Patents by Inventor Matthias Mergenthaler

Matthias Mergenthaler 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: 20240135223
    Abstract: A qubit device or system having isolated bottom corner gates includes a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor fin perpendicularly adjoining a top surface of the substrate. The qubit device also includes a first gate located at a first corner between a first side of the fin and the top surface of the substrate, and a second gate located at a second corner between a second, opposite side of the fin and the top surface of the substrate. The first and second gates are electrically isolated from each other and used to control a first quantum dot near the top of the fin. A third gate located at the first corner has a contact for accumulating a channel to facilitate charge transport to and from a second quantum dot located near the bottom of the fin accumulated using the first and second gates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Felix Julian Schupp, Noelia Vico Trivino, Matthias Mergenthaler, Andreas Fuhrer Janett
  • Publication number: 20230320235
    Abstract: A superconductor device includes a substrate. There is a first silicide and a second silicide located on opposite sides of a silicon channel and on top of the substrate. A first superconducting contact is in contact with the first silicide. A second superconducting contact is in contact with the second silicide. A dielectric is located between the first and second superconducting contacts. A gate is on top of the gate dielectric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Matthias Mergenthaler, Fabrizio Nichele, Markus Fabian Ritter
  • Patent number: 11735578
    Abstract: An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is configured to protect a target circuit that operates in a cryogenic temperature is provided. The ESD protection circuit connects a terminal of the target circuit and a ground potential with no connection to a bias potential. When the ESD protection circuit receives a voltage potential at the terminal of the target circuit, the ESD protection circuit (i) disallows electrical current to flow through from the received voltage potential when the device is at a cryogenic temperature and (ii) allows electrical current to flow through from the received voltage potential when the device is at a room temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Mueller, Thomas Morf, Mridula Prathapan, Matthias Mergenthaler
  • Publication number: 20230207554
    Abstract: An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is configured to protect a target circuit that operates in a cryogenic temperature is provided. The ESD protection circuit connects a terminal of the target circuit and a ground potential with no connection to a bias potential. When the ESD protection circuit receives a voltage potential at the terminal of the target circuit, the ESD protection circuit (i) disallows electrical current to flow through from the received voltage potential when the device is at a cryogenic temperature and (ii) allows electrical current to flow through from the received voltage potential when the device is at a room temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Mueller, Thomas Morf, Mridula Prathapan, Matthias Mergenthaler
  • Patent number: 11641785
    Abstract: A method of modifying a resonant frequency of a quantum device includes generating an ion beam having a beam energy and exposing a surface of the quantum device to the ion beam for an exposure time. The ion beam is incident onto the quantum device at an oblique angle that is less than 90 degrees as measured from the surface of the quantum device. The quantum device includes a Josephson junction, the ion beam exposing the quantum device proximate to the Josephson junction to modify a property of the Josephson junction, the property being associated with the resonant frequency of the quantum device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthias Mergenthaler, Andreas Fuhrer Janett, Stephan Paredes, Peter Mueller
  • Publication number: 20220109095
    Abstract: A method of modifying a resonant frequency of a quantum device includes generating an ion beam having a beam energy and exposing a surface of the quantum device to the ion beam for an exposure time. The ion beam is incident onto the quantum device at an oblique angle that is less than 90 degrees as measured from the surface of the quantum device. The quantum device includes a Josephson junction, the ion beam exposing the quantum device proximate to the Josephson junction to modify a property of the Josephson junction, the property being associated with the resonant frequency of the quantum device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Matthias Mergenthaler, Andreas Fuhrer Janett, Stephan Paredes, Peter Mueller
  • Patent number: 11152707
    Abstract: A device package includes a chip carrier having a cavity and one or more microwave waveguides configured to route signals. There is a chip including one or more pads and located within the cavity of the chip carrier. Each pad is aligned with a corresponding connector pad of a microwave waveguide of the one or more microwave waveguides of the chip carrier. At least one of the one or more pads is coupled to the connector pad of the corresponding microwave waveguide by way of an overlap capacitive coupling between the at least one pad and the aligned corresponding connector pad of the microwave waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andreas Fuhrer Janett, Stephan Paredes, Thilo Hermann Curt Stoeferle, Stefan Filipp, Matthias Mergenthaler