Patents by Inventor Henning Seim

Henning Seim 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: 12046269
    Abstract: A two-bit memory device having a layer structure containing in order a bottom layer, a molecular layer containing a chiral compound having at least one polar functional group, and a top layer, which is electrically conductive and ferromagnetic. The chiral compound acts as a spin filter for electrons passing through the molecular layer. The chiral compound is of flexible conformation and has a conformation-flexible molecular dipole moment. An electrical resistance of the layer structure for an electrical current running from the bottom layer to the top layer has at least four distinct states which depend on the magnetization of the top layer and on the orientation of the conformation-flexible dipole moment of the chiral compound. Furthermore, a method for operating the two-bit memory device and an electronic component containing at least one two-bit memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Peer Kirsch, Sebastian Resch, Henning Seim, Itai Lieberman, Marc Tornow, Julian Dlugosch, Takuya Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 12035546
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of an electronic component comprising a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) using compounds of the formula I R1-(A1-Z1)r—(B1)n—(Z2-A2)s-Sp-G??(I) in which the groups occurring have the meanings defined in Claim 1; the present invention furthermore relates to the use of the components in electronic switching elements and to compounds for the production of the SAM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Peer Kirsch, Sebastian Resch, Henning Seim, Marc Tornow, Takuya Kamiyama, Gerd-Volker Roeschenthaler, Romana Pajkert, Jacob Woodruff, Charith Nanayakkara
  • Publication number: 20230301173
    Abstract: An electronic switching device, in particular tunnel junctions, containing an organic molecular layer for use in memory, sensors, field-effect transistors or Josephson junctions. More particularly, related to the field of random access non-volatile memristive memories (RRAM). Another aspect is a compound of formula I for use in a molecular layer. Also, the use of the molecular layer and processes for the production and operation of an electronic switching element and components based thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Peer KIRSCH, Henning SEIM, Frank VOGES, Holger HEIL
  • Publication number: 20230010658
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic switching device comprising an organic molecular layer in contact with a metal nitride electrode for use in memory, sensors, field-effect transistors or Josephson junctions. More particularly, the invention is included in the field of random access non-volatile memristive memories (RRAM). The invention thus further relates to an electronic component comprising a crossbar array comprising a multitude of said electronic switching devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Peer KIRSCH, Sebastian RESCH, Henning SEIM, Itai LIEBERMAN, Shintaro ARAI, Marc TORNOW, Takuya KAMIYAMA, Julian DLUGOSCH, Mansour MOINPOUR
  • Publication number: 20230002898
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of a molecular layer on a substrate using atomic layer deposition (ALD) techniques, for use in electronic components, in particular in memory elements of the ReRAM type. The present invention furthermore relates to compounds for the production of the molecular layer and to memory elements comprising the molecular layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Peer KIRSCH, Sebastian RESCH, Henning SEIM, Jacob WOODRUFF, Charith NANAYAKKARA
  • Publication number: 20220383924
    Abstract: A two-bit memory device having a layer structure containing in order a bottom layer, a molecular layer containing a chiral compound having at least one polar functional group, and a top layer, which is electrically conductive and ferromagnetic. The chiral compound acts as a spin filter for electrons passing through the molecular layer. The chiral compound is of flexible conformation and has a conformation-flexible molecular dipole moment. An electrical resistance of the layer structure for an electrical current running from the bottom layer to the top layer has at least four distinct states which depend on the magnetization of the top layer and on the orientation of the conformation-flexible dipole moment of the chiral compound. Furthermore, a method for operating the two-bit memory device and an electronic component containing at least one two-bit memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Peer KIRSCH, Sebastian RESCH, Henning SEIM, Itai LIEBERMAN, Marc TORNOW, Julian DLUGOSCH, Takuya KAMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220238816
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compounds of formula I R1-(A1-Z1)r—B1—ZL-A2-(Z3-A3)s-G ??(I) in which the occurring groups and parameters have the meanings given in claim 1, to the use thereof for the formation of molecular layers, in particular self assembled monolayers, to a process for the fabrication of a switching element for memristive devices comprising said molecular layers and to a memristic device comprising said switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Peer KIRSCH, Sebastian RESCH, Henning SEIM
  • Patent number: 11393987
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising a hole-injection layer comprising a metal complex as a main component and a method for producing the organic electroluminescent device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Ilona Stengel, Frank Voges, Teresa Mujica-Fernaud, Henning Seim
  • Publication number: 20220209150
    Abstract: The present invention relates to diamondoid compounds of formula I D1-ZD-(A1-Z1)r-B1-(Z2-A2)s-Sp-G ??(I) in which the occurring groups and parameters have the meanings given in claim 1, to the use thereof for the formation of molecular layers, in particular self assembled monolayers (SAM), to a process for the fabrication of a switching element for memristive devices comprising said molecular layers and to a memristic device comprising said switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Peer KIRSCH, Sebastian RESCH, Henning SEIM
  • Patent number: 11258020
    Abstract: A method produces cross-linked hole-conducting electric layers by converting functionalized p-dopants. The functionalized p-dopants are organic metal complexes containing at least one central atom and organic ligands, wherein the central atom is selected from a metal of the groups 6-15 of the periodic table, and at least one of the organic ligands is selected from the following formulas I-V, in which E independently of one another is oxygen, sulfur, selenium, or N(E1)x, and each Rv has at least one functionalizing group selected from the group RF including —OH, —COOH, —NH2, —NHR?, halogen, C2-C40-alkenyl, -dienyl, -alkinyl, -alkenyloxy, -dienyloxy, -alkinyloxy, acrylic acid, oxetan, oxiran, silane, acrylic acid, anhydride, and cyclobutane or consists of the groups, and G=C(RF)uHvFw where u+v+w=3 and n=1-4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: OSRAM OLED GmbH, MERCK Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Günter Schmid, Florian Kessler, Katja Stegmaier, Fabrice Eckes, Holger Heil, Beate Burkhart, Henning Seim
  • Publication number: 20210257569
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of an electronic component comprising a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) using compounds of the formula I R1-(A1-Z1)r—(B1)n—(Z2-A2)s-Sp-G ??(I) in which the groups occurring have the meanings defined in claim 1; the present invention furthermore relates to the use of the components in electronic switching elements and to compounds for the production of the SAM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Peer KIRSCH, Sebastian RESCH, Henning SEIM, Marc TORNOW, Takuya KAMIYAMA, Gerd-Volker ROESCHENTHALER, Romana PAJKERT
  • Patent number: 10862038
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising at least one polymer containing repeat triarylamine units and comprising at least one salt, to processes for production thereof and to the use thereof in electronic devices, especially in organic electroluminescent devices, called OLEDs (OLED=organic light-emitting diodes). The present invention also further relates to organic electroluminescent devices comprising these compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Fabrice Eckes, Katja Stegmaier, Holger Heil, Henning Seim
  • Patent number: 10651388
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising at least one polymer which contains triarylamine repeating units, and at least one metal complex, to methods for the production thereof, and the use thereof in electronic devices, especially in organic electroluminescent devices, so-called OLEDs (OLED=Organic Light Emitting Diode). The present invention also relates to organic electroluminescent devices which contain said compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Katja Maria Scheible, Fabrice Eckes, Holger Heil, Henning Seim
  • Patent number: 10566550
    Abstract: The present invention relates to formulations which comprise at least one organic semiconductor, at least one metal complex and at least one solvent and the use of these formulations in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Fabrice Eckes, Katja Scheible, Holger Heil, Dietmar Kunkel, Henning Seim
  • Publication number: 20190372025
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising a hole-injection layer comprising a metal complex as a main component and a method for producing the organic electroluminescent device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicants: Merck Patent GmbH, Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Ilona STENGEL, Frank VOGES, Teresa MUJICA-FERNAUD, Henning SEIM
  • Publication number: 20190140190
    Abstract: A method produces cross-linked hole-conducting electric layers by converting functionalized p-dopants. The functionalized p-dopants are organic metal complexes containing at least one central atom and organic ligands, wherein the central atom is selected from a metal of the groups 6-15 of the periodic table, and at least one of the organic ligands is selected from the following formulas I-V, in which E independently of one another is oxygen, sulfur, selenium, or N(E1)x, and each Rv has at least one functionalizing group selected from the group RF including —OH, —COOH, —NH2, —NHR?, halogen, C2-C40-alkenyl, -dienyl, -alkinyl, -alkenyloxy, -dienyloxy, -alkinyloxy, acrylic acid, oxetan, oxiran, silane, acrylic acid, anhydride, and cyclobutane or consists of the groups, and G=C(RF)uHvFw where u+v+w=3 and n=1-4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Günter Schmid, Florian Kessler, Katja Stegmaier, Fabrice Eckes, Holger Heil, Beate Burkhart, Henning Seim
  • Publication number: 20190074453
    Abstract: The present invention relates to formulations which comprise at least one organic semiconductor, at least one metal complex and at least one solvent and the use of these formulations in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Fabrice ECKES, Katja STEGMAIER, Holger HEIL, Dietmar KUNKEL, Henning SEIM
  • Publication number: 20170365785
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising at least one polymer containing repeat triarylamine units and comprising at least one salt, to processes for production thereof and to the use thereof in electronic devices, especially in organic electroluminescent devices, called OLEDs (OLED=organic light-emitting diodes). The present invention also further relates to organic electroluminescent devices comprising these compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Fabrice Eckes, Katja Stegmaier, Holger Heil, Henning Seim
  • Publication number: 20170365786
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising at least one polymer which contains triarylamine repeating units, and at least one metal complex, to methods for the production thereof, and the use thereof in electronic devices, especially in organic electroluminescent devices, so-called OLEDs (OLED=Organic Light Emitting Diode).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Katja Stegmaier, Fabrice Eckes, Holger Heil, Henning Seim