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7619273 Varactor  
A varactor comprising a first layer separated from a second layer by an insulating layer, wherein the first layer is a first type of semiconductor material and the second layer is a second type of...
7612424 Nanoelectromechanical bistable cantilever device  
Nano-electromechanical device having an electrically conductive nano-cantilever wherein the nano-cantilever has a free end that is movable relative to an electrically conductive substrate such as...
7579644 Adjustable on-chip sub-capacitor design  
One or more on-chip VNCAP or MIMCAP capacitors utilize a variable MOS capacitor to improve the uniform capacitance value of the capacitors. This permits the production of silicon semiconductor...
7579642 Gate-enhanced junction varactor  
A semiconductor junction varactor utilizes gate enhancement for enabling the varactor to achieve a high ratio of maximum capacitance to minimum capacitance.
7569912 Differential variable capacitors and their applications  
An integrated circuit design for differential variable capacitors uses an integration method to integrate an integrated circuit having differential variable capacitors as a whole, and takes the...
7560798 High performance tapered varactor  
Disclosed is a semiconductor structure, which includes a non-planar varactor having a geometrically designed depletion zone with a taper, as to provide improved Cmax/Cmin with low series...
7525177 Controllable varactor within dummy substrate pattern  
A dummy region varactor for improving a CMP process and improving electrical isolation from active areas and a method for forming the same, the varactor including a semiconductor substrate having a...
7518850 High yield, high density on-chip capacitor design  
A capacitance circuit assembly mounted on a semiconductor chip, and methods for forming the same, are provided. A plurality of divergent capacitors is provided in a parallel circuit connection...
7518215 One mask hyperabrupt junction varactor using a compensated cathode contact  
A semiconductor structure comprising a hyperabrupt junction varactor with a compensated cathode contact as well as a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes a single...
7489004 Micro-electro-mechanical variable capacitor for radio frequency applications with reduced influence of a surface roughness  
A micro-electro-mechanical variable capacitor has a first and a second electrode, and a dielectric region arranged on the first electrode. An intermediate electrode is arranged on the dielectric...
7388276 Metal-insulator varactor devices  
A varactor is configured with first and second conducting layers, spaced apart from one another such that a given voltage can be applied across the first and second conducting layers. Further, an...
7388275 Electronic package with integrated capacitor  
Generally provided is a circuit assembly construction for controlling impedance in an electronic package. A large scale, parallel-plate capacitor includes two electrodes separated by a dielectric...
7388247 High precision microelectromechanical capacitor with programmable voltage source  
A high precision microelectromechanical capacitor with programmable voltage source includes a monolithic MEMS device having a capacitance actuator, a trim capacitor, and a high precision,...
7345354 Increased quality factor of a varactor in an integrated circuit via a high conductive region in a well  
The present invention provides an varactor, a method of manufacture thereof. In an exemplary embodiment, the varactor includes a semiconductor substrate and well of a first and second conductivity...
7335956 Capacitor device with vertically arranged capacitor regions of various kinds  
A capacitor device selectively combines MOM, MIM and varactor regions in the same layout area of an IC. Two or more types of capacitor regions arranged vertically on a substrate to form the...
7301213 Acoustic sensor  
A sound hole is provided in a silicon substrate. A diaphragm electrode is secured to the upper surface of the silicon substrate via at least one fixed end so as to cover the sound hole of the...
7294895 Capacitive dynamic quantity sensor and semiconductor device  
A capacitive dynamic quantity sensor whose size is small and whose reliability and mass productivity are high is provided. In order to realize signal transmission from a lower electrode to an upper...
7235862 Gate-enhanced junction varactor  
A semiconductor junction varactor utilizes gate enhancement for enabling the varactor to achieve a high ratio of maximum capacitance to minimum capacitance.
7223667 Compensated linearity voltage-control-capacitor device by standard CMOS process  
Apparatus and method of providing a CMOS varactor device having improved linearity. At least two differential varactor elements are connected in parallel. Each of the differential elements includes...
7202567 Semiconductor device and manufacturing method for the same  
A lower interconnection is provided on a semiconductor substrate. A MIM capacitive element is provided on a first interlayer insulation film in which the lower interconnection is buried, and...
7190232 Self-biased active VCO level shifter  
A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit includes first, second, third, and fourth transistors, each with a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal. The first terminal of the...
7173316 Semiconductor device  
An N type semiconductor layer is epitaxially grown on a P type semiconductor substrate of which one end is grounded, and an element isolation layer made of a P type diffusion layer is formed by...
7126152 Storage device  
A storage device includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, an inter-electrode material layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a...
7112835 Semiconductor device including a capacitance  
It is an object to obtain a semiconductor device including a capacitance having a great Q-value. In an SOI substrate comprising a support substrate ( 165 ), a buried oxide film ( 166 ) and an SOI...
7081663 Gate-enhanced junction varactor with gradual capacitance variation  
A semiconductor junction varactor utilizes gate enhancement for enabling the varactor to achieve a high ratio of maximum capacitance to minimum capacitance. The varactor has a gate region ( 131 or...
7078787 Design and operation of gate-enhanced junction varactor with gradual capacitance variation  
A semiconductor junction varactor is designed with gate enhancement for enabling the varactor to achieve a high ratio of maximum capacitance to minimum capacitance. The varactor has a gate region (...
7067869 Adjustable 3D capacitor  
There is a need for adjustable capacitors for use in LC or RC matching networks in micro-circuits. This has been achieved by forming a set of individual capacitors that share a common bottom...
7053465 Semiconductor varactor with reduced parasitic resistance  
A semiconductor varactor with reduced parasitic resistance. A contact isolation structure ( 32 ) is formed in a well region ( 20 ). The gate contact structures ( 70 ) are formed above the contact...
7030463 Tuneable electromagnetic bandgap structures based on high resistivity silicon substrates  
Electrically tunable electromagnetic bandgap (“TEBG”) structures using a ferroelectric thin film on a semiconductor substrate, tunable devices that include such a TEBG structure, such as a...
7023038 Silicon barrier capacitor device structure  
The present invention disclosed a silicon barrier capacitor device structure. By applying CVD or PVD technologies to deposit poly-silicon layers as the dielectric of capacitor on the doping region...
7019384 Integrated, tunable capacitance device  
An integrated, tunable capacitance device includes a semiconductor region, which is, preferably, N-doped, formed in a semiconductor body, having an insulating thick oxide region, which areally...
7009276 Thin film capacitor, thin film capacitor array and electronic component  
A thin film capacitor with small electrode resistance and great Q-value which comprises a small number of thin films that are deposited successively is disclosed. It is effective for...
6995068 Double-implant high performance varactor and method for manufacturing same  
A varactor designed to enable voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) integration in wireless systems is the base-emitter junction of a specially optimized NPN device formed with a double base implant....
6970055 Tunable planar capacitor  
A tunable capacitor that introduces significantly less loss, if any, costs less and is smaller than previously available. A bias electrode is coupled to a FE material. The capacitor electrodes are...
6949815 Semiconductor device with decoupling capacitors mounted on conductors  
A semiconductor device has an LSI device provided with a plurality of power supply line connection pads and ground line connection pad in a peripheral edge part of a circuit-formation surface,...
6946374 Methods of manufacturing flash memory semiconductor devices  
A manufacturing method for fabricating flash memory semiconductor devices is disclosed. According to one example, the manufacturing method may include: forming a trench on a silicon substrate by...
6943399 Varactor and differential varactor  
A varactor is provided. The varactor includes a second type substrate, two gate structures, a first type doped region and a second type doped region. The two gate structures are disposed over the...
6933796 Voltage controlled oscillating circuit  
A voltage controlled oscillating circuit operable to output a variable frequency, includes a variable capacitance element with the variable frequency varying with a variation in capacitance of the...
6927644 Low-loss tunable ferro-electric device and method of characterization  
A tunable ferroelectric component and a narrowband resonant circuit for measuring the loss of the ferroelectric component. The ferroelectric component may be a capacitor integrated in the resonant...
6897537 Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) variable capacitor apparatuses and related methods  
Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) Variable Capacitor Apparatus and Related Methods. According to one embodiment, a MEMS variable capacitor is provided. The variable capacitor can include first...
6891251 Varactors for CMOS and BiCMOS technologies  
Varactors are provided which have a high tunability and/or a high quality factor associated therewith as well as methods for fabricating the same. One type of varactor disclosed is a quasi...
6882029 Junction varactor with high Q factor and wide tuning range  
A PN-junction varactor includes a first ion well of first conductivity type formed on a semiconductor substrate of second conductivity type. A first dummy gate is formed over the first ion well. A...
6878983 High performance varactor diodes  
A varactor diode having a first electrode comprising a well region of a first conductivity type in a substrate, a second electrode comprising a first plurality of diffusion regions of a second...
6835977 Variable capactor structure  
A variable capacitor comprising a substrate having a first type ion-doped buried layer, a first type ion-doped well, a second type ion-doped region and a conductive layer thereon. The first type...
6825546 CMOS varactor with constant dC/dV characteristic  
A varactor is formed with a semiconductor junction having a retrograde dopant concentration profile in a depletion region. The retrograde dopant concentration profile results in an approximately...
6825089 Increased quality factor of a varactor in an integrated circuit via a high conductive region in a well  
The present invention provides an varactor, a method of manufacture thereof. In an exemplary embodiment, the varactor includes a semiconductor substrate and well of a first and second conductivity...
6818959 MEMS devices with voltage driven flexible elements  
An array of nanometric dimensions consisting of two or more arms, positioned side by side, wherein the arms are of such nanometric dimensions that the beams can be moved or deformed towards or away...
6794707 Variable capacitor using MOS gated diode with multiple segments to limit DC current  
A voltage-variable capacitor uses the channel-to-substrate junction from a gated diode formed from a metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor. The transistor gate has at least two contacts that are...
6787882 Semiconductor varactor diode with doped heterojunction  
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of barrier layers and a plurality of quantum well layers which are alternately interleaved with each other and disposed on a substrate of semiconductor...
6762481 Electrically programmable nonvolatile variable capacitor  
A basic form of a variable capacitive apparatus and its actuating method are disclosed. The apparatus is a simple two-terminal structure and may be set by short duration, low voltage electrical...
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