Method for fabrication and structure for high aspect ratio vias
The present invention discloses method for fabrication and structure for high aspect ratio vias. According to the invention's method, a via is first etched in a dielectric. Then a conformal layer is d... Read More
Inventors: Zhao, Bin;, Assignee: Conexant Systems, Inc. (Newport Beach, CA) |
Method of production of amorphous hydrogenated carbon layer
The object of the invention is to provide a method of production of an amorphous hydrogenated carbon layer which can be formed by plasma-polymerization of organic compounds of hydrocarbon series at lo... Read More
Inventors: Osawa, Izumi; Iino, Shuji; Hotomi, Hideo;, Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha (Osaka, JP) |
Polymeric intraocular lens material having improved surface properties
It is an object of the invention to provide a surface-modified polymer that has improved biocompatibility and the method of making the same. It is particularly, an object of the invention to provide a... Read More
Inventors: Ratner, Buddy D.; Mateo, Nancy B.;, Assignee: Weshington Research Foundation (Seattle, WA) |
Method for the treatment of substrates
The invention provides methods and apparatus for sterilizing articles, for sterilizing hazardous biological waste, and for treating various substrates using a gas plasma. According to one particular s... Read More
Inventors: Graves, Clinton G.; Graves, II, Clinton G.;, Assignee: Graves'Trust Group (Danville, CA) |
ESD protection circuit
According to the present invention, ESD protection is increased by providing one of the following structures. First, the P-channel pull-up output transistor can be replaced by an N-channel transistor ... Read More
Inventors: Li, Sheau-Suey; Ong, Randy T.; Broydo, Samuel; Duong, Khue;, Assignee: Xilinx, Inc. (San Jose, CA) |
Electrostatic protection structure for MOS circuits
The present invention is directed to an ESD protection circuit which includes a pair of lateral NPN transistors each having an emitter, collector and base. The transistors are connected in series with... Read More
Inventors: Avery, Leslie Ronald;, Assignee: Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, NJ); Sharp K.K. (Osaka, JP) |
CMOS output circuit with enhanced ESD protection using drain side implantation
A principal object of the present invention is to provide an effective and very manufacturable output circuit that protects a CMOS integrated circuit from electrostatic discharge (ESD) events. A furth... Read More
Inventors: Wu, Yi-Hsu; Su, Hung-Der; Lee, Jian-Hsing; Liew, Boon-Khim;, Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (Hsin-Chu, TW) |
Pressure alarm in water-sealed camera
What is claimed is: 1. A camera adapted to be sealed against water, said camera comprising: detecting means for detecting the presence of water having a hydraulic pressure greater than a predetermined... Read More
Inventors: Hayakawa, Masahiro; Kosako, Kousei;, Assignee: Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Method for the plasma deposition of hydrogenated, amorphous carbon using predetermined retention times of gaseous hydrocarbons
OF THE INVENTION Up until now, semiconductive thin layers with an n and p charge carrier mobility of over 1 cm.sup.2 .multidot.V.sup.-1 .multidot.s.sup.-1, as exhibited by the material according to t... Read More
Inventors: Birkle, Siegfried; Kammermaier, Johann; Schulte, Rolf; Winnacker, Albrecht; Rittmayer, Gerhard;, Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Berlin and Munich, DE) |
Surface treatment apparatus
Applicant's invention is an improved plating treatment system including an improved fluid transfer assembly and workstation, as well as an improved plating treatment method. An important aspect of App... Read More
Inventors: Ikegaya, Hirihiko; Isobe, Masaaki; Watanabe, Masayuki;, Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha (Iwata, JP) |
Composition and process for forming electrically insulating thin films
OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an insulating thin film-forming composition that comprises (A) a resin selected from the group consisting of electrically insulating curable organic ... Read More
Inventors: Kobayashi, Akihiko; Mine, Katsutoshi; Nakamura, Takashi; Sasaki, Motoshi; Sawa, Kiyotaka;, Assignee: Dow Corning Toray Silicone Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Low dielectric constant porous films
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Accordingly, nanoporous silica dielectric films having a dielectric constant, or k value, ranging from about 1.5 to about 3.8, can be produced by the methods of the invent... Read More
Inventors: Leung, Roger Yu-Kwan; Case, Suzanne;, Assignee: AlliedSignal, Inc. (Morristown, NJ) |
Thermal CVD process for depositing a low dielectric constant carbon-doped silicon oxide film
The method of the present invention provides such a new and improved low-k material deposition process. The process is particularly useful in the manufacture of sub-0.2 micron circuits as it can form ... Read More
Inventors: Xia, Li-Qun; Geiger, Fabrice; Gaillard, Frederic; Yieh, Ellie; Lim, Tian H.;, Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) |
Semiconductor power conversion apparatus
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor power conversion apparatus which suppresses a steep rise of the IGBT collector voltage to protect the IGBT against overvol... Read More
Inventors: Katoh, Shuji; Ueda, Shigeta; Sakai, Hiromitsu; Ikimi, Takashi; Ito, Tomomichi;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Silicon metallographic etch
OF THE INVENTION Referring to FIG. 1 there is shown a graph showing the change in etch rate at two temperatures. One being within the range of 23.degree. to 25.degree. C and the other being substanti... Read More
Inventors: Estreicher, Isabelle E.; Price, James B.;, Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Chicago, IL) |
Semiconductor device including plateless package fabrication method
The foregoing and other objects and advantages are achieved in the present invention through the use of a semiconductor die contacted by compatible metal systems in combination with unplated package m... Read More
Inventors: Olsen, Dennis R.; Spanjer, Keith G.;, Assignee: Motorola Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) |
Stress insensitive integrated circuit
Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide an improved integrated circuit structure in which changes in circuit performance induced by mechanical stresses of the structure are minimized... Read More
Inventors: Culmer, Daniel D.; Cometta, Robert A.;, Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Hall-type transducing device
In designing a Hall-type transducer to operate in conjunction with a comparatively small, ferrite-composite magnet, between "ON" and "OFF" states over a wide range of temperatures, it is necessary to ... Read More
Inventors: Van Antwerp, Joel C.;, Assignee: Xolox Corporation (Fort Wayne, IN) |
Topography for integrated circuit operational amplifier having low impedance input for current feedback
Accordingly, it is an object of the invention to provide an integrated circuit chip topography for a high speed amplifier with a low impedance input to allow use of current feedback, and more particul... Read More
Inventors: Halbert, Joel M.; Murray, Kenneth W.; Yuan, Dan;, Assignee: Burr-Brown Corporation (Tucson, AZ) |
Operational amplifier with stabilized DC operations
Embodiment 1 FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of a CMOS operational amplifier according to our invention, in which parts the same as those in FIG. 8 have the same reference numerals. An input terminal... Read More
Inventors: Chimura, Tsuyoshi; Higashi, Masahiko; Satoh, Tatsumi;, Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX) |
Low power digital CMOS compatible bandgap reference
The following description of the invention will often refer to exact numerical values used in analyzing the invention. This is done solely to demonstrate the advantages of the invention over the prio... Read More
Inventors: Doyle, James T.;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Touchpad providing screen cursor/pointer movement control
What is claimed is: 1. A capacitance touchpad for determining user-authorization of a device having a display screen, followed by providing an electrical output signal for selectively controlling move... Read More
Inventors: Ferrari, Alberto; Tartagni, Marco;, Assignee: STMicroelectronics, Inc. (Carrollton, TX) |
High-speed on-chip windowed centroiding using photodiode-based CMOS imager
The present disclosure describes an on-focal plane centroid computation circuit that is compatible and integrated with CMOS imagers implemented in conventional or modified CMOS technology. In the pre... Read More
Inventors: Pain, Bedabrata; Sun, Chao; Yang, Guang; Cunningham, Thomas J.; Hancock, Bruce;, Assignee: California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA) |
Low-cost circuit board materials and processes for area array electrical interconnections over a large area between a device and the circuit board
One embodiment of the present invention is an electronic device and coupled flexible circuit board. The electronic device is coupled to the flexible circuit board by a plurality of Z-interconnections.... Read More
Inventors: Palanisamy, Ponnusamy;, Assignee: Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, NJ) |
Parallel SELEX.TM.
OF THE INVENTION The Parallel SELEX.TM. process provides product libraries which are formed by combining a pool of first chemical reactants coupled to a nucleic acid with a pool of free chemical reac... Read More
Inventors: Eaton, Bruce; Tarasow, Theodore M.;, Assignee: NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Boulder, CO) |
Method of making a magnetoelectronic device
An object of the present invention therefore is to provide an improved architecture for a hybrid Hall Effect device to be used as a memory cell in a memory array. A further object of the present inven... Read More
Inventors: Johnson, Mark B.;, Assignee: |
Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having interconnetion patterns
One object of the present invention is to form a very minute interconnection pattern having line width less than that of an interconnection pattern formed using a conventional photolithography techniq... Read More
Inventors: Kimura, Daisuke;, Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Osaka, JP) |
Photoconductive layer having hydrophilic and hydrophobic moieties
An object of the present invention is to provide a photosensitive member, in particular, an electrophotographic photosensitive member, free from the abovementioned drawbacks. According to the present ... Read More
Inventors: Tomida, Yoshinori; Hirai, Yutaka; Haruta, Masahiro; Nishimura, Yukuo; Matsuda, Hiroshi; Hamamoto, Takashi;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Immunoassay for CK-MB using bound and soluble antibodies
I claim: 1. An immunoinhibition assay for CK-MB comprising the steps of: (a) forming a first reaction mixture by contacting a liquid sample suspected of containing CK-MB isoenzyme with a molar excess ... Read More
Inventors: Pankratz, Thomas J.;, Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, DE) |
Layer of metallomacrocyclic polymer on substrate
We claim: 1. A layer element which comprises a base having a hydrophobic surface and, applied on the said base, one or more solid, thin, ordered layers having a defined uniform and regular structure w... Read More
Inventors: Wegner, Gerhard; Orthmann, Ernst;, Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft (Ludwigshafen, DE) |
Semiconductor manufacture 
