Patents by Inventor Richard A. Phelps

Richard A. Phelps 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: 7670889
    Abstract: A design structure, and more particularly, to a design structure for manufacturing a JFET in SOI, a JFET and methods of manufacturing the JFET are provided. The JFET includes a gate poly formed directly on an SOI layer and a gate oxide layer interposed between outer edges of the gate poly and the SOI layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John J. Pekarik, Richard A. Phelps, Robert M. Rassel, Yun Shi
  • Publication number: 20090302355
    Abstract: A design structure, and more particularly, to a design structure for manufacturing a JFET in SOI, a JFET and methods of manufacturing the JFET are provided. The JFET includes a gate poly formed directly on an SOI layer and a gate oxide layer interposed between outer edges of the gate poly and the SOI layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: John J. Pekarik, Richard A. Phelps, Robert M. Rassel, Yun Shi
  • Publication number: 20090256174
    Abstract: Device structures for a high voltage junction field effect transistor and design structures for a high voltage integrated circuit. The device structure is manufactured using a hybrid orientation technology wafer with a first semiconductor layer with a first crystalline orientation, a second semiconductor layer with a second crystalline orientation, and an insulating layer between the first and second semiconductor layers. The device structure includes an epitaxial semiconductor region having the second crystalline orientation and first and second p-n junctions in the epitaxial semiconductor region. The epitaxial semiconductor region extends from the second semiconductor layer through the insulating layer and the first semiconductor layer toward a top surface of the first semiconductor layer. The first and second p-n junctions are arranged in depth within the epitaxial semiconductor region between the second semiconductor layer and the top surface of the first semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Renata Camillo-Castillo, Robert J. Gauthier, Jr., Richard A. Phelps, Andreas D. Stricker
  • Publication number: 20090258464
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing a high voltage junction field effect transistor. The method includes forming an opening extending from a top surface of a device layer of a hybrid orientation technology (HOT) wafer through the device layer and an insulating layer to expose a portion of a bulk layer, and filling the opening with epitaxial semiconductor material having the crystalline orientation of the bulk layer. The method further includes forming first and second p-n junctions in the epitaxial semiconductor material that are arranged in depth within the epitaxial semiconductor material between the second semiconductor layer and the top surface of the first semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Renata Camillo-Castillo, Robert J. Gauthier, JR., Richard A. Phelps, Andreas D. Stricker
  • Publication number: 20090179272
    Abstract: A metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) has a body layer that follows the contour of exposed surfaces of a semiconductor substrate and contains a bottom surface of a shallow trench and adjoined sidewalls. A bottom electrode layer vertically abuts the body layer and provides an electrical bias to the body layer. A top electrode and source and drain regions are formed on the body layer. The thickness of the body layer is selected to allow full depletion of the body layer by the top electrode and a bottom electrode layer. The portion of the body layer underneath the shallow trench extends the length of a channel to enable a high voltage operation. Further, the MOSFET provides a double gate configuration and a tight control of the channel to enable a complete pinch-off of the channel and a low off-current in a compact volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: John B. Campi, JR., Richard A. Phelps, Robert M. Rassel, Michael J. Zierak
  • Publication number: 20090101941
    Abstract: A wrapped gate junction field effect transistor (JFET) with at least one semiconductor channel having a first conductivity type doping is provided. Both sidewalls of each of the at least one semiconductor channel laterally abuts a side gate region having a second conductivity type doping, which is the opposite of the first conductivity doping. Further, the at least one semiconductor channel vertically abuts a top gate region and at least one bottom gate region, both having the second conductivity type doping. The gate electrode, which comprises side gate region, the top gate region, and at least one bottom gate regions, wraps around each of the at least one semiconductor channel to provide tight control of the current, i.e., a low off-current, through the at least one semiconductor channel. By employing multiple channels, the JFET may provide a high on-current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Ellis-Monaghan, Richard A. Phelps, Robert M. Rassel, Steven H. Voldman, Michael J. Zierak
  • Publication number: 20080315266
    Abstract: A junction field effect transistor (JFET) has a hyperabrupt junction layer that functions as a channel of a JFET. The hyperabrupt junction layer is formed by two dopant profiles of opposite types such that one dopant concentration profile has a peak concentration depth at a tail end of the other dopant profile. The voltage bias to the channel is provided by a body that is doped with the same type of dopants as the gate. This is in contrast with conventional JFETs that have a body that is doped with the opposite conductivity type as the gate. The body may be electrically decoupled from the substrate by another reverse bias junction formed either between the body and the substrate or between a buried conductor layer beneath the body and the substrate. The capability to form a thin hyperabrupt junction layer allows formation of a JFET in a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Ebenezer E. Eshun, Jeffrey B. Johnson, Richard A. Phelps, Robert M. Rassel, Michael J. Zierak
  • Patent number: 7459360
    Abstract: A method of forming a pixel sensor cell structure. The method of forming the pixel cell comprises forming a doped layer adjacent to a first side of a transfer gate structure for coupling a collection well region and a channel region. Potential barrier interference to charge transfer caused by a pinning layer is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James W. Adkisson, Andres Bryant, John Ellis-Monaghan, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Mark D. Jaffe, Jerome B. Lasky, Richard A. Phelps
  • Publication number: 20080190361
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying a layer to a hydrophobic surface. The apparatus including: a chuck having a top surface and rotatable about a axis perpendicular to the top surface and passing through a center point of the top surface; and hollow first and second dispense nozzles having respective first and second bores, the first and second dispense nozzles mounted on a application head disposed above the top surface of the chuck, the application head moveable in a direction parallel to the top surface of the chuck, the first dispense nozzle alignable over the center point when the application head is in a first position and the second dispense nozzle alignable over the center point when the application head is in a second position, at least a portion of the bore of second dispense tube having a maximum cross-sectional dimension of between about 0.5 millimeters and about 2.0 millimeters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: David A. DeMuynck, John E. Dillon, Ross Duncan, Richard A. Phelps, Kevin C. Remillard
  • Patent number: 7384878
    Abstract: A method of forming a coating. The method includes: providing a substrate having a surface; forming a layer of water on the surface; and forming a layer of a material on the layer of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David A. DeMuynck, John E. Dillon, Ross Duncan, Richard A. Phelps, Kevin C. Remillard
  • Publication number: 20070145438
    Abstract: A pixel sensor cell structure and method of manufacture. The pixel cell comprises a doped layer formed adjacent to a first side of a transfer gate structure for coupling a collection well region and a channel region. Potential barrier interference to charge transfer caused by a pinning layer is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: James Adkisson, Andres Bryant, John Ellis-Monaghan, Jeffrey Gambino, Mark Jaffe, Jerome Lasky, Richard Phelps
  • Patent number: 7205591
    Abstract: A pixel sensor cell structure and method of manufacture. The pixel cell comprises a doped layer formed adjacent to a first side of a transfer gate structure for coupling a collection well region and a channel region. Potential barrier interference to charge transfer caused by a pinning layer is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James W. Adkisson, Andres Bryant, John Ellis-Monaghan, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Mark D. Jaffe, Jerome B Lasky, Richard A. Phelps
  • Publication number: 20060226456
    Abstract: A pixel sensor cell structure and method of manufacture. The pixel cell comprises a doped layer formed adjacent to a first side of a transfer gate structure for coupling a collection well region and a channel region. Potential barrier interference to charge transfer caused by a pinning layer is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Adkisson, Andres Bryant, John Ellis-Monaghan, Jeffrey Gambino, Mark Jaffe, Jerome Lasky, Richard Phelps
  • Publication number: 20060010279
    Abstract: Apparatus for use in a computer system comprises a bus architecture, a plurality of modules connected to the bus architecture, at least one module being latency tolerant and at least one module being latency intolerant. The bus architecture comprises a primary bus (3) having latency intolerant modules connected thereto, a secondary bus (4) having latency tolerant modules connected thereto, and a primary to secondary bus interface module (5) interconnecting the primary and secondary buses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Richard Phelps, Paul Winser
  • Publication number: 20060003468
    Abstract: A method of forming a coating. The method includes: providing a substrate having a surface; forming a layer of water on the surface; and forming a layer of a material on the layer of water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David DeMuynck, John Dillon, Ross Duncan, Richard Phelps, Kevin Remillard
  • Patent number: D528734
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Custom Home Accessories, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Phelps, Gregory Phelps
  • Patent number: D537230
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Inventors: Richard Phelps, Gregory Phelps
  • Patent number: D538005
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Inventors: Richard Phelps, Gregory Phelps
  • Patent number: D540005
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Inventors: Richard Phelps, Gregory Phelps
  • Patent number: D563075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Inventors: Richard Phelps, Gregory Phelps