Inventor · Saratoga, CA, US

Imran Hashim

108Patents
18h-index
68Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 6, 1997 → Jan 11, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6066892A Copper alloy seed layer for copper metallization in an integrated circuit Electricity 107 Expired
US6287977A Method and apparatus for forming improved metal interconnects Electricity 93 Expired
US6037257A Sputter deposition and annealing of copper alloy metallization Electricity 84 Expired
US6436267B1 Method for achieving copper fill of high aspect ratio interconnect features Electricity 52 Expired
US6387805B2 Copper alloy seed layer for copper metallization Electricity 44 Expired
US6559061B2 Method and apparatus for forming improved metal interconnects Electricity 40 Expired
US6500762B2 Method of depositing a copper seed layer which promotes improved feature surface coverage Electricity 39 Expired
US6160315A Copper alloy via structure Electricity 38 Expired
US6709987B2 Method and apparatus for forming improved metal interconnects Electricity 34 Expired
US6184137A Structure and method for improving low temperature copper reflow in semiconductor features Electricity 31 Expired
US6174811A Integrated deposition process for copper metallization Electricity 27 Expired
US6992012B2 Method and apparatus for forming improved metal interconnects Electricity 27 Expired
US8569104B2 Transition metal oxide bilayers Electricity 25 Active
US6121141A Method of forming a void free copper interconnects Electricity 25 Expired
US6149776A Copper sputtering target Chemistry; Metallurgy 23 Expired
US8686389B1 Diffusion barrier layer for resistive random access memory cells Electricity 22 Active
US8343813B2 Resistive-switching memory elements having improved switching characteristics Electricity 21 Active
US6566259B1 Integrated deposition process for copper metallization Electricity 19 Expired
US6217715A Coating of vacuum chambers to reduce pump down time and base pressure Electricity 18 Expired
US8766234B1 Current selector for non-volatile memory in a cross bar array based on defect and band engineering metal-dielectric-metal stacks Electricity 17 Active
US6391776B1 Method of depositing a copper seed layer which promotes improved feature surface coverage Electricity 16 Expired
US9001554B2 Resistive random access memory cell having three or more resistive states Physics 16 Active
US7824935B2 Methods of combinatorial processing for screening multiple samples on a semiconductor substrate Electricity 15 Active
US8288297B1 Atomic layer deposition of metal oxide materials for memory applications Electricity 13 Active
US8866121B2 Current-limiting layer and a current-reducing layer in a memory device Physics 10 Active

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