Patents by Inventor Cheng-Ying Huang

Cheng-Ying Huang 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: 11557658
    Abstract: Transistors having a plurality of channel semiconductor structures, such as fins, over a dielectric material. A source and drain are coupled to opposite ends of the structures and a gate stack intersects the plurality of structures between the source and drain. Lateral epitaxial overgrowth (LEO) may be employed to form a super-lattice of a desired periodicity from a sidewall of a fin template structure that is within a trench and extends from the dielectric material. Following LEO, the super-lattice structure may be planarized with surrounding dielectric material to expose a top of the super-lattice layers. Alternating ones of the super-lattice layers may then be selectively etched away, with the retained layers of the super-lattice then laterally separated from each other by a distance that is a function of the super-lattice periodicity. A gate dielectric and a gate electrode may be formed over the retained super-lattice layers for a channel of a transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gilbert Dewey, Sean T. Ma, Tahir Ghani, Willy Rachmady, Cheng-Ying Huang, Anand S. Murthy, Harold W. Kennel, Nicholas G. Minutillo, Matthew V. Metz
  • Patent number: 11552104
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are stacked transistors with dielectric between channel materials, as well as related methods and devices. In some embodiments, an integrated circuit structure may include stacked strata of transistors, wherein a dielectric material is between channel materials of adjacent strata, and the dielectric material is surrounded by a gate dielectric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron D. Lilak, Gilbert W. Dewey, Willy Rachmady, Rishabh Mehandru, Ehren Mannebach, Cheng-Ying Huang, Anh Phan, Patrick Morrow, Kimin Jun
  • Publication number: 20230006065
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for an integrated circuit including a ferroelectric gate stack including a ferroelectric layer, an interfacial oxide layer, and a gate electrode. The ferroelectric layer can be voltage activated to switch between two ferroelectric states. Employing such a ferroelectric layer provides a reduction in leakage current in an off-state and provides an increase in charge in an on-state. The interfacial oxide layer can be formed between the ferroelectric layer and the gate electrode. Alternatively, the ferroelectric layer can be formed between the interfacial oxide layer and the gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gilbert DEWEY, Willy RACHMADY, Jack T. KAVALIEROS, Cheng-Ying HUANG, Matthew V. METZ, Sean T. MA, Harold KENNEL, Tahir GHANI
  • Patent number: 11532719
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device over a semiconductor substrate. A first bonding layer is above the semiconductor substrate. One or more nanowires are formed above the first bonding layer to be a channel layer. A gate electrode is around a nanowire, where the gate electrode is in contact with the first bonding layer and separated from the nanowire by a gate dielectric layer. A source electrode or a drain electrode is in contact with the nanowire, above a bonding area of a second bonding layer, and separated from the gate electrode by a spacer, where the second bonding layer is above and in direct contact with the first bonding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kimin Jun, Jack T. Kavalieros, Gilbert Dewey, Willy Rachmady, Aaron Lilak, Brennen Mueller, Hui Jae Yoo, Patrick Morrow, Anh Phan, Cheng-Ying Huang, Ehren Mannebach
  • Patent number: 11532619
    Abstract: Transistor structures including a non-planar body that has an active portion comprising a semiconductor material of a first height that is variable, and an inactive portion comprising an oxide of the semiconductor material of a second variable height, complementary to the first height. Gate electrodes and source/drain terminals may be coupled through a transistor channel having any width that varies according to the first height. Oxidation of a semiconductor material may be selectively catalyzed to convert a desired portion of a non-planar body into the oxide of the semiconductor material. Oxidation may be enhanced through the application of a catalyst, such as one comprising metal and oxygen, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Willy Rachmady, Cheng-Ying Huang, Gilbert Dewey, Jack Kavalieros, Caleb Barrett, Jay P. Gupta, Nishant Gupta, Kaiwen Hsu, Byungki Jung, Aravind S. Killampalli, Justin Railsback, Supanee Sukrittanon, Prashant Wadhwa
  • Publication number: 20220375916
    Abstract: Described herein are IC devices that include multilayer memory structures bonded to compute logic using low-temperature oxide bonding to realize high-density three-dimensional (3D) dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). An example device includes a compute die, a multilayer memory structure, and an oxide bonding interface coupling the compute die to the multilayer memory structure. The oxide bonding interface includes metal interconnects and an oxide material surrounding the metal interconnects and bonding the compute die to the memory structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Wilfred Gomes, Cheng-Ying Huang, Ashish Agrawal, Gilbert W. Dewey, Jack T. Kavalieros, Abhishek A. Sharma, Willy Rachmady
  • Patent number: 11508577
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques, systems, and method for a semiconductor device. Embodiments herein may present a semiconductor device including a substrate and an insulator layer above the substrate. A channel area may include an III-V material relaxed grown on the insulator layer. A source area may be above the insulator layer, in contact with the insulator layer, and adjacent to a first end of the channel area. A drain area may be above the insulator layer, in contact with the insulator layer, and adjacent to a second end of the channel area that is opposite to the first end of the channel area. The source area or the drain area may include one or more seed components including a seed material with free surface. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gilbert Dewey, Matthew Metz, Willy Rachmady, Sean Ma, Nicholas Minutillo, Cheng-Ying Huang, Tahir Ghani, Jack Kavalieros, Anand Murthy, Harold Kennel
  • Patent number: 11482621
    Abstract: Embodiments include transistor devices and a method of forming the transistor devices. A transistor device includes a first dielectric over a substrate, and vias on a first metal layer, where the first metal layer is on an etch stop layer that is on the first dielectric. The transistor device also includes a second dielectric over the first metal layer, vias, and etch stop layer, where the vias include sidewalls, top surfaces, and bottom surfaces, and stacked transistors on the second dielectric and the top surfaces of the vias, where the sidewalls and top surfaces of the vias are positioned within a footprint of the stacked transistors. The stacked transistors include gate electrodes and first and second transistor layers. The first metal layer includes conductive materials including tungsten or cobalt. The footprint may include a bottom surface of the first transistor layer and a bottom surface of the gate electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Willy Rachmady, Patrick Morrow, Aaron Lilak, Rishabh Mehandru, Cheng-Ying Huang, Gilbert Dewey, Kimin Jun, Ryan Keech, Anh Phan, Ehren Mannebach
  • Publication number: 20220328663
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are tunneling field effect transistors (TFETs), and related methods and computing devices. In some embodiments, a TFET may include: a first source/drain material having a p-type conductivity; a second source/drain material having an n-type conductivity; a channel material at least partially between the first source/drain material and the second source/drain material, wherein the channel material has a first side face and a second side face opposite the first side face; and a gate above the channel material, on the first side face, and on the second side face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Ying Huang, Willy Rachmady, Matthew V. Metz, Ashish Agrawal, Benjamin Chu-Kung, Uygar E. Avci, Jack T. Kavalieros, Ian A. Young
  • Patent number: 11469323
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for an integrated circuit including a ferroelectric gate stack including a ferroelectric layer, an interfacial oxide layer, and a gate electrode. The ferroelectric layer can be voltage activated to switch between two ferroelectric states. Employing such a ferroelectric layer provides a reduction in leakage current in an off-state and provides an increase in charge in an on-state. The interfacial oxide layer can be formed between the ferroelectric layer and the gate electrode. Alternatively, the ferroelectric layer can be formed between the interfacial oxide layer and the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gilbert Dewey, Willy Rachmady, Jack T. Kavalieros, Cheng-Ying Huang, Matthew V. Metz, Sean T. Ma, Harold Kennel, Tahir Ghani
  • Publication number: 20220310605
    Abstract: Multiple non-silicon semiconductor material layers may be stacked within a fin structure. The multiple non-silicon semiconductor material layers may include one or more layers that are suitable for P-type transistors. The multiple non-silicon semiconductor material layers may further include one or more one or more layers that are suited for N-type transistors. The multiple non-silicon semiconductor material layers may further include one or more intervening layers separating the N-type from the P-type layers. The intervening layers may be at least partially sacrificial, for example to allow one or more of a gate, source, or drain to wrap completely around a channel region of one or more of the N-type and P-type transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gilbert Dewey, Patrick Morrow, Ravi Pillarisetty, Rishabh Mehandru, Cheng-ying Huang, Willy Rachmady, Aaron Lilak
  • Publication number: 20220310610
    Abstract: Thin-film transistors and MIM capacitors in exclusion zones are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a zone with metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistors therein, and having a zone that excludes MOS transistors. A back-end-of-line (BEOL) structure is above the semiconductor substrate. A thin-film transistor (TFT) and/or a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor is in the BEOL structure. The TFT and/or MIM capacitor is vertically over the zone that excludes MOS transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Abhishek A. SHARMA, Willy RACHMADY, Cheng-Ying HUANG, Gilbert DEWEY, Rajat PAUL
  • Patent number: 11444159
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a channel layer on a buffer layer on a substrate. The channel layer has a first portion and a second portion adjacent to the first portion. The first portion comprises a first semiconductor. The second portion comprises a second semiconductor that has a bandgap greater than a bandgap of the first semiconductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sean T. Ma, Gilbert Dewey, Willy Rachmady, Matthew V. Metz, Cheng-Ying Huang, Harold W. Kennel, Jack T. Kavalieros, Anand S. Murthy, Tahir Ghani
  • Patent number: 11437405
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques for an integrated circuit (IC). The IC may include a first transistor, an insulator layer above the first transistor, and a second transistor above the insulator layer. The first transistor may be a p-type transistor including a channel in a substrate, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode. A first metal contact may be coupled to the first source electrode, while a second metal contact may be coupled to the first drain electrode. The insulator layer may be next to the first metal contact, and next to the second metal contact. The second transistor may include a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode. The second source electrode may be coupled to the first metal contact, or the second drain electrode may be coupled to the second metal contact. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gilbert Dewey, Patrick Morrow, Aaron Lilak, Willy Rachmady, Anh Phan, Ehren Mannebach, Hui Jae Yoo, Abhishek Sharma, Van H. Le, Cheng-Ying Huang
  • Publication number: 20220278227
    Abstract: Tunneling Field Effect Transistors (TFETs) are promising devices in that they promise significant performance increase and energy consumption decrease due to a steeper subthreshold slope (for example, smaller sub-threshold swing). In various embodiments, vertical fin-based TFETs can be fabricated in trenches, for example, silicon trenches. In another embodiment, vertical TFETs can be used on different material systems acting as a substrate and/or trenches (for example, Si, Ge, III-V semiconductors, GaN, and the like). In one embodiment, the tunneling direction in the channel of the vertical TFET can be perpendicular to the Si substrates. In one embodiment, this can be different than the tunneling direction in the channel of lateral TFETs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Ying Huang, Jack Kavalieros, Ian Young, Matthew Metz, Willy Rachmady, Uygar Avci, Ashish Agrawal, Benjamin Chu-Kung
  • Patent number: 11424335
    Abstract: Group III-V semiconductor devices having dual workfunction gate electrodes and their methods of fabrication are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a gallium arsenide layer on a substrate. A channel structure is on the gallium arsenide layer. The channel structure includes indium, gallium and arsenic. A source structure is at a first end of the channel structure and a drain structure is at a second end of the channel structure. A gate structure is over the channel structure, the gate structure having a first workfunction material laterally adjacent a second workfunction material. The second workfunction material has a different workfunction than the first workfunction material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sean T. Ma, Willy Rachmady, Gilbert Dewey, Cheng-Ying Huang, Dipanjan Basu
  • Publication number: 20220262796
    Abstract: Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having depopulated channel structures, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having depopulated channel structures using a selective bottom-up approach, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a vertical arrangement of nanowires above a substrate. The vertical arrangement of nanowires has one or more active nanowires above one or more oxide nanowires. A first gate stack is over and around the one or more active nanowires. A second gate stack is over and around the one or more oxide nanowires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Nicole THOMAS, Ehren MANNEBACH, Cheng-Ying HUANG, Marko RADOSAVLJEVIC
  • Publication number: 20220246608
    Abstract: Stacked transistor structures having a conductive interconnect between upper and lower transistors. In an embodiment, the interconnect is formed by first provisioning a protective layer over an area to be protected (gate dielectric or other sensitive material) of upper transistor, and then etching material adjacent and below the protected area to expose an underlying contact point of lower transistor. A metal is deposited into the void created by the etch to provide the interconnect. The protective layer is resistant to the etch process and is preserved in the structure, and in some cases may be utilized as a work-function metal. In an embodiment, the protective layer is formed by deposition of reactive semiconductor and metal material layers which are subsequently transformed into a work function metal or work function metal-containing compound. A remnant of unreacted reactive semiconductor material may be left in structure and collinear with protective layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron D. LILAK, Anh PHAN, Ehren MANNEBACH, Cheng-Ying HUANG, Stephanie A. BOJARSKI, Gilbert DEWEY, Orb ACTON, Willy RACHMADY
  • Patent number: 11404562
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are tunneling field effect transistors (TFETs), and related methods and computing devices. In some embodiments, a TFET may include: a first source/drain material having a p-type conductivity; a second source/drain material having an n-type conductivity; a channel material at least partially between the first source/drain material and the second source/drain material, wherein the channel material has a first side face and a second side face opposite the first side face; and a gate above the channel material, on the first side face, and on the second side face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Ying Huang, Willy Rachmady, Matthew V. Metz, Ashish Agrawal, Benjamin Chu-Kung, Uygar E. Avci, Jack T. Kavalieros, Ian A. Young
  • Patent number: 11398479
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes: a germanium-containing fin structure above a layer of insulation material; a group III-V semiconductor material containing fin structure above the layer of insulation material; a first gate structure on a portion of the germanium-containing fin structure; a second gate structure on a portion of the group III-V semiconductor material containing fin structure; a first S/D region above the layer of insulation material and laterally adjacent to the portion of the germanium-containing fin structure, the first S/D region comprising a p-type impurity and at least one of silicon or germanium; a second S/D region above the layer of insulation material and laterally adjacent to the portion of the group III-V semiconductor material containing fin structure, the second S/D region comprising an n-type impurity and a second group III-V semiconductor material; and a layer comprising germanium between the layer of insulation material and the second S/D region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Willy Rachmady, Abhishek A. Sharma, Ravi Pillarisetty, Patrick Morrow, Rishabh Mehandru, Aaron D. Lilak, Gilbert Dewey, Cheng-Ying Huang