Patents by Inventor Vincent C. Venezia

Vincent C. Venezia 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).

  • Publication number: 20090065875
    Abstract: A metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) device having a body of single-crystal strontium titanate or barium titanate (10) is provided in which the body comprises a doped semiconductor region (24) adjacent a dielectric region (26). The body may further comprise a doped conductive region separated from the semiconductor region by the dielectric region. The material characteristics of single-crystal strontium titanate when doped in various ways are exploited to provide the insulating, conducting and semiconducting components of a MOS stack. Advantageously, the use of a single body avoids the presence of interface layers between the stack components which improves the characteristics of MOS devices such as field effect transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Yukiko Furukawa, Vincent C. Venezia, Radu Surdeanu
  • Patent number: 6632728
    Abstract: We have found that under certain prescribed conditions a co-implantation process can be effective in increasing the electrical activation of implanted dopant ions. In accordance with one aspect of our invention, a method of making a semiconductor device includes the steps of providing a single crystal semiconductor body, implanting vacancy-generating, ions into a preselected region of the body, implanting dopant ions into the preselected region, the dopant implant forming interstitial defects in the body, and annealing the body to electrically activate the dopant ions. Importantly, in our method the vacancy-generating implant introduces vacancy defects into the preselected region that are effective to annihilate the interstitial defects. In addition, process steps that amorphize the surface of the implanted region are avoided, and the dose of the vacancy-generating implant is made to be greater than that of the dopant implant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Ludwig Gossmann, Conor Stefan Rafferty, Tony E. Haynes, Ramki Kalyanaraman, Vincent C. Venezia, Maria Lourdes Pelaz-Montes
  • Publication number: 20030013260
    Abstract: We have found that under certain prescribed conditions a co-implantation process can be effective in increasing the electrical activation of implanted dopant ions. In accordance with one aspect of our invention, a method of making a semiconductor device includes the steps of providing a single crystal semiconductor body, implanting vacancy-generating ions into a preselected region of the body, implanting dopant ions into the preselected region, the dopant implant forming interstitial defects in the body, and annealing the body to electrically activate the dopant ions. Importantly, in our method the vacancy-generating implant introduces vacancy defects into the preselected region that are effective to annihilate the interstitial defects. In addition, process steps that amorphize the surface of the implanted region are avoided, and the dose of the vacancy-generating implant is made to be greater than that of the dopant implant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Ludwig Gossmann, Conor Stefan Rafferty, Tony E. Haynes, Ramki Kalyanaraman, Vincent C. Venezia, Maria Lourdes Pelaz-Montes