Patents by Inventor Phaedon Avouris

Phaedon Avouris 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).

  • Publication number: 20130240839
    Abstract: Graphene-channel based devices and techniques for the fabrication thereof are provided. In one aspect, a semiconductor device includes a first wafer having at least one graphene channel formed on a first substrate, a first oxide layer surrounding the graphene channel and source and drain contacts to the graphene channel that extend through the first oxide layer; and a second wafer having a CMOS device layer formed in a second substrate, a second oxide layer surrounding the CMOS device layer and a plurality of contacts to the CMOS device layer that extend through the second oxide layer, the wafers being bonded together by way of an oxide-to-oxide bond between the oxide layers. One or more of the contacts to the CMOS device layer are in contact with the source and drain contacts. One or more other of the contacts to the CMOS device layer are gate contacts for the graphene channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Kuan-Neng Chen, Damon Farmer, Yu-Ming Lin
  • Publication number: 20130234114
    Abstract: Graphene-channel based devices and techniques for the fabrication thereof are provided. In one aspect, a semiconductor device includes a first wafer having at least one graphene channel formed on a first substrate, a first oxide layer surrounding the graphene channel and source and drain contacts to the graphene channel that extend through the first oxide layer; and a second wafer having a CMOS device layer formed in a second substrate, a second oxide layer surrounding the CMOS device layer and a plurality of contacts to the CMOS device layer that extend through the second oxide layer, the wafers being bonded together by way of an oxide-to-oxide bond between the oxide layers. One or more of the contacts to the CMOS device layer are in contact with the source and drain contacts. One or more other of the contacts to the CMOS device layer are gate contacts for the graphene channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Kuan-Neng Chen, Damon Farmer, Yu-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 8530886
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure which includes a substrate; a graphene layer on the substrate; a source electrode and a drain electrode on the graphene layer, the source electrode and drain electrode being spaced apart by a predetermined dimension; a nitride layer on the graphene layer between the source electrode and drain electrode; and a gate electrode on the nitride layer, wherein the nitride layer is a gate dielectric for the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Deborah A. Neumayer, Wenjuan Zhu
  • Patent number: 8455297
    Abstract: Techniques for fabricating carbon nanotube-based devices are provided. In one aspect, a method for fabricating a carbon nanotube-based integrated circuit is provided. The method comprises the following steps. A first wafer comprising carbon nanotubes is provided. A second wafer comprising one or more device elements is provided. One or more of the carbon nanotubes are connected with one or more of the device elements by bonding the first wafer and the second wafer together. A carbon nanotube-based integrated circuit is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Kuan-Neng Chen, Yu-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 8445320
    Abstract: Graphene-channel based devices and techniques for the fabrication thereof are provided. In one aspect, a semiconductor device includes a first wafer having at least one graphene channel formed on a first substrate, a first oxide layer surrounding the graphene channel and source and drain contacts to the graphene channel that extend through the first oxide layer; and a second wafer having a CMOS device layer formed in a second substrate, a second oxide layer surrounding the CMOS device layer and a plurality of contacts to the CMOS device layer that extend through the second oxide layer, the wafers being bonded together by way of an oxide-to-oxide bond between the oxide layers. One or more of the contacts to the CMOS device layer are in contact with the source and drain contacts. One or more other of the contacts to the CMOS device layer are gate contacts for the graphene channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Kuan-Neng Chen, Damon Farmer, Yu-Ming Lin
  • Publication number: 20130119548
    Abstract: Techniques for fabricating carbon nanotube-based devices are provided. In one aspect, a method for fabricating a carbon nanotube-based integrated circuit is provided. The method comprises the following steps. A first wafer comprising carbon nanotubes is provided. A second wafer comprising one or more device elements is provided. One or more of the carbon nanotubes are connected with one or more of the device elements by bonding the first wafer and the second wafer together. A carbon nanotube-based integrated circuit is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Kuan-Neng Chen, Yu-Ming Lin
  • Publication number: 20130107344
    Abstract: A microcavity-controlled two-dimensional carbon lattice structure device selectively modifies to reflect or to transmit, or emits, or absorbs, electromagnetic radiation depending on the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation. The microcavity-controlled two-dimensional carbon lattice structure device employs a graphene layer or at least one carbon nanotube located within an optical center of a microcavity defined by a pair of partial mirrors that partially reflect electromagnetic radiation. The spacing between the mirror determines the efficiency of elastic and inelastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation inside the microcavity, and hence, determines a resonance wavelength of electronic radiation that is coupled to the microcavity. The resonance wavelength is tunable by selecting the dimensional and material parameters of the microcavity. The process for manufacturing this device is compatible with standard complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) manufacturing processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicants: International Business Machines Corporation, Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Mathias B. Steiner, Michael Engel, Ralph Krupke, Andrea C. Ferrari, Antonio Lombardo
  • Publication number: 20130099204
    Abstract: Carbon nanotubes can be aligned with compatibility with semiconductor manufacturing processes, with scalability for forming smaller devices, and without performance degradation related to structural damages. A planar structure including a buried gate electrode and two embedded electrodes are formed. After forming a gate dielectric, carbon nanotubes are assembled in a solution on a surface of the gate dielectric along the direction of an alternating current (AC) electrical field generated by applying a voltage between the two embedded electrodes. A source contact electrode and a drain contact electrode are formed by depositing a conductive material on both ends of the carbon nanotubes. Each of the source and drain contact electrodes can be electrically shorted to an underlying embedded electrode to reduce parasitic capacitance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicants: KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Yu-Ming Lin, Mathias B. Steiner, Michael Engel, Ralph Krupke
  • Publication number: 20130015375
    Abstract: An electromagnetic device and method for fabrication includes a substrate and a layer of graphene formed on the substrate. A metallization layer is patterned on the graphene. The metallization layer forms electrodes such that when the graphene is excited by light, terahertz frequency radiation is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: PHAEDON AVOURIS, Chun-Yung Sung, Alberto Valdes Garcia, Fengnian Xia
  • Publication number: 20130009133
    Abstract: A transistor structure is provided which includes a graphene layer located on an insulating layer, a first metal portion overlying a portion of the graphene layer, a second metal portion contacting and overhanging the first metal portion, a first electrode contacting a portion of the graphene layer and laterally offset from a first sidewall of the first metal portion by a lateral spacing, and a second electrode contacting another portion of the graphene layer and laterally offset from a second sidewall of the first metal portion by the lateral spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Damon B. Farmer, Yu-Ming Lin, Yu Zhu
  • Patent number: 8344358
    Abstract: A graphene-based field effect transistor includes source and drain electrodes that are self-aligned to a gate electrode. A stack of a seed layer and a dielectric metal oxide layer is deposited over a patterned graphene layer. A conductive material stack of a first metal portion and a second metal portion is formed above the dielectric metal oxide layer. The first metal portion is laterally etched employing the second metal portion, and exposed portions of the dielectric metal oxide layer are removed to form a gate structure in which the second metal portion overhangs the first metal portion. The seed layer is removed and the overhang is employed to shadow proximal regions around the gate structure during a directional deposition process to form source and drain electrodes that are self-aligned and minimally laterally spaced from edges of the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Damon B. Farmer, Yu-Ming Lin, Yu Zhu
  • Publication number: 20120329260
    Abstract: A method of forming a transistor structure is provided. The method includes forming a graphene layer on an insulating layer; forming a stack of a first metal portion and a second metal portion over the graphene layer, wherein sidewalls of the first metal portion are vertically coincident with sidewalls of the second metal portion; and laterally offsetting the sidewalls of the first metal portion relative to the sidewalls of the second metal portion by a lateral distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: PHAEDON AVOURIS, DAMON B. FARMER, YU-MING LIN, YU ZHU
  • Publication number: 20120298962
    Abstract: A fabrication process for a nanoelectronic device and a device are provided. Channel material is deposited on a substrate to form a channel. A source metal contact and a drain metal contact are deposited on the channel material, and the source metal contact and the drain metal contact are on opposing ends of the channel material. A polyhydroxystyrene derivative is deposited on the channel material. A top gate oxide is deposited on the polymer layer. A top gate metal is deposited on the top gate oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Damon B. Farmer, Fengnian Xia
  • Patent number: 8283453
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for selectively placing carbon nanotubes on a substrate surface by using functionalized carbon nanotubes having an organic compound that is covalently bonded to such carbon nanotubes. The organic compound comprises at least two functional groups, the first of which is capable of forming covalent bonds with carbon nanotubes, and the second of which is capable of selectively bonding metal oxides. Such functionalized carbon nanotubes are contacted with a substrate surface that has at least one portion containing a metal oxide. The second functional group of the organic compound selectively bonds to the metal oxide, so as to selectively place the functionalized carbon nanotubes on the at least one portion of the substrate surface that comprises the metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ali Afzali-Ardakani, Phaedon Avouris, James B. Hannon, Christian Klinke
  • Publication number: 20120235118
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure which includes a substrate; a graphene layer on the substrate; a source electrode and a drain electrode on the graphene layer, the source electrode and drain electrode being spaced apart by a predetermined dimension; a nitride layer on the graphene layer between the source electrode and drain electrode; and a gate electrode on the nitride layer, wherein the nitride layer is a gate dielectric for the gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Deborah Neumayer, Wenjuan Zhu
  • Publication number: 20120181510
    Abstract: A three-dimensional integrated circuit includes a semiconductor device, an insulator formed on the semiconductor device, an interconnect formed in the insulator, and a graphene device formed on the insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Yanqing Wu, Wenjuan Zhu
  • Publication number: 20120142158
    Abstract: A self-aligned carbon-nanotube field effect transistor semiconductor device comprises a carbon-nanotube deposited on a substrate, a source and a drain formed at a first end and a second end of the carbon-nanotube, respectively, and a gate formed substantially over a portion of the carbon-nanotube, separated from the carbon-nanotube by a dielectric film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Joerg Appenzeller, Phaedon Avouris, Kevin K. Chan, Philip G. Collins, Richard Martel, Hon-Sum Philip Wong
  • Patent number: 8138491
    Abstract: A self-aligned carbon-nanotube field effect transistor semiconductor device comprises a carbon-nanotube deposited on a substrate, a source and a drain formed at a first end and a second end of the carbon-nanotube, respectively, and a gate formed substantially over a portion of the carbon-nanotube, separated from the carbon-nanotube by a dielectric film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joerg Appenzeller, Phaedon Avouris, Kevin K. Chan, Philip G. Collins, Richard Martel, Hon-Sum Philip Wong
  • Publication number: 20120056161
    Abstract: A graphene-based field effect transistor includes source and drain electrodes that are self-aligned to a gate electrode. A stack of a seed layer and a dielectric metal oxide layer is deposited over a patterned graphene layer. A conductive material stack of a first metal portion and a second metal portion is formed above the dielectric metal oxide layer. The first metal portion is laterally etched employing the second metal portion, and exposed portions of the dielectric metal oxide layer are removed to form a gate structure in which the second metal portion overhangs the first metal portion. The seed layer is removed and the overhang is employed to shadow proximal regions around the gate structure during a directional deposition process to form source and drain electrodes that are self-aligned and minimally laterally spaced from edges of the gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Damon B. Farmer, Yu-Ming Lin, Yu Zhu
  • Patent number: 8119466
    Abstract: A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device, e.g., a field effect transistor (FET), that includes at least one one-dimensional nanostructure that is typically a carbon-based nanomaterial, as the device channel, and a metal carbide contact that is self-aligned with the gate region of the device is described. The present invention also provides a method of fabricating such a CMOS device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Phaedon Avouris, Roy A. Carruthers, Jia Chen, Christopher G. M. M. Detavernier, Christian Lavoie, Hon-Sum Philip Wong