Patents Examined by Johannes P. Mondt
  • Patent number: 9941360
    Abstract: A field effect transistor and a semiconductor device including the same are provided. The semiconductor device may include a channel layer, which is provided on a substrate and includes a two-dimensional atomic layer made of a first material, and a source/drain layer, which is provided on the substrate and includes a second material. The first material may be one of phosphorus allotropes, the second material may be one of carbon allotropes, and the channel layer and the source/drain layer may be connected to each other by covalent bonds between the first and second materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Maeda, Seunghan Seo, Yeohyun Sung
  • Patent number: 9929044
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device with low parasitic capacitance, a semiconductor device with low power consumption, a semiconductor device having favorable frequency characteristics, or a highly integrated semiconductor device. In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a semiconductor, a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, and an insulator, the semiconductor includes a first region in contact with the first conductor, a second region in contact with the second conductor, and a third region in contact with the insulator. The third conductor includes a region in which the third conductor and the semiconductor overlap with each other with the insulator interposed therebetween. The first region, the second region, and the third region do not overlap with each other. The first conductor is selectively grown over the first region, and the second conductor is selectively grown over the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9923010
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, manufacturing method of a solid-state imaging device, and an electronic device, which can provide a solid-state imaging device having further improved features such as reduced optical color mixing and the like. Also, an electronic device using the solid-state imaging device thereof is provided. According to a solid-state imaging device having a substrate and multiple photoelectric converters that are formed on the substrate, an insulating film forms an embedded element separating unit. The element separating unit is configured of an insulating film having a fixed charge that is formed so as to coat the inner wall face of a groove portion, within the groove portion which is formed in the depth direction from the light input side of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Yanagita, Itaru Oshiyama, Takayuki Enomoto, Harumi Ikeda, Shinichiro Izawa, Atsuhiko Yamamoto, Kazunobu Ota
  • Patent number: 9923011
    Abstract: A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die. The semiconductor device structure also includes a passivation layer between the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die, and the passivation layer is directly bonded to a second interlayer dielectric layer of the second semiconductor die. The semiconductor device structure further includes a conductive feature in via hole and directly bonded to a second conductive line of the second semiconductor die. The semiconductor device structure further includes a second barrier layer between the conductive feature and the passivation layer. The second barrier layer covers sidewalls of the conductive feature and a surface of the conductive feature closer to the first semiconductor die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Feng Kao, Dun-Nian Yaung, Jen-Cheng Liu, Hsun-Ying Huang
  • Patent number: 9922881
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device structure is shown. A gate dielectric layer is formed on a substrate. A portion of the gate dielectric layer, which is located on a part of the substrate in which an S/D region is to be formed, is removed. A gate electrode is formed on the remaining gate dielectric layer. A spacer is formed on the sidewall of the gate electrode and the sidewall of the gate dielectric layer. The S/D region is then formed in the part of the substrate beside the spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Kai-Kuen Chang, Shih-Yin Hsiao
  • Patent number: 9914638
    Abstract: A sensor package comprises a carrier comprising a through hole, and a sensor chip with a front side and a back side and a recess in the back side. The sensor chip is attached to the carrier with its back side facing the carrier by means of an attachment layer thereby defining a first area of the carrier the sensor chip rests on and a second area of the carrier facing the recess. The through hole is arranged in the first area of the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Sensirion AG
    Inventors: David Pustan, Werner Hunziker
  • Patent number: 9899458
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device comprises: a substrate; a thin film transistor (TFT) disposed on the substrate; a protection film disposed on the substrate so as to cover the TFT and including a hole; a pixel electrode disposed on the protection film so as to cover an inner surface of the hole, and electrically connected to the TFT; a pixel-defining film disposed on the pixel electrode and the protection film and including an opening that exposes a part of the pixel electrode; and first and second spacers disposed on the pixel-defining film. The first spacer is disposed so as to correspond to the hole, and a height of the second spacer is higher than a height of the first spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiryun Park
  • Patent number: 9899406
    Abstract: Provided is a vertical NAND flash memory device. The vertical NAND flash memory device may include word lines formed on a substrate, a plurality of pads horizontally extending from the word lines, and contact plugs connected to respective pads. The contact plugs may include a first contact plug connected to a lowermost pad that is closest to the substrate, and a set of second contact plugs each second contact plug connected to a corresponding pad of the plurality of pads. A first distance between the first contact plug and a second contact plug of the set of second contact plugs that is adjacent to the first contact plug may be different from second distances between adjacent contact plugs of the set of second contact plugs. The second distances may be substantially the same as each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung-Hoon Kim, Hongsoo Kim
  • Patent number: 9893082
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a stack including gate electrodes and insulating layers that are alternately and repeatedly stacked on a substrate. A cell channel structure penetrates the stack. The cell channel structure includes a first semiconductor pattern contacting the substrate and a first channel pattern on the first semiconductor pattern. The first semiconductor pattern extends to a first height from a surface of the substrate to a top surface of the first semiconductor pattern. A dummy channel structure on the substrate and spaced apart from the stack. The dummy channel structure includes a second semiconductor pattern contacting the substrate and a second channel pattern on the second semiconductor pattern. The second semiconductor pattern extends to a second height from the surface of the substrate to a top surface of the second semiconductor pattern. The first height is greater than the second height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chaeho Kim, Sangryol Yang, Woong Lee, SeungHyun Lim
  • Patent number: 9881939
    Abstract: A metal oxide film including a crystal part and having highly stable physical properties is provided. The size of the crystal part is less than or equal to 10 nm, which allows the observation of circumferentially arranged spots in a nanobeam electron diffraction pattern of the cross section of the metal oxide film when the measurement area is greater than or equal to 5 nm? and less than or equal to 10 nm?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Takuya Hirohashi, Masashi Tsubuku, Noritaka Ishihara, Masashi Oota
  • Patent number: 9875989
    Abstract: A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface. The semiconductor substrate has an active region. The semiconductor substrate is doped with first dopants with a first-type conductivity. The active region is adjacent to the first surface and doped with second dopants with a second-type conductivity. The semiconductor device structure includes a doped layer over the second surface and doped with third dopants with the first-type conductivity. A first doping concentration of the third dopants in the doped layer is greater than a second doping concentration of the first dopants in the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a conductive bump over the doped layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Feng Kao, Dun-Nian Yaung, Jen-Cheng Liu, Jeng-Shyan Lin, Hsun-Ying Huang
  • Patent number: 9871058
    Abstract: A metal oxide film including a crystal part and having highly stable physical properties is provided. The size of the crystal part is less than or equal to 10 nm, which allows the observation of circumferentially arranged spots in a nanobeam electron diffraction pattern of the cross section of the metal oxide film when the measurement area is greater than or equal to 5 nm? and less than or equal to 10 nm?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Takuya Hirohashi, Masashi Tsubuku, Noritaka Ishihara, Masashi Oota
  • Patent number: 9871167
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a semiconductor structure including a light emitting layer sandwiched between an n-type region and a p-type region. A growth substrate is attached to the semiconductor structure. The growth substrate has at least one angled sidewall. A reflective layer is disposed on the angled sidewall. A majority of light extracted from the semiconductor structure and the growth substrate is extracted through a first surface of the growth substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Brendan Jude Moran, Marc Andre de Samber, Grigoriy Basin, Norbertus Antonius Maria Sweegers, Mark Melvin Butterworth, Kenneth Vampola, Clarisse Mazuir
  • Patent number: 9847371
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) chip for high voltage operation and an LED package including the same are disclosed. The LED chip includes a substrate, a first array formed on the substrate and including n light emitting cells connected in series, and a second array formed on the substrate and including m (m?n) light emitting cells connected in series. During operation of the LED chip, the first array and the second array are operated by being connected in reverse parallel to each other. Further, when a driving voltage of the first array is delined as Vd1 and a driving voltage of the second array is defined as Vd2, a difference between Vd1 and Vd2×(n/m) is not more than 2V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung Hoon Lee, Won Cheol Seo, Yeo Jin Yoon, Jin Cheol Shin
  • Patent number: 9842819
    Abstract: Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide interconnect structures and components for coupling various carriers, printed circuit board (PCB) components, integrated circuit (IC) dice, and the like, using tall and/or fine pitch physical connections. Multiple layers of conductive structures or materials are arranged to form the interconnect structures and components. Nonwettable barriers may be used with one or more of the layers to form a shape, including a pitch of one or more of the layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Invensas Corporation
    Inventors: Cyprian Emeka Uzoh, Rajesh Katkar
  • Patent number: 9837386
    Abstract: A power conversion device including a low-side MOSFET, a high-side MOSFET and an integrated control IC chip is disclosed. The power conversion device further includes a substrate comprising a first mounting area having a first group of welding discs and a second mounting area having a second group of welding discs; a first chip flipped and attached to the first mounting area; a second chip flipped and attached to the second mounting area; a metal clip; and a molding body covering a front surface of the substrate, the first chip, the second chip and the metal clip. Metal pads on a front side of the first chip is attached to the first group of welding discs. Metal pads on a front side of the second chip is attached to the second group of welding discs. The metal clip connects a connection pad to a back metal layer of the first chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: ALPHA AND OMEGA SEMICONDUCTOR INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiaotian Zhang, Shekar Mallikarjunaswamy, Zhiqiang Niu, Cheow Khoon Oh, Yueh-Se Ho
  • Patent number: 9831274
    Abstract: A metal oxide film including a crystal part and having highly stable physical properties is provided. The size of the crystal part is less than or equal to 10 nm, which allows the observation of circumferentially arranged spots in a nanobeam electron diffraction pattern of the cross section of the metal oxide film when the measurement area is greater than or equal to 5 nm? and less than or equal to 10 nm?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Takuya Hirohashi, Masashi Tsubuku, Noritaka Ishihara, Masashi Oota
  • Patent number: 9825005
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor package with Pillar-Top-Interconnection (PTI) configuration, comprising a redistribution layer (RDL) formed on a carrier plane, a plurality of metal pillars disposed on the RDL, a chip bonded onto the RDL, and a molding core. The molding core is formed on the carrier plane and has a bottom surface defined by the carrier plane so that the RDL is embedded inside the molding core. The package thickness of the molding core is greater than the chip-bonding height of the chip so that the chip is completely embedded inside the molding core. The metal pillars are encapsulated at the peripheries of the molding core with a plurality of pillar top portions exposed from the molding core. The exposed pillar top portions are reentrant from a top surface of the molding core and uneven. Accordingly, it realizes the effects of ultra-thin and smaller footprint POP stacked assembly with fine pitch vertically electrical connections in POP structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Powertech Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yun-Hsin Yeh, Hung-Hsin Hsu
  • Patent number: 9825012
    Abstract: A light-emitting device of an embodiment of the present application comprises light-emitting units; a transparent structure having cavities configured to accommodate at least one of the light-emitting units; and a conductive element connecting at least two of the light-emitting units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Min Hsun Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9818801
    Abstract: A three-dimensional resistive memory device includes an alternating stack of electrically conductive layers and insulating layers. Resistive memory elements are provided between the electrically conductive layers and a semiconductor local bit line. The semiconductor local bit line includes a heterostructure of an inner semiconductor material layer having an inner-material band gap and an outer semiconductor material layer having an outer-material band gap that is narrower than the inner-material band. A gate dielectric is located between a gate electrode and the inner semiconductor material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Peter Rabkin, Perumal Ratnam, Christopher J. Petti, Masaaki Higashitani