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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6267642 | Sensing the presence of a wafer In a machine for planarizing wafers, when a spindle carrier descends over the load station, it needs a way of determining whether it should descend to a first position suitable for depositing a wafer onto the load station or whether it should descend to a... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267545 | Semiconductor processing platform architecture having processing module isolation capabilities An interlocked control system is provided for dual sided slot valves contained in a vacuum body between each of a plurality of adjacent process and transport modules. Separate valves are provided for each of two valve body slots, one body slot being separ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6251722 | Method of fabricating a trench capacitor A method of fabricating a trench capacitor having high capacitance for ULSI technology below the sub-micrometer scale is provided. The method includes: form a trench on a semiconductor substrate. The trench has a bottom portion and at least one sidewall o... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6251770 | Dual-damascene dielectric structures and methods for making the same A dielectric structure and method for making a dielectric structure for dual-damascene applications over a substrate are provided. The method includes forming a barrier layer over the substrate, forming an inorganic dielectric layer over the barrier layer... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6247197 | Brush interflow distributor A brush assembly includes a distributor having a slot matrix formed in an outer surface of the distributor, the slot matrix including a plurality of longitudinal slots intersecting a plurality of annular slots. The brush assembly further includes a housin... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6246116 | Buried wiring line A buried wiring line. The structure of the buried wiring line at least comprises a conductive doped region in a provided substrate and a silicon nitride region formed around the conductive doped region in the substrate. The silicon nitride region, which c... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6245625 | Fabrication method of a self-aligned contact window A method of fabricating a self-aligned contact window structure is described in which a substrate is provided with a plurality of gates formed on the substrate and a plurality of lightly doped regions is formed in the substrate on both sides of the gate. ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6244811 | Atmospheric wafer transfer module with nest for wafer transport robot A load lock wafer transfer face is provided at an acute angle with respect to a footprint dimension line, so the length of the footprint dimension line does not include the entire minimum length of the wafer transfer distance that must separate a robot fr... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6240588 | Wafer scrubbing brush core A brush core and the method for making a brush core for use in substrate scrubbing are provided. The substrate can be any substrate that may need to undergo a scrubbing operation to complete a cleaning operation, etching operation, or other preparation. F... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6242360 | Plasma processing system apparatus, and method for delivering RF power to a plasma processing The present invention provides a plasma processing apparatus, system, and method for providing RF power to a plasma processing chamber. The plasma processing system includes an RF generator, a plasma chamber, a match network box, a first cable, a second c... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6242044 | Method for temperature controlled spin-coating systems used for making compact discs Disclosed is method and apparatus for distributing a chemical over the surface of a substrate. The method includes depositing the chemical on a portion of the surface of a substrate near the center of the substrate. The method further includes controlling... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6240527 | Method software and apparatus for saving using and recovering data A method and apparatus for reverting a disk drive to an earlier point in time is disclosed. Changes made to the drive are saved in a circular history buffer which includes the old data, the time it was replaced by new data, and the original location of th... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6239472 | MOSFET structure having improved source/drain junction performance A MOSFET structure having substantially reduced parasitic junction capacitance, relaxed thermal budget constraints and resiliency to hot carrier damage is disclosed. The MOSFET structure includes a gate stack that is disposed over a gate oxide that is in ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6240475 | Timer based arbitrations scheme for a PCI multi-function device According to the present invention, a function timer is started whenever the PCI bus is granted to the function that did not access the PCI bus prior to the last bus idle state. The timer counts down to zero and waits until another function requests the P... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6236222 | Method and apparatus for detecting misalignments in interconnect structures Disclosed is a method for inspecting electrical interconnections in a multi-level semiconductor device. The method includes forming an interconnect structure in the multi-level semiconductor device. The interconnect structure has a lower metallization lay... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6235647 | Deposition process for forming void-free dielectric layer A deposition process for forming a void-free dielectric layer is described. A first dielectric layer 204 is formed over a conductor pattern 202. A second dielectric layer 206 is formed to conform to the first dielectric layer. A third dielectric layer 208... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6236073 | Electrostatic discharge device An electrostatic discharge protective circuit formed on a substrate is described. A gate electrode is formed over the substrate. A drain region is formed in the substrate at one side of the gate electrode. A source region is formed in the substrate at the... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6230753 | Wafer cleaning apparatus A method and apparatus for cleaning a wafer oriented vertically is provided. The apparatus includes a first brush and a second brush located horizontally from the first brush. During unloading of the wafer after cleaning, the wafer is located vertically b... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6233282 | Methods and apparatus for providing reduced bit rate digital video formats The present invention teaches a variety of methods and apparatus for providing reduced bit rate digital video formats. Generally speaking, the present invention decodes digital video data stored in a first, higher bit rate format and then encodes the digi... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6229812 | Scheduling techniques for data cells in a data switch A computer-implemented method for scheduling cells output on an output path of a data switch. The data switch is configured for switching the cells from a plurality of input paths to the output path. The method includes providing a plurality of queues, ea... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6229685 | Thin capacitive structures and methods for making the same A capacitor and a method of making the capacitor is provided. The capacitor includes a metallization line with a high dielectric constant layer defined over the metallization line. A thin metallization film is defined over the high dielectric constant lay... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6226241 | Compact disc recording system and method An improved file system and method for incrementally recording data on compact discs is disclosed. The improved file system and method employs compact discs physically formatted in accordance with the so-called Orange Book specification. Files to be store... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6226782 | Apparatus for automated pillar layout Disclosed is an apparatus for generating mask data suitable to produce a support pillar mask used in air dielectric interconnect structures. The apparatus includes a mask data scanner configured to select features having an interconnect dimension from a f... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6221759 | Method for forming aligned vias under trenches in a dual damascene process Disclosed is a method for forming an aligned via under a trench to prevent voiding in a dual damascene process. The trench is formed in an oxide layer that is formed over a first metal layer and the first metal layer is formed over a semiconductor substra... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6222791 | Slew tolerant clock input buffer and a self-timed memory core thereof The present invention provides a clock input buffer for a self-timed memory core that is configured to store data. The self-timed memory core generates a reset signal for resetting the clock input buffer. The clock input buffer includes a latch functionin... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6216328 | Transport chamber and method for making same Disclosed is a transport chamber and a method of making a transport chamber having a robot arm installed within the transport chamber. The robot arm may be implemented to retrieve a substrate from at least one storage facility that is external to the tran... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6218261 | Method of fabricating bottom electrode A method of fabricating a bottom electrode is provided. A dielectric layer comprising a first opening is formed on the substrate. A conductive layer is formed on the dielectric layer to fill the first opening. A first patterned mask layer comprising a sec... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6213136 | Robot end-effector cleaner and dryer In a spin dryer for semiconductor wafers, the wafer is held beneath a platen with its active side (i.e., the side containing the components or circuitry) facing upward. One or more nozzles spray rinse water on the top surface of the wafer and the wafer is... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6211068 | Dual damascene process for manufacturing interconnects A dual damascene process for producing interconnects. The dual damascene process includes forming an etching stop layer over a substrate having a conductive layer therein, and forming an inter-layer dielectric layer over the etching stop layer. A mask lay... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212656 | Automated scan chain sizing using Synopsys A method of configuring scan mode circuitry of an integrated circuit (IC) device includes parsing through an initial file of the scan-flops that are to be included in the scan mode circuitry. The initial file can be prepared with a synthesis tool such as ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6207567 | Fabricating method of glue layer and barrier layer A method of fabricating a glue layer and a barrier layer. A Ti layer is formed with a collimator sputtering in the via opening or the contact opening of the substrate. Through the control of flow of N2 and Ar, a nitride mode TiNx lay... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6205527 | Intelligent backup and restoring system and method for implementing the same Disclosed is an apparatus, a system, a computer readable media, and a method for protecting data of a computer system. The method includes: (a) connecting a peripheral storage device to the computer system; (b) preparing a storage media of the peripheral ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6204980 | High speed gain stage with DC offset cancellation for servo demodulator circuit An integrated circuit servo system demodulator that incorporates a high speed gain stage with DC offset cancellation. The gain stage receives a differential voltage signal representing a servo burst and converts the differential voltage signal to a differ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6200201 | Cleaning/buffer apparatus for use in a wafer processing device A semiconductor processing system, such as a system for buffing or scrubbing both sides of a wafer at the same time, that includes a processing box for use with chemical solutions, a positioning device to position a semiconductor substrate, or other simil... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6198723 | Asynchronous transfer mode traffic shapers The invention relates, in one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for shaping the output of cells on an output path of a data transmitting device. The data transmitting device is configured for switching the cells from a plurality of input paths to ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6199178 | Method, software and apparatus for saving, using and recovering data A method and apparatus for reverting a disk drive to an earlier point in time is disclosed. Changes made to the drive are saved in a circular history buffer which includes the old data, the time it was replaced by new data, and the original location of th... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6199194 | Method and system for programming firmware over a computer network A method and apparatus for programming a programmable hardware device of a local computer system that is connected to a network, uses a programming file that is resident on a remote system which is also connected to the same network. A method for facilita... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6197673 | Method of fabricating passivation of gate electrode A method for fabricating a passivation layer of a gate electrode. A conductive layer, a mask layer and a patterned photoresist layer are sequentially formed on a gate oxide layer. The photoresists layer is thick enough to precisely transfer a pattern from... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6194260 | Method of forming a CMOS sensor A method of forming a CMOS sensor. Shallow first doped regions are formed in a provided substrate beside a gate electrode which is on the substrate. One of the shallow first doped region is defined as a source/drain area. Another of the shallow first dope... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6194324 | Method for in-situ removing photoresist material A method for in-situ removing photoresist material. An etching process for patterning a passivation layer of a CMOS photosensor is performed on an etching machine. Oxygen is in-situ used to remove the parched photoresist material. The etching process and ... | 02/27/2001 |
