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Class 257/244 - Comprising a groove


Subclass of Class 257 - Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes)
Definition: Subject matter wherein a surface of the device includes
No. of patents: 63
Last issue date: 02/21/2012


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NumberTitleIssue Date
8120070Wiring board and method for manufacturing the same
A wiring board with an electronic device comprising a plurality of trenches arranged in parallel on a substrate, a common trench communicating the plurality of trenches with each other at one of their ends on the substrate, a metal layer formed at the bottom of the ...
02/21/2012
7700979Semiconductor device having bulb-shaped recess gate and method for fabricating the same
A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a first junction region and a second junction region formed separately from each other in the substrate; an etch barrier layer formed in the substrate underneath the first junction region; and a plurality of recess chann...
04/20/2010
7479670Organic electronic component with high resolution structuring, and method of the production thereof
The invention relates to an electronic component made primarily from organic materials with high resolution structuring, in particular to an organic field effect transistor (OFET) with a small source-drain distance, and to a production method thereof. The organic el...
01/20/2009
7442984Semiconductor memory device and manufacturing method thereof
An active region is provided which includes a plurality of active region columns extending in a first direction and a plurality of active region rows extending in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction and having concave portions. Floatin...
10/28/2008
7436009Via structures and trench structures and dual damascene structures
Via hole and trench structures and fabrication methods are disclosed. The structure includes a conductive layer in a dielectric layer, and a via structure in the dielectric layer contacting a portion of a surface of the conductive layer. The via structure includes t...
10/14/2008
7436030Strained MOSFETs on separated silicon layers
A method of fabricating and a structure of an IC incorporating strained MOSFETs on separated silicon layers are disclosed. N-channel field effect transistors (nFET) and P-channel FETs (pFET) are formed on the separated silicon layers, respectively. Shallow trench in...
10/14/2008
7425751Method to reduce junction leakage current in strained silicon on silicon-germanium devices
A MOSFET device in strained silicon-on-SiGe and a method of forming the device are described. The said device achieves reduced junction leakage due to the lower band-gap values of SiGe. The method consists of forming isolation trenches in a composite strained-Si/SiG...
09/16/2008
7369736Light tunnel, uniform light illuminating device and projector employing the same
Provided is a light tunnel including a guide member for guiding an incident light to proceed therein while being reflected by a side wall thereof to merge the incident light into a uniform light beam, and an optical path change portion provided at least one end port...
05/06/2008
7345350Process and integration scheme for fabricating conductive components, through-vias and semiconductor components including conductive through-wafer vias
A method for forming a conductive via in a semiconductor component is disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate having a first surface and an opposing, second surface. At least one hole is formed in the substrate extending between the first surface and th...
03/18/2008
7323383Method for fabricating an NROM memory cell arrangement
In the method, trenches (9) are etched and, in between, bit lines (8) are in each case arranged on doped source drain/regions (3). Dopant is introduced into the bottoms of the trenches (9) in order to form doped regions (23), in or...
01/29/2008
7323720Light-emitting device, image forming apparatus, and electronic apparatus with an integrated circuit mounted on a substrate
A light-emitting device includes a substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements and a light emission region arranged on one surface thereof, light being emitted from one surface of the light emission region; and an integrated circuit chip that generates s...
01/29/2008
7279766Photodiode sensor and photosensor for use in an imaging device
A multiple-trench photosensor for use in a CMOS imager having an improved charge capacity. The multi-trench photosensor may be either a photogate or photodiode structure. The multi-trench photosensor provides the photosensitive element with an increased surface area...
10/09/2007
7253493High density access transistor having increased channel width and methods of fabricating such devices
A memory device having decreased cell size and having transistors with increased channel widths. More specifically, pillars are formed in a substrate such that sidewalls are exposed. The sidewalls of the pillars and the top surface of the pillars are covered with a ...
08/07/2007
7250321Method of forming a photosensor
A trench photosensor for use in a CMOS imager having an improved charge capacity. The trench photosensor may be either a photogate or photodiode structure. The trench shape of the photosensor provides the photosensitive element with an increased surface area compare...
07/31/2007
7242823Optical transmission channel board, board with built-in optical transmission channel, and data processing apparatus
An optical transmission board is provided. The optical transmission board includes an optical transmission channel, a retention board for retaining the optical transmission channel and circuit patterns. The circuit patterns are formed on the retention board and a pa...
07/10/2007
7190050Integrated circuit on corrugated substrate
By forming MOSFETs on a substrate having pre-existing ridges of semiconductor material (i.e., a “corrugated substrate”), the resolution limitations associated with conventional semiconductor manufacturing processes can be overcome, and high-performance, low-powe...
03/13/2007
7187018Reduced barrier photodiode/transfer gate device structure of high efficiency charge transfer and reduced lag and method of formation
A pixel cell having a reduced potential barrier near a region where a gate and a photodiode are in close proximity to one another, and a method for forming the same are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide a pixel cell comprising a substrate. A gate of a ...
03/06/2007
7141486Shallow trench isolation structures comprising a graded doped sacrificial silicon dioxide material and a method for forming shallow trench isolation structures
A shallow trench isolation structure having a negative taper angle. A graded doped sacrificial layer is formed over a semiconductor substrate and etched to form a first trench therein having trench sidewalls that present a negative taper angle. The substrate is also...
11/28/2006
7109557Sacrificial dielectric planarization layer
A method of forming a microelectronic structure and its associated structures is described. In one embodiment, a substrate is provided with a sacrificial layer disposed on a hard mask layer, and a metal layer disposed in a trench of the substrate and on the sacrific...
09/19/2006
7098105Methods for forming semiconductor structures
The invention includes a semiconductor structure having a gateline lattice surrounding vertical source/drain regions. In some aspects, the source/drain regions can be provided in pairs, with one of the source/drain regions of each pair extending to a digit line and ...
08/29/2006
7045874Micromechanical strained semiconductor by wafer bonding
One aspect disclosed herein relates to a method for forming a strained semiconductor structure. In various embodiments of the method, a number of recesses are formed in a surface of a first semiconductor wafer such that the surface of the first semiconductor wafer h...
05/16/2006
6992340Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes spaced-apart first and second element formation regions which are formed in a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, a dielectric film which is formed on the main surface of the semiconductor substrate at a location between the fi...
01/31/2006
6906419Semiconductor device having a wiring layer of damascene structure and method for manufacturing the same
In a semiconductor device, a wiring pattern groove is formed in a surface portion of a silicon oxide film provided above a semiconductor substrate. A wiring layer is buried into the wiring pattern groove with a barrier metal film interposed therebetween. The barrier...
06/14/2005
6876034Semiconductor device having active grooves
A semiconductor device having grooves uniformly filled with semiconductor fillers is provided. Both ends of each of narrow active grooves are connected to an inner circumferential groove surrounding the active grooves. The growth speed of semiconductor fillers on bo...
04/05/2005
6828606Substrate with embedded free space optical interconnects
Substrates with embedded free space light guiding channels for optical interconnects, and methods for making such substrates are shown. The method comprising steps of a groove in a first generally planar body, and combining the first body with a second generally pla...
12/07/2004
6818949Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
Described is a method for fabricating a semiconductor device having an FET of a trench-gate structure obtained by disposing a conductive layer, which will be a gate, in a trench extended in the main surface of a semiconductor substrate, wherein the upper surface of ...
11/16/2004
6812508Semiconductor substrate and method for fabricating the same
A semiconductor substrate device comprises a first semiconductor substrate including a concave-convex surface and a second semiconductor substrate having an insulating film on a surface thereof. The first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrat...
11/02/2004
6806805Low loss high Q inductor
A high Q inductive clement with low losses, high inductance and high efficiency is disclosed. The high Q inductive element with one or more inductive loops is formed over a silicon micro structure with thin support elements formed by deep plasma etching in bulk sili...
10/19/2004
6777725NROM memory circuit with recessed bitline
An integrated memory circuit of the type of an NROM memory includes recessed bit lines formed of a material having a low ohmic resistance. By recessing the bit lines with respect to the semiconductor substrate surface of a peripheral controlling circuit for an array...
08/17/2004
6777726MOSFET source, drain and gate regions in a trench between a semiconductor pillar and filling insulation
In a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) field effect transistor configuration, a source, a drain and a gate are embedded between a semiconductor pillar that extends away from a semiconductor body and forms a body region. A filling insulator surrounds the semiconductor ...
08/17/2004
6774415Method and structure for ultra-thin film SOI isolation
A method and structure for fabricating isolation regions on a silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate, wherein the SOI substrate comprises a buried oxide layer and a silicon layer disposed on the buried oxide layer, wherein the silicon layer is less than about 20 nanom...
08/10/2004
6762443Vertical transistor and transistor fabrication method
In DRAM memory cells, individual memory cells are isolated from one another by an isolation trench (STI). In such a case, a vertical transistor is formed by the isolation trench as SOI transistor because its channel region is isolated from a substrate by the isolati...
07/13/2004
6664592Semiconductor device with groove type channel structure
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate insulator film formed on a bottom surface and a side surface of a groove formed in the semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode having a lower portion buried in the groove on whose bottom ...
12/16/2003
6597053Integrated circuit arrangement with a number of structural elements and method for the production thereof
An integrated circuit arrangement having a number of structural elements, at least one of which is surrounded by a metallic shielding structure. This structural element is thus protected against interference due to disturbing impulses from its environment...
07/22/2003
6570196Lipid vesicles or lipid bilayers on chips
The present invention relates to bioelectronic devices comprising lipid vesicles which are in contact with a chip, particularly with at least one gate of a field effect transistor. The vesicles/bilayers may comprise effector molecules in their membrane an...
05/27/2003
6570220Fabrication of deep submicron structures and quantum wire transistors using hard-mask transistor width definition
The invention relates to a method of forming reduced feature size spacers. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having an area region; patterning a first spacer over a portion of the area region of the substrate, the first spacer having...
05/27/2003
6545302Image sensor capable of decreasing leakage current between diodes and method for fabricating the same
An image sensor capable of preventing the degradation of pinned photodiodes and the generation of leakage current between neighboring pinned photodiodes is provided. The disclosed image sensor contains a plurality of pixel units, each pixel unit having a ...
04/08/2003
6515317Sidewall charge-coupled device with multiple trenches in multiple wells
Increased pixel density and increased sensitivity to blue light are provided in a charge couple device employing sidewall and surface gates....
02/04/2003
6498379Semiconductor device and method for fabricating same
A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same which improve characteristic of stand-by current of an SRAM cell is disclosed in the present invention. The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate in which a peripheral area an...
12/24/2002
6498381Semiconductor structures having multiple conductive layers in an opening, and methods for fabricating same
In some embodiments, a circuit structure comprises a semiconductor substrate, an opening passing through the substrate between a first side of the substrate and a second side of the substrate, and a plurality of conductive layers in the opening. In some e...
12/24/2002
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