz, Wilhelmus P. M. Nijssen
  • Patent number: 4499177
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device in which a photosensitive lacquer layer is developed in a lye solution, and comprises a polymeric material and a sensitizer with a diazo group and a ketone group. This lacquer layer is formed on a substrate surface. After a patterning irradiation, but before development, the lacquer layer is subjected to an intermediate treatment comprising two irradiations. These irradiations result in that differences in solubility in lye are obtained in the direction of thickness in the parts of the lacquer layer which were not exposed during the patterning irradiation. In this manner, it is possible to realize lacquer patterns with different profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1985
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Franciscus A. Vollenbroek, Elisabeth J. Spiertz
  • Patent number: 4230788
    Abstract: A method of making an electrically conducting metal pattern on a superficially non-conducting support which comprises imagewise exposing to light a photosensitive material containing either a diazosulfide or a diazosulfonate, which produces a light reaction product which is capable of forming free silver and mercury metal from water-soluble silver and mercurous compounds. A mixture of water and at least one solvent from the group consisting of chloroform, toluene, ethylacetate, liquid alcohols and ketones is used in the treatment of the exposed photosensitive material to form a latent image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1980
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Elisabeth J. Spiertz, Christiaan F. W. Flinsenberg, Leendert K. H. van Beek
  • Patent number: 4125401
    Abstract: Copying by photographic means of plates having coded audio and video information of a very fine structure. Use is made of an aromatic diazosulphide as light-sensitive system, wherein, after exposure, a metal nuclei image is produced by contact with metal salt, which metal nuclei image is at or below the surface and which is intensified by means of physical development to an externally reflective and, as such, readable image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1978
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Elisabeth J. Spiertz, Christiaan F. W. Flinsenberg, Leendert K. H. VAN Beek