Inventor · Beaverton, OR, US

R. Scott List

40Patents
18h-index
26Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 17, 1997 → Apr 27, 2007

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7157787B2 Process of vertically stacking multiple wafers supporting different active integrated circuit (IC) devices Electricity 765 Expired
US6762076B2 Process of vertically stacking multiple wafers supporting different active integrated circuit (IC) devices Electricity 521 Expired
US6661085B2 Barrier structure against corrosion and contamination in three-dimensional (3-D) wafer-to-wafer vertical stack Electricity 492 Expired
US6887769B2 Dielectric recess for wafer-to-wafer and die-to-die metal bonding and method of fabricating the same Electricity 455 Expired
US7037804B2 Wafer bonding using a flexible bladder press for three dimensional (3D) vertical stack integration Electricity 231 Expired
US6908565B2 Etch thinning techniques for wafer-to-wafer vertical stacks Electricity 228 Expired
US6975016B2 Wafer bonding using a flexible bladder press and thinned wafers for three-dimensional (3D) wafer-to-wafer vertical stack integration, and application thereof Electricity 225 Expired
US7056807B2 Barrier structure against corrosion and contamination in three-dimensional (3-D) wafer-to-wafer vertical stack Electricity 222 Expired
US6790748B2 Thinning techniques for wafer-to-wafer vertical stacks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 222 Expired
US7615462B2 Etch stop layer for silicon (Si) via etch in three-dimensional (3-D) wafer-to-wafer vertical stack Electricity 151 Active
US6059553A Integrated circuit dielectrics Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 83 Expired
US7056813B2 Methods of forming backside connections on a wafer stack Electricity 62 Expired
US6897125B2 Methods of forming backside connections on a wafer stack Electricity 59 Expired
US6977435B2 Thick metal layer integrated process flow to improve power delivery and mechanical buffering Electricity 55 Expired
US6645832B2 Etch stop layer for silicon (Si) via etch in three-dimensional (3-D) wafer-to-wafer vertical stack Electricity 46 Expired
US7148565B2 Etch stop layer for silicon (Si) via etch in three-dimensional (3-D) wafer-to-wafer vertical stack Electricity 39 Expired
US7129172B2 Bonded wafer processing method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Expired
US7355277B2 Apparatus and method integrating an electro-osmotic pump and microchannel assembly into a die package Electricity 23 Expired
US6870270B2 Method and structure for interfacing electronic devices Electricity 15 Expired
US7696015B2 Method of forming a stack of heat generating integrated circuit chips with intervening cooling integrated circuit chips Electricity 13 Active
US6981849B2 Electro-osmotic pumps and micro-channels Electricity 12 Expired
US7227257B2 Cooling micro-channels Electricity 10 Expired
US6664168B1 Method of making an on-die decoupling capacitor for a semiconductor device Electricity 9 Expired
US7034394B2 Microelectronic assembly having thermoelectric elements to cool a die and a method of making the same Electricity 7 Expired
US6833321B2 Method of making a semiconductor device that has copper damascene interconnects with enhanced electromigration reliability Electricity 7 Expired

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