Patents by Inventor Ashish Pal

Ashish Pal 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: 20240386053
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for processing and executing queries in a data intake and query system. The data intake and query system receives raw machine data at an indexing system, and stores at least a portion of the raw machine data in buckets using containerized indexing nodes instantiated in a containerized environment. The data intake and query system stores the buckets in a shared storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Alexandros Batsakis, Ashish Mathew, Christopher Madden Pride, Bharath Kishore Reddy Aleti, Sourav Pal, Arindam Bhattacharjee, James Monschke, Sai Krishna Sajja, Igor Stojanovski, Tameem Anwar, Paul J. Lucas, Eric Woo, Steve Wong
  • Publication number: 20240354248
    Abstract: Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide systems and techniques for efficiently transferring data between a host processing unit and connected devices using coherent doorbell register updates. For example, a method may include: receiving, via controller of host processing circuitry, an attempt to write data to a cacheable memory address from a processing unit of the host processing circuitry; transmitting, via the controller, an indication of the attempt to write to the cacheable memory address to a device; receiving, via the controller, an acknowledgment from the device that the cacheable memory address has been deallocated by the device; and writing, via the controller, the data to the cacheable memory address in response to the acknowledgement from the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Rahul Pal, Ashish Gupta, Randy Bright, Yoanna Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20240345884
    Abstract: Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide systems and techniques for sharing resources of an IC device between communications pipelines of the IC device. For example, a method may include: receiving a request from a first initiator component, the request associated with a first communication protocol; storing the request in a shared buffer; receiving a response from a first target component, the response associated with a second communication protocol; storing the response in the shared buffer; sending the request from the shared buffer to a second target component; and sending the response from the shared buffer to a second initiator component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Ashish Gupta, Rahul Pal, Zhi-Hern Loh, Keong Hong Oh, Thuyet Gia Ngo
  • Publication number: 20240332388
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure are directed to methods of forming semiconductor devices, e.g., gate-all-around (GAA) transistors that are used in FEOL and/or BEOL processes. The processes described herein may be integrated and performed in any suitable cluster tool. Some embodiments of the disclosure are directed to cavity shaping processes. Further embodiments of the disclosure are directed to logic transistors with wrap-around backside source/drain contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Byeong Chan Lee, Benjamin Colombeau, Nicolas Breil, Ashish Pal, El Mehdi Bazizi, Veeraraghavan S. Basker, Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan, Pratik B. Vyas, Gregory Costrini
  • Publication number: 20240332297
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure forming a complementary field-effect transistor (CFET) includes a metal gate, a bottom field effect transistor (FET) module, the bottom FET module including a plurality of channel layers extending through the metal gate in a first direction, and a bottom source/drain (S/D) contact electrically connected to the plurality of channel layers via a bottom epitaxial (epi) S/D and a bottom interface, and a top FET module stacked on the bottom FET module in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction, the top FET module including a plurality of channel layers extending through the metal gate in the first direction, and a top source/drain (S/D) contact electrically connected to the plurality of channel layers via a top epitaxial (epi) S/D and a top interface, wherein the bottom S/D contact and the top S/D contact each comprise cobalt (Co) or tungsten (W).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Ashish PAL, El Mehdi BAZIZI, Balasubramanian PRANATHARTHIHARAN
  • Publication number: 20240290883
    Abstract: The present technology includes semiconductor devices with improved stress in a channel region. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a source region, a drain region, a channel region that includes at least one channel located between the source and the drain, a first gate region, and a second gate region. The first gate region includes a self-aligned single diffusion break, and the second gate region includes a first gate enclosing the channel between the source region and the drain region. The self-aligned single diffusion break also contains a dielectric liner and a stressed metal fill, where the stressed metal fill exhibits a stress of about 350 MPa or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Sai Hooi Yeong, Hui Zhao, Ashish Pal, El Mehdi Bazizi, Benjamin Colombeau, Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan, Lequn Liu
  • Publication number: 20240290884
    Abstract: The present technology includes semiconductor devices with improved stress in a channel region. The semiconductor devices include a substrate, a source region, a drain region, a channel region that includes at least one channel located between the source and the drain, a first gate region, and a second gate region. The first gate region includes a self-aligned single diffusion break, and the second gate region includes a first gate enclosing the channel between the source region and the drain region. The self-aligned single diffusion break also contains a stressed dielectric material having a stress of about 500 MPa or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: El Mehdi Bazizi, Sai Hooi Yeong, Benjamin Colombeau, Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan, Hui Zhao, Ashish Pal
  • Publication number: 20240290885
    Abstract: The present technology includes semiconductor devices with improved stress in a channel region. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a source region, a drain region, a channel region that includes at least one channel located between the source and the drain. Devices include a first gate region having a first self-aligned single diffusion break in a n-MOS region, and a second gate region includes having a self-aligned single diffusion break in a p-MOS region. The second self-aligned single diffusion break also contains a liner and a compressive stressed material, where the stressed metal fill exhibits a compressive stress of about 350 MPa or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Sai Hooi Yeong, Benjamin Colombeau, Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan, El Mehdi Bazizi, Hui Zhao, Ashish Pal
  • Patent number: 12074196
    Abstract: Embodiments of processing a substrate are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of processing a substrate includes: depositing, via a first epitaxial growth process, an n-doped silicon material onto a substrate to form an n-doped layer while adjusting a ratio of dopant precursor to silicon precursor so that a dopant concentration of the n-doped layer increases from a bottom of the n-doped layer to a top of the n-doped layer; etching the n-doped layer to form a plurality of trenches having sidewalls that are tapered and a plurality of n-doped pillars therebetween; and filling the plurality of trenches with a p-doped material via a second epitaxial growth process to form a plurality of p-doped pillars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Ashish Pal, Yi Zheng, El Mehdi Bazizi
  • Patent number: 12072891
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a data intake and query system. The method includes receiving a search query by a search head, defining a search process for applying the search query to indexers, delegating a first portion of the search process to indexers and a second portion of the search process to intermediary node(s) communicatively coupled to the search head and the indexers. The first portion can define a search scope for obtaining partial search results of the indexers and the second portion can define operations for combining the partial search results by the intermediary node(s) to produce a combination of the partial search results. The search head then receives the combination of the partial search results, and outputs final search results for the search query, where the final search results are based on the combination of the partial search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Sourav Pal, Ashish Mathew, Xiaowei Wang, Christopher Pride
  • Publication number: 20240258375
    Abstract: A silicon carbide transistor may be formed with a channel that includes a p-doped region between n-doped source and drain regions. A counter-doped region may be formed at the top of the channel directly underneath the gate oxide. Instead of using the conventional doping levels for the p-doped region, the doping concentration may be increase to be greater than about 1e18 cm3. The transistor may also include pocket regions on one or both sides of the channel. The pocket regions may be formed in the counter-doped region and may extend up to the gate oxide. These improvements individually and/or in combination may increase the current in the channel of the transistor without significantly increasing the threshold voltage beyond acceptable operating limits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Pal, Pratik B. Vyas, El Mehdi Bazizi, Stephen Weeks, Ludovico Megalini, Siddarth Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20240119435
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus of an automated and self-service kiosk that allows customers to select inventory items available from the kiosk and walk or move away with selected inventory item(s) without having to process payment, identify the inventory item(s), or provide any other form of checkout. After a customer has picked one or more items and departed the kiosk, the picked items are determined and the customer charged for the items. For example, one or more of detected weight changes measured at the kiosk and/or images generated at the kiosk may be used to identify items picked by the customer from the kiosk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Subhash Sasidharakurup, Srinivasan Hariram, Mehakinder Singh Oberoi, Ashish Pal, Rajesh Jain, Shanoop Sivadas, Himanshu Singh, Aniket Nagesh Dubhashi, Vinay P. Vaidya, Debasish Das
  • Patent number: 11922386
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus of an automated and self-service kiosk that allows customers to select inventory items available from the kiosk and walk or move away with selected inventory item(s) without having to process payment, identify the inventory item(s), or provide any other form of checkout. After a customer has picked one or more items and departed the kiosk, the picked items are determined and the customer charged for the items. For example, one or more of detected weight changes measured at the kiosk and/or images generated at the kiosk may be used to identify items picked by the customer from the kiosk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Subhash Sasidharakurup, Srinivasan Hariram, Mehakinder Singh Oberoi, Ashish Pal, Rajesh Jain, Shanoop Sivadas, Himanshu Singh, Aniket Nagesh Dubhashi, Vinay P. Vaidya, Debasish Das
  • Publication number: 20240014214
    Abstract: Horizontal gate-all-around devices and methods of manufacturing same are described. The hGAA devices comprise a semiconductor material between source regions and drain regions of the device. The method includes formation of a cladding material on a first material followed by a dry oxidation process resulting rearrangement of the cladding material and first material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Sai Hooi Yeong, Jody A. Fronheiser, Benjamin Colombeau, Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan, El Mehdi Bazizi, Ashish Pal
  • Publication number: 20230299199
    Abstract: Examples of the present technology include processing methods to incorporate stress in a channel region of a semiconductor transistor. The methods may include depositing a stressed material on an adjacent layer, where the adjacent layer is disposed between the stressed material and semiconductor material having an incorporated dopant. The adjacent layer may be characterized by an increased stress level after the deposition of the stressed material. The method may further include heating the stressed material and the adjacent layer, and removing the stressed material from the adjacent layer. The adjacent layer retains at least a portion of the increased stress after the removal of the stressed material. Examples of the present technology also include semiconductor structures having a conductive layer with first stress, and an intermediate layer with second stress in contact with the conductive layer. The second tensile stress may be at least ten times the first tensile stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Pal, Mehdi Saremi, El Mehdi Bazizi, Benjamin Colombeau
  • Patent number: 11735467
    Abstract: Processing methods may be performed to form an airgap spacer on a semiconductor substrate. The methods may include forming a spacer structure including a first material and a second material different from the first material. The methods may include forming a source/drain structure. The source/drain structure may be offset from the second material of the spacer structure by at least one other material. The methods may also include etching the second material from the spacer structure to form the airgap. The source/drain structure may be unexposed to etchant materials during the etching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Pal, Gaurav Thareja, Sankuei Lin, Ching-Mei Hsu, Nitin K. Ingle, Ajay Bhatnagar, Anchuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20230260909
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same are described. The method includes forming a diffusion break opening on the backside and filling with a diffusion break material to serve as a planarization stop. In some embodiments, a single diffusion break opening is formed. In other embodiments, a mixed diffusion break opening is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Yeoh, Benjamin Colombeau, Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan, El Mehdi Bazizi, Ashish Pal
  • Publication number: 20230260908
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same are described. The method includes forming distinct and separate bottom dielectric isolation layers underneath the source/drain and underneath the gate of a gate all around device. Selectively remove of the bottom dielectric isolation layer underneath the source/drain results in better backside power rail (BPR) via alignment to the source/drain epi and reduces reliability and gate-shorting problems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Yeoh, Benjamin Colombeau, Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan, Ashish Pal, El Mehdi Bazizi
  • Patent number: 11705490
    Abstract: Exemplary methods of forming a semiconductor structure may include forming a doped silicon layer on a semiconductor substrate. A level of doping may be increased at an increasing distance from the semiconductor substrate. The methods may include etching the doped silicon layer to define a trench extending to the semiconductor substrate. The doped silicon layer may define a sloping sidewall of the trench. The trench may be characterized by a depth of greater than or about 30 ?m. The methods may include lining the trench with a first oxide material. The methods may include depositing a second oxide material within the trench. The methods may include forming a contact to produce a power device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Pal, El Mehdi Bazizi, Siddarth Krishnan, Xing Chen, Lan Yu, Tyler Sherwood
  • Patent number: 11699755
    Abstract: Examples of the present technology include processing methods to incorporate stress in a channel region of a semiconductor transistor. The methods may include depositing a stressed material on an adjacent layer, where the adjacent layer is disposed between the stressed material and semiconductor material having an incorporated dopant. The adjacent layer may be characterized by an increased stress level after the deposition of the stressed material. The method may further include heating the stressed material and the adjacent layer, and removing the stressed material from the adjacent layer. The adjacent layer retains at least a portion of the increased stress after the removal of the stressed material. Examples of the present technology also include semiconductor structures having a conductive layer with first stress, and an intermediate layer with second stress in contact with the conductive layer. The second tensile stress may be at least ten times the first tensile stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Pal, Mehdi Saremi, El Mehdi Bazizi, Benjamin Colombeau