Patents by Inventor Unsuk Heo

Unsuk Heo 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).

  • Low power nanoelectronics
    Patent number: 9800094
    Abstract: Disclosed are low power electronic devices configured to exploit the sub-threshold swing, unidirectional tunneling, and low-voltage operation of steep slope-tunnel tunnel field-effect transistors (TFET) to improve power-conversion efficiency and power-efficiency of electrical systems incorporating the TFET as an electrical component to perform energy harvesting, signal processing, and related operations. The devices include a HTFET-based rectifier having various topologies, a HTFET-based DC-DC charge pump converter, a HTFET-based amplifier having an amplifier circuit including a telescopic operational transconductance amplifier, and a HTFET-based SAR A/D converter having a HTFET-based transmission gate DFF. Any one of the devices may be used to generate a RF-powered system with improved power conversion efficiencies of power harvesters and power efficiencies of processing components within the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Huichu Liu, Ramesh Vaddi, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Suman Datta, Moon Seok Kim, Xueqing Li, Alexandre Schmid, Mahsa Shoaran, Unsuk Heo
  • Low Power Nanoelectronics
    Publication number: 20150333534
    Abstract: Disclosed are low power electronic devices configured to exploit the sub-threshold swing, unidirectional tunneling, and low-voltage operation of steep slope-tunnel tunnel field-effect transistors (TFET) to improve power-conversion efficiency and power-efficiency of electrical systems incorporating the TFET as an electrical component to perform energy harvesting, signal processing, and related operations. The devices include a HTFET-based rectifier having various topologies, a HTFET-based DC-DC charge pump converter, a HTFET-based amplifier having an amplifier circuit including a telescopic operational transconductance amplifier, and a HTFET-based SAR A/D converter having a HTFET-based transmission gate DFF. Any one of the devices may be used to generate a RF-powered system with improved power conversion efficiencies of power harvesters and power efficiencies of processing components within the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Huichu Liu, Ramesh Vaddi, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Suman Datta, Moon Seok Kim, Xueqing Li, Alexandre Schmid, Mahsa Shoaran, Unsuk Heo