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公开(公告)号:US20220165912A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-26
申请号:US17100402
申请日:2020-11-20
发明人: Lan Yu , Benjamin D. Briggs , Tyler Sherwood , Raghav Sreenivasan
IPC分类号: H01L33/00 , G02F1/1362 , H01L33/62
摘要: Processing methods may be performed to form a pixel material in a semiconductor substrate. The methods may include forming a lithographic mask overlying the semiconductor substrate. The lithographic mask may include a window. The method may include forming a via in the semiconductor substrate by a dry etch process through the window. The method may also include forming the pixel material by depositing a fill material in the via.
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公开(公告)号:US11819847B2
公开(公告)日:2023-11-21
申请号:US16933597
申请日:2020-07-20
发明人: Ryan Scott Smith , Roger Quon , David Collins , George Odlum , Raghav Sreenivasan , Joseph R. Johnson
IPC分类号: B01L3/00 , B82B1/00 , B82B3/00 , G01N27/447 , G01N33/487 , G01N27/40
CPC分类号: B01L3/502753 , B82B1/005 , B82B3/008 , G01N27/40 , G01N27/44791 , G01N33/48721 , B01L2200/0647 , B01L2300/0896 , B01L2300/12
摘要: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide nanopore devices, such as nanopore sensors and/or other nanofluidic devices. In one or more embodiments, a nanopore device contains a substrate, an optional lower protective oxide layer disposed on the substrate, a membrane disposed on the lower protective oxide layer, and an optional upper protective oxide layer disposed on the membrane. The membrane has a pore and contains silicon nitride. The silicon nitride has a nitrogen to silicon ratio of about 0.98 to about 1.02 and the membrane has an intrinsic stress value of about −1,000 MPa to about 1,000 MPa. The nanopore device also contains a channel extending through at least the substrate, the lower protective oxide layer, the membrane, the upper protective oxide layer, and the upper protective silicon nitride layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20230066610A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-02
申请号:US17411599
申请日:2021-08-25
发明人: Tyler Sherwood , Joseph F. Salfelder , Ki Cheol Ahn , Kai Ma , Raghav Sreenivasan , Jason Appell
IPC分类号: H01L23/00
摘要: Methods of semiconductor processing may include contacting a substrate with a first slurry and a first platen. The substrate may include silicon oxide defining one or more features, a liner extending across the silicon oxide and within the one or more features, and a copper-containing layer deposited on the liner and extending within the one or more features. The first slurry and the first platen may remove a first portion of the copper-containing layer. The methods may include contacting the substrate with a second slurry and a second platen, which may remove at least a portion of the liner. The methods may include contacting the substrate with a third slurry and a third platen, which may remove a second portion of the copper-containing layer. The methods may include contacting the substrate with a fourth slurry and a fourth platen, which may remove at least a portion of the silicon oxide.
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公开(公告)号:US20240321636A1
公开(公告)日:2024-09-26
申请号:US18186656
申请日:2023-03-20
发明人: Tyler Sherwood , Raghav Sreenivasan
IPC分类号: H01L21/768 , H01L23/373 , H01L23/532
CPC分类号: H01L21/76883 , H01L21/7684 , H01L23/3736 , H01L23/53233 , H01L21/02068 , H01L21/67161 , H01L21/67207 , H01L21/76802 , H01L21/76843 , H01L23/53238
摘要: The present technology includes semiconductor processing methods and devices with improved expansion of the bulk material in substrate features. Methods include cleaning a substrate that is formed from silicon oxide and that defines one or more features and that includes a liner that extends across the silicon oxide and within one or more features and a copper-containing layer deposited on the liner and extending within the one or more features. Methods include depositing a second metal over the substrate, where the second metal has a coefficient of thermal expansion of greater than or about 17. Methods also include diffusing the second metal into the copper containing layer to form a copper alloy.
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公开(公告)号:US11880052B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-23
申请号:US17100416
申请日:2020-11-20
发明人: Lan Yu , Benjamin D. Briggs , Tyler Sherwood , Raghav Sreenivasan
IPC分类号: G02B5/08 , H01L33/46 , H01L23/48 , H01L33/10 , G02F1/1335 , G02F1/1362
CPC分类号: G02B5/0808 , H01L23/481 , H01L33/10 , H01L33/46 , G02F1/133553 , G02F1/136277
摘要: Processing methods may be performed to form a grounded mirror structure on a semiconductor substrate. The methods may include revealing a metal layer. The metal layer may underlie a spacer layer. The metal layer may be revealed by a dry etch process. The method may include forming a mirror layer overlying the spacer layer and the metal layer. The mirror layer may contact the metal layer. The method may also include forming an oxide inclusion overlying a portion of the mirror layer. The portion of the mirror layer may be external to the spacer layer.
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公开(公告)号:US11573452B2
公开(公告)日:2023-02-07
申请号:US17100422
申请日:2020-11-20
发明人: Lan Yu , Benjamin D. Briggs , Tyler Sherwood , Raghav Sreenivasan
IPC分类号: G02F1/1335 , G02F1/1362
摘要: Processing methods may be performed to forming a pixel material in a semiconductor structure. The methods may include forming a sacrificial hardmask overlying an uppermost layer of an optical stack of the semiconductor structure, the uppermost layer having a thickness. The methods may include forming a via through the sacrificial hardmask in the optical stack by a first etch process unselective to a metal layer of the semiconductor structure. The methods may include filling the via with a fill material, wherein a portion of the fill material extends over the sacrificial hardmask and contacts the metal layer. The methods may include removing a portion of the fill material external to the via by a removal process selective to the fill material. The methods may also include removing the sacrificial hardmask by a second etch process selective to the sacrificial hardmask while maintaining the thickness of the uppermost layer.
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公开(公告)号:US11536708B2
公开(公告)日:2022-12-27
申请号:US16738629
申请日:2020-01-09
发明人: Mark J. Saly , Keenan Navarre Woods , Joseph R. Johnson , Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan , William J. Durand , Michael Chudzik , Raghav Sreenivasan , Roger Quon
IPC分类号: B82Y15/00 , B82Y40/00 , G01N33/487 , B01D67/00 , C12Q1/6869
摘要: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide dual pore sensors and methods for producing these dual pore sensors. The method includes forming a film stack, where the film stack contains two silicon layers and two membrane layers, and then etching the film stack to produce a channel extending therethrough and having two reservoirs and two nanopores. The method also includes depositing a oxide layer on inner surfaces of the reservoirs and nanopores, depositing a dielectric layer on the oxide layer, and forming a metal contact extending through a portion of the stack. The method further includes etching the dielectric layers to form wells, etching the first silicon layer to reveal the protective oxide layer deposited on the inner surfaces of a reservoir, and etching the protective oxide layer deposited on the inner surfaces of the reservoirs and the nanopores.
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公开(公告)号:US12033964B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-09
申请号:US17411599
申请日:2021-08-25
发明人: Tyler Sherwood , Joseph F. Salfelder , Ki Cheol Ahn , Kai Ma , Raghav Sreenivasan , Jason Appell
IPC分类号: H01L23/00 , H01L21/306 , H01L21/321 , H01L21/768
CPC分类号: H01L24/03 , H01L21/30625 , H01L21/3212 , H01L21/7684 , H01L24/05 , H01L24/27 , H01L24/29 , H01L2224/03616 , H01L2224/05073 , H01L2224/05647 , H01L2224/27616 , H01L2224/29186
摘要: Methods of semiconductor processing may include contacting a substrate with a first slurry and a first platen. The substrate may include silicon oxide defining one or more features, a liner extending across the silicon oxide and within the one or more features, and a copper-containing layer deposited on the liner and extending within the one or more features. The first slurry and the first platen may remove a first portion of the copper-containing layer. The methods may include contacting the substrate with a second slurry and a second platen, which may remove at least a portion of the liner. The methods may include contacting the substrate with a third slurry and a third platen, which may remove a second portion of the copper-containing layer. The methods may include contacting the substrate with a fourth slurry and a fourth platen, which may remove at least a portion of the silicon oxide.
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公开(公告)号:US11881539B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-23
申请号:US17100402
申请日:2020-11-20
发明人: Lan Yu , Benjamin D. Briggs , Tyler Sherwood , Raghav Sreenivasan
IPC分类号: H01L33/00 , H01L33/62 , G02F1/1362
CPC分类号: H01L33/0095 , G02F1/136277 , H01L33/62 , H01L2933/0066
摘要: Processing methods may be performed to form a pixel material in a semiconductor substrate. The methods may include forming a lithographic mask overlying the semiconductor substrate. The lithographic mask may include a window. The method may include forming a via in the semiconductor substrate by a dry etch process through the window. The method may also include forming the pixel material by depositing a fill material in the via.
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公开(公告)号:US20230369532A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-16
申请号:US17745056
申请日:2022-05-16
发明人: Tyler Sherwood , Raghav Sreenivasan
IPC分类号: H01L33/00 , H01L25/075
CPC分类号: H01L33/007 , H01L25/075 , H01L33/32
摘要: A microLED-quality layer of gallium nitride (GaN) may be formed above a silicon substrate for microLED devices to be formed. Typically, mismatches between the crystal lattice of the GaN and the silicon substrate cause internal stresses that bow the wafer. To relieve these stresses, a pattern of trenches may be etched into the GaN layer between the die or device footprints. These trenches may be etched through the GaN layer, down to the depth of the silicon substrate, or even down into the silicon substrate. Instead of one singular, large wafer with internal stresses, the wafer may thus be divided into multiple small sections with minimal internal stresses. A dielectric gap fill may be applied to fill the trenches, and the resulting wafer may be planarized to expose the surface of the GaN after the gap fill.
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