Inventor · Lake Oswego, OR, US

Christopher S. Blair

20Patents
12h-index
24Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 2, 1990 → Dec 13, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5998873A Low contact resistance and low junction leakage metal interconnect contact structure Electricity 70 Expired
US6136705A Self-aligned dual thickness cobalt silicide layer formation process Electricity 52 Expired
US5338696A Method of fabricating BiCMOS device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired
US5139961A Reducing base resistance of a BJT by forming a self aligned silicide in the single crystal region of the extrinsic base Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US6103610A Integrated circuit structure with dual thickness cobalt silicide layers and method for its manufacture Electricity 20 Expired
US6171901A Process for forming silicided capacitor utilizing oxidation barrier layer Electricity 19 Expired
US6040606A Integrated circuit structure with dual thickness cobalt silicide layers and method for its manufacture Electricity 17 Expired
US5045483A Self-aligned silicided base bipolar transistor and resistor and method of fabrication Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US5451546A Masking method used in salicide process for improved yield by preventing damage to oxide spacers Electricity 15 Expired
US5661046A Method of fabricating BiCMOS device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US5338694A Method of fabricating BiCMOS device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US6303503A Process for the formation of cobalt salicide layers employing a sputter etch surface preparation step Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US5882976A Method of fabricating a self-aligned double polysilicon NPN transistor with poly etch stop Electricity 10 Expired
US5242854A High performance semiconductor devices and their manufacture Electricity 8 Expired
US5904536A Self aligned poly emitter bipolar technology using damascene technique Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US9673316B1 Vertical semiconductor device having frontside interconnections Electricity 6 Active
US9209091B1 Integrated monolithic galvanic isolator Electricity 4 Active
US5925923A Merged single polysilicon bipolar NPN transistor Electricity 4 Expired
US8624349B1 Simultaneous isolation trench and handle wafer contact formation Electricity 3 Active
US8963281B1 Simultaneous isolation trench and handle wafer contact formation Electricity 1 Active

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