Inventor · Santa Clara, CA, US

Lu You

89Patents
21h-index
88Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 9, 1992 → Sep 23, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6893967B1 L-shaped spacer incorporating or patterned using amorphous carbon or CVD organic materials Electricity 230 Expired
US6773998B1 Modified film stack and patterning strategy for stress compensation and prevention of pattern distortion in amorphous carbon gate patterning Electricity 157 Expired
US6147000A Method for forming low dielectric passivation of copper interconnects Electricity 106 Expired
US6030901A Photoresist stripping without degrading low dielectric constant materials Electricity 81 Expired
US6066574A Hot plate cure process for BCB low k interlevel dielectric Electricity 57 Expired
US6518167B1 Method of forming a metal or metal nitride interface layer between silicon nitride and copper Electricity 49 Expired
US5268202A Vapor deposition of parylene-F using 1,4-bis (trifluoromethyl) benzene Chemistry; Metallurgy 45 Expired
US6407009B1 Methods of manufacture of uniform spin-on films Electricity 43 Expired
US6764949B2 Method for reducing pattern deformation and photoresist poisoning in semiconductor device fabrication Electricity 42 Expired
US6235453A Low-k photoresist removal process Electricity 39 Expired
US6259115A Dummy patterning for semiconductor manufacturing processes Electricity 38 Expired
US6566283B1 Silane treatment of low dielectric constant materials in semiconductor device manufacturing Electricity 33 Expired
US6750127B1 Method for fabricating a semiconductor device using amorphous carbon having improved etch resistance Electricity 31 Expired
US6756672B1 Use of sic for preventing copper contamination of low-k dielectric layers Electricity 31 Expired
US6586842B1 Dual damascene integration scheme for preventing copper contamination of dielectric layer Electricity 30 Expired
US6207552A Forming and filling a recess in interconnect for encapsulation to minimize electromigration Electricity 29 Expired
US6653735B1 CVD silicon carbide layer as a BARC and hard mask for gate patterning Electricity 28 Expired
US6900002B1 Antireflective bi-layer hardmask including a densified amorphous carbon layer Electricity 25 Expired
US6225240A Rapid acceleration methods for global planarization of spin-on films Electricity 24 Expired
US6713874B1 Semiconductor devices with dual nature capping/arc layers on organic-doped silica glass inter-layer dielectrics Electricity 22 Expired
US6875664B1 Formation of amorphous carbon ARC stack having graded transition between amorphous carbon and ARC material Electricity 21 Expired
US6530340B2 Apparatus for manufacturing planar spin-on films Physics 19 Expired
US6100181A Low dielectric constant coating of conductive material in a damascene process for semiconductors Electricity 19 Expired
US6518646B1 Semiconductor device with variable composition low-k inter-layer dielectric and method of making Electricity 19 Expired
US6677679B1 Use of SiO2/Sin for preventing copper contamination of low-k dielectric layers Electricity 19 Expired

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