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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6034434 | Optimized underlayer structures for maintaining chemical mechanical polishing removal rates A method of forming sharp oxide peaks on the surface of a semiconductor wafer for the purpose of conditioning polishing pads used during a Chemical Mechanical Polishing process is disclosed. In order to create oxide peaks on the surface of a wafer, additi... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5993165 | In Situ getter pump system and method A wafer processing system including a processing chamber, a low pressure pump coupled to the processing chamber for pumping noble and non-noble gases, a valve mechanism coupling a source of noble gas to the processing chamber, an in situ getter pump dispo... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5981378 | Reliable interconnect via structures and methods for making the same Disclosed is an aluminum filled via hole for use in a semiconductor interconnect structure. The aluminum filled via hole of the semiconductor interconnect structure includes a first patterned metallization layer lying over a first dielectric layer. A seco... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5965925 | Integrated circuit layout methods and layout structures Disclosed is a semiconductor layout design for use in integrated circuits that use balance circuitry. The semiconductor layout design includes a set of four substantially self enclosing gate transistors being arranged symmetrically about a common point. W... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5934964 | Field emitter flat display containing a getter and process for obtaining it A process for producing a field emitter flat display includes providing a supported porous layer of a non-evaporable getter material by depositing the non-evaporable getter material on a substrate followed by sintering the deposited material. The substrat... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5916479 | Mercury dispensing device A mercury-dispensing device is disclosed that includes a mercury dispenser having the formula Tix Zry Hgz in which x and y are between 0 and 13, inclusive, the quantity x+y is between 3 and 13, inclusive, and z is 1 or 2; ... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5916631 | Method and apparatus for spin-coating chemicals Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for spin coating chemicals over a surface of a substrate. The apparatus includes a bowl for supporting a substrate, the bowl has a plurality of drain holes defined below the level of the substrate. The apparatus furt... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5911560 | Getter pump module and system A getter pump module includes a number of getter disks provided with axial holes, and a heating element which extends through the holes to support and heat the getter disks. The getter disks are preferably solid, porous, sintered getter disks that are pro... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5895519 | Method and apparatus for purifying hydrogen gas A method and apparatus for providing substantially pure hydrogen gas from a mixture of hydrogen and gaseous contaminants includes passing a gaseous mixture containing hydrogen gas and gaseous impurities through a purifier to form substantially pure hydrog... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5889715 | Voltage sense amplifier and methods for implementing the same Disclosed is a method for amplifying a data signal read from a memory device. The method includes sensing an initial voltage difference across a data bus that is coupled to the memory device. Producing an initial voltage difference across a sensed data bu... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5888115 | Interactive funnel amusement device The present invention provides an interactive funnel amusement device. The interactive funnel amusement device allows a user to interact with the interactive funnel amusement device to a greater extent than prior art funnel devices. In one embodiment, the... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5886929 | High speed addressing buffer and methods for implementing same Disclosed is an apparatus for generating a memory access signal. The apparatus includes a latch having a set state for driving a set transistor, and a reset state for driving a reset transistor. The latch having an input terminal and an output terminal, a... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5883834 | Low power consuming memory sense amplifying circuitry Low power consuming circuitry for amplifying sensed signals in memory devices is disclosed. The low power circuitry includes a amplifier circuit having a data bus line for receiving a data signal from a selected column of a memory array. The data bus line... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5883011 | Method of removing an inorganic antireflective coating from a semiconductor substrate A method of removing an inorganic antireflective coating from a semiconductor substrate and a method of forming an integrated circuit (IC) are provided. In the former method, a sacrificial layer is formed over a semiconductor substrate, the layer being se... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5883007 | Methods and apparatuses for improving photoresist selectivity and reducing etch rate loading Disclosed is an inventive multiple-chemistry etching method suited for etching through selected portions of layers in a layer stack in a plasma processing chamber. The layer stack preferably includes at least an anti-reflective layer and a metallization l... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5882998 | Low power programmable fuse structures and methods for making the same Disclosed is a semiconductor fuse structure having a low power programming threshold and anti-reverse engineering characteristics. The fuse structure includes a substrate having a field oxide region. A polysilicon strip that has an increased dopant concen... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5882997 | Method for making devices having thin load structures A resistive load structure and method for making a resistive load structure for an integrated circuit includes the use of an amorphous silicon "antifuse" material. The resistive load structure can be used in an SRAM cell to provide a load to counteract ch... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5882727 | Method for forming supported thin layers of non-evaporable getter material and getter devices formed thereby A method for forming a supported thin layer of non-evaporable getter (NEG) material and a getter device formed thereby are provided. A suspension comprised of non-evaporable getter (NEG) material particles in a dispersing medium is prepared. The NEG mater... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5882258 | Skill-based card game A method and apparatus for providing a skill-based card game. A game apparatus displays cards on a display screen. The cards are provided from a deck to played by a player according to rules of the card game, where the player can make moves during the gam... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5883854 | Distributed balanced address detection and clock buffer circuitry and methods for making the same Disclosed is a method of designing a memory device on a semiconductor chip. The memory device includes a memory array having a depth that defines a number of words and a word width that defines a number of bits. The method of designing the memory device i... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5881008 | Self adjusting pre-charge delay in memory circuits and methods for making the same An embedded memory device structure, and a method for making the embedded memory device structure having self adjusting pre-charge delay characteristics. The method includes selecting a desired memory array having a dummy column of cells. Coupling a pre-c... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5880519 | Moisture barrier gap fill structure and method for making the same Disclosed is a method for making a passivation coated semiconductor structure. The method includes providing a substrate having a metallization line patterned over the substrate. The metallization line defining at least one interconnect feature having a f... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5879964 | Method for fabricating chip size packages using lamination process A method for fabricating chip size packages which uses a lamination process, thereby not only achieving an improvement in the reliability of final electronic products, a reduction in the manufacturing costs, and a mass production resulting in a high marke... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5879583 | Process for producing high-porosity non-evaporable getter materials and materials thus obtained A process is disclosed for producing non-evaporable getter materials having high porosity and improved gas absorption rates. The process includes mixing together a metallic getter element, a getter alloy and a solid organic compound, all three components ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5879134 | In situ getter pump system and method A wafer processing system including a processing chamber, a low pressure pump coupled to the processing chamber for pumping noble and non-noble gases, a valve mechanism coupling a source of noble gas to the processing chamber, an in situ getter pump dispo... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5880638 | Rail-to-rail operational amplifier and method for making same Disclosed is an operational amplifier having a positive input terminal, a negative input terminal, an output terminal, a positive power supply input and a negative power supply input. The operational amplifier includes a transistor input pair being couple... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5876205 | Combination of materials for integrated getter and mercury-dispensing devices and the devices so obtained A mercury-dispensing device is disclosed that includes a mercury dispenser comprising an intermetallic compound including mercury and a second metal selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, and mixtures thereof; and a promoter that compr... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5870144 | Reduced-quality resolution digital video encoder/decoder A DV codec process for reduced-quality size decoding of DV encoded video data receives a DV encoded bit stream. Compressed macroblock information and DCT information, including a DC coefficient value, is read for a current DCT block. It is determined whet... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5870310 | Method and apparatus for designing re-usable core interface shells Disclosed is a method and apparatus for designing re-useable interfacing logic hardware shells which provide interface functions between a hardware core and one or more busses. An interface logic hardware shell provides previously characterized, tested an... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5864640 | Method and apparatus for optically scanning three dimensional objects using color information in trackable patches The invention provides a three dimensional digital scanner which includes a multiple view detector which is responsive to a broad spectrum of visible light. The multiple view detector is operative to develop a plurality of images of a three dimensional ob... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5860648 | Golfing game including object sensing and validation An arcade game including an object sensor for detecting a playing piece directed by a player. A target field including at least one target receives the directed playing piece, and the sensor determines the identity and a position of the playing piece. A s... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5861342 | Optimized structures for dummy fill mask design A method of improving the planarity of spin-on-glass layers in semiconductor wafer processing is disclosed. Gaps in between active conductive traces in a trace layer that exceed a predetermined distance are provided with dummy lines having a specific geom... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5855374 | Crane game including vacuum and rotary table An improved vacuum crane game and method. Multiple prizes are provided on a rotating turntable. A player may control horizontal movement of a vacuum pick-up device positioned above the prize area. The pick up device includes a vacuum head that may be rais... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5855118 | Combination cryopump/getter pump and method for regenerating same A combination cryopump/getter pump including a cryopump section having a cryopump inlet, a getter pump section having a getter pump inlet, and a mechanism for coupling the cryopump section and the getter pump section to a single port of a process chamber ... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5854504 | Process tolerant NMOS transistor for electrostatic discharge protection An improved ESD cell provides in the worst case 2,000 volts HBM ESD protection using an NMOS transistor in a lightly-doped drain process. An NMOS transistor has its source connected to ground, and its drain connected through a polysilicon resistor to a pa... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5854125 | Dummy fill patterns to improve interconnect planarity A method of improving the planarity of spin-on glass layers in semiconductor wafer processing is disclosed. Gaps in between active conductive traces on a trace layer of a semiconductor wafer that exceed a predetermined threshold distance are provided with... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5854510 | Low power programmable fuse structures Disclosed is a semiconductor fuse structure having a low power programming threshold and anti-reverse engineering characteristics. The fuse structure includes a substrate having a field oxide region. A polysilicon strip that has an increased dopant concen... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5845249 | Microarchitecture of audio core for an MPEG-2 and AC-3 decoder A reusable hardware layout ("core") for performing some, but not all, MPEG and AC-3 audio decoding functions. Specifically, the audio core performs matrixing and windowing operations of MPEG and AC-3 decoding. The disclosed audio core design includes a da... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5841787 | Memory programming and test circuitry and methods for implementing the same Disclosed is a loadboard that includes a plurality of channel pins that are arranged on the loadboard. The plurality of channel pins are electrically routed on the loadboard to a receptacle that is configured to receive I/O pins of an integrated circuit c... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5840365 | Method and apparatus for spin-coating compact discs Disclosed is a spinning chemical applicator for spin coating a work piece. The spinning chemical applicator includes a bowl having a base region and substantially curved walls. A chuck base having a chuck plate for holding the work piece, the chuck base a... | 11/24/1998 |
