Patents by Inventor Timothy Phung

Timothy Phung 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: 11949439
    Abstract: Systems and techniques that facilitate mitigation of baseband pulse distortion via radiofrequency-to-baseband conversion are provided. In various embodiments, a system can comprise a qubit. In various aspects, the system can further comprise a signal generator that can produce a radiofrequency signal. In various instances, the system can further comprise a signal converter coupled between the qubit and the signal generator. In various cases, the signal converter can convert the radiofrequency signal into a baseband signal. In various aspects, such radiofrequency-to-baseband conversion can reduce a dispersion-induced distortion associated with driving the qubit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy Phung, Devin Underwood, Jiri Stehlik, David Zajac
  • Publication number: 20240070506
    Abstract: One or more systems, devices, and/or methods of use provided herein relate to signal filters for scalable quantum computing architectures. According to one embodiment, a device can comprise a circuit board comprising a plurality of layers, wherein various ones of the plurality of layers comprises a different absorptive material, and a plurality of signal lines that pass through the circuit board, wherein a first layer of the circuit board is comprised of a first material that filters a first signal line that traverses through at least the first layer of the plurality of layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Devin Underwood, Timothy Phung, Muir Kumph
  • Patent number: 11916429
    Abstract: A power system includes a bidirectional power transfer inverter that receives grid power and can be electrically connected with electric vehicle supply equipment, and an auxiliary battery electrically connected with the bidirectional power transfer inverter and that supplies power to the bidirectional power transfer inverter and electric vehicle supply equipment while the grid power is unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Harris, Stuart C. Salter, Ryan O'Gorman, Peter Phung, Katherine Howard-Cone
  • Publication number: 20240063791
    Abstract: One or more systems, devices, and/or methods of manufacture and/or use provided herein relate to a quantum computing process to achieve higher connectivity of qubits to more than nearest neighbors and/or to a plurality of nearest neighbors. A system can comprise a tunable first coupler coupled to a first qubit, a tunable second coupler coupled to a second qubit, and a junction coupling the first coupler and the second coupler being both parametrically drivable. The first coupler and the second coupler can comprise superconducting quantum interference devices or Josephson junctions. The junction can comprise a central hub or central node separately coupled to the first coupler and the second coupler. The first coupler and the second coupler can be configured to capacitively or inductively couple the first qubit and the second qubit to one another to perform a control-Z (CZ) gate or an iSWAP gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventor: Timothy Phung
  • Publication number: 20230359919
    Abstract: One or more systems, devices and/or methods of use herein relate to modular quantum devices. According to an embodiment, a device can comprise a first module comprising a first qubit coupled to a first transmission line resonator, and a second module comprising a second qubit coupled to a second transmission line resonator, wherein the first module is embodied on a first chip and wherein the second module is embodied on a second chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Timothy Phung, Muir Kumph
  • Publication number: 20230359918
    Abstract: A modular electronic structure includes a first chip having a first interleaved portion and a first electromagnetic coupler on the first interleaved portion. There is a second chip having a second interleaved portion and a second electromagnetic coupler on the second interleaved portion and configured to electromagnetically couple with the first electromagnetic coupler. The first interleaved portion fits between two surfaces of the second chip. The second interleaved portion fits between two surfaces of the first chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Timothy Phung, Muir Kumph
  • Patent number: 11714142
    Abstract: Techniques for creating a low pass filter associated with a flux line are presented. A qubit device can comprise a first substrate and second substrate. A low pass filter, comprising at least one inductor and at least one capacitor can be formed, wherein respective components of or associated with the low pass filter can be formed on the first or second substrates, and wherein one or more bump bonds can extend between the substrates to connect respective components that are on respective substrates. The filter can receive an input signal via an input line and filter the signal to produce a filtered signal as output to a flux line that is in proximity to a coupler with SQUID loop and one or more flux-tunable qubits that are formed on one of the substrates. The filter can reduce electrical noise and Purcell decay associated with the flux line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy Phung, Jiri Stehlik, Devin Underwood
  • Publication number: 20230196163
    Abstract: Techniques regarding shielded superconducting qubits are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can include an apparatus that can comprise a superconducting qubit positioned adjacent to a superconducting ground plane on a substrate. Also, the apparatus can comprise a superconducting shield layer positioned between the superconducting qubit and the superconducting ground plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Harry Jonathon Mamin, Timothy Phung, Daniel Rugar
  • Publication number: 20230198555
    Abstract: Systems and techniques that facilitate mitigation of baseband pulse distortion via radiofrequency-to-baseband conversion are provided. In various embodiments, a system can comprise a qubit. In various aspects, the system can further comprise a signal generator that can produce a radiofrequency signal. In various instances, the system can further comprise a signal converter coupled between the qubit and the signal generator. In various cases, the signal converter can convert the radiofrequency signal into a baseband signal. In various aspects, such radiofrequency-to-baseband conversion can reduce a dispersion-induced distortion associated with driving the qubit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Timothy Phung, Devin Underwood, Jiri Stehlik, David Zajac
  • Publication number: 20230170889
    Abstract: One or more systems, devices, methods of use and/or methods of fabrication provided herein relate to a quantum computing device that can operated to have 1st order insensitivity to flux noise. According to one embodiment, a device comprises a flux tunable qubit capacitively coupled to a flux tunable bus. According to another embodiment, a device comprises a flux tunable qubit capacitively coupled to a flux tunable bus, wherein the flux tunable bus is capacitively coupled a fixed frequency qubit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Devin Underwood, Jiri Stehlik, David James Frank, Timothy Phung, David Zajac
  • Publication number: 20230068284
    Abstract: Techniques for designing, creating, and utilizing a current biased tunable qubit are presented. A qubit device can comprise a first Josephson junction (JJ) located along a first current path of the device, and a second JJ and third JJ coupled in series along a second current path in parallel with the first current path, wherein the second and third JJs facilitate controlling frequency of the device. The first JJ can be larger in area than each of the second and third JJs, wherein a current splitting ratio between the first current path and second current path can be increased thereby. The device can comprise a capacitor with a first terminal associated with the second and third JJs, and a second terminal associated with ground. Alternatively, a high kinetic inductance wire can be used in the first current path, instead of the JJ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Timothy Phung
  • Patent number: 11545974
    Abstract: Techniques for designing, creating, and utilizing a current biased tunable qubit are presented. A qubit device can comprise a first Josephson junction (JJ) located along a first current path of the device, and a second JJ and third JJ coupled in series along a second current path in parallel with the first current path, wherein the second and third JJs facilitate controlling frequency of the device. The first JJ can be larger in area than each of the second and third JJs, wherein a current splitting ratio between the first current path and second current path can be increased thereby. The device can comprise a capacitor with a first terminal associated with the second and third JJs, and a second terminal associated with ground. Alternatively, a high kinetic inductance wire can be used in the first current path, instead of the JJ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Timothy Phung
  • Publication number: 20220293845
    Abstract: Systems and techniques that facilitate trimmable inductors for qubit frequency tuning are provided. In various embodiments, a device can comprise a Josephson junction. In various aspects, the Josephson junction can be shunted by a capacitor, and a trimmable inductor can couple the Josephson junction to a pad of the capacitor. In various cases, the trimmable inductor can comprise a first conductive path that includes a severable and/or weldable superconducting bridge and a second conductive path that is in parallel with the first conductive path. In various aspects, severing and/or welding the severable and/or weldable superconducting bridge can controllably change an inductance of the trimmable inductor, which can commensurately change a resonant frequency of a qubit formed by the Josephson junction and the capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Timothy Phung, Charles Thomas Rettner, Harry Jonathon Mamin, Vivekananda P. Adiga, Russell A. Budd
  • Patent number: 11411158
    Abstract: Techniques for creating an offset embedded ground plane cutout for a qubit device to facilitate frequency tuning of the qubit device are presented. A qubit device can comprise a first substrate and second substrate in a flip-chip assembly. The qubit chip assembly can comprise a qubit component fabricated on the first substrate. The qubit component can comprise a Josephson junction (JJ) circuit that can be offset from a center point of the qubit component. The qubit chip assembly can comprise an embedded ground plane situated on a surface of the qubit chip assembly. A cutout section can be formed in the ground plane and positioned over the JJ circuit. The cutout section can enable access of an optical signal or magnetic flux to the JJ circuit. A frequency of the qubit component can be tuned based on application of the optical signal or magnetic flux to the JJ circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy Phung, David Abraham
  • Publication number: 20220199886
    Abstract: Techniques for creating an offset embedded ground plane cutout for a qubit device to facilitate frequency tuning of the qubit device are presented. A qubit device can comprise a first substrate and second substrate in a flip-chip assembly. The qubit chip assembly can comprise a qubit component fabricated on the first substrate. The qubit component can comprise a Josephson junction (JJ) circuit that can be offset from a center point of the qubit component. The qubit chip assembly can comprise an embedded ground plane situated on a surface of the qubit chip assembly. A cutout section can be formed in the ground plane and positioned over the JJ circuit. The cutout section can enable access of an optical signal or magnetic flux to the JJ circuit. A frequency of the qubit component can be tuned based on application of the optical signal or magnetic flux to the JJ circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Timothy Phung, David Abraham
  • Publication number: 20220187388
    Abstract: Techniques for creating a low pass filter associated with a flux line are presented. A qubit device can comprise a first substrate and second substrate. A low pass filter, comprising at least one inductor and at least one capacitor can be formed, wherein respective components of or associated with the low pass filter can be formed on the first or second substrates, and wherein one or more bump bonds can extend between the substrates to connect respective components that are on respective substrates. The filter can receive an input signal via an input line and filter the signal to produce a filtered signal as output to a flux line that is in proximity to a coupler with SQUID loop and one or more flux-tunable qubits that are formed on one of the substrates. The filter can reduce electrical noise and Purcell decay associated with the flux line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Timothy Phung, Jiri Stehlik, Devin Underwood
  • Publication number: 20220094358
    Abstract: Techniques for designing, creating, and utilizing a current biased tunable qubit are presented. A qubit device can comprise a first Josephson junction (JJ) located along a first current path of the device, and a second JJ and third JJ coupled in series along a second current path in parallel with the first current path, wherein the second and third JJs facilitate controlling frequency of the device. The first JJ can be larger in area than each of the second and third JJs, wherein a current splitting ratio between the first current path and second current path can be increased thereby. The device can comprise a capacitor with a first terminal associated with the second and third JJs, and a second terminal associated with ground. Alternatively, a high kinetic inductance wire can be used in the first current path, instead of the JJ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventor: Timothy Phung
  • Patent number: 10916282
    Abstract: A three-terminal device is disclosed having a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) and a spin orbit torque (SOT) generating layer. The MTJ has a first magnetic layer, a tunnel barrier layer underlying the first magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer underlying the tunnel barrier, wherein the SOT generating layer is directly underlying the second magnetic layer. The second magnetic layer has a shape that is non-symmetrical, such that an average magnetization of a remnant state associated with the second magnetic layer has an in-plane component that is orthogonal to a current direction in the SOT generating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Phung, Chirag Garg
  • Publication number: 20200402558
    Abstract: A three-terminal device is disclosed having a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) and a spin orbit torque (SOT) generating layer. The MTJ has a first magnetic layer, a tunnel barrier layer underlying the first magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer underlying the tunnel barrier, wherein the SOT generating layer is directly underlying the second magnetic layer. The second magnetic layer has a shape that is non-symmetrical, such that an average magnetization of a remnant state associated with the second magnetic layer has an in-plane component that is orthogonal to a current direction in the SOT generating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: TIMOTHY PHUNG, CHIRAG GARG
  • Patent number: 10635970
    Abstract: A tunable resistance device and methods of forming the same include a magnetic fixed layer having a fixed magnetization, a magnetic free layer, and a non-magnetic conductive layer directly between the magnetic fixed layer and the magnetic free layer. The magnetic fixed layer, the magnetic free layer, and the non-magnetic conductive layer are formed in a lattice of wires, with each wire in the lattice being formed from a stack of the magnetic fixed layer, the magnetic free layer, and the non-magnetic conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin M. Frank, Jin Ping Han, Masatoshi Ishii, Timothy Phung, Aakash Pushp