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6194764 Integrated semiconductor circuit with protection structure for protecting against electrostatic discharge  
An integrated semiconductor circuit has a protection structure for protecting against electrostatic discharge. The protection element has at least one integrated vertical protection transistor,...
6191452 Thin film transistor having a stopper layer  
On a transparent substrate to which a gate electrode is arranged, a silicon nitride film and a silicon oxide film to be gate insulating films are deposited, and further, a polycrystalline silicon...
6191461 Semiconductor device including output circuit improved in electrostatic damage resistance  
A first transistor having a central impurity region connected to a power supply node and outer-side impurity regions connected to an output node and a second transistor having a central impurity...
6191455 Semi-conductor device protected by electrostatic protection device from electrostatic discharge damage  
A semiconductor device has electrostatic protection device capable of preventing characteristic fluctuation of MOS transistor caused by electrostatic discharge. PN junction is formed in between N +...
6191454 Protective resistance element for a semiconductor device  
A semiconductor device includes a transistor and a protective resistance element. The transistor has first and second impurity regions of a first conductivity type formed on a surface of a...
6191451 Semiconductor device with decoupling capacitance  
A semiconductor device is disclosed that provides a decoupling capacitance and method for the same. The semiconductor device includes a first circuit region having a first device layer over an...
6191456 Lateral IGBT in an SOI configuration and method for its fabrication  
A lateral IGBT in an SOI configuration having a top side and an underside is proposed. The lateral IGBT has a drain zone extending to the top side and is of a first conductivity type. The underside...
6188107 High performance transistor fabricated on a dielectric film and method of making same  
The present invention is directed to a transistor formed above a layer of a dielectric material and a method of making same. In one illustrative embodiment, the method comprises forming a layer of...
6188109 Semiconductor device having a sense electrode  
A buried sense electrode (8) having the same structure as that of a buried gate electrode (7) is provided in an n - layer (3) of an IGBT with a sense oxide film (10) interposed therebetween. The...
6184541 Thin film transistor and method of producing the same  
On the polycrystal semiconductor film 3 formed on the insulating substrate 1, the source 6 and drain 7 in LDD structure having a low concentration region 4 and a high concentration region 5 are...
6180993 Ion repulsion structure for fuse window  
An ion repulsion structure for a fuse window is provided. The ion repulsion structure includes multi-level metallic layers and a P-type silicon semiconductor substrate having a plurality of wells....
6180984 Integrated circuit impedance device and method of manufacture therefor  
A multi-purpose device that can serve as either a resistor, MOSFET or JFET is disclosed. The resistor is formed by selecting a first metal interconnect configuration, the MOSFET is formed by...
6177707 Semiconductor device comprising a glass supporting body onto which a substrate with semiconductor elements and a metalization is attached by means of an adhesive  
A thin film semiconductor device includes a glass supporting body having thereon an insulating substrate which is attached thereto by a layer of adhesive material. On the surface of the substrate...
6175139 Semiconductor device and method of making the same  
A semiconductor device includes a metal terminal provided on a semiconductor substrate and a protection element. The protection element includes an insulated gate field-effect transistor. The...
6172383 Power MOSFET having voltage-clamped gate  
A MOSFET contains a voltage clamp including one or more diodes which connects its gate and source. The voltage clamp is designed to break down at a predetermined voltage and thereby protect the...
6172403 Electrostatic discharge protection circuit triggered by floating-base transistor  
An electrostatic discharge protection circuit triggered by a transistor having a floating base is disclosed. The electrostatic discharge protection circuit in accordance with the present invention...
6169310 Electrostatic discharge protection device  
An ESD protection device for use with an integrated circuit that provides a low impedance resistive path between IC pads (including V dd and V ss pads) when power to the IC is off, while assuring...
6166415 Semiconductor device with improved noise resistivity  
A dummy pattern that is inserted to stabilize the form of a transistor active region is implanted with an impurity of the same conductivity type as a well, and the impurity-doped region of the...
6164781 High temperature transistor with reduced risk of electromigration and differently shaped electrodes  
Electromigration in the source and drain conductors of a semiconductor device is reduced by increasing the cross-sectional areas of these conductors in accordance with an increase in a magnitude of...
6166397 Display device with inverted type transistors in the peripheral and pixel portions  
A display device having high definition and high reliability, and technology for manufacturing the same. In an active matrix type display device of integrated peripheral driving circuit type, pixel...
6163056 Semiconductor device having electrostatic discharge  
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a major surface, a source region of a second conductivity type, a drain region of the second conductivity type, and a first...
6157065 Electrostatic discharge protective circuit under conductive pad  
An electrostatic discharge protective circuit under an input pad. The electrostatic discharge protective circuit has at least a MOS, wherein the MOS comprises a drain region, a gate structure and a...
6157070 Protection circuit against latch-up in a multiple-supply integrated circuit  
In a multiple-supply CMOS IC, if VDDH is applied slower than VDDL during powering up, some diffusion junctions normally reversed-biased may momentarily become forward-biased and produce latch-up to...
6153913 Electrostatic discharge protection circuit  
The invention provides an ESD protection circuit, which is formed on a semiconductor substrate. There is at least one MOS transistor branches out at a place between an I/O port and an internal...
6153909 Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same  
Semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same, which is suitable for reducing a hot carrier effect, the device including a first conduction type substrate, a gate insulting film formed...
6146951 Method of manufacturing semiconductor device for preventing electrostatic discharge  
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device for preventing ESD damage is disclosed. A semiconductor device for preventing against ESD damage according to a first embodiment of the present...
6147369 SCR and current divider structure of electrostatic discharge protective circuit  
An electrostatic discharge protective circuit of the invention includes a silicon controller rectifier (SCR) and a current diverter. The current diverter is used to bypass an initial low current...
6146913 Method for making enhanced performance field effect devices  
This invention is predicated on applicant's discovery that near the gate dielectric/semiconductor interface, surface roughness of a particular spectral range plays a disproportionately larger role...
6144074 Semiconductor memory device having stack-type memory cells and a method for manufacturing the same  
At least one dummy storage node is formed for a plurality of storage nodes provided in stack type memory cells in which a plate electrode is grounded through the at least one dummy storage node,...
6145107 Method for early failure recognition in power semiconductor modules  
A method for early failure recognition in power semiconductor modules which employs a measurement across a resistor between a bonded emitter terminal and a bonded auxiliary emitter terminal that...
6140682 Self protected stacked NMOS with non-silicided region to protect mixed-voltage I/O pad from ESD damage  
A self-protected output driver for an integrated circuit utilizing cascode configured MOSFET transistors is formed in a single active region, allowing a smaller layout area without sacrificing...
6133602 Method of reducing dielectric damage due to charging in the fabrication of stacked gate structures  
A method of fabricating structures to reduce dielectric damage due to charging is easily incorporated into existing stacked gate fabrication processes. The conductive layers are patterned to form...
6130460 Interconnect track connecting, on several metallization levels, an insulated gate of a transistor to a discharge diode within an integrated circuit, and process for producing such a track  
An interconnect track connects, on several metallization levels, an insulated gate of a transistor to a discharge diode within an integrated circuit. The interconnect track comprises a first track...
6124615 Stacked semiconductor structure for high integration of an integrated circuit with junction devices  
A stacked semiconductor structure is designed for component arrangement of an IC (integrated circuit) device having a large number of various types of junction devices, such as diodes, well...
6121090 Self-aligned silicided MOS devices with an extended S/D junction and an ESD protection circuit  
A method for fabricating simultaneously a self-aligned silicided and an ESD protective transistor is disclosed. To improve operation speed, the MOS transistor is manufactured with an extended S/D...
6118157 High voltage split gate CMOS transistors built in standard 2-poly core CMOS  
A split-gate MOS transistor includes two separate but partially overlapping gates to reduce the electric field near the drain-channel interface region and, thereby, has an increased gated-diode...
6114731 Low capacitance ESD structure having a source inside a well and the bottom portion of the drain inside a substrate  
Disclosed is an electrostatic discharge protection transistor having low input capacitance and method for making the same. The electrostatic discharge protection transistor includes a semiconductor...
6108181 Electrostatic discharge (ESD) circuit  
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) discharge circuit provides robust protection to an integrated circuit (13). In one embodiment, a resistive element (71) ensures that current shunting bipolar...
6107664 Self-locking static micro-circuit breaker  
A static self-locking micro-circuit-breaker includes a first MOS depletion transistor of a first type connected by its drain to a first main terminal and by its gate to a second main terminal, a...
6104065 Semiconductor device having an active region in a substrate with trapezoidal cross-sectional structure  
A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same, wherein a thick side wall oxide film or polysilicon film is formed on the edge portion of the second silicon substrate. At the side...
6104048 Electrostatic discharge protection for magneto-resistive heads  
An electrostatic protection network is disclosed that may be employed in a disk drive having a magneto-resistive read element. The network comprises a ground; and an array that block a signal...
6097066 Electro-static discharge protection structure for semiconductor devices  
The structure includes a plurality of first ring shape structure formed on a semiconductor wafer to act as the gates of the MOS devices. The areas in the inner side of the first ring shape...
6091113 Semiconductor device with evaluation MISFET  
A depletion type MISFET is formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, MISFET including a source region, a drain region, a channel region between the source and drain regions, a gate...
6084272 Electrostatic discharge protective circuit for semiconductor device  
An electrostatic discharge protective circuit including a semiconductor substrate, an input/output pad formed on the semiconductor substrate, a PMOS transistor formed on the semiconductor substrate...
6081013 Semiconductor device having a reduced distance between the input resistor and the internal circuit  
In a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, first and second external terminals, a first impurity diffusion region connected to the first external terminal, and second and third...
6078068 Electrostatic discharge protection bus/die edge seal  
Disclosed is an integrated circuit chip having an improved ESD protection structure. The integrated circuit chip includes a core logic region having a plurality of transistor devices that are...
6078096 Semiconductor integrated circuit device having a short circuit preventing circuit  
A 16 Mbit DRAM of the invention is made up of a nexus of four 4 Mbit DRAM chips which are formed adjacent to one another on the wafer and each constitute an individual 4 Mbit DRAM, the connection...
6078085 Semiconductor integrated circuit and layout apparatus in which guard-ring is interposed between input-output circuits  
A semiconductor integrated circuit is made up of a plurality of input-output circuit portions which are aligned at irregular intervals between a core portion and an external portion, a first...
6075276 ESD protection device using Zener diodes  
A semiconductor device is provided which includes a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate, a second conductivity type Zener region formed in a surface layer of the first conductivity type...
6075271 Semiconductor device inhibiting parasitic effects during electrostatic discharge  
A semiconductor device (10) having a stacked-gate buffer (30) wherein the stacked-gate buffer (30) has a substrate (65) and a top substrate region (70) both with the same first conductivity type....