Patents by Inventor Kwang Young Ko

Kwang Young Ko 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: 20230142541
    Abstract: Disclosed is a superjunction semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same and, more particularly, to a superjunction semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same seeking to improve a switching speed and thus to improve switching characteristics by reducing a gate-to-drain parasitic capacitance (Cgd) and/or configuring a gate electrode as a floating dummy gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Ji Eun LEE, Kwang Young KO, Jong Min KIM
  • Publication number: 20170294505
    Abstract: A gate electrode structure and a high voltage semiconductor device having the same are disclosed. The gate electrode structure includes a gate insulation layer pattern disposed on a substrate, a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer pattern and having at least one opening at a first side portion thereof, and at least one insulating pattern disposed in the at least one opening. The high voltage semiconductor device includes a drift region disposed in the substrate adjacent to the first side portion of the gate electrode, a drain region electrically connected with the drift region, and a source region disposed in the substrate adjacent to a second side portion of the gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Hong Sik Shin, Kwang Young Ko
  • Patent number: 8193576
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device and a method of fabricating the same which is suitable for fabrication of a non-volatile memory, such as an EEPROM, using a polysilicon-insulator-polysilicon (PIP) process. The semiconductor memory device includes isolation layers defining a tunneling region and a read transistor region of a semiconductor substrate, a lower polysilicon film formed on and/or over the tunneling region and the read transistor region, a dielectric film formed on and/or over the lower polysilicon film in the tunneling region, and an upper polysilicon film formed on and/or over the dielectric film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang-Young Ko
  • Patent number: 8063431
    Abstract: An electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) is disclosed. The EEPROM includes a tunneling region in a semiconductor substrate, a control gate region in the semiconductor substrate and separated from the tunneling region by a device isolating layer, a tunnel oxide layer in a trench in the semiconductor substrate between the tunneling region and the control gate region, and a polysilicon layer on the tunnel oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang Young Ko
  • Patent number: 8022483
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method for the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a gate pattern formed at an upper part of the semiconductor substrate to overlap one side of a drift region, and a shallow oxide region disposed adjacent to the gate pattern, having a shallower depth than a plurality of device isolation layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang Young Ko
  • Patent number: 7977753
    Abstract: A high voltage BICMOS device and a method for manufacturing the same, which may improve the reliability of the device by securing a distance between adjacent DUF regions, are provided. The high voltage BICMOS device includes: a reverse diffusion under field (DUF) region formed by patterning a predetermined region of a semiconductor substrate; a diffusion under field (DUF) region formed in the substrate adjacent to the reverse DUF region; a spacer formed at a sidewall of the reverse DUF region; an epitaxial layer formed on an entire surface of the substrate; and a well region formed in contact with the DUF region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Dongbu Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang Young Ko
  • Patent number: 7883971
    Abstract: Disclosed are a gate structure in a trench region of a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device includes a pair of drift regions formed in a semiconductor substrate; a trench region formed between the pair of drift regions; an oxide layer spacer on sidewalls of the trench region; a gate formed in the trench region; and a source and a drain formed in the pair of the drift regions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Dongbu Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang Young Ko
  • Patent number: 7875929
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a well region formed in a silicon substrate; a trench exposing a predetermined portion of the uppermost surface of the semiconductor substrate; a body layer formed in the semiconductor substrate at the trench; a device isolation layer formed in the well region; a gate insulating layer formed in the trench over the body layer; a gate electrode formed in the trench over the gate insulating layer and against the device isolation layer; a lightly doped drain region formed in the body layer; an insulating layer formed in the trench over the lightly doped drain region; a source region formed in the body layer; a drain region formed in the well region against the device isolation layer; and a body region formed in the body layer against the source region. The on-resistance can be reduced by forming the gate and source beneath the device isolating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang-Young Ko
  • Patent number: 7838378
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. The method includes forming a collector region of a second conductivity type in a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; forming a base region of the first conductivity type in the collector region, and forming an emitter region of the second conductivity type into the base region; forming an emitter in the emitter region, and forming a collector in the collector region; and forming a base in the semiconductor substrate through implanting high concentration impurity ions of the first conductive type into the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Dongbu Hitek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang Young Ko
  • Publication number: 20100140699
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a logic device and a LDMOS device. The logic device including a first well of a first conductive type formed in the substrate, a first source region and a first drain region formed in the first well, and a first gate electrode formed over the first well. The LDMOS device including a deep well of the first conductive type formed in a second substrate, a body region of a second conductive type and a second well of a first conductive type formed in the deep well, a second source region formed in the body region, a second drain region formed in the second well, a second gate electrode formed over the second substrate, and an impurity layer of the first conductive type formed in the second substrate under the second gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventor: Kwang-Young Ko
  • Publication number: 20100127321
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method for the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a gate pattern formed at an upper part of the semiconductor substrate to overlap one side of a drift region, and a shallow oxide region disposed adjacent to the gate pattern, having a shallower depth than a plurality of device isolation layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventor: Kwang Young KO
  • Patent number: 7714382
    Abstract: A trench gate semiconductor device, which is capable of securing a sufficient margin for a photo process while achieving an enhancement in gate-source leakage characteristics, is disclosed. Embodiments relate to a trench gate semiconductor device including an oxide film buffer filling a trench in an upper surface of an epitaxial layer over a semiconductor substrate; a gate poly formed in a gate trench, the gate trench extending from the oxide film buffer to the epitaxial layer; NPN junctions formed beneath the oxide film buffer at opposite sides of the gate poly; and poly plugs to electrically connect P type portions of the NPN junctions to upper metal electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang-Young Ko
  • Publication number: 20100084700
    Abstract: An electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) is disclosed. The EEPROM includes a tunneling region in a semiconductor substrate, a control gate region in the semiconductor substrate and separated from the tunneling region by a device isolating layer, a tunnel oxide layer in a trench in the semiconductor substrate between the tunneling region and the control gate region, and a polysilicon layer on the tunnel oxide layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventor: Kwang Young KO
  • Publication number: 20100025751
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device and a method of fabricating the same which is suitable for fabrication of a non-volatile memory, such as an EEPROM, using a polysilicon-insulator-polysilicon (PIP) process. The semiconductor memory device includes isolation layers defining a tunneling region and a read transistor region of a semiconductor substrate, a lower polysilicon film formed on and/or over the tunneling region and the read transistor region, a dielectric film formed on and/or over the lower polysilicon film in the tunneling region, and an upper polysilicon film formed on and/or over the dielectric film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventor: Kwang-Young Ko
  • Patent number: 7642169
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a bipolar junction transistor and a method for manufacturing the same. An oxide pattern may be formed on a P type semiconductor substrate. A low-density N type collector area may be formed in the semiconductor substrate. First spacers may be formed at sidewalls of the oxide pattern, and a low-density P type base area may be formed in the semiconductor substrate. Second spacers may be formed on sidewalls of the first spacers. A high-density N type emitter area may be formed in the low-density P type base area between the second spacers, and a high-density N type collector area may be formed in the semiconductor substrate at an outside of the first spacers. The bipolar junction transistor may be realized through a self-aligned scheme using dual nitride spacers. A base width between the emitter area and the low-density collector area may be narrowed by the width of the second spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang Young Ko
  • Patent number: 7642154
    Abstract: A biCMOS device including a bipolar transistor and a Polysilicon/Insulator/Polysilicon (PIP) capacitor is disclosed. A biCMOS device may have a relatively low series resistance at a bipolar transistor. A bipolar transistor may have a desirable amplification rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang Young Ko
  • Publication number: 20090278205
    Abstract: A high voltage BICMOS device and a method for manufacturing the same, which may improve the reliability of the device by securing a distance between adjacent DUF regions, are provided. The high voltage BICMOS device includes: a reverse diffusion under field (DUF) region formed by patterning a predetermined region of a semiconductor substrate; a diffusion under field (DUF) region formed in the substrate adjacent to the reverse DUF region; a spacer formed at a sidewall of the reverse DUF region; an epitaxial layer formed on an entire surface of the substrate; and a well region formed in contact with the DUF region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventor: Kwang Young KO
  • Patent number: 7579230
    Abstract: A high voltage BICMOS device and a method for manufacturing the same, which may improve the reliability of the device by securing a distance between adjacent DUF regions, are provided. The high voltage BICOMOS device includes: a reverse diffusion under field (DUF) region formed by patterning a predetermined region of a semiconductor substrate; a diffusion under field (DUF) region formed in the substrate adjacent to the reverse DUF region; a spacer formed at a sidewall of the reverse DUF region; an epitaxial layer formed on an entire surface of the substrate; and a well region formed in contact with the DUF region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Dongbu Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang Young Ko
  • Publication number: 20090209073
    Abstract: Disclosed are a gate structure in a trench region of a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device includes a pair of drift regions formed in a semiconductor substrate; a trench region formed between the pair of drift regions; an oxide layer spacer on sidewalls of the trench region; a gate formed in the trench region; and a source and a drain formed in the pair of the drift regions, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventor: Kwang Young KO
  • Patent number: 7573100
    Abstract: There is provided a high voltage semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, including a first region, a second region relatively lower than the first region, and a sloped region between the first region and the second region; a drift region of a second conductivity type, formed on the second region; a source region of the second conductivity type, disposed on the first region, and spaced apart from the drift region by the sloped region; a drain region of the second conductivity type, disposed on the drift region; a field plate positioned on the drift region in the second region; a gate insulating layer disposed between the source region and the drift region; and a gate electrode layer, which is disposed on the gate insulating layer and extends to above the field plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Dongbu Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang Young Ko