Inventor · Los Altos Hills, CA, US

Dan Maydan

103Patents
47h-index
138Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 8, 1976 → Jul 20, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4951601A Multi-chamber integrated process system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 997 Expired
US5855681A Ultra high throughput wafer vacuum processing system Electricity 948 Expired
US5000113A Thermal CVD/PECVD reactor and use for thermal chemical vapor deposition of silicon dioxide and in-situ multi-step planarized process Electricity 781 Expired
US5186718A Staged-vacuum wafer processing system and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 700 Expired
US4854263A Inlet manifold and methods for increasing gas dissociation and for PECVD of dielectric films Chemistry; Metallurgy 693 Expired
US5882165A Multiple chamber integrated process system Electricity 591 Expired
US6825134B2 Deposition of film layers by alternately pulsing a precursor and high frequency power in a continuous gas flow Electricity 560 Expired
US4872947A CVD of silicon oxide using TEOS decomposition and in-situ planarization process Electricity 431 Expired
US4962063A Multistep planarized chemical vapor deposition process with the use of low melting inorganic material for flowing while depositing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 417 Expired
US5362526A Plasma-enhanced CVD process using TEOS for depositing silicon oxide Electricity 406 Expired
US4892753A Process for PECVD of silicon oxide using TEOS decomposition Electricity 344 Expired
US6170428A Symmetric tunable inductively coupled HDP-CVD reactor Electricity 322 Expired
US4842683A Magnetic field-enhanced plasma etch reactor Electricity 303 Expired
US6167834A Thermal CVD/PECVD reactor and use for thermal chemical vapor deposition of silicon dioxide and in-situ multi-step planarized process Electricity 298 Expired
US7110629B2 Optical ready substrates Electricity 297 Expired
US5292393A Multichamber integrated process system Electricity 286 Expired
US7043106B2 Optical ready wafers Physics 275 Expired
US4668365A Apparatus and method for magnetron-enhanced plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition Electricity 175 Expired
US5849136A High frequency semiconductor wafer processing apparatus and method Electricity 158 Expired
US4618262A Laser interferometer system and method for monitoring and controlling IC processing Physics 150 Expired
US5788778A Deposition chamber cleaning technique using a high power remote excitation source Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 138 Expired
US6108189A Electrostatic chuck having improved gas conduits Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 138 Expired
US5215619A Magnetic field-enhanced plasma etch reactor Electricity 132 Expired
US5643394A Gas injection slit nozzle for a plasma process reactor Electricity 124 Expired
US5885358A Gas injection slit nozzle for a plasma process reactor Electricity 118 Expired

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