Patents by Inventor Chandra Mouli

Chandra Mouli 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: 9450024
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a transistor includes a stack having a bottom source/drain region, a first insulative material, a conductive gate, a second insulative material, and a top source/drain region. The stack has a vertical sidewall with a bottom portion along the bottom source/drain region, a middle portion along the conductive gate, and a top portion along the top source/drain region. Third insulative material is along the middle portion of the vertical sidewall. A channel region material is along the third insulative material. The channel region material is directly against the top and bottom portions of the vertical sidewall. The channel region material has a thickness within a range of from greater than about 3 ? to less than or equal to about 10 ?; and/or has a thickness of from 1 monolayer to 7 monolayers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Chandra Mouli, Gurtej S. Sandhu
  • Patent number: 9437608
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a memory cell string having a body having a channel extending therein and in contact with a source/drain, a select gate adjacent to the body, a plurality of access lines adjacent to the body, and a dielectric in a portion of the body between the source/drain and a level corresponding to an end of the plurality of access lines most adjacent to the select gate. The dielectric in the portion of the body does not extend along an entire length of the body. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Haitao Liu, Akira Goda, Chandra Mouli, Krishna K. Parat
  • Publication number: 20160225860
    Abstract: A vertical ferroelectric field effect transistor construction comprises an isolating core. A transition metal dichalcogenide material encircles the isolating core and has a lateral wall thickness of 1 monolayer to 7 monolayers. A ferroelectric gate dielectric material encircles the transition metal dichalcogenide material. Conductive gate material encircles the ferroelectric gate dielectric material. The transition metal dichalcogenide material extends elevationally inward and elevationally outward of the conductive gate material. A conductive contact is directly against a lateral outer sidewall of the transition metal dichalcogenide material that is a) elevationally inward of the conductive gate material, or b) elevationally outward of the conductive gate material. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Chandra Mouli, Gurtej S. Sandhu
  • Patent number: 9397187
    Abstract: Some embodiments include methods of forming diodes in which a first electrode is formed to have a pedestal extending upwardly from a base. At least one layer is deposited along an undulating topography that extends across the pedestal and base, and a second electrode is formed over the least one layer. The first electrode, at least one layer, and second electrode together form a structure that conducts current between the first and second electrodes when voltage of one polarity is applied to the structure, and that inhibits current flow between the first and second electrodes when voltage having a polarity opposite to said one polarity is applied to the structure. Some embodiments include diodes having a first electrode that contains two or more projections extending upwardly from a base, having at least one layer over the first electrode, and having a second electrode over the at least one layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gurtej S. Sandhu, Chandra Mouli
  • Patent number: 9380622
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for wirelessly communicating with a wireless station. In one implementation, a mobile device comprises a memory unit configured to store communication information associated with communicating on at least one channel of a wireless network. The mobile device further comprises a processing system that is configured to establish communications with the wireless station via a communication link, retrieve the communication information from the memory unit, and to provide at least a portion of the communication information to the wireless station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chandra Mouli Polisetty, Deepti Mani, Umesh K. Pandey, Chandrasekar Srinivasan
  • Publication number: 20160155829
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a transistor having a drain region and a source region. A conductive gate is between the source and drain regions. First channel material is between the gate and the source region. The first channel material is spaced from the gate by one or more insulative materials. Second channel material is between the first channel material and the source region, and directly contacts the source region. The first and second channel materials are transition metal chalcogenide. One of the source and drain regions is a hole reservoir region and the other is an electron reservoir region. Tunnel dielectric material may be between the first and second channel materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Gurtej S. Sandhu, Chandra Mouli
  • Publication number: 20160141336
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a transistor includes a stack having a bottom source/drain region, a first insulative material, a conductive gate, a second insulative material, and a top source/drain region. The stack has a vertical sidewall with a bottom portion along the bottom source/drain region, a middle portion along the conductive gate, and a top portion along the top source/drain region. Third insulative material is along the middle portion of the vertical sidewall. A channel region material is along the third insulative material. The channel region material is directly against the top and bottom portions of the vertical sidewall. The channel region material has a thickness within a range of from greater than about 3 ? to less than or equal to about 10 ?; and/or has a thickness of from 1 monolayer to 7 monolayers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Chandra Mouli, Gurtej S. Sandhu
  • Patent number: 9337210
    Abstract: A vertical ferroelectric field effect transistor construction comprises an isolating core. A transition metal dichalcogenide material encircles the isolating core and has a lateral wall thickness of 1 monolayer to 7 monolayers. A ferroelectric gate dielectric material encircles the transition metal dichalcogenide material. Conductive gate material encircles the ferroelectric gate dielectric material. The transition metal dichalcogenide material extends elevationally inward and elevationally outward of the conductive gate material. A conductive contact is directly against a lateral outer sidewall of the transition metal dichalcogenide material that is a) elevationally inward of the conductive gate material, or b) elevationally outward of the conductive gate material. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Chandra Mouli, Gurtej S. Sandhu
  • Publication number: 20160087071
    Abstract: Some embodiments include methods of forming diodes in which a first electrode is formed to have a pedestal extending upwardly from a base. At least one layer is deposited along an undulating topography that extends across the pedestal and base, and a second electrode is formed over the least one layer. The first electrode, at least one layer, and second electrode together form a structure that conducts current between the first and second electrodes when voltage of one polarity is applied to the structure, and that inhibits current flow between the first and second electrodes when voltage having a polarity opposite to said one polarity is applied to the structure. Some embodiments include diodes having a first electrode that contains two or more projections extending upwardly from a base, having at least one layer over the first electrode, and having a second electrode over the at least one layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gurtej S. Sandhu, Chandra Mouli
  • Publication number: 20160087010
    Abstract: Some embodiments include vertical stacks of memory units, with individual memory units each having a memory element, a wordline, a bitline and at least one diode. The memory units may correspond to cross-point memory, and the diodes may correspond to band-gap engineered diodes containing two or more dielectric layers sandwiched between metal layers. Tunneling properties of the dielectric materials and carrier injection properties of the metals may be tailored to engineer desired properties into the diodes. The diodes may be placed between the bitlines and the memory elements, or may be placed between the wordlines and memory elements. Some embodiments include methods of forming cross-point memory arrays. The memory arrays may contain vertical stacks of memory unit cells, with individual unit cells containing cross-point memory and at least one diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Chandra Mouli
  • Patent number: 9276134
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a transistor includes a stack having a bottom source/drain region, a first insulative material, a conductive gate, a second insulative material, and a top source/drain region. The stack has a vertical sidewall with a bottom portion along the bottom source/drain region, a middle portion along the conductive gate, and a top portion along the top source/drain region. Third insulative material is along the middle portion of the vertical sidewall. A channel region material is along the third insulative material. The channel region material is directly against the top and bottom portions of the vertical sidewall. The channel region material has a thickness within a range of from greater than about 3 ? to less than or equal to about 10 ?; and/or has a thickness of from 1 monolayer to 7 monolayers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Chandra Mouli, Gurtej S. Sandhu
  • Patent number: 9276092
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a transistor having a drain region and a source region. A conductive gate is between the source and drain regions. First channel material is between the gate and the source region. The first channel material is spaced from the gate by one or more insulative materials. Second channel material is between the first channel material and the source region, and directly contacts the source region. The first and second channel materials are transition metal chalcogenide. One of the source and drain regions is a hole reservoir region and the other is an electron reservoir region. Tunnel dielectric material may be between the first and second channel materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Gurtej S. Sandhu, Chandra Mouli
  • Patent number: 9276081
    Abstract: Some embodiments include methods of forming diodes in which a first electrode is formed to have a pedestal extending upwardly from a base. At least one layer is deposited along an undulating topography that extends across the pedestal and base, and a second electrode is formed over the least one layer. The first electrode, at least one layer, and second electrode together form a structure that conducts current between the first and second electrodes when voltage of one polarity is applied to the structure, and that inhibits current flow between the first and second electrodes when voltage having a polarity opposite to said one polarity is applied to the structure. Some embodiments include diodes having a first electrode that contains two or more projections extending upwardly from a base, having at least one layer over the first electrode, and having a second electrode over the at least one layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gurtej S. Sandhu, Chandra Mouli
  • Publication number: 20160028418
    Abstract: A method includes determining, at a decoder of a first device, an offset value corresponding to an offset between a first particular packet and a second particular packet. The first device includes a de-jitter buffer. The method also includes transmitting the offset value to an encoder of a second device to enable the second device to send packets to the first device based on the offset value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha, Venkatesh Krishnan, Vivek Rajendran, Venkatraman S. Atti, Chandra Mouli Polisetty
  • Patent number: 9214527
    Abstract: Some embodiments include methods of forming diodes in which a first electrode is formed to have a pedestal extending upwardly from a base. At least one layer is deposited along an undulating topography that extends across the pedestal and base, and a second electrode is formed over the least one layer. The first electrode, at least one layer, and second electrode together form a structure that conducts current between the first and second electrodes when voltage of one polarity is applied to the structure, and that inhibits current flow between the first and second electrodes when voltage having a polarity opposite to said one polarity is applied to the structure. Some embodiments include diodes having a first electrode that contains two or more projections extending upwardly from a base, having at least one layer over the first electrode, and having a second electrode over the at least one layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gurtej S. Sandhu, Chandra Mouli
  • Patent number: 9202871
    Abstract: Devices for providing transistors with improved operating characteristics are provided. In one example, a system includes a processor and a memory device. A transistor of the processor or the memory device includes a channel in a semiconductor substrate that is undoped or intrinsic. A metal gate is disposed directly on top of the channel, and the bandgap of the semiconductor substrate and the work function of the metal form a Schottky barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Chandra Mouli
  • Publication number: 20150310905
    Abstract: A field effect transistor construction includes a semiconductive channel core. A source/drain region is at opposite ends of the channel core. A gate is proximate a periphery of the channel core. A gate insulator is between the gate and the channel core. The gate insulator has local regions radially there-through that have different capacitance at different circumferential locations relative to the channel core periphery. Additional constructions, and methods, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Chandra Mouli, Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy, F. Daniel Gealy
  • Patent number: 9159375
    Abstract: Some embodiments include selectively conducting devices having a first electrode, a second electrode, and dielectric material between the first and second electrodes. The dielectric material may be configured to conduct current from the first electrode to the second electrode when a first voltage is applied across the first electrode and the second electrode. Furthermore, the dielectric material may be configured to inhibit current from flowing from the second electrode to the first electrode when a second voltage having a polarity opposite that of a polarity of the first voltage is applied across the first electrode and the second electrode. The diode material may comprise a plurality of layers of different dielectric materials arranged in order of increasing barrier height. Quantum wells may form at junctions of layers of the plurality responsive to the first voltage. Some embodiments include diode forming methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Chandra Mouli
  • Patent number: 9111798
    Abstract: A memory includes a first memory cell and a second memory cell formed over the first memory cell. Each of the first memory cell and the second memory cell includes a channel region comprising silicon and carbon, a control gate, and a dielectric stack between the channel region and the control gate. A carbon content of the channel region of the second memory cell is less than a carbon content of the channel region of the first memory cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Chandra Mouli
  • Patent number: D748661
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventor: Chandra Mouli Addaguduru