Patents by Inventor Ian A. Young

Ian A. Young has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11387404
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises one or more magnetoelectric spin orbit (MESO) minority gates with different peripheral complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit techniques in the device layer including: (1) current mirroring, (2) complementary supply voltages, (3) asymmetrical transistor sizing, and (4) using transmission gates. These MESO minority gates use the multi-phase clock to prevent back propagation of current so that MESO gate can correctly process the input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Huichu Liu, Tanay Karnik, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Daniel Morris, Kaushik Vaidyanathan, Ian Young
  • Patent number: 11374163
    Abstract: A low power, energy efficient, nonvolatile, high-speed memory apparatus is provided that can function at extremely low temperatures (e.g., less than 30 degree Kelvin). The apparatus includes: a first structure comprising a magnet having free or unpinned magnetization; a second structure comprising Type-II multiferroic material, wherein the second structure is adjacent to the first structure; and an interconnect comprising spin orbit material, wherein the interconnect is adjacent to the first structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Tanay Gosavi, Chia-Ching Lin, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Dmitri Nikonov, Ian Young
  • Patent number: 11374164
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a system, apparatus, and/or process for producing a spin orbit torque (SOT) electrode that includes a first layer with a first side to couple with a free layer of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) and a second layer coupled with a second side of the first layer opposite the first side, where a value of an electrical resistance in the first SOT layer is lower than a value of an electrical resistance in the second SOT layer and where a current applied to the SOT electrode is to cause current to preferentially flow in the first SOT layer to cause a magnetic polarization of the free layer to change directions. During production of the SOT electrode, the second layer may act as an etch stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Tanay Gosavi, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Chia-Ching Lin, Kaan Oguz, Christopher Wiegand, Angeline Smith, Noriyuki Sato, Kevin O'Brien, Benjamin Buford, Ian Young, Md Tofizur Rahman
  • Publication number: 20220199519
    Abstract: Metal insulator metal capacitors are described. In an example, a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor includes a first electrode plate, and a first capacitor dielectric on the first electrode plate. The first capacitor dielectric is or includes a perovskite high-k dielectric material. A second electrode plate is on the first capacitor dielectric and has a portion over and parallel with the first electrode plate, and a second capacitor dielectric is on the second electrode plate. A third electrode plate is on the second capacitor dielectric and has a portion over and parallel with the second electrode plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Chia-Ching LIN, Sou-Chi CHANG, Kaan OGUZ, I-Cheng TUNG, Arnab SEN GUPTA, Ian A. YOUNG, Uygar E. AVCI, Matthew V. METZ, Ashish Verma PENUMATCHA, Anandi ROY
  • Publication number: 20220199619
    Abstract: A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transistor includes a first transistor with a first gate dielectric layer above a first channel, where the first gate dielectric layer includes Hf1-xZxO2, where 0.33<x<0.5. The first transistor further includes a first gate electrode on the first gate dielectric layer and a first source region and a first drain region on opposite sides of the first gate electrode. The CMOS transistor further includes a second transistor adjacent to the first transistor. The second transistor includes a second gate dielectric layer above a second channel, where the second gate dielectric layer includes Hf1-xZxO2, where 0.5<x<0.99, a second gate electrode on the second gate dielectric layer and a second source region and a second drain region on opposite sides of the second gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ashish Verma Penumatcha, Seung Hoon Sung, Jack Kavalieros, Uygar Avci, Tristan Tronic, Shriram Shivaraman, Devin Merrill, Tobias Brown-Heft, Kirby Maxey, Matthew Metz, Ian Young
  • Patent number: 11367749
    Abstract: A spin orbit torque (SOT) memory device includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device with one end coupled with a first electrode and an opposite end coupled with a second electrode including a spin orbit torque material. In an embodiment, a second electrode is coupled with the free magnet and coupled between a pair of interconnect line segments. The second electrode and the pair of interconnect line segments include a spin orbit torque material. The second electrode has a conductive path cross-section that is smaller than a cross section of the conductive path in at least one of the interconnect line segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sato, Angeline Smith, Tanay Gosavi, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Kaan Oguz, Kevin O'Brien, Tofizur Rahman, Gary Allen, Atm G. Sarwar, Ian Young, Hui Jae Yoo, Christopher Wiegand, Benjamin Buford
  • Patent number: 11362263
    Abstract: A perpendicular spin orbit torque (SOT) memory device includes an electrode having a spin orbit coupling material and a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device on a portion of the electrode. The electrode has a first SOC layer and a second SOC layer on a portion of the first SOC layer, where at least a portion of the first SOC layer at an interface with the second SOC layer includes oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sato, Tanay Gosavi, Justin Brockman, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Kaan Oguz, Kevin O'Brien, Christopher Wiegand, Angeline Smith, Tofizur Rahman, Ian Young
  • Publication number: 20220181433
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are capacitors including built-in electric fields, as well as related devices and assemblies. In some embodiments, a capacitor may include a top electrode region, a bottom electrode region, and a dielectric region between and in contact with the top electrode region and the bottom electrode region, wherein the dielectric region includes a perovskite material, and the top electrode region has a different material structure than the bottom electrode region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sou-Chi Chang, Chia-Ching Lin, Kaan Oguz, I-Cheng Tung, Uygar E. Avci, Matthew V. Metz, Ashish Verma Penumatcha, Ian A. Young, Arnab Sen Gupta
  • Patent number: 11355505
    Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms to provide a memory array comprising a 1T1C (one transistor and one capacitor) based memory cell. In an embodiment, the memory cell comprises a transistor, fabricated on a backend of a die, and a capacitor which includes a ferroelectric material. The transistor of the 1T1C memory cell is a vertical transistor. In another embodiment, the capacitor is positioned vertically over the transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel H. Morris, Uygar E. Avci, Ian A. Young
  • Patent number: 11355504
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel H. Morris, Uygar E. Avci, Ian A. Young
  • Patent number: 11347994
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of bit-serial, in-memory, execution of at least an nth layer of a multi-layer neural network in a first on-chip processor memory circuitry portion contemporaneous with prefetching and storing layer weights associated with the (n+1)st layer of the multi-layer neural network in a second on-chip processor memory circuitry portion. The storage of layer weights in on-chip processor memory circuitry beneficially decreases the time required to transfer the layer weights upon execution of the (n+1)st layer of the multi-layer neural network by the first on-chip processor memory circuitry portion. In addition, the on-chip processor memory circuitry may include a third on-chip processor memory circuitry portion used to store intermediate and/or final input/output values associated with one or more layers included in the multi-layer neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Victor Lee, Huseyin Sumbul, Gregory Chen, Raghavan Kumar, Phil Knag, Ram Krishnamurthy, Ian Young, Abhishek Sharma
  • Patent number: 11335793
    Abstract: Tunneling Field Effect Transistors (TFETs) are promising devices in that they promise significant performance increase and energy consumption decrease due to a steeper subthreshold slope (for example, smaller sub-threshold swing). In various embodiments, vertical fin-based TFETs can be fabricated in trenches, for example, silicon trenches. In another embodiment, vertical TFETs can be used on different material systems acting as a substrate and/or trenches (for example, Si, Ge, III-V semiconductors, GaN, and the like). In one embodiment, the tunneling direction in the channel of the vertical TFET can be perpendicular to the Si substrates. In one embodiment, this can be different than the tunneling direction in the channel of lateral TFETs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Ying Huang, Jack Kavalieros, Ian Young, Matthew Metz, Willy Rachmady, Uygar Avci, Ashish Agrawal, Benjamin Chu-Kung
  • Publication number: 20220140230
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises: a magnetic junction including: a stack of structures including: a first structure comprising a magnet with an unfixed perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) relative to an x-y plane of a device, wherein the first structure has a first dimension along the x-y plane and a second dimension in the z-plane, wherein the second dimension is substantially greater than the first dimension. The magnetic junction includes a second structure comprising one of a dielectric or metal; and a third structure comprising a magnet with fixed PMA, wherein the third structure has an anisotropy axis perpendicular to the plane of the device, and wherein the third structure is adjacent to the second structure such that the second structure is between the first and third structures; and an interconnect adjacent to the third structure, wherein the interconnect comprises a spin orbit material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sasikanth MANIPATRUNI, Kaan OGUZ, Chia-Ching LIN, Christopher WIEGAND, Tanay GOSAVI, Ian YOUNG
  • Patent number: 11322504
    Abstract: Embodiments include a memory array and a method of forming the memory array. A memory array includes a first dielectric over first metal traces, where first metal traces extend along a first direction, second metal traces on the first dielectric, where second metal traces extend along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and third metal traces on the second dielectric, where third metal traces extend along the first direction. The memory array includes a ferroelectric capacitor positioned in a trench having sidewalls and bottom surface, where the trench has a depth defined from a top surface of first metal trace to the top surface of third metal trace. The memory array further includes an insulating sidewall, a first electrode, a ferroelectric, and a second electrode disposed in the trench, where the trench has a rectangular cylinder shape defined by the first, second, and third metal traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Uygar Avci, Daniel Morris, Seiyon Kim, Yih Wang, Ruth Brain, Ian Young
  • Patent number: 11316027
    Abstract: A capacitor device includes a first electrode having a first metal alloy or a metal oxide, a relaxor ferroelectric layer adjacent to the first electrode, where the ferroelectric layer includes oxygen and two or more of lead, barium, manganese, zirconium, titanium, iron, bismuth, strontium, neodymium, potassium, or niobium and a second electrode coupled with the relaxor ferroelectric layer, where the second electrode includes a second metal alloy or a second metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sou-Chi Chang, Chia-Ching Lin, Nazila Haratipour, Tanay Gosavi, I-Cheng Tung, Seung Hoon Sung, Ian Young, Jack Kavalieros, Uygar Avci, Ashish Verma Penumatcha
  • Publication number: 20220123206
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises: a stack comprising a magnetoelectric (ME such as BiFeO3, (LaBi)FeO3, LuFeO3, PMN-PT, PZT, AlN, SmBiFeO3, Cr2O3, etc.) material and a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD such as MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, WSe2, PtS2, PtSe2, WTe2, MoTe2, graphene, etc.); a magnet adjacent to a first portion of the TMD of the stack; a first interconnect adjacent to the magnet; a second interconnect adjacent to the ME material of the stack; and a third interconnect adjacent to a second portion of the TMD of the stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Ching Lin, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Tanay Gosavi, Dmitri Nikonov, Benjamin Buford, Kaan Oguz, John J. Plombon, Ian A. Young
  • Publication number: 20220123151
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus which comprises: a first layer comprising a semiconductor; a second layer comprising an insulating material, the second layer adjacent to the first layer; a third layer comprising a high-k insulating material, the third layer adjacent to the second layer; a fourth layer comprising a ferroelectric material, the fourth layer adjacent to the third layer; and a fifth layer comprising a high-k insulating material, the fifth layer adjacent to the fourth layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Uygar E. Avci, Joshua M. Howard, Seiyon Kim, Ian A. Young
  • Publication number: 20220114432
    Abstract: Embodiments may relate to a structure to be used in a neural network. A first column and a second column, both of which are to couple with a substrate. A capacitor structure may be electrically coupled with the first column. An insulator-metal transition (IMT) structure may be coupled with the first column such that the capacitor structure is electrically positioned between the IMT structure and the first column. A resistor structure may further be electrically coupled with the IMT structure and the second column such that the resistor structure is electrically positioned between the second column and the IMT structure. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dmitri E. Nikonov, Elijah V. Karpov, Ian A. Young
  • Publication number: 20220115438
    Abstract: A differential magnetoelectric spin-orbit (MESO) logic device is provided where two ports are used to connect the spin orbital module of the MESO device and a ferroelectric capacitor. In some examples, an insulating layer is added to decouple current paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hai Li, Dmitri Nikonov, Chia-Ching Lin, Tanay Gosavi, Ian Young
  • Patent number: 11294985
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for efficient matrix multiplication using in-memory analog parallel processing, with applications for neural networks and artificial intelligence processors. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes storing two matrices in-memory. The first matrix is stored in transposed form such that the transposed first matrix has the same number of rows as the second matrix. The method further includes reading columns of the matrices from the memory in parallel, using disclosed bit line functional read operations and cross bit line functional read operations, which are employed to generate analog dot products between the columns. Each of the dot products corresponds to an element of the matrix multiplication product of the two matrices. In some embodiments, one of the matrices may be used to store neural network weighting factors, and the other matrix may be used to store input data to be processed by the neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Dmitri Nikonov, Ian Young, Ram Krishnamurthy