Inventor

YANG NIAN

US87 patents

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YANG NIAN

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC

Programming with floating source for low power, low leakage and high density flash memory devices

Dummy gate process to reduce the Vss resistance of flash products

High density floating gate flash memory and fabrication processes therefor

Method for repairing over-erasure of fast bits on floating gate memory devices

Floating gate memory device with homogeneous oxynitride tunneling dielectric

Structure for increasing drive current in a memory array and related method

High density floating gate flash memory and fabrication processes therefor

Methods and systems for flash memory tunnel oxide reliability testing

Method for producing a low defect homogeneous oxynitride

Hot carrier oxide qualification method

Flash memory devices with oxynitride dielectric as the charge storage media

Process to improve the Vss line formation for high density flash memory and related structure associated therewith

Efficient method to detect process induced defects in the gate stack of flash memory devices

Extraction of drain junction overlap with the gate and the channel length for ultra-small CMOS devices with ultra-thin gate oxides

Determination of dielectric constants of thin dielectric materials in a MOS (metal oxide semiconductor) stack

Circuit and technique for accurately sensing low voltage flash memory devices

Test structure for measuring effect of trench isolation on oxide in a memory device

Test structure to measure interlayer dielectric effects and breakdown and detect metal defects in flash memories

Method for reducing shallow trench isolation edge thinning on tunnel oxides using partial nitride strip and small bird&#39;s beak formation for high performance flash memory devices

Method of determining location of gate oxide breakdown of MOSFET by measuring currents

Semiconductor isolation material deposition system and method

Method of detecting shallow trench isolation corner thinning by electrical stress

Method for increasing core gain in flash memory device using strained silicon

Test structure apparatus for measuring standby current in flash memory devices

Memory device having improved programmability

Determination of effective oxide thickness of a plurality of dielectric materials in a MOS stack

Method of protecting a stacked gate structure during fabrication

Method of forming low resistance common source line for flash memory devices

SPANSION LLC

Method of programming a flash memory device using multilevel charge storage

Method to provide a higher reference voltage at a lower power supply in flash memory devices

Method of improving erase voltage distribution for a flash memory array having dummy wordlines

Flash memory programming power reduction

Method and apparatus for high voltage operation for a high performance semiconductor memory device

Semiconductor device having a pad metal layer and a lower metal layer that are electrically coupled, whereas apertures are formed in the lower metal layer below a center area of the pad metal layer

Transfer of non-associated information on flash memory devices

Voltage regulator with less overshoot and faster settling time

Compensation method to achieve uniform programming speed of flash memory devices

Flash memory unit and method of programming a flash memory device

Flash memory device with external high voltage supply

Multi-bit flash memory device having improved program rate

Voltage supply circuit for memory array programming

WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC

Dynamically adjust data transfer speed for non-volatile memory die interfaces

Variable read scan for solid-state storage device quality of service

SSD auxiliary battery power for handling ungraceful shutdown with host

SSD auxiliary battery power for handling ungraceful shutdown with host

SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC

Power management for nonvolatile memory array

Method and apparatus for configuring a memory device

Power management for nonvolatile memory array

IYUNTIAN CO LTD

Method and system for detecting malicious web addresses

FASL LLC

Electrostatic discharge performance of a silicon structure and efficient use of area with electrostatic discharge protective device under the pad approach and adjustment of via configuration thereto to control drain junction resistance

Method for reducing shallow trench isolation edge thinning on tunnel oxides using partial nitride strip and small bird's beak formation for high performance flash memory devices