Patents by Inventor Huai Lin

Huai Lin 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: 12160529
    Abstract: A reconfigurable PUF device based on fully electric field-controlled domain wall motion includes a voltage control layer, upper electrodes, a lower electrode, antiferromagnetic pinning layers, and a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). The MTJ includes, from bottom to top, a ferromagnetic reference layer, a potential barrier tunneling layer and a ferromagnetic free layer. In the device, an energy potential well is formed in a middle portion of the ferromagnetic free layer by applying a voltage to the voltage control layer to control magnetic anisotropy, and a current is fed into either of the upper electrodes to drive generation of the magnetic domain walls and pin the magnetic domain walls to the potential well. After the voltage is removed, the potential well is lowered so that the magnetic domain walls are in a metastable state, thereby either a high resistance state or a low resistance state is randomly obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Guozhong Xing, Huai Lin, Di Wang, Long Liu, Kaiping Zhang, Guanya Wang, Yan Wang, Xiaoxin Xu, Ming Liu
  • Patent number: 12154609
    Abstract: A magnetoresistive memory cell includes a first magnetic tunnel junction, a second magnetic tunnel junction and a metal layer. The first magnetic tunnel junction and the second magnetic tunnel junction each are disposed on the metal layer; the metal layer is configured to pass write current, a projection line of an easy axis of the first magnetic tunnel junction on a plane where the metal layer is located forms a first angle against a direction of the write current, and a projection line of an easy axis of the second magnetic tunnel junction on the plane where the metal layer is located forms a second angle against a direction opposite to the direction of the write current; the first angle and the second angle are all less than 90°; the first magnetic tunnel junction and the second magnetic tunnel junction are configured to pass read current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Guozhong Xing, Long Liu, Di Wang, Huai Lin, Ming Liu
  • Patent number: 12140816
    Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a movable portion for holding an optical element, a fixed portion, a driving assembly used for driving the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion, and an adhesive element. The movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion, and the fixed portion includes a case and a bottom affixed on the case. The case has a top wall and a side wall. The top wall is plate-shaped and is perpendicular to a main axis, and the side wall is not parallel to the top wall. An accommodating space for accommodating the movable portion is formed between the case and the bottom. The adhesive element is in direct contact with the bottom, the case, and the driving assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Kun-Shih Lin, Yu-Sheng Li, Shih-Ting Huang, Yi-Hsin Nieh, Yu-Huai Liao
  • Patent number: 12133344
    Abstract: A display device includes first and second display modules and first and second turning pieces that include a first coupling piece, a first turning piece, a second turning piece, and a third turning piece, a second coupling piece and a guiding device. When the first and second display modules are switched between folding and unfolding, the first turning piece pivots relative to the first coupling piece and the second turning piece, and the third turning piece pivots relative to the second coupling piece and the second turning piece. When the display module is switched from folded to unfolded, the other side of the first display module relative to the side is pulled, the side of the first display module is guided by one end of the guiding device and slides to the other end, the first and second display modules are symmetrically unfolded with the side edge as the center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: STAR ASIA VISION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chien-Feng Chang, Tsung-Huai Lee, Yu-Hung Hsiao, Chan-Peng Lin, Shang-Chien Wu
  • Publication number: 20240356544
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe an integrated circuit (IC) device that includes a multi-protocol, multi-cast, and multi-root network-on-chip (NoC) with dynamic resource allocation (DFxNoC). A DFxNoC may include a plurality of end-points (EPs) that include functional circuitry, first and second root devices, and a bus network that includes multi-port switch circuits and a network of fixed links amongst the multi-port switch circuits, the root devices, and the EPs, where the root devices output respective first and second clocks, and where the multi-port switch circuits are dynamically configurable to route the first and second clocks to respective first and second selectable sets of one or more of the EPs over the network of fixed links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Rambabu NERUKONDA, Albert Shih-Huai LIN, Sreedhar BORRA, Rajat CHADHA, Amitava MAJUMDAR
  • Publication number: 20240334838
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an SOT-MRAM memory cell, including: a bottom electrode; a magnetic tunnel junction layer located on the bottom electrode; an orbital Hall effect layer located on the magnetic tunnel junction layer; a first transistor, a drain of which is connected to the orbital Hall effect layer; and a second transistor, a drain of which is connected to the bottom electrode. The present disclosure further provides an SOT-MRAM memory, an operation method, and an SOT-MRAM memory array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Guozhong Xing, Long Liu, Xuefeng Zhao, Di Wang, Huai Lin, Hao Zhang, Ziwei Wang
  • Publication number: 20240314956
    Abstract: To eliminate galvanic corrosion, a housing includes a clad material. The clad material includes an interior metal disposed within an exterior metal. The exterior metal is different from the interior metal. The housing further includes a clad interface and a melt interface. The melt interface includes a layer of hardened flux disposed on a portion of the interior metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew J. Cheung, Burak Metin, Martin J. Auclair, Hongsheng Lin, Huai Z. Yang, Jurgen Shestani, Logan M. Ames, Alistair F. Moras
  • Publication number: 20240264405
    Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided and includes a fixed assembly, a movable assembly, a driving assembly and a stopping assembly. The fixed assembly has a main axis. The movable assembly is configured to connect an optical element, and the movable assembly is movable relative to the fixed assembly. The driving assembly is configured to drive the movable assembly to move relative to the fixed assembly. The stopping assembly is configured to limit the movement of the movable assembly relative to the fixed assembly within a range of motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Chao-Chang HU, Liang-Ting HO, Chen-Er HSU, Yi-Liang CHAN, Fu-Lai TSENG, Fu-Yuan WU, Chen-Chi KUO, Ying-Jen WANG, Wei-Han HSIA, Yi-Hsin TSENG, Wen-Chang LIN, Chun-Chia LIAO, Shou-Jen LIU, Chao-Chun CHANG, Yi-Chieh LIN, Shang-Yu HSU, Yu-Huai LIAO, Shih-Wei HUNG, Sin-Hong LIN, Kun-Shih LIN, Yu-Cheng LIN, Wen-Yen HUANG, Wei-Jhe SHEN, Chih-Shiang WU, Sin-Jhong SONG, Che-Hsiang CHIU, Sheng-Chang LIN
  • Publication number: 20240232592
    Abstract: Provided are a reconfigurable neuron device based on ion gate regulation and a method of preparing the same. The device includes: a synthetic antiferromagnetic layer, a metal oxide layer, an ionic liquid layer and a top electrode layer which are sequentially stacked from bottom to top. A left boundary antiferromagnetic layer and a right boundary antiferromagnetic layer having opposite magnetization directions are provided on two opposite edges of a bottom end of the synthetic antiferromagnetic layer, and a magnetic tunnel junction configured to output a spike signal is further provided in a middle portion of the bottom end of the synthetic antiferromagnetic layer. The metal oxide layer, the ionic liquid layer and the top electrode layer constitute an ion gate, the ionic liquid layer includes a positive ion and a negative ion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Xuefeng ZHAO, Guozhong XING, Di WANG, Ziwei WANG, Long LIU, Huai LIN, Hao ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240224820
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a memristor, including a transistor and a resistive random access memory, where a drain electrode of the transistor is connected to a bottom electrode of the resistive random access memory; and the resistive random access memory includes: the bottom electrode, a resistive random access material layer, a current compliance layer and a top electrode from bottom to top, where the current compliance layer is configured to stabilize a fluctuation of a low resistance by reducing a surge current and optimizing a heat distribution, so as to improve a calculation accuracy of a Hamming distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Guozhong XING, Huai LIN, Zuheng WU, Jiebin NIU, Zhihong YAO, Dashan SHANG, Ling LI, Ming LIU
  • Publication number: 20240122075
    Abstract: An activation function generator based on a magnetic domain wall driven magnetic tunnel junction and a method for manufacturing the same are provided, including: a spin orbit coupling layer configured to generate a spin orbit torque; a ferromagnetic free layer formed on the spin orbit coupling layer and configured to provide a magnetic domain wall motion racetrack; a nonmagnetic barrier layer formed on the ferromagnetic free layer; a ferromagnetic reference layer formed on the nonmagnetic barrier layer; a top electrode formed on the ferromagnetic reference layer; antiferromagnetic pinning layers formed on two ends of the ferromagnetic free layer; a left electrode and a right electrode respectively formed at two positions on the antiferromagnetic pinning layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Guozhong XING, Long LIU, Di WANG, Huai LIN, Yan WANG, Xiaoxin XU, Ming LIU
  • Publication number: 20240087628
    Abstract: A multi-resistance-state spintronic device, including: a top electrode and a bottom electrode respectively connected to a read-write circuit; and a magnetic tunnel junction between two electrodes. The magnetic tunnel junction includes from top to bottom: a ferromagnetic reference layer, a barrier tunneling layer, a ferromagnetic free layer, and a spin-orbit coupling layer. Nucleation centers are provided at two ends of the ferromagnetic free layer to generate a magnetic domain wall; the spin-orbit coupling layer is connected to the bottom electrode, and when a write pulse is applied, an electron spin current is generated and drives the magnetic domain wall through a spin-orbit torque to move; a plurality of local magnetic domain wall pinning centers are provided at an interface between the spin-orbit coupling layer and the ferromagnetic free layer to enhance a strength of a DM interaction constant between interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Guozhong XING, Huai LIN, Feng ZHANG, Di WANG, Long LIU, Changqing XIE, Ling LI, Ming LIU
  • Publication number: 20240071451
    Abstract: The three-state spintronic device includes: a bottom electrode, a magnetic tunnel junction and a top electrode from bottom to top. The magnetic tunnel junction includes: a spin-orbit coupling layer, a ferromagnetic free layer, a barrier tunneling layer, a ferromagnetic reference layer, three local magnetic domain wall pinning centers and domain wall nucleation centers. An antisymmetric exchange interaction is modulated, and the magnetic domain wall pinning centers are embedded in an interface between a heavy metal and the ferromagnetic free layer. The magnetic domain wall nucleation centers are at two ends of the ferromagnetic free layer. A current pulse flows through the spin-orbit coupling layer to generate a spin current and the spin current is injected into the ferromagnetic free layer. Under a control of all-electrical controlled, an effective field of a spin-orbit torque drives domain wall to move and displace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Huai LIN, Guozhong XING, Zuheng WU, Long LIU, Di WANG, Cheng LU, Peiwen ZHANG, Changqing XIE, Ling LI, Ming LIU
  • Publication number: 20240013826
    Abstract: Provided is a spintronic device, a memory cell, a memory array, and a read and write circuit applied in a field of integration technology. The spintronic device includes: a bottom electrode; a spin orbit coupling layer, arranged on the bottom electrode; at least one pair of magnetic tunnel junctions, arranged on the spin orbit coupling layer, wherein each of the magnetic tunnel junctions includes a free layer, a tunneling layer, and a reference layer arranged sequentially from bottom to top, and wherein magnetization directions of reference layers of two magnetic tunnel junctions of each pair of the magnetic tunnel junctions are opposite; and a top electrode, arranged on a reference layer of each of the magnetic tunnel junctions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Guozhong Xing, Di Wang, Long Liu, Huai Lin, Ming Liu
  • Publication number: 20240005974
    Abstract: A self-reference storage structure includes: three transistors, including a first transistor T1, a second transistor T2, and a third transistor T3; and two magnetic tunnel junctions, including a first magnetic tunnel junction MTJ0 and a second magnetic tunnel junction MTJ1. The first magnetic tunnel junction MTJ0 is connected in series between the first transistor T1 and the second transistor T2, and the second magnetic tunnel junction MTJ1 is connected in series between the second transistor T2 and the third transistor T3. When the first transistor T1, the second transistor T2 and the third transistor T3 are turned on, one-bit binary information is written; and when data is stored, one-bit binary write can be implemented only by applying an unidirectional current pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Guozhong XING, Huai LIN, Yu LIU, Kaiping ZHANG, Kangwei ZHANG, Hangbing LV, Changqing XIE, Qi LIU, Ling LI, Ming LIU
  • Patent number: 11860228
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) chip device includes testing interface circuity and testing circuitry to test the operation of the IC chips of the IC chip device. The IC chip device includes a first IC chip that comprises first testing circuitry. The first testing circuitry receives a mode select signal, a clock signal, and encoded signals, and comprises finite state machine (FSM) circuitry, decoder circuitry, and control circuitry. The FSM circuitry determines an instruction based on the mode select signal and the clock signal. The decoder circuitry decodes the encoded signals to generate a decoded signal. The control circuitry generates a control signal from the instruction and the decoded signal. The control signal indicates a test to be performed by the first testing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Albert Shih-Huai Lin, Niravkumar Patel, Amitava Majumdar, Jane Wang Sowards
  • Publication number: 20230394291
    Abstract: A neuron device including: an antiferromagnetic pinning layer, a first ferromagnetic layer and a spin orbit coupling layer formed on a substrate in sequence; a free layer formed on the spin orbit coupling layer and moving a magnetic domain wall according to a spin orbit torque; a tunneling layer formed on the free layer; a left pinning layer and a right pinning layer formed on two sides of the free layer and having opposite magnetization directions; and a reference layer formed on the tunneling layer; wherein the free layer, the tunneling layer and the reference layer constitute a magnetic tunnel junction, and the magnetic tunnel junction is configured to read neuronal signals. Also provided is a method for preparing a neuron device based on a spin orbit torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACANDEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Guozhong XING, Di Wang, Huai LIN, Long LIU, Ming LIU
  • Publication number: 20230366929
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) chip device includes testing interface circuitry and testing circuitry to test the operation of the IC chips of the IC chip device. The IC chip device includes a first IC chip that comprises first testing circuitry. The first testing circuitry receives a mode select signal, a clock signal, and encoded signals, and comprises finite state machine (FSM) circuitry, decoder circuitry, and control circuitry. The FSM circuitry determines an instruction based on the mode select signal and the clock signal. The decoder circuitry decodes the encoded signals to generate a decoded signal. The control circuitry generates a control signal from the instruction and the decoded signal. The control signal indicates a test to be performed by the first testing circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Albert Shih-Huai LIN, Niravkumar PATEL, Amitava MAJUMDAR, Jane Wang SOWARDS
  • Publication number: 20230337548
    Abstract: An SOT-driven field-free switching MRAM and an array thereof. From top to bottom, the SOT-MRAM sequentially includes: a selector (1) configured to turn on or turn off the SOT-MRAM under an action of an external voltage; a magnetic tunnel junction (2), including a ferromagnetic reference layer, a tunneling layer and a ferromagnetic free layer arranged sequentially from top to bottom; and a spin-orbit coupling layer (3) made of one or more selected from heavy metal, doped heavy metal, heavy metal alloy, metal oxide, dual heavy metal layers, semiconductor material, two-dimensional semi-metal material and anti-ferromagnetic material. The spin-orbit coupling layer is configured to generate an in-plane effective field in the ferromagnetic free layer by using the interlayer exchange coupling effect and generate spin-orbit torques by using the spin Hall effect, so as to perform a deterministic data storage in the magnetic tunnel junction (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Guozhong XING, Huai LIN, Yu LIU, Peiwen ZHANG, Changqing XIE, Ling LI, Ming LIU
  • Patent number: 11790968
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a spintronic device, a SOT-MRAM storage cell, a storage array and a in-memory computing circuit. The spintronic device includes a ferroelectric/ferromagnetic heterostructure, a magnetic tunnel junction, and a heavy metal layer between the ferroelectric/ferromagnetic heterostructure and the magnetic tunnel junction; the ferroelectric/ferromagnetic heterostructure includes a multiferroic material layer and a ferromagnetic layer arranged in a stacked manner, and the magnetic tunnel junction includes a free layer, an insulating layer and a reference layer arranged in a stacked manner, and the heavy metal layer is disposed between the ferromagnetic layer and the free layer. According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, the spintronic device, the SOT-MRAM storage cell, the storage array and the in-memory computing circuit can realize deterministic magnetization inversion under the condition of no applied field assistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Guozhong Xing, Huai Lin, Cheng Lu, Qi Liu, Hangbing Lv, Ling Li, Ming Liu