CHIPLESS AND WIRELESS SENSOR CIRCUIT AND SENSOR TAG

    公开(公告)号:US20200103371A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-04-02

    申请号:US16148590

    申请日:2018-10-01

    摘要: A wireless sensor circuit and sensor tag in which the output is directly converted to a frequency response. The sensor circuit includes a buffer transistor having gate, source and drain terminals configured as a source-follower, a gate resistor connected to the gate terminal of the buffer transistor, a supply voltage connected to the drain terminal of the buffer transistor, and an active load element and a capacitive load element connected to the source terminal of the buffer transistor. An input signal having an input frequency is applied to the buffer transistor via the gate resistor and an output signal is generated at the source terminal of the buffer transistor. The output frequency represents a response of the sensor circuit.

    Stacked Vertical Transistor-Based Mask-Programmable ROM

    公开(公告)号:US20200035691A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-30

    申请号:US16590199

    申请日:2019-10-01

    摘要: VFET-based mask-programmable ROM are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a ROM device includes: forming a bottom drain on a wafer; forming fins on the bottom drain with a top portion having a channel dopant at a different concentration than a bottom portion of the fins; forming bottom/top dummy gates alongside the bottom/top portions of the fins; forming a source in between the bottom/top dummy gates; forming a top drain above the top dummy gates; removing the bottom/top dummy gates; and replacing the bottom/top dummy gates with bottom/top replacement gates, wherein the bottom drain, the bottom replacement gates, the bottom portion of the fins, and the source form bottom VFETs of the ROM device, and wherein the source, the top replacement gates, the top portion of the fins, and the top drain form top VFETs stacked on the bottom VFETs. A ROM device is also provided.

    THIN-FILM NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCE AND NEURONAL CIRCUIT

    公开(公告)号:US20190252419A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-15

    申请号:US16394472

    申请日:2019-04-25

    摘要: A method is presented for forming a monolithically integrated semiconductor device. The method includes forming a first device including first hydrogenated silicon-based contacts formed on a first portion of a semiconductor material of an insulating substrate and forming a second device including second hydrogenated silicon-based contacts formed on a second portion of the semiconductor material of the insulating substrate. Source and drain contacts of the first device are formed before a gate contact of the first device and a gate contact of the second device is formed before the emitter and collector contacts of the second device. The first device can be a heterojunction field effect transistor (HJFET) and the second device can be a (heterojunction bipolar transistor) HBT. The HJFET and the HBT are integrated in a neuronal circuit and create negative differential resistance by forming a lambda diode.