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Scientific American ; Jan. 2 edition, 1909
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7442566 | Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method for the same On a glass substrate, gate bus lines, data bus lines, and TFTs are formed. Then, on the substrate, an insulating film, covering the gate bus lines, data bus lines and TFTs, is formed, and a positive type photoresist film is further formed thereon. Next, through expo... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7416938 | Inkjet patterning for thin-film capacitor fabrication, thin-film capacitors fabricated thereby, and systems containing same An integrated thin-film capacitor includes a dielectric disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode. The thin-film capacitor includes a dielectric disposed upon the first electrode, and the dielectric exhibits a substantially uniform heat-altered morph... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7411209 | Field-effect transistor and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a field-effect transistor includes the steps of forming a source electrode and a drain electrode each containing hydrogen or deuterium; forming an oxide semiconductor layer in which the electrical resistance is decreased if hydrogen or deu... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408233 | Semiconductor device having N-channel thin film transistor with LDD regions and P-channel thin film transistor with LDD region A MIS type semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same characterized in that impurity regions are selectively formed on a semiconductor substrate or semiconductor thin film and are activated by radiating laser beams or a strong light equivalent theret... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400023 | Photoelectric converting film stack type solid-state image pickup device and method of producing the same In a photoelectric converting film stack type solid-state image pickup device, a plurality of photoelectric converting film are stacked on a semiconductor substrate in which a signal readout circuit is formed, each of the photoelectric converting films is sandwiched... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7388274 | Capacitor below the buried oxide of SOI CMOS technologies for protection against soft errors Disclosed is a semiconductor structure that incorporates a capacitor for reducing the soft error rate of a device within the structure. The multi-layer semiconductor structure includes an insulator-filled deep trench isolation structure that is formed through an act... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7317227 | Method for forming pattern of stacked film A semiconductor film serving as an active region of a thin film transistor and an upper oxide film protecting the semiconductor film are dry etched to form the active region. In this case, a fluorine-based gas is used as the etching gas, and the etching gas is switc... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7294905 | Thin film capacitor and electronic circuit component A thin film capacitor comprising a lower electrode formed on a predetermined surface, a dielectric layer formed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode formed on the dielectric layer, wherein the end portion of the lower electrode is further covered by an ins... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7148630 | Light emitting device There is provided an active matrix EL display device that can display a clear multi gray-scale color display to reduce the shift in the potential caused by the potential drop due to the wiring resistance of a power source supply line, in order to decrease the uneven... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7115906 | Thin film transistor array and fabricating method thereof A thin film transistor array including a substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of thin film transistors, an etch barrier layer and a plurality of pixel electrodes is provided. The scan lines and the data lines are disposed over... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6700177 | Compact, surface-mounting-type, electronic-circuit unit In a surface-mounting-type electronic-circuit unit, circuit elements, including capacitors, resistors, and inductive devices, and electrically conductive patterns connected to the circuit elements are formed on an alumina board as thin films. Semiconducto... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6677238 | System and methods for fabrication of a thin film pattern The present invention provides a method for fabricating a thin film pattern including forming a pattern made of an organic molecule film on a substrate. The method further includes supplying a solution for forming a thin film onto the organic molecule fil... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6653688 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device comprises a MOS transistor and a resistor. The resistor has a P-type resistor formed from a P-type semiconductor, an N-type resistor formed from an N-type semiconductor and disposed adjacent the P-type resistor, and an insulating fi... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6624071 | Systems and method for fabrication of a thin film pattern The present invention provides a method for fabricating a thin film pattern including forming a pattern made of an organic molecule film on a substrate. The method further includes supplying a solution for forming a thin film onto the organic molecule fil... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6545225 | Module with thin-film circuit A module is provided with a thin-film circuit. To realize the module with a thin-film circuit, capacitors, or capacitors and resistors, or capacitors, resistors and inductors are provided next to the conductor tracks directly on a substrate (1) of an insu... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6478920 | Chip-type circuit component and method of manufacturing the same A chip-type circuit component comprising a chip body which is formed by bonding first and second substrates with each other. A polyimide adhesion layer is provided between the first and second substrates and a thin film circuit pattern is formed on at lea... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6444920 | Thin film circuit with component The invention relates to a thin film circuit with component. The thin film circuit comprises a network of capacitors, or a network of capacitors and resistors, or a network of capacitors, resistors and inductances, or a network of capacitors and inductanc... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6441461 | Thin film resistor with stress compensation A thin film resistor element which maintains its resistance value when stress is applied such as during packaging, so that the resistor element may be used in a high precision bleeder resistor circuit to maintain an accurate voltage dividing ratio. The th... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6440750 | Method of making integrated circuit having a micromagnetic device A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit and an integrated circuit employing the same. In one embodiment, the method of manufacturing the integrated circuit includes (1) conformally mapping a micromagnetic device, including a ferromagnetic core, to... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6441447 | Co-patterning thin-film resistors of different compositions with a conductive hard mask and method for same A first thin film resistor formed by direct etch or lift off on a first dielectric layer that covers an integrated circuit in a substrate. A second thin film resistor comprised of a different material than the first resistor, formed by direct etch or lift... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6426268 | Thin film resistor fabrication method A thin film resistor fabrication method requires that an IC's active devices be fabricated on a substrate, and a dielectric layer be deposited over the devices to protect them from subsequent process steps. A layer of thin film material is deposited next,... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6118351 | Micromagnetic device for power processing applications and method of manufacture therefor The present invention provides a power micromagnetic integrated circuit having a ferromagnetic core, a method of manufacture therefor and a power processing circuit employing the same, that includes: (1) a substrate; (2) an insulator coupled to the substr... | 09/12/2000 |
| 5976944 | Integrated circuit with thin film resistors and a method for co-patterning thin film resistors with different compositions FIG. 5b shows a first thin film resistor 14 formed by direct etching or lift off on a first dielectric layer 12 that covers an integrated circuit (not shown) in a silicon substrate 10. A patterned layer of photoresist covers a portion of the second thin f... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5973908 | Structure for thin film capacitors A capacitor is fabricated on a base surface by applying a first pattern of electrical conductors (a first capacitor plate) over the base surface with an outer surface of the first pattern of electrical conductors including molybdenum. A first hard portion... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5790385 | One-chip electronic composite component Disclosed are a structure and a method of manufacture of a one-chip electronic composite component which is reduced of size while providing a resistance value properly adjusted. A resistor is formed on an insulator substrate. The resistor has a trimming g... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5736448 | Fabrication method for thin film capacitors A capacitor is fabricated on a base surface by applying a first pattern of electrical conductors (a first capacitor plate) over the base surface with an outer surface of the first pattern of electrical conductors including molybdenum. A first hard portion... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5699025 | Thin film chip-type filter with an external electrode formed on an adhesion layer A chip-type circuit component comprising a chip body which is formed by bonding first and second substrates with each other. A polyimide adhesion layer is provided between the first and second substrates and a thin film circuit pattern is formed on at lea... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5674599 | Deposited multi-layer device The present invention provides a deposited multi-layer device with high reliability, which allows to reduce a weight, a production cost, and to avoid a peeling of a film, a crack and a curl of a substrate. The present invention relates to a deposited multi-lay... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5445922 | Broadband printed spiral a thin film printed circuit inductive element exhibiting low Q wherein a conductive spiral is deposited on an insulating substrate and resistive links are connected between adjacent turns of the spiral. Inherent resonance is thereby damped out.... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5231078 | Thin film superconducting LC network A thin-film superconducting LC network comprising a dielectric substrate having first and second oppositely disposed surfaces, a first thin-film superconducting conductor on one of the surfaces defining an inductor, second and third thin-film superconduct... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5215866 | Broadband printed spiral A thin film printed circuit inductive element exhibiting low Q wherein a conductive spiral is deposited on an insulating substrate and resistive links are connected between adjacent turns of the spiral. Inherent resonance is thereby damped out.... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5208597 | Compensated capacitors for switched capacitor input of an analog-to-digital converter A semiconductor capacitor for use in an analog-to-digital converter includes two parallel connected capacitors with separate lower plates (44) and (46) fabricated of polycrystalline silicon and upper plates (52) and (54) also fabricated of polysilicon. Th... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5185651 | Integrated circuit with current detection An apparatus for monitoring the current in an integrated circuit provided with a current conductor which is to supply current to a semiconductor structure at least temporarily and to supply current to other parts of the circuit. The current conductor is l... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5003428 | Electrodes for ceramic oxide capacitors Electrodes composed of ruthenium iridium, osmium, or rhodium and the electrically conductive oxides of these metals are particularly well-suited to use in electrical ceramic oxide devices because of the low resistivity of the oxides and the stability of t... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4987009 | Producing method of thick film complex component A thick film complex electronic component mounted on a substrate including an inductance, capacitance and/or resistance by a conductive film and a magnetic film on a ceramic substrate is improved by novel magnetic film. The magnetic film is produced by de... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4982309 | Electrodes for electrical ceramic oxide devices Electrodes composed of ruthenium, iridium, osmium, or rhodium and the electrically conductive oxides of these metals are particularly well-suited to use in electrical ceramic oxide devices because of the low resistivity of the oxides and the stability of ... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4930044 | Thin-film capacitor and method of manufacturing a hybrid microwave integrated circuit A thin-film capacitor which has excellent withstand voltage characteristic, dielectric loss characteristic and production yield can be obtained by forming its dielectric film with a 3-layered structure comprising a first silicon oxide film formed on a pol... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4926292 | Broadband printed spiral A thin film printed circuit inductive element exhibiting low Q wherein a conductive spiral is deposited on an insulating substrate and resistive links are connected between adjacent turns of the spiral. Inherent resonance is thereby damped out.... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4878151 | Anti-parallel capacitor A new and improved thin-film integrated capacitor having a low voltage coefficient and being comprised of two standard poly-metal capacitors which are connected in an anti-parallel fashion with the connecting poles of one of the poly-metal capacitors bein... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4866502 | RC line The invention relates to RC lines which are used as components in filter synthesis, with resistors and capacitors not being arranged as discrete components alongside one another but as a three-layer structure consisting of two conductive polysilicon layer... | 09/12/1989 |