Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Chun Yan

28Patents
12h-index
69Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 8, 1997 → Mar 30, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6352049B1 Plasma assisted processing chamber with separate control of species density Electricity 419 Expired
US6080529A Method of etching patterned layers useful as masking during subsequent etching or for damascene structures Electricity 403 Expired
US6547977B1 Method for etching low k dielectrics Electricity 291 Expired
US9114438B2 Copper residue chamber clean Electricity 183 Active
US6331380A Method of pattern etching a low K dielectric layer Electricity 92 Expired
US6458516B1 Method of etching dielectric layers using a removable hardmask Electricity 65 Expired
US6296780A System and method for etching organic anti-reflective coating from a substrate Electricity 22 Expired
US7374636B2 Method and apparatus for providing uniform plasma in a magnetic field enhanced plasma reactor Electricity 14 Expired
US6620289B1 Method and apparatus for asymmetric gas distribution in a semiconductor wafer processing system Electricity 14 Expired
US7320942B2 Method for removal of metallic residue after plasma etching of a metal layer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US8871107B2 Subtractive plasma etching of a blanket layer of metal or metal alloy Electricity 13 Active
US6537918B2 Method for etching silicon oxynitride and dielectric antireflection coatings Electricity 13 Expired
US6291356A Method for etching silicon oxynitride and dielectric antireflection coatings Electricity 12 Expired
US7442114B2 Methods for silicon electrode assembly etch rate and etch uniformity recovery Electricity 9 Expired
US6933239B2 Method for removing conductive residue Electricity 8 Expired
US6649532B1 Methods for etching an organic anti-reflective coating Electricity 7 Expired
US10090147B2 Integrated system and method for source/drain engineering Electricity 6 Active
US7316199B2 Method and apparatus for controlling the magnetic field intensity in a plasma enhanced semiconductor wafer processing chamber Electricity 6 Expired
US9484220B2 Sputter etch processing for heavy metal patterning in integrated circuits Electricity 4 Active
US11043393B2 Ozone treatment for selective silicon nitride etch over silicon Electricity 4 Active
US10177017B1 Method for conditioning a processing chamber for steady etching rate control Electricity 2 Active
US11276560B2 Spacer etching process Electricity 1 Active
US11387115B2 Silicon mandrel etch after native oxide punch-through Electricity 1 Active
US11649559B2 Method of utilizing a degassing chamber to reduce arsenic outgassing following deposition of arsenic-containing material on a substrate Electricity 0 Active
US11651977B2 Processing of workpieces using fluorocarbon plasma Electricity 0 Active

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