...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| 7285804 | Thyristor-based SRAM An integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a horizontal semiconductor fin on top of the semiconductor substrate. An access transistor gate and a thyristor gate are on top of the semiconductor substrate and in contact with the horizontal s... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7276418 | Memory cell and method for forming the same A semiconductor memory cell structure having 4F2 dimensions and method for forming the same. The memory cell is formed on a surface of a substrate and includes an active region formed in the substrate, a semiconductor post formed on the surface of the sub... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7262478 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same includes an n−-single crystal silicon substrate, with an oxide film selectively formed thereon. On the oxide film, gate polysilicon is formed. The surface of the gate polysilicon is covered wit... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7242040 | Lateral trench field-effect transistors in wide bandgap semiconductor materials, methods of making, and integrated circuits incorporating the transistors A junction field effect transistor is described. The transistor is made from a wide bandgap semiconductor material. The device comprises source, channel, drift and drain semiconductor layers, as well as p-type implanted or Schottky gate regions. The source, channel,... | 07/10/2007 |
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| 7170145 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, flexible substrate, and semiconductor device A semiconductor chip 6 is mounted on a flexible substrate 1 wherein internal connecting electrodes 4 to be connected to protruding electrodes 7 on an element surface of the semiconductor chip 6 and wires 3 for connecting the... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7141831 | Snapback clamp having low triggering voltage for ESD protection An SCR device having a first P type region disposed in a semiconductor body and electrically connected to anode terminal of the device. At least one N type region is also disposed in the body adjacent the first P type region so as to form a PN junction having a widt... | 11/28/2006 |
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| 7119380 | Lateral trench field-effect transistors in wide bandgap semiconductor materials, methods of making, and integrated circuits incorporating the transistors A junction field effect transistor is described. The transistor is made from a wide bandgap semiconductor material. The device comprises source, channel, drift and drain semiconductor layers, as well as p-type implanted or Schottky gate regions. The source, channel,... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7091080 | Depletion implant for power MOSFET A vertical MOSFET has a substrate of a first conductivity type. A channel region of a second conductivity type is diffused into the substrate. A gate is disposed at least partially over the channel region. A source region of a second conductivity type is disposed pr... | 08/15/2006 |
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| 7030455 | Integrated electromagnetic shielding device To isolate at least one electric or electronic element (16, 58), for example an interconnection integrated onto a semiconductor substrate (12), this device comprises at least one isolation means chosen from an isolating layer (84, 86, 90) extend... | 04/18/2006 |
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| 6917078 | One transistor SOI non-volatile random access memory cell One aspect of the present subject matter relates to a memory cell, or more specifically, to a one-transistor SOI non-volatile memory cell. In various embodiments, the memory cell includes a substrate, a buried insulator layer formed on the substrate, and a transisto... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6914270 | IGBT with PN insulation and production method The IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) has a weakly doped drift zone of a first conductivity formed in a weakly doped semiconductor substrate of the same conductivity. A highly doped first well zone of the first conductivity and a highly doped second well zone... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912151 | Negative differential resistance (NDR) based memory device with reduced body effects A memory device (such as an SRAM) using negative differential resistance (NDR) elements is disclosed. Body effect performances for NDR FETs (and other FETs) that may be used in such device are enhanced by floating a body of some/all the NDR FETs. Various embodiments... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6906354 | T-RAM cell having a buried vertical thyristor and a pseudo-TFT transfer gate and method for fabricating the same A T-RAM array having a plurality of T-RAM cells is presented where each T-RAM cell has dual devices. Each T-RAM cell is planar and has a buried vertical thyristor and a horizontally stacked pseudo-TFT transfer gate. The buried vertical thyristor is located beneath t... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6838321 | SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE WITH DEFECTS REDUCED OR REMOVED AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE CAPABLE OF BIDIRECTIONALLY RETAINING BREAKDOWN VOLTAGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME An N−-type silicon substrate (1) has a bottom surface and an upper surface which are opposed to each other. In the bottom surface of the N−-type silicon substrate (1), a P-type impurity diffusion layer (3) of high conce... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6835997 | Thyristor-based device with trench dielectric material A thyristor-based semiconductor device includes a thyristor body that has at least one region in the substrate and a thyristor control port in a trenched region of the device substrate. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, the trench is at le... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6815734 | Varied trench depth for thyristor isolation A semiconductor device is formed having a thyristor and trench arranged to electrically insulate an emitter region of the thyristor from another circuit structure. In one example embodiment of the present invention, a trench having a bottom portion with two differen... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6737724 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a transistor structure including an epitaxial silicon layer formed on a main surface of an n-type semiconductor substrate, source-drain diffusion layers formed on at least the epitaxial silicon layer, a channel region fo... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6677616 | Fabrication method of thin film transistor substrate for X-ray detector A method of fabricating a thin film transistor substrate for an X-ray detector reduces the number of steps in etching processes using masks. In the method, a gate line, a gate pad and a gate electrode of a thin film transistor are simultaneously formed on... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6674131 | Semiconductor power device for high-temperature applications In a SiC substrate (10), a first active region (12) composed of n-type heavily doped layers (12a) and undoped layers (12b), which are alternately stacked, and a second active region (13) composed of p-type heavily doped layers (13a) and undoped layers (13... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6661036 | Semiconductor switches with evenly distributed fine control structures Semiconductor structure configured as a semiconductor switch that can be used in various forms to switch currents. Semiconductor switch comprising non-doped or very lightly doped semiconductor crystal for switching currents in at least one direction at hi... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6617661 | High voltage component and method for making same A high-voltage component and a method for its manufacture. The component functions to switch currents at high voltages. The component is composed of partial components that are connected in series and are laterally supported on a self-supporting semicondu... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6580100 | Voltage-controlled vertical bidirectional monolithic switch A vertical voltage-controlled bidirectional monolithic switch formed between the upper and lower surfaces of a semiconductor substrate surrounded with a peripheral wall, including: a first multiple-cell vertical IGBT transistor extending between a cathode... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6576935 | Bidirectional semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A bidirectional semiconductor device facilitates making a current flow from the first MOSFET to the second MOSFET and vice versa across low on-resistance and exhibits a high breakdown voltage. The bidirectional semiconductor device includes a first n-chan... | 06/10/2003 |