Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vertical type field effect transistor array improved in performance, and a method of manufacturing the same. SOLUTION: Each vertical part of each semiconductor pillar in a semiconductor pillar array has a line width greater than a separation distance to a neighboring semiconductor pillar. Alternatively, the array may arbitrarily includes a semiconductor pillar having a different line width within the restriction of the line width and the separation distance. A method of manufacturing the array of the semiconductor pillar uses a pillar mask layer created into a minimum dimension using photolithography, at least one of spacer layers of which is increased in an annular manner before it is used as an etching mask. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent illegal resale by forming at least one of coat and code on an item and determining whether the item has been resold from an authorized merchant to an unauthorized merchant by checking the coat or code. SOLUTION: This identifier is extremely difficult if not impossible to remove. The identifier has its allocation and encoded code known only to a manufacturer. When the manufacturer suspects that parallel commercial transaction is occurring, he easily identifies an unauthorized reseller and can take appropriate countermeasures to prevent unauthorized activity. The system 50 includes a processor 51, a special coat/ruled code to be attached onto an item of interest and a detector 53 for determining information contents of the special coat/ scribing code. Although the detector 53 is shown separately from the processor 51, the detector can incorporate the processor therein.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ferroelectric gate field-effect tranisistor and a nonvolatile memory architecture, formed using it. SOLUTION: A vertical ferroelectric gate field-effect transistor (FeGFET) is provided with a substrate and a first drain/source electrode formed on the top surface of the substrate. A conductive channel region is formed on the top surface of the first drain/source electrode, and electrically connected to it. The FeGFET device is further provided with a ferroelectric gate region formed on at least one sidewall of the channel region, at least one gate electrode electrically contacting the ferroelectric gate region, and a second drain/source electrode, formed on the top surface of the channel region and electrically contacts the channel region. The ferroelectric gate region can be selectively polarized, depending on the potential supplied between the gate electrode and at least one of first and second drain/source electrode. A nonvolatile memory array, provided with a plurality of FeGFET device, is formed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a conventional method for scanning a RFID tag, and correlating the tag information with a tag/article position of each article with tag and/or an independently packaged item (in a container). SOLUTION: A computerized base station system communicates with radio- frequency tags mounted on one or plural articles. Position detectors are independently mounted in the system for determining positions of one or plural tags in the time increment and in the field of the base station. The information is read out from one or plural tags in the time increment, and the determined position is correlated with the information of each tag in a communication process.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and structure which easily determine a change in the conductivity of nanotube by considering problems, defects and demerits in conventional methods and structure, and by applying stress to nanotube structure. SOLUTION: As to structure (and a method) for a piezoelectric device including a piezoelectric material layer, the nanotube structure is attached so as to generate a stress change in the nanotube structure by a change in the shape of a piezoelectric material. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for improving adhesion and interfacial characteristics between a noble metal part and a high-permeability film by exposing a surface of a noble-metal substrate to oxygen-containing energy and forming a noble-metal oxide film. SOLUTION: One of or a combination of high-density microwave, high-frequency plasma, ion collisions due to oxygen-containing ion beam is selected as an oxygen-containing energy source, and the energy source is used with or without a substrate bias under separate control. The noble metal is selected from among at least on of Pt, Ir, Au, Os, Ag, Pd, Rh and Ru, or selected from among a noble metal alloy of these noble metals. A noble metal oxide film 36 is formed on a noble-metal substrate 34, by exposing a surface of the substrate 34 to the oxygen containing energy source. The oxide layer thickness is normally in a range of 0.4 to 10 nm. In addition, the surface of the noble- metal substrate 34 may be exposed to the oxygen containing energy source for a sufficient time to form an interfacial reinforcement layer, and then a high-permeability material layer 38 may be deposited on the noble-metal substrate 34 with the oxygen containing layer in between.
Abstract:
The fabrication of rough Si surfaces with control of the roughness density, roughness length scale, and morphology on a nanometer scale is disclosed using 1) a low pressure chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, typically in the 1 - 5 mTorr range, and 2) initial surface conditions and operating parameters such that initial growth is nucleation-controlled, e.g., using a thermal SiO2 surface which is relatively unreactive to SiH4 at an operating temperature below about 700 DEG C, and typically in the range of 500 - 600 DEG C. This broad temperature window enhances the feasibility of manufacturing rough silicon surfaces with broad applications. Further, various methods are presented for achieving surface pretreatment to control the size and density of the initial nuclei preparatory to the performance of the foregoing fabrication process. In addition, a method is disclosed for producing on a substrate surface, directly and in-situ, a pattern of submicrometer sized dots such that the dot center surface density and the total dot surface area coverage can be precisely controlled, using the features of the fabrication process with additional steps to achieve the desired dots. Particular applications include fabricating rough Si surfaces as (1) electrodes for high capacitance density structures for high density DRAM and (2) as substrates for low-stiction magnetic disks.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a special type of magnetic tag that serves both as an identifier of the article to which it is attached and as an antitheft device. The former attribute is especially important should stolen property be recovered. Identification comes about through the use of an array of individual magnetic elements that are closely spaced, preferably along and perpendicular to an amorphous wire or strip. The magnetic elements can take the form of magnetic ink, high coercivity wire, thin foil, or amorphous wire. The array may be personalized (coded) by leaving out elements of the array or driving selected elements to saturation while others remain demagnetized. The elements can also be in the form of a double array to constitute '1's and '0's to form a code. Reading of the elements is accomplished with a special reading head consisting or one or more small magnetic circuits coupled to one or more pickup loops. A longer length of soft magnetic wire or thin strip is used to trigger an anti-theft alarm when activated by an external field from a magnetic gate.
Abstract:
A method and system for preventing theft of an object, includes an electronic article surveillance (EAS) device operatively attached to an object, a security path for detection of the EAS device, a reader operatively coupled to the security path, and a smart card for being read by the reader. The smart card contains an identification profile of an authorized user of the object.
Abstract:
A magnetic anti-theft and identification tag 206 for concealing in an article such as a SIMM 115, microprocessor, memory or logic chip or board has an amorphous wire 101 and an array of magnetic elements 201 in the form of strips of foil, wire or magnetic ink. The amorphous wire 101 acts as an anti-theft element which is detectable when passing through an interrogation field and the array of elements provides identifying information in the form of a code which can be read by a sensing head 205. The array may be binary coded in various ways, for example by leaving out or magnetizing selected elements or magnetizing elements in opposite directions 203, 204. The elements may be soft elements driven by an applied local a.c. field from the sensor head. Two parallel rows of elements may be used. Various sensor heads are described, consisting of one or more small magnetic circuits coupled to one or more pickup loops. Some heads utilise the Matteucci effect. The wire 101 may form an integral part of the array for coding information.