Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Sato

Noriyuki Sato 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: 11844225
    Abstract: A device includes, in a first region, a first conductive interconnect, an electrode structure on the first conductive interconnect, where the electrode structure includes a first conductive hydrogen barrier layer and a first conductive fill material. A memory device including a ferroelectric material or a paraelectric material is on the electrode structure. A second dielectric includes an amorphous, greater than 90% film density hydrogen barrier material laterally surrounds the memory device. A via electrode including a second conductive hydrogen barrier material is on at least a portion of the memory device. A second region includes a conductive interconnect structure embedded within a less than 90% film density material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sato, Niloy Mukherjee, Mauricio Manfrini, Tanay Gosavi, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Somilkumar J. Rathi, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11844203
    Abstract: A device includes, in a first region, a first conductive interconnect, an electrode structure on the first conductive interconnect, where the electrode structure includes a first conductive hydrogen barrier layer and a first conductive fill material. A memory device including a ferroelectric material or a paraelectric material is on the electrode structure. A second dielectric includes an amorphous, greater than 90% film density hydrogen barrier material laterally surrounds the memory device. A via electrode including a second conductive hydrogen barrier material is on at least a portion of the memory device. A second region includes a conductive interconnect structure embedded within a less than 90% film density material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sato, Niloy Mukherjee, Mauricio Manfrini, Tanay Gosavi, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Somilkumar J. Rathi, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11839070
    Abstract: A device includes, in a first region, a first conductive interconnect, an electrode structure on the first conductive interconnect, where the electrode structure includes a first conductive hydrogen barrier layer and a first conductive fill material. A memory device including a ferroelectric material or a paraelectric material is on the electrode structure. A second dielectric includes an amorphous, greater than 90% film density hydrogen barrier material laterally surrounds the memory device. A via electrode including a second conductive hydrogen barrier material is on at least a portion of the memory device. A second region includes a conductive interconnect structure embedded within a less than 90% film density material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sato, Niloy Mukherjee, Mauricio Manfrini, Tanay Gosavi, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Somilkumar J. Rathi, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11839088
    Abstract: A device includes, in a first region, a first conductive interconnect, an electrode structure on the first conductive interconnect, where the electrode structure includes a first conductive hydrogen barrier layer and a first conductive fill material. A memory device including a ferroelectric material or a paraelectric material is on the electrode structure. A second dielectric includes an amorphous, greater than 90% film density hydrogen barrier material laterally surrounds the memory device. A via electrode including a second conductive hydrogen barrier material is on at least a portion of the memory device. A second region includes a conductive interconnect structure embedded within a less than 90% film density material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sato, Niloy Mukherjee, Mauricio Manfrini, Tanay Gosavi, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Somilkumar J. Rathi, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11837268
    Abstract: A configuration for efficiently placing a group of capacitors with one terminal connected to a common node is described. The capacitors are stacked and folded along the common node. In a stack and fold configuration, devices are stacked vertically (directly or with a horizontal offset) with one terminal of the devices being shared to a common node, and further the capacitors are placed along both sides of the common node. The common node is a point of fold. In one example, the devices are capacitors. N number of capacitors can be divided in L number of stack layers such that there are N/L capacitors in each stacked layer. The N/L capacitors are shorted together with an electrode (e.g., bottom electrode). The electrode can be metal, a conducting oxide, or a combination of a conducting oxide and a barrier material. The capacitors can be planar, non-planar or replaced by memory elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Amrita Mathuriya, Debo Olaosebikan, Tanay Gosavi, Noriyuki Sato, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11832451
    Abstract: Non lead-based perovskite ferroelectric devices for high density memory and logic applications and methods of fabrication are described. While various embodiments are described with reference to FeRAM, capacitive structures formed herein can be used for any application where a capacitor is desired. For example, the capacitive structure can be used for fabricating ferroelectric based or paraelectric based majority gate, minority gate, and/or threshold gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Debraj Guhabiswas, Maria Isabel Perez, Jason Y. Wu, James David Clarkson, Gabriel Antonio Paulius Velarde, Niloy Mukherjee, Noriyuki Sato, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Ramamoorthy Ramesh
  • Patent number: 11818897
    Abstract: To compensate switching of a dielectric component of a non-linear polar material based capacitor, an explicit dielectric capacitor is added to a memory bit-cell and controlled by a signal opposite to the signal driven on a plate-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Noriyuki Sato, Tanay Gosavi, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11812599
    Abstract: Examples herein relate to a memory device comprising an eDRAM memory cell, the eDRAM memory cell can include a write circuit formed at least partially over a storage cell and a read circuit formed at least partially under the storage cell; a compute near memory device bonded to the memory device; a processor; and an interface from the memory device to the processor. In some examples, circuitry is included to provide an output of the memory device to emulate output read rate of an SRAM memory device comprises one or more of: a controller, a multiplexer, or a register. Bonding of a surface of the memory device can be made to a compute near memory device or other circuitry. In some examples, a layer with read circuitry can be bonded to a layer with storage cells. Any layers can be bonded together using techniques described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek Sharma, Noriyuki Sato, Sarah Atanasov, Huseyin Ekin Sumbul, Gregory K. Chen, Phil Knag, Ram Krishnamurthy, Hui Jae Yoo, Van H. Le
  • Patent number: 11810608
    Abstract: A high-density low voltage ferroelectric (or paraelectric) memory bit-cell that includes a planar ferroelectric or paraelectric capacitor. The memory bit-cell comprises 1T1C configuration, where a plate-line is parallel to a word-line, or the plate-line is parallel to a bit-line. The memory bit-cell can be 1TnC, where ā€˜nā€™ is a number. In a 1TnC bit-cell, the capacitors are vertically stacked allowing for multiple values to be stored in a single bit-cell. The memory bit-cell can be multi-element FE gain bit-cell. In a multi-element FE gain bit-cell, data sensing is done with signal amplified by a gain transistor in the bit-cell. As such, higher storage density is realized using multi-element FE gain bit-cells. In some examples, the 1T1C, 1TnC, and multi-element FE gain bit-cells are multi-level bit-cells. To realize multi-level bit-cells, the capacitor is placed in a partially switched polarization state by applying different voltage levels or different time pulse widths at the same voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Noriyuki Sato, Tanay Gosavi, Pratyush Pandey, Debo Olaosebikan, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11800722
    Abstract: To compensate switching of a dielectric component of a non-linear polar material based capacitor, an explicit dielectric capacitor is added to a memory bit-cell and controlled by a signal opposite to the signal driven on a plate-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Noriyuki Sato, Tanay Gosavi, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11792997
    Abstract: To compensate switching of a dielectric component of a non-linear polar material based capacitor, an explicit dielectric capacitor is added to a memory bit-cell and controlled by a signal opposite to the signal driven on a plate-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Noriyuki Sato, Tanay Gosavi, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11792998
    Abstract: A process integration and patterning flow used to pattern a memory array area for an embedded memory without perturbing a fabricating process for logic circuitries. The fabrication process uses a pocket mask (e.g., a hard mask) to decouple the etching process of a memory array area and non-memory area. Such decoupling allows for a simpler fabrication process with little to no impact on the current fabrication process. The fabrication process may use multiple pocket masks to decouple the etching process of the memory array area and the non-memory area. This fabrication process (using multiple pocket masks) allows to avoid exposure of memory material into a second pocket etch chamber. The process of etching memory material is decoupled from the process of etching an encapsulation material. Examples of embedded memory include dynamic random-access memory and ferroelectric random-access memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sato, Tanay Gosavi, Niloy Mukherjee, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11785782
    Abstract: A process integration and patterning flow used to pattern a memory array area for an embedded memory without perturbing a fabricating process for logic circuitries. The fabrication process uses a pocket mask (e.g., a hard mask) to decouple the etching process of a memory array area and non-memory area. Such decoupling allows for a simpler fabrication process with little to no impact on the current fabrication process. The fabrication process may use multiple pocket masks to decouple the etching process of the memory array area and the non-memory area. This fabrication process (using multiple pocket masks) allows to avoid exposure of memory material into a second pocket etch chamber. The process of etching memory material is decoupled from the process of etching an encapsulation material. Examples of embedded memory include dynamic random-access memory and ferroelectric random-access memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sato, Tanay Gosavi, Niloy Mukherjee, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11769790
    Abstract: A memory device includes a first electrode comprising a first conductive nonlinear polar material, where the first conductive nonlinear polar material comprises a first average grain length. The memory device further includes a dielectric layer comprising a perovskite material on the first electrode, where the perovskite material includes a second average grain length. A second electrode comprising a second conductive nonlinear polar material is on the dielectric layer, where the second conductive nonlinear polar material includes a third grain average length that is less than or equal to the first average grain length or the second average grain length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Niloy Mukherjee, Somilkumar J. Rathi, Jason Y. Wu, Pratyush Pandey, Zeying Ren, Fnu Atiquzzaman, Gabriel Antonio Paulius Velarde, Noriyuki Sato, Mauricio Manfrini, Tanay Gosavi, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Amrita Mathuriya, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11770936
    Abstract: To compensate switching of a dielectric component of a non-linear polar material based capacitor, an explicit dielectric capacitor is added to a memory bit-cell and controlled by a signal opposite to the signal driven on a plate-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Noriyuki Sato, Tanay Gosavi, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Publication number: 20230301113
    Abstract: A device structure comprises a first conductive interconnect, an electrode structure on the first conductive interconnect, an etch stop layer laterally surrounding the electrode structure; a plurality of memory devices above the electrode structure, where individual ones of the plurality of memory devices comprise a dielectric layer comprising a perovskite material. The device structure further comprises a plate electrode coupled between the plurality of memory devices and the electrode structure, where the plate electrode is in direct contact with a respective lower most conductive layer of the individual ones of the plurality of memory devices. The device structure further includes an insulative hydrogen barrier layer on at least a sidewall of the individual ones of the plurality of memory devices; and a plurality of via electrodes, wherein individual ones of the plurality of via electrodes are on a respective one of the individual ones of the plurality of memory devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Kepler Computing Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sato, Tanay Gosavi, Rafael Rios, Amrita Mathuriya, Niloy Mukherjee, Mauricio Manfrini, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Somilkumar J. Rathi, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Publication number: 20230298905
    Abstract: A memory device includes a first electrode comprising a first conductive nonlinear polar material, where the first conductive nonlinear polar material comprises a first average grain length. The memory device further includes a dielectric layer comprising a perovskite material on the first electrode, where the perovskite material includes a second average grain length. A second electrode comprising a second conductive nonlinear polar material is on the dielectric layer, where the second conductive nonlinear polar material includes a third grain average length that is less than or equal to the first average grain length or the second average grain length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Kepler Computing Inc.
    Inventors: Niloy Mukherjee, Somilkumar J. Rathi, Jason Y. Wu, Pratyush Pandey, Zeying Ren, FNU Atiquzzaman, Gabriel Antonio Paulius Velarde, Noriyuki Sato, Mauricio Manfrini, Tanay Gosavi, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Amrita Mathuriya, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11765908
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a device comprises forming a multi-layer stack above a first substrate, where multi-layer stack includes a non-linear polar material. In at least one embodiment, method further includes forming a first conductive layer on multi-layer stack and annealing multi-layer stack. A transistor is formed above a second substrate. In at least one embodiment, method also includes forming a second conductive layer above electrode structure and bonding first conductive layer with second conductive layer. After bonding, method includes removing at least a portion of first substrate patterning multi-layer stack to form a memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Mauricio Manfrini, Noriyuki Sato, James David Clarkson, Abel Fernandez, Somilkumar J. Rathi, Niloy Mukherjee, Tanay Gosavi, Amrita Mathuriya, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11765909
    Abstract: A process integration and patterning flow used to pattern a memory array area for an embedded memory without perturbing a fabricating process for logic circuitries. The fabrication process uses a pocket mask (e.g., a hard mask) to decouple the etching process of a memory array area and non-memory area. Such decoupling allows for a simpler fabrication process with little to no impact on the current fabrication process. The fabrication process may use multiple pocket masks to decouple the etching process of the memory array area and the non-memory area. This fabrication process (using multiple pocket masks) allows to avoid exposure of memory material into a second pocket etch chamber. The process of etching memory material is decoupled from the process of etching an encapsulation material. Examples of embedded memory include dynamic random-access memory and ferroelectric random-access memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sato, Tanay Gosavi, Niloy Mukherjee, Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11758708
    Abstract: To compensate switching of a dielectric component of a non-linear polar material based capacitor, an explicit dielectric capacitor is added to a memory bit-cell and controlled by a signal opposite to the signal driven on a plate-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Kepler Computing Inc.
    Inventors: Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Noriyuki Sato, Tanay Gosavi, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni