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The Quarterly Review ; March edition, 1825
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7176534 | Low resistance T-gate MOSFET device using a damascene gate process and an innovative oxide removal etch The present invention provides a method for fabricating low-resistance, sub-0.1 μm channel T-gate MOSFETs that do not exhibit any poly depletion problems. The inventive method employs a damascene-gate processing step and a chemical oxide removal etch to fabricate s... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7124034 | Method for changing a target array, a method for analyzing a structure, and an apparatus, a storage medium and a transmission medium therefor The objective of the present invention is the efficient analyzation of the structure of an array. By performing the prev(S) calculation for a character string S, if in S, a like variable is present upstream of a second variable, the second variable is changed to a n... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114136 | Method for VLSI system debug and timing analysis A method for characterizing circuit activity in an IC. Generally, the method comprises the steps of activating an IC, resolving the switching activity in space and time, and generating a representation of the switching behavior which differentiates the time that cir... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7103877 | System and method for characterizing program behavior by sampling at selected program points A system and method for characterizing runtime behavior of a computer program executing in an execution environment, the method comprising: identifying one or more instances of yield points in a program to be executed, each yield point indicating a potential samplin... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7089403 | System and method for using hardware performance monitors to evaluate and modify the behavior of an application during execution of the application There is provided a method, system and program storage device for utilizing a hardware performance monitors for improving performance of an application comprising a plurality of instructions while the application is executing on a micro-architecture, comprising: cre... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7081905 | Method and apparatus for dynamically controlling scroller speed employed for a user interface of a wearable appliance A wearable mobile computing device/appliance (e.g., a wrist watch) with a high resolution display that is capable of wirelessly accessing information from the network and a variety of other devices. The Wrist Watch device/appliance includes a user interface that is ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6803972 | Polarization conversion system A class of novel structures which make novel use of polymer based reflective polarizing films in an improved polarization conversion system which are useful in liquid crystal projection systems that are easily manufactured, of lower cost, and permit the versatility ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6676729 | Metal salt reduction to form alloy nanoparticles A method for making nanoparticles via metal salt reduction comprises, first, mixing metal salts in a solvent. Second, a reducing agent is added to the solvent at a temperature in the range of 100° C. to 350° C. Third, the nanoparticles dispersion is sta... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6649929 | Quantum computing with d-wave superconductors A method and structure for a d-wave qubit structure includes a qubit disk formed at a multi-crystal junction (or qubit ring) and a superconducting screening structure surrounding the qubit. The structure may also include a superconducting sensing loop, wh... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6620657 | Method of forming a planar polymer transistor using substrate bonding techniques A structure and method of forming a fully planarized polymer thin-film transistor by using a first planar carrier to process a first portion of the device including gate, source, drain and body elements. Preferably, the thin-film transistors made with all... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6563160 | High dielectric constant materials forming components of DRAM such as deep-trench capacitors and gate dielectric (insulators) for support circuits A method and structure for an improved DRAM (dynamic random access memory) dielectric structure, whereby a new high-k material is implemented for both the support devices used as the gate dielectric as well as the capacitor dielectric. The method forms bo... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6490018 | Reflective liquid crystal display device A reflective liquid crystal display device includes a first transparent substrate, a first electrode disposed on one surface of the first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate having a first surface and a second surface, and a second elect... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6457833 | Digital micro mirror device and single-panel color projector using it A digital micro mirror device (and a single-panel color projector using a digital micro mirror device) includes a reflection surface including an array of micro mirrors. The reflection surface is divided into two or more areas, and the axis direction abou... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6452093 | Cable and heat sink A cable (and heat sink) for radiating heat includes a heat conducting and radiating member for conducting heat in a longitudinal direction of the cable and radiating the conducted heat. The heat sink includes the cable for radiating heat, and a heat conne... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6445032 | Floating back gate electrically erasable programmable read-only memory(EEPROM) A semiconductor memory and a method of producing the memory, includes a transistor including a first gate having an oxide, and a channel, and a back-plane including a second gate and an oxide thereover, the second gate formed opposite to the channel of th... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6433397 | N-channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) driver circuit and method of making same An N-channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) driver circuit (and method for making the same), includes a boost gate stack formed on a substrate and having a source and drain formed by a low concentration N-type implantation, and an N-driver coupled to th... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6433358 | Method for producing an organic light emitting device (OLED) and OLED produced thereby An organic light emitting device (and a method for producing the device) includes a multilayered structure with a substrate layer providing a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer and at least one light emitting organic material layer between th... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6433355 | Non-degenerate wide bandgap semiconductors as injection layers and/or contact electrodes for organic electroluminescent devices An organic light emitting device is provided having a substrate (60), an anode contact electrode (64), a cathode contact electrode (61), and an organic region (62, 63) in which electroluminescence takes place if a voltage is applied between the anode (64)... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6414808 | Patterning of magnetic media A method of generating or modifying patterns of topically specific magnetic modifications in an at least potentially ferromagnetic surface comprising the step of subjecting the surface to a controlled impact of energized subatomic particles, preferably in... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6399447 | Method of producing dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cell with folded bitline vertical transistor A semiconductor device and a method for forming the semiconductor device, include forming a mandrel, forming spacer wordline conductors on sidewalls of the mandrel, separating, by using a trim mask, adjacent spacer wordline conductors, and providing a con... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6391658 | Formation of arrays of microelectronic elements Arrays of microelectronic elements such as magnetorestive memory elements and FET's, including dual-gate FET's, are fabricated by methods involving a host wafer and a first wafer on which part of the microelectronic elements are separately formed. Conduct... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6333067 | Selective growth of ferromagnetic films A method of forming the device, includes selective area deposition of a ferromagnetic material on a substrate. The substrate surface is partially covered with material having a crystal structure having at least one symmetry relation with the crystal struc... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6265021 | Nanoparticle structures utilizing synthetic DNA lattices A laminar structure upon a substrate is formed from a) a lattice layer comprising DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) segments arranged to form cells of the lattice layer, and b), at least one nanoparticle being disposed within each cell of the lattice layer. The... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6242770 | Diode connected to a magnetic tunnel junction and self aligned with a metallic conductor and method for forming the same A magneto-resistive memory cell and a method of forming the memory cell, includes a substrate, a single crystalline semiconductor diode formed in the substrate; and a first thin film conductor recessed in the substrate, and a second thin film conductor fo... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6219126 | Panel assembly for liquid crystal displays having a barrier fillet and an adhesive fillet in the periphery When fabricating a liquid crystal panel from a pair of substrates using the "one-drop fill" method to deposit liquid crystal material in a central portion of one substrate and then sealing the substrates together with a fillet of epoxy between the outer p... | 04/17/2001 |