Patents by Inventor Damon Brooks Farmer
Damon Brooks Farmer 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).
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Patent number: 11915926Abstract: A porous thin film includes a framework that includes a plurality of pores. The pores extend from an opening located at an upper surface of the framework to a bottom surface contained in the framework. A pore-coating film is formed on sidewalls and the bottom surface of the pores.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Leonidas Ernesto Ocola, Eric A. Joseph, Hiroyuki Miyazoe, Takashi Ando, Damon Brooks Farmer
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Patent number: 11882770Abstract: Embodiments are provided for fabrication of superconducting devices using area-selective deposition of a metal nitride. In some embodiments, a method can include providing a thermally treated carbon layer, and selectively depositing a metal nitride using the thermally treated carbon layer for formation of a superconducting device.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Rudy J. Wojtecki, Damon Brooks Farmer, Charles Thomas Rettner, Noel Arellano, Alexander Friz, Matthew W. Copel
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Patent number: 11804656Abstract: A semiconductor structure comprises a substrate, a patch of optically tunable material disposed over the substrate, a first electrode coupled to the patch of optically tunable material and a switch providing a current source, and a second electrode coupled to the patch of optically tunable material and a ground voltage. The first electrode and the second electrode are configured to modify a state of the patch of optically tunable material to adjust a reflectivity of the patch of optically tunable material.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Abram L. Falk, Jessie Carrigan Rosenberg, Kafai Lai, Damon Brooks Farmer
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Patent number: 11789334Abstract: A tunable metasurface is provided. The tunable metasurface includes a mirror, a dielectric layer disposed on the mirror, a metallic antenna and a phase change material (PCM) layer. The PCM layer is interposed between the dielectric layer and the metallic antenna. The PCM layer is configured to be amorphous or crystalline. The mirror, the dielectric layer, the metallic antenna and the PCM layer cooperatively form a Fabry Perot cavity in which light incident on the metallic antenna from free space is reflected between the mirror and the metallic antenna. The PCM layer has blanket dimensions relative to those of the metallic antenna such that the Fabry Perot cavity is critically coupled with the free space when the PCM layer is only one of amorphous and crystalline.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kafai Lai, Abram L. Falk, Damon Brooks Farmer, Guy M. Cohen
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Publication number: 20230200098Abstract: A nanotube polariton quantum dot photon source device includes a substrate. A nanotube is arranged on the substrate, and an incident light source is configured to generate an exciton-plasmon polariton excitation in the nanotube. The nanotube emits a photon in response to the generated exciton plasmon polariton excitation. The nanotube has a length L < 50 nm to emit one or more photons at a desired frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Abram L. Falk, Damon Brooks Farmer, Anil Yuksel
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Publication number: 20230094688Abstract: A tunable metasurface is provided. The tunable metasurface includes a mirror, a dielectric layer disposed on the mirror, a metallic antenna and a phase change material (PCM) layer. The PCM layer is interposed between the dielectric layer and the metallic antenna. The PCM layer is configured to be amorphous or crystalline. The mirror, the dielectric layer, the metallic antenna and the PCM layer cooperatively form a Fabry Perot cavity in which light incident on the metallic antenna from free space is reflected between the mirror and the metallic antenna. The PCM layer has blanket dimensions relative to those of the metallic antenna such that the Fabry Perot cavity is critically coupled with the free space when the PCM layer is only one of amorphous and crystalline.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Kafai Lai, Abram L. Falk, Damon Brooks Farmer, Guy M. Cohen
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Publication number: 20230097847Abstract: A porous thin film includes a framework that includes a plurality of pores. The pores extend from an opening located at an upper surface of the framework to a bottom surface contained in the framework. A pore-coating film is formed on sidewalls and the bottom surface of the pores.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Leonidas Ernesto Ocola, Eric A. Joseph, Hiroyuki Miyazoe, Takashi Ando, Damon Brooks Farmer
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Publication number: 20220190229Abstract: Embodiments are provided for fabrication of superconducting devices using area-selective deposition of a metal nitride. In some embodiments, a method can include providing a thermally treated carbon layer, and selectively depositing a metal nitride using the thermally treated carbon layer for formation of a superconducting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Rudy J. Wojtecki, Damon Brooks Farmer, Charles Thomas Rettner, Noel Arellano, Alexander Friz, Matthew W. Copel
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Patent number: 11349061Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of producing a computing device includes providing a semiconductor substrate, and patterning a mask on the semiconductor substrate, the mask exposing a first portion of the semiconductor substrate and covering a second portion of the semiconductor substrate. The method includes implanting the first portion of the semiconductor substrate with a dopant. The method includes annealing the first portion of the semiconductor substrate to form an annealed doped region, while maintaining the second portion of the semiconductor substrate as an unannealed portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Steven J. Holmes, Devendra K. Sadana, Brent A. Wacaser, Damon Brooks Farmer
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Patent number: 11322684Abstract: An apparatus includes two or more electrically rotatable antennas providing a reconfigurable metasurface, each of the electrically rotatable antennas including a disk of optically tunable material. The apparatus also includes a control circuit including a plurality of switches each coupled to (i) one of a plurality of electrodes, the plurality of electrodes being arranged proximate different portions of at least one surface of each of the disks of optically tunable material and (ii) to at least one of a current source and a ground voltage. The control circuit is configured to modify states of portions of the optically tunable material in each of the disks of optically tunable material utilizing current supplied between at least two of the plurality of electrodes to adjust reflectivity of the portions of the optically tunable material to dynamically reconfigure respective antenna shape configurations of each of the electrically rotatable antennas.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Abram L. Falk, Jessie Carrigan Rosenberg, Damon Brooks Farmer, Kafai Lai
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Patent number: 11314108Abstract: An apparatus includes two or more tunable antennas providing a reconfigurable metasurface, each of the tunable antennas including a plurality of pixels of optically tunable material, and a control circuit including switches providing current sources and a ground voltage, the switches being coupled to respective ones of the pixels of optically tunable material in each of the tunable antennas via first electrodes, the ground voltage being coupled to respective ones of the pixels of optically tunable material in each of the tunable antennas via second electrodes. The control circuit is configured to modify states of respective ones of the plurality of pixels of optically tunable material in the tunable antennas utilizing current supplied between the first electrodes and the second electrodes to adjust reflectivity of the plurality of pixels of optically tunable material in each of the tunable antennas to dynamically reconfigure respective antenna shape configurations of the tunable antennas.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Abram L. Falk, Jessie Carrigan Rosenberg, Kafai Lai, Damon Brooks Farmer
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Publication number: 20210384405Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of producing a computing device includes providing a semiconductor substrate, and patterning a mask on the semiconductor substrate, the mask exposing a first portion of the semiconductor substrate and covering a second portion of the semiconductor substrate. The method includes implanting the first portion of the semiconductor substrate with a dopant. The method includes annealing the first portion of the semiconductor substrate to form an annealed doped region, while maintaining the second portion of the semiconductor substrate as an unannealed portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Steven J. Holmes, Devendra K. Sadana, Brent A. Wacaser, Damon Brooks Farmer
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Publication number: 20210336345Abstract: A semiconductor structure comprises a substrate, a patch of optically tunable material disposed over the substrate, a first electrode coupled to the patch of optically tunable material and a switch providing a current source, and a second electrode coupled to the patch of optically tunable material and a ground voltage. The first electrode and the second electrode are configured to modify a state of the patch of optically tunable material to adjust a reflectivity of the patch of optically tunable material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Abram L. Falk, Jessie Carrigan Rosenberg, Kafai Lai, Damon Brooks Farmer
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Patent number: 11152705Abstract: An apparatus includes two or more groups of antennas, each including two or more patches of optically tunable material providing two or more antennas. The tunable geometric metasurface also includes a control circuit including a plurality of switches providing current sources and a ground voltage. The plurality of switches are coupled to respective ones of the patches of optically tunable material in each of the groups of antennas via first electrodes. The ground voltage is coupled to respective ones of the patches of optically tunable material in each of the groups of antennas via second electrodes. The control circuit is configured to modify states of the antennas in each of the groups of antennas utilizing the first electrodes and the second electrodes to adjust reflectivity of the patches of optically tunable material to provide a tunable geometric metasurface.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Abram L. Falk, Jessie Carrigan Rosenberg, Kafai Lai, Damon Brooks Farmer
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Patent number: 11048023Abstract: An apparatus includes an array of metal nanowires embedded in a matrix of optically tunable material providing a tunable hyperbolic metamaterial, and a control circuit including (i) a current source coupled to first ends of the array of metal nanowires and (ii) a ground voltage coupled to second ends of the array of metal nanowires. The control circuit is configured to modify a state of the optically tunable material utilizing current supplied between the first and second ends of the array of metal nanowires to dynamically reconfigure optical properties of the tunable hyperbolic metamaterial.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Abram L. Falk, Damon Brooks Farmer, Jessie Carrigan Rosenberg
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Publication number: 20210048693Abstract: An apparatus includes two or more tunable antennas providing a reconfigurable metasurface, each of the tunable antennas including a plurality of pixels of optically tunable material, and a control circuit including switches providing current sources and a ground voltage, the switches being coupled to respective ones of the pixels of optically tunable material in each of the tunable antennas via first electrodes, the ground voltage being coupled to respective ones of the pixels of optically tunable material in each of the tunable antennas via second electrodes. The control circuit is configured to modify states of respective ones of the plurality of pixels of optically tunable material in the tunable antennas utilizing current supplied between the first electrodes and the second electrodes to adjust reflectivity of the plurality of pixels of optically tunable material in each of the tunable antennas to dynamically reconfigure respective antenna shape configurations of the tunable antennas.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Abram L. Falk, Jessie Carrigan Rosenberg, Kafai Lai, Damon Brooks Farmer
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Publication number: 20210048558Abstract: An apparatus includes an array of metal nanowires embedded in a matrix of optically tunable material providing a tunable hyperbolic metamaterial, and a control circuit including (i) a current source coupled to first ends of the array of metal nanowires and (ii) a ground voltage coupled to second ends of the array of metal nanowires. The control circuit is configured to modify a state of the optically tunable material utilizing current supplied between the first and second ends of the array of metal nanowires to dynamically reconfigure optical properties of the tunable hyperbolic metamaterial.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Abram L. Falk, Damon Brooks Farmer, Jessie Carrigan Rosenberg
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Publication number: 20210050515Abstract: An apparatus includes two or more electrically rotatable antennas providing a reconfigurable metasurface, each of the electrically rotatable antennas including a disk of optically tunable material. The apparatus also includes a control circuit including a plurality of switches each coupled to (i) one of a plurality of electrodes, the plurality of electrodes being arranged proximate different portions of at least one surface of each of the disks of optically tunable material and (ii) to at least one of a current source and a ground voltage. The control circuit is configured to modify states of portions of the optically tunable material in each of the disks of optically tunable material utilizing current supplied between at least two of the plurality of electrodes to adjust reflectivity of the portions of the optically tunable material to dynamically reconfigure respective antenna shape configurations of each of the electrically rotatable antennas.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Abram L. Falk, Jessie Carrigan Rosenberg, Damon Brooks Farmer, Kafai Lai
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Publication number: 20210028547Abstract: An apparatus includes two or more groups of antennas, each including two or more patches of optically tunable material providing two or more antennas. The tunable geometric metasurface also includes a control circuit including a plurality of switches providing current sources and a ground voltage. The plurality of switches are coupled to respective ones of the patches of optically tunable material in each of the groups of antennas via first electrodes. The ground voltage is coupled to respective ones of the patches of optically tunable material in each of the groups of antennas via second electrodes. The control circuit is configured to modify states of the antennas in each of the groups of antennas utilizing the first electrodes and the second electrodes to adjust reflectivity of the patches of optically tunable material to provide a tunable geometric metasurface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Abram L. Falk, Jessie Carrigan Rosenberg, Kafai Lai, Damon Brooks Farmer
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Patent number: 10333088Abstract: The subject embodiments relate to carbon nanotube (CNT) transistors with carrier blocking using thin dielectric under the drain or source and drain contacts. According to an embodiment, a transistor is provided that comprises a CNT channel layer, a metal source contact formed on the carbon nanotube channel layer, and a metal drain contact formed on the carbon nanotube channel layer. The transistor structure further comprises a drain dielectric layer formed adjacent to and between a lower surface of the metal drain contact and an upper surface of the carbon nanotube channel layer. In one or more implementations, the drain dielectric layer comprises a material that suppresses injection of a first type of carrier into the CNT channel layer and facilitates the injection of a second type of carrier into the CNT channel layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Damon Brooks Farmer, Shu-Jen Han, Jianshi Tang