Patents by Inventor Taylor Rice Efland

Taylor Rice Efland 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: 8253193
    Abstract: An integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a trenched gate abutting an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region. The body well and source diffused region overlap the bottom surface of the gate trench. An integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a first trenched gate abutting an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region, and a second trenched gate located over a heavily doped buried layer. The buried layer is the same conductivity type as the drift region. A process of forming an integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor, which includes an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region of a drain of the transistor, and a gate formed in a gate trench which abuts the isolation dielectric layer. The gate trench is formed by removing substrate material adjacent to the isolation dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Marie Denison, Sameer Pendharkar, Binghua Hu, Taylor Rice Efland, Sridhar Seetharaman
  • Patent number: 8173510
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (200) includes one of more transistors (210) on or in a substrate (10) having semiconductor surface layer, the surface layer having a top surface. At least one of the transistors are drain extended metal-oxide-semiconductor (DEMOS) transistor (210). The DEMOS transistor includes a drift region (14) in the surface layer having a first dopant type, a field dielectric (23) in or on a portion of the surface layer, and a body region of a second dopant type (16) within the drift region (14). The body region (16) has a body wall extending from the top surface of the surface layer downwards along at least a portion of a dielectric wall of an adjacent field dielectric region. A gate dielectric (21) is on at least a portion of the body wall. An electrically conductive gate electrode (22) is on the gate dielectric (21) on the body wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Marie Denison, Taylor Rice Efland
  • Patent number: 8124482
    Abstract: An integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a trenched gate abutting an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region. The body well and source diffused region overlap the bottom surface of the gate trench. An integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a first trenched gate abutting an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region, and a second trenched gate located over a heavily doped buried layer. The buried layer is the same conductivity type as the drift region. A process of forming an integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor, which includes an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region of a drain of the transistor, and a gate formed in a gate trench which abuts the isolation dielectric layer. The gate trench is formed by removing substrate material adjacent to the isolation dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Marie Denison, Sameer Pendharkar, Binghua Hu, Taylor Rice Efland, Sridhar Seetharaman
  • Publication number: 20110151634
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (200) includes one of more transistors (210) on or in a substrate (10) having semiconductor surface layer, the surface layer having a top surface. At least one of the transistors are drain extended metal-oxide-semiconductor (DEMOS) transistor (210). The DEMOS transistor includes a drift region (14) in the surface layer having a first dopant type, a field dielectric (23) in or on a portion of the surface layer, and a body region of a second dopant type (16) within the drift region (14). The body region (16) has a body wall extending from the top surface of the surface layer downwards along at least a portion of a dielectric wall of an adjacent field dielectric region. A gate dielectric (21) is on at least a portion of the body wall. An electrically conductive gate electrode (22) is on the gate dielectric (21) on the body wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Marie Denison, Taylor Rice Efland
  • Publication number: 20110111569
    Abstract: An integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a trenched gate abutting an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region. The body well and source diffused region overlap the bottom surface of the gate trench. An integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a first trenched gate abutting an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region, and a second trenched gate located over a heavily doped buried layer. The buried layer is the same conductivity type as the drift region. A process of forming an integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor, which includes an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region of a drain of the transistor, and a gate formed in a gate trench which abuts the isolation dielectric layer. The gate trench is formed by removing substrate material adjacent to the isolation dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Marie Denison, Sameer Pendharkar, Binghua Hu, Taylor Rice Efland, Sridhar Seetharaman
  • Publication number: 20110108914
    Abstract: An integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a trenched gate abutting an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region. The body well and source diffused region overlap the bottom surface of the gate trench. An integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a first trenched gate abutting an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region, and a second trenched gate located over a heavily doped buried layer. The buried layer is the same conductivity type as the drift region. A process of forming an integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor, which includes an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region of a drain of the transistor, and a gate formed in a gate trench which abuts the isolation dielectric layer. The gate trench is formed by removing substrate material adjacent to the isolation dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Marie Denison, Sameer Pendharkar, Binghua Hu, Taylor Rice Efland, Sridhar Seetharaman
  • Patent number: 7893499
    Abstract: An integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a trenched gate abutting an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region. The body well and source diffused region overlap the bottom surface of the gate trench. An integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a first trenched gate abutting an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region, and a second trenched gate located over a heavily doped buried layer. The buried layer is the same conductivity type as the drift region. A process of forming an integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor, which includes an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region of a drain of the transistor, and a gate formed in a gate trench which abuts the isolation dielectric layer. The gate trench is formed by removing substrate material adjacent to the isolation dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Marie Denison, Sameer Pendharkar, Binghua Hu, Taylor Rice Efland, Sridhar Seetharaman
  • Patent number: 7888732
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (200) includes one of more transistors (210) on or in a substrate (10) having semiconductor surface layer, the surface layer having a top surface. At least one of the transistors are drain extended metal-oxide-semiconductor (DEMOS) transistor (210). The DEMOS transistor includes a drift region (14) in the surface layer having a first dopant type, a field dielectric (23) in or on a portion of said surface layer, and a body region of a second dopant type (16) within the drift region (14). The body region (16) has a body wall extending from the top surface of the surface layer downwards along at least a portion of a dielectric wall of an adjacent field dielectric region. A gate dielectric (21) is on at least a portion of the body wall. An electrically conductive gate electrode (22) is on the gate dielectric (21) on the body wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Marie Denison, Taylor Rice Efland
  • Publication number: 20100252882
    Abstract: An integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a trenched gate abutting an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region. The body well and source diffused region overlap the bottom surface of the gate trench. An integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a first trenched gate abutting an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region, and a second trenched gate located over a heavily doped buried layer. The buried layer is the same conductivity type as the drift region. A process of forming an integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor, which includes an isolation dielectric layer over a drift region of a drain of the transistor, and a gate formed in a gate trench which abuts the isolation dielectric layer. The gate trench is formed by removing substrate material adjacent to the isolation dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Marie Denison, Sameer Pendharkar, Binghua Hu, Taylor Rice Efland, Sridhar Seetharaman
  • Publication number: 20090256212
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (200) includes one of more transistors (210) on or in a substrate (10) having semiconductor surface layer, the surface layer having a top surface. At least one of the transistors are drain extended metal-oxide-semiconductor (DEMOS) transistor (210). The DEMOS transistor includes a drift region (14) in the surface layer having a first dopant type, a field dielectric (23) in or on a portion of said surface layer, and a body region of a second dopant type (16) within the drift region (14). The body region (16) has a body wall extending from the top surface of the surface layer downwards along at least a portion of a dielectric wall of an adjacent field dielectric region. A gate dielectric (21) is on at least a portion of the body wall. An electrically conductive gate electrode (22) is on the gate dielectric (21) on the body wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Texas Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Marie Denison, Taylor Rice Efland
  • Patent number: 6144100
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device (10) with a bonding surface (12) directly over its active circuitry, and a method of making such integrated circuits (FIGS. 2A 2E). To make the bonding surface (12), a wafer (20) is provided with vias (24) to its metallization layer (21) and then coated with a seed metal layer (25). A plating pattern (26) is formed on the wafer (20), exposing portions of the seed metal layer (25) and blocking the rest of the seed metal layer (25). These exposed portions are plated with successive metal layers (27, 28, 29), thereby forming a bonding surface (12) having a number of layered stacks (200) that fill the vias (24). The plating pattern and the nonplated portions of the seed metal layer (25) are then removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Chi-Cheong Shen, Donald C. Abbott, Walter Bucksch, Marco Corsi, Taylor Rice Efland, John P. Erdeljac, Louis Nicholas Hutter, Quang Mai, Konrad Wagensohner, Charles Edward Williams
  • Patent number: 6137140
    Abstract: An integrated SCR-LDMOS device (10) having a p+ region (13) in the drain region (12), but otherwise similar to a conventional LDMOS transistor. The device (10) may be implemented as a modification of a non-planar LDMOS (FIGS. 1 and 2). An alternate embodiment, device (30), may be implemented as a modification of a planar LDMOS (FIG. 3). In either case, the added p+ region (13, 37) provides the device (10, 30) with two parasitic bipolar transistors in an SCR configuration (FIGS. 4A and 4B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Taylor Rice Efland, Stephen C. Kwan, Kenneth G. Buss, Chin-Yu Tsai