Patents by Inventor Wen Xiao

Wen Xiao 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: 11194244
    Abstract: Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture and production systems therefor are disclosed. The EUV mask blanks comprise a substrate; a multilayer stack of reflective layers on the substrate; a capping layer on the multilayer stack of reflecting layers; and an absorber layer on the capping layer, the absorber layer made from amorphous tantalum nitride formed by non-reactive sputtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Shuwei Liu, Chang Ke, Wen Xiao, Vibhu Jindal
  • Publication number: 20210341999
    Abstract: A head mounted display, including at least one display, an image capture device, a light beam generator, and an optical compensation element, is provided. The display has an open area and generates at least one image light beam. The image capture device is disposed by overlapping with the display corresponding to the open area. The image capture device is configured to capture a target area image through the open area. The light beam generator is configured to project at least one light beam to a target area. The target area reflects the light beam to generate at least one reflection light beam. The optical compensation element is configured to convert a transmission direction of the image light beam and enable the reflection light beam to be directly transmitted to the image capture device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Bo-Wen Xiao, Fu-Cheng Fan
  • Publication number: 20210333703
    Abstract: Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks and methods for their manufacture, and production systems therefor are disclosed. The method for forming an EUV mask blank comprises smoothing out surface defects on a surface of a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc
    Inventors: Wen Xiao, Vibhu Jindal, Weimin Li, Sanjay Bhat, Azeddine Zerrade
  • Publication number: 20210302726
    Abstract: A head mounted display includes a tube, a first light beam generator, a second light beam generator, an image capturer and a controller. The first light beam generator is disposed outside the tube and projects a plurality of first light beams to a first range of a target area. The second light beam generator is disposed inside the tube and projects a second light beam to a second range of the target area. The image capturer captures an image on the target area to generate image information. The controller receives the image information and performs an eye-tracking operation according to the image information. The second range is a center range of the target area, and the first range is a surrounding range of the target area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Bao-Jen Shih, Bo-Wen Xiao, Fu-Cheng Fan
  • Publication number: 20210246677
    Abstract: A pool cleaner including a housing, a driving assembly, a brush assembly, and a removable debris container. The removable debris container is coupled to the housing through a locking member in the brush assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Zhi Xiong Huang, Wen Xiao Zhang, Yaw Yuan Hsu
  • Publication number: 20210232040
    Abstract: Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture and production systems therefor are disclosed. The EUV mask blanks comprise a substrate; a multilayer stack of reflective layers on the substrate; a capping layer on the multilayer stack of reflecting layers; an absorber layer on the capping layer, the absorber layer comprising an antimony-containing material; and a hard mask layer on the absorber layer, the hard mask layer comprising a hard mask material selected from the group consisting of CrO, CrON, TaNi, TaRu and TaCu.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuwei Liu, Wen Xiao, Vibhu Jindal, Azeddine Zerrade
  • Publication number: 20210232039
    Abstract: Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture and production systems therefor are disclosed. The EUV mask blanks comprise a substrate; a multilayer stack of reflective layers on the substrate; a capping layer on the multilayer stack of reflecting layers; and an absorber layer on the capping layer, the absorber layer made from tantalum and ruthenium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuwei Liu, Wen Xiao, Vibhu Jindal, Azeddine Zerrade
  • Publication number: 20210232041
    Abstract: Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture and production systems therefor are disclosed. The EUV mask blanks comprise a substrate; a multilayer stack of reflective layers on the substrate; a capping layer on the multilayer stack of reflecting layers; an absorber layer on the capping layer, the absorber layer comprising a tantalum-containing material; and a hard mask layer on the absorber layer, the hard mask layer comprising a hard mask material selected from the group consisting of CrO, CrON, TaNi, TaRu and TaCu.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuwei Liu, Wen Xiao, Vibhu Jindal, Azeddine Zerrade
  • Publication number: 20210124253
    Abstract: Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture, and production systems therefor are disclosed. A method for forming an EUV mask blank comprises placing a substrate in a multi-cathode physical vapor deposition chamber, depositing a multilayer stack, removing the substrate from the chamber and passivating the PVD chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Herng Yau Yoong, Wen Xiao, Vibhu Jindal, Shuwei Liu, Sanjay Bhat, Azeddine Zerrade
  • Publication number: 20210124252
    Abstract: Methods for the manufacture of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks and production systems therefor are disclosed. A method for forming an EUV mask blank comprises forming a bilayer on a portion of a multi-cathode PVD chamber interior and then forming a multilayer stack of Si/Mo on a substrate in the multi-cathode PVD chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Wen Xiao, Sanjay Bhat, Shiyu Liu, Binni Varghese, Vibhu Jindal, Azeddine Zerrade
  • Patent number: 10969865
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for transmission of eye tracking information, a head mounted display and a computer device. The method includes: receiving visual content; receiving object information associated with each content object; displaying the visual content, and performing an eye tracking operation on a wearer of the head mounted display; determining, according to the object information of each content object, whether a gaze location corresponds to one of the content objects; and in response to determining that the gaze location corresponds to a first content object of the content objects, transmitting a first indicator associated with the first content object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Bo-Wen Xiao, Fu-Cheng Fan
  • Patent number: 10935793
    Abstract: A head mounted display comprises a light sensor, a first light source, a second light source, a transflective mirror, a lens, a display and a filter. The first light source is used for generating a first light beam. The second light source is used for generating a second light beam. The transflective mirror is provided on the light paths of the first light beam and the second light beam. The first light source is provided at the periphery of the lens or the light sensor. The first light beam is reflected by a first object, and enters the light sensor via the lens and the transflective mirror in sequence. The second light source is provided at the periphery of the filter. After leaving the second light source, the second light beam is reflected by a second object outside the head mounted display first, and then enters the light sensor via the filter and the transflective mirror in sequence. A using method of the head mounted display is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Bo-Wen Xiao, Fu-Cheng Fan
  • Publication number: 20210047706
    Abstract: Disclosed is a manufacturing method for a high silicon grain oriented electrical steel sheet, the silicon content of the high silicon grain oriented electrical steel is greater than 4 wt %, comprising the steps of: (1) performing decarburization annealing of a cold-rolled steel plate; (2) allowing high silicon alloy particles in a completely solid state to collide at a high speed with the surface of the decarburization annealed steel plate to be sprayed, thus forming a high silicon alloy coating on the surface of the steel plate to be sprayed; (3) coating a release agent and drying; and (4) annealing. The manufacturing method for the high silicon grain oriented electrical steel sheet of the present invention is inexpensive, and, the high silicon grain oriented electrical steel sheet produced is of stable quality and is provided with great magnetic performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huabing ZHANG, Shuangjie CHU, Guobao LI, Wen XIAO, Baojun LIU, Yongjie YANG, Kanyi SHEN, Dan HAN, Zhining HU
  • Publication number: 20210041781
    Abstract: An extreme ultraviolet reflective element comprising a multilayer stack of absorber layers on a multilayer stack of reflective layers. The element comprises spacing layer and phase tuning layer. Methods of manufacturing extreme ultraviolet reflective elements and lithography systems including extreme ultraviolet reflective elements are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Wen Xiao, Vibhu Jindal
  • Publication number: 20210032742
    Abstract: Methods of cleaning a PVD chamber component, for example, process kit components are disclosed. The method comprises at least one of directing a jet of pressurized fluid at a surface of the PVD chamber component, directing pressurized carbon dioxide at the surface of the PVD chamber component, placing the PVD chamber component in a liquid and producing ultrasonic waves in the liquid to further remove contaminants from the surface of the PVD chamber component, using a plasma to clean the surface of the PVD chamber component, subjecting the PVD chamber component to a thermal cycle by heating up to a peak temperature of at least 50° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Vibhu Jindal, Shiyu Liu, Sanjay Bhat, Shuwei Liu, Wen Xiao
  • Publication number: 20210013407
    Abstract: Various embodiments may provide a memory cell. The memory cell may include an active electrode including an active electrode material. The memory cell may also include a first noble electrode contact with the active electrode, the first noble electrode being a patterned electrode including a noble electrode material. The memory cell may further include a resistive switching layer in contact with the active electrode and the first noble electrode. The memory cell may additionally include a second noble electrode including a noble electrode material, the second noble electrode in contact with the resistive switching layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Wen Xiao, Wendong Song, Jun Ding, Ernult Franck Gerard
  • Publication number: 20200371431
    Abstract: Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture and production systems therefor are disclosed. The EUV mask blanks comprise a substrate; a multilayer stack of reflective layers on the substrate; a capping layer on the multilayer stack of reflecting layers; and an absorber layer embedded in the multilayer stack of reflective layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Wen Xiao, Vibhu Jindal
  • Publication number: 20200333700
    Abstract: A multilayer stack in the form of a Bragg reflector comprising a graded interfacial layer and a method of manufacturing are disclosed. The graded interfacial layer eliminates the formation of low-reflectivity interfaces in a multilayer stack and reduces roughness of interfaces in a multilayer stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Wen Xiao, Vibhu Jindal, Weimin Li, Shuwei Liu
  • Publication number: 20200335331
    Abstract: A physical vapor deposition chamber comprising a tilting substrate support is described. Methods of processing a substrate are also provided comprising tilting at least one of the substrate and the target to improve the uniformity of the layer on the substrate from the center of the substrate to the edge of the substrate. Process controllers are also described which comprise one or more process configurations causing the physical deposition chamber to perform the operations of rotating a substrate support within the physical deposition chamber and tilting the substrate support at a plurality of angles with respect to a horizontal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Wen Xiao, Vibhu Jindal, Sanjay Bhat
  • Publication number: 20200332412
    Abstract: A physical vapor deposition chamber comprising a rotating substrate support having a rotational axis, a first cathode having a radial center positioned off-center from a rotational axis of the substrate support is disclosed. A process controller comprising one or more process configurations selected from one or more of a first configuration to determine a rotation speed (v) for a substrate support to complete a whole number of rotations (n) around the rotational axis of the substrate support in a process window time (t) to form a layer of a first material on a substrate, or a second configuration to rotate the substrate support at the rotation speed (v).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Wen Xiao, Vibhu Jindal, Sanjay Bhat