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7531421 Semiconductor capacitor structure and method to form same  
A semiconductor capacitor structure comprising sidewalls of conductive hemispherical grained material, a base of metal silicide material, and a metal nitride material overlying the conductive...
7531395 Methods of forming a layer comprising epitaxial silicon, and methods of forming field effect transistors  
Methods of forming layers comprising epitaxial silicon, and methods of forming field effect transistors are disclosed. A method of forming a layer comprising epitaxial silicon includes etching an...
7531379 Method of forming CMOS imager with capacitor structures  
A charge storage capacitor which is connected to various light sensitive and/or electrical elements of a CMOS imager, as well as methods of formation, are disclosed. The charge storage capacitor...
7531373 Methods of forming a conductive interconnect in a pixel of an imager and in other integrated circuitry  
A method of forming conductive interconnects includes forming a node of a circuit component on a substrate. A conductive metal line is formed at a first metal routing level that is elevationally...
7530877 Semiconductor processor systems, a system configured to provide a semiconductor workpiece process fluid  
Semiconductor processor systems, systems configured to provide a semiconductor workpiece process fluid, semiconductor workpiece processing methods, methods of preparing semiconductor workpiece...
7529969 Memory device internal parameter reliability  
Embodiments herein may store redundant copies of an operational parameter associated with an internal operation of a memory device. The redundant copies and associated parity bits may be stored in...
7529951 Memory subsystem voltage control and method that reprograms a preferred operating voltage  
A method and apparatus for providing a preferred operating voltage to a memory device as specified by a stored configuration parameter. The apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory configured to...
7529896 Memory modules having a memory hub containing a posted write buffer, a memory device interface and a link interface, and method of posting write requests in memory modules  
A memory module includes a memory hub coupled to several memory devices. The memory hub includes a posted write buffer that stores write requests so that subsequently issued read requests can first...
7529882 Dynamic volume management for flash memories  
A method for managing a range of memory in a flash memory space in which a plurality of data objects are stored. A volume defined for the range of memory has a first end and second end, with a...
7529460 Zinc oxide optical waveguides  
The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems having zinc oxide waveguides for optical signal interconnections. One optical signal interconnect system includes an oxide layer on a...
7529318 Circuit and method for reducing noise interference in digital differential input receivers  
A circuit and method reduces noise signals coupled to a reference voltage used by a digital differential input receiver having an input that is coupled to an input/output terminal. The circuit and...
7529129 Single level cell programming in a multiple level cell non-volatile memory device  
A multiple level cell memory array has an area that can be programmed as single level cells. The cells to be programmed are initially programmed with the desire data into either the least...
7528877 Method and system for reducing mismatch between reference and intensity paths in analog to digital converters in CMOS active pixel sensors  
A circuit for reducing a mismatch between a reference path to which a reference voltage is applied and an intensity path to which an intensity voltage is applied from an active pixel sensor...
7528638 Clock signal distribution with reduced parasitic loading effects  
Clock signal distribution systems with reduced parasitic loading effects are provided. A reference clock is frequency-divided to produce a lower frequency clock signal. A delay-locked loop (DLL)...
7528624 Output buffer and method having a supply voltage insensitive slew rate  
An output buffer includes a final driver formed by first and second MOSFET transistors that alternately couple an output terminal to respective supply voltages. The output terminal is biased to a...
7528536 Protective layer for corrosion prevention during lithography and etch  
Forming a protective layer such as chromium, chrome alloys, nickel or cobalt as a cap over an aluminum film protects an underlying ITO layer from corrosion during the fabrication of flat panel...
7528491 Semiconductor components and assemblies including vias of varying lateral dimensions  
Methods for forming vias are disclosed. The methods include providing a substrate having a first surface and an opposing, second surface. A first opening, a second opening, and a third opening are...
7528477 Castellation wafer level packaging of integrated circuit chips  
Systems and methods for packaging integrated circuit chips in castellation wafer level packaging are provided. The active circuit areas of the chips are coupled to castellation blocks and,...
7528463 Semiconductor on insulator structure  
An apparatus and a method for forming the apparatus include a semiconductor layer on an insulating substrate, where the substrate is a different material than the semiconductor layer, and has a...
7528440 Vertical gain cell  
A vertical cell is realized. The cell includes a first vertical metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor having a body between a drain region and a source region and a second vertical MOS...
7528439 Vertical wrap-around-gate field-effect-transistor for high density, low voltage logic and memory array  
A vertical transistor having a wrap-around-gate and a method of fabricating such a transistor. The wrap-around-gate (WAG) vertical transistors are fabricated by a process in which source, drain and...
7528435 Semiconductor constructions  
The invention encompasses methods of forming metal nitride proximate dielectric materials. The metal nitride comprises two portions, with one of the portions being nearer the dielectric material...
7528430 Electronic systems  
The invention includes a method of forming a rugged semiconductor-containing surface. A first semiconductor layer is formed over a substrate, and a second semiconductor layer is formed over the...
7528424 Integrated circuitry  
This invention includes methods of forming layers comprising epitaxial silicon, and field effect transistors. In one implementation, a method of forming a layer comprising epitaxial silicon...
7528401 Agglomeration elimination for metal sputter deposition of chalcogenides  
A method for fabricating chalcogenide materials on substrates, which reduces and/or eliminates agglomeration of materials on the chalcogenide materials; and system and devices for performing the...
7528064 Interconnect structures with bond-pads and methods of forming bump sites on bond-pads  
Microelectronic workpieces that have bump sites over bond-pads and methods of fabricating such bump sites. One embodiment of such a workpiece, for example, includes a substrate having a plurality...
7528043 Scalable gate and storage dielectric  
Gate and storage dielectric systems and methods of their fabrication are presented. A passivated overlayer deposited between a layer of dielectric material and a gate or first storage plate...
7528037 Flash memory having a high-permittivity tunnel dielectric  
A high permittivity tunneling dielectric is used in a flash memory cell to provide greater tunneling current into the floating gate with smaller gate voltages. The flash memory cell has a substrate...
7528007 Methods for assembling semiconductor devices and interposers  
A method for assembling one or more semiconductor devices with an interposer includes positioning the one or more semiconductor devices within a receptacle that extends through the interposer, on a...
7527693 Apparatus for improved delivery of metastable species  
The invention includes a deposition system having a reservoir for containment of a metastable specie connected to a deposition chamber. The system includes a metastable specie generating catalyst...
7527545 Methods and tools for controlling the removal of material from microfeature workpieces  
Methods and apparatus for controlling the removal of material from microfeature workpieces in abrasive removal processes. An embodiment of such a method comprises irradiating a periodic structure...
7526713 Low power cost-effective ECC memory system and method  
A memory controller couples 32-bit data words to and from a DRAM. The DRAM generates error checking and correcting syndromes to check and correct read data. The DRAM generates the syndromes from...
7526709 Error detection and correction in a CAM  
An error detection and correction circuit is connected to at least one memory bank of a CAM device. During background processing (i.e., when the CAM is not performing reading, writing or searching...
7526704 Testing system and method allowing adjustment of signal transmit timing  
A test system includes respective clock domain crossing circuits coupling memory device signals to a memory device being tested. The clock domain crossing circuit includes a ring buffer into which...
7525842 Increased NAND flash memory read throughput  
A method of reading sequential pages of flash memory from alternating memory blocks comprises loading data from a first page into a first primary data cache and a second page into a second primary...
7525841 Programming method for NAND flash  
A NAND architecture non-volatile memory device and programming process is described that programs the various cells of strings of non-volatile memory cells utilizing a drain-side self boost,...
7525458 Method and apparatus for converting parallel data to serial data in high speed applications  
A method and apparatus to convert parallel data to serial data is provided. More specifically, there is provided a parallel-to-serial converter comprising a data pipeline configured to receive...
7525379 Low voltage CMOS differential amplifier  
There is provided a device including a PMOS differential amplifier and an NMOS differential amplifier. The NMOS differential amplifier is coupled to the PMOS differential amplifier. The device is...
7525354 Local coarse delay units  
Methods, circuits, devices, and systems are provided, including embodiments with local coarse delay units. One embodiment includes generating a first delayed signal, a second delayed signal, and a...
7525352 Current differential buffer  
A memory device having a differential buffer is disclosed. In some embodiments, the memory device includes a differential buffer having a differential pair that is configured to receive input...
7525332 On-chip substrate regulator test mode  
An on-chip circuit for defect testing with the ability to maintain a substrate voltage at a level more positive or more negative than a normal negative operating voltage level of the substrate....
7525164 Strained Si/SiGe/SOI islands and processes of making same  
A process of making a strained silicon-on-insulator structure is disclosed. A recess is formed in a substrate to laterally isolate an active area. An undercutting etch forms a bubble recess under...
7525149 Combined volatile and non-volatile memory device with graded composition insulator stack  
A memory device is fabricated with a graded composition tunnel insulator layer. This layer is formed over a substrate with a drain and a source region. The tunnel insulator is comprised of a graded...
7525141 Memory array with ultra-thin etched pillar surround gate access transistors and buried data/bit lines  
A memory array with data/bit lines extending generally in a first direction formed in an upper surface of a substrate and access transistors extending generally upward and aligned generally atop a...
7525134 CMOS imager pixel designs  
A charge storage capacitor which is connected to various light sensitive and/or electrical elements of a CMOS imager, as well as methods of formation, are disclosed. The charge storage capacitor...
7524756 Process of forming a semiconductor assembly having a contact structure and contact liner  
A contact structure and a method of forming thereof for semiconductor devices or assemblies are described. The method provides process steps to create a contact structure encompassed by a...
7524410 Methods and apparatus for removing conductive material from a microelectronic substrate  
A method and apparatus for removing conductive material from a microelectronic substrate is disclosed. One method includes disposing an electrolytic liquid between a conductive material of a...
7523400 Text based markup language resource interface  
A software control method and apparatus for displaying a text based markup language interface. The interface can interact with a computer to provide reference documents, install system drivers and...
7523381 Non-volatile memory with error detection  
Data move operations in a memory device are described that enable identification of data errors. Error detection circuitry in the memory device can be operated using parity data or ECC data stored...
7522466 DRAM power bus control  
A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is provided that has separate array and peripheral power busing to isolate array noise from peripheral circuits such as delay lock loops during row activations...