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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8084322 | Method of manufacturing devices having vertical junction edge Techniques for forming devices, such as transistors, having vertical junction edges. More specifically, shallow trenches are formed in a substrate and filled with an oxide. Cavities may be formed in the oxide and filled with a conductive material, such a doped polys... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7951666 | Deep trench capacitor and method Disclosed herein are embodiments of a deep trench capacitor structure and a method of forming the structure that incorporates a buried capacitor plate contact that is simultaneously formed using an adjacent deep trench. This configuration eliminates the need for add... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7879672 | eDRAM memory cell structure and method of fabricating A deep trench structure process for forming a deep trench in a silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate. The SOI substrate has a bulk silicon layer, a buried oxide (BOX) layer and an SOI layer. In the process, the trench fill is recessed only to a level within the SOI l... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7759191 | Vertical SOI transistor memory cell and method of forming the same The present invention relates to a semiconductor device that contains at least one trench capacitor and at least one vertical transistor, and methods for forming such a semiconductor device. Specifically, the trench capacitor is located in a semiconductor substrate ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7575970 | Deep trench capacitor through SOI substrate and methods of forming Methods of forming a deep trench capacitor through an SOI substrate, and a capacitor are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes forming a trench opening into the SOI substrate to the silicon substrate; depositing a sidewall spacer in the trench opening; etc... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7553722 | Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the substrate has a first conductive type; a first trench extending from the first surface of the semiconductor substrate in a depth direction; and an epi... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7553723 | Manufacturing method of a memory device A method of manufacturing a memory device. The memory device comprises a trench in a substrate, a capacitor at the low portion of the trench, a collar dielectric layer overlying the capacitor and covering a portion of the sidewall of the trench, and a conductive lay... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7435628 | Method of forming a vertical MOS transistor A vertical MOS transistor has a source region, a channel region, and a drain region that are vertically stacked, and a trench that extends from the top surface of the drain region through the drain region, the channel region, and partially into the source region. Th... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7429509 | Method for forming a semiconductor device A method for forming a semiconductor device. A substrate is provided, wherein the substrate has recessed gates and deep trench capacitor devices therein. Protrusions of the recessed gates and upper portions of the deep trench capacitor devices are revealed. Spacers ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427545 | Trench memory cells with buried isolation collars, and methods of fabricating same The present invention relates to semiconductor devices, preferably dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cells, each of which contains at least one trench capacitor with a buried isolation collar. The trench capacitor is located in a trench in a semiconductor substrat... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7410862 | Trench capacitor and method for fabricating the same A trench capacitor with an isolation collar in a semiconductor substrate where the substrate adjacent to the isolation collar is free of dopants caused by auto-doping. The method of fabricating the trench capacitor includes the steps of forming a trench in the semic... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7390713 | Method for forming trench memory cell structures for DRAMS One embodiment of the invention relates to a method for forming trench memory cell structures having trench capacitors and planar selection transistors. An implantation for forming a reinforcement implant for improving the electrical connection of a storage electrod... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390717 | Trench power MOSFET fabrication using inside/outside spacers A fabrication process for a trench type power semiconductor device includes forming inside spacers over a semiconductor surface. Using the spacers as masks, trenches with gates are formed in the semiconductor body. After removing the spacers, source implants are for... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7387931 | Semiconductor memory device with vertical channel transistor and method of fabricating the same In a semiconductor memory device having a vertical channel transistor a body of which is connected to a substrate and a method of fabricating the same, the semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of pillars arranged space... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7351659 | Methods of forming a transistor with an integrated metal silicide gate electrode Methods of forming a transistor having integrated metal silicide transistor gate electrode on a semiconductor assembly are described. The transistor gate is partially fabricated by reacting the metal with epitaxial silicon while residing in a trench to form metal si... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7339224 | Trench capacitor and corresponding method of production The invention relates to a trench capacitor, in particular for use in a semiconductor memory cell, comprising a trench (2), embodied in a substrate (1), a first region (1a), provided in the substrate (1), as first capacitor electro... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338878 | Method for forming capacitor in semiconductor device Upon a deep-hole capacitor fabrication, a hole is formed in an insulator layer, and then a film of a conductive material is formed on the insulator layer and on the whole inner surface of the hole. The film and the insulator layer are exposed to a chemical-mechanica... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7335554 | Method for fabricating semiconductor A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first trench by etching a substrate already provided with a storage node contact (SNC) region and a bit line contact (BLC) region, forming a protection layer on sidewalls of the first trench, forming... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332394 | Method to reduce a capacitor depletion phenomena A method of integrating the fabrication of a capacitor cell and a logic device region, wherein the surface area of a capacitor region is increased, and the risk of a capacitor depletion phenomena is reduced, has been developed. After formation of insulator filled ST... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7326612 | Method for fabricating a semiconductor structure A method is provided for fabricating a semiconductor structure, such as a DRAM memory cell, that includes an elevated region with at least one sidewall. The at least one sidewall is provided with an insulation layer. A mask layer is applied to the insulation layer. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7294543 | DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) cells A DRAM cell with a self-aligned gradient P-well and a method for forming the same. The DRAM cell includes (a) a semiconductor substrate; (b) an electrically conducting region including a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion; (c) a first doped semicon... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7279395 | Suppression of dark current in a photosensor for imaging A pixel cell having a halogen-rich region localized between an oxide isolation region and a photosensor. The halogen-rich region prevents leakage from the isolation region into the photosensor, thereby suppressing dark current in imagers. ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276754 | Annular gate and technique for fabricating an annular gate A memory structure having a vertically oriented access transistor with an annular gate region and a method for fabricating the structure. More specifically, a transistor is fabricated such that the channel of the transistor extends outward with respect to the surfac... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271052 | Long retention time single transistor vertical memory gain cell A single transistor vertical memory gain cell with long data retention times. The memory cell is formed from a silicon carbide substrate to take advantage of the higher band gap energy of silicon carbide as compared to silicon. The silicon carbide provides much lowe... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271056 | Method of fabricating a trench capacitor DRAM device The present invention discloses a STI-first process for making trench DRAM devices. According to the preferred embodiment, the etching recipe for etching the STI region in the memory array is completely compatible with the logic STI process. ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7247536 | Vertical DRAM device with self-aligned upper trench shaping A method and structure for a memory storage cell in a semiconductor substrate includes forming a dopant source material over a lower portion of a deep trench formed in the substrate. An upper portion of the trench is shaped to a generally rectangular configuration, ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7247570 | Silicon pillars for vertical transistors In order to form a more stable silicon pillar which can be used for the formation of vertical transistors in DRAM cells, a multi-step masking process is used. In a preferred embodiment, an oxide layer and a nitride layer are used as masks to define trenches, pillars... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7241659 | Volatile memory devices and methods for forming same A method for forming a volatile memory device. A substrate comprising a pair of neighboring trenches is provided, each trench comprising a capacitor. A collar insulating layer is formed on an upper sidewall of each trench. The collar insulating layer comprises a low... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7232718 | Method for forming a deep trench capacitor buried plate A method for forming a deep trench capacitor buried plate. A substrate having a pad oxide and a pad nitride is provided. A deep trench is formed in the substrate. A doped silicate film is deposited on a sidewall of the deep trench. A sacrificial layer is deposited i... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7229878 | Phototransistor of CMOS image sensor and method for fabricating the same A phototransistor of a CMOS image sensor suitable for decreasing the size of layout, and a method for fabricating the phototransistor are disclosed, in which the phototransistor includes a first conductive type semiconductor substrate; an STI layer on the first cond... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7223653 | Process for forming a buried plate A method is provided for making a buried plate region in a semiconductor substrate. According to such method, a trench is formed in a semiconductor substrate, the trench having a trench sidewall, the sidewall including an upper portion, and a lower portion disposed ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7223669 | Structure and method for collar self-aligned to buried plate A structure and method are provided for forming a collar surrounding a portion of a trench in a semiconductor substrate, the collar having a lower edge self-aligned to a top edge of a buried plate disposed adjacent to a lower portion of the trench. ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7223651 | Dram memory cell with a trench capacitor and method for production thereof A memory cell includes a selection transistor and a trench capacitor. The trench capacitor is filled with a conductive trench filling on which an insulating covering layer is arranged. The insulating covering layer is laterally overgrown, proceeding from the substra... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7183600 | Semiconductor device with trench gate type transistor and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a plurality of gate trenches, each of which has first inner walls, which face each other in a first direction which is perpendicular to a second direction in which active regions extend, and second inner walls, which face each other i... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7176087 | Methods of forming electrical connections In one aspect, the invention provides a method of forming an electrical connection in an integrated circuitry device. According to one preferred implementation, a diffusion region is formed in semiconductive material. A conductive line is formed which is laterally s... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7172973 | System and method for selectively modifying a wet etch rate in a large area A system and method is disclosed for selectively increasing a wet etch rate of a large raised area portion of a semiconductor wafer with respect to a wet etch rate of a small raised area portion of the semiconductor wafer. A resist mask on the semiconductor wafer is... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7169657 | Process for laser processing and apparatus for use in the same A process for laser processing an article which comprises: heating the intended article to be doped with an impurity to a temperature not higher than the melting point thereof, said article being made from a material selected from a semiconductor, a metal, an insula... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7157329 | Trench capacitor with buried strap A trench capacitor with improved strap is disclosed. The strap is located above the top surface of the capacitor. The top surface of the trench capacitor, which is formed by the top surfaces of the collar and storage plate, is planar. By locating the strap on a plan... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7157328 | Selective etching to increase trench surface area The surface area of the walls of a trench formed in a substrate is increased. A barrier layer is formed on the walls of the trench such that the barrier layer is thinner near the corners of the trench and is thicker between the corners of the trench. A dopant is int... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7153737 | Self-aligned, silicided, trench-based, DRAM/EDRAM processes with improved retention A DRAM cell in a substrate has a deep trench (DT) extending from a surface of the substrate into the substrate, a word line (WL) formed on the surface of the substrate adjacent the deep trench, and oxide (TTO) disposed in a top portion of the trench and extending be... | 12/26/2006 |