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Nicolas Gani

Applied Materials: 10 patents #1,290 of 7,310Top 20%
Lam Research: 2 patents #1,015 of 2,128Top 50%
San Jose, CA: #4,970 of 32,062 inventorsTop 20%
California: #46,935 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #381,135 of 4,157,543Top 10%
13 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9633846 Internal plasma grid applications for semiconductor fabrication Alex Paterson, Do-Young Kim, Gowri Kamarthy, Helene Del Puppo, Jen-Kan Yu +5 more 2017-04-25
9533332 Methods for in-situ chamber clean utilized in an etching processing chamber Noel Sun, Meihua Shen, Chung Liu, Radhika Mani 2017-01-03
9305797 Polysilicon over-etch using hydrogen diluted plasma for three-dimensional gate etch Radhika Mani 2016-04-05
9230819 Internal plasma grid applications for semiconductor fabrication in context of ion-ion plasma processing Alex Paterson, Do-Young Kim, Gowri Kamarthy, Helene Del Puppo, Jen-Kan Yu +5 more 2016-01-05
8722547 Etching high K dielectrics with high selectivity to oxide containing layers at elevated temperatures with BC13 based etch chemistries Radhika Mani, Wei Liu, Meihua Shen, Shashank Deshmukh 2014-05-13
8133817 Shallow trench isolation etch process Hiroki Sasano, Meihua Shen, Radhika Mani, Sunil Srinivasan, Daehee Weon +2 more 2012-03-13
8101525 Method for fabricating a semiconductor device having a lanthanum-family-based oxide layer Meihua Shen, Noel Sun, Han-Hsiang Chen, Eric Pei, Weimin Zeng +3 more 2012-01-24
7910488 Alternative method for advanced CMOS logic gate etch applications Meihua Shen, Shashank Deshmukh 2011-03-22
7648914 Method for etching having a controlled distribution of process results Thomas J. Kropewnicki, Theodoros Panagopoulos, Wilfred Pau, Meihua Shen, John Holland 2010-01-19
7436645 Method and apparatus for controlling temperature of a substrate John Holland, Theodoros Panagopoulos, Alexander Matyushkin, Dan Katz, Michael F. Hegarty +1 more 2008-10-14
6933243 High selectivity and residue free process for metal on thin dielectric gate etch application Meihua Shen, Yan Du, Oranna Yauw, Hakeem Oluseyi 2005-08-23
6818562 Method and apparatus for tuning an RF matching network in a plasma enhanced semiconductor wafer processing system Valentin N. Todorow, John Holland 2004-11-16
6599437 Method of etching organic antireflection coating (ARC) layers Oranna Yauw, Meihua Shen, Jeffrey D. Chinn 2003-07-29