Patents by Inventor Han Wui Then

Han Wui Then 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: 20230069054
    Abstract: Gallium nitride (GaN) integrated circuit technology with multi-layer epitaxy and layer transfer is described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first channel structure including a plurality of alternating first channel layers and second channel layers, the first channel layers including gallium and nitrogen, and the second layers including gallium, aluminum and nitrogen. A second channel structure is bonded to the first channel structure. The second channel structure includes a plurality of alternating third channel layers and fourth channel layers, the third channel layers including gallium and nitrogen, and the fourth layers including gallium, aluminum and nitrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Souvik GHOSH, Han Wui THEN, Pratik KOIRALA, Tushar TALUKDAR, Paul NORDEEN, Nityan NAIR, Marko RADOSAVLJEVIC, Ibrahim BAN, Kimin JUN, Jay GUPTA, Paul B. FISCHER, Nicole K. THOMAS, Thomas HOFF, Samuel James BADER
  • Publication number: 20230062922
    Abstract: Gallium nitride (GaN) selective epitaxial windows for integrated circuit technology is described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a substrate including silicon, the substrate having a top surface. A first trench is in the substrate, the first trench having a first width and a first height. A second trench is in the substrate, the second trench having a second width and a second height. The second width is greater than the first width, and the second height is greater than the first height. A first island is in the first trench, the first island including gallium and nitrogen and having first corner facets at least partially below the top surface of the substrate. A second island is in the second trench, the second island including gallium and nitrogen and having second corner facets at least partially below the top surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Samuel James BADER, Pratik KOIRALA, Nicole K. THOMAS, Han Wui THEN, Marko RADOSAVLJEVIC
  • Publication number: 20230057992
    Abstract: Gallium nitride (GaN) integrated circuit technology with resonators is described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a layer or substrate including gallium and nitrogen. A first plurality of electrodes is over the layer or substrate. A resonator layer is on the first plurality of electrodes, the resonator layer including aluminum and nitrogen. A second plurality of electrodes is on the resonator layer. Individual ones of the second plurality of electrodes are vertically over and aligned with corresponding individual ones of the first plurality of electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Tanay GOSAVI, Raseong KIM, Han Wui THEN, Ian A. YOUNG
  • Publication number: 20230054719
    Abstract: Gallium nitride (GaN) layer transfer and regrowth for integrated circuit technology is described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a substrate. An insulator layer is over the substrate. A device layer is directly on the insulator layer. The device layer has a thickness of less than approximately 500 nanometers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Pratik KOIRALA, Souvik GHOSH, Paul NORDEEN, Tushar TALUKDAR, Thomas HOFF, Ibrahim BAN, Kimin JUN, Samuel James BADER, Marko RADOSAVLJEVIC, Nicole K. THOMAS, Paul B. FISCHER, Han Wui THEN
  • Patent number: 11588037
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include planar III-N transistors with wrap-around gates and/or one or more wrap-around source/drain (S/D) contacts. An example IC structure includes a support structure (e.g., a substrate) and a planar III-N transistor. The transistor includes a channel stack of a III-N semiconductor material and a polarization material, provided over the support structure, a pair of S/D regions provided in the channel stack, and a gate stack of a gate dielectric material and a gate electrode material provided over a portion of the channel stack between the S/D regions, where the gate stack at least partially wraps around an upper portion of the channel stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nidhi Nidhi, Rahul Ramaswamy, Han Wui Then, Marko Radosavljevic, Sansaptak Dasgupta, Johann Christian Rode, Paul B. Fischer, Walid M. Hafez
  • Patent number: 11587862
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a microelectronic device that includes a substrate, at least one dielectric layer on the substrate and a plurality of conductive lines within the at least one dielectric layer. The microelectronic device also includes an air gap structure that is located below two or more of the plurality of conductive lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Tahoe Research, Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Wui Then, Sansaptak Dasgupta, Marko Radosavljevic, Sanaz K. Gardner
  • Patent number: 11587924
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are integrated circuit structures, packages, and devices that include resistors and/or capacitors which may be provided on the same substrate/die/chip as III-N devices, e.g., III-N transistors. An integrated circuit structure, comprising a base structure comprising a III-N material, the base structure having a conductive region of a doped III-N material. The IC structure further comprises a first contact element, including a first conductive element, a dielectric element, and a second conductive element, wherein the dielectric element is between the first conductive element and the second conductive element, and wherein the first conductive element is between the conductive region and the dielectric element. The IC structure further comprises a second contact element electrically coupled to the first contact element via the conductive region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nidhi Nidhi, Rahul Ramaswamy, Han Wui Then, Marko Radosavljevic, Johann Christian Rode, Paul B. Fischer, Walid M. Hafez
  • Publication number: 20230047449
    Abstract: Gallium nitride (GaN) integrated circuit technology is described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a substrate including silicon, the substrate having a top surface. A first trench is in the substrate, the first trench having a first width. A second trench is in the substrate, the second trench having a second width less than the first width. A first island is in the first trench, the first island including gallium and nitrogen and having first corner facets below the top surface of the substrate. A second island is in the second trench, the second island including gallium and nitrogen and having second corner facets below the top surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Nicole K. THOMAS, Samuel James BADER, Marko RADOSAVLJEVIC, Han Wui THEN, Pratik KOIRALA, Nityan NAIR
  • Publication number: 20230050491
    Abstract: High voltage metal insulator metal capacitors are described. In an example, a capacitor includes a first electrode plate, and a first capacitor dielectric on the first electrode plate. A second electrode plate is on the first capacitor dielectric and is over and parallel with the first electrode plate, and a second capacitor dielectric is on the second electrode plate. A third electrode plate is on the second capacitor dielectric and is over and parallel with the second electrode plate, and a third capacitor dielectric is on the third electrode plate. A fourth electrode plate is on the third capacitor dielectric and is over and parallel with the third electrode plate. In another example, a capacitor includes a first electrode, a capacitor dielectric on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the capacitor dielectric. The capacitor dielectric includes a plurality of alternating first dielectric layers and second dielectric layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Han Wui THEN, Marko RADOSAVLJEVIC
  • Patent number: 11581313
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include III-N transistors integrated on the same support structure as non-III-N transistors (e.g., Si-based transistors), using semiconductor regrowth. In one aspect, a non-III-N transistor may be integrated with an III-N transistor by depositing a III-N material, forming an opening in the III-N material, and epitaxially growing within the opening a semiconductor material other than the III-N material. Since the III-N material may serve as a foundation for forming III-N transistors, while the non-III-N material may serve as a foundation for forming non-III-N transistors, such an approach advantageously enables implementation of both types of transistors on a single support structure. Proposed integration may reduce costs and improve performance by enabling integrated digital logic solutions for III-N transistors and by reducing losses incurred when power is routed off chip in a multi-chip package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sansaptak Dasgupta, Johann Christian Rode, Han Wui Then, Marko Radosavljevic, Paul B. Fischer, Nidhi Nidhi, Rahul Ramaswamy, Sandrine Charue-Bakker, Walid M. Hafez
  • Patent number: 11575036
    Abstract: Gallium nitride (GaN) transistors with source and drain field plates are described. In an example, a transistor includes a gallium nitride (GaN) layer above a substrate, a gate structure over the GaN layer, a source region on a first side of the gate structure, a drain region on a second side of the gate structure, the second side opposite the first side, a source field plate above the source region, and a drain field plate above the drain region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Han Wui Then, Stephan Leuschner, Marko Radosavljevic, Sansaptak Dasgupta
  • Patent number: 11563098
    Abstract: A transistor is disclosed. The transistor includes a first part of a gate above a substrate that has a first width and a second part of the gate above the first part of the gate that is centered with respect to the first part of the gate and that has a second width that is greater than the first width. The first part of the gate and the second part of the gate form a single monolithic T-gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Marko Radosavljevic, Han Wui Then, Sansaptak Dasgupta, Paul Fischer
  • Patent number: 11557667
    Abstract: A device including a III-N material is described. The device includes a transistor structure having a first layer including a first group III-nitride (III-N) material, a polarization charge inducing layer above the first layer, the polarization charge inducing layer including a second III-N material, a gate electrode above the polarization charge inducing layer and a source structure and a drain structure on opposite sides of the gate electrode. The device further includes a plurality of peripheral structures adjacent to transistor structure, where each of the peripheral structure includes the first layer, but lacks the polarization charge inducing layer, an insulating layer above the peripheral structure and the transistor structure, wherein the insulating layer includes a first dielectric material. A metallization structure, above the peripheral structure, is coupled to the transistor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Marko Radosavljevic, Sansaptak Dasgupta, Han Wui Then, Ibrahim Ban, Paul B. Fischer
  • Patent number: 11558032
    Abstract: A bulk acoustic resonator architecture is fabricated by epitaxially forming a piezoelectric film on a top surface of post formed from an underlying substrate. In some cases, the acoustic resonator is fabricated to filter multiple frequencies. In some such cases, the resonator device includes two different resonator structures on a single substrate, each resonator structure configured to filter a desired frequency. Including two different acoustic resonators in a single RF acoustic resonator device enables that single device to filter two different frequencies in a relatively small footprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sansaptak Dasgupta, Bruce A. Block, Paul B. Fischer, Han Wui Then, Marko Radosavljevic
  • Patent number: 11552075
    Abstract: A device includes a diode that includes a first group III-nitride (III-N) material and a transistor adjacent to the diode, where the transistor includes the first III-N material. The diode includes a second III-N material, a third III-N material between the first III-N material and the second III-N material, a first terminal including a metal in contact with the third III-N material, a second terminal coupled to the first terminal through the first group III-N material. The device further includes a transistor structure, adjacent to the diode structure. The transistor structure includes the first, second, and third III-N materials, a source and drain, a gate electrode and a gate dielectric between the gate electrode and each of the first, second and third III-N materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sansaptak Dasgupta, Marko Radosavljevic, Han Wui Then, Paul Fischer, Walid Hafez
  • Patent number: 11545586
    Abstract: A Group III-Nitride (III-N) device structure is provided which comprises: a heterostructure having three or more layers comprising III-N material, an anode within a recess that extends through two or more of the layers, wherein the anode is in electrical contact with the first layer, a cathode comprising donor dopants, wherein the cathode is on the first layer of the heterostructure; and a conducting region in the first layer in direct contact to the cathode and conductively connected to the anode. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Harald Gossner, Peter Baumgartner, Uwe Hodel, Domagoj Siprak, Stephan Leuschner, Richard Geiger, Han Wui Then, Marko Radosavljevic, Sansaptak Dasgupta
  • Patent number: 11538901
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for forming an integrated circuit including a capacitor having a multilayer dielectric stack. For example, the capacitor may be a metal-insulator-metal capacitor (MIMcap), where the stack of dielectric layers is used for the insulator or ā€˜Iā€™ portion of the MIM structure. In some cases, the composite or multilayer stack for the insulator portion of the MIM structure may include a first oxide layer, a dielectric layer, a second oxide layer, and a high-k dielectric layer, as will be apparent in light of this disclosure. Further, the multilayer dielectric stack may include an additional high-k dielectric layer, for example. Use of such multilayer dielectric stacks can enable increases in capacitance density and/or breakdown voltage for a MIMcap device. Further, use of a multilayer dielectric stack can enable tuning of the breakdown and capacitance characteristics as desired. Other embodiments may be described and/or disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Han Wui Then, Sansaptak Dasgupta, Marko Radosavljevic
  • Patent number: 11538804
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are integrated circuit (IC) structures, packages, and devices that include thin-film transistors (TFTs) integrated on the same substrate/die/chip as III-N transistors. One example IC structure includes an III-N transistor in a first layer over a support structure (e.g., a substrate) and a TFT in a second layer over the support structure, where the first layer is between the support structure and the second layer. Another example IC structure includes a III-N semiconductor material and a TFT, where at least a portion of a channel material of the TFT is over at least a portion of the III-N semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Han Wui Then, Marko Radosavljevic, Sansaptak Dasgupta, Paul B. Fischer, Walid M. Hafez
  • Patent number: 11532601
    Abstract: System on Chip (SoC) solutions integrating an RFIC with a PMIC using a transistor technology based on group III-nitrides (III-N) that is capable of achieving high Ft and also sufficiently high breakdown voltage (BV) to implement high voltage and/or high power circuits. In embodiments, the III-N transistor architecture is amenable to scaling to sustain a trajectory of performance improvements over many successive device generations. In embodiments, the III-N transistor architecture is amenable to monolithic integration with group IV transistor architectures, such as planar and non-planar silicon CMOS transistor technologies. Planar and non-planar HEMT embodiments having one or more of recessed gates, symmetrical source and drain, regrown source/drains are formed with a replacement gate technique permitting enhancement mode operation and good gate passivation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Han Wui Then, Robert Chau, Valluri Rao, Niloy Mukherjee, Marko Radosavljevic, Ravi Pillarisetty, Gilbert Dewey, Jack Kavalieros
  • Publication number: 20220399324
    Abstract: A die assembly comprising: a first component layer having conductive through-connections in an insulator, a second component layer comprising a die, and an active device layer (ADL) at an interface between the first component layer and the second component layer. The ADL comprises active elements electrically coupled to the first component layer and the second component layer. The die assembly further comprises a bonding layer electrically coupling the ADL to the second component layer. In some embodiments, the die assembly further comprises another ADL at another interface between the first component layer and a package support opposite to the interface. The first component layer may comprise another die having through-substrate vias (TSVs). The die and the another die may be fabricated using different process nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Han Wui Then, Adel A. Elsherbini, Kimin Jun, Johanna M. Swan, Shawna M. Liff, Sathya Narasimman Tiagaraj, Gerald S. Pasdast, Aleksandar Aleksov, Feras Eid