Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Ashok Sinha

92Patents
38h-index
161Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 3, 1974 → Feb 8, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5855681A Ultra high throughput wafer vacuum processing system Electricity 948 Expired
US5846332A Thermally floating pedestal collar in a chemical vapor deposition chamber Electricity 782 Expired
US6129044A Apparatus for substrate processing with improved throughput and yield Electricity 546 Expired
US6136163A Apparatus for electro-chemical deposition with thermal anneal chamber Electricity 440 Expired
US5516367A Chemical vapor deposition chamber with a purge guide Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 349 Expired
US6189482A High temperature, high flow rate chemical vapor deposition apparatus and related methods Electricity 340 Expired
US6258220A Electro-chemical deposition system Electricity 333 Expired
US6170428A Symmetric tunable inductively coupled HDP-CVD reactor Electricity 322 Expired
US6258223A In-situ electroless copper seed layer enhancement in an electroplating system Electricity 310 Expired
US6551929B1 Bifurcated deposition process for depositing refractory metal layers employing atomic layer deposition and chemical vapor deposition techniques Electricity 286 Expired
US4851370A Fabricating a semiconductor device with low defect density oxide Electricity 270 Expired
US5856240A Chemical vapor deposition of a thin film onto a substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 251 Expired
US6176667A Multideck wafer processing system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 243 Expired
US6277249A Integrated process for copper via filling using a magnetron and target producing highly energetic ions Electricity 195 Expired
US6274008A Integrated process for copper via filling Electricity 155 Expired
US6939804B2 Formation of composite tungsten films Electricity 90 Expired
US4378628A Cobalt silicide metallization for semiconductor integrated circuits Electricity 87 Expired
US4142004A Method of coating semiconductor substrates Electricity 82 Expired
US5695568A Chemical vapor deposition chamber Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 80 Expired
US6109206A Remote plasma source for chamber cleaning Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 66 Expired
US6890850B2 Method of depositing dielectric materials in damascene applications Electricity 65 Expired
US5292554A Deposition apparatus using a perforated pumping plate Electricity 65 Expired
US6451177B1 Vault shaped target and magnetron operable in two sputtering modes Electricity 61 Expired
US5476548A Reducing backside deposition in a substrate processing apparatus through the use of a shadow ring Electricity 57 Expired
US4276557A Integrated semiconductor circuit structure and method for making it Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 53 Expired

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