Patents by Inventor Piero GAMARRA

Piero GAMARRA 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: 20180308966
    Abstract: A transistor comprises a stack of semiconductor materials including, in particular, a first sub-layer, carefully arranged and with a specific thickness, splitting the buffer layer into two portions and including a third material so that the difference in the piezoelectric and spontaneous polarisation coefficients between the material of the buffer layer and the third material induces, at a first interface between the first portion of the buffer layer and the first sub-layer, a first fixed surface electric charge generating an electrical field directed along the axis z so as to follow the two-dimensional gas to be contained in the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Jean-Claude JACQUET, Piero GAMARRA, Stéphane PIOTROWICZ, Cédric LACAM, Marie-Antoinette POISSON, Olivier PATARD
  • Patent number: 9935192
    Abstract: A stack along a z-axis for a high-electron-mobility field-effect transistor, comprises: a buffer layer comprising a first semiconductor material comprising a binary, ternary or quaternary nitride compound having a first bandgap, a barrier layer comprising a second semiconductor material comprising a binary, ternary or quaternary nitride compound and having a second bandgap, the second bandgap wider than the first bandgap, a heterojunction between the buffer and barrier layers and, a two-dimensional electron gas located in an XY plane perpendicular to the z-axis and in the vicinity of the heterojunction wherein: the buffer layer comprises a zone comprising fixed negative charges of density per unit volume higher than or equal to 1017 cm?3, the zone having a thickness smaller than or equal to 200 nm, the product of multiplication of the density per unit volume of fixed negative charges by the thickness of the zone between 1012 cm?2 and 3.1013 cm?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignees: THALES, COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Jacquet, Raphaël Aubry, Piero Gamarra, Olivier Jardel, Stéphane Piotrowicz
  • Publication number: 20170110565
    Abstract: A stack along a z-axis for a high-electron-mobility field-effect transistor, comprises: a buffer layer comprising a first semiconductor material comprising a binary, ternary or quaternary nitride compound having a first bandgap, a barrier layer comprising a second semiconductor material comprising a binary, ternary or quaternary nitride compound and having a second bandgap, the second bandgap wider than the first bandgap, a heterojunction between the buffer and barrier layers and, a two-dimensional electron gas located in an XY plane perpendicular to the z-axis and in the vicinity of the heterojunction wherein: the buffer layer comprises a zone comprising fixed negative charges of density per unit volume higher than or equal to 1017 cm?3, the zone having a thickness smaller than or equal to 200 nm, the product of multiplication of the density per unit volume of fixed negative charges by the thickness of the zone between 1012 cm?2 and 3.1013 cm?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Jean-Claude JACQUET, Raphaël AUBRY, Piero GAMARRA, Olivier JARDEL, Stéphane PIOTROWICZ