Inventor · Los Altos Hills, CA, US

Sasson Somekh

86Patents
37h-index
122Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 20, 1975 → Aug 22, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4951601A Multi-chamber integrated process system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 997 Expired
US5855681A Ultra high throughput wafer vacuum processing system Electricity 948 Expired
US5186718A Staged-vacuum wafer processing system and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 700 Expired
US5882165A Multiple chamber integrated process system Electricity 591 Expired
US7482247B1 Conformal nanolaminate dielectric deposition and etch bag gap fill process Electricity 530 Active
US5738574A Continuous processing system for chemical mechanical polishing Electricity 491 Expired
US4842683A Magnetic field-enhanced plasma etch reactor Electricity 303 Expired
US5292393A Multichamber integrated process system Electricity 286 Expired
US6291334A Etch stop layer for dual damascene process Electricity 257 Expired
US6258170A Vaporization and deposition apparatus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 224 Expired
US4668365A Apparatus and method for magnetron-enhanced plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition Electricity 175 Expired
US4049944A Process for fabricating small geometry semiconductive devices including integrated components Electricity 167 Expired
US5849136A High frequency semiconductor wafer processing apparatus and method Electricity 158 Expired
US5804507A Radially oscillating carousel processing system for chemical mechanical polishing Performing Operations; Transporting 157 Expired
US4618262A Laser interferometer system and method for monitoring and controlling IC processing Physics 150 Expired
US5215619A Magnetic field-enhanced plasma etch reactor Electricity 132 Expired
US5897426A Chemical mechanical polishing with multiple polishing pads Performing Operations; Transporting 119 Expired
US6179709A In-situ monitoring of linear substrate polishing operations Electricity 116 Expired
US6640151B1 Multi-tool control system, method and medium Electricity 112 Expired
US5745331A Electrostatic chuck with conformal insulator film Electricity 107 Expired
US4911597A Semiconductor processing system with robotic autoloader and load lock Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 106 Expired
US5957751A Carrier head with a substrate detection mechanism for a chemical mechanical polishing system Performing Operations; Transporting 101 Expired
US5250467A Method for forming low resistance and low defect density tungsten contacts to silicon semiconductor wafer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 100 Expired
US6244935A Apparatus and methods for chemical mechanical polishing with an advanceable polishing sheet Electricity 95 Expired
US4231811A Variable thickness self-aligned photoresist process Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 82 Expired

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