Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Sudha Rathi

33Patents
11h-index
58Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 30, 1999 → Aug 26, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8361906B2 Ultra high selectivity ashable hard mask film Electricity 53 Active
US6355571B1 Method and apparatus for reducing copper oxidation and contamination in a semiconductor device Electricity 52 Expired
US8536065B2 Ultra high selectivity doped amorphous carbon strippable hardmask development and integration Electricity 46 Active
US6734102B2 Plasma treatment for copper oxide reduction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US7407893B2 Liquid precursors for the CVD deposition of amorphous carbon films Electricity 21 Expired
US6853043B2 Nitrogen-free antireflective coating for use with photolithographic patterning Chemistry; Metallurgy 21 Expired
US7638440B2 Method of depositing an amorphous carbon film for etch hardmask application Physics 20 Active
US6946401B2 Plasma treatment for copper oxide reduction Electricity 19 Expired
US6541369B2 Method and apparatus for reducing fixed charges in a semiconductor device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US8993454B2 Ultra high selectivity doped amorphous carbon strippable hardmask development and integration Electricity 14 Active
US6927178B2 Nitrogen-free dielectric anti-reflective coating and hardmask Electricity 13 Expired
US9299581B2 Methods of dry stripping boron-carbon films Electricity 7 Active
US7867578B2 Method for depositing an amorphous carbon film with improved density and step coverage Electricity 6 Active
US9390910B2 Gas flow profile modulated control of overlay in plasma CVD films Electricity 5 Active
US7105460B2 Nitrogen-free dielectric anti-reflective coating and hardmask Electricity 4 Expired
US8105465B2 Method for depositing conformal amorphous carbon film by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) Electricity 3 Active
US8282734B2 Methods to improve the in-film defectivity of PECVD amorphous carbon films Chemistry; Metallurgy 3 Active
US7776516B2 Graded ARC for high NA and immersion lithography Electricity 3 Active
US10373822B2 Gas flow profile modulated control of overlay in plasma CVD films Electricity 2 Active
US9337072B2 Apparatus and method for substrate clamping in a plasma chamber Electricity 2 Active
US6700202B2 Semiconductor device having reduced oxidation interface Electricity 2 Expired
US8513129B2 Planarizing etch hardmask to increase pattern density and aspect ratio Electricity 1 Active
US8211626B2 Maintenance of photoresist activity on the surface of dielectric arcs for 90 nm feature sizes Physics 1 Active
US7094442B2 Methods for the reduction and elimination of particulate contamination with CVD of amorphous carbon Electricity 1 Expired
US7514125B2 Methods to improve the in-film defectivity of PECVD amorphous carbon films Chemistry; Metallurgy 1 Active

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