Patents by Inventor Tanemasa Asano

Tanemasa Asano 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: 10629438
    Abstract: The laser doping apparatus may irradiate a predetermined region of a semiconductor material with a pulse laser beam to perform doping. The laser doping apparatus may include: a solution supplying system configured to supply dopant-containing solution to the predetermined region, and a laser system including at least one laser device configured to output the pulse laser beam to be transmitted by the dopant-containing solution, and a time-domain pulse waveform changing apparatus configured to control a time-domain pulse waveform of the pulse laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: Kyushu University, Gigaphoton Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ohkubo, Hiroshi Ikenoue, Akihiro Ikeda, Tanemasa Asano, Osamu Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20190252190
    Abstract: The laser doping apparatus may irradiate a predetermined region of a semiconductor material with a pulse laser beam to perform doping. The laser doping apparatus may include: a solution supplying system configured to supply dopant-containing solution to the predetermined region, and a laser system including at least one laser device configured to output the pulse laser beam to be transmitted by the dopant-containing solution, and a time-domain pulse waveform changing apparatus configured to control a time-domain pulse waveform of the pulse laser beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicants: Kyushu University, Gigaphoton Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki OHKUBO, Hiroshi IKENOUE, Akihiro IKEDA, Tanemasa ASANO, Osamu WAKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170365475
    Abstract: The laser doping apparatus may irradiate a predetermined region of a semiconductor material with a pulse laser beam to perform doping. The laser doping apparatus may include: a solution supplying system configured to supply dopant-containing solution to the predetermined region, and a laser system including at least one laser device configured to output the pulse laser beam to be transmitted by the dopant-containing solution, and a time-domain pulse waveform changing apparatus configured to control a time-domain pulse waveform of the pulse laser beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicants: Kyushu University, Gigaphoton Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki OHKUBO, Hiroshi IKENOUE, Akihiro IKEDA, Tanemasa ASANO, Osamu WAKABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9659775
    Abstract: Impurity elements are doped at a high concentration exceeding a thermodynamic equilibrium concentration into a solid material having an extremely small diffusion coefficient of the impurity element. A method for doping impurities includes steps for depositing source film made of material containing impurity elements with a film thickness on a surface of a solid target object (semiconductor substrate) made from the solid material. The film thickness is determined in consideration of irradiation time per light pulse and the energy density of the light pulse. The method also includes a step for irradiating the source film by the light pulse with the irradiation time and the energy density so as to dope the impurity elements into the target object at a concentration exceeding a thermodynamic equilibrium concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignees: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikenoue, Tanemasa Asano, Kenichi Iguchi, Haruo Nakazawa, Koh Yoshikawa, Yasukazu Seki
  • Publication number: 20160247681
    Abstract: Impurity elements are doped at a high concentration exceeding a thermodynamic equilibrium concentration into a solid material having an extremely small diffusion coefficient of the impurity element. A method for doping impurities includes steps for depositing source film made of material containing impurity elements with a film thickness on a surface of a solid target object (semiconductor substrate) made from the solid material. The film thickness is determined in consideration of irradiation time per light pulse and the energy density of the light pulse. The method also includes a step for irradiating the source film by the light pulse with the irradiation time and the energy density so as to dope the impurity elements into the target object at a concentration exceeding a thermodynamic equilibrium concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicants: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro IKEDA, Hiroshi Ikenoue, Tanemasa Asano, Kenichi Iguchi, Haruo Nakazawa, Koh Yoshikawa, Yasukazu Seki
  • Patent number: 6418941
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of the plasma cleaning of a chip-mounted board, in which the destruction of a chip due to the charge build-up in a land during the plasma cleaning is prevented. There is provided a mask member for covering a board placed on a plasma-generating electrode. This mask member has openings through which the chip, mounted on the land on the board, and electrodes on the board are exposed, respectively, and an exposed portion of the land, extending outwardly of the chip, and a conducting portion on the board are covered with the mask member. A high-frequency voltage is applied to the plasma-generating electrode, thereby producing plasm within a vacuum chamber, so that ions Ar+ impinge on pads on the chip to clean and charge up these pads. The land is covered with the mask member, and therefore will not be charged up with the ions Ar+ and electrons e−.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Arita, Tanemasa Asano