Inventor · Plano, TX, US

David Gerald Farber

19Patents
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27Co-inventors
56Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 24, 2000 → Oct 7, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7741663B2 Air gap spacer formation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 54 Active
US6232134A Method and apparatus for monitoring wafer characteristics and/or semiconductor processing consistency using wafer charge distribution measurements Electricity 28 Expired
US8064197B2 Heat management using power management information Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Active
US6780756B1 Etch back of interconnect dielectrics Electricity 15 Expired
US8665592B2 Heat management using power management information Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US7112288B2 Methods for inspection sample preparation Electricity 2 Expired
US9054158B2 Method of forming a metal contact opening with a width that is smaller than the minimum feature size of a photolithographically-defined opening Electricity 1 Active
US8564120B2 Heat dissipation in temperature critical device areas of semiconductor devices by heat pipes connecting to the substrate backside Electricity 1 Active
US7687407B2 Method for reducing line edge roughness for conductive features Electricity 1 Expired
US8507386B2 Lateral uniformity in silicon recess etch Electricity 1 Active
US9490143B1 Method of fabricating semiconductors Electricity 1 Active
US6245686A Process for forming a semiconductor device and a process for operating an apparatus Electricity 1 Expired
US7745337B2 Method of optimizing sidewall spacer size for silicide proximity with in-situ clean Electricity 1 Active
US9437449B2 Uniform, damage free nitride etch Electricity 1 Active
US10453700B2 Low damage low-k dielectric etch Electricity 1 Active
US9224657B2 Hard mask for source/drain epitaxy control Electricity 0 Active
US7087518B2 Method of passivating and/or removing contaminants on a low-k dielectric/copper surface Electricity 0 Expired
US9881795B2 Method of fabricating semiconductors Electricity 0 Active
US9704720B2 Uniform, damage free nitride ETCH Electricity 0 Active

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