Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Johnathan E. Faltermeier

65Patents
14h-index
121Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 21, 1998 → Nov 29, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7118986B2 STI formation in semiconductor device including SOI and bulk silicon regions Electricity 240 Expired
US7993999B2 High-K/metal gate CMOS finFET with improved pFET threshold voltage Electricity 100 Active
US6268299A Variable stoichiometry silicon nitride barrier films for tunable etch selectivity and enhanced hyrogen permeability Electricity 52 Expired
US6130145A Insitu doped metal policide Electricity 29 Expired
US8420464B2 Spacer as hard mask scheme for in-situ doping in CMOS finFETs Electricity 28 Active
US8716797B2 FinFET spacer formation by oriented implantation Electricity 25 Active
US7951657B2 Method of forming a planar field effect transistor with embedded and faceted source/drain stressors on a silicon-on-insulator (S0I) wafer, a planar field effect transistor structure and a design structure for the planar field effect transistor Electricity 25 Active
US6518641B2 Deep slit isolation with controlled void Electricity 24 Expired
US6444516B1 Semi-insulating diffusion barrier for low-resistivity gate conductors Electricity 22 Expired
US6555430B1 Process flow for capacitance enhancement in a DRAM trench Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Expired
US7193262B2 Low-cost deep trench decoupling capacitor device and process of manufacture Electricity 20 Expired
US8928057B2 Uniform finFET gate height Electricity 17 Active
US6746933B1 Pitcher-shaped active area for field effect transistor and method of forming same Electricity 16 Expired
US8367544B2 Self-aligned patterned etch stop layers for semiconductor devices Electricity 15 Active
US8901664B2 High-K/metal gate CMOS finFET with improved pFET threshold voltage Electricity 14 Active
US9105559B2 Conformal doping for FinFET devices Electricity 13 Active
US9865703B2 High-K layer chamfering to prevent oxygen ingress in replacement metal gate (RMG) process Electricity 13 Active
US7923815B2 DRAM having deep trench capacitors with lightly doped buried plates Electricity 10 Active
US6150670A Process for fabricating a uniform gate oxide of a vertical transistor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US9337315B2 FinFET spacer formation by oriented implantation Electricity 9 Active
US6194736A Quantum conductive recrystallization barrier layers Electricity 8 Expired
US8525186B2 Method of forming a planar field effect transistor with embedded and faceted source/drain stressors on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer, a planar field effect transistor structure and a design structure for the planar field effect transistor Electricity 8 Active
US9559009B2 Gate structure cut after formation of epitaxial active regions Electricity 7 Active
US9318578B2 FinFET spacer formation by oriented implantation Electricity 7 Active
US6960523B2 Method of reducing erosion of a nitride gate cap layer during reactive ion etch of nitride liner layer for bit line contact of DRAM device Electricity 7 Expired

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