Inventor · Fremont, CA, US

Lee Luo

32Patents
18h-index
64Co-inventors
80Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 12, 1996 → Aug 20, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5846332A Thermally floating pedestal collar in a chemical vapor deposition chamber Electricity 782 Expired
US6129044A Apparatus for substrate processing with improved throughput and yield Electricity 546 Expired
US6210485A Chemical vapor deposition vaporizer Chemistry; Metallurgy 382 Expired
US6189482A High temperature, high flow rate chemical vapor deposition apparatus and related methods Electricity 340 Expired
US5993916A Method for substrate processing with improved throughput and yield Electricity 269 Expired
US5968379A High temperature ceramic heater assembly with RF capability and related methods Electricity 179 Expired
US6833161B2 Cyclical deposition of tungsten nitride for metal oxide gate electrode Electricity 121 Expired
US6051286A High temperature, high deposition rate process and apparatus for depositing titanium layers Electricity 109 Expired
US5983906A Methods and apparatus for a cleaning process in a high temperature, corrosive, plasma environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 90 Expired
US6392290B1 Vertical structure for semiconductor wafer-level chip scale packages Electricity 89 Expired
US6713127B2 Methods for silicon oxide and oxynitride deposition using single wafer low pressure CVD Chemistry; Metallurgy 54 Expired
US6949203B2 System level in-situ integrated dielectric etch process particularly useful for copper dual damascene Electricity 52 Expired
US5964947A Removable pumping channel liners within a chemical vapor deposition chamber Electricity 49 Expired
US5994678A Apparatus for ceramic pedestal and metal shaft assembly Chemistry; Metallurgy 49 Expired
US7745329B2 Tungsten nitride atomic layer deposition processes Electricity 30 Active
US6270859A Plasma treatment of titanium nitride formed by chemical vapor deposition Electricity 26 Expired
US7115499B2 Cyclical deposition of tungsten nitride for metal oxide gate electrode Electricity 24 Expired
US6582522B2 Emissivity-change-free pumping plate kit in a single wafer chamber Chemistry; Metallurgy 18 Expired
US6500357B1 System level in-situ integrated dielectric etch process particularly useful for copper dual damascene Electricity 17 Expired
US6559039B2 Doped silicon deposition process in resistively heated single wafer chamber Electricity 13 Expired
US7429516B2 Tungsten nitride atomic layer deposition processes Electricity 10 Active
US7608300B2 Methods and devices to reduce defects in dielectric stack structures Chemistry; Metallurgy 10 Expired
US6077562A Method for depositing barium strontium titanate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US6884464B2 Methods for forming silicon comprising films using hexachlorodisilane in a single-wafer deposion chamber Electricity 9 Expired
US8336488B2 Multi-station plasma reactor with multiple plasma regions Electricity 8 Active

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