Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Marina V. Plat

68Patents
17h-index
46Co-inventors
80Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 27, 1997 → Oct 27, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6773998B1 Modified film stack and patterning strategy for stress compensation and prevention of pattern distortion in amorphous carbon gate patterning Electricity 157 Expired
US6383952B1 RELACS process to double the frequency or pitch of small feature formation Electricity 76 Expired
US6818141B1 Application of the CVD bilayer ARC as a hard mask for definition of the subresolution trench features between polysilicon wordlines Electricity 60 Expired
US6541360B1 Bi-layer trim etch process to form integrated circuit gate structures Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 55 Expired
US6534418B1 Use of silicon containing imaging layer to define sub-resolution gate structures Electricity 51 Expired
US6764949B2 Method for reducing pattern deformation and photoresist poisoning in semiconductor device fabrication Electricity 42 Expired
US6867097B1 Method of making a memory cell with polished insulator layer Electricity 29 Expired
US6255125A Method and apparatus for compensating for critical dimension variations in the production of a semiconductor wafer Electricity 26 Expired
US6417084B1 T-gate formation using a modified conventional poly process Electricity 25 Expired
US6900002B1 Antireflective bi-layer hardmask including a densified amorphous carbon layer Electricity 25 Expired
US6589711B1 Dual inlaid process using a bilayer resist Electricity 23 Expired
US6306769A Use of dual patterning masks for printing holes of small dimensions Physics 21 Expired
US6270929A Damascene T-gate using a relacs flow Electricity 21 Expired
US6057206A Mark protection scheme with no masking Electricity 20 Expired
US6358856B1 Bright field image reversal for contact hole patterning Electricity 19 Expired
US6262435A Etch bias distribution across semiconductor wafer Electricity 18 Expired
US7008832B1 Damascene process for a T-shaped gate electrode Electricity 18 Expired
US6326231A Use of silicon oxynitride ARC for metal layers Electricity 17 Expired
US6548423B1 Multilayer anti-reflective coating process for integrated circuit fabrication Electricity 15 Expired
US6403456B1 T or T/Y gate formation using trim etch processing Electricity 15 Expired
US6187687A Minimization of line width variation in photolithography Electricity 15 Expired
US6255202A Damascene T-gate using a spacer flow Electricity 15 Expired
US6864556B1 CVD organic polymer film for advanced gate patterning Electricity 14 Expired
US6222241A Method and system for reducing ARC layer removal by providing a capping layer for the ARC layer Electricity 13 Expired
US6313019A Y-gate formation using damascene processing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired

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