Patents by Inventor Matthew Metz

Matthew Metz 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: 20220352068
    Abstract: IC interconnect structures including subtractively patterned features. Feature ends may be defined through multiple patterning of multiple cap materials for reduced misregistration. Subtractively patterned features may be lines integrated with damascene vias or with subtractively patterned vias, or may be vias integrated with damascene lines or with subtractively patterned lines. Subtractively patterned vias may be deposited as part of a planar metal layer and defined currently with interconnect lines. Subtractively patterned features may be integrated with air gap isolation structures. Subtractively patterned features may be include a barrier material on the bottom, top, or sidewall. A bottom barrier of a subtractively patterned features may be deposited with an area selective technique to be absent from an underlying interconnect feature. A barrier of a subtractively patterned feature may comprise graphene or a chalcogenide of a metal in the feature or in a seed layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Lin, Noriyuki Sato, Tristan Tronic, Michael Christenson, Christopher Jezewski, Jiun-Ruey Chen, James M. Blackwell, Matthew Metz, Miriam Reshotko, Nafees Kabir, Jeffery Bielefeld, Manish Chandhok, Hui Jae Yoo, Elijah Karpov, Carl Naylor, Ramanan Chebiam
  • Patent number: 11465127
    Abstract: An adsorbent bed, including at least one elementary composite structure that includes adsorbent particles in a polymer matrix, wherein the adsorbent bed has a bed packing, ?bed, defined as a volume occupied by the at least one elementary composite structure Vecs divided by a volume of the adsorbent bed Vbed where ?bed is greater than 0.60.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude, Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC
    Inventors: Philippe A. Coignet, Dean W. Kratzer, Antoine Pruvot, Federico Brandani, Matthew Metz, Elise Renou
  • Patent number: 11444205
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device including a substrate and a transistor above the substrate. The transistor includes a channel layer above the substrate, a conductive contact stack above the substrate and in contact with the channel layer, and a gate electrode separated from the channel layer by a gate dielectric layer. The conductive contact stack may be a drain electrode or a source electrode. In detail, the conductive contact stack includes at least a metal layer, and at least a metal sealant layer to reduce hydrogen diffused into the channel layer through the conductive contact stack. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporatiion
    Inventors: Arnab Sen Gupta, Matthew Metz, Benjamin Chu-Kung, Abhishek Sharma, Van H. Le, Miriam R. Reshotko, Christopher J. Jezewski, Ryan Arch, Ande Kitamura, Jack T. Kavalieros, Seung Hoon Sung, Lawrence Wong, Tahir Ghani
  • Patent number: 11444024
    Abstract: IC interconnect structures including subtractively patterned features. Feature ends may be defined through multiple patterning of multiple cap materials for reduced misregistration. Subtractively patterned features may be lines integrated with damascene vias or with subtractively patterned vias, or may be vias integrated with damascene lines or with subtractively patterned lines. Subtractively patterned vias may be deposited as part of a planar metal layer and defined currently with interconnect lines. Subtractively patterned features may be integrated with air gap isolation structures. Subtractively patterned features may be include a barrier material on the bottom, top, or sidewall. A bottom barrier of a subtractively patterned features may be deposited with an area selective technique to be absent from an underlying interconnect feature. A barrier of a subtractively patterned feature may comprise graphene or a chalcogenide of a metal in the feature or in a seed layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Lin, Noriyuki Sato, Tristan Tronic, Michael Christenson, Christopher Jezewski, Jiun-Ruey Chen, James M. Blackwell, Matthew Metz, Miriam Reshotko, Nafees Kabir, Jeffery Bielefeld, Manish Chandhok, Hui Jae Yoo, Elijah Karpov, Carl Naylor, Ramanan Chebiam
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20220199812
    Abstract: Transistor structures with monocrystalline metal chalcogenide channel materials are formed from a plurality of template regions patterned over a substrate. A crystal of metal chalcogenide may be preferentially grown from a template region and the metal chalcogenide crystals then patterned into the channel region of a transistor. The template regions may be formed by nanometer-dimensioned patterning of a metal precursor, a growth promoter, a growth inhibitor, or a defected region. A metal precursor may be a metal oxide suitable, which is chalcogenated when exposed to a chalcogen precursor at elevated temperature, for example in a chemical vapor deposition process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Carl Naylor, Chelsey Dorow, Kevin O'Brien, Sudarat Lee, Kirby Maxey, Ashish Verma Penumatcha, Tanay Gosavi, Patrick Theofanis, Chia-Ching Lin, Uygar Avci, Matthew Metz, Shriram Shivaraman
  • Publication number: 20220199468
    Abstract: An integrated circuit interconnect structure includes a metallization level above a first device level. The metallization level includes an interconnect structure coupled to the device structure, a conductive cap including an alloy of a metal of the interconnect structure and either silicon or germanium on an uppermost surface of the interconnect structure. A second device level above the conductive cap includes a transistor coupled with the conductive cap. The transistor includes a channel layer including a semiconductor material, where at least one sidewall of the conductive cap is co-planar with a sidewall of the channel layer. The transistor further includes a gate on a first portion of the channel layer, where the gate is between a source region and a drain region, where one of the source or the drain region is in contact with the conductive cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kimin Jun, Souvik Ghosh, Willy Rachmady, Ashish Agrawal, Siddharth Chouksey, Jessica Torres, Jack Kavalieros, Matthew Metz, Ryan Keech, Koustav Ganguly, Anand Murthy
  • Publication number: 20220199620
    Abstract: Integrated circuitry comprising a ribbon or wire (RoW) transistor stack within which the transistors have different threshold voltages (Vt). In some examples, a gate electrode of the transistor stack may include only one workfunction metal. A metal oxide may be deposited around one or more channels of the transistor stack as a solid-state source of a metal oxide species that will diffuse toward the channel region(s). As diffused, the metal oxide may remain (e.g., as a silicate, or hafnate) in close proximity to the channel region, thereby altering the dipole properties of the gate insulator material. Different channels of a transistor stack may be exposed to differing amounts or types of the metal oxide species to provide a range of Vt within the stack. After diffusion, the metal oxide may be stripped as sacrificial, or retained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nicole Thomas, Eric Mattson, Sudarat Lee, Scott B. Clendenning, Tobias Brown-Heft, I-Cheng Tung, Thoe Michaelos, Gilbert Dewey, Charles Kuo, Matthew Metz, Marko Radosavljevic, Charles Mokhtarzadeh
  • Publication number: 20220199619
    Abstract: A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transistor includes a first transistor with a first gate dielectric layer above a first channel, where the first gate dielectric layer includes Hf1-xZxO2, where 0.33<x<0.5. The first transistor further includes a first gate electrode on the first gate dielectric layer and a first source region and a first drain region on opposite sides of the first gate electrode. The CMOS transistor further includes a second transistor adjacent to the first transistor. The second transistor includes a second gate dielectric layer above a second channel, where the second gate dielectric layer includes Hf1-xZxO2, where 0.5<x<0.99, a second gate electrode on the second gate dielectric layer and a second source region and a second drain region on opposite sides of the second gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ashish Verma Penumatcha, Seung Hoon Sung, Jack Kavalieros, Uygar Avci, Tristan Tronic, Shriram Shivaraman, Devin Merrill, Tobias Brown-Heft, Kirby Maxey, Matthew Metz, Ian Young
  • Patent number: 11335793
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Ying Huang, Jack Kavalieros, Ian Young, Matthew Metz, Willy Rachmady, Uygar Avci, Ashish Agrawal, Benjamin Chu-Kung
  • Publication number: 20220140076
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques, systems, and method for a semiconductor device. Embodiments herein may present a semiconductor device having a channel area including a channel III-V material, and a source area including a first portion and a second portion of the source area. The first portion of the source area includes a first III-V material, and the second portion of the source area includes a second III-V material. The channel III-V material, the first III-V material and the second III-V material may have a same lattice constant. Moreover, the first III-V material has a first bandgap, and the second III-V material has a second bandgap, the channel III-V material has a channel III-V material bandgap, where the channel material bandgap, the second bandgap, and the first bandgap form a monotonic sequence of bandgaps. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Cheng-Ying HUANG, Tahir GHANI, Jack KAVALIEROS, Anand MURTHY, Harold KENNEL, Gilbert DEWEY, Matthew METZ, Willy RACHMADY, Sean MA, Nicholas MINUTILLO
  • Publication number: 20220139823
    Abstract: IC interconnect structures including subtractively patterned features. Feature ends may be defined through multiple patterning of multiple cap materials for reduced misregistration. Subtractively patterned features may be lines integrated with damascene vias or with subtractively patterned vias, or may be vias integrated with damascene lines or with subtractively patterned lines. Subtractively patterned vias may be deposited as part of a planar metal layer and defined currently with interconnect lines. Subtractively patterned features may be integrated with air gap isolation structures. Subtractively patterned features may be include a barrier material on the bottom, top, or sidewall. A bottom barrier of a subtractively patterned features may be deposited with an area selective technique to be absent from an underlying interconnect feature. A barrier of a subtractively patterned feature may comprise graphene or a chalcogenide of a metal in the feature or in a seed layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Lin, Noriyuki Sato, Tristan Tronic, Michael Christenson, Christopher Jezewski, Jiun-Ruey Chen, James M. Blackwell, Matthew Metz, Miriam Reshotko, Nafees Kabir, Jeffery Bielefeld, Manish Chandhok, Hui Jae Yoo, Elijah Karpov, Carl Naylor, Ramanan Chebiam
  • Publication number: 20220139772
    Abstract: Integrated circuit interconnect structures including an interconnect metallization feature with a liner material of a greater thickness between a fill metal and dielectric material, and of a lesser thickness between the fill metal and a lower-level interconnect metallization feature. The liner material may be substantially absent from an interface between the fill metal and the lower-level interconnect metallization feature. Liner material of reduced thickness at a bottom of the via may reduce via resistance and/or facilitate the use of a highly resistive liner material that may enhance the scalability of interconnect structures. In some embodiments, liner material is deposited upon dielectric surfaces with an area selective atomic layer deposition process. For single damascene implementations, both a via and a metal line may include a selectively deposited liner material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Christoper Jezewski, Jiun-Ruey Chen, Miriam Reshotko, James M. Blackwell, Matthew Metz, Che-Yun Lin
  • Patent number: 11276694
    Abstract: An integrated circuit with at least one transistor is formed using a buffer structure on the substrate. The buffer structure includes one or more layers of buffer material and comprises indium, gallium, and phosphorous. A ratio of indium to gallium in the buffer structure increases from a lower value to a higher value such that the buffer structure has small changes in lattice constant to control relaxation and defects. A source and a drain are on top of the buffer structure and a body of Group III-V semiconductor material extends between and connects the source and the drain. A gate structure wrapped around the body, the gate structure including a gate electrode and a gate dielectric, wherein the gate dielectric is between the body and the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Willy Rachmady, Matthew Metz, Gilbert Dewey, Nicholas Minutillo, Cheng-Ying Huang, Jack Kavalieros, Anand Murthy, Tahir Ghani
  • Patent number: 11257904
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques, systems, and method for a semiconductor device. Embodiments herein may present a semiconductor device having a channel area including a channel III-V material, and a source area including a first portion and a second portion of the source area. The first portion of the source area includes a first III-V material, and the second portion of the source area includes a second III-V material. The channel III-V material, the first III-V material and the second III-V material may have a same lattice constant. Moreover, the first III-V material has a first bandgap, and the second III-V material has a second bandgap, the channel III-V material has a channel III-V material bandgap, where the channel material bandgap, the second bandgap, and the first bandgap form a monotonic sequence of bandgaps. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Ying Huang, Tahir Ghani, Jack Kavalieros, Anand Murthy, Harold Kennel, Gilbert Dewey, Matthew Metz, Willy Rachmady, Sean Ma, Nicholas Minutillo
  • Publication number: 20210408224
    Abstract: A capacitor device, such as a metal insulator metal (MIM) capacitor includes a seed layer including tantalum, a first electrode on the seed layer, where the first electrode includes at least one of ruthenium or iridium and an insulator layer on the seed layer, where the insulator layer includes oxygen and one or more of Sr, Ba or Ti. In an exemplary embodiment, the insulator layer is a crystallized layer having a substantially smooth surface. A crystallized insulator layer having a substantially smooth surface facilitates low electrical leakage in the MIM capacitor. The capacitor device further includes a second electrode layer on the insulator layer, where the second electrode layer includes a second metal or a second metal alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kaan Oguz, I-Cheng Tung, Chia-Ching Lin, Sou-Chi Chang, Matthew Metz, Uygar Avci
  • Publication number: 20210408291
    Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) structure includes a gate electrode, a gate dielectric layer on the gate electrode, a channel layer including a semiconductor material with a first polarity on the gate dielectric layer. The TFT structure also includes a multi-layer material stack on the channel layer, opposite the gate dielectric layer, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) material over the multi-layer material stack and beyond a sidewall of the channel layer. The TFT structure further includes source and drain contacts through the interlayer dielectric material, and in contact with the channel layer, where the multi-layer material stack includes a barrier layer including oxygen and a metal in contact with the channel layer, where the barrier layer has a second polarity. A sealant layer is in contact with the barrier layer, where the sealant layer and the ILD have a different composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek A. Sharma, Arnab Sen Gupta, Travis W. LaJoie, Sarah Atanasov, Chieh-Jen Ku, Bernhard Sell, Noriyuki Sato, Van Le, Matthew Metz, Hui Jae Yoo, Pei-Hua Wang
  • Patent number: 11017843
    Abstract: In memory devices where a memory cell includes a thin film cell select transistor, selection between layers of such memory cells may further comprise another thin film select transistor. Bitline and wordline encoding suitable for a memory device having a single layer of memory cells may be scaled up to a 3D memory device having two or more memory cell layers. In a DRAM device one layer of (1TFT-1C) cells may include a 2D array of metal-insulator-metal capacitors over an array of TFTs. Additional layers of such 1TFT-1C cells may be stacked monolithically to form a 3D array. Memory cells in each layer may be accessed through a wordline and local bitline. A local bitline of one cell layer may be coupled to global bitline applicable to all cell layers through a layer-selected TFT according to a voltage applied to a layer-select gate voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek Sharma, Gilbert Dewey, Willy Rachmady, Van Le, Matthew Metz, Jack Kavalieros
  • Publication number: 20210031135
    Abstract: An adsorbent bed, including at least one elementary composite structure that includes adsorbent particles in a polymer matrix, wherein the adsorbent bed has a bed packing, ?bed, defined as a volume occupied by the at least one elementary composite structure Vecs divided by a volume of the adsorbent bed Vbed where ?bed is greater than 0.60.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicants: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l?Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude, Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC
    Inventors: Philippe A. COIGNET, Dean W. KRATZER, Antoine PRUVOT, Federico BRANDANI, Matthew METZ, Elise RENOU
  • Publication number: 20210036023
    Abstract: Thin film transistor structures may include a regrown source or drain material between a channel material and source or drain contact metallization. The source or drain material may be selectively deposited at low temperatures to backfill recesses formed in the channel material. Electrically active dopant impurities may be introduced in-situ during deposition of the source or drain material. The source or drain material may overlap a portion of a gate electrode undercut by the recesses. With channel material of a first composition and source or drain material of a second composition, thin film transistor structures may display low external resistance and high channel mobility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ashish Agrawal, Jack Kavalieros, Anand Murthy, Gilbert Dewey, Matthew Metz, Willy Rachmady, Cheng-Ying Huang, Cory Bomberger