BK

Brian K. Kirkpatrick

TI Texas Instruments: 48 patents #154 of 12,488Top 2%
Applied Materials: 3 patents #2,994 of 7,310Top 45%
📍 Allen, TX: #44 of 1,376 inventorsTop 4%
🗺 Texas: #1,650 of 125,132 inventorsTop 2%
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Showing 26–50 of 51 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8252609 Curvature reduction for semiconductor wafers Steven Lee Prins, Amitabh Jain 2012-08-28
8216945 Wafer planarity control between pattern levels Steven Lee Prins, Amitabh Jain 2012-07-10
8058161 Recessed STI for wide transistors Gabriel G. Barna, Andrew Marshall 2011-11-15
8043921 Nitride removal while protecting semiconductor surfaces for forming shallow junctions Deborah J. Riley 2011-10-25
7998865 Systems and methods for removing wafer edge residue and debris using a residue remover mechanism Joe G. Tran, Alfred Griffin 2011-08-16
7968443 Cross-contamination control for processing of circuits comprising MOS devices that include metal comprising high-K dielectrics James Joseph Chambers 2011-06-28
7943456 Selective wet etch process for CMOS ICs having embedded strain inducing regions and integrated circuits therefrom Shaofeng Yu, Freidoon Mehrad 2011-05-17
7927993 Cross-contamination control for semiconductor process flows having metal comprising gate electrodes 2011-04-19
7838356 Gate dielectric first replacement gate processes and integrated circuits therefrom Freidoon Mehrad, Shaofeng Yu 2010-11-23
7785957 Post metal gate VT adjust etch clean Jinhan Choi, Randall W. Pak 2010-08-31
7732284 Post high-k dielectric/metal gate clean Jinhan Choi, Deborah J. Riley 2010-06-08
7504339 Method to form shallow trench isolation with rounded upper corner for advanced semiconductor circuits Zhihao Chen, Freidoon Mehrad, Jeff White, Edmund G. Russell, Jon Holt +1 more 2009-03-17
7402524 Post high voltage gate oxide pattern high-vacuum outgas surface treatment Rajesh Khamankar, Malcolm J. Bevan, April Gurba, Husam N. Alshareef, Clinton L. Montgomery +1 more 2008-07-22
7384869 Protection of silicon from phosphoric acid using thick chemical oxide Deborah J. Riley, Brian Trentman 2008-06-10
7339240 Dual-gate integrated circuit semiconductor device Rajesh Khamankar, Malcolm J. Bevan, April Gurba, Husam N. Alshareef, Clinton L. Montgomery +1 more 2008-03-04
7186651 Chemical mechanical polishing method and apparatus Joe G. Tran, Chad Kaneshige 2007-03-06
7049242 Post high voltage gate dielectric pattern plasma surface treatment Rajesh Khamankar, Malcolm J. Bevan, April Gurba, Husam N. Alshareef, Clinton L. Montgomery +1 more 2006-05-23
7018925 Post high voltage gate oxide pattern high-vacuum outgas surface treatment Rajesh Khamankar, Malcolm J. Bevan, April Gurba, Husam N. Alshareef, Clinton L. Montgomery +1 more 2006-03-28
6921721 Post plasma clean process for a hardmask Clint Montgomery, Brian Trentman, Randall W. Pak 2005-07-26
6917093 Method to form shallow trench isolation with rounded upper corner for advanced semiconductor circuits Zhihao Chen, Freidoon Mehrad, Jeff White, Edmund G. Russell, Jon Holt +1 more 2005-07-12
6869862 Method for improving a physical property defect value of a gate dielectric Mercer Brugler, Eddie Hearl Breashears, Jon Holt, Corbett Zabierek, Rajesh Khamankar 2005-03-22
6861348 Pre-pattern surface modification of low-k dielectrics Michael Morrison, Andrew John McKerrow, Kenneth Newton, Dirk N. Anderson 2005-03-01
6831008 Nickel silicide—silicon nitride adhesion through surface passivation Jiong-Ping Lu, Glenn J. Tessmer, Melissa Hewson, Donald Miles, Ralf B. Willecke +2 more 2004-12-14
6797644 Method to reduce charge interface traps and channel hot carrier degradation Victor Watt, Beth Walden, Edmund G. Russell 2004-09-28
6720247 Pre-pattern surface modification for low-k dielectrics using A H2 plasma Michael Morrison, Andrew John McKerrow, Kenneth Newton, Dirk N. Anderson 2004-04-13