Patents by Inventor Thermon E. McKoy

Thermon E. McKoy 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: 7682846
    Abstract: Several methods and structures are disclosed for determining electrical properties of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and alternate versions of such wafers such as strained silicon:silicon/germanium:-on-insulator (SSGOI) wafers. The analyzed electrical properties include mobilities, interface state densities, and oxide charge by depositing electrodes on the wafer surface and measuring the current-voltage behavior using these electrodes. In a single gate structure, the source and drain electrodes reside on the wafer surface and the buried insulator acts as the gate oxide, with the substrate acting as the gate electrode. In a double gate structure, an oxide is used on the upper surface between the source and drain electrodes and an additional metal layer is used on top of this oxide to act as a second gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Harold J. Hovel, Thermon E. McKoy
  • Publication number: 20080283919
    Abstract: Several methods and structures are disclosed for determining electrical properties of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and alternate versions of such wafers such as strained silicon:silicon/germanium:-on-insulator (SSGOI) wafers. The analyzed electrical properties include mobilities, interface state densities, and oxide charge by depositing electrodes on the wafer surface and measuring the current-voltage behavior using these electrodes. In a single gate structure, the source and drain electrodes reside on the wafer surface and the buried insulator acts as the gate oxide, with the substrate acting as the gate electrode. In a double gate structure, an oxide is used on the upper surface between the source and drain electrodes and an additional metal layer is used on top of this oxide to act as a second gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Harold J. Hovel, Thermon E. McKoy
  • Patent number: 7288446
    Abstract: Several methods and structures are disclosed for determining electrical properties of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and alternate versions of such wafers such as strained silicon:silicon/germanium:-on-insulator (SSGOI) wafers. The analyzed electrical properties include mobilities, interface state densities, and oxide charge by depositing electrodes on the wafer surface and measuring the current-voltage behavior using these electrodes, In a single gate structure, the source and drain electrodes reside on the wafer surface and the buried insulator acts as the gate oxide, with the substrate acting as the gate electrode. In a double gate structure, an oxide is used on the upper surface between the source and drain electrodes and an additional metal layer is used on top of this oxide to act as a second gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Harold J. Hovel, Thermon E. McKoy
  • Patent number: 6955932
    Abstract: Several methods and structures are disclosed for determining electrical properties of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and alternate versions of such wafers such as strained silicon:silicon/germanium:-on-insulator (SSGOI) wafers. The analyzed electrical properties include mobilities, interface state densities, and oxide charge by depositing electrodes on the wafer surface and measuring the current-voltage behavior using these electrodes. In a single gate structure, the source and drain electrodes reside on the wafer surface and the buried insulator acts as the gate oxide, with the substrate acting as the gate electrode. In a double gate structure, an oxide is used on the upper surface between the source and drain electrodes and an additional metal layer is used on top of this oxide to act as a second gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Harold J. Hovel, Thermon E. McKoy
  • Patent number: 4592793
    Abstract: A process for diffusing a dopant into a III-V type semiconductor body is disclosed which comprises:(a) placing in a heating chamber which is substantially devoid of any oxidizing substance a deposition substrate possessing a dopant-containing layer which has been vapor deposited upon a major surface thereof in contact with, or in the proximity of, an object substrate fabricated from a III-V type semiconductor material with the dopant-containing layer of the deposition substrate being substantially opposed to a major surface of the object substrate;(b) introducing into the heating chamber a source of Group V element corresponding to the Group V element of the object substrate, said source being capable of providing Group V element in the vapor phase at the diffusion temperature with the vapor pressure of the vapor phase Group V element being at or above the equilibrium vapor pressure of the Group V element present at the surface of the object substrate; and,(c) heating the deposition substrate and the object s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1986
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Harold J. Hovel, Thermon E. McKoy