Patents by Inventor Nishtha Sharma

Nishtha Sharma 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: 11764786
    Abstract: A magneto-electric (ME) majority gate device includes a conducting device and a plurality of ME transistors coupled to the conducting device. In one implementation, the plurality of ME transistors include a ME AND gate device with downward interface polarization, a ME-transmission gate device with downward interface polarization, and a ME-XNOR gate device. In another implementation, the plurality of ME transistors is five single-input ME-FETs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nishtha Sharma Gaul, Andrew Marshall, Peter A. Dowben, Dmitri E. Nikonov
  • Patent number: 11757449
    Abstract: A magneto-electric (ME) XNOR logic gate device includes a conducting device; and a ME-FET coupled to the conducting device. The ME-FET can be formed of a split gate; a first gate terminal coupled to a first portion of the split gate for receiving a first input signal; a second gate terminal coupled to a second portion of the split gate for receiving a second input signal; a source terminal coupled to a ground line; and a drain terminal coupled to the conducting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: BOARD OF REGENT'S OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nishtha Sharma Gaul, Andrew Marshall, Peter A. Dowben, Dmitri E. Nikonov
  • Patent number: 11658663
    Abstract: A magneto-electric (ME) inverter includes two anti-ferromagnetic spin orbit read (AFSOR) circuit elements, each AFSOR circuit element has a CMOS inverter; and an AFSOR device with a ME base layer; a semiconductor channel layer on the ME base layer and comprising a source terminal and a drain terminal, where the source terminal is coupled to an output of the CMOS inverter; and a gate electrode on the semiconductor channel layer. The gate electrode of a second AFSOR device of the two AFSOR circuit elements is coupled to the drain terminal of a first AFSOR device of the two AFSOR circuit elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, INTEL CORPORATION, Board OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Nishtha Sharma Gaul, Andrew Marshall, Peter A. Dowben, Dmitri E. Nikonov
  • Publication number: 20220294450
    Abstract: A magneto-electric (ME) inverter includes two anti-ferromagnetic spin orbit read (AFSOR) circuit elements, each AFSOR circuit element has a CMOS inverter; and an AFSOR device with a ME base layer; a semiconductor channel layer on the ME base layer and comprising a source terminal and a drain terminal, where the source terminal is coupled to an output of the CMOS inverter; and a gate electrode on the semiconductor channel layer. The gate electrode of a second AFSOR device of the two AFSOR circuit elements is coupled to the drain terminal of a first AFSOR device of the two AFSOR circuit elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicants: Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nishtha Sharma GAUL, Andrew MARSHALL, Peter A. DOWBEN, Dmitri E. NIKONOV
  • Publication number: 20220294448
    Abstract: A magneto-electric (ME) XNOR logic gate device includes a conducting device; and a ME-FET coupled to the conducting device. The ME-FET can be formed of a split gate; a first gate terminal coupled to a first portion of the split gate for receiving a first input signal; a second gate terminal coupled to a second portion of the split gate for receiving a second input signal; a source terminal coupled to a ground line; and a drain terminal coupled to the conducting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicants: Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nishtha Sharma GAUL, Andrew MARSHALL, Peter A. DOWBEN, Dmitri E. NIKONOV
  • Publication number: 20220294449
    Abstract: A magneto-electric (ME) majority gate device includes a conducting device and a plurality of ME transistors coupled to the conducting device. In one implementation, the plurality of ME transistors include a ME AND gate device with downward interface polarization, a ME-transmission gate device with downward interface polarization, and a ME-XNOR gate device. In another implementation, the plurality of ME transistors is five single-input ME-FETs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicants: Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nishtha Sharma GAUL, Andrew MARSHALL, Peter A. DOWBEN, Dmitri E. NIKONOV
  • Patent number: 11349480
    Abstract: Logic circuits constructed with magnetoelectric (ME) transistors are described herein. A ME logic gate device can include at least one conducting device, for example, at least one MOS transistor; and at least one ME transistor coupled to the at least one conducting device. The ME transistor can be a ME field effect transistor (ME-FET), which can be can be an anti-ferromagnetic spin-orbit read (AFSOR) device or a non-AFSOR device. The gates and logic circuits described herein can be included as standard cells in a design library. Cells of the cell library can include standard cells for a ME inverter device, a ME minority gate device, a ME majority gate device, a ME full adder, a ME XNOR device, a ME XOR device, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nishtha Sharma Gaul, Andrew Marshall, Peter A. Dowben, Dmitri E. Nikonov
  • Publication number: 20200099379
    Abstract: Logic circuits constructed with magnetoelectric (ME) transistors are described herein. A ME logic gate device can include at least one conducting device, for example, at least one MOS transistor; and at least one ME transistor coupled to the at least one conducting device. The ME transistor can be a ME field effect transistor (ME-FET), which can be can be an anti-ferromagnetic spin-orbit read (AFSOR) device or a non-AFSOR device. The gates and logic circuits described herein can be included as standard cells in a design library. Cells of the cell library can include standard cells for a ME inverter device, a ME minority gate device, a ME majority gate device, a ME full adder, a ME XNOR device, a ME XOR device, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicants: Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nishtha SHARMA, Andrew MARSHALL, Peter A. DOWBEN, Dmitri E. NIKONOV
  • Patent number: 10177303
    Abstract: A magneto-electric magnetic tunnel junction device (ME-MTJ) that permits direct driving of ME-MTJ devices by a prior ME-MTJ device is the unipolar magneto-electric magnetic tunnel junction (UMMTJ) device. The UMMTJ device enables full logic circuitry to be implemented without level shifting between each logic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Nishtha Sharma, Peter Dowben, Andrew Marshall
  • Publication number: 20180212141
    Abstract: A magneto-electric magnetic tunnel junction device (ME-MTJ) that permits direct driving of ME-MTJ devices by a prior ME-MTJ device is the unipolar magneto-electric magnetic tunnel junction (UMMTJ) device. The UMMTJ device enables full logic circuitry to be implemented without level shifting between each logic element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicants: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, NUtech Ventures
    Inventors: Nishtha Sharma, Peter Dowben, Andrew Marshall