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20100289094 | ENHANCING DEPOSITION UNIFORMITY OF A CHANNEL SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOY BY AN IN SITU ETCH PROCESS - When forming sophisticated gate electrode structures requiring a threshold adjusting semiconductor alloy for one type of transistor, a recess is formed in the corresponding active region, thereby providing superior process uniformity during the deposition of the semiconductor material. Due to the recess, any exposed sidewall surface areas of the active region may be avoided during the selective epitaxial growth process, thereby significantly contributing to enhanced threshold stability of the resulting transistor including the high-k metal gate stack. | 11-18-2010 |
20110027952 | FORMATION OF A CHANNEL SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOY BY DEPOSITING A HARD MASK FOR THE SELECTIVE EPITAXIAL GROWTH - A growth mask provided for the deposition of a threshold adjusting semiconductor alloy may be formed on the basis of a deposition process, thereby obtaining superior thickness uniformity. Consequently, P-channel transistors and N-channel transistors with an advanced high-k metal gate stack may be formed with superior uniformity. | 02-03-2011 |
20110129970 | ENHANCING INTERFACE CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN A CHANNEL SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOY AND A GATE DIELECTRIC BY AN OXIDATION PROCESS - In sophisticated transistor elements, long-term threshold voltage shifts in transistors comprising a threshold adjusting semiconductor alloy may be reduced by reducing the roughness of an interface formed between the threshold adjusting semiconductor material and the gate dielectric material. To this end, a portion of the threshold adjusting semiconductor material may be oxidized and may be removed prior to forming the high-k dielectric material. | 06-02-2011 |
20120282760 | ENHANCING INTERFACE CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN A CHANNEL SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOY AND A GATE DIELECTRIC BY AN OXIDATION PROCESS - In sophisticated transistor elements, long-term threshold voltage shifts in transistors comprising a threshold adjusting semiconductor alloy may be reduced by reducing the roughness of an interface formed between the threshold adjusting semiconductor material and the gate dielectric material. To this end, a portion of the threshold adjusting semiconductor material may be oxidized and may be removed prior to forming the high-k dielectric material. | 11-08-2012 |
20130113019 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH REDUCED THRESHOLD VARIABILITY HAVING A THRESHOLD ADJUSTING SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOY IN THE DEVICE ACTIVE REGION - Generally, the subject matter disclosed herein is directed to semiconductor devices with reduced threshold variability having a threshold adjusting semiconductor material in the device active region. One illustrative semiconductor device disclosed herein includes an active region in a semiconductor layer of a semiconductor device substrate, the active region having a region length and a region width that are laterally delineated by an isolation structure. The semiconductor device further includes a threshold adjusting semiconductor alloy material layer that is positioned on the active region substantially without overlapping the isolation structure, the threshold adjusting semiconductor alloy material layer having a layer length that is less than the region length. Additionally, the disclosed semiconductor device includes a gate electrode structure that is positioned above the threshold adjusting semiconductor alloy material layer, the gate electrode structure including a high-k dielectric material and a metal-containing electrode material formed above the high-k dielectric material. | 05-09-2013 |
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20100295558 | Inductive conductivity-measuring cell and method for operating such - A method for operating an inductive conductivity-measuring cell having a primary circuit with a sending coil, a secondary circuit with a receiver coil, and a short-circuit path, which passes through the sending coil and the receiver coil. The sending coil couples via the short-circuit path inductively with the receiver coil, wherein, in the case of closed short-circuit path, a first electrical signal present in the primary circuit is measured, and wherein the first signal is compared with, and/or weighed against, values, which are furnished or stored. | 11-25-2010 |
20110001490 | Conductivity sensor with switching between transmitting and recieving coil - An inductively working sensor for determining the conductivity of a liquid medium. The sensor includes: at least one transmitting circuit, which is designed to deliver an input signal for a transmitting coil, in order to produce in the transmitting coil an alternating electromagnetic field, which causes a ring-shaped electrical current in the liquid medium; at least one receiving circuit, which is designed to evaluate a received signal produced by the ring-shaped electrical current in a receiving coil; a first coil; a second coil, which is arranged at a distance from the first coil; a switching means for switching between a first switch state and a second switch state, wherein, in the first switch state, the first coil, serving as transmitting coil, is coupled with one of the transmitting circuits; and the second coil, serving as receiving coil, is coupled with one of the receiving circuits, and wherein, in the second switch state, the second coil, serving as transmitting coil, is coupled with one of the transmitting circuits, and the first coil, serving as receiving coil, is coupled with one of the receiving circuits. | 01-06-2011 |
20110153259 | MEASURING SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A VALUE OF A PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL, MEASURED VARIABLE OF A MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR OPERATION OF THE MEASURING SYSTEM - A measuring system for determining a value of a physical or chemical, measured variable of a medium, comprises: a base unit; at least one relay unit connected with the base unit and a sensor unit connected with the relay unit. The relay unit is especially embodied to receive from the base unit, and to forward to the sensor unit, data, especially measurement data, operating data, commands or software modules, and/or to receive from the sensor unit, and to forward to the base unit, data, especially measurement data, operating data, commands or software modules wherein the sensor unit comprises a circuit having at least one microcontroller, at least a first memory region, in which a basic software of the sensor unit is stored, and a second memory region, in which an upload software of the sensor unit is stored. The upload software of the sensor unit is embodied, in interaction with the microcontroller, to perform an updating of the basic software of the sensor unit with at least one software module provided from the base unit. The relay unit comprises a circuit having at least one microcontroller, and at least a first memory region in which a basic software of the relay unit is stored. The circuit of the relay unit further comprises a second memory region, in which an upload software of the relay unit is stored, which is embodied, in interaction with the microcontroller of the relay unit, to perform an updating of the basic software of the relay unit with at least one software module provided from the base unit, and the upload software of the sensor unit, for execution by the microcontroller of the sensor unit, is activatable based on a comparison of a data sequence sent from the base unit with a first password assigned to the sensor unit, and the upload software of the relay unit, for execution by the microcontroller of the relay unit, is activatable based on a comparison of a data sequence sent from the base unit with a second password assigned to the relay unit. The second password is different from the first password. | 06-23-2011 |
20120139011 | ION SENSITIVE SENSOR WITH MULTILAYER CONSTRUCTION IN THE SENSOR REGION - An ion sensitive sensor having an EIS structure, including: a semiconductor substrate, on which a layer of a substrate oxides is produced; an adapting or matching layer, which is prepared on the substrate oxide; a chemically stable, intermediate insulator, which is deposited on the adapting or matching layer; and an ion sensitive, sensor layer, which is applied on the intermediate insulator. The adapting or matching layer differs from the intermediate insulator and the substrate oxide in its chemical composition and/or structure. The adapting or matching layer and the ion sensitive, sensor layer each have an electrical conductivity greater than that of the intermediate insulator. There is an electrically conductive connection between the adapting or matching layer and the ion sensitive, sensor layer. | 06-07-2012 |
20130214175 | Optical sensor, especially for determining substance concentrations in aqueous solutions by means of a fluorescence measurement - An optical sensor, comprising a sensor head, which contains a sensitive element and which is adjoined by a housing, which contains sensor electronics, wherein the sensitive element is irradiated with light from an optical transmitter and a light characteristic radiated back by the sensitive element is detected by an optical receiver and evaluated by the sensor electronics. The sensor head and the housing are embodied to be separable, wherein different sensor heads having different sensitive elements are connectable to the housing containing the sensor electronics and the sensor electronics evaluates the light characteristics generated by the different sensitive elements. | 08-22-2013 |
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20080269174 | Fungicidal Combinations - A formulated mixture useful for treating plant propagation material comprising (A) Tebuconazole; and (B) one or more compounds selected from Carboxin, Chlorothalonil, Difenoconazole, Azoxystrobin, Fluquinconazole, Metalaxyl, Mefenoxam, Thiram, Abamectin, Lambda-cyhalothrin, Beta-cyflutrin, Tefluthrin, Thiamethoxam, Flubendamide and a compound of formula (A-1) and (C) one or more customary formulation adjuvants; with the proviso that the mixture excludes the mixtures consisting, as active ingredients, of (I) tebuconazole, carboxin and tridimenol and (II) tebuconazole, difenconazole and fludioxonil. | 10-30-2008 |
20100144725 | PESTICIDAL COMBINATIONS - A method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage and/or pest damage in a plant propagation material, a plant, part of a plant and/or plant organ that grow at a later point in time, which comprises applying on the plant, part of the plant, plant organ, plant propagation material or a surrounding area thereof a combination comprising (I) one or more of a defined strobilurin compound selected from azoxystrobin, trifloxystrobin and fluoxastrobin, (II) one or more of a defined DMI: triazole compound selected from difenoconazole, prothioconazole, tebuconazole and triticonazole, and (III) one or more further defined fungicide selected fludioxonil, thiabendazole and ipconazole, in any desired sequence or simultaneously, provided the combination does not consist essentially of azoxystrobin, tebuconazole and fludioxonil. | 06-10-2010 |
20110105576 | PESTICIDAL COMBINATIONS - A method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage and/or pest damage in a plant propagation material, a plant, part of a plant and/or plant organ that grow at a later point in time, which comprises applying on the plant, part of the plant, plant organ, plant propagation material or a surrounding area thereof a combination comprising (I) prochloraz, (II) metconazole, and optionally (III) metalaxyl or mefenoxam. | 05-05-2011 |
20110312493 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SOYBEAN RUST - A method for controlling asian soybean rust comprising (α) applying a pesticidal composition (A) to a glyphosate tolerant soybean plant propagation material, and (β) applying a pesticidal composition (B) to the resulting soybean plant, part of plant and/or the locus thereof one or more times: i) before emergence, ii) after emergence, or iii) both (i) and (ii), provided that composition (A) comprises one or more of flutriafol, triticonazole, tebuconazole, ipconazole, epoxyconazole, orysastrobin, prothioconazole fluoxastrobin, azoxystrobin, furametpyr, cyproconazole, a compound of formula (I) and a compound of formula (B), and pesticide composition (B) comprises glyphosate; wherein compound (I) is represented by or a tautomer of such a compound, and compound (B) is represented by formula or a tautomer of such a compound. | 12-22-2011 |
20130247250 | PLANT IRRIGATION METHODS - The present invention is directed to methods of increasing the environmental stress tolerance of a plant, to methods of improving the quality and/or yield of a plant crop, to methods of application of agrochemicals having a physiological effect on a plant in the plant irrigation water, and to crops produced using said methods. | 09-19-2013 |
20130298290 | PLANT IRRIGATION METHODS WITH 1-MCP - The present invention is directed to novel methods of increasing the abiotic environmental stress tolerance of a plant, to methods of improving the quality and/or yield of a plant crop, to methods of application of a cyclopropene such as 1-MCP to a plant, and to crops produced using said methods. | 11-07-2013 |
20140051736 | FUNGICIDAL COMPOSITIONS - The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a composition and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition. | 02-20-2014 |
20140171381 | PESTICIDAL COMPOSITIONS - A method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage or pest damage in a plant propagation material, a plant, parts of a plant and/or plant organs that grow at a later point in time, which comprises applying on the plant, part of the plant, or surroundings thereof, a pesticidal combination comprising, for example, at least three active ingredient components optionally together with one or more customary formulation auxiliaries, wherein component (I) is one or more of an—azole fungicide, component (II) is one or more of a phenylamide fungicide, component (III) is one or more of a strobilurin fungicide and/or one or more of a phenylpyrrole fungicide, in any desired sequence or simultaneously. | 06-19-2014 |
20140259230 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING USEFUL PLANTS OR PLANT PROPAGATION MATERIAL - A method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on useful plants or plant propagation material thereof, which comprises applying to said plant or plant propagation material a fungicidally effective amount of a compound of formula (I) | 09-11-2014 |