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7615826 |
Electrostatic discharge protection semiconductor structure
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device with adjustable single-trigger or multi-trigger voltage is provided. The semiconductor structure has multi-stage protection semiconductor circuit...
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7612431 |
Trench polysilicon diode
Embodiments of the present invention include a method of manufacturing a trench transistor. The method includes forming a substrate of a first conductivity type and implanting a dopant of a second...
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7608894 |
Electrostatic discharge protection device
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device for providing an ESD path between two circuitries is provided. Each circuitry has a power supply terminal and a ground terminal. The protection...
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7605059 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device
A semiconductor device comprises: a MOS transistor including: a semiconductor substrate; a source region, formed in the semiconductor substrate, that comprises an impurity of a first conductive...
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7602022 |
Surge voltage protection diode with controlled p-n junction density gradients
To prevent the destruction of a semiconductor element due to negative resistance, and to reduce the dynamic resistance of a static electricity prevention diode, the ratio of the maximum electric...
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7601990 |
Method and apparatus for electrostatic discharge protection having a stable breakdown voltage and low snapback voltage
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is provided for an integrated circuit. Snap back from a lower initial critical voltage and critical current is provided, as compared to contemporary...
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7598605 |
Semiconductor device having capacitive insulation means and communication terminal using the device
A primary side circuit and a secondary side circuit are provided on first and second semiconductor substrates, respectively. A first capacitive insulator on the first substrate electrically...
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7598584 |
Infrared solid-state image pickup apparatus and a production method thereof
An infrared solid-state image pickup apparatus includes an SOI substrate having a silicon oxide film layer and an SOI layer on a silicon substrate, a detecting portion which is provided with a PN...
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7598575 |
Semiconductor die with reduced RF attenuation
The attenuation of an RF signal on a metal trace in a semiconductor die is substantially reduced by utilizing a number of RF blocking structures that lie on the surface of the substrate directly...
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7598538 |
ESD protecting circuit and manufacturing method thereof
An ESP protecting circuit and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The ESP protecting circuit includes a device isolation layer, first and second high-concentration impurity regions, a...
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7595537 |
MOS type semiconductor device having electrostatic discharge protection arrangement
In a semiconductor device, a well region is formed in a semiconductor substrate, a transistor-formation region is defined in the well region. An electrostatic discharge protection device is...
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7592687 |
Device and method for preventing an integrated circuit from malfunctioning due to surge voltage
A device and method for preventing an integrated circuit from malfunctioning due to a surge voltage are provided. The device which is interposed between a node and a ground in the integrated...
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7592673 |
ESD protection circuit with isolated diode element and method thereof
An ESD protection circuit ( 20 ) includes an ESD device ( 24 ) and an isolation diode element ( 30 ). The ESD device includes a drain-source junction isolated ESD transistor ( 26,28 ). The...
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7589384 |
Semiconductor device including an electrostatic discharge protection element
It is made possible to easily set a protection voltage even when a semiconductor device to be protected includes a gate insulating film having a low dielectric breakdown voltage. A semiconductor...
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7589377 |
Gate structure with low resistance for high power semiconductor devices
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a gate structure for a U-shape Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (UMOS) device includes a dielectric layer formed into a U-shape having side walls...
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7589308 |
Method and apparatus for regulating photo currents induced by dose rate events
A method and apparatus for regulating photocurrents is described. A photocurrent regulator may include a transistor having an associated cross-sectional area. The photocurrent regulator is coupled...
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7582938 |
I/O and power ESD protection circuits by enhancing substrate-bias in deep-submicron CMOS process
A technique to enhancing substrate bias of grounded-gate NMOS fingers (ggNMOSFET's) has been developed. By using this technique, lower triggering voltage of NMOS fingers can be achieved without...
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7582937 |
ESD protection circuit
An ESD protection circuit includes a substrate, diode device, first snapback device, ring structure, second snapback device and a control circuit. The diode device is formed in the substrate. The...
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7582936 |
Electro-static discharge protection circuit and method for fabricating the same
An ESD protection circuit using an N-type extended drain silicon controlled rectifier (N-EDSCR) and a method for fabricating the same are provided. An electro-static discharge (ESD) protection...
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7579658 |
Devices without current crowding effect at the finger's ends
ESD protection devices without current crowding effect at the finger's ends. It is applied under MM ESD stress in sub-quarter-micron CMOS technology. The ESD discharging current path in the NMOS or...
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7579632 |
Multi-channel ESD device and method therefor
In one embodiment, an ESD device is configured to include a zener diode and a P-N diode.
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7576961 |
Electrostatic discharge protection circuit using triple welled silicon controlled rectifier
Provided is an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit using a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR), which is applied to a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC). A semiconductor substrate...
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7576396 |
Synchronous substrate injection clamp
In accordance with the principles of the invention, an integrated circuit comprises a substrate having a first FET formed on the substrate. The first FET has a first terminal coupleable to a load,...
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7573102 |
ESD protection structure and method utilizing substrate triggering for a high-voltage tolerant pad
In an ESD protection structure and method utilizing substrate triggering for a high-voltage tolerant pad on a substrate, an ESD protection device has a source connected to the pad and a gate and a...
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7566935 |
ESD structure without ballasting resistors
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) structure connected to a bonding pad in an integrated circuit comprising: a P-type substrate with one or more first P+ regions connected to a low voltage supply...
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7564101 |
Semiconductor device for protecting a circuit formed on a semiconductor chip from destruction caused by an electrostatic discharge
A semiconductor device includes a Zener diode connected between an outside terminal and ground, and a resistor connected to the Zener diode in series. The Zener diode and the resistor divide a...
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7563653 |
ESD protection for high voltage applications
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device includes a diode located in a substrate and an N-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) device located in the substrate adjacent the diode, wherein...
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7560778 |
Charge modulation network for multiple power domains for silicon-on-insulator technology
An SOI integrated circuit includes ESD protection on an SOI chip. A first power domain and a second power domain are provided in the SOI chip. In one embodiment, a charge modulation network in the...
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7560777 |
Protection element and method of manufacture
An electrostatic discharge (“ESD”) protection circuit having dynamically configurable series-connected diodes and a method for manufacturing the ESD protection circuit. A doped region of P-type...
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7557414 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
In a semiconductor device having a first MIS transistor on a semiconductor substrate, the first MIS transistor includes a p-type semiconductor layer, a first gate insulating film, a first gate...
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7557413 |
Serpentine ballasting resistors for multi-finger ESD protection device
This invention discloses a ballasting resistor for an electrostatic discharge (ESD) device that comprises at least one first active region forming a source/drain of an ESD discharge transistor, at...
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7554160 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device has a source region, a channel region and a drain region formed in order along a surface of a substrate, a vertical type bipolar transistor formed from the source region...
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7554158 |
Semiconductor device having analog and digital circuits
An N-type deep well is used to protect a circuit from a noise. However, a noise with a high frequency propagates through the N-type deep well, and as a result, the circuit that should be protected...
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7550820 |
Reverse-biased PN diode decoupling capacitor
This invention discloses a decoupling capacitor in an integrated circuit, comprising a plurality of dedicated PN diodes with a total junction area greater than one tenth of a total active area of...
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7545017 |
Wafer level package for surface acoustic wave device and fabrication method thereof
A wafer level package for a surface acoustic wave (SAW) device and a fabrication method thereof. The SAW device wafer level package includes a SAW device in which a SAW element is formed on a top...
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7545005 |
Semiconductor device capable of avoiding latchup breakdown resulting from negative variation of floating offset voltage
A semiconductor device is provided which is capable of avoiding malfunction and latchup breakdown resulting from negative variation of high-voltage-side floating offset voltage (VS). In the upper...
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7541648 |
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit that includes a parallel connection of parasitic vertical and lateral bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) each with a floating base and a metal...
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7541235 |
Method for providing a programmable electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device
A method for providing a programmable electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device is provided. The method includes providing a source diffusion in a substrate, providing a deeper body diffusion...
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7538394 |
Compound semiconductor switch circuit device
High-resistance elements are connected as parts of a control resistor between a switching element and a protecting element immediately near the switching element and between adjacent protecting...
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7528449 |
Semiconductor device including ESD protective element
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of gate electrodes, source and drain regions, a plurality of source contacts, a plurality of drain contacts, substrate contacts, and a salicide block....
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7525159 |
Turn-on-efficient bipolar structures for on-chip ESD protection
A semiconductor device suitable for applications in an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit, including a semiconductor substrate, a first well formed in the substrate, a second well...
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7518190 |
Grounding front-end-of-line structures on a SOI substrate
Structures and a method are disclosed for grounding gate-stack and/or silicon active region front-end-of-line structures on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, which may be used as test...
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7511355 |
Semiconductor device having fuse element
In a semiconductor device including a switching element and a fuse element which is connected in series with the switching element and which melts and blows out as a result of an electric current...
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7511345 |
Bulk resistance control technique
The present invention provides a MOS transistor device for providing ESD protection including at least one interleaved finger having a source, drain and gate region formed over a channel region...
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7508038 |
ESD protection transistor
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) transistor structure includes a self-aligned outrigger less than 0.4 microns from a gate electrode that is 50 microns wide. The outrigger is fabricated on ordinary...
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7498638 |
ESD protection circuit for semiconductor device
An ESD protection circuit for a semiconductor device including a bonding pad receiving a first power supply voltage; an interconnect layer provided in an underside of the bonding pad so as to be...
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7498615 |
Electro-static discharge protection circuit and semiconductor device having the same
An electro-static discharge protection circuit includes a thyristor mode ensuring circuit and a thyristor rectifier circuit. The thyristor mode ensuring circuit includes a capacitive element...
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7495288 |
Semiconductor apparatus including a radiator for diffusing the heat generated therein
A semiconductor apparatus is provided that includes a radiator for efficiently radiating heat generated in a wiring layer used in a surge current path of an electrostatic discharge protection...
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7495265 |
ESD protection circuit with SCR structure for semiconductor device
An ESD protection structure has: a first P-type semiconductor region connected to a pad; a first N-type semiconductor region coupled with the first P-type semiconductor region; a second P-type...
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7492012 |
Light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same
A light emitting device is provided which has a structure for preventing degradation of a light emitting element due to water and oxygen contained in an interlayer insulating film formed between a...
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