Patents by Inventor Thomas Grassl

Thomas Grassl 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: 6583030
    Abstract: A method for producing an integrated circuit wherein a substrate is provided that includes a circuit structure and a first metalization structure disposed thereover comprising at least one layer with plated holes extending therethrough and into the circuit structure. The plated holes are insulated and a planarizing layer is disposed over the metalization structure. A handling wafer is applied over the substrate permitting the substrate to be thinned such that metalized connections disposed in the plated holes are exposed. A second metalization structure is provided and connected to the circuit structure and/or the first metalization structure by the metalized connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Grassl
  • Patent number: 6030900
    Abstract: In a method for the production of a spacer layer in a structure in a first step a structure is produced by anisotropic dry etching, and in a further step an oxide layer is deposited with an organic silicon precursor at a pressure of p=0.2-1 bar and a temperature of 200.degree. C. to 400.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Grassl, Manfred Engelhardt
  • Patent number: 5837611
    Abstract: When large-scale integrated circuits are produced, pronounced differences in height occur within conductor track levels. Those extreme topographies lead to difficulties during photo-lithographic processes, since there is a direct relationship between resolution and depth of focus. A production method for applying an insulation layer functioning as an intermetal dielectric is based on an ozone-activated selective deposition of silicon oxide. The conductor tracks are completely encapsulated with an insulation layer, so that bulges do not occur above upper edges of the conductor tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Zvonimir Gabric, Oswald Spindler, Thomas Grassl