Patents by Inventor Thomas Äugle

Thomas Äugle 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: 6909141
    Abstract: A vertical semiconductor transistor component is built up on a substrate by using a statistical mask. The vertical semiconductor transistor component has vertical pillar structures statistically distributed over the substrate. The vertical pillar structures are electrically connected on a base side thereof to a first common electrical contact. The vertical pillar structures include, along the vertical direction, layer zones of differing conductivity, and have insulation layers on their circumferential walls. An electrically conductive material is deposited between the pillar structures and forms a second electrical contact of the semiconductor transistor component. The pillar structures are electrically contacted to a third common electrical contact on their capping side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Rösner, Thomas Schulz, Lothar Risch, Thomas Äugle, Herbert Schäfer, Martin Franosch
  • Patent number: 6337247
    Abstract: A spacer is used as a mask in an etching step during which a layer structure is produced for a channel layer and for a first source/drain region. After the layer structure has been produced, the first source/drain region and a second source/drain region can be produced by implantation. The second source/drain region is self-aligned on two mutually opposite flanks of the layer structure. A gate electrode can be produced in the form of a spacer on the two flanks. In order to avoid a capacitance formed by a first contact of the gate electrode and the first source/drain region, a part of the first source/drain region may be removed. If the layer structure is produced along edges of an inner area, then a third contact of the second source/drain region may be produced inside the inner area in order to reduce the surface area of the transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schulz, Thomas Äugle, Wolfgang Rösner, Lothar Risch