Inventor · Yorktown Heights, NY, US

Nicky C. Lu

29Patents
21h-index
22Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 19, 1984 → May 15, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5021355A Method of fabricating cross-point lightly-doped drain-source trench transistor Electricity 168 Expired
US5107459A Stacked bit-line architecture for high density cross-point memory cell array Physics 128 Expired
US4881105A Integrated trench-transistor structure and fabrication process Electricity 89 Expired
US4649625A Dynamic memory device having a single-crystal transistor on a trench capacitor structure and a fabrication method therefor Electricity 88 Expired
US4922128A Boost clock circuit for driving redundant wordlines and sample wordlines Physics 81 Expired
US4954854A Cross-point lightly-doped drain-source trench transistor and fabrication process therefor Electricity 81 Expired
US4688063A Dynamic ram cell with MOS trench capacitor in CMOS Electricity 72 Expired
US4833516A High density memory cell structure having a vertical trench transistor self-aligned with a vertical trench capacitor and fabrication methods therefor Electricity 70 Expired
US4983544A Silicide bridge contact process Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 65 Expired
US4728623A Fabrication method for forming a self-aligned contact window and connection in an epitaxial layer and device structures employing the method Electricity 64 Expired
US4816706A Sense amplifier with improved bitline precharging for dynamic random access memory Physics 55 Expired
US4910709A Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor and one-capacitor dynamic-random-access memory cell Electricity 48 Expired
US5198995A Trench-capacitor-one-transistor storage cell and array for dynamic random access memories Electricity 47 Expired
US4816884A High density vertical trench transistor and capacitor memory cell structure and fabrication method therefor Electricity 42 Expired
US6009023A High performance DRAM structure employing multiple thickness gate oxide Electricity 36 Expired
US4927779A Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor and one-capacitor dynamic-random-access memory cell and fabrication process therefor Electricity 34 Expired
US4754433A Dynamic ram having multiplexed twin I/O line pairs Physics 33 Expired
US5395784A Method of manufacturing low leakage and long retention time DRAM Electricity 28 Expired
US6107134A High performance DRAM structure employing multiple thickness gate oxide Electricity 28 Expired
US4639622A Boosting word-line clock circuit for semiconductor memory Physics 26 Expired
US4678941A Boost word-line clock and decoder-driver circuits in semiconductor memories Physics 24 Expired
US4954731A Wordline voltage boosting circuits for complementary MOSFET dynamic memories Electricity 20 Expired
US6097641A High performance DRAM structure employing multiple thickness gate oxide Electricity 6 Expired
US6163047A Method of fabricating a self aligned contact for a capacitor over bitline, (COB), memory cell Electricity 5 Expired
US9164942B2 High speed memory chip module and electronics system device with a high speed memory chip module Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active

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