Ravikumar Ramachandran
111Patents
14h-index
163Co-inventors
89Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 25, 1997 → Sep 23, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5807439A | Apparatus and method for improved washing and drying of semiconductor wafers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 79 | Expired |
| US5980770A | Removal of post-RIE polymer on Al/Cu metal line | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 38 | Expired |
| US8426300B2 | Self-aligned contact for replacement gate devices | Electricity | 34 | Active |
| US5932493A | Method to minimize watermarks on silicon substrates | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US7838908B2 | Semiconductor device having dual metal gates and method of manufacture | Electricity | 23 | Active |
| US6274440A | Manufacturing of cavity fuses on gate conductor level | Electricity | 20 | Expired |
| US6858441B2 | MRAM MTJ stack to conductive line alignment method | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 20 | Expired |
| US8536656B2 | Self-aligned contacts for high k/metal gate process flow | Electricity | 20 | Active |
| US9431399B1 | Method for forming merged contact for semiconductor device | Electricity | 18 | Active |
| US5934299A | Apparatus and method for improved washing and drying of semiconductor wafers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 18 | Expired |
| US8928057B2 | Uniform finFET gate height | Electricity | 17 | Active |
| US8928086B2 | Strained finFET with an electrically isolated channel | Electricity | 15 | Active |
| US7122439B2 | Method of fabricating a bottle trench and a bottle trench capacitor | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US9496362B1 | Contact first replacement metal gate | Electricity | 15 | Active |
| US8629014B2 | Replacement metal gate structures for effective work function control | Electricity | 14 | Active |
| US7122437B2 | Deep trench capacitor with buried plate electrode and isolation collar | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US7485510B2 | Field effect device including inverted V shaped channel region and method for fabrication thereof | Electricity | 14 | Active |
| US6358855B1 | Clean method for recessed conductive barriers | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US9082851B2 | FinFET having suppressed leakage current | Electricity | 13 | Active |
| US7691701B1 | Method of forming gate stack and structure thereof | Electricity | 13 | Active |
| US9190520B2 | Strained finFET with an electrically isolated channel | Electricity | 13 | Active |
| US6569769B1 | Slurry-less chemical-mechanical polishing | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US7943457B2 | Dual metal and dual dielectric integration for metal high-k FETs | Electricity | 11 | Active |
| US8815693B2 | FinFET device formation | Electricity | 11 | Active |
| US6149830A | Composition and method for reducing dishing in patterned metal during CMP process | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.