Inventor · Redwood City, CA, US

Chi Chang

94Patents
24h-index
99Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 22, 1988 → May 5, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5077691A Flash EEPROM array with negative gate voltage erase operation Physics 246 Expired
US5335198A Flash EEPROM array with high endurance Physics 157 Expired
US6266281A Method of erasing non-volatile memory cells Physics 132 Expired
US6701406B1 PCI and MII compatible home phoneline networking alliance (HPNA) interface device Physics 91 Expired
US4958321A One transistor flash EPROM cell Electricity 72 Expired
US6252803A Automatic program disturb with intelligent soft programming for flash cells Physics 66 Expired
US5485423A Method for eliminating of cycling-induced electron trapping in the tunneling oxide of 5 volt only flash EEPROMS Physics 52 Expired
US6566194B1 Salicided gate for virtual ground arrays Electricity 42 Expired
US6001713A Methods for forming nitrogen-rich regions in a floating gate and interpoly dielectric layer in a non-volatile semiconductor memory device Electricity 42 Expired
US5907781A Process for fabricating an integrated circuit with a self-aligned contact Electricity 41 Expired
US6509232B1 Formation of STI (shallow trench isolation) structures within core and periphery areas of flash memory device Electricity 40 Expired
US5457336A Non-volatile memory structure including protection and structure for maintaining threshold stability Electricity 38 Expired
US5793677A Using floating gate devices as select gate devices for NAND flash memory and its bias scheme Physics 38 Expired
US6645801B1 Salicided gate for virtual ground arrays Electricity 37 Expired
US6754105B1 Trench side wall charge trapping dielectric flash memory device Electricity 36 Expired
US6356482B1 Using negative gate erase voltage to simultaneously erase two bits from a non-volatile memory cell with an oxide-nitride-oxide (ONO) gate structure Physics 31 Expired
US7915112B2 Metal gate stress film for mobility enhancement in FinFET device Electricity 31 Active
US6246610A Symmetrical program and erase scheme to improve erase time degradation in NAND devices Physics 30 Expired
US5590076A Channel hot-carrier page write Physics 28 Expired
US7621173B2 Nano-identation ultrasonic detecting system and method thereof Physics 27 Active
US5912489A Dual source side polysilicon select gate structure utilizing single tunnel oxide for NAND array flash memory Physics 26 Expired
US5856946A Memory cell programming with controlled current injection Physics 26 Expired
US6885590B1 Memory device having A P+ gate and thin bottom oxide and method of erasing same Electricity 26 Expired
US6664191B1 Non self-aligned shallow trench isolation process with disposable space to define sub-lithographic poly space Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Expired
US5470773A Method protecting a stacked gate edge in a semiconductor device from self aligned source (SAS) etch Electricity 24 Expired

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