Improved Chemical-Mechanical Polishing Slurry Composition and Method to Improve Polishing of Metals and Non-metals Using Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles
Reducing manufacturing time, cost, and labor by employing chemistry to transform a two-step process into an easily controlled single-step.
Background: Integrated circuits are built of many layers. Each layer must be perfectly flat so that connections line up between layers and electricity flows properly throughout. Conventional CMP systems consist...
Published: 6/21/2024
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Inventor(s): Christopher Netzband, Kathleen Dunn
Keywords(s): abrasive, cerium, cerium oxide, chemical activity, chemical mechanical polishing, CMP, CMP slurries, dielectrics, fiber optics, integrated circuit, lens, mechanical polish, metallic surface, optics, polish, polishing, semiconductor wafers, semiconductors, slurry, surface finishing, surface quality
Category(s): Campus > SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Technology Classifications > Materials and Chemicals, Technology Classifications > Nanotechnology
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Suspended Graphene Energy Harvesting Solid State Structure
An energy harvesting device made possible by the oscillatory behavior of suspending graphene.
Background:
Even low power devices need consistent, reliable energy sources that in most cases must be powered indefinitely in order to accomplish the device’s objectives. Maintaining a secure and independent energy source for powering small, sometimes...
Published: 2/12/2024
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Inventor(s): Nicholas Pieniazek, Christopher Hobbs, Vincent LaBella
Keywords(s): battery systems, circuit design, energy storage devices, material science, microsystem, nanoengineering, nanofabrication, nanotechnology, semiconductors, Technologies
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Energy, Technology Classifications > Environment, Technology Classifications > Materials and Chemicals, Technology Classifications > Nanotechnology, Campus > SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Campus > NY CREATES
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Semiconductor Annealing Monitoring
Provides real-time, in-situ monitoring of conductivity change in a doped semiconductor wafer that is being subjected to pulsed microwave annealing.
Background:
Certain semiconductor wafers are manufactured via a process called doping. During this process, a material (the dopant) is introduced into the semiconductor crystal to change its electrical...
Published: 6/21/2024
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Inventor(s): Fatemeh Shahedipour-Sandvik, Vincent Meyers
Keywords(s): biomedical, chemistry, microsystem, semiconductors, TAF, Technologies
Category(s): Campus > SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Materials and Chemicals
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Resist Enhancements for Sensitivity and Resolution
Photoresist layer manufacturing for use in a semiconductor component using a generated electric field.
Background:
Due to the unique properties of semiconductors, their use in modern computing/electronic technologies has found wide use in IC, diodes, LED, rectifiers, MOSFET, transistors, solar cells, and other computing materials. Semiconductor fabrication...
Published: 12/20/2023
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Inventor(s): Gregory Denbeaux
Keywords(s): material science, materials and chemicals, semiconductors, Technologies
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Materials and Chemicals, Campus > SUNY Polytechnic Institute
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Molten Liquid Nanodroplet Vacuum Impaction for Additive Manufacturing
An efficient, high purity material additive manufacturing technique designed to reduce material waste and energy consumption.
Background:
The additive manufacturing market has an existing need for a high purity material additive manufacturing process with reduced energy usage. Additive manufacturing uses data computer aided design (CAD) software...
Published: 12/20/2023
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Inventor(s): Gregory Denbeaux
Keywords(s): material science, semiconductors
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Materials and Chemicals, Campus > SUNY Polytechnic Institute
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