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公开(公告)号:US11734174B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-22
申请号:US16576687
申请日:2019-09-19
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Huichu Liu , Tanay Karnik , Tejpal Singh , Yen-Cheng Liu , Lavanya Subramanian , Mahesh Kumashikar , Sri Harsha Choday , Sreenivas Subramoney , Kaushik Vaidyanathan , Daniel H. Morris , Uygar E. Avci , Ian A. Young
IPC: G06F12/08 , G06F12/0804 , G06F12/0866 , G06F12/0806 , G06F11/20
CPC classification number: G06F12/0804 , G06F11/2089 , G06F12/0806 , G06F12/0866
Abstract: Described is an low overhead method and apparatus to reconfigure a pair of buffered interconnect links to operate in one of these three modes—first mode (e.g., bandwidth mode), second mode (e.g., latency mode), and third mode (e.g., energy mode). In bandwidth mode, each link in the pair buffered interconnect links carries a unique signal from source to destination. In latency mode, both links in the pair carry the same signal from source to destination, where one link in the pair is “primary” and other is called the “assist”. Temporal alignment of transitions in this pair of buffered interconnects reduces the effective capacitance of primary, thereby reducing delay or latency. In energy mode, one link in the pair, the primary, alone carries a signal, while the other link in the pair is idle. An idle neighbor on one side reduces energy consumption of the primary.
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公开(公告)号:US20230197836A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-22
申请号:US17557128
申请日:2021-12-21
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Carl Hugo Naylor , Christopher J. Jezewski , Jeffery D. Bielefeld , Jiun-Ruey Chen , Ramanan V. CHEBIAM , Mauro J. Kobrinsky , Matthew V. Metz , Scott B. Clendenning , Sudurat Lee , Kevin P. O'Brien , Kirby Kurtis Maxey , Ashish Verma Penumatcha , Chelsey Jane Dorow , Uygar E. Avci
IPC: H01L29/76 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/24 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/417 , H01L29/786 , H01L21/02 , H01L29/40 , H01L29/66
CPC classification number: H01L29/7606 , H01L29/0665 , H01L29/24 , H01L29/42392 , H01L29/41733 , H01L29/78696 , H01L21/0259 , H01L21/02568 , H01L29/401 , H01L29/66969
Abstract: Described herein are integrated circuit devices with conductive regions formed from MX or MAX materials. MAX materials are layered, hexagonal carbides and nitrides that include an early transition metal (M) and an A group element (A). MX materials remove the A group element. MAX and MX materials are highly conductive, and their two-dimensional layer structure allows very thin layers to be formed. MAX or MX materials can be used to form several conductive elements of IC circuits, including contacts, interconnects, or liners or barrier regions for contacts or interconnects.
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公开(公告)号:US20230180482A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-08
申请号:US17543809
申请日:2021-12-07
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Wilfred Gomes , Uygar E. Avci , Abhishek A. Sharma
IPC: H01L27/11514 , H01L27/11504 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/786
CPC classification number: H01L27/11514 , H01L27/11504 , H01L29/0665 , H01L29/42392 , H01L29/78618 , H01L29/78696
Abstract: Three-dimensional hysteretic memory based on semiconductor nanoribbons is disclosed. An example memory cell may include a nanoribbon-based access transistor and a capacitor coupled to the access transistor, where the capacitor at least partially wraps around the nanoribbon in which the access transistor is formed. One or both of a gate stack of the access transistor and the capacitor insulator may include a hysteretic material/arrangement. Plurality of such memory cells may be provided in a single nanoribbon, and the nanoribbon may be one of a stack of nanoribbons provided above one another over a support structure. Incorporating hysteretic memory cells in different layers above a support structure by using stacks of semiconductor nanoribbons may allow significantly increasing density of hysteretic memory cells in a memory array having a given footprint area, or conversely, significantly reducing the footprint area of the memory array with a given density of hysteretic memory cells.
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公开(公告)号:US11502103B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-15
申请号:US16114272
申请日:2018-08-28
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Daniel H. Morris , Seiyon Kim , Uygar E. Avci , Ian A. Young
Abstract: Described herein are ferroelectric (FE) memory cells that include transistors having gates with FE capacitors integrated therein. An example memory cell includes a transistor having a semiconductor channel material, a gate dielectric over the semiconductor material, a first conductor material over the gate dielectric, a FE material over the first conductor material, and a second conductor material over the FE material. The first and second conductor materials form, respectively, first and second capacitor electrodes of a capacitor, where the first and second capacitor electrodes are separated by the FE material (hence, a “FE capacitor”). Separating a FE material from a semiconductor channel material of a transistor with a layer of a gate dielectric and a layer of a first conductor material eliminates the FE-semiconductor interface that may cause endurance issues in some other FE memory cells.
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公开(公告)号:US20220199758A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-23
申请号:US17132970
申请日:2020-12-23
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Arnab Sen Gupta , Jason C. Retasket , Matthew V. Metz , I-Cheng Tung , Chia-Ching Lin , Sou-Chi Chang , Kaan Oguz , Uygar E. Avci , Edward Johnson
IPC: H01L49/02 , H01L29/51 , H01L23/522 , H01L27/06 , H01L29/78
Abstract: Capacitors with a carbon-based electrode layer in contact with a ferroelectric insulator. The insulator may be a perovskite oxide. Low reactivity of the carbon-based electrode may improve stability of a ferroelectric capacitor. A carbon-based electrode layer may be predominantly carbon and have a low electrical resistivity. A carbon-based electrode layer may be the only layer of an electrode, or it may be a barrier between the insulator and another electrode layer. Both electrodes of a capacitor may include a carbon-based electrode layer, or a carbon-based electrode layer may be included in only one electrode.
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公开(公告)号:US11355504B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-07
申请号:US15994227
申请日:2018-05-31
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Daniel H. Morris , Uygar E. Avci , Ian A. Young
IPC: G11C11/22 , H01L27/11507 , H01L49/02
Abstract: Described herein are anti-ferroelectric (AFE) memory cells and corresponding methods and devices. For example, in some embodiments, an AFE memory cell disclosed herein includes a capacitor employing an AFE material between two capacitor electrodes. Applying a voltage to one electrode of such capacitor allows boosting the charge at the other electrode, where nonlinear behavior of the AFE material between the two electrodes may advantageously manifest itself in that, for a given voltage applied to the first electrode, a factor by which the charge is boosted at the second electrode of the capacitor may be substantially different for different values of charge at that electrode before the boost. Connecting the second capacitor electrode to a storage node of the memory cell may then allow boosting the charge on the storage node so that different logic states of the memory cell become more clearly resolvable, enabling increased retention times.
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公开(公告)号:US20220102499A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-31
申请号:US17032989
申请日:2020-09-25
Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
Inventor: Carl Hugo Naylor , Kevin P. O'Brien , Chelsey Jane Dorow , Kirby Kurtis Maxey , Tanay Arun Gosavi , Ashish Verma Penumatcha , Urusa Shahriar Alaan , Uygar E. Avci
IPC: H01L29/10 , H01L27/088 , H01L29/08 , H01L29/24
Abstract: Disclosed herein are transistors including two-dimensional materials, as well as related methods and devices. In some embodiments, a transistor may include a first two-dimensional channel material and a second two-dimensional source/drain (S/D) material in a source/drain (S/D), and the first two-dimensional material and the second two-dimensional material may have different compositions or thicknesses. In some embodiments, a transistor may include a first two-dimensional material in a channel and a second two-dimensional material in a source/drain (S/D), wherein the first two-dimensional material is a single-crystal material, and the second two-dimensional material is a single-crystal material.
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公开(公告)号:US20210398993A1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-23
申请号:US16906217
申请日:2020-06-19
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Nazila Haratipour , Shriram Shivaraman , Sou-Chi Chang , Jack T. Kavalieros , Uygar E. Avci , Chia-Ching Lin , Seung Hoon Sung , Ashish Verma Penumatcha , Ian A. Young , Devin R. Merrill , Matthew V. Metz , I-Cheng Tung
IPC: H01L27/11507 , H01L23/522 , H01L21/768
Abstract: Described herein are ferroelectric (FE) memory cells that include transistors having gate stacks separate from FE capacitors of these cells. An example memory cell may be implemented as an IC device that includes a support structure (e.g., a substrate) and a transistor provided over the support structure and including a gate stack. The IC device also includes a FE capacitor having a first capacitor electrode, a second capacitor electrode, and a capacitor insulator of a FE material between the first capacitor electrode and the second capacitor electrode, where the FE capacitor is separate from the gate stack (i.e., is not integrated within the gate stack and does not have any layers that are part of the gate stack). The IC device further includes an interconnect structure, configured to electrically couple the gate stack and the first capacitor electrode.
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公开(公告)号:US20210143819A1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-13
申请号:US17152552
申请日:2021-01-19
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Sasikanth Manipatruni , Ian A. Young , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Uygar E. Avci , Patrick Morrow , Anurag Chaudhry
Abstract: Described is an apparatus which comprises: a 4-state input magnet; a first spin channel region adjacent to the 4-state input magnet; a 4-state output magnet; a second spin channel region adjacent to the 4-state input and output magnets; and a third spin channel region adjacent to the 4-state output magnet. Described in an apparatus which comprises: a 4-state input magnet; a first filter layer adjacent to the 4-state input magnet; a first spin channel region adjacent to the first filter layer; a 4-state output magnet; a second filter layer adjacent to the 4-state output magnet; a second spin channel region adjacent to the first and second filter layers; and a third spin channel region adjacent to the second filter layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20210089448A1
公开(公告)日:2021-03-25
申请号:US16576687
申请日:2019-09-19
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Huichu Liu , Tanay Karnik , Tejpal Singh , Yen-Cheng Liu , Lavanya Subramanian , Mahesh Kumashikar , Sri Harsha Chodav , Sreenivas Subramoney , Kaushik Vaidyanathan , Daniel H. Morris , Uygar E. Avci , Ian A. Young
IPC: G06F12/0804 , G06F11/20 , G06F12/0806 , G06F12/0866
Abstract: Described is an low overhead method and apparatus to reconfigure a pair of buffered interconnect links to operate in one of these three modes—first mode (e.g., bandwidth mode), second mode (e.g., latency mode), and third mode (e.g., energy mode). In bandwidth mode, each link in the pair buffered interconnect links carries a unique signal from source to destination. In latency mode, both links in the pair carry the same signal from source to destination, where one link in the pair is “primary” and other is called the “assist”. Temporal alignment of transitions in this pair of buffered interconnects reduces the effective capacitance of primary, thereby reducing delay or latency. In energy mode, one link in the pair, the primary, alone carries a signal, while the other link in the pair is idle. An idle neighbor on one side reduces energy consumption of the primary.
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