Patents by Inventor Yue-Kai Lo

Yue-Kai Lo 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: 5895960
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a resistor formed in a doped tub located in a semiconductor substrate. A first highly doped resistor contact region extends outward from the associated contact windows towards a second highly doped resistor contact region. The extent of the underlying tub region that lies between the highly doped tub contact regions largely determines the resistance value. The size and geometry of the highly doped resistor contact regions, and hence the resistance of the resistor, is typically determined by the same mask that defines the thin oxide regions of field effect transistors formed on the IC. In a typical application, the resistor is connected between an output buffer and a bondpad. A multiplicity of output buffers on an IC chip may each connect to corresponding bondpads using a multiplicity of the inventive resistors, which may have the same, or alternatively differing, resistance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: David Marlin Fritz, Yue-Kai Lo, Zhigang Ma, Yehuda Smooha