Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Bich-Yen Nguyen

135Patents
32h-index
154Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: May 20, 1986 → Jun 14, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7575968B2 Inverse slope isolation and dual surface orientation integration Electricity 516 Active
US4987102A Process for forming high purity thin films Electricity 409 Expired
US6838322B2 Method for forming a double-gated semiconductor device Electricity 176 Expired
US6297095A Memory device that includes passivated nanoclusters and method for manufacture Electricity 142 Expired
US5219793A Method for forming pitch independent contacts and a semiconductor device having the same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 137 Expired
US6541280B2 High K dielectric film Electricity 124 Expired
US7226833B2 Semiconductor device structure and method therefor Electricity 122 Expired
US6184072A Process for forming a high-K gate dielectric Electricity 121 Expired
US6362071B1 Method for forming a semiconductor device with an opening in a dielectric layer Electricity 104 Expired
US4890144A Integrated circuit trench cell Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 93 Expired
US5897343A Method of making a power switching trench MOSFET having aligned source regions Electricity 84 Expired
US6770923B2 High K dielectric film Electricity 82 Expired
US6831350B1 Semiconductor structure with different lattice constant materials and method for forming the same Electricity 78 Expired
US6344403B1 Memory device and method for manufacture Electricity 68 Expired
US5408130A Interconnection structure for conductive layers Electricity 67 Expired
US5262352A Method for forming an interconnection structure for conductive layers Electricity 67 Expired
US7018901B1 Method for forming a semiconductor device having a strained channel and a heterojunction source/drain Electricity 65 Expired
US5538922A Method for forming contact to a semiconductor device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 63 Expired
US5639687A Method for forming an integrated circuit pattern on a semiconductor substrate using silicon-rich silicon nitride Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 61 Expired
US6413819B1 Memory device and method for using prefabricated isolated storage elements Electricity 61 Expired
US6444512B1 Dual metal gate transistors for CMOS process Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 57 Expired
US5300187A Method of removing contaminants Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 52 Expired
US4897364A Method for locos isolation using a framed oxidation mask and a polysilicon buffer layer Electricity 52 Expired
US5510278A Method for forming a thin film transistor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Expired
US6518106B2 Semiconductor device and a method therefor Electricity 49 Expired

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