Specified Wide Band Gap (1.5ev) Semiconductor Material Other Than Gaasp Or Gaalas Patents (Class 257/76)
  • Patent number: 12211849
    Abstract: A super-steep switching device is provided. The super-steep switching device may include a substrate, a semiconductor channel on the substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode, which are disposed on the semiconductor channel and spaced apart from each other, a gate electrode overlapping a portion of the semiconductor channel and not overlapping a remaining portion of the semiconductor channel, and an insulating layer disposed between the gate electrode and the semiconductor channel and covering an entire surface of the semiconductor channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Hae Ju Choi, Tae Ho Kang, Chan Woo Kang, Hyeon Je Son, Jin Hong Park, Sung Joo Lee, Sung Pyo Baek
  • Patent number: 12206000
    Abstract: A method for forming a high electron mobility transistor is disclosed. A mesa structure having a channel layer and a barrier layer is formed on a substrate. The mesa structure has two first edges extending along a first direction and two second edges extending along a second direction. A passivation layer is formed on the substrate and the mesa structure. A first opening and a plurality of second openings connected to a bottom surface of the first opening are formed and through the passivation layer, the barrier layer and a portion of the channel layer. In a top view, the first opening exposes the two first edges of the mesa structure without exposing the two second edges of the mesa structure. A metal layer is formed in the first opening and the second openings thereby forming a contact structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chih-Tung Yeh, Chun-Liang Hou, Wen-Jung Liao, Chun-Ming Chang, Yi-Shan Hsu, Ruey-Chyr Lee
  • Patent number: 12199017
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a nitride-based transistor, a first metal layer, a second metal layer, a third metal layer, a source pad, and a drain pad. The first metal layer is disposed over the nitride-based transistor. The second metal layer is disposed over the first metal layer. The third metal layer is disposed over the second metal layer and includes a first pattern and a second pattern which are spaced apart from each other. The source pad is immediately above the first metal layer, the second metal layer, and the first pattern of the third metal layer and is electrically coupled with the nitride-based transistor. The drain pad is immediately above the first metal layer, the second metal layer, and the second pattern of the third metal layer and is electrically coupled with the nitride-based transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: INNOSCIENCE (SUZHOU) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Zhang, Jiawei Wen, Yulong Zhang, Jinhan Zhang, Ronghui Hao, Xingjun Li, King Yuen Wong
  • Patent number: 12184191
    Abstract: Provided are switching elements 4, gate driver ICs 5 controlling the switching elements, and substrate 1 carrying the gate driver ICs. Substrate 1 includes base 2 and conductive portion 3 with obverse and reverse surface conductive layers 31, 32. Obverse surface conductive layer 31 includes first connection portion 311 connected to control signal output terminal 51 of gate driver IC 5, second connection portion 312 connected to gate electrode 411 of switching element 4, and first wiring portion 313 interposed between first and second connection portions 311, 312. At least one obverse surface-side first electronic component 61 is provided on obverse surface of substrate 1, forming a circuit portion connecting first and second connection portions 311, 312 together with first wiring portion 313. No conductive member penetrating through base 2 in the thickness direction is connected to first wiring portion 313. These configurations increase the speed of drive control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tan Nhat Hoang, Yoshihisa Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 12176403
    Abstract: A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device including the following components is provided. A gate electrode is located on a barrier layer. A source electrode is located on the first side of the gate electrode. A drain electrode is located on the second side of the gate. A source field plate is connected to the source electrode. The source field plate includes first, second, and third field plate portions. The first field plate portion is connected to the source electrode and is located on the first side of the gate electrode. The second field plate portion is located on the second side of the gate electrode. The third field plate portion is connected to the end of the first field plate portion and the end of the second field plate portion. The source field plate has a first opening located directly above the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chi-Hsiao Chen, Tzyy-Ming Cheng, Wei Jen Chen, Kai Lin Lee
  • Patent number: 12176458
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a substrate; a pattern of a plurality of protrusions protruding from the substrate; a first semiconductor layer provided on the substrate; an active layer provided on the first semiconductor layer; and a second semiconductor layer provided on the active layer, in which each of the protrusions includes a first layer formed integrally with the substrate and protruding from an upper surface of the base substrate; and a second layer provided on the first layer and formed of a material different from that of the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae Hong Min, Jun Ho Yoon, Woo Cheol Gwak, Jin Woo Huh, Yong Hyun Baek
  • Patent number: 12170316
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first and second nitride semiconductor layers. The second layer on the first nitride has a first region, a second region, and a third region between the first and second regions. A first gate electrode is in the first region and extends parallel to a surface of a substrate. A first source electrode is in the first region and extends in the first direction. A second gate electrode in the second region and extends in the first direction. A second source electrode is in the second region and extends in the first direction. A drain electrode coupled to a first and a second wiring. The first wiring directly contacts the second nitride semiconductor layer in the first region. The second wiring directly contacts the second nitride semiconductor layer in the second region. An insulation material is in the third region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushika Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Yoshioka, Yasuhiro Isobe, Hung Hung, Hitoshi Kobayashi, Tetsuya Ohno, Toru Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 12166117
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a Group III nitride-based transistor device is provided that includes a Group III nitride-based body and a p-type Schottky gate including a metal gate on a p-doped Group III nitride structure. The p-doped Group III nitride structure includes an upper p-doped GaN layer in contact with the metal gate and having a thickness d1, a lower p-doped Group III nitride layer having a thickness d2 and including p-doped GaN that is arranged on and in contact with the Group III nitride-based body, and at least one p-doped AlxGa1-xN layer arranged between the upper p-doped GaN layer and the lower p-doped Group III nitride layer, wherein 0<x<1. The thickness d2 of the lower p-doped Group III nitride layer is larger than the thickness d1 of the upper p-doped GaN layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventor: Luca Sayadi
  • Patent number: 12159908
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first nitride semiconductor layer, a second nitride semiconductor layer, a gate structure, and a field plate. The second nitride semiconductor layer is formed on a first surface of the first nitride semiconductor layer. The gate structure is disposed on the second nitride semiconductor layer. The field plate includes a first portion and a second portion connected to the first portion. The first portion has a first surface substantially in parallel to the first surface of the first nitride semiconductor layer, and a second surface adjacent to the first surface of the first portion. The first surface of the first portion of the field plate and the second surface of the first portion of the field plate define a first angle of about 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: INNOSCIENCE (ZHUHAI) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Ming-Hong Chang
  • Patent number: 12154956
    Abstract: Disclosed are a structure with a multi-level field plate and a method of forming the structure. The field plate includes multiple first conductors on a dielectric layer and separated from each other by spaces with different widths (e.g., by with progressively decreasing widths). A conformal additional dielectric layer extends over the first conductors and onto the dielectric layer within the spaces. The field plate also includes, on the additional dielectric layer, second conductor(s) with portions thereof extending into the spaces. Within the spaces, the second conductor portions are at different heights (e.g., at progressively increasing heights) above the dielectric layer. Such a field plate can be incorporated into a transistor (e.g., a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT)) to, not only reduce the peak of an electric field exhibited proximal to a gate terminal, but to ensure the electric field is essentially uniform level between the gate and drain terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
    Inventors: Johnatan Avraham Kantarovsky, Rajendran Krishnasamy, Mark D. Levy, John J. Ellis-Monaghan, Michael J. Zierak, Kristin Marie Welch
  • Patent number: 12154980
    Abstract: A nitride-based semiconductor device includes a first nitride-based semiconductor layer, a lattice layer, a third nitride-based semiconductor layer, a first source electrode and a second electrode, and a gate electrode. The second nitride-based semiconductor layer is disposed over the first nitride-based semiconductor layer. The lattice layer is disposed between the first and second nitride-based semiconductor layers and doped to the first conductivity type. The lattice layer comprises a plurality of first III-V layers and second III-V layers alternatively stacked. Each of the first III-V layers has a high resistivity region and a current aperture enclosed by the high resistivity region. The high resistivity region comprises more metal oxides than the current aperture so as to achieve a resistivity higher than that of the current aperture. At least two of the first III-V layers have the same group III element at different concentrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: INNOSCIENCE (SUZHOU) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi-Lun Chou, Shuang Gao, Chuangang Li
  • Patent number: 12132043
    Abstract: A resistor-transistor-logic circuit with GaN structures, including a 2DEG resistor having a drain connected with an operating voltage, and a logic FET having a gate connected to an input voltage, a source grounded and a drain connected with a source of the 2DEG resistor and connected collectively to an output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Kuo-Hsing Lee, Sheng-Yuan Hsueh, Chien-Liang Wu, Te-Wei Yeh, Yi-Chun Chen
  • Patent number: 12113127
    Abstract: A process integration method for connecting the electrode of the normally-off or normally-on GaN-based HEMT to the backside electrode by a deep etching process. Among the three electrodes of each HEMT, a single electrode or multiple electrodes can be connected to the backside electrode. The electrodes to be connected to the backside electrode through an additional deep etching process. Therefore, there is no need to place PADs on various positions as wire bonding electrodes on the upper layer of device, which can reduce the area of the device layout and use the back metal to connect the package frame base island to reduce the wire bonding parasitic effect. A new structure proposed is a design of connecting the electrode and the backside electrode of the normally-off or normally-on GaN-based HEMTs. This process integration technology not only reduce the layout area, but also reduce the parasitic effect of the packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Greenchip Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuang-Po Hsueh
  • Patent number: 12113119
    Abstract: An FET, a method for manufacturing such FET, and an integrated circuit are disclosed. The FET includes a substrate carrying a gate electrode, a gate dielectric layer, and a channel layer sequentially stacked on the substrate. An insulating layer, an etching stop layer, and a protective layer are stacked sequentially on the channel layer. Source and drain electrodes are also formed. A material of the channel layer includes a 2D material. The FET defines two through holes extending through the insulating layer, the etching stop layer, and the protection layer and the channel layer is exposed, the two through holes carry the source and drain electrodes to form a top or direct contact with the channel layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chung-Yi Chen
  • Patent number: 12100756
    Abstract: A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device including a substrate, a channel layer, a barrier layer, a p-type gallium nitride (GaN) spacer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode is provided. The channel layer is disposed on the substrate. The barrier layer is disposed on the channel layer and has a protruding portion. The P-type GaN spacer is disposed on a side wall of the protruding portion. The gate electrode is disposed on the protruding portion and the P-type GaN spacer. The source electrode and the drain electrode are disposed on two sides of the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hao-Ming Lee, Ta Kang Lo, Tsai-Fu Chen, Shou-Wei Hsieh
  • Patent number: 12094956
    Abstract: A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes: forming a first semiconductor layer and an insulating layer on a substrate; removing the insulating layer and the first semiconductor layer to form openings; forming a second semiconductor layer in the openings; and patterning the second semiconductor layer, the insulating layer, and the first semiconductor layer to form fin-shaped structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chin-Hung Chen, Ssu-I Fu, Chih-Kai Hsu, Chia-Jung Hsu, Yu-Hsiang Lin
  • Patent number: 12080757
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vertical JFET includes providing a III-nitride substrate having a first conductivity type and forming a first III-nitride layer coupled to the III-nitride substrate. The first III-nitride layer is characterized by a first dopant concentration and the first conductivity type. The method also includes forming a plurality of trenches within the first III-nitride layer and epitaxially regrowing a second III-nitride structure in the trenches. The second III-nitride structure is characterized by a second conductivity type. The method further includes forming a plurality of III-nitride fins, each coupled to the first III-nitride layer, wherein the plurality of III-nitride fins are separated by one of a plurality of recess regions, and epitaxially regrowing a III-nitride gate layer in the recess regions. The III-nitride gate layer is coupled to the second III-nitride structure and the III-nitride gate layer is characterized by the second conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Hao Cui, Clifford Drowley
  • Patent number: 12075541
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes pixel circuits arranged to form rows and columns and each including a light emitting element, signal lines each extending in a column direction and configured to supply a pixel signal to the pixel circuits, row selection lines each extending in a row direction and configured to supply a row selection signal to the pixel circuits, and column selection lines each extending in the column direction and configured to supply a column selection signal to the pixel circuits. At least one of the pixel circuits includes a light emission control circuit configured to allow the light emitting element of a pixel circuit indicated by the row selection signal and the column selection signal to emit light in a brightness according to the pixel signal that is being supplied to the pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Igarashi, Hiromasa Tsuboi, Masahiko Mizoguchi, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12051731
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising: a semiconductor body of silicon carbide, SiC, having a first and a second face, opposite to one another along a first direction, which presents positive-charge carriers at said first face that form a positive interface charge; a first conduction terminal, which extends at the first face of the semiconductor body; a second conduction terminal, which extends on the second face of the semiconductor body; a channel region in the semiconductor body, configured to house, in use, a flow of electrons between the first conduction terminal and the second conduction terminal; and a trapping layer, of insulating material, which extends in electrical contact with the semiconductor body at said channel region and is designed so as to present electron-trapping states that generate a negative charge such as to balance, at least in part, said positive interface charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Patrick Fiorenza, Fabrizio Roccaforte, Mario Giuseppe Saggio
  • Patent number: 12040367
    Abstract: An ohmic contact includes a first semiconductor layer a second semiconductor layer, and a heterointerface between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer has a two-dimensional electron sheet region in which a two-dimensional electron sheet is formed. The ohmic contact further includes a metal terminal covering the first semiconductor layer and filling a plurality of direct access pathways that provide direct lateral contact with the two-dimensional electron sheet region. The semiconductor device is fabricated by providing the semiconductor layers, etching the direct access pathways, and depositing metal material to fill the direct access pathways and cover the semiconductor layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA
    Inventors: Alireza Loghmany, Jean-Paul Noel, Elias Al-Alam
  • Patent number: 12034071
    Abstract: A high electron mobility transistor includes a substrate, a semiconductor channel layer, a semiconductor barrier layer, a gate field plate, a source electrode, at least one first field plate, and a second field plate. The gate field plate is disposed on the semiconductor barrier layer. The source electrode is disposed on one side of the gate field plate, and the first field plate is disposed on the other side of the gate field plate and laterally spaced apart from the gate field plate. The second field plate covers the gate field plate and the first field plate and is electrically connected to the source electrode, where the area of the second field plate is larger than the sum of the area of the gate field plate and the area of the first field plate when perceived from a top-down perspective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Yang Du, Shin-Chen Lin, Chia-Ching Huang
  • Patent number: 12021122
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the disclosure provide a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device comprises: a substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer on the substrate; a second nitride semiconductor layer on the first nitride semiconductor layer and having a band gap greater than a band gap of the first nitride semiconductor layer; a group III-V dielectric layer disposed on the second nitride semiconductor layer; a gate electrode disposed on the second nitride semiconductor layer; and a first passivation layer disposed on the group III-V dielectric layer, wherein the group III-V dielectric layer is separated from the gate electrode by the first passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: INNOSCIENCE (ZHUHAI) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Anbang Zhang, King Yuen Wong
  • Patent number: 12015107
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the optoelectronic semiconductor chip comprises a semiconductor layer sequence with an active zone for generating a radiation. The semiconductor layer sequence is based on AlInGaP and/or on AlInGaAs. A metal mirror for the radiation is located on a rear side of the semiconductor layer sequence opposite a light extraction side. A protective metallization is applied directly to a side of the metal mirror facing away from the semiconductor layer sequence. An adhesion promoting layer is located directly on a side of the metal mirror facing the semiconductor layer sequence. The adhesion promoting layer is an encapsulation layer for the metal mirror, so that the metal mirror is encapsulated at least at one outer edge by the adhesion promoting layer together with the protective metallization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian Pickel, Johannes Saric, Wolfgang Schmid, Anna Strozecka-Assig, Johannes Baur
  • Patent number: 12009205
    Abstract: A substrate including a support structure. The support structure including a polycrystalline ceramic core and a first adhesion layer coupled to the polycrystalline ceramic core. The support structure further including a conductive layer coupled to the first adhesion layer, a second adhesion layer coupled to the conductive layer, and a barrier layer coupled to the second adhesion layer. The substrate further including a bonding layer coupled to the support structure. The substrate further including a substantially single crystal layer comprising at least one of silicon carbide, sapphire, or gallium nitride coupled to the bonding layer. The substrate further including an epitaxial semiconductor layer coupled to the substantially single crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: QROMIS, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir Odnoblyudov, Cem Basceri, Shari Farrens
  • Patent number: 12003231
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes switching on a transistor device by generating a first conducting channel by driving a first gate electrode and, before generating the first conducting channel, generating a second conducting channel by driving a second gate electrode, wherein the second gate electrode is adjacent the first gate electrode in a current flow direction of the transistor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG
    Inventors: Markus Bina, Jens Barrenscheen, Anton Mauder
  • Patent number: 11990542
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor device includes: a substrate; an n-type drift layer; a p-type blocking layer; a gate opening which penetrates through the blocking layer to the drift layer; an electron transport layer and an electron supply layer provided on an inner face of the gate opening; a gate electrode above the electron supply layer and covering the gate opening; a source opening penetrating through the electron supply layer and the electron transport layer to the blocking layer; a source electrode covering the source opening, the source electrode being connected to the electron supply layer, the electron transport layer, and the blocking layer; and a drain electrode on a side of the substrate opposite from a side on which the blocking layer is located. A bottom face of the gate electrode is closer to the drain electrode than a bottom face of the blocking layer is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Shibata, Satoshi Tamura, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11978792
    Abstract: A field effect transistor (FET) includes a plurality of substantially parallel conductive channels and at least one electrically conducting plug to travers and form an ohmic connection with at least two of the plurality of conductive channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: VISIC TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Gregory Bunin, Tamara Baksht
  • Patent number: 11955411
    Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a first lead, and a second lead. The semiconductor element has an element obverse surface and an element reverse surface spaced apart from each other in a thickness direction. The semiconductor element includes an electron transit layer disposed between the element obverse surface and the element reverse surface and formed of a nitride semiconductor, a first electrode disposed on the element obverse surface, and a second electrode disposed on the element reverse surface and electrically connected to the first electrode. The semiconductor element is mounted on the first lead, and the second electrode is joined to the first lead. The second lead is electrically connected to the first electrode. The semiconductor element is a transistor. The second lead is spaced apart from the first lead and is configured such that a main current to be subjected to switching flows therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koshun Saito, Tsuyoshi Tachi
  • Patent number: 11955520
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nitride semiconductor includes a nitride member. The nitride member includes a first nitride region including Alx1Ga1-x1N (0<x1?1), a second nitride region including Alx2Ga1-x2N (0<x2<1, x2<x1), and a third nitride region. The second nitride region is between the first nitride region and the third nitride region. The third nitride region includes Al, Ga, and N. The third nitride region does not include carbon, alternatively a third carbon concentration in the third nitride region is lower than a second carbon concentration in the second nitride region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Toshiki Hikosaka, Hajime Nago, Jumpei Tajima, Shinya Nunoue
  • Patent number: 11948864
    Abstract: A semiconductor device has a first wiring extending in a first direction on a nitride semiconductor layer. A source electrode is electrically connected to the first wiring and extends in a second direction. A drain electrode extends in the second direction and includes a first and second portion extending in the second direction, spaced from each other in the first direction. An element isolation region is in the second nitride semiconductor layer between the first and second portions. A third portion extends in the second direction on the first and second portions. A gate electrode extends in the second direction on the second nitride semiconductor layer between the source electrode and the drain electrode. The portion includes holes therein aligned with each other along the second direction with the spacing between adjacent holes in the second direction increasing with increasing distance in the second direction from the first wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Yoshioka, Hung Hung, Yasuhiro Isobe, Toru Sugiyama, Hitoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11942521
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate (10); a stack of III-nitride transition layers (11) disposed on the substrate (10), the stack of III-nitride transition layers (11) maintaining an epitaxial relationship to the substrate (10); a first III-nitride layer (121) disposed on the stack of III-nitride transition layers (11); and a second III-nitride layer (122) disposed on the first III-nitride layer (121), the second III-nitride layer (122) having a band gap energy greater than that of the first III-nitride layer (121), wherein the stack of III-nitride transition layers (11) comprises a first transition layer (111), a second transition layer (112) on the first transition layer (111), and a third transition layer (113) on the second transition layer (112), and wherein the second transition layer (112) has a minimum aluminium molar ratio among the first transition layer (111), the second transition layer (112) and third transition layer (113).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: INNOSCIENCE (SUZHOU) SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Peng-Yi Wu
  • Patent number: 11922865
    Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel that emits light toward an upper side, a second pixel that emits light toward a lower side, a plurality of lines and a pad electrode. The first pixel includes a first light emitting element, a first pixel circuit connected to the first light emitting element and some of the plurality of lines and a bottom reflective layer that is under the first light emitting element to overlap the first light emitting element and has a greater size than the first light emitting element. The second pixel includes a second light emitting element, a second pixel circuit connected to the second light emitting element and the others of the plurality of lines, and a top reflective layer that on the second light emitting element to overlap the second light emitting element and has a greater size than the second light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HyeonHo Son
  • Patent number: 11876129
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method for the semiconductor structure, which solve problems of complicated manufacturing process and poor stability and reliability of existing semiconductor structures. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a channel layer and a barrier layer sequentially superimposed on the substrate, wherein the channel layer and the barrier layer are made of GaN-based materials and an upper surface of the barrier layer is Ga-face; and a p-type GaN-based semiconductor layer formed in a gate region of the barrier layer. An upper surface of the p-type GaN-based semiconductor layer is N-face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ENKRIS SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventor: Kai Cheng
  • Patent number: 11837656
    Abstract: To provide a nitride semiconductor device excellent in switching characteristics. A nitride semiconductor device includes: a gallium nitride layer having a first principal surface and a second principal surface located on an opposite side to the first principal surface and having a trench formed from the first principal surface to the second principal surface side; and a field effect transistor formed in the gallium nitride layer, wherein the trench has a first side surface and a second side surface inside the trench, the first side surface is a nitrogen face in the surface layer of which nitrogen atoms are located, the second side surface is a gallium face in the surface layer of which gallium atoms are located, and the field effect transistor has: a gate insulating film formed on the first side surface; and a gate electrode formed in the trench and covering the gate insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsunori Ueno, Yuki Ohuchi
  • Patent number: 11830940
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate including a vertical interface; a channel layer disposed outside the vertical interface; and a channel supply layer disposed outside the channel layer; wherein at least one of a vertical two-dimensional electron gas 2DEG and two-dimensional hole gas 2DHG is formed in the channel layer adjacent to an interface between the channel layer and the channel supply layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG ZHINENG TECHNOLOGIES, CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Zilan Li
  • Patent number: 11822162
    Abstract: A wideband terahertz modulator based on gradual openings, which belongs to the technical field of electromagnetic functional devices, includes: a semiconductor substrate; an epitaxial layer provided on the semiconductor substrate; a modulation units array, a positive voltage loading electrode and a negative voltage loading electrode which are provided on the epitaxial layer; wherein each modulation unit in the modulation units array comprises a disconnected H-shaped structure, a metal electrode located below an end of the opening of the disconnected H-shaped structure, and a semiconductor doped heterostructure located below the opening of the disconnected H-shaped structure; wherein in the disconnected H-shaped structures, adjacent modulation units have different opening positions; in a same row, the opening positions are linearly distributed and have a certain slope, and inclination slopes of the opening positions of two adjacent rows are opposite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Yaxin Zhang, Shixiong Liang, Xilin Zhang, Ziqiang Yang Yang, Zhihong Feng
  • Patent number: 11728388
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including an active structure on a substrate, the active structure including silicon germanium patterns and silicon patterns alternately and repeatedly stacked in a vertical direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate; a semiconductor layer on sidewalls of the active structure that face in a first direction parallel to the upper surface of the substrate, the semiconductor layer being a source/drain region; and a gate structure on a surface of the active structure and the substrate, the gate structure extending in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the silicon germanium patterns are silicon rich-silicon germanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keunhwi Cho, Byounghak Hong, Myunggil Kang
  • Patent number: 11726235
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for an optical waveguide display configured for use with a near-eye display (NED) device. In an embodiment the waveguide display includes a light-transmissive substrate and an optical coupling element configured to input light rays to the substrate or output light rays from the substrate, the optical coupling element configured to deflect a plurality of wavelengths of an incident light ray collinearly for propagation within the light-transmissive substrate through total internal reflection (TIR). The optical coupling element can include a pattern of nano-structures that collectively form a metasurface on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eliezer Glik, Hagar Edelstain, Bernard C. Kress
  • Patent number: 11716026
    Abstract: According to one configuration, an inductor device comprises: core material and one or more electrically conductive paths. The core material is magnetically permeable and surrounds (envelops) the one or more electrically conductive paths. Each of the electrically conductive paths extends through the core material of the inductor device from a first end of the inductor device to a second end of the inductor device. The magnetically permeable core material is operative to confine (guide, carry, convey, localize, etc.) respective magnetic flux generated from current flowing through a respective electrically conductive path. The core material stores the magnetic flux energy (i.e., first magnetic flux) generated from the current flowing through the first electrically conductive path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Kennith K. Leong, Matthias J. Kasper, Luca Peluso, Gerald Deboy
  • Patent number: 11705512
    Abstract: A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a carrier transit layer, a carrier supply layer, a main gate, a control gate, a source electrode and a drain electrode. The carrier transit layer is on a substrate. The carrier supply layer is on the carrier transit layer. The main gate and the control gate are on the carrier supply layer. A fluoride ion doped region is formed right below the main gate in the carrier supply layer. The source electrode and the drain electrode are at two opposite sides of the main gate and the control gate, wherein the source electrode is electrically connected to the control gate by a metal interconnect. The present invention also provides a method of forming a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Kuo-Hsing Lee, Yi-Chung Sheng, Sheng-Yuan Hsueh, Chih-Kai Kang, Guan-Kai Huang, Chien-Liang Wu
  • Patent number: 11677020
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to third electrodes, first to third nitride regions, and first and second insulating films. The first nitride region includes Alx1Ga1?x1N, and includes first and second partial regions, a third partial region between the first and second partial regions, a fourth partial region between the first and third partial regions, and a fifth partial region between the third and second partial regions. The first nitride region includes first to fifth partial regions. The second nitride region includes Alx2Ga1?x2N, and sixth and seventh partial regions. At least a portion of the third electrode is between the sixth and seventh partial regions. The first insulating film includes silicon and oxygen and includes first and second insulating regions. The third nitride region includes Alx3Ga1?x3N, and first to seventh portions. The second insulating film includes silicon and oxygen and includes third to seventh insulating regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daimotsu Kato, Yosuke Kajiwara, Akira Mukai, Aya Shindome, Hiroshi Ono, Masahiko Kuraguchi
  • Patent number: 11670710
    Abstract: A high electron mobility transistor includes a first III-V compound layer. A second III-V compound layer is disposed on the first III-V compound layer. The composition of the first III-V compound layer and the second III-V compound layer are different from each other. A shallow recess, a first deep recess and a second deep recess are disposed in the second III-V compound layer. The first deep recess and the second deep recess are respectively disposed at two sides of the shallow recess. The source electrode fills in the first deep recess and contacts the top surface of the first III-V compound layer. A drain electrode fills in the second deep recess and contacts the top surface of the first III-V compound layer. The shape of the source electrode and the shape of the drain electrode are different from each other. A gate electrode is disposed on the shallow recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Po-Kuang Hsieh, Shih-Hung Tsai
  • Patent number: 11670687
    Abstract: A gallium nitride substrate comprising a first main surface and a second main surface opposite thereto, wherein the first main surface is a non-polar or semi-polar plane, a dislocation density measured by a room-temperature cathode luminescence method in the first main surface is 1×104 cm?2 or less, and an averaged dislocation density measured by a room-temperature cathode luminescence method in an optional square region sizing 250 ?m×250 ?m in the first main plan is 1×106 cm?2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Tsukada, Shuichi Kubo, Kazunori Kamada, Hideo Fujisawa, Tatsuhiro Ohata, Hirotaka Ikeda, Hajime Matsumoto, Yutaka Mikawa
  • Patent number: 11658235
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a first region, and a first insulating layer. The first electrode includes a first electrode portion. The first region contains Ga and N. The first region includes a first subregion, a second subregion, and a third subregion. The first subregion and the third subregion contain at least one first element selected from the group consisting of Ar, B, P, N, and Fe. The first subregion is located between the first electrode portion and the second subregion in a first direction. The second subregion does not contain the first element, or concentration of the first element in the second subregion is lower than concentration of the first element in the first subregion and lower than concentration of the first element in the third subregion. The first insulating layer is provided between the first electrode and the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiko Kuraguchi, Yosuke Kajiwara, Miki Yumoto, Hiroshi Ono
  • Patent number: 11646310
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes a radio frequency transistor amplifier die having a first surface, a second surface, a semiconductor layer structure that is between the first and second surfaces and includes a plurality of transistor cells adjacent the first surface, and terminals coupled to the transistor cells. At least one passive electronic component is provided on the second surface of the die and is electrically connected to at least one of the terminals, for example, by at least one conductive via. One or more conductive pillar structures may protrude from the first surface of the die to provide electrical connections to one or more of the terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Wolfspeed, Inc.
    Inventors: Terry Alcorn, Daniel Namishia, Fabian Radulescu
  • Patent number: 11616167
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes an n-type cladding layer including n-type AlGaN, and a multiple quantum well layer including a barrier layer that includes AlGaN and is located on the n-type cladding layer side, wherein the nitride semiconductor light-emitting element further comprises a trigger layer that is located between the n-type cladding layer and the barrier layer and comprises Si, wherein a plural V-pits starting from dislocations in the n-type cladding layer and ending in the multiple quantum well are formed in the n-type cladding layer and the multiple quantum well layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Nikkiso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cyril Pernot, Yusuke Matsukura, Yuta Furusawa, Mitsugu Wada
  • Patent number: 11605754
    Abstract: A transfer method includes providing a first light emitting diode on a first substrate, performing a partial laser liftoff of the first light emitting diode from the first substrate, laser bonding the first light emitting diode to the backplane after performing the partial laser liftoff, and separating the first substrate from the first light emitting diode after the laser bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NANOSYS, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy Gallagher, Anusha Pokhriyal
  • Patent number: 11600614
    Abstract: Various integrated circuits formed using gallium nitride and other materials are described. In one example, an integrated circuit includes a first integrated device formed over a first semiconductor structure in a first region of the integrated circuit, a second integrated device formed over a second semiconductor structure in a second region of the integrated circuit, and a passive component formed over a third region of the integrated circuit, between the first region and the second region. The third region comprises an insulating material, which can be glass in some cases. Further, the passive component can be formed over the glass in the third region. The integrated circuit is designed to avoid electromagnetic coupling between the passive component, during operation of the integrated circuit, and interfacial parasitic conductive layers existing in the first and second semiconductor structures, to improve performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Carlson, Timothy E. Boles, Wayne Mack Struble
  • Patent number: 11588047
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a semiconductor component and a method for forming the semiconductor component. The semiconductor component includes a substrate, a III-V layer, a doped III-V layer, a gate contact, a first field plate, and a second field plate. The gate contact has first and second sides away from the doped III-V layer. The first field plate has first and second sides, and the first side is closer to the second side of the gate contact than the second side. The second field plate has first and second sides, and the first side is closer to the second side of the gate contact than the second side. The first field plate is closer to the doped III-V layer than the second field plate and the first side and the second side of the gate contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: INNOSCIENCE (ZHUHAI) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Li, Haoning Zheng, Anbang Zhang
  • Patent number: RE49962
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first and second regions, a first insulating portion, and first, second, and third electrodes. The first region includes first and second partial regions, and a third partial region between the first and second partial regions. The second region includes fourth and fifth partial regions. The fourth partial region overlaps the first partial region. The fifth partial region overlaps the second partial region. The first insulating portion includes first, second, and third insulating regions. The first insulating region is provided between the second insulating region and the third partial region and between the third insulating region and the third partial region. The first electrode is electrically connected to the fourth partial region. The second electrode is away from the first electrode and is electrically connected to the fifth partial region. The third electrode is provided between the first and second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Kuraguchi, Yosuke Kajiwara, Aya Shindome, Hiroshi Ono, Daimotsu Kato, Akira Mukai