Inventor · Dallas, TX, US

Fusen Chen

103Patents
26h-index
62Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 3, 1988 → Jul 8, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6679981B1 Inductive plasma loop enhancing magnetron sputtering Electricity 271 Expired
US5903428A Hybrid Johnsen-Rahbek electrostatic chuck having highly resistive mesas separating the chuck from a wafer supported thereupon and method of fabricating same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 231 Expired
US6277249A Integrated process for copper via filling using a magnetron and target producing highly energetic ions Electricity 195 Expired
US6274008A Integrated process for copper via filling Electricity 155 Expired
US6217721A Filling narrow apertures and forming interconnects with a metal utilizing a crystallographically oriented liner layer Electricity 121 Expired
US6784096B2 Methods and apparatus for forming barrier layers in high aspect ratio vias Electricity 114 Expired
US5130268A Method for forming planarized shallow trench isolation in an integrated circuit and a structure formed thereby Electricity 96 Expired
US6306265A High-density plasma for ionized metal deposition capable of exciting a plasma wave Electricity 82 Expired
US6139697A Low temperature integrated via and trench fill process and apparatus Electricity 79 Expired
US7026238B2 Reliability barrier integration for Cu application Electricity 78 Expired
US5260229A Method of forming isolated regions of oxide Electricity 73 Expired
US5108951A Method for forming a metal contact Electricity 66 Expired
US6451177B1 Vault shaped target and magnetron operable in two sputtering modes Electricity 61 Expired
US6919275B2 Method of preventing diffusion of copper through a tantalum-comprising barrier layer Electricity 59 Expired
US5410176A Integrated circuit with planarized shallow trench isolation Electricity 57 Expired
US5877087A Low temperature integrated metallization process and apparatus Electricity 51 Expired
US5270254A Integrated circuit metallization with zero contact enclosure requirements and method of making the same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Expired
US6399479B1 Processes to improve electroplating fill Electricity 38 Expired
US6974771B2 Methods and apparatus for forming barrier layers in high aspect ratio vias Electricity 36 Expired
US7253109B2 Method of depositing a tantalum nitride/tantalum diffusion barrier layer system Electricity 35 Expired
US6758947B2 Damage-free sculptured coating deposition Electricity 35 Expired
US5841624A Cover layer for a substrate support chuck and method of fabricating same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Expired
US6066358A Blanket-selective chemical vapor deposition using an ultra-thin nucleation layer Electricity 33 Expired
US6120844A Deposition film orientation and reflectivity improvement using a self-aligning ultra-thin layer Electricity 33 Expired
US7294574B2 Sputter deposition and etching of metallization seed layer for overhang and sidewall improvement Electricity 28 Expired

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