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Hongching Shan

Applied Materials: 30 patents #373 of 7,310Top 6%
MTMattson Technology: 2 patents #87 of 230Top 40%
San Jose, CA: #1,726 of 32,062 inventorsTop 6%
California: #14,433 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #103,768 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–34 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
5843847 Method for etching dielectric layers with high selectivity and low microloading Bryan Pu, Michael Welch 1998-12-01
5814563 Method for etching dielectric using fluorohydrocarbon gas, NH.sub.3 -generating gas, and carbon-oxygen gas Ji Ding, Michael Welch 1998-09-29
5740009 Apparatus for improving wafer and chuck edge protection Bryan Pu, Kuang-Han Ke, Michael Welch, Semyon Sherstinsky, Alfred Mak +4 more 1998-04-14
5702530 Distributed microwave plasma reactor for semiconductor processing Harald Herchen, Michael Welch 1997-12-30
5683517 Plasma reactor with programmable reactant gas distribution 1997-11-04
5674321 Method and apparatus for producing plasma uniformity in a magnetic field-enhanced plasma reactor Bryan Pu 1997-10-07
5605637 Adjustable dc bias control in a plasma reactor Evans Lee, Robert Wu 1997-02-25
5585012 Self-cleaning polymer-free top electrode for parallel electrode etch operation Robert Wu, Hyman J. Levinstein 1996-12-17
5514247 Process for plasma etching of vias Robert Wu 1996-05-07