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8106426 |
Full color CMOS imager filter
A full color complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imaging circuit is provided. The imaging circuit is made up of an array of photodiodes including a plurality of pixel groups. Each pixel...
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7952633 |
Apparatus for continuous clocking of TDI sensors
A method and apparatus for propagating charge through a sensor and implementation thereof is provided. The method and apparatus may be used to inspect specimens, the sensor operating to advance an...
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7939856 |
Area-efficient distributed device structure for integrated voltage regulators
An area efficient distributed device for integrated voltage regulators comprising at least one filler cell connected between a pair of PADS on I/O rail of a chip and at least one additional filler...
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7859025 |
Metal ion transistor
A metal ion transistor and related methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, the metal ion transistor includes a cell positioned in at least one isolation layer, the cell including a metal ion...
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7714355 |
Method of controlling the breakdown voltage of BSCRs and BJT clamps
In a BSCR or BJT ESD clamp, the breakdown voltage and DC voltage tolerance are controlled by controlling the size of the collector of the BJT device by masking part of the collector.
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7667281 |
Method for hard mask CD trim
Broadly speaking, methods and an apparatus are provided for removing an inorganic material from a substrate. More specifically, the methods provide for removing the inorganic material from the...
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7605411 |
Charge transfer device and imaging apparatus
An HCCD includes a channel 21 that transfers electric charges in an X direction, a channel 25 that transfers the electric charges in a Z1 direction, a channel 23 that transfers the electric charges...
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7550762 |
Isolation circuit
An isolation circuit includes a first pad adapted to receive a control signal and a second pad adapted to receive another signal. A third pad is coupled to a microelectronic die and a device is...
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7199409 |
Device for subtracting or adding charge in a charge-coupled device
The present invention provides an apparatus for adding or subtracting an amount charge to or from a charge packet in a CCD as the packet traverses the CCD. The apparatus uses a “wire transfer” dev...
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7067888 |
Semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same
Semiconductor regions for the suppression of short channel effects are not provided for a pMIS and an nMIS that constitute an inverter circuit of an input first stage of an I/O buffer circuit,...
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7046283 |
Arrangements of clock line drivers
A circuit includes a circuit chip and a plurality of clock drivers external to the circuit chip. The circuit chip includes a plurality of isolated clocking subunits and a corresponding plurality of...
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6956254 |
Multilayered dual bit memory device with improved write/erase characteristics and method of manufacturing
A dual bit ROM multilayered structure with improved write and erase functions and a method of manufacturing is disclosed. The structure includes a pair of floating gates at the middle or nitride...
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6784471 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device capable of reducing manufacturing cost and on-state resistance is provided by selectively disposing a plurality of active regions (AR) on a main surface of a stainless steel...
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6734475 |
Charge pump device
P type well regions 31 and 32 are formed in N type well regions 21 and 22 respectively. The N type well regions 21 and 22 are formed separately each other. Charge transfer MOS transistors M2 and M3...
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6639273 |
Silicon carbide n channel MOS semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
A silicon carbide n channel MOS semiconductor device is provided which includes a silicon carbide substrate including a p base region, an n30 source region and an n+ drain region, a gate insulating...
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6365950 |
CMOS active pixel sensor
The present invention relates to a CMOS active pixel sensor which includes a compensation circuit capable of compensating a lowered pixel voltage output due to leakage current of a photodiode. The...
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6339229 |
Test structure for insulation-film evaluation
A test structure for insulation-film evaluation has a CCD structure comprising a semiconductor substrate (1), a gate insulating film (2) to be evaluated which is formed across the main surface of...
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6337815 |
Semiconductor memory device having redundant circuit
A semiconductor memory device includes word lines, normal bit lines, a redundant bit line, and normal memory cells for storing data and each of which is coupled to one of the word lines and to one...
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6195742 |
Semiconductor multi-chip module
An electronic circuit package having a wiring substrate, at least two semiconductor chips and a bus line. All the semiconductor chips to be connected by means of the bus line are bare chip packaged...
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5856687 |
Semiconductor device with connected source electrode pads at diagonal corners
A semiconductor device includes a square pellet, a gate electrode pad, a drain electrode pad, a pair of source electrode pads, and a source electrode path. The pellet has first and second diagonal...
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5396527 |
Recovered energy logic circuits
A logic circuit is driven by a single alternating voltage power supply so that the energy stored in parasitic capacitances can be mostly recovered, rather than dissipated, as in conventional logic...
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5336910 |
Charge coupled device of high sensitivity and high integration
A charge coupled device according to the present invention, having an output terminal, for detecting an electric charge and for outputting a detection signal corresponding to the electric charge...
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5293138 |
Integrated circuit element, methods of fabrication and utilization
A circuit element comprises an acoustic charge transport device comprising an input, a barrier element and an output. A transistor assembly comprises a source, a gate and a drain. One of the input,...
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5194750 |
High precision ccd magnetic field sensor
A magnetic field sensor, having a charge-coupled device formed in a semiconductor region is disclosed. The magnetic field sensor has first and second contact zones, made of a heavily doped...
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5159299 |
HACT electrode configuration
A heterostructure acoustic charge transport (HACT) device having a number of signal tap electrodes has revealed unexpected insensitivity to electrode spacing and unexpected sensitivity to electrode...
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5159418 |
CCD imager with integrated voltage divider resistors to supply overflow drain
A CCD type solid state imaging device is disclosed, in which the overflow drain voltage is generated within the device itself by dividing the drain voltage by a built-in divider. The divider is...
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5126811 |
Charge transfer device with electrode structure of high transfer efficiency
A charge transfer device includes a plurality of spaced apart charge transfer electrodes disposed on a semiconductor substrate with an insulating film intervening between the electrodes and between...
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5065203 |
Trench structured charge-coupled device
The charge transfer efficiency of a two-phase charge-coupled device cell is enhanced by providing a three-tiered built-in potential in the channel of each cell. Two lower potential tiers form a...
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5029190 |
Output circuit having high charge to voltage conversion gain
An output circuit for CCD imager devices or CCD delay devices is disclosed in which a depletion type second MIS transistor is connected to the drain side of a first MIS transistor constituting a...
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5019884 |
Charge transfer device
In a charge transfer device including spaced apart channels on a semiconductor substrate, first electrodes are disposed in gaps between the channels, second electrodes are disposed opposite...
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4973833 |
Image sensor including logarithmic converters
A photosensor, or an image sensor made of many such photosensors, including a plurality of photosensor pixels each having a logarithmic converter. The logarithmic converter converts source charges...
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4866496 |
Charger transfer device (CTD), eliminating the background level of a detected signal, detection structure and method of using such a CTD
A charge transfer device (CTD) eliminating the background level of a detected signal provided with an input circuit comprising an injection source (12) and an electrode (16) controlling a storage...
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4803706 |
Variable delay charge coupled device
A various CCD delay element in which extra delay stages are provided. The extra stages are either held at a given potential to pass all signals therethrough and thus to not contribute to the gain...
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4799244 |
Surface acoustical wave charge transfer device having a plurality of stationary charge carrier storage portions
A surface acoustic wave charge transfer device of monolithic type has a channel stopper for preventing the charge carriers from deviating from the transfer channel of the device. The charge...
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4777519 |
Charge transfer device
In an SPS charge transfer device comprising a parallel register having a plurality of signal transfer channels for transferring signal charges, and a first and a second serial registers, a...
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4774199 |
Charge transfer device and process of manufacturing the same
Process of manufacturing a charge transfer device wherein lower electrodes have enlarged portions and narrowed portions which mesh with the mating portions of any adjacent lower electrode, upper...
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4766332 |
Detecting binary information from a charge transfer device
A method of detecting binary information from the pulse-shaped output signal of a CCD uses a varying reference voltage which depends on the amplitude of the last pulse detected, in order to render...
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4686648 |
Charge coupled device differencer
A charge packet differencer is implemented in a charge coupled device in such a manner that a first charge packet may be subtracted from a second charge packet thus giving a resultant charge packet...
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4631739 |
High dynamic range charge amplifier
A charge coupled device (CCD) amplifier is utilized for amplification of charge packets as small as 500 electrons into usable signals. Very little noise is injected into the signal. The charge...
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4627082 |
Semiconductor device for obtaining an accurate threshold voltage adjustment
The invention relates to an integrated MOS circuit comprising a MOS transistor which is connected as a resistor and which, when conducting current, generates a voltage which is supplied to the...
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4627084 |
Differentiation and integration utilizing charge-coupled devices
A charge-coupled-device analog input circuit, for generating packets of electrical charge representative of samples of a differentiated analog input signal, and a charge-coupled-device analog...
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4598414 |
Input compression apparatus for charge coupled devices
An input circuit coupled to receive a signal from a detector and compressing the input current representative of such signal with a fixed compression curve before injection of a charge...
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4590390 |
Solid state photonic detector with charge transfer reader and image-forming target using such a detector
A charge transfer readout device and a photovoltaic diode input in which the charges involved in the readout device have the opposite sign to those of the signal from the diode. The invention...
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4554571 |
Matched photonic detector-charge transfer reader assembly and image forming target using such an assembly
A photovoltaic diode input, and a charge transfer readout device are coupled by a MOS stage. The coupling stage includes a MOS transistor, to which is added, close to the source electrode of the...
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4501007 |
CCD differentiator
A charge transfer differentiator having a layer of semiconductor material and a contiguous film of overlying electrically insulating material includes a first electrode fed by a first voltage...
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4479139 |
Charge coupled device open circuit image detector
An open circuit photodiode includes a capacitor plate formed monolithically with a forward biased P-N junction diode. The capacitor plate, together with one side of the P-N junction, forms a...
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4446532 |
Surface charge signal processing apparatus
A plurality of charge storage cells, each including first and second storage regions and corresponding first and second electrodes insulatingly overlying the storage regions are provided in a...
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4393357 |
High speed transient recorder systems
CCD methods and devices for recording transient data signals, in which charge is transferred under the influence of transmission line fields at sampling sites disposed along a charge transfer channel.
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4383187 |
Charge transfer filter providing recursive transfer functions
A filter utilizing charge transfer devices for providing recursive transfer functions is described. The filter includes a circular charge transfer shift register having an even number N of stages,...
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4371953 |
Analog read only memory
The present invention is directed to a read only memory, wherein the preferred embodiment provides an analog read only memory using charge coupled devices. Fixed but selectable charge packets are...
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