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John Holland

Lam Research: 81 patents #10 of 2,128Top 1%
Applied Materials: 42 patents #212 of 7,310Top 3%
MIMks Instruments: 2 patents #156 of 442Top 40%
San Jose, CA: #150 of 32,062 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,366 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #8,631 of 4,157,543Top 1%
128 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 76–100 of 128 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7695633 Independent control of ion density, ion energy distribution and ion dissociation in a plasma reactor 2010-04-13
7678710 Method and apparatus for fabricating a high dielectric constant transistor gate using a low energy plasma system Thai Cheng Chua, Steven C. H. Hung, Patricia M. Liu, Tatsuya Sato, Alex Paterson +1 more 2010-03-16
7674394 Plasma process for inductively coupling power through a gas distribution plate while adjusting plasma distribution Alexander Paterson, Valentin Todorov, Theodoros Panagopoulos, Brian K. Hatcher, Dan Katz +1 more 2010-03-09
7648914 Method for etching having a controlled distribution of process results Thomas J. Kropewnicki, Theodoros Panagopoulos, Nicolas Gani, Wilfred Pau, Meihua Shen 2010-01-19
7645357 Plasma reactor apparatus with a VHF capacitively coupled plasma source of variable frequency Alexander Paterson, Valentin N. Todorow, Theodoros Panagopoulos, Brian K. Hatcher, Dan Katz +2 more 2010-01-12
7645710 Method and apparatus for fabricating a high dielectric constant transistor gate using a low energy plasma system Christopher S. Olsen, Thai Cheng Chua, Steven C. H. Hung, Patricia M. Liu, Tatsuya Sato +2 more 2010-01-12
7544251 Method and apparatus for controlling temperature of a substrate Theodoros Panagopoulos 2009-06-09
7510665 Plasma generation and control using dual frequency RF signals Steven C. Shannon, Alexander Paterson, Theodoros Panagopoulos, Dennis S. Grimard, Daniel J. Hoffman 2009-03-31
7436645 Method and apparatus for controlling temperature of a substrate Theodoros Panagopoulos, Alexander Matyushkin, Dan Katz, Michael F. Hegarty, Denis M. Koosau +1 more 2008-10-14
7431857 Plasma generation and control using a dual frequency RF source Steven C. Shannon, Alex Paterson, Theodoros Panagopoulos, Dennis S. Grimard, Yashushi Takakura 2008-10-07
7264688 Plasma reactor apparatus with independent capacitive and toroidal plasma sources Alexander Paterson, Valentin N. Todorow, Theodoros Panagopoulos, Brian K. Hatcher, Dan Katz +2 more 2007-09-04
7196896 Dechucking method and apparatus for workpieces in vacuum processors Arthur M. Howald 2007-03-27
6962644 Tandem etch chamber plasma processing system Alexander Paterson, Valentin Todorov, Jon McChesney, Gerhard Schneider, David Palagashvili +1 more 2005-11-08
6893533 Plasma reactor having a symmetric parallel conductor coil antenna Valentin N. Todorow, Michael Barnes 2005-05-17
6849151 Monitoring substrate processing by detecting reflectively diffracted light Michael Barnes, David Mui, Wei Liu 2005-02-01
6831021 Plasma method and apparatus for processing a substrate Tal Cheng Chua, Philip Allan Kraus 2004-12-14
6818562 Method and apparatus for tuning an RF matching network in a plasma enhanced semiconductor wafer processing system Valentin N. Todorow, Nicolas Gani 2004-11-16
6790375 Dechucking method and apparatus for workpieces in vacuum processors Arthur M. Howald 2004-09-14
6727655 Method and apparatus to monitor electrical states at a workpiece in a semiconductor processing chamber Jon McChesney, Alex Paterson, Valentin N. Todorow, Michael Barnes 2004-04-27
6706138 Adjustable dual frequency voltage dividing plasma reactor Michael Barnes, Alexander Paterson, Valentin Todorov, Farhad Moghadam 2004-03-16
6694915 Plasma reactor having a symmetrical parallel conductor coil antenna Valentin N. Todorow, Michael Barnes 2004-02-24
6685798 Plasma reactor having a symmetrical parallel conductor coil antenna Valentin N. Todorow, Michael Barnes 2004-02-03
6660127 Apparatus for plasma etching at a constant etch rate Padmapani Nallan, Valentin Todorov, Thorsten Lill 2003-12-09
6660659 Plasma method and apparatus for processing a substrate Philip Allan Kraus, Thai Cheng Chua, James P. Cruse 2003-12-09
6635578 Method of operating a dual chamber reactor with neutral density decoupled from ion density Songlin Xu, Xueyu Qian 2003-10-21