Inventor · Hopewell Junction, NY, US

Birendra Agarwala

21Patents
14h-index
58Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 5, 1989 → Nov 18, 2010

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6734090B2 Method of making an edge seal for a semiconductor device Electricity 559 Expired
US7397260B2 Structure and method for monitoring stress-induced degradation of conductive interconnects Electricity 167 Expired
US5130779A Solder mass having conductive encapsulating arrangement Electricity 132 Expired
US5376584A Process of making pad structure for solder ball limiting metallurgy having reduced edge stress Electricity 109 Expired
US5251806A Method of forming dual height solder interconnections Electricity 106 Expired
US6033939A Method for providing electrically fusible links in copper interconnection Electricity 83 Expired
US5268072A Etching processes for avoiding edge stress in semiconductor chip solder bumps Electricity 74 Expired
US6111321A Ball limiting metalization process for interconnection Electricity 58 Expired
US4970570A Use of tapered head pin design to improve the stress distribution in the braze joint Electricity 27 Expired
US4985310A Multilayered metallurgical structure for an electronic component Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Expired
US7224063B2 Dual-damascene metallization interconnection Electricity 22 Expired
US6972209B2 Stacked via-stud with improved reliability in copper metallurgy Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US7279411B2 Process for forming a redundant structure Electricity 17 Expired
US7163883B2 Edge seal for a semiconductor device Electricity 16 Expired
US6271599A Wire interconnect structure for electrically and mechanically connecting an integrated circuit chip to a substrate Electricity 10 Expired
US6825561B1 Structure and method for eliminating time dependent dielectric breakdown failure of low-k material Electricity 6 Expired
US7138714B2 Via barrier layers continuous with metal line barrier layers at notched or dielectric mesa portions in metal lines Electricity 6 Expired
US7470613B2 Dual damascene multi-level metallization Electricity 5 Active
US8466056B2 Method of forming metal interconnect structures in ultra low-k dielectrics Electricity 3 Active
US7639032B2 Structure for monitoring stress-induced degradation of conductive interconnects Electricity 2 Active
US7692439B2 Structure for modeling stress-induced degradation of conductive interconnects Electricity 0 Active

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