Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Brian Lue

33Patents
19h-index
54Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 28, 1995 → Mar 29, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6264467A Micro grooved support surface for reducing substrate wear and slip formation Electricity 478 Expired
US6170428A Symmetric tunable inductively coupled HDP-CVD reactor Electricity 322 Expired
US6108189A Electrostatic chuck having improved gas conduits Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 138 Expired
US5761023A Substrate support with pressure zones having reduced contact area and temperature feedback Electricity 122 Expired
US5720818A Conduits for flow of heat transfer fluid to the surface of an electrostatic chuck Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 81 Expired
US9471883B2 Hybrid human machine learning system and method Physics 58 Active
US7357842B2 Cluster tool architecture for processing a substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 55 Expired
US6077357A Orientless wafer processing on an electrostatic chuck Electricity 52 Expired
US6721162B2 Electrostatic chuck having composite dielectric layer and method of manufacture Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Expired
US5748434A Shield for an electrostatic chuck Electricity 50 Expired
US7925377B2 Cluster tool architecture for processing a substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Active
US6414834B1 Dielectric covered electrostatic chuck Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US7221553B2 Substrate support having heat transfer system Electricity 28 Expired
US5876119A In-situ substrate temperature measurement scheme in plasma reactor Physics 28 Expired
US7694647B2 Cluster tool architecture for processing a substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Active
US7743728B2 Cluster tool architecture for processing a substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Active
US5904776A Conduits for flow of heat transfer fluid to the surface of an electrostatic chuck Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Expired
US5644467A Method and structure for improving gas breakdown resistance and reducing the potential of arcing in a electrostatic chuck Electricity 20 Expired
US9213997B2 Method and system for social media burst classifications Physics 19 Active
US5715132A Method and structure for improving gas breakdown resistance and reducing the potential of arcing in an electrostatic chuck Electricity 16 Expired
US6175485A Electrostatic chuck and method for fabricating the same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US6667527B2 Temperature sensor with shell Physics 8 Expired
US8550031B2 Cluster tool architecture for processing a substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US8279577B2 Substrate support having fluid channel Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US7768765B2 Substrate support having heat transfer system Electricity 5 Active

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