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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169046 | Light emitting diode with a temperature detecting pattern and manufacturing method thereof A light emitting diode (LED) includes a substrate, a temperature detecting pattern, and a semiconductor structure. The temperature detecting pattern is formed on the substrate. Then the semiconductor structure is formed on the temperature detecting pattern and the s... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169045 | System and method for constructing shielded seebeck temperature difference sensor An embodiment of the invention relates to a Seebeck temperature difference sensor that may be formed in a trench on a semiconductor device. A portion of the sensor may be substantially surrounded by an electrically conductive shield. A plurality of junctions may be ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8143689 | Sensor device A sensor device for sensing air flow speed at the exterior of an aircraft, comprising a substrate having an upper side on which is mounted a diaphragm over an aperture or recess in the substrate, the diaphragm being thermally and electrically insulative, and mountin... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8120134 | High-performance diode device structure and materials used for the same A diode and memory device including the diode, where the diode includes a conductive portion and another portion formed of a first material that has characteristics allowing a first decrease in a resistivity of the material upon application of a voltage to the mater... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120133 | Micro-actuator and locking switch A micro-electromechanical actuator employs metal for the hot arm and silicon for at least the flexible portion of the cold arm. The cold arm made of silicon is coupled to a metal wire that moves with it and is used to carry the signal to be switched when at least tw... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120135 | Transistor A transistor has a cell array with two or more transistor cells, a temperature sensor, which is integrated in the cell array or is adjacent to the cell array, and an isolation structure. The isolation structure isolates the temperature sensor from the cell array, an... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8026567 | Thermoelectric cooler for semiconductor devices with TSV A thermoelectric structure for cooling an integrated circuit (IC) chip comprises a first type superlattice layer formed on top of the IC chip connected to a first voltage, and a second type superlattice layer formed on the bottom of the IC chip connected to a second... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018017 | Thermo-mechanical cleavable structure A thermo-mechanical cleavable structure is provided and may be used as a programmable fuse for integrated circuits. As applied to a programmable fuse, the thermo-mechanical cleavable structure includes an electrically conductive cleavable layer adjacent to a thermo-... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018018 | Temperature sensing device The present invention relates to an integrated device, comprising a semiconductor device formed on a semiconductor substrate, a temperature sensing element formed within a semi-conductive layer formed on the semiconductor substrate, an electrically insulating layer ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7982278 | Thermoelectric module A thermoelectric module has a first substrate, a second substrate spaced from the first substrate, a plurality of P type thermoelectric elements and N type thermoelectric elements arranged in the space between the first and second substrates, and a plurality of elec... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7902625 | Metal-gate thermocouple A metal gate thermocouple is provided. The thermocouple is configured to measure local temperatures of a device. The thermocouple is a passive device which senses temperature using the thermoelectric principle that when two dissimilar electrically conductive materia... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7838958 | Semiconductor on-chip repair scheme for negative bias temperature instability Disclosed are embodiments of a semiconductor chip structure and a method that incorporate a localized, on-chip, repair scheme for devices that exhibit performance degradation as a result of negative bias temperature instability (NBTI). The repair scheme utilizes a h... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7808068 | Method for sensing integrated circuit temperature including adjustable gain and offset Embodiments of the invention include a temperature sensor method for providing an output voltage response that is linear to the temperature of the integrated circuit to which the temperature sensor belongs and/or the integrated circuit die on which the temperature s... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808067 | Semiconductor device and temperature sensor structure for a semiconductor device A temperature sensor structure for a semiconductor device. One embodiment provides a semiconductor substrate including the semiconductor device. A dissipation region of the semiconductor device is adjacent to a main surface of the semiconductor substrate. A first la... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7800195 | Semiconductor apparatus having temperature sensing diode A semiconductor apparatus is provided. The semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate and a temperature sensing diode that is disposed on a surface part of the semiconductor substrate. A relation between a forward current flowing through the temperat... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7759758 | Integrated circuit having resistance temperature sensor An integrated circuit having a resistance temperature sensor composed of a first resistance structure formed within a trench, and a second resistance structure formed within a mesa region is disclosed. This embodiment makes it possible to suppress or reduce manufact... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7741692 | Integrated circuit device with temperature monitor members In a semiconductor integrated circuit device, a logic circuit section is provided at the top surface of a P-type silicon substrate and a multi-level wiring layer. The device is further provided with a temperature sensor section in which a first temperature monitor m... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7728401 | Thin-film semiconductor device, circuitry thereof, and apparatus using them A thin-film semiconductor device comprises a temperature sensor formed of a thin-film semiconductor and sensing a temperature as current, and a current-voltage converter formed of a thin-film semiconductor and having temperature dependence in which its current-volta... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7723816 | Implementing decoupling capacitors with hot-spot thermal reduction on integrated circuit chips A method and structures are provided for implementing decoupling capacitors with hot spot thermal reduction on integrated circuit chips including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) circuits. A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structure includes a silicon substrate layer, a thin b... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7709922 | Thermistor device A thermistor device having a high-speed response to temperature and a large ON/OFF ratio at the operating temperature. The thermistor device comprises a first layer of a first material having a positive temperature coefficient of resistance and a second layer of a s... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7629664 | Lateral-moving micromachined thermal bimorph and method for fabricating same The Lateral-Moving Micromachined Thermal Bimorph provides the capability of achieving in-plane thermally-induced motion on a microchip, as opposed to the much more common out-of-plane, or vertical, motion seen in many devices. The present invention employs a novel f... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7569904 | Semiconductor device having a plurality of temperature sensors and semiconductor device control method using the plurality of temperature sensors A semiconductor device comprises a plurality of banks, a plurality of control circuits, and a plurality of temperature sensors, wherein each of the plurality of temperature sensors is disposed near at least one of the plurality of banks for sensing the temperature o... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7462921 | Integrated circuit device, method of manufacturing the same and method of forming vanadium oxide film A vanadium oxide film is formed on an interlayer insulating layer, and a silicon oxide film and a silicon nitride film are formed on the vanadium oxide film in this order. With a resist pattern used as a mask, the silicon nitride film is patterned. Then, the resist ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7439601 | Linear integrated circuit temperature sensor apparatus with adjustable gain and offset Embodiments of the invention include a temperature sensor apparatus, method and system for providing an output voltage response that is linear to the temperature of the integrated circuit to which the temperature sensor belongs and/or the integrated circuit die on w... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7432123 | Methods of manufacturing high temperature thermistors A method of manufacturing high temperature thermistors. A polycrystalline thermistor body is formed from a material selected from a list consisting of bulk polycrystalline Si with intrinsic conductivity and bulk polycrystalline Ge with intrinsic conductivity. At lea... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430039 | Sensor Sensors are provided which enable detection with a high sensitivity in microchemistry and biochemical analysis by using devices integrated into a compact configuration and can be freely disposed on desired positions of a channel to perform detection. A measur... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7416351 | Optical subassembly installing thermistor therein The present invention is to provide an optical subassembly with a co-axial package that enables to sense the temperature of the devices mounted within the subassembly with a relatively inexpensive chip thermistor. The subassembly includes a co-axial package and a FP... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7405457 | High temperature thermistors A high temperature NTC thermistor includes a polycrystalline thermistor body, selected from a list consisting of polycrystalline Si with intrinsic conductivity and polycrystalline Ge with intrinsic conductivity. At least one ohmic contact is disposed on at least one... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7393711 | Method of producing a digital fingerprint sensor and the corresponding sensor An embodiment of the present invention related to fingerprint sensors is described. The sensor comprises an integrated-circuit chip having a sensitive surface, a substrate provided with electrical connections and wire-bonding wires connecting the chip to the electri... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391092 | Integrated circuit including a temperature monitor element and thermal conducting layer In a semiconductor integrated circuit device, a sheet-like temperature monitor member of vanadium oxide is provided, whose one end is connected to one via while the other end is connected to another via. A sheet-like thermal conducting layer of aluminum is provided ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7368784 | Thermal protection device for an integrated power MOS A thermal protection device is for an integrated power MOSFET transistor including an interdigitated array of source regions and drain regions defined in a well region of the monocrystalline silicon substrate, and gate structures overhanging channel regions defined ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7351974 | Integrated circuit infrared sensor and associated methods An integrated circuit sensor may include at least one infrared sensing element on a substrate. The sensing element may include at least one first thermocouple junction heated from infrared radiation, at least one second thermocouple junction connected to the first t... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351996 | Method of increasing efficiency of thermotunnel devices The present invention comprises a tunneling device in which the collector electrode is modified so that tunneling of higher energy electrons from the emitter electrode to the collector electrode is enhanced. In one embodiment, the collector electrode is contacted wi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7338640 | Thermopile-based gas sensor A method of manufacturing a sensor is provided. The method includes disposing a sacrificial layer on a substrate, disposing a low-thermal-conductivity layer on the sacrificial layer, and disposing a first set of conductive arms and a second set of conductive arms on... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7332358 | MOSFET temperature sensing A MOSFET has its gate voltage controlled to provide a constant drain current of the MOSFET, for example to limit inrush current for charging a capacitance of a power supply arrangement. A decrease in the gate voltage supplied to the MOSFET, corresponding to an incre... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321157 | CoSb-based thermoelectric device fabrication method A method of fabricating a CoSb3-based thermoelectric device is disclosed. The method includes providing a high-temperature electrode, providing a buffer layer on the high-temperature electrode, forming composite n-type and p-type layers, attaching the buf... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7312509 | Digital temperature sensing device using temperature depending characteristic of contact resistance A digital temperature sensing device uses temperature depending characteristic of contact resistance of a MOS transistor and a self-refresh driving device adjusts its self-refresh period depending on temperature using the digital temperature sensing device. The self... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7306967 | Method of forming high temperature thermistors A method of manufacturing high temperature thermistors from an ingot. The high temperature thermistors can be comprised of germanium or silicon. The high temperature thermistors have at least one ohmic contact. ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307328 | Semiconductor device with temperature sensor A semiconductor device is disclosed. In one embodiment the semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body of which is integrated a temperature sensor for measuring the temperature prevailing in the semiconductor body. The temperature sensor has a MOS transistor ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307325 | High temperature interconnects for high temperature transducers A silicon wafer is fabricated utilizing two or more semiconductor wafers. The wafers are processed using conventional wafer processing techniques and the wafer contains a plurality of output terminals which essentially are platinum titanium metallization or high tem... | 12/11/2007 |
