Inventor · Richardson, TX, US

Keith A. Joyner

28Patents
15h-index
23Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 30, 1982 → Jan 5, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6737347B1 Semiconductor device with fully self-aligned local interconnects, and method for fabricating the device Electricity 196 Expired
US5863827A Oxide deglaze before sidewall oxidation of mesa or trench Electricity 94 Expired
US6376285B1 Annealed porous silicon with epitaxial layer for SOI Electricity 67 Expired
US5364800A Varying the thickness of the surface silicon layer in a silicon-on-insulator substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 64 Expired
US6806151B2 Methods and apparatus for inducing stress in a semiconductor device Electricity 57 Expired
US5909628A Reducing non-uniformity in a refill layer thickness for a semiconductor device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 36 Expired
US5429955A Method for constructing semiconductor-on-insulator Electricity 29 Expired
US5882981A Mesa isolation Refill Process for Silicon on Insulator Technology Using Flowage Oxides as the Refill Material Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US4507851A Process for forming an electrical interconnection system on a semiconductor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired
US5548149A Varying the thickness of the surface silicon layer in a silicon-on-insulator substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US6118161A Self-aligned trenched-channel lateral-current-flow transistor Electricity 21 Expired
US6214699A Method for forming an isolation structure in a substrate Electricity 20 Expired
US6004871A Implant enhancement of titanium silicidation Electricity 20 Expired
US6114741A Trench isolation of a CMOS structure Electricity 19 Expired
US6228747A Organic sidewall spacers used with resist Electricity 16 Expired
US6376859B1 Variable porosity porous silicon isolation Electricity 13 Expired
US6057214A Silicon-on-insulation trench isolation structure and method for forming Electricity 12 Expired
US5440132A Systems and methods for controlling the temperature and uniformity of a wafer during a SIMOX implantation process Electricity 10 Expired
US6207511A Self-aligned trenched-channel lateral-current-flow transistor Electricity 7 Expired
US5982006A Active silicon-on-insulator region having a buried insulation layer with tapered edge Electricity 7 Expired
US7101772B2 Means for forming SOI Electricity 4 Expired
US5352341A Reducing leakage current in silicon-on-insulator substrates Electricity 4 Expired
US6180491A Isolation structure and method Electricity 4 Expired
US6767777B2 Method for manufacturing and structure for transistors with reduced gate to contact spacing including etching to thin the spacers Electricity 4 Expired
US7339214B2 Methods and apparatus for inducing stress in a semiconductor device Electricity 0 Expired

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