Inventor · Milpitas, CA, US

Amit P. Marathe

58Patents
13h-index
50Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 27, 1998 → Jul 29, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6952052B1 Cu interconnects with composite barrier layers for wafer-to-wafer uniformity Electricity 40 Expired
US6599827B1 Methods of forming capped copper interconnects with improved electromigration resistance Electricity 25 Expired
US7084062B1 Use of Ta-capped metal line to improve formation of memory element films Electricity 24 Expired
US6822437B1 Interconnect test structure with slotted feeder lines to prevent stress-induced voids Electricity 20 Expired
US7310155B1 Extraction of tool independent line-edge-roughness (LER) measurements using in-line programmed LER and reliability structures Physics 20 Expired
US7451411B2 Integrated circuit design system Physics 20 Active
US6506677B1 Method of forming capped copper interconnects with reduced hillock formation and improved electromigration resistance Electricity 18 Expired
US6433402B1 Selective copper alloy deposition Electricity 17 Expired
US6531777B1 Barrier metal integrity testing using a dual level line to line leakage testing pattern and partial CMP Electricity 16 Expired
US6432822B1 Method of improving electromigration resistance of capped Cu Electricity 16 Expired
US6725433B1 Method for assessing the reliability of interconnects Physics 15 Expired
US6075293A Semiconductor device having a multi-layer metal interconnect structure Electricity 15 Expired
US6309959A Formation of self-aligned passivation for interconnect to minimize electromigration Electricity 14 Expired
US6498384B1 Structure and method of semiconductor via testing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US6822473B1 Determination of permeability of layer material within interconnect Physics 13 Expired
US6426293B1 Minimizing resistance and electromigration of interconnect by adjusting anneal temperature and amount of seed layer dopant Electricity 12 Expired
US6867056B1 System and method for current-enhanced stress-migration testing of interconnect Physics 12 Expired
US6727592B1 Copper interconnect with improved barrier layer Electricity 10 Expired
US6417566B1 Void eliminating seed layer and conductor core integrated circuit interconnects Electricity 10 Expired
US6897476B1 Test structure for determining electromigration and interlayer dielectric failure Electricity 9 Expired
US6858511B1 Method of semiconductor via testing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US6714037B1 Methodology for an assessment of the degree of barrier permeability at via bottom during electromigration using dissimilar barrier thickness Physics 9 Expired
US6531780B1 Via formation in integrated circuit interconnects Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US7146588B1 Predicting EM reliability by decoupling extrinsic and intrinsic sigma Physics 9 Expired
US7288782B1 Use of Ta-capped metal line to improve formation of memory element films Electricity 8 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.