Patents by Inventor Venkata N.R. Vanukuru

Venkata N.R. Vanukuru 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: 20230125886
    Abstract: Structures for a transistor including regions for landing gate contacts and methods of forming a structure for a transistor that includes regions for landing gate contacts. The structure includes a field-effect transistor having a source region, a gate region, a gate with a sidewall, and a gate extension with a section adjoined to the sidewall. The structure further includes a dielectric layer over the field-effect transistor, and a gate contact positioned in the dielectric layer to land on at least the section of the gate extension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Steven M. Shank, Anthony K. Stamper, Venkata N.R. Vanukuru, Mark Levy
  • Publication number: 20220416020
    Abstract: Structures for a semiconductor device including airgap isolation and methods of forming a semiconductor device structure that includes airgap isolation. The structure includes a trench isolation region, an active region of semiconductor material surrounded by the trench isolation region, and a field-effect transistor including a gate within the active region. The structure further includes a dielectric layer over the field-effect transistor, a first gate contact coupled to the gate, and a second gate contact coupled to the gate. The first and second gate contacts are positioned in the dielectric layer over the active region, and the second gate contact is spaced along a longitudinal axis of the gate from the first gate contact. The structure further includes an airgap including a portion positioned in the dielectric layer over the gate between the first and second gate contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Steven M. Shank, Anthony K. Stamper, Venkata N.R. Vanukuru
  • Publication number: 20220190116
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an integrated circuit (IC) structure with a body contact to a well with multiple diode junctions. A first doped well is in a substrate. A transistor is on the first doped well. A trench isolation (TI) is adjacent a portion of the first doped well. A second doped well within the substrate has a bottom surface beneath a bottom surface of the first doped well. A sidewall of the TI horizontally abuts the second doped well. A first diode junction is between the second doped well and the first doped well. A second diode junction is between the second doped well and the substrate. A body contact is on the second doped well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Anupam Dutta, Venkata N.R. Vanukuru, John J. Ellis-Monaghan
  • Publication number: 20220181452
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an integrated circuit (IC) structure with a high impedance semiconductor material between a substrate and transistor. The IC structure may include: a substrate, a high impedance semiconductor material on a portion of the substrate, and a transistor on a top surface of the high impedance semiconductor material. The transistor includes a semiconductor channel region horizontally between a first source/drain (S/D) region and a second S/D region. The high impedance semiconductor material is vertically between the transistor and the substrate; a first insulator region is on the substrate and horizontally adjacent the first S/D region; and a first doped well is on the substrate and horizontally adjacent the first insulator region. The first insulator region is horizontally between the first doped well and the transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: John J. Ellis-Monaghan, Anupam Dutta, Satyasuresh V. Choppalli, Venkata N.R. Vanukuru, Michel Abou-Khalil
  • Publication number: 20200312514
    Abstract: Structures that include a peaking inductor and a T-coil, and methods associated with forming such structures. A back-end-of-line interconnect structure includes a first metallization level, a second metallization level, and a third metallization level arranged between the first metallization level and the second metallization level. The T-coil includes a first inductor with a first coil arranged in the first metallization level and a second inductor with a second coil arranged in the second metallization level. A peaking inductor includes a coil arranged in the third metallization level. The first coil of the first inductor, the second coil of the second inductor, and the coil of the peaking inductor are stacked in the back-end-of-line interconnect structure with an overlapping arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Venkata N.R. Vanukuru, Umesh Kumar Shukla, Sandeep Torgal
  • Publication number: 20140264738
    Abstract: A semiconductor inductor structure may include a first spiral structure, located on a first metal layer, having a first outer-spiral electrically conductive track and a first inner-spiral electrically conductive track separated from the first outer-spiral electrically conductive track by a first dielectric material. A second spiral structure, located on a second metal layer, having a second outer-spiral electrically conductive track and a second inner-spiral electrically conductive track separated from the second outer-spiral electrically conductive track by a second dielectric material may also be provided. The first outer-spiral electrically conductive track may be electrically coupled to the second outer-spiral electrically conductive track and the first inner-spiral electrically conductive track may be electrically coupled to the second inner-spiral electrically conductive track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert L. Barry, Robert A. Groves, Venkata N.R. Vanukuru
  • Publication number: 20140110821
    Abstract: A semiconductor inductor structure may include a first spiral structure, located on a first metal layer, having a first outer-spiral electrically conductive track and a first inner-spiral electrically conductive track separated from the first outer-spiral electrically conductive track by a first dielectric material. A second spiral structure, located on a second metal layer, having a second outer-spiral electrically conductive track and a second inner-spiral electrically conductive track separated from the second outer-spiral electrically conductive track by a second dielectric material may also be provided. The first outer-spiral electrically conductive track may be electrically coupled to the second outer-spiral electrically conductive track and the first inner-spiral electrically conductive track may be electrically coupled to the second inner-spiral electrically conductive track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert L. Barry, Robert A. Groves, Venkata N.R. Vanukuru
  • Publication number: 20120188047
    Abstract: Disclosed is an inductor structure. The inductor structure includes a base material, at least one bottom spiral conductor disposed on the base material, a middle spiral conductor disposed on the bottom spiral conductor, a top spiral conductor disposed on the middle spiral conductor, and dielectric material separating the bottom, middle and top spiral conductors. The at least one bottom spiral conductor is connected electrically in parallel to the middle spiral conductor and the middle spiral conductor is connected electrically in series to the top spiral conductor. The top spiral conductor is thicker, narrower and less tightly wound than the middle spiral conductor and the bottom spiral conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: ROBERT A. GROVES, Arvind Narayanan, Venkata N.R. Vanukuru