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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7943471 | Diode with asymmetric silicon germanium anode The present invention is directed to a diode with an asymmetric silicon germanium anode and methods of making same. In one illustrative embodiment, the diode includes an anode comprising a P-doped silicon germanium material formed in a semiconducting substrate, an N... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943462 | Transistor including a high-K metal gate electrode structure formed prior to drain/source regions on the basis of a sacrificial carbon spacer When forming sophisticated high-k metal gate electrode structures in an early manufacturing stage, the dielectric cap layer of the gate electrode structures may be efficiently removed on the basis of a carbon spacer element, which may thus preserve the integrity of ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7939415 | Method for forming a substrate contact for advanced SOI devices based on a deep trench capacitor configuration By forming a first portion of a substrate contact in an SOI device on the basis of a trench capacitor process, the overall manufacturing process for patterning contact elements may be enhanced since the contacts may only have to extend down to the level of the semic... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939399 | Semiconductor device having a strained semiconductor alloy concentration profile A new technique enables providing a stress-inducing alloy having a highly stress-inducing region and a region which is processable by standard processing steps suitable for use in a commercial high volume semiconductor device manufacturing environment. The regions m... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938973 | Arc layer having a reduced flaking tendency and a method of manufacturing the same By incorporating a material exhibiting a high adhesion on chamber walls of a process chamber during sputter etching, the defect rate in a patterning sequence on the basis of an ARC layer may be significantly reduced, since the adhesion material may be reliably expos... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933008 | Positioning a first surface in a pre-determined position relative to a second surface A method and an apparatus for positioning a first device in relation to a second device. An optical signal from a first device is sent to a second device. A reflection of the optical signal from the second device is received. A position of one of the devices relativ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932166 | Field effect transistor having a stressed contact etch stop layer with reduced conformality By forming a highly non-conformal stressed overlayer, such as a contact etch stop layer, the efficiency of the stress transfer into the respective channel region of a field effect transistor may be significantly increased. For instance, non-conformal PECVD technique... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929685 | Queuing calls for distribution A system and method gathers data from callers and call center sites and incorporates that information in call routing decisions. To make call routing decisions, a database structure keeps track of the calls in a queue before efficiently distributing the calls to age... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926501 | Subsea pressure systems for fluid recovery Systems and methods for recovering power fluid from a device under water and for pumping recovered power fluid to a surface of the water, the systems and methods, in certain aspects, including: flowing fluid from a subsurface apparatus to a subsurface recovery syste... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925369 | Method and apparatus for optimizing models for extracting dose and focus from critical dimension A method includes defining a reference model of a system having a plurality of terms for modeling data associated with the system. A reference fit error metric is generated for the reference model. A set of evaluation models each having one term different than the r... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924569 | Semiconductor device comprising an in-chip active heat transfer system By providing thermoelectric elements, such as Peltier elements, in a semiconductor device, the overall heat management may be increased. In some illustrative embodiments, the corresponding active cooling/heating systems may be used in a stacked chip configuration to... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923338 | Increasing stress transfer efficiency in a transistor by reducing spacer width during the drain/source implantation sequence By forming a single spacer element and reducing the size thereof by a well-controllable etch process, a complex lateral dopant profile may be obtained at reduced process complexity compared to conventional triple spacer approaches in forming drain and source regions... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7918126 | Intelligent underwater leak detection system A subsea leak detection system is disclosed which includes a plurality of subsea leak detection sensors and a leak detection controller adapted to receive leak detection data from the plurality of subsea leak detection sensors and direct the sensing activities of th... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7910496 | Technique for forming an interlayer dielectric material of increased reliability above a structure including closely spaced lines By removing excess material of an interlayer dielectric material deposited by SACVD, the gap filling capabilities of this deposition technique may be exploited, while, on the other hand, negative effects of this material may be reduced. In other aspects, a buffer ma... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908109 | Identifying manufacturing disturbances using preliminary electrical test data A method includes receiving measured values for a plurality of electrical test parameters associated with integrated circuit devices on at least one wafer measured prior to completion of the wafer. Values of the electrical test parameters are predicted. The measured... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7906815 | Increased reliability for a contact structure to connect an active region with a polysilicon line By forming a direct contact structure connecting, for instance, a polysilicon line with an active region on the basis of an increased amount of metal silicide by removing the sidewall spacers prior to the silicidation process, a significantly increased etch selectiv... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7906385 | Method for selectively forming strain in a transistor by a stress memorization technique without adding additional lithography steps A selective stress memorization technique is disclosed in which the creation of tensile strain may be accomplished without additional photolithography steps by using an implantation mask or any other mask required during a standard manufacturing flow, or by providin... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7906383 | Stress transfer in an interlayer dielectric by providing a stressed dielectric layer above a stress-neutral dielectric material in a semiconductor device By forming a stressed dielectric layer on different transistors and subsequently relaxing a portion thereof, the overall process efficiency in an approach for creating strain in channel regions of transistors by stressed overlayers may be enhanced while nevertheless... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7905764 | Polishing head using zone control A polishing head for a chemical mechanical polishing apparatus is provided which includes at least two polishing head zones configured to provide different temperatures for transferring heat to at least two zones of a substrate corresponding to the at least two poli... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904715 | Method for authenticating dual-mode access terminals A method is provided for operating a dual-mode access terminal such that a CAVE based authentication process may be used in both an IS-2000 and an HRPD mode of operation. Generally, the access terminal receives a CHAP challenge from an access network, and then deriv... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7902581 | Semiconductor device comprising a contact structure based on copper and tungsten By providing contact plugs having a lower plug portion, formed on the basis of well-established tungsten-based technologies, and an upper plug portion, which may comprise a highly conductive material such as copper or a copper alloy, a significant increase in conduc... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900697 | Fracturing isolation sleeve An apparatus operatively coupled to a well having a production casing positioned therein, the apparatus including a first device having and internal bore, a second device having an internal bore, and a fracture isolation sleeve disposed at least partially within the... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899634 | Method and apparatus for analysis of continuous data using binary parsing A method, apparatus, and a system for generating a binary mapping of wafer regions using measured value. A first measured value relating to processing a first workpiece is acquired. A second measured value relating to a second workpiece is acquired. At least a first... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899570 | Advanced automatic deposition profile targeting and control by applying advanced polish endpoint system feedback The present disclosure relates to automatic deposition profile targeting with a combined deposition/polishing apparatus which obtains matching deposition and subsequent polishing profiles by use of feedback data from an advanced polish endpoint system in an advanced... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7897451 | Method for creating tensile strain by selectively applying stress memorization techniques to NMOS transistors By selectively applying a stress memorization technique to N-channel transistors, a significant improvement of transistor performance may be achieved. High selectivity in applying the stress memorization approach may be accomplished by substantially maintaining the ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894042 | Omni-directional imaging sensor A method comprises generating a laser signal; scanning the laser signal into a field of view; and processing the return signal. ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890740 | Processor comprising a first and a second mode of operation and method of operating the same A processor comprises a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation. A state of the processor in the first mode of operation comprises a first plurality of variables. The first plurality of variables comprises a return address. A state of the processor in... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7887978 | Method of detecting repeating defects in lithography masks on the basis of test substrates exposed under varying conditions Mask defects, such as crystal growth defects and the like, may be efficiently detected and estimated at an early stage of their development by generating test images of the mask under consideration and inspecting the images on the basis of wafer inspection technique... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886850 | Drilling fluid screening systems A system for treating a mixture of drilling fluid and solid material, including a container with an inlet for the introduction of the mixture into the container. The system having a rotatable screen assembly mounted within the container and has at least one screen f... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886264 | Automatic conversion for disparate data types A computer-implemented method and an apparatus for use in a computing programming environment are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a plurality of user inputs, each user input specifying an action in a workflow; identifying a data type incompatibility betwee... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885689 | Suppressing interference using beamforming of uplink signals received at multiple base stations The present invention provides a method for suppressing interference using beamforming of uplink signals received at multiple base stations. The method may include accessing information indicative of a plurality of signals received over a plurality of uplink channel... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885658 | Method for detecting reverse link collisions on an air interface The present invention provides a method of wireless telecommunication. The method includes accessing information indicative of a first mobile unit in response to a signal from the first mobile unit, accessing information indicative of at least one second mobile unit... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885222 | Task scheduler responsive to connectivity prerequisites A method for scheduling tasks for execution by a mobile device is provided. A connectivity prerequisite is defined for a task scheduled to be executed by the mobile device. Connectivity state information associated with the mobile device is received. The connectivit... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7884650 | Analog comparator comprising a digital offset compensation A digital compensation of an input stage of a comparator may be achieved by providing switched load elements, which may be appropriately connected to the differential input pair of the comparator in order to match transistor characteristics of the input pair and als... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7883629 | Technique for patterning differently stressed layers formed above transistors by enhanced etch control strategies During the patterning of stressed layers having different types of intrinsic stress, the effects of the deposition of a silicon dioxide based etch indicator material between the first and second dielectric layers may be significantly reduced by a controlled etch on ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882481 | Wafer layout optimization method and system For determining an optimized wafer layout, at least two wafer layouts are specified for a given wafer, each wafer layout defining the location of a plurality of die with regard to the wafer. An optimization parameter value of at least one optimization parameter is d... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880239 | Body controlled double channel transistor and circuits comprising the same By providing a body controlled double channel transistor, increased functionality in combination with enhanced stability may be accomplished. For instance, flip flop circuits usable for static RAM cells may be formed on the basis of the body controlled double channe... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7849366 | Method and apparatus for predicting yield parameters based on fault classification A method includes receiving fault classification data associated with a fault condition and estimating at least one yield parameter based on the fault classification data. A system includes a fault classification unit and a yield estimation unit. The fault classific... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7846343 | Separator for separating a solid, liquid and/or gas mixture The invention relates to a cyclone separator for separating a mixture containing solid particles, liquid and/or gas into a heavy fraction and a light fraction, the separator comprising:—a casing (2) defining a flow space through which the mixture is to flow... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7845404 | Optical sensing system for wellhead equipment A system includes a Christmas tree assembly mounted to a hydrocarbon well, an optical feedthrough module, and a plurality of optical sensors. The optical feedthrough module is operable to communicate through a pressure boundary of the Christmas tree assembly. The pl... | 12/07/2010 |
