Patents by Inventor Zvi Or-Bach

Zvi Or-Bach 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: 11876011
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer, the first level including first transistors, where each of the first transistors includes a single crystal channel; first metal layers interconnecting at least the first transistors; a second metal layer overlaying the first metal layers; and a second level including a second single crystal layer, the second level including second transistors, where the second level overlays the first level, where at least one of the second transistors includes a raised source or raised drain transistor structure, where the second level is directly bonded to the first level, and where the bonded includes direct oxide-to-oxide bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Patent number: 11869965
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer and first transistors, and at least one first metal layer-which includes interconnects between the first transistors forming control circuits-which overlays the first single crystal layer; a second metal layer overlaying first metal layer; a second level including second transistors, first memory cells (each including at least one second transistor) and overlaying second metal layer; a third level including third transistors (at least one includes a polysilicon channel), second memory cells (each including at least one third transistor and cell is partially disposed atop control circuits) and overlaying the second level; control circuits control data written to second memory cells; third metal layer disposed above third level; fourth metal layer includes a global power distribution grid, has a thickness at least twice the second metal layer, and is disposed above third metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventor: Zvi Or-Bach
  • Patent number: 11869915
    Abstract: An integrated device, the device including: a first level including a first mono-crystal layer, the first mono-crystal layer including a plurality of single crystal transistors; an overlying oxide disposed on top of the first level; a second level including a second mono-crystal layer, the second level overlaying the oxide, where the second mono-crystal layer includes a plurality of image sensors, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes an oxide to oxide bond; and a plurality of pixel control circuits, where each of the plurality of image sensors is directly connected to at least one of the plurality of pixel control circuits, and where the integrated device includes a plurality of memory circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11866028
    Abstract: An electrical passenger car, the electrical passenger car including: at least two electrically driven motors; motor control electronics, where the motor control electronics are connected to the at least two electrically driven motors; wheels, where the wheels are connected to the at least two electrically driven motors; and sensors, where the sensors are connected to at least the motor control electronics, where the wheels include a first wheel and a second wheel, where the second wheel has a radius at least 7% greater than a radius of the first wheel, where the motor control electronics control the at least two electrically driven motors to provide a greater torque to the first wheel than to the second wheel, and where the electrical passenger car is designed to operate efficiently on a paved road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11869591
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a plurality of first memory arrays, where the first level includes a plurality of first transistors and a plurality of first metal layers; a second level disposed on top of the first level, where the second level includes a plurality of second memory arrays; a third level disposed on top of the second level, where the third level includes a plurality of third transistors and a plurality of third metal layers, where the third level is bonded to the second level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonding regions and a plurality of metal to metal bonding regions, where the first level includes first filled holes, where the second level includes second filled holes, and where the third level includes a plurality of decoder circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Jin-Woo Han, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11862503
    Abstract: A method for producing a 3D semiconductor device including: providing a first level including a first single crystal layer; forming a first metal layer on top of first level; forming a second metal layer on top of the first metal layer; forming at least one second level above the second metal layer; performing a first lithography step on the second level; forming a third level on top of the second level; performing a second lithography step on the third level; perform processing steps to form first memory cells within the second level and second memory cells within the third level, where first memory cells include at least one second transistor, and the second memory cells include at least one third transistor; and deposit a gate electrode for the second and the third transistors simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Publication number: 20230420283
    Abstract: A method for producing 3D semiconductor devices including: providing a first level including first transistors and a first single crystal layer; forming a first metal layer on top of the first level; forming a second metal layer on top of the first metal layer; forming at least one second level on top of or above the second metal layer; performing a lithography step on the second level; forming at least one third level on top of or above the second level; performing processing steps to form first memory cells within the second level and second memory cells within the third level, where the first memory cells include at least one second transistor, the second memory cells include at least one third transistor, first transistors control power delivery to some second transistors; and then forming at least four independent memory arrays which include some first memory cells and/or second memory cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Patent number: 11855114
    Abstract: An integrated device, the device including: a first level including a first mono-crystal layer, the first mono-crystal layer including a plurality of single crystal transistors; an overlying oxide disposed on top of the first level; a second level including a second mono-crystal layer, the second level overlaying the oxide, where the second mono-crystal layer includes a plurality of semiconductor devices; a third level overlaying the second level, where the third level includes a plurality of image sensors, where the first level includes a plurality of landing pads, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes an oxide to oxide bond; and an isolation layer disposed between the second mono-crystal layer and the third level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11855100
    Abstract: A multi-level semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including integrated circuits; a second level including a structure designed to conduct electromagnetic waves, where the second level is disposed above the first level, where the integrated circuits include single crystal transistors; and an oxide layer disposed between the first level and the second level, where the integrated circuits include at least one memory circuit, where the second level is bonded to the oxide layer, and where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11854646
    Abstract: A 3D memory device including: a plurality of memory cells, where each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells includes at least one memory transistor, where each of the at least one memory transistor includes a source, a drain, and a channel; and a plurality of bit-line pillars, where each bit-line pillar of the plurality of bit-line pillars is directly connected to a plurality of the source or the drain, where the plurality of bit-line pillars are vertically oriented, where the channel is horizontally oriented, where each of the at least one memory transistor is directly connected to at least one of the plurality of bit-line pillars, where the plurality of memory cells include a partially or fully metalized source structure and/or a partially or fully metalized drain structure, where the metalized source includes two metal structures, and where the two metal structures include a tungsten structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Jin-Woo Han, Eli Lusky
  • Patent number: 11854857
    Abstract: A method for producing 3D semiconductor devices including: providing a first level including first transistors and a first single crystal layer; forming a first metal layer on top of the first level; forming a second metal layer on top of the first metal layer; forming at least one second level on top of or above the second metal layer; performing a lithography step on the second level; forming at least one third level on top of or above the second level; performing processing steps to form first memory cells within the second level and second memory cells within the third level, where the first memory cells include at least one second transistor, the second memory cells include at least one third transistor, first transistors control power delivery to some second transistors; and then forming at least four independent memory arrays which include some first memory cells and/or second memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Publication number: 20230413586
    Abstract: A 3D device including: a first level including first transistors and a first interconnect; a second level including second transistors, the second level overlaying the first level; and at least four electronic circuit units (ECUs), where each of the ECUs include a first circuit, the first circuit including a portion of the first transistors, where each of the ECUs includes a second circuit, the second circuit including a portion of the second transistors, where each of the ECUs includes a first vertical bus, where the first vertical bus provides electrical connections between the first circuit and the second circuit, where each of the ECUs includes at least one processor and at least one memory array, where the second level is bonded to the first level, and where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonding regions and metal to metal bonding regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Jin-Woo Han, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20230408635
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave medical imaging system, the system including: at least one antenna; transmission electronics; receiving electronics; and receiving computing electronics, where the transmission electronics are structured to transmit a first electromagnetic wave having an Orbital Angular Momentum wave-front thru the antenna towards a target, where the Orbital Angular Momentum wave-front includes a vortex region, where the transmission electronics are structured to transmit a second electromagnetic wave having a non Orbital Angular Momentum wave-front thru a first portion of the antenna towards the target, where the receiving electronics are structured to form a first signal from a first return wave of the first electromagnetic wave, where the receiving electronics are structured to form a second signal from a second return wave of the second electromagnetic wave, and where the receiving computing electronics includes a computing process to estimate the return wave associated with the vortex region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Or-Ment LLC
    Inventor: Zvi Or-Bach
  • Publication number: 20230402098
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a plurality of first memory arrays, where the first level includes a plurality of first transistors and a plurality of first metal layers; a second level disposed on top of the first level, where the second level includes a plurality of second memory arrays; a third level disposed on top of the second level, where the third level includes a plurality of third transistors and a plurality of third metal layers, where the third level is bonded to the second level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonding regions and a plurality of metal to metal bonding regions, where the first level includes first filled holes, where the second level includes second filled holes, and where the third level includes a plurality of decoder circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Jin-Woo Han, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20230395608
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, the device including: a first silicon layer including a first single crystal silicon layer; a plurality of first transistors each including a single crystal channel; a first metal layer disposed over the plurality of first transistors; a second metal layer disposed over the first metal layer; a third metal layer disposed over the second metal layer; a second level including a plurality of second transistors, the second level disposed over the third metal layer; a fourth metal layer disposed over the second level; a fifth metal layer disposed over the fourth metal layer; a via disposed through the second level, where at least one of the plurality of second transistors includes a metal gate, where an average thickness of the fifth metal layer is greater than an average thickness of the third metal layer by at least 50%; and at least one Electrostatic discharge (“ESD”) structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20230395097
    Abstract: A 3D memory device including: a plurality of memory cells, where each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells includes at least one memory transistor, where each of the at least one memory transistor includes a source, a drain, and a channel; and a plurality of bit-line pillars, where each bit-line pillar of the plurality of bit-line pillars is directly connected to a plurality of the source or the drain, where the plurality of bit-line pillars are vertically oriented, where the channel is horizontally oriented, where each of the at least one memory transistor is directly connected to at least one of the plurality of bit-line pillars, where the plurality of memory cells include a partially or fully metalized source structure and/or a partially or fully metalized drain structure, where the metalized source includes two metal structures, and where the two metal structures include a tungsten structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Jin-Woo Han, Eli Lusky
  • Publication number: 20230397441
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including: a plurality of transistors, where at least one of the transistors includes a first single crystal source, channel, and drain, where at least one of the transistors includes a second single crystal source, channel, and drain, where the second single crystal source, channel, and drain is disposed above the first single crystal source, channel, and drain, where at least one of the transistors includes a third single crystal source, channel, and drain, where the third single crystal source, channel, and drain is disposed above the second single crystal source, channel, and drain, where at least one of the transistors includes a fourth single crystal source, channel, and drain, where the fourth single crystal source, channel, and drain is disposed above the third single crystal source, channel, and drain, and where the fourth drain is aligned to the first drain with less than 40 nm misalignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak C. Sekar, Zvi Or-Bach
  • Publication number: 20230395572
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, the device including: a first substrate; a first metal layer disposed over the first substrate; a second metal layer disposed over the first metal layer; a first level including a plurality of transistors, the first level disposed over the second metal layer, where the plurality of transistors each include single crystal silicon; a third metal layer disposed over the first level; a fourth metal layer disposed over the third metal layer, where the fourth metal layer is aligned to the first metal layer with a less than 200 nm alignment error; and a via disposed through the first level, where the via has a diameter of less than 450 nm, where the fourth metal layer provides a global power distribution, and where the device includes at least one power supply circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20230386886
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer, the first level including first transistors, where each of the first transistors includes a single crystal channel; first metal layers interconnecting at least the first transistors; a second metal layer overlaying the first metal layers; and a second level including a second single crystal layer, the second level including second transistors, where the second level overlays the first level, where at least one of the second transistors includes a transistor channel, where the at least one of the second transistors transistor channel includes non-silicon atoms, where the second level is directly bonded to the first level, and where the bonded includes direct oxide-to-oxide bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Publication number: 20230386890
    Abstract: A 3D device includes a first level including a first single crystal layer with control circuitry, where the control circuitry includes first single crystal transistors; a first metal layer atop first single crystal layer; a second metal layer atop the first metal layer; a third metal layer atop the second metal layer; second level (includes a plurality of second transistors, including metal gate) atop the third metal layer; a fourth metal layer above the one second level; a fifth metal layer atop the fourth metal layer, where the second level includes at least one first oxide layer overlaid by a transistor layer and then overlaid by a second oxide layer; a global power distribution grid including the fifth metal layer; a local power distribution grid, the thickness of the fifth metal layer is at least 50% greater than the thickness of the second metal layer, a layer deposited by ALD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak Sekar