Patents by Inventor Sangwook Kim

Sangwook 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).

  • Patent number: 12283629
    Abstract: Provided is a ferroelectric thin-film structure including a semiconductor substrate, a first ferroelectric layer on the semiconductor substrate, and a second ferroelectric layer on the semiconductor substrate. The second ferroelectric layer is spaced apart from the first ferroelectric layer and has a different dielectric constant from the first ferroelectric layer. The first ferroelectric layer and the second ferroelectric layer may be different from each other in terms of the amount of a dopant contained therein, and may exhibit different threshold voltages when applied to transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunseong Lee, Jinseong Heo, Sangwook Kim, Taehwan Moon, Sanghyun Jo
  • Patent number: 12260505
    Abstract: Provided is a method for providing augmented content, wherein whether a user terminal is located in a preset unit space is determined on the basis of the location of the user terminal, and if the user terminal is determined to be located in the unit space, an image captured by a camera is displayed through an augmented reality (AR) view by being augmented with content associated with the unit space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: NAVER Corporation
    Inventors: Jeanie Jung, Sangwook Kim, Kihyun Yu, Yeowon Yoon
  • Patent number: 12254041
    Abstract: A position recognition method and a system based on visual information processing are disclosed A position recognition method according to one embodiment including the steps of: generating a frame image through a camera; transmitting, to a server, a first global pose of the camera and the generated frame image; and receiving, from the server, a second global pose of the camera estimated on the basis of a pose of an object included in the transmitted frame image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: NAVER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dongcheol Hur, Yeong-Ho Jeong, Sangwook Kim
  • Publication number: 20250072055
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to oxide semiconductor transistors, methods of manufacturing the same, and/or memory devices including the oxide semiconductor transistors. The oxide semiconductor transistor includes first and second compound layers provided on a substrate, a channel layer in contact with the first and second compound layers, a first electrode facing a portion of the channel layer, a second electrode facing the first compound layer with the channel layer therebetween, and a third electrode facing the second compound layer with the channel layer therebetween. An oxygen concentration of a region of the channel layer facing the first electrode is greater than that of the remaining regions of the channel layer. A buffer layer may further be provided between the channel layer and the second and third electrodes. The first and second compound layers may include oxygen and a metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwanghee LEE, Sangwook KIM
  • Patent number: 12230711
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and a method of manufacturing the same. The electronic device includes a ferroelectric crystallization layer between a substrate and a gate electrode and a crystallization prevention layer between the substrate and the ferroelectric crystallization layer. The ferroelectric crystallization layer is at least partially crystallized and includes a dielectric material having ferroelectricity or anti-ferroelectricity. Also, the crystallization prevention layer prevents crystallization in the ferroelectric crystallization layer from being spread toward the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinseong Heo, Sangwook Kim, Yunseong Lee, Sanghyun Jo, Hyangsook Lee
  • Patent number: 12224346
    Abstract: A domain switching device includes a channel region, a source region and a drain region connected to the channel region, a gate electrode isolated from contact with the channel region, an anti-ferroelectric layer between the channel region and the gate electrode, a conductive layer between the gate electrode and the anti-ferroelectric layer to contact the anti-ferroelectric layer, and a barrier layer between the anti-ferroelectric layer and the channel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinseong Heo, Sangwook Kim, Yunseong Lee, Sanghyun Jo
  • Patent number: 12210290
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes performing an optical proximity correction (OPC) operation on a layout and forming a photoresist pattern on a substrate using a photomask that is manufactured with the layout corrected by the OPC operation. The OPC operation includes sectioning the layout into a low-level patch and a high-level patch, performing a first OPC operation on the low-level patch, the first OPC operation including generating a first boundary correction pattern of a curvilinear shape on a boundary between the low-level patch and the high-level patch, performing a second OPC operation on the high-level patch, the second OPC operation including a second boundary correction pattern of a curvilinear shape on the boundary, and conforming the first boundary correction pattern and the second boundary correction pattern to each other to generate a conformed boundary correction pattern of a curvilinear shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pilsoo Kang, Sangwook Kim, Sanghun Kim
  • Publication number: 20250028235
    Abstract: Provided are an optical proximity correction (OPC) method capable of maintaining full-chip bias consistency and a mask manufacturing method including the OPC method. The OPC method includes obtaining a first optical proximity corrected (OPCed) design layout by implementing a first OPC on an OPC target design layout; performing a reverse dissection on the OPC target design layout based on the first OPCed design layout to generate first segments; performing a reverse correction to allocate first biases of the first OPCed design layout to the first segments of the OPC target design layout; determining a full-chip representative bias based on a segment grouping of the first segments; applying the full-chip representative bias to an entire chip area; preparing mask data based on the full-chip representative bias that has been applied to the entire chip area; and exposing a mask substrate based on the mask data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Heungsuk OH, Hun KANG, Sangwook KIM, Sanghun KIM, Sujin OH, Jinseok OH
  • Patent number: 12205951
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including a first semiconductor transistor including a semiconductor channel layer, and a metal-oxide semiconductor channel layer, and having a structure in which a second semiconductor transistor is stacked on the top of the first semiconductor transistor. A gate stack of the second semiconductor transistor and the top of a gate stack of the first semiconductor transistor may overlap by greater than or equal to 90%. The first semiconductor transistor and the second semiconductor transistor may have a similar level of operation characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangwook Kim, Seunggeol Nam, Taehwan Moon, Kwanghee Lee, Jinseong Heo, Hagyoul Bae, Yunseong Lee
  • Patent number: 12191311
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first transistor including a first channel layer of a first conductivity type, a second transistor provided in parallel with the first transistor and including a second channel layer of a second conductivity type, and a third transistor stacked on the first and second transistors. The third transistor may include a gate insulating film including a ferroelectric material. The third transistor may include third channel layer and a gate electrode that are spaced apart from each other in a thickness direction with the gate insulating film therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangwook Kim, Jinseong Heo, Yunseong Lee, Sanghyun Jo
  • Publication number: 20250006844
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor layer, a first electrode and a second electrode, which are arranged apart from each other on the oxide semiconductor layer, a metal oxide layer arranged between the oxide semiconductor layer and at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode, and a metal nitride layer arranged between the metal oxide layer and the oxide semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeeeun YANG, Sangwook KIM, Youngkwan CHA
  • Publication number: 20250004361
    Abstract: Disclosed are semiconductor fabrication methods and optical proximity correction (OPC) methods. The semiconductor fabrication method comprises performing OPC on a design pattern of a layout to generate a corrected layout, and forming a photoresist pattern on a substrate by using a photomask manufactured with the corrected layout. Performing the OPC includes generating shape points on a contour of the design pattern, producing a hash value of the shape point, selecting a first unique shape point that represents first shape points, determining a first correction bias of the first unique shape point, and creating a correction pattern by applying the first correction bias in common to the first shape points. Producing the hash value includes generating a query range around a target shape point and, based on geometry analysis in the query range, producing the hash value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Woo-Yong Cho, Hun Kang, Sangwook Kim, Useong Kim, Heungsuk Oh, Hee-Jun Lee, Jeeeun Jung
  • Patent number: 12176413
    Abstract: A ferroelectric structure includes a first polarization enhancement film on a ferroelectric film, wherein the ferroelectric film has a first net polarization in a first direction oriented from the ferroelectric film toward the first polarization enhancement film. The first polarization enhancement film has a second net polarization in a second direction crossing the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanghyun Jo, Sangwook Kim, Yunseong Lee, Jinseong Heo
  • Publication number: 20240419084
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes performing an optical proximity correction (OPC) on a design pattern of a layout and forming a photoresist pattern on a substrate using a photomask manufacture based the corrected layout. The performing of the OPC includes analyzing a cell hierarchy to choose a representative cell in the layout, dividing the design pattern in the representative cell into a plurality of segments including first segments, choosing a first unique segment, which represents the first segments, from the plurality of segments, generating a first correction bias of the first unique segment, applying the first correction bias to all of the first segments to generate a correction pattern, and applying a correction result of the representative cell to other cells that are included in the layout and are of a same type as the representative cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: HEUNGSUK OH, SANGWOOK KIM, HEE-JUN LEE, JEEEUN JUNG, WOO-YONG CHO
  • Patent number: 12170336
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to oxide semiconductor transistors, methods of manufacturing the same, and/or memory devices including the oxide semiconductor transistors. The oxide semiconductor transistor includes first and second compound layers provided on a substrate, a channel layer in contact with the first and second compound layers, a first electrode facing a portion of the channel layer, a second electrode facing the first compound layer with the channel layer therebetween, and a third electrode facing the second compound layer with the channel layer therebetween. An oxygen concentration of a region of the channel layer facing the first electrode is greater than that of the remaining regions of the channel layer. A buffer layer may further be provided between the channel layer and the second and third electrodes. The first and second compound layers may include oxygen and a metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwanghee Lee, Sangwook Kim
  • Publication number: 20240362395
    Abstract: A layout correction method for a semiconductor device includes receiving a design layout including at least a target layer and a reference layer, detecting target edges including target patterns in the target layer, and detecting reference edges including reference patterns in the reference layer, determining a dissection point in a section intersecting a space between reference patterns on a target edge having three or more intersecting reference edges, generating segments by dissecting the target edges based on dissection points set for the target edges, setting an evaluation point at an intermediate point of a section intersecting a reference pattern in a segment intersecting the reference pattern, among the segments, determining a movement amount of segments having evaluation points set on the segments by inputting a feature measured at the evaluation points to a layout correction model, and generating a corrected layout by moving the segments based on the movement amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Yangwoo Heo, Bayram Yenikaya, Xin Li, Sangwook Kim
  • Publication number: 20240346785
    Abstract: Provided is a method for providing augmented content, wherein whether a user terminal is located in a preset unit space is determined on the basis of the location of the user terminal, and if the user terminal is determined to be located in the unit space, an image captured by a camera is displayed through an augmented reality (AR) view by being augmented with content associated with the unit space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: NAVER LABS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeanie JUNG, Sangwook KIM, Kihyun YU, Yeowon YOON
  • Patent number: 12100749
    Abstract: A ferroelectric thin-film structure includes at least one first atomic layer and at least one second atomic layer. The first atomic layer includes a first dielectric material that is based on an oxide, and the second atomic layer includes both the first dielectric material and a dopant that has a bandgap greater than a bandgap of the dielectric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunseong Lee, Sangwook Kim, Sanghyun Jo, Jinseong Heo, Hyangsook Lee
  • Patent number: 12094971
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a ferroelectric layer arranged on a channel region and a gate electrode arranged on the ferroelectric layer. The ferroelectric layer includes a plurality of first oxide monolayers and a second oxide monolayers that is arranged between the substrate and the gate electrode and include a material different from a material of the first oxide monolayers. The first oxide monolayers include oxide monolayers that are alternately formed and include materials different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunseong Lee, Jinseong Heo, Sangwook Kim, Sanghyun Jo
  • Publication number: 20240274714
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes transistors respectively including channel layers in a substrate, source electrodes and drain electrodes respectively contacting both sides of the channel layers, gate electrodes on the channel layers, and ferroelectrics layers between the channel layers and the gate electrodes. Electrical characteristics of the ferroelectrics layers of at least two of the transistors are different. Accordingly, threshold voltages of the transistors are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangwook KIM, Yunseong LEE, Sanghyun JO, Jinseong HEO