Inventor · Plano, TX, US

Lee M. Loewenstein

37Patents
24h-index
32Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 16, 1987 → Jun 29, 2007

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4916091A Plasma and plasma UV deposition of SiO.sub.2 Electricity 469 Expired
US5002632A Method and apparatus for etching semiconductor materials Electricity 433 Expired
US4820377A Method for cleanup processing chamber and vacuum process module Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 297 Expired
US4904621A Remote plasma generation process using a two-stage showerhead Electricity 245 Expired
US6110838A Isotropic polysilicon plus nitride stripping Electricity 224 Expired
US4857140A Method for etching silicon nitride Electricity 218 Expired
US4828649A Method for etching an aluminum film doped with silicon Chemistry; Metallurgy 174 Expired
US4886570A Processing apparatus and method Chemistry; Metallurgy 151 Expired
US4867841A Method for etch of polysilicon film Electricity 130 Expired
US4878994A Method for etching titanium nitride local interconnects Electricity 118 Expired
US4836905A Processing apparatus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 100 Expired
US4818326A Processing apparatus Electricity 84 Expired
US5138973A Wafer processing apparatus having independently controllable energy sources Chemistry; Metallurgy 83 Expired
US5248636A Processing method using both a remotely generated plasma and an in-situ plasma with UV irradiation Chemistry; Metallurgy 52 Expired
US5262610A Low particulate reliability enhanced remote microwave plasma discharge device Electricity 48 Expired
US4842686A Wafer processing apparatus and method Physics 47 Expired
US4822450A Processing apparatus and method Chemistry; Metallurgy 45 Expired
US4882008A Dry development of photoresist Physics 42 Expired
US4872938A Processing apparatus Electricity 41 Expired
US4875989A Wafer processing apparatus Physics 32 Expired
US5102231A Semiconductor wafer temperature measurement system and method Physics 32 Expired
US5741396A Isotropic nitride stripping Electricity 31 Expired
US4906328A Method for wafer treating Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired
US4988644A Method for etching semiconductor materials using a remote plasma generator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US5437765A Semiconductor processing Electricity 21 Expired

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