Semiconductor device manufacturing: process – Formation of electrically isolated lateral semiconductive... – Grooved and refilled with deposited dielectric material
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-08
2011-12-06
Le, Thao (Department: 2892)
Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
Formation of electrically isolated lateral semiconductive...
Grooved and refilled with deposited dielectric material
C438S404000, C257S510000, C257SE21551, C257SE21540
Reexamination Certificate
active
08071462
ABSTRACT:
A variety of isolation structures for semiconductor substrates include a trench formed in the substrate that is filled with a dielectric material or filled with a conductive material and lined with a dielectric layer along the walls of the trench. The trench may be used in combination with doped sidewall isolation regions. Both the trench and the sidewall isolation regions may be annular and enclose an isolated pocket of the substrate. The isolation structures are formed by modular implant and etch processes that do not include significant thermal processing or diffusion of dopants so that the resulting structures are compact and may be tightly packed in the surface of the substrate.
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Chan Wai Tien
Disney Donald Ray
Williams Richard K.
Advanced Analogic Technologies (Hong Kong) Limited
Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc.
Le Thao
Patentability Associates
Warrior Tanika
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