Xi-Wei Lin
80Patents
17h-index
34Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 16, 1997 → Sep 9, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7895548B2 | Filler cells for design optimization in a place-and-route system | Electricity | 118 | Active |
| US7926018B2 | Method and apparatus for generating a layout for a transistor | Physics | 106 | Active |
| US5883011A | Method of removing an inorganic antireflective coating from a semiconductor substrate | Physics | 77 | Expired |
| US5854510A | Low power programmable fuse structures | Electricity | 75 | Expired |
| US5882998A | Low power programmable fuse structures and methods for making the same | Electricity | 59 | Expired |
| US5953612A | Self-aligned silicidation technique to independently form silicides of different thickness on a semiconductor device | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US6207543A | Metallization technique for gate electrodes and local interconnects | Electricity | 33 | Expired |
| US7484198B2 | Managing integrated circuit stress using dummy diffusion regions | Electricity | 33 | Active |
| US5834356A | Method of making high resistive structures in salicided process semiconductor devices | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
| US7542891B2 | Method of correlating silicon stress to device instance parameters for circuit simulation | Physics | 28 | Active |
| US6074921A | Self-aligned processing of semiconductor device features | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US7681164B2 | Method and apparatus for placing an integrated circuit device within an integrated circuit layout | Physics | 26 | Active |
| US5933739A | Self-aligned silicidation structure and method of formation thereof | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US6093656A | Method of minimizing dishing during chemical mechanical polishing of semiconductor metals for making a semiconductor device | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US6143613A | Selective exclusion of silicide formation to make polysilicon resistors | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US5880006A | Method for fabrication of a semiconductor device | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US6420273B1 | Self-aligned etch-stop layer formation for semiconductor devices | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US9547740B2 | Methods for fabricating high-density integrated circuit devices | Electricity | 16 | Active |
| US5985749A | Method of forming a via hole structure including CVD tungsten silicide barrier layer | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US5963784A | Methods of determining parameters of a semiconductor device and the width of an insulative spacer of a semiconductor device | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US7600207B2 | Stress-managed revision of integrated circuit layouts | Electricity | 15 | Active |
| US8086990B2 | Method of correlating silicon stress to device instance parameters for circuit simulation | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US6150266A | Local interconnect formed using silicon spacer | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US8964453B2 | SRAM layouts | Electricity | 13 | Active |
| US6218303A | Via formation using oxide reduction of underlying copper | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.