Inventor · San Francisco, CA, US

Stephen Roy Gilbert

35Patents
13h-index
32Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 25, 1999 → Sep 29, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6211035A Integrated circuit and method Electricity 248 Expired
US6576546B2 Method of enhancing adhesion of a conductive barrier layer to an underlying conductive plug and contact for ferroelectric applications Electricity 167 Expired
US6548343B1 Method of fabricating a ferroelectric memory cell Electricity 101 Expired
US7525398B2 Acoustically communicating data signals across an electrical isolation barrier Electricity 88 Active
US6500678B1 Methods of preventing reduction of IrOx during PZT formation by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition or other processing Electricity 69 Expired
US6635528B2 Method of planarizing a conductive plug situated under a ferroelectric capacitor Electricity 61 Expired
US6534809B2 Hardmask designs for dry etching FeRAM capacitor stacks Electricity 60 Expired
US6528386B1 Protection of tungsten alignment mark for FeRAM processing Electricity 35 Expired
US6444542B2 Integrated circuit and method Electricity 30 Expired
US6692976B1 Post-etch cleaning treatment Electricity 19 Expired
US6528328B1 Methods of preventing reduction of irox during PZT formation by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition or other processing Electricity 17 Expired
US6635497B2 Methods of preventing reduction of IrOx during PZT formation by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition or other processing Electricity 17 Expired
US6576922B1 Ferroelectric capacitor plasma charging monitor Electricity 16 Expired
US6596547B2 Methods of preventing reduction of IrOx during PZT formation by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition or other processing Electricity 12 Expired
US6709875B2 Contamination control for embedded ferroelectric device fabrication processes Electricity 11 Expired
US6902939B2 Integrated circuit and method Electricity 9 Expired
US6730354B2 Forming ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 films Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Expired
US6441415B1 Ferroelectric and paraelectric thin film devices using dopants which eliminate ferroelectricity Electricity 7 Expired
US6686236B2 Methods of preventing reduction of IrOx during PZT formation by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition or other processing Electricity 7 Expired
US10177735B2 Surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator Electricity 5 Active
US6686210B1 Methods for controlling the crystallographic texture of thin films with anisotropic ferroelectric polarization or permittivity Electricity 3 Expired
US10020796B2 Surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator Electricity 3 Active
US10541667B2 Surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator having trap-rich region Electricity 3 Active
US7361599B2 Integrated circuit and method Electricity 2 Expired
US9991870B2 Surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator Electricity 2 Active

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