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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178415 | Method for manufacturing RF powder A method for manufacturing RF powder wherein the RF powder is composed of a large amount of particles and used as collective RF powder (a powdery entity); and a large amount of RF powder particles can be obtained from a wafer in a stable manner and at a high yield i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7435656 | Semiconductor device of transistor structure having strained semiconductor layer The semiconductor device comprises a p type Si substrate 10; a SiGe buffer layer 12 formed on the p type Si substrate 10 and having element isolation grooves 16 formed in the surface, which define an active region 18; a SiGe regrow... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7368345 | Flash memory devices and methods of fabricating the same Flash memory devices and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. A disclosed method comprises doping at least one active region of a substrate, and forming an etching mask layer on the active region. The etching mask layer defines an opening exposing a portio... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7354840 | Method for opto-electronic integration on a SOI substrate According to an exemplary embodiment, a method includes providing a silicon-on-insulator substrate including a buried oxide layer situated over a bulk silicon substrate and a silicon layer situated over the buried oxide layer. A trench is formed in the silicon layer... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351633 | Method of fabricating semiconductor device using selective epitaxial growth A method of fabricating a semiconductor device using selective epitaxial growth (SEG) is disclosed. The method comprises; forming a seed window exposing a portion of a substrate through an interlayer insulating layer, growing a single crystal silicon SEG layer in th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7339254 | SOI substrate for integration of opto-electronics with SiGe BiCMOS According to an exemplary embodiment, a structure includes a silicon-on-insulator substrate including a buried oxide layer situated over a bulk silicon substrate and a silicon layer situated over the buried oxide layer. The structure further includes a trench formed... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338848 | Method for opto-electronic integration on a SOI substrate and related structure According to an exemplary embodiment, a method includes providing a silicon-on-insulator substrate including a buried oxide layer situated over a bulk silicon substrate and a silicon layer situated over the buried oxide layer. A trench is formed in the silicon layer... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7268043 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same is disclosed. A trench is formed in an active region of a semiconductor substrate. A doped layer is formed on the inner walls of the trench. The trench is filled up with a first semiconductor layer. A gat... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7259069 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same is disclosed. A trench is formed in an active region of a semiconductor substrate. A doped layer is formed on the inner walls of the trench. The trench is filled up with a first semiconductor layer. A gat... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7153731 | Method of forming a field effect transistor with halo implant regions A method of forming a field effect transistor includes forming a channel region within bulk semiconductive material of a semiconductor substrate. Source/drain regions are formed on opposing sides of the channel region. An insulative dielectric region is formed withi... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151035 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A sidewall-insulation film 9 is provided on a side surface of a first opening portion 8a formed in a base extraction electrode 5B of a hetero-junction bipolar transistor, and a portion of the sidewall-insulation film 9 extends so a... | 12/19/2006 |
| 6939773 | Semiconductor devices and manufacturing methods thereof Semiconductor device fabrication methods include forming an oxide layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming an arrangement trench on the semiconductor substrate by patterning the oxide layer and the semiconductor substrate, forming a nitride layer on the arrangeme... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6900105 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacture In a semiconductor manufacturing method, an emitter region (211) and a base enhancement region (207) are formed to provide linear voltage, capacitance and low resistance characteristics. In the manufacturing method, a semiconductor device (200) ... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6884687 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING METHODS OF FORMING INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY, FORMING CONDUCTIVE LINES, FORMING A CONDUCTIVE GRID, FORMING A CONDUCTIVE NETWORK, FORMING AN ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTION TO A NODE LOCATION, FORMING AN ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTION WITH A TRANSISTOR SOURCE/DRAIN REGION, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY 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... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6861311 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING METHODS OF FORMING INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY, FORMING CONDUCTIVE LINES, FORMING A CONDUCTIVE GRID, FORMING A CONDUCTIVE NETWORK, FORMING AN ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTION TO A NODE LOCATION, FORMING AN ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTION WITH A TRANSISTOR SOURCE/DRAIN REGION, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY 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... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6855612 | Method for fabricating a bipolar transistor A method for producing bipolar transistors with the aid of selective epitaxy for producing a collector and base. The method includes widening the area of the base either by the isotropic etching of the conductive layer or by the oxidation of the conductive layer and... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6815305 | Method for fabricating BICMOS semiconductor devices A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is described in which isolation layers and a collector of a BJT are simultaneously formed by an epitaxtial growth process during a process of fabricating a BiCMOS. The method for fabricating a semiconductor device of t... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6790697 | Optical semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same An optical semiconductor device includes an optical semiconductor element, a semiconductor region, and a buried layer. The optical semiconductor element is formed on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor region opposes the optical semiconductor element and es... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6740552 | Method of making vertical diode structures A method of making a vertical diode is provided, the vertical dioxide having associated therewith a diode opening extending through an insulation layer and contacting an active region on a silicon wafer. A titanium silicide layer covers the interior surface of the d... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6737688 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor device The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. A device isolation film has a shape of an insulating spacer at an interface of active regions composed of a epitaxial silicon layer in a device isolation region of a semiconductor sub... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6727157 | Method for forming a shallow trench isolation using air gap In fabricating a shallow trench isolation (STI), a silicon oxide layer, a silicon nitride layer and a moat pattern is sequentially deposited on a silicon substrate. Next, the silicon nitride layer and the silicon oxide layer is etched using the moat pattern as a mas... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6723618 | Methods of forming field isolation structures Field isolation structures and methods of forming field isolation structures are described. In one implementation, the method includes etching a trench within a monocrystalline silicon substrate. The trench has sidewalls and a base, with the base comprising monocrys... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6635543 | SOI hybrid structure with selective epitaxial growth of silicon A method and structure for selectively growing epitaxial silicon in a trench formed within a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structure. The SOI structure includes a buried oxide layer (BOX) on a bulk silicon substrate, and a silicon layer on the BOX. A pad lay... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6599793 | Memory array with salicide isolation The present invention provides a memory array fabricated by complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor salicide process. The memory array comprises a semiconductor substrate. Multitudes of first isolation devices are aligned in the semiconductor substrate an... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6593200 | Method of forming an integrated inductor and high speed interconnect in a planarized process with shallow trench isolation A method of forming a semiconductor device with an inductor and/or high speed interconnect. The method comprises forming an epitaxial layer over the substrate, forming an opening through the epitaxial layer to expose an underlying region of the substrate,... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6579771 | Self aligned compact bipolar junction transistor layout, and method of making same The invention relates to a process of forming a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) that includes forming a topology over a substrate. Thereafter, a spacer is formed at the topology. A base layer is formed from epitaxial silicon above the spacer and at the ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6569744 | Method of converting a metal oxide semiconductor transistor into a bipolar transistor The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a bipolar transistor. The method includes producing an opening in a dielectric layer located over a substrate and forming a collector in the substrate by implanting a first dopant through the openin... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6528379 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor integrated circuit device A buried layer of a collector region and a buried layer of a collector taking-out region are formed at the same time at each epitaxial layer when the collector region and the collector taking-out region of the semiconductor integrated circuit device accor... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6509242 | Heterojunction bipolar transistor A heterojunction bipolar transistor includes an emitter or collector region of doped silicon, a base region including silicon-germanium, and a spacer. The emitter or collector region form a heterojunction with the base region. The spacer is positioned to ... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6506657 | Process for forming damascene-type isolation structure for BJT device formed in trench Isolation of a heterojunction bipolar transistor device in an integrated circuit is accomplished by forming the device within a trench in dielectric material overlying single crystal silicon. Precise control over the thickness of the initially-formed diel... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6495421 | Manufacture of semiconductor material and devices using that material A method is described of manufacturing a semiconductor material having a zone (200) with p-conductivity type and n-conductivity type regions with dopant concentrations and dimensions such that, when the n- and p-conductivity type regions are depleted of f... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6326287 | Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate including an electronic element such as a MOSFET, interlayer dielectric (silicon oxide layer or BPSG layer) formed on the semiconductor substrate, a through-hole formed in the interlayer dielectr... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6261914 | Process for improving local uniformity of chemical mechanical polishing using a self-aligned polish rate enhancement layer A method for making a semiconductor device, includes forming an oxide layer on a silicon substrate, forming a nitride layer over the oxide layer; depositing one of a doped oxide layer and an undoped porous oxide layer on the nitride layer, etching trenche... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6258686 | Manufacturing method of semiconductor device and semiconductor device A manufacturing method of a bipolar transistor that can reduce, without increasing capacitance between base-collector, withstand voltage deterioration and leakage between emitter-base is provided. On an upper surface of an active area of a semiconductor s... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6211571 | Method and apparatus for testing chips Method and apparatus for the testing of substrates which are provided with a wiring structure, in particular, chips (21), in conjunction with which, by means of a solder-deposit carrier (25) which is provided with a structured, electrically conductive coa... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6130139 | Method of manufacturing trench-isolated semiconductor device The top surface of a P-type semiconductor substrate is partitioned into an active region to be formed with an element and an isolation region surrounding the active region. The isolation region is composed of trench portions and dummy semiconductor portio... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6057184 | Semiconductor device fabrication method using connecting implants A semiconductor device and method of fabrication for such device in which a P- epitaxial layer is positioned above a P++ substrate. A P++ buried layer implant is positioned within the device between the P++ substrate and the P- epitaxial layer. A connecti... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5904535 | Method of fabricating a bipolar integrated structure A process for fabricating a bipolar transistor on a silicon-on-insulator substrate which includes etching a bipolar transistor area into the substrate, wherein the bipolar transistor area has substantially vertical sidewalls and a bottom, and forming a bu... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5504018 | Process of fabricating bipolar transistor having epitaxially grown base layer without deterioration of transistor characteristics A bipolar transistor has a base rink structure epitaxially grown from an overhang portion of a poly-crystal silicon base electrode and an epitaxial collector layer and an intrinsic base structure grown on a concave central portion of the base rink structu... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5422299 | Method of forming single crystalline electrical isolated wells A quasi-dielectrically isolated (QDI) bipolar structure using epitaxial lateral overgrowth (ELO) uses a combination of dielectric isolation (DI) and junction isolation (JI), providing better isolation properties than JI, while providing better heat dissip... | 06/06/1995 |