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7619264 Semiconductor device  
An electric fuse includes a wide interconnect and a narrow interconnect. The electric fuse has a juxtaposed region in which a plurality of straight line portions are juxtaposed with each other by...
7608926 Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device  
A new method to polish down conductive lines in the manufacture of an integrated circuit device is achieved. The method comprises providing a plurality of conductive lines overlying a substrate. A...
7608910 Semiconductor ESD device and methods of protecting a semiconductor device  
A semiconductor device and methods for protecting a semiconductor device. In an example, the semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate including at least one electrostatic...
7605408 Apparatus, method and system for reconfigurable circuitry  
The present invention relates to reconfigurable circuitry, and more particularly to the reconfiguration of the characteristics of materials used in the formation of electronic circuitry as the...
7595527 Non-volatile electromechanical field effect devices and circuits using same and methods of forming same  
Non-volatile field effect devices and circuits using same. A non-volatile field effect device includes a source, drain and gate with a field-modulatable channel between the source and drain. Each...
7592710 Bond pad structure for wire bonding  
A bond pad structure of an integrated circuit is provided. The bond pad structure includes a conductive bond pad, a first dielectric layer underlying the bond pad, and an M top plate located in...
7589363 Fuse structures, methods of making and using the same, and integrated circuits including the same  
A structure configured to disconnect circuit elements. The structure generally includes a dielectric layer over a light-absorbing structure, and a lens over the dielectric layer and the...
7589362 Configurable non-volatile logic structure for characterizing an integrated circuit device  
An integrated circuit (IC) device including a substrate, a plurality of device layers formed over the substrate, and a plurality of multi-level revision (MLR) structures that generate a revision...
7576408 Fuse box, method of forming a fuse box, and fuse cutting method  
A fuse of a fuse box includes a fuse line with a plurality of sub-fuse lines. A fuse cutting method involves selectively cutting sub-fuse lines of a fuse line.
7576374 Semiconductor device with robust polysilicon fuse  
A new method is provided to create a polysilicon fuse. The invention provides for applying a first oxide plasma treatment to the surface of the created polysilicon fuse, creating a thin layer of...
7550817 Semiconductor device having fuse with protection capacitor  
A semiconductor device has a fuse, an internal circuit and a protection capacitor. The fuse has a first terminal connected to be applied to a fixed voltage and a second terminal. The internal...
7550789 Using electrically programmable fuses to hide architecture, prevent reverse engineering, and make a device inoperable  
Techniques and systems whereby operation of and/or access to particular features of an electronic device may be controlled after the device has left the control of the manufacturer are provided....
7550788 Semiconductor device having fuse element arranged between electrodes formed in different wiring layers  
A semiconductor device includes a lower electrode, an upper electrode, and a fuse element that connects the lower electrode and the upper electrode. The height of the fuse element is greater than...
7538369 Resistance-change-type fuse circuit  
A resistance-change-type fuse circuit has a plurality of polysilicon fuses which are made of polysilicon and causes irreversible change in resistance by flowing a current; a plurality of...
7531886 MOSFET fuse programmed by electromigration  
A one-time programmable field effect transistor (FET) e-fuse has a silicided gate connected to the drain while the source is grounded. A voltage stimulus applied to the drain forces current to flow...
7529147 Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same  
The semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate; an electric fuse provided on the semiconductor substrate, and having a first fuse link and a second fuse link connected in series; and a...
7528402 Electrically rewritable non-volatile memory element  
A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of lower electrodes arranged in a matrix manner, a plurality of recording layer patterns, each being arranged on the lower electrode,...
7528027 Structure and method for manufacturing device with ultra thin SOI at the tip of a V-shape channel  
An SOI CMOS structure includes a v-shape trench in a pFet region. The v-shape trench has a surface in a (111) plane and extends into an SOI layer in the pFet region. A layer, such as a gate oxide...
7517762 Semiconductor device capable of preventing moisture-absorption of fuse area thereof and method for manufacturing the fuse area  
A fuse area of a semiconductor device capable of preventing moisture-absorption and a method for manufacturing the fuse area are provided. When forming a guard ring for preventing permeation of...
7512760 Memory control unit and memory system  
A memory control unit includes fuses that are selectively blown to set a manufacturer's identification code (ID), and a further fuse that is selectively blown to designate the memory control unit...
7508018 Image sensor having a highly doped and shallow pinning layer  
An image sensor includes a first conductivity type substrate with a trench formed in a predetermined portion thereof, a second conductivity type impurity region formed in the first conductivity...
7508016 CMOS imager having on-chip ROM  
A CMOS image sensor formed on a chip has a ROM disposed on the chip for recording pixel defect locations, chip-by-chip variations such as bias, and other manufacturing production data. Testing...
7507607 Method of forming a silicide bridged anti-fuse with a tungsten plug metalization process  
A silicide bridged anti-fuse and a method of forming the anti-fuse are disclosed. The silicide bridged anti-fuse can be formed with a tungsten plug metalization process that does not require any...
7495309 Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof  
A redundant fuse is provided with a redundant length, here a winding structure, at one end thereof, here at a vicinity of a second wire side to which a high voltage (Vcc) is impressed. A...
7495294 Flash devices with shared word lines  
Word lines of a NAND flash memory array are formed by concentric, rectangular shaped, closed loops that have a width of approximately half the minimum feature size of the patterning process used....
7491965 Heat-shielded low power PCM-based reprogrammable eFUSE device  
An electrically re-programmable fuse (eFUSE) device for use in integrated circuit devices includes an elongated heater element, an electrically insulating liner surrounding an outer surface of the...
7489230 Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same  
A semiconductor device includes a first insulating layer, which is formed on a semiconductor substrate (not shown), and formed with a concave portion, and an electric fuse which has a conductive...
7489027 Accessible electronic storage apparatus  
A storage apparatus 10 is disclosed, that comprises a wiring substrate 11 having a first surface and a second surface, a flat type external connection terminal 12 a disposed on the first...
7485944 Programmable electronic fuse  
A programmable device (eFuse), includes: a substrate ( 10 ); an insulator ( 13 ) on the substrate; an elongated semiconductor material ( 12 ) on the insulator, the elongated semiconductor material...
7482644 Integrated semiconductor memory and method for electrically stressing an integrated semiconductor memory  
Semiconductor memories ( 1 ) have segmented word lines ( 5 a, 5 b ), which in each case have a main word line ( 10 a, 10 b ) made of a conductive metal and a plurality of interconnect segments (...
7462894 Electrical fuse device with dummy cells for ESD protection  
An electrical fuse device includes at least one electrical fuse cell having a first switch device serially coupled with an electrical fuse representing a logic value; and at least one dummy cell...
7446418 Semiconductor device for preventing defective filling of interconnection and cracking of insulating film  
The semiconductor device has insulating films 40, 42 formed over a substrate 10 ; an interconnection 58 buried in at least a surface side of the insulating films 40, 42 ; insulating films ...
7442626 Rectangular contact used as a low voltage fuse element  
A repair fuse element and method of construction are disclosed that eliminate or substantially reduce the disadvantages and problems associated with prior fuse elements. In one embodiment, the fuse...
7423301 Semiconductor device including fuse elements and bonding pad  
A semiconductor device includes a lower-layer substrate, a fuse above the lower-layer substrate and blown by radiation with light, a silicon oxide film on the fuse and on an exposed portion of the...
7407819 Polymer memory having a ferroelectric polymer memory material with cell sizes that are asymmetric  
A polymer memory and its method of manufacture are provided. One multi-layer construction of the polymer memory has two sets of word lines and a set of bit lines between the word lines. The word...
7405470 Adaptable electronic storage apparatus  
A storage apparatus 10 is disclosed, that comprises a wiring substrate 11 having a first surface and a second surface, a flat type external connection terminal 12 a disposed on the first...
7402887 Semiconductor device having fuse area surrounded by protection means  
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate, first and second insulating layers, a fuse, a diffusion layer and a conductive pattern. The first insulating layer is selectively formed on a...
7402846 Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection structure and a circuit using the same  
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection structure is disclosed. The ESD protection structure includes an active device. The active device includes a plurality of drains. Each of the drains has...
7402770 Nano structure electrode design  
A microelectronic switch having a substrate layer, an electrically conductive switching layer formed on the substrate layer, an electrically conductive cavity layer formed on the switching layer,...
7391097 Secure electrically programmable fuse  
The present invention provides electrically-programmable fuse structures having radiation inhibitive properties for preventing non-destructive security breaches by radiation imaging techniques such...
7391045 Three-dimensional phase-change memory  
A three-dimensional phase-change memory array. In one embodiment of the invention, the memory array includes a first plurality of diodes, a second plurality of diodes disposed above the first...
7372714 Methods and memory structures using tunnel-junction device as control element  
A memory structure includes a memory storage element electrically coupled to a control element. The control element comprises a tunnel-junction device. The memory storage element may also comprise...
7368768 Semiconductor integrated circuit device with protection capability for protection circuits from static electrical charge  
Semiconductor Integrated Circuit (IC) devices such as diode and MOSFET that protect circuits from Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) are formed. A diode is formed by an N+ (or P+) and P+ (or N+)...
7361967 Semiconductor device with fuse wires and connection wires  
A semiconductor device wherein return wires corresponding to a plurality of fuse wires are arranged collectively in the same region. Moreover, the return wires are arranged in multiple layers. This...
7352050 Fuse region of a semiconductor region  
In a fuse region of a semiconductor device, and a method of fabricating the same, the fuse region includes an interlayer insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of fuses on the...
7344924 Fuse structures, methods of making and using the same, and integrated circuits including the same  
A fuse structure, an integrated circuit including the structure, and methods for making the structure and (re)configuring a circuit using the fuse. The fuse structure generally includes (a) a...
7339231 Semiconductor device and an integrated circuit card  
There is provided a technology capable of enhancing reliability in rewrite of storage information in a nonvolatile memory while checking an increase in area of a memory array thereof. With a memory...
7334320 Method of making an electronic fuse with improved ESD tolerance  
Tolerance to ESD is increased in an electronic fuse by providing at least one non-conductive region adjacent to a conductive region on the surface of an insulator. Such an arrangement reduces the...
7332817 Die and die-package interface metallization and bump design and arrangement  
A die metallization and bump design/arrangement, and a die-package interface metallization and bump design/arrangement are described herein.
7329911 Semiconductor device including memory cell and anti-fuse element  
A semiconductor device includes an anti-fuse portion and a memory cell portion each including a MOSFET structure having a gate insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate and a gate...
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