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Jick Yu — 29 Patents

Applied Materials: 22 patents #589 of 7,310Top 9%
Intel: 7 patents #5,443 of 30,777Top 20%
Beaverton, OR: #198 of 3,140 inventorsTop 7%
Oregon: #1,376 of 28,073 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
Jick Yu has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in December 2015. Jick Yu ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list Jick Yu in Beaverton, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2005.peak 41986: 2 patents19861997: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19982002: 1 patents2004: 2 patents20042005: 4 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 3 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 3 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 2 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9217197 Methods for depositing a layer on a substrate using surface energy modulation 2015-12-22 $10,069,000
8993434 Methods for forming layers on a substrate Rong Tao, Xinyu Fu 2015-03-31 $7,138,000
8852674 Method for segregating the alloying elements and reducing the residue resistivity of copper alloy layers Xinyu Fu 2014-10-07 $14,828,000
8764961 Cu surface plasma treatment to improve gapfill window Qian Luo, Arvind Sundarrajan, Hua Chung, Xianmin Tang, Murali Narasimhan 2014-07-01 $14,182,000
8580354 Plasma treatment of substrates prior to deposition Xinyu Fu 2013-11-12 $7,355,000
8557094 Sputtering chamber having auxiliary backside magnet to improve etch uniformity and magnetron producing sustained self sputtering of ruthenium and tantalum Xianmin Tang, Hua Chung, Rongjun Wang, Tza-Jing Gung, Praburam Gopalraja +1 more 2013-10-15 $14,573,000
8349724 Method for improving electromigration lifetime of copper interconnection by extended post anneal Xinyu Fu 2013-01-08 $7,807,000
8324095 Integration of ALD tantalum nitride for copper metallization Hua Chung, Nirmalya Maity, Roderick C. Mosely, Mei Chang 2012-12-04 $6,403,000
8119525 Process for selective growth of films during ECP plating Wei Wang, Rongjun Wang, Hua Chung 2012-02-21 $13,903,000
8021514 Remote plasma source for pre-treatment of substrates prior to deposition Xinyu Fu 2011-09-20 $5,642,000
7737028 Selective ruthenium deposition on copper materials Rongjun Wang, Hua Chung, Praburam Gopalraja 2010-06-15 $8,018,000
7704887 Remote plasma pre-clean with low hydrogen pressure Xinyu Fu, John C. Forster, Ajay Bhatnagar, Praburam Gopalraja 2010-04-27 $16,065,000
7659204 Oxidized barrier layer Xianmin Tang, Hua Chung, Rongjun Wang, Praburam Gopalraja, Jenn-Yue Wang 2010-02-09 $11,111,000
7494908 Apparatus for integration of barrier layer and seed layer Hua Chung, Ling Chen, Mei Chang 2009-02-24 $21,837,000
7352048 Integration of barrier layer and seed layer Hua Chung, Ling Chen, Mei Chang 2008-04-01 $94,557,000
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
7265048 Reduction of copper dewetting by transition metal deposition Hua Chung, Seshadri Ganguli, Christophe Marcadal 2007-09-04 $16,959,000
7049226 Integration of ALD tantalum nitride for copper metallization Hua Chung, Nirmalya Maity, Roderick C. Mosely, Mei Chang 2006-05-23 $10,996,000
6936906 Integration of barrier layer and seed layer Hua Chung, Ling Chen, Mei Chang 2005-08-30 $15,796,000
6899796 Partially filling copper seed layer Wei Wang, Anantha K. Subramani, Jianming Fu, Praburam Gopalraja, Fusen Chen 2005-05-31 $12,544,000
6887786 Method and apparatus for forming a barrier layer on a substrate Hong Mei Zhang, Xianmin Tang, Praburam Gopalraja, John C. Forster 2005-05-03 $16,365,000
6884329 Diffusion enhanced ion plating for copper fill Wei Wang, Anantha K. Subramani, Jianming Fu, Praburam Gopalraja, Fusen Chen 2005-04-26 $27,390,000
6746727 Metal to ILD adhesion improvement by reactive sputtering Chi-Hing Choi 2004-06-08 $20,315,000
6730598 Integration of annealing capability into metal deposition or CMP tool 2004-05-04 $23,705,000
6365514 Two chamber metal reflow process Ruth A. Brain 2002-04-02 $46,572,000