Patents by Inventor Brian Cronquist

Brian Cronquist 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: 11063024
    Abstract: A method to form a 3D semiconductor device, the method including: providing a first level including first circuits, the first circuits including first transistors and first interconnection; preparing a second level including a silicon layer; forming second circuits over the second level, the second circuits including second transistors and second interconnection; transferring with bonding the second level on top of the first level; and then thinning the second level to a thickness of less than ten microns, where the bonding includes oxide to oxide bonds, and where the bonding includes metal to metal bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MONLITHIC 3D INC.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20210210456
    Abstract: A multi-level semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including integrated circuits; a second level including a structure designed to conduct electromagnetic waves in a confined manner, where the second level is disposed above the first level, where the first level includes crystalline silicon, where the second level includes crystalline silicon; and an oxide layer disposed between the first level and the second level, where the second level is bonded to the oxide layer, and where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11052897
    Abstract: An electrical passenger car, the electrical passenger car including: at least two electrically driven motors; speed control electronics; and wheels, where the wheels include a front wheel and a back wheel, where the back wheel radius is at least 20% greater than the front wheel radius, where the speed control electronics control the at least two electrically driven motors to provide a greater torque to the front wheel than to the back wheel, and where the speed control electronics control the at least two electrically driven motors to provide a greater torque to the back wheel than to the front wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20210193655
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level, which includes a first layer, the first layer including first transistors, and where the first level includes a second layer, the second layer including first interconnections; a second level overlaying the first level, where the second level includes a third layer including second transistors, and where the second level includes a fourth layer, the fourth layer including second interconnections; a plurality of connection paths, where the paths provide connections from a plurality of the first transistors to a plurality of second transistors, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bond regions and metal to metal bond regions, where the second level includes at least one memory array, and where the third layer includes crystalline silicon; and a heat removal path from the first layer or the third layer to an external surface of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20210193498
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer, the first level including first transistors, where the first transistors each include a single crystal channel; first metal layers interconnecting at least the first transistors; and a second level including a second single crystal layer, the second level including second transistors, where the second level overlays the first level, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds, where the bonded includes metal to metal bonds, and where at least one of the first transistors controls power delivery to at least one of the second transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Publication number: 20210193722
    Abstract: An integrated device, the device including: a first level including a first mono-crystal layer, the first mono-crystal layer including a plurality of single crystal transistors and alignment marks; an overlaying oxide on top of the first level; a second level including a second mono-crystal layer, the second level overlaying the oxide, where the second mono-crystal layer includes a plurality of first image sensors; and a third level overlaying the second level, where the third level includes a plurality of second image sensors, where the second level is aligned to the alignment marks, where the second level is bonded to the first level, and where the bonded includes an oxide to oxide bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11043523
    Abstract: An integrated device, the device including: a first level including a first mono-crystal layer, the first mono-crystal layer including a plurality of single crystal transistors and alignment marks; an overlaying oxide on top of the first level; a second level including a second mono-crystal layer, the second level overlaying the oxide, where the second mono-crystal layer includes a plurality of first image sensors; and a third level overlaying the second level, where the third level includes a plurality of second image sensors, where the second level is aligned to the alignment marks, where the second level is bonded to the first level, and where the bonded includes an oxide to oxide bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11031394
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level, which includes a first layer, the first layer including first transistors, and where the first level includes a second layer, the second layer including first interconnections; a second level overlaying the first level, where the second level includes a third layer including second transistors, and where the second level includes a fourth layer, the fourth layer including second interconnections; a plurality of connection paths, where the paths provide connections from a plurality of the first transistors to a plurality of second transistors, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bond regions and metal to metal bond regions, where the second level includes at least one memory array, and where the third layer includes crystalline silicon; and a heat removal path from the first layer or the third layer to an external surface of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: MONOLITHIC 3D INC.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11031275
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level including logic circuits, the logic circuits include a plurality of first single crystal transistors and a first metal layer; a second level including a plurality of second transistors, where the second level includes memory cells including the plurality of second transistors; a second metal layer atop the second level; where the plurality of second transistors are junction-less transistors, where at least one of the plurality of second transistors includes polysilicon, where the memory cells are structured as a plurality of at least sixteen sub-arrays, where each of the sub-arrays is independently controlled, where at least one of the plurality of at least sixteen sub-arrays is at least partially atop at least one of the logic circuits, and where the at least one of the logic circuits is designed to control at least one of the plurality of at least sixteen sub-arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Publication number: 20210167056
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level, where the first level includes a first layer, the first layer including first transistors, and where the first level includes a second layer, the second layer including first interconnections; a second level overlaying the first level, where the second level includes a third layer, the third layer including second transistors, and where the second level includes a fourth layer, the fourth layer including second interconnections; and a plurality of connection paths, where the plurality of connection paths provides connections from a plurality of the first transistors to a plurality of the second transistors, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bond regions, where the bonded includes metal to metal bond regions, where the third layer includes crystalline silicon, and where the second level includes at least one phase-lock-loop (“PLL”) circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20210167131
    Abstract: A method for producing a 3D memory device, the method comprising: providing a first level comprising a single crystal layer; forming at least one second level above said first level; performing a first etch step comprising etching holes within said second level; forming at least one third level above said at least one second level; performing a second etch step comprising etching holes within said third level; performing additional processing steps to form a plurality of first memory cells within said second level and a plurality of second memory cells within said third level, wherein each of said first memory cells comprise one first transistor, wherein each of said second memory cells comprise one second transistor, wherein at least one of said first or second transistors has a channel, a source and a drain having the same doping type, and wherein said forming at least one third level comprises forming a window within said third level to allow lithography alignment through said third level to an alignment m
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11024673
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a single crystal layer, a first metal layer, a second metal layer above the first metal layer, and a third metal layer above the second metal layer, where the second metal layer is significantly thicker than either the third metal layer or the first metal layer, where the third metal layer is precisely aligned to the first metal layer with less than 20 nm misalignment; a second level including a first array of first memory cells, each of the first memory cells include first transistors; a third level including a second array of second memory cells, each of the second memory cells include second transistors, where the second level is above the third level, where the second transistors are self-aligned to the first transistors, being processed following the same lithography step; and periphery circuits connected by the second metal to control the memory cells, where the periphery circuits are either underneath or atop the memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20210159108
    Abstract: A method for processing a 3D integrated circuit, the method including: providing a first level including a first wafer, the first wafer including a first crystalline substrate, a plurality of first transistors, and first copper interconnecting layers, where the first copper interconnecting layers at least interconnect the plurality of first transistors; processing a second level including a second wafer, the second wafer including a second crystalline substrate, a plurality of second transistors, and second copper interconnecting layers, where the second copper interconnecting layers at least interconnect the plurality of second transistors; then forming a bonded structure by bonding the second level to the first level, where the bonding includes metal to metal bonding, where the bonding includes oxide to oxide bonding; and then performing a lithography process to define dice lines for the bonded structure; and etching the dice lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Publication number: 20210159109
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer, the first level including first transistors, where the first transistors each include a single crystal channel; first metal layers interconnecting at least the first transistors; and a second level including a second single crystal layer, the second level including second transistors, where the second level overlays the first level, where the second transistors are horizontally oriented and each include a High-k metal gate, where the second level is bonded to the first level, and where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Publication number: 20210159110
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer, the first level including first transistors, where the first transistors each include a single crystal channel; first metal layers interconnecting at least the first transistors; and a second level including a second single crystal layer, the second level including second transistors, where the second level overlays the first level, where the second transistors are horizontally oriented, where the second transistors are raised source drain extension transistors, where the second level includes a memory array, where the first level includes control circuits to control data written to the memory array, where the second level is bonded to the first level, and where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Patent number: 11018116
    Abstract: A method to form a 3D semiconductor device, the method including: providing a first level including first circuits, the first circuits including first transistors and first interconnection; preparing a second level including a silicon layer; performing growth of an epitaxial layer on top of the silicon layer, the epitaxial layer including non-silicon atoms; forming second circuits over the second level, the second circuits including second transistors and second interconnection; transferring and then bonding the second level on top of the first level; and then thinning the second level to a thickness of less than ten microns, where the bonding includes oxide to oxide bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MONOLITHIC 3D INC.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11018042
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first single crystal layer including a plurality of first transistors and at least one metal layer, where the at least one metal layer interconnecting the first transistors; a plurality of first logic gates including the at least one metal layer interconnecting the first transistors; a plurality of second transistors atop the at least one metal layer; a plurality of third transistors atop the second transistors; a top metal layer atop the third transistors; and a memory array including wordlines, where the memory array includes at least four rows by four columns of memory mini arrays, where each of the mini arrays includes at least four rows by four columns of memory cells, and where each of the memory cells includes at least one of the second transistors or at least one of the third transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MONOLITHIC 3D INC.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Patent number: 11018133
    Abstract: A 3D integrated circuit, the circuit including: a first wafer including a first crystalline substrate, a plurality of first transistors, and first copper interconnecting layers, where the first copper interconnecting layers at least interconnect the plurality of first transistors; and a second wafer including a second crystalline substrate, a plurality of second transistors, and second copper interconnecting layers, where the second copper interconnecting layers at least interconnect the plurality of second transistors; where the second wafer is bonded face-to-face on top of the first wafer, where the bonded includes copper to copper bonding; and where the second crystalline substrate has been thinned to a thickness of less than 5 micro-meters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MONOLITHIC 3D INC.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20210151450
    Abstract: A 3D device, the device including: at least a first level including logic circuits; at least a second level including an array of memory cells; at least a third level including special circuits; and at least a fourth level including special connectivity structures, where the special connectivity structures include one of the following: a. waveguides, or b. differential signaling, or c. radio frequency transmission lines, or d. Surface Waves Interconnect (SWI) lines, and where the third level includes Radio Frequency (“RF”) circuits to drive the special connectivity structures, where the second level overlays the first level, where the third level overlays the second level, and where the fourth level overlays the third level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Jin-Woo Han, Brian Cronquist, Eli Lusky
  • Publication number: 20210143217
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a single crystal layer, a first metal layer, a second metal layer above the first metal layer, and a third metal layer above the second metal layer, where the second metal layer is significantly thicker than either the third metal layer or the first metal layer, where the third metal layer is precisely aligned to the first metal layer with less than 20 nm misalignment; a second level including a first array of first memory cells, each of the first memory cells include first transistors; a third level including a second array of second memory cells, each of the second memory cells include second transistors, where the second level is above the third level, where the second transistors are self-aligned to the first transistors, being processed following the same lithography step; and periphery circuits connected by the second metal to control the memory cells, where the periphery circuits are either underneath or atop the memory cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist