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EP2400533 - Diamond semiconductor element and process for producing the same [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Former [2011/52]Diamond field effect transistor and process for producing the same
[2018/50]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  20.03.2020
Database last updated on 20.09.2024
FormerThe patent has been granted
Status updated on  12.04.2019
FormerGrant of patent is intended
Status updated on  03.12.2018
Most recent event   Tooltip20.03.2020No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 22.04.2020  [2020/17]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation
3-1 Otemachi 2-chome Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-8116 / JP
[2011/52]
Inventor(s)01 / Kasu, Makoto
c/o NTT Intellectual Property Center
9-11, Midori-cho, 3-chome
Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8585 / JP
02 / Makimoto, Toshiki
c/o NTT Intellectual Property Center
9-11, Midori-cho, 3-chome
Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8585 / JP
03 / Ueda, Kenji
c/o NTT Intellectual Property Center
9-11, Midori-cho, 3-chome
Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8585 / JP
04 / Yamauchi, Yoshiharu
c/o NTT Electronics Techno Corporation
1-32, Shin-urashimacho 1-chome
Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 221-0031 / JP
 [2012/26]
Former [2012/23]01 / Kasu, Makoto
c/o NTT Intellectual Property Center
9-11, Midori-cho, 3-chome
Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8585 / JP
02 / Makimoto, Toshiki
c/o NTT Intellectual Property Center
9-11, Midori-cho, 3-chome
Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8585 / JP
03 / Ueda, Kenji
c/o NTT Intellectual Property Center
9-11, Midori-cho, 3-chome
Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8585 / JP
04 / Yamuchi, Yoshiharu
c/o NTT Electronics Techno Corporation
1-32, Shin-urashimacho 1-chome
Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 221-0031 / JP
Former [2011/52]01 / Kasu, Makoto
c/o NTT Intellectual Property Center
9-11, Midori-cho, 3-chome
Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8585 / JP
02 / Makimoto, Toshiki
c/o NTT Intellectual Property Center
9-11, Midori-cho, 3-chome
Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8585 / JP
03 / Ueda, Kenji
c/o NTT Intellectual Property Center
9-11, Midori-cho, 3-chome
Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8585 / JP
04 / Yamauchi, Yoshiharu
c/o NTT Electronics Techno Corporation
12, Sakae-cho 3-chome, Kanagawa-ku
Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 221-0052 / JP
Representative(s)TBK
Bavariaring 4-6
80336 München / DE
[2011/52]
Application number, filing date11182463.720.06.2006
[2011/52]
Priority number, dateJP2005017975120.06.2005         Original published format: JP 2005179751
JP2005027054116.09.2005         Original published format: JP 2005270541
JP2005030723121.10.2005         Original published format: JP 2005307231
JP2006006183807.03.2006         Original published format: JP 2006061838
[2011/52]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP2400533
Date:28.12.2011
Language:EN
[2011/52]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP2400533
Date:22.02.2012
Language:EN
[2012/08]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP2400533
Date:15.05.2019
Language:EN
[2019/20]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP20.01.2012
ClassificationIPC:H01L29/812, H01L21/338
[2018/50]
CPC:
H01L21/324 (EP,US); H01L21/18 (KR); C23C16/27 (KR);
C23C16/274 (EP,US); C23C16/278 (EP,US); C30B25/105 (EP,US);
C30B29/04 (EP,US); C30B33/02 (EP,US); C30B33/06 (EP,US);
H01L21/02013 (EP,US); H01L21/02027 (EP,US); H01L21/02376 (EP,US);
H01L21/02433 (EP,US); H01L21/02527 (EP,US); H01L21/02579 (EP,US);
H01L21/02609 (EP,US); H01L21/0262 (EP,US); H01L21/0405 (EP,US);
H01L21/0415 (EP,US); H01L29/045 (EP,US); H01L29/45 (EP,US);
H01L29/66037 (EP,US); H01L29/66045 (EP,US); H01L29/66742 (EP,US);
H01L29/66856 (EP,US); H01L29/73 (KR); H01L29/732 (EP,US);
H01L29/78684 (EP,US); H01L29/812 (EP,KR,US); H01L33/0054 (EP,US);
H01L29/1602 (EP,US); H01L29/78 (EP,US); H01L2924/0002 (EP,US) (-)
C-Set:
H01L2924/0002, H01L2924/00 (EP,US)
Former IPC [2011/52]H01L21/338, H01L29/812, H01L29/45
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [2019/20]
Former [2011/52]DE,  FR,  GB 
TitleGerman:Diamant Halbleiterbauelement und Verfahren zur Herstellung[2018/50]
English:Diamond semiconductor element and process for producing the same[2018/50]
French:Dispositif semi-conducteur en diamant et procédé pour sa fabrication[2018/50]
Former [2011/52]Diamant Feldeffekttransistor und Verfahren zur Herstellung
Former [2011/52]Diamond field effect transistor and process for producing the same
Former [2011/52]Transistor à effet de champ en diamant et procédé pour sa fabrication
Examination procedure22.08.2012Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
22.08.2012Examination requested  [2012/40]
05.09.2013Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
17.12.2013Reply to a communication from the examining division
07.05.2015Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
03.09.2015Reply to a communication from the examining division
04.12.2018Communication of intention to grant the patent
05.04.2019Fee for grant paid
05.04.2019Fee for publishing/printing paid
05.04.2019Receipt of the translation of the claim(s)
Parent application(s)   TooltipEP06766995.2  / EP1895579
Divisional application(s)The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued (EP20060766995) is  15.09.2009
Opposition(s)18.02.2020No opposition filed within time limit [2020/17]
Fees paidRenewal fee
23.09.2011Renewal fee patent year 03
23.09.2011Renewal fee patent year 04
23.09.2011Renewal fee patent year 05
23.09.2011Renewal fee patent year 06
30.03.2012Renewal fee patent year 07
28.06.2013Renewal fee patent year 08
30.06.2014Renewal fee patent year 09
29.06.2015Renewal fee patent year 10
29.06.2016Renewal fee patent year 11
29.06.2017Renewal fee patent year 12
29.06.2018Renewal fee patent year 13
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Documents cited:Search[A]EP0439114  (TOSHIBA KK [JP]) [A] 1-14 * the whole document *;
 [Y]JPH03222436  (SANYO ELECTRIC CO) [Y] 13,14 * the whole document *;
 [XYI]GB2258760  (KOBE STEEL LTD [JP]) [X] 1,6 * page 9, line 8 - page 10, line 22; figure 1 * [Y] 11-14 [I] 4,5,9,10;
 [A]EP0702413  (SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES [JP]) [A] 1-14 * the whole document *;
 [Y]  - HIROSHI KAWARADA ET AL, "ENHANCEMENT MODE METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS USINGHOMOEPITAXIAL DIAMONDS", APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, AIP, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS, MELVILLE, NY, US, (19940919), vol. 65, no. 12, doi:10.1063/1.112915, ISSN 0003-6951, pages 1563 - 1565, XP000470284 [Y] 11,12 * figure 1 *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.112915
 [A]  - YUHONG CAI ET AL, "Ti/Ni/Au/diamond MIS field effect transistors with TiO2 gate dielectri", vol. 744, doi:10.1557/PROC-744-M8.8, ISBN 978-1-55899-681-6, (20030101), pages M8.8.1 - M8.8.6, PROGRESS IN SEMICONDUCTORS II - ELECTRONIC AND OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: SYMPOSIUM HELD DECEMBER 2 - 5, 2002, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A. (IN: MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS), M, URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1946427400154703, XP008146375 [A] 11,12 * the whole document *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/PROC-744-M8.8
by applicantJPH0815162
 EP1895579
    - MAKOTO KASU ET AL., "High-frequency characteristics of diamond MESFET", JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS ''APPLIED PHYSICS, (200403), vol. 73, no. 3, pages 363 - 367, XP008105736
    - C. KITTEL, Introduction to Solid State Physics, MARUZEN, pages 11 - 22
    - MAKOTO KASU, "High-frequency characteristics of diamond MESFET", JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS, (2004), vol. 73, no. 3, pages 0363 - 0367, XP008105736
    - M. KASU, "Influence of epitaxy on hydrogen-passivated diamond", DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS, (2004), pages 226 - 232
    - J. RUAN ET AL., "Cathodoluminescence and annealing study of plasma - deposited polycrystalline diamond films", J. APPL. PHYS, (19910501), vol. 69, no. 9
    - KASU ET AL., "High-frequency characteristics of diamond MESFET", JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, (2004), vol. 73, no. 3, pages 363 - 367, XP008105736
    - F. P. BUNDY, H. P. BOVENKERK, H. M. STRONG, R. H. WENTORF, "Diamond-Graphite Equilibrium Line from Growth and Graphitization of Diamond", THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, (196108), vol. 35M, no. 2, doi:doi:10.1063/1.1731938, page 383, XP008105744

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1731938
 EP20060766995
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