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Fusen Chen — 103 Patents

Applied Materials: 58 patents #128 of 7,310Top 2%
SSStmicroelectronics Sa: 44 patents #58 of 1,676Top 4%
Cupertino, CA: #80 of 6,989 inventorsTop 2%
California: #2,151 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #13,706 of 4,157,543Top 1%
103 Patents All Time
Fusen Chen has been granted 103 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in August 2018. Fusen Chen ranks #13,706 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.33%). Patent records list Fusen Chen in Cupertino, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 103 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10047430 Self-ionized and inductively-coupled plasma for sputtering and resputtering Peijun Ding, Rong Tao, Zheng Xu, Daniel C. Lubben, Suraj Rengarajan +7 more 2018-08-14 $24,993,000
9991157 Method for depositing a diffusion barrier layer and a metal conductive layer Tony P. Chiang, Gongda Yao, Peijun Ding, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2018-06-05 $36,422,000
9390970 Method for depositing a diffusion barrier layer and a metal conductive layer Tony P. Chiang, Gongda Yao, Peijun Ding, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2016-07-12 $13,832,000
8696875 Self-ionized and inductively-coupled plasma for sputtering and resputtering Peijun Ding, Rong Tao, Zheng Xu, Daniel C. Lubben, Suraj Rengarajan +7 more 2014-04-15 $21,336,000
8668816 Self-ionized and inductively-coupled plasma for sputtering and resputtering Peijun Ding, Rong Tao, Zheng Xu, Daniel C. Lubben, Suraj Rengarajan +7 more 2014-03-11 $12,153,000
8158511 Method of depositing a uniform barrier layer and metal seed layer with reduced overhang over a plurality of recessed semiconductor features Tony P. Chiang, Gongda Yao, Peijun Ding, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2012-04-17 $9,496,000
7989343 Method of depositing a uniform metal seed layer over a plurality of recessed semiconductor features Tony P. Chiang, Gongda Yao, Peijun Ding, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2011-08-02 $5,317,000
7795138 Method of depositing a metal seed layer over recessed feature surfaces in a semiconductor substrate Tony P. Chiang, Gongda Yao, Peijun Ding, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2010-09-14 $9,681,000
7687909 Metal / metal nitride barrier layer for semiconductor device applications Peijun Ding, Zheng Xu, Hong Mei Zhang, Xianmin Tang, Praburam Gopalraja +7 more 2010-03-30 $22,482,000
7589016 Method of depositing a sculptured copper seed layer Tony P. Chiang, Gongda Yao, Peijun Ding, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2009-09-15 $12,042,000
7547644 Methods and apparatus for forming barrier layers in high aspect ratio vias Ling Chen, Walter Glenn, Praburam Gopalraja, Jianming Fu 2009-06-16 $14,977,000
7381639 Method of depositing a metal seed layer on semiconductor substrates Tony P. Chiang, Gongda Yao, Peijun Ding, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2008-06-03 $34,287,000
7335282 Sputtering using an unbalanced magnetron Jianming Fu, Praburam Gopalraja, John C. Forster 2008-02-26
7294574 Sputter deposition and etching of metallization seed layer for overhang and sidewall improvement Peijun Ding, Fuhong Zhang, Hsien-Lung Yang, Michael Miller, Jianming Fu +2 more 2007-11-13 $11,470,000
7253109 Method of depositing a tantalum nitride/tantalum diffusion barrier layer system Peijun Ding, Zheng Xu, Hong Mei Zhang, Xianmin Tang, Praburam Gopalraja +7 more 2007-08-07 $22,752,000
7112528 Fully planarized dual damascene metallization using copper line interconnect and selective CVD aluminum plug Liang-Yuh Chen, Ted Guo, Roderick Craig Mosley 2006-09-26 $15,511,000
7074714 Method of depositing a metal seed layer on semiconductor substrates Tony P. Chiang, Gongda Yao, Peijun Ding, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2006-07-11 $12,872,000
7026238 Reliability barrier integration for Cu application Ming Xi, Paul Smith, Ling Chen, Michael Yang, Mei Chang +2 more 2006-04-11 $23,457,000
6991709 Multi-step magnetron sputtering process Praburam Gopalraja, Jianming Fu, Girish Dixit, Zheng Xu, Wei Wang +1 more 2006-01-31 $13,979,000
6974771 Methods and apparatus for forming barrier layers in high aspect ratio vias Ling Chen, Walter Glenn, Praburam Gopalraja, Jianming Fu 2005-12-13 $38,901,000
6919275 Method of preventing diffusion of copper through a tantalum-comprising barrier layer Tony P. Chiang, Gongda Yao, Peijun Ding, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2005-07-19 $46,519,000
6913680 Method of application of electrical biasing to enhance metal deposition Bo Zheng, Hougong Wang, Girish Dixit 2005-07-05 $11,772,000
6899796 Partially filling copper seed layer Wei Wang, Anantha K. Subramani, Jianming Fu, Praburam Gopalraja, Jick Yu 2005-05-31 $12,544,000
6884329 Diffusion enhanced ion plating for copper fill Wei Wang, Anantha K. Subramani, Jianming Fu, Praburam Gopalraja, Jick Yu 2005-04-26 $27,390,000
6797620 Method and apparatus for improved electroplating fill of an aperture John Lewis, Srinivas Gandikota, Sivakami Ramanathan, Girish Dixit, Robin Cheung 2004-09-28 $20,273,000