Patents by Inventor Moo-Sung Kim

Moo-Sung Kim 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: 20190184258
    Abstract: An automatic batting training apparatus, includes: a bottom part; a hopper assembly disposed on one side of the bottom part to sequentially discharge a plurality of balls stored therein; and a driving assembly disposed on the other side of the bottom part and comprising a transfer module adapted to transfer the balls discharged from the hopper assembly in a vertical direction and an ascending/descending module having a tee stand disposed movable upward and downward in such a manner as to allow the balls received from the transfer module to be seated one by one onto top thereof to perform tee batting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventor: Moo Sung KIM
  • Patent number: 10316407
    Abstract: Described herein are compositions and methods using same for forming a silicon-containing film or material such as without limitation a silicon oxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, a carbon-doped silicon nitride, or a carbon-doped silicon oxide film in a semiconductor deposition process, such as without limitation, a plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition of silicon-containing film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: VERSUM MATERIALS US, LLC
    Inventors: Xinjian Lei, Moo-Sung Kim, Matthew R. MacDonald, Manchao Xiao
  • Patent number: 10290540
    Abstract: Described herein are cobalt compounds, processes for making cobalt compounds, cobalt compounds used as precursors for depositing cobalt-containing films (e.g., cobalt, cobalt oxide, cobalt nitride, cobalt silicide etc.); and cobalt films. Examples of cobalt precursor compounds are (disubstituted alkyne) dicobalt hexacarbonyl compounds. Examples of surfaces for deposition of metal-containing films include, but are not limited to, metals, metal oxides, metal nitrides, and metal silicides. Disubstituted alkyne ligands with alkyl groups such as linear alkyls and branched alkyls to form cobalt complexes which are used for selective deposition on certain surfaces and/or superior film properties such as uniformity, continuity, and low resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: VERSUM MATERIALS US, LLC
    Inventors: Alan Charles Cooper, Sergei Vladimirovich Ivanov, Moo-Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 10245489
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic batting tee apparatus that includes a ball storage unit for continuously feeding balls therein for batting; a lifting unit for putting the balls discharged from the ball storage unit onto an upper end of a tee rod for T-batting; and a feeding unit disposed between the ball storage unit and the lifting unit. The apparatus can smoothly and quickly feed balls, particularly, baseballs to the lifting unit with the tee rod, using the ball storage unit having a variable internal space and rotary equipment. The automatic batting tee apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention allows for not only batting practice, but fielding practice by a cylinder unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Inventor: Moo Sung Kim
  • Publication number: 20190085451
    Abstract: Described herein are compositions, silicon nitride films and methods for forming silicon nitride films using at least on cyclodisilazane precursor. In one aspect, there is provided a method of forming a silicon nitride film comprising the steps of: providing a substrate in a reactor; introducing into the reactor an at least one cyclodisilazane comprising a hydrocarbon leaving group and two Si—H groups wherein the at least one cyclodisilazane reacts on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate to provide a chemisorbed layer; purging the reactor with a purge gas; introducing a plasma comprising nitrogen and an inert gas into the reactor to react with at least a portion of the chemisorbed layer and provide at least one reactive site wherein the plasma is generated at a power density ranging from about 0.01 to about 1.5 W/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Xinjian Lei, Moo-Sung Kim, Manchao Xiao
  • Publication number: 20190027224
    Abstract: A voltage generator of a nonvolatile memory device includes a charging circuit, a current mirror circuit, a discharging circuit and an output circuit. The charging circuit amplifies a difference between a reference voltage and a feedback voltage to generate a first current. The current mirror circuit is connected to the charging circuit and generates a second current based on the first current. The discharging circuit is connected to the current mirror circuit to draw the second current, and discharges the output voltage to a target level by adjusting discharging amount of the second current based on a sensing voltage which reflects a change of the feedback voltage. The output circuit is connected to the current mirror circuit, and provides the output voltage based on the first current and the second current to a first word-line connected to an output node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Gyo-Soo CHOO, Ji-Hyun PARK, Chi-Weon YOON, Moo-Sung KIM
  • Publication number: 20180274097
    Abstract: Described herein are methods for forming a conformal Group 4, 5, 6, 13 metal or metalloid doped silicon nitride film. In one aspect, there is provided a method of forming an aluminum silicon nitride film comprising the steps of: providing a substrate in a reactor; introducing into the reactor an at least one aluminum precursor which reacts on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate to provide a chemisorbed layer; purging the reactor with a purge gas; introducing into the reactor an organoaminosilane precursors to react on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate to provide a chemisorbed layer; introducing a nitrogen source and an inert gas into the reactor to react with at least a portion of the chemisorbed layer; and optionally purge the reactor with an inert gas; and wherein the steps are repeated until a desired thickness of the aluminum nitride film is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Xinjian LEI, Moo-Sung KIM, Anupama MALLIKARJUNAN, Aaron Michael DANGERFIELD, Luis Fabián PEÑA, Yves Jean CHABAL
  • Publication number: 20180269057
    Abstract: In one aspect, the invention is formulations comprising both organoaminohafnium and organoaminosilane precursors that allows anchoring both silicon-containing fragments and hafnium-containing fragments onto a given surface having hydroxyl groups to deposit silicon doped hafnium oxide having a silicon doping level ranging from 0.5 to 8 mol %, preferably 2 to 6 mol %, most preferably 3 to 5 mol %, suitable as ferroelectric material. In another aspect, the invention is methods and systems for depositing the silicon doped hafnium oxide films using the formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Versum Materials US, LLC
    Inventors: Xinjian Lei, Matthew R. MacDonald, Moo-Sung Kim, Se-Won Lee
  • Publication number: 20180265967
    Abstract: In one aspect, the invention is formulations comprising both organoaminohafnium and organoaminosilane precursor compounds that allows anchoring both silicon-containing fragments and hafnium-containing fragments onto a given surface having hydroxyl groups to deposit silicon doped hafnium oxide having a silicon doping level ranging from 0.5 to 8 mol %, suitable as ferroelectric material. In another aspect, the invention is methods and systems for depositing the silicon doped hafnium oxide films as ferroelectric materials using the formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Versum Materials US, LLC
    Inventors: Xinjian Lei, Matthew R. MacDonald, Moo-Sung Kim, Se-Won Lee
  • Publication number: 20180245215
    Abstract: Described herein are conformal films and methods for forming a conformal Group 4, 5, 6, 13 metal or metalloid doped silicon nitride dielectric film. In one aspect, there is provided a method of forming an aluminum silicon nitride film comprising the steps of: providing a substrate in a reactor; introducing into the reactor an at least one metal precursor which reacts on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate to provide a chemisorbed layer; purging the reactor with a purge gas; introducing into the reactor an organoaminosilane precursors to react on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate to provide a chemisorbed layer; introducing a plasma comprising nitrogen and an inert gas into the reactor to react with at least a portion of the chemisorbed layer and provide at least one reactive site wherein the plasma is generated at a power density ranging from about 0.01 to about 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Xinjian Lei, Moo-Sung Kim, Jianheng Li
  • Publication number: 20180193711
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic batting tee apparatus that includes a ball storage unit for continuously feeding balls therein for batting; a lifting unit for putting the balls discharged from the ball storage unit onto an upper end of a tee rod for T-batting; and a feeding unit disposed between the ball storage unit and the lifting unit. The apparatus can smoothly and quickly feed balls, particularly, baseballs to the lifting unit with the tee rod, using the ball storage unit having a variable internal space and rotary equipment. The automatic batting tee apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention allows for not only batting practice, but fielding practice by a cylinder unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventor: Moo Sung Kim
  • Publication number: 20180134738
    Abstract: Described herein are cobalt compounds, processes for making cobalt compounds, cobalt compounds used as precursors for depositing cobalt-containing films (e.g., cobalt, cobalt oxide, cobalt nitride, cobalt silicide etc.); and cobalt films. Examples of cobalt precursor compounds are (disubstituted alkyne) dicobalt hexacarbonyl compounds. Examples of surfaces for deposition of metal-containing films include, but are not limited to, metals, metal oxides, metal nitrides, and metal silicides. Disubstituted alkyne ligands with alkyl groups such as linear alkyls and branched alkyls to form cobalt complexes which are used for selective deposition on certain surfaces and/or superior film properties such as uniformity, continuity, and low resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: Versum Materials US, LLC
    Inventors: ALAN CHARLES COOPER, SERGEI VLADIMIROVICH IVANOV, MOO-SUNG KIM
  • Publication number: 20180122687
    Abstract: Described herein are cobalt compounds, processes for making cobalt compounds, cobalt compounds used as precursors for depositing cobalt-containing films (e.g., cobalt, cobalt oxide, cobalt nitride, cobalt silicide etc.); and cobalt films. Examples of cobalt precursor compounds are (disubstituted alkyne) dicobalt hexacarbonyl compounds. Examples of surfaces for deposition of metal-containing films include, but are not limited to, metals, metal oxides, metal nitrides, and metal silicides. Disubstituted alkyne ligands with alkyl groups such as linear alkyls and branched alkyls to form cobalt complexes which are used for selective deposition on certain surfaces and/or superior film properties such as uniformity, continuity, and low resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Versum Materials US, LLC
    Inventors: Alan Charles Cooper, Sergei Vladimirovich Ivanov, Moo-Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 9905415
    Abstract: Methods for forming silicon nitride films are disclosed that comprise the steps of: providing a substrate in a reactor; introducing into the reactor an at least one organoaminosilane having a least one SiH3 group described herein wherein the at least one organoaminosilane reacts on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate to provide a chemisorbed layer; purging the reactor with a purge gas; introducing a plasma comprising nitrogen and an inert gas into the reactor to react with at least a portion of the chemisorbed layer and provide at least one reactive site wherein the plasma is generated at a power density ranging from about 0.01 to about 1.5 W/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: VERSUM MATERIALS US, LLC
    Inventors: Haripin Chandra, Anupama Mallikarjunan, Xinjian Lei, Moo-Sung Kim, Kirk Scott Cuthill, Mark Leonard O'Neill
  • Publication number: 20180033614
    Abstract: A composition and method for using the composition in the fabrication of an electronic device are disclosed. Compounds, compositions and methods for depositing a low dielectric constant (<4.0) and high oxygen ash resistance silicon-containing film such as, without limitation, a carbon doped silicon oxide, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: Versum Materials US, LLC
    Inventors: Haripin Chandra, Xinjian Lei, Anupama Mallikarjunan, Moo-Sung Kim
  • Publication number: 20170338109
    Abstract: Described herein are compositions and methods using same for forming a silicon-containing film or material such as without limitation a silicon oxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, a carbon-doped silicon nitride, or a carbon-doped silicon oxide film in a semiconductor deposition process, such as without limitation, a plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition of silicon-containing film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Xinjian LEI, Moo-Sung KIM, Matthew R. MACDONALD, Manchao XIAO
  • Patent number: 9798656
    Abstract: A method of operating a memory controller includes; counting a number of read operations directed to a page-group of data stored in a block and generating a first read count number, then comparing the first read count number with a first reference count threshold among a first set of reference count thresholds associated with the page-group, and upon determining that the first read count number exceeds the first reference count threshold, performing a copy-back operation of the page-group data from the block to another block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Chul Lee, Moo Sung Kim
  • Publication number: 20170022612
    Abstract: Described herein are methods for forming a Group 13 metal or metalloid nitride film. In one aspect, there is provided a method of forming an aluminum nitride film comprising the steps of: providing a substrate in a reactor; introducing into the reactor an at least one aluminum precursor which reacts on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate to provide a chemisorbed layer; purging the reactor with a purge gas; introducing a plasma comprising non-hydrogen containing nitrogen plasma into the reactor to react with at least a portion of the chemisorbed layer and provide at least one reactive site wherein the plasma is generated at a power density ranging from about 0.01 to about 1.5 W/cm2; and optionally purge the reactor with an inert gas; and wherein the steps are repeated until a desired thickness of the aluminum nitride film is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Xinjian Lei, Moo-Sung Kim, Sergei Vladimirovich Ivanov
  • Patent number: 9543517
    Abstract: Described herein is a method and precursor composition for depositing a multicomponent film. In one embodiment, the method and composition described herein is used to deposit a germanium-containing film such as Germanium Tellurium, Antimony Germanium, and Germanium Antimony Tellurium (GST) films via an atomic layer deposition (ALD) and/or other germanium, tellurium and selenium based metal compounds for phase change memory and photovoltaic devices. In this or other embodiments, the Ge precursor used trichlorogermane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Xinjian Lei, Moo-Sung Kim
  • Publication number: 20160293410
    Abstract: Described herein are boron-containing precursor compounds, and compositions and methods comprising same, for forming boron-containing films. In one aspect, the film is deposited from at least one precursor having the following Formula I or II described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Xinjian Lei, Moo-Sung Kim