Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Padmapani Nallan

33Patents
15h-index
31Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 8, 1997 → Aug 14, 2006

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6642127B2 Method for dicing a semiconductor wafer Electricity 227 Expired
US6583065B1 Sidewall polymer forming gas additives for etching processes Electricity 65 Expired
US6759263B2 Method of patterning a layer of magnetic material Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 65 Expired
US6964928B2 Method for removing residue from a magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) film stack using a dual mask Electricity 33 Expired
US6531404B1 Method of etching titanium nitride Electricity 26 Expired
US6322714A Process for etching silicon-containing material on substrates Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Expired
US6984585B2 Method for removal of residue from a magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) film stack using a sacrificial mask layer Electricity 22 Expired
US6399507B1 Stable plasma process for etching of films Electricity 20 Expired
US6767824B2 Method of fabricating a gate structure of a field effect transistor using an alpha-carbon mask Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US6132631A Anisotropic silicon nitride etching for shallow trench isolation in an high density plasma system Electricity 19 Expired
US6893893B2 Method of preventing short circuits in magnetic film stacks Electricity 19 Expired
US6368978B1 Hydrogen-free method of plasma etching indium tin oxide Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US6759340B2 Method of etching a trench in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structure Electricity 18 Expired
US6440870B1 Method of etching tungsten or tungsten nitride electrode gates in semiconductor structures Electricity 16 Expired
US6855643B2 Method for fabricating a gate structure Electricity 16 Expired
US7320942B2 Method for removal of metallic residue after plasma etching of a metal layer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US6423644B1 Method of etching tungsten or tungsten nitride electrode gates in semiconductor structures Electricity 13 Expired
US6942813B2 Method of etching magnetic and ferroelectric materials using a pulsed bias source Electricity 12 Expired
US6902681B2 Method for plasma etching of high-K dielectric materials Electricity 12 Expired
US6660127B2 Apparatus for plasma etching at a constant etch rate Electricity 11 Expired
US6759286B2 Method of fabricating a gate structure of a field effect transistor using a hard mask Electricity 11 Expired
US6806095B2 Method of plasma etching of high-K dielectric materials with high selectivity to underlying layers Electricity 10 Expired
US7094704B2 Method of plasma etching of high-K dielectric materials Electricity 9 Expired
US7105361B2 Method of etching a magnetic material Electricity 9 Expired
US7217665B2 Method of plasma etching high-K dielectric materials with high selectivity to underlying layers Electricity 7 Expired

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