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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6898068 | Dual mask capacitor for integrated circuits An embodiment of the invention is a capacitor comprising a bottom electrode 70 coupled to a first interconnect 30a of the top metal level 10, a capacitor dielectric 90, sidewalls 105, and a top electrode 110 coupled t... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6894888 | Multilayer board having precise perforations and circuit substrate having precise through-holes An intermediate laminated structure is provided including a plurality of unfired ceramic plates stacked along a laminating direction. Each of the plates has a plurality of holes formed therethrough by a punching operation. At least a first hole in one of the plurali... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6894886 | Power capacitor A power capacitor for high voltage and including at least one capacitor element that has improved electrical properties and that allows simple manufacture. Each capacitor element has a substantially circular-cylindrical shape. The inside of the container has a corre... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6891715 | Capacitor and method for fabricating the same A capacitor is formed on an interlayer insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate. The capacitor includes a bottom electrode made of platinum, a capacitor insulating film made of SrTaBiO (SBT) containing an element absorbing hydrogen such as titanium, for e... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6891714 | Multi-layered unit including electrode and dielectric layer A multi-layered unit according to the present invention includes a support substrate formed of a silicon single crystal, a barrier layer formed on the support substrate of silicon oxide, an electrode layer formed on the barrier layer of platinum, a buffer layer form... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6885539 | Single layer capacitor A monolithic or essentially monolithic single layer capacitor with high structural strength and capacitance, a printed circuit board having the capacitor mounted thereon, and a method of making. Sheets of green-state ceramic dielectric material and glass/metal compo... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6885544 | Vertical capacitor apparatus, systems, and methods An apparatus and system, as well as fabrication methods therefor, may include a plurality of vertically-oriented plates separated by dielectric layers, wherein the vertically-oriented plates include a plurality of terminals coupled to a bottom side of the plates. | 04/26/2005 |
| 6885540 | Multi-layered unit including electrode and dielectric layer A multi-layered unit according to the present invention includes a support substrate formed of a silicon single crystal, a barrier layer formed of silicon oxide on the support substrate, an electrode layer, which is formed of BSCCO (bismuth strontium calcium copper ... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6885543 | Fringing capacitor structure The present invention provides a circuit and method for a fringing capacitor. The fringing capacitor includes at least two conductor layers spaced apart from each other. Each conductor layer includes at least two portions. The portions include odd ones alternating w... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6882516 | Thin film capacitor and method of manufacturing the same The present invention comprises the steps of (a) forming a first electrode on a substrate via an adhesion enhancing layer, (b) forming a capacitor insulating film containing a laminated film, in which an amorphous dielectric film and a polycrystalline dielectric fil... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6879481 | Layered product and capacitor A layered product comprising a plurality of deposition units, each comprising a thin resin layer and a thin metal layer wherein the surface roughness of the thin resin layer is 0.1 μm or below, a protrusion forming component is not added to the thin resin layer or ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6876538 | Dielectric composition for multilayer ceramic capacitor, multilayer ceramic capacitor, and method for manufacturing multilayer ceramic capacitor Disclosed herein are a multilayer ceramic capacitor, a dielectric composition capable of sintering at a lower temperature and having a small variation in dielectric constant, a multilayer ceramic capacitor using the same, and a method thereof. The dielectric composi... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6876535 | Ceramic capacitor, method for producing the same, and dielectric multilayer device A ceramic capacitor includes: a first conductive pattern; a second conductive pattern and a dielectric layer, the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern being made of a conductor and provided so as to oppose each other and sandwich the dielectric... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6876536 | Thin film capacitor and method for fabricating the same A thin film capacitor including a first electrode structural body, a second electrode structural body and a dielectric thin film provided between the first and second electrode structural bodies and containing a bismuth layer structured compound. The surface of the ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6873517 | Ferroelectric capacitor A ferroelectric capacitor including a silicon oxidation layer, a lower electrode, a ferroelectric layer and an upper electrode formed on a silicon substrate. A part of at least any one of the lower and upper electrodes is formed of a material selected from the group... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6857172 | Method of manufacturing ferroelectric capacitor According to the present invention, a method of manufacturing a ferroelectric capacitor using a ferroelectric thin film, includes steps of: forming a lower conductive layer on a semiconductor substrate; coating solution of ferroelectric coking including organic solv... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6856501 | Capacitor having copper electrodes and diffusion barrier layers A capacitor has a couple of electrodes with a dielectric placed therebetween. At least one of the electrodes is made of copper, and barriers for preventing the diffusion of copper into the dielectric are provided between the dielectric and the copper electrode, resp... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6853536 | Dielectric ceramic, method of producing the same, and monolithic ceramic capacitor A dielectric ceramic includes, in composition, a perovskite-type compound having the general formula ABO3 containing Ba, Ca and Ti, and an additive component containing Si, R(La or the like), and M (Mn or the like), the additive component not being solid-... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6853535 | Method for producing crystallographically textured electrodes for textured PZT capacitors A bottom electrode structure and manufacturing method is described for producing crystallographically textured iridium electrodes for making textured PZT capacitors that enables enhanced ferroelectric memory performance. The use of seed layers originating from hexag... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6842327 | High-voltage CMOS-compatible capacitors A high-voltage stacked capacitor includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor. Each capacitor includes a first plate comprising a first semiconductive body and a second plate comprising a floating electrode. The first and second semiconductor bodies are electri... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6842329 | Ceramic mass and a capacitor having the ceramic mass A ceramic mass has a phase-heterogeneous ceramic of m weight percent of a phase composed of BaNd2Ti4O12 with negative temperature coefficient of the dielectric constant and 100-m weight percent of a phase composed of Nd2Ti... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6839243 | Electronic component and method of producing the same An electronic component includes a laminate having a structure in which an element substrate and a sealing substrate are bonded to each other through an adhesive layer, a terminal electrode is arranged on the element substrate so as to be exposed at an end surface o... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6839220 | Multi-layer barrier allowing recovery anneal for ferroelectric capacitors A multi-layer barrier for a ferroelectric capacitor includes an outdiffusion barrier layer permeable to both hydrogen and oxygen. The outdiffusion barrier layer covers the ferroelectric of the capacitor. Oxygen passes through the outdiffusion barrier layer into the ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6839219 | Laminate for forming capacitor layer and method for manufacturing the same An object of the present invention is to provide a laminate for forming a capacitor layer for a printed wiring board which is capable of ensuring a higher capacitance and an inner layer core material using the laminate for example. In order to achieve this object, a... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6836400 | Structures based on ceramic tantalum nitride A method for fabrication of ceramic tantalum nitride and improved structures based thereon is disclosed. According to the disclosed method, an ionized metal plasma (“IMP”) tool is used to create a plasma containing tantalum ions where the plasma is sustained by ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6836398 | System and method of forming a passive layer by a CMP process The present invention provides systems and methods that facilitate formation of semiconductor devices via planarization processes. The present invention utilizes dishing effects that typically occur during a chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) process. A reducin... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6833986 | Integrated passive components and package with posts A method and apparatus for an electronic component package of a passive component using wafer level processing is provided. Posts are formed on the active side of the substrate of an electronic component. A conductive layer leads the contact areas of the electronic ... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6831824 | Surface mountable vertical multi-layer capacitor A fully surface mountable vertical multi-layer capacitor having low insertion loss at high frequency and low inductance, and providing sufficiently high capacitance for use in broadband and other applications. The capacitor includes a first section and a second sect... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6828872 | Irreversible circuit device suppressing drop of insertion loss and achieving compact scale A yoke main body formed of an upper yoke and a lower yoke accommodates therein a magnetic substrate, a plurality of line conductors, a plurality of capacitor substrates, a magnetic member and a spacer member. The line conductors are connected to one another on one o... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6829133 | Capacitor Embodiments of the present invention include forming a thin, conformal, high-integrity dielectric coating between conductive layers in a via-in-via structure in an organic substrate using an electrocoating process to reduce loop inductance between the conductive lay... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6829134 | Laminated ceramic electronic component and method for manufacturing the same A highly reliable monolithic ceramic capacitor which has no structural defect, e.g. peeling, and which is not susceptible to water from the outside and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. A lead portion of an internal electrode is configured to have a ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6826031 | Ceramic electronic component and production method therefor A ceramic electronic component (20) having surface conductor films (23) and side-surface conductor films (24) excellent in burning shrinkage, bonding strength, solder heat resistance, solder wettability and the like. A method of producing a cera... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6822847 | Single layer capacitor A monolithic or essentially monolithic single layer capacitor with high structural strength and capacitance. Sheets of green-state ceramic dielectric material and ceramic/metal composite material are laminated together, diced into individual chips, and fired to sint... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6819540 | Dielectric structure Dielectric structures particularly suitable for use in capacitors and having a textured surface are provided, together with methods of forming these structures. Such dielectric structures show increased adhesion of subsequently applied conductive layers. ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6816355 | Capacitor, semiconductor device, electro-optic device, method of manufacturing capacitor, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, and electronic apparatus A semiconductor device includes a TFT, a diode and a capacitor that each have an insulating layer which includes a tantalum oxide film formed by oxidizing a tantalum film at a temperature of 300° C. to 400° C. and under a pressure of 0.5 MPa to 2 MPa, and a silico... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6816356 | Integrated broadband ceramic capacitor array A monolithic capacitor structure includes opposed and overlapping plates within a dielectric body, which are arranged to form a lower frequency, higher value capacitor. Other conductive structure is located either inside the dielectric body or on an external surface... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6816354 | Single layer capacitor milled part A single layer capacitive device and a method of making the same are provided. Such method allows for perfect registration between the capacitive plates thus eliminating any significant amount of fringe capacitance and assuring a uniform fringe border around the dev... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6815085 | Printed circuit board capacitor structure and method A capacitive element for a circuit board or chip carrier is formed from a pair of conductive sheets having a dielectric component laminated therebetween. The dielectric component is formed of two or more dielectric sheets, at least one of which can be partially cure... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6813138 | Embedded microelectronic capacitor equipped with geometrically-centered electrodes and method of fabrication An embedded microelectronic capacitor equipped with geometrically-centered electrodes which includes an upper electrode plate of a first polarity; a middle electrode plate of a second polarity opposite to the first polarity; at least one lower electrode plate of the... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6809918 | Method for improved processing and etchback of a container capacitor A capacitor having improved size for enhanced capacitance and a method of forming the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the capacitor is a stacked container capacitor used in a dynamic random access memory circuit. The capacitor provides a capacitor that has hi... | 10/26/2004 |
