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Class 257/38 - Three or more electrode device


Subclass of Class 257 - Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes)
Definition: Subject matter wherein the tunneling device has three or
No. of patents: 75
Last issue date: 05/08/2012


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NumberTitleIssue Date
8173993Gate-all-around nanowire tunnel field effect transistors
A method for forming a nanowire tunnel field effect transistor (FET) device includes forming a nanowire suspended by first and second pad regions over a semiconductor substrate, the nanowire including a core portion and a dielectric layer, forming a gate structure a...
05/08/2012
8173992Transistor or triode structure with tunneling effect and insulating nanochannel
A microelectronic device is provided with at least one transistor or triode with Fowler-Nordheim tunneling current modulation, and supported on a substrate. The triode or the transistor includes at least one first block forming a cathode and at least one second bloc...
05/08/2012
7655942Fiber incorporating quantum dots as programmable dopants
A programmable dopant fiber includes a plurality of quantum structures formed on a fiber-shaped substrate, wherein the substrate includes one or more energy-carrying control paths, which pass energy to quantum structures. Quantum structures may include quantum dot p...
02/02/2010
7449713Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor layer, a source/drain layer, first and second insulating films, and first and second gate electrodes. The semiconductor layer of one conductivity type is formed on a principal surface ...
11/11/2008
7439089Method of fabricating array substrate having color filter on thin film transistor structure
In a liquid crystal display device substrate, an insulating layer covers a thin film transistor. Another insulating layer covers a black matrix, which is formed on the insulating layer and covers the thin film transistor, a gate line, and a data line except a portio...
10/21/2008
7400017Reverse conducting semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof
To provide a reverse conducting semiconductor device in which an insulated gate bipolar transistor and a free wheeling diode excellent in recovery characteristic are monolithically formed on a substrate, the free wheeling diode including; a second conductive type ba...
07/15/2008
7378328Method of fabricating memory device utilizing carbon nanotubes
A fast, reliable, highly integrated memory device formed of a carbon nanotube memory device and a method for forming the same, in which the carbon nanotube memory device includes a substrate, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a carbon nanotube having high elect...
05/27/2008
7311947Laser assisted material deposition
A method of forming a film on a substrate includes activating a gas precursor to form a material on the substrate by irradiating the gas precursor with electromagnetic energy at a frequency tuned to an absorption frequency of the gas precursor. ...
12/25/2007
7288473Metal layer in semiconductor device and method of forming the same
Canting or falling of an upper metal line may be prevented by improving adhesion between an insulation layer and a metal layer. A method for forming a semiconductor which improves adhesion between an insulation layer and a metal layer includes: preparing a substrate...
10/30/2007
7250648Ferroelectric rare-earth manganese-titanium oxides
Ferroelectric rare-earth manganese-titanium oxides and methods of their manufacture. The ferroelectric materials can provide nonvolatile data storage in rapid access memory devices. ...
07/31/2007
7196351Forming phase change memories
Phase change memories may exhibit improved properties and lower cost in some cases by forming the phase change material layers in a planar configuration. A heater may be provided below the phase change material layers to appropriately heat the material to induce the...
03/27/2007
7190037Integrated transistor devices
A self-aligned enhancement mode metal-oxide-compound semiconductor field effect transistor (10) includes a lower oxide layer that is a mixture of Ga2O, Ga2O3, and other gallium oxide compounds (30), and a second insulat...
03/13/2007
7187587Programmable memory address and decode circuits with low tunnel barrier interpoly insulators
Structures and methods for programmable memory address and decode circuits with low tunnel barrier interpoly insulators are provided. The decoder for a memory device includes a number of address lines and a number of output lines wherein the address lines and the ou...
03/06/2007
7183568Piezoelectric array with strain dependant conducting elements and method therefor
A structure (and method) for a piezoelectric device, including a layer of piezoelectric material. A nanotube structure is mounted such that a change of shape of the piezoelectric material causes a change in a stress in the nanotube structure. ...
02/27/2007
7161838Thin film transistor memory device
A memory device includes a memory array of thin film transistor (TFT) memory cells. The memory cells include a floating gate separated from a gate electrode portion of a gate line by an insulator. The gate electrode portion includes a diffusive conductor that diffus...
01/09/2007
7157731Semiconductor device and its manufacture
In a logic area, impurities are doped into the gate electrode and the source/drain diffusion regions of a MIS transistor. Thereafter in a memory cell area, word lines are patterned, source/drain regions are formed, and contact holes are formed. Side wall spacers of ...
01/02/2007
7112841Graded composition metal oxide tunnel barrier interpoly insulators
Structures and methods for programmable array type logic and/or memory devices with graded composition metal oxide tunnel barrier intergate insulators are provided. The programmable array type logic and/or memory devices include a floating gate transistor. The float...
09/26/2006
7112494Write once read only memory employing charge trapping in insulators
Structures and methods for write once read only memory employing charge trapping in insulators are provided. The write once read only memory cell includes a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor having a first source/drain region, a second source/drain r...
09/26/2006
7087954In service programmable logic arrays with low tunnel barrier interpoly insulators
Structures and methods for in service programmable logic arrays with low tunnel barrier interpoly insulators are provided. The in-service programmable logic array includes a first logic and a second logic plan having a number of logic cells arranged in rows and colu...
08/08/2006
7075829Programmable memory address and decode circuits with low tunnel barrier interpoly insulators
Structures and methods for programmable memory address and decode circuits with low tunnel barrier interpoly insulators are provided. The decoder for a memory device includes a number of address lines and a number of output lines wherein the address lines and the ou...
07/11/2006
7074673Service programmable logic arrays with low tunnel barrier interpoly insulators
Structures and methods for in service programmable logic arrays with low tunnel barrier interpoly insulators are provided. The in-service programmable logic array includes a first logic and a second logic plan having a number of logic cells arranged in rows and colu...
07/11/2006
7068544Flash memory with low tunnel barrier interpoly insulators
Structures and methods for Flash memory with low tunnel barrier intergate insulators are provided. The non-volatile memory includes a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region separated by a channel region in a substrate. A floating gate opposing th...
06/27/2006
7042043Programmable array logic or memory devices with asymmetrical tunnel barriers
Structures and methods for programmable array type logic and/or memory devices with asymmetrical low tunnel barrier intergate insulators are provided. The programmable array type logic and/or memory devices include non-volatile memory which has a first source/drain ...
05/09/2006
7027328Integrated circuit memory device and method
Structures and methods for DEAPROM memory with low tunnel barrier intergate insulators are provided. The DEAPROM memory includes a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region separated by a channel region in a substrate. A floating gate opposes the ch...
04/11/2006
6952032Programmable array logic or memory devices with asymmetrical tunnel barriers
Structures and methods for programmable array type logic and/or memory devices with asymmetrical low tunnel barrier intergate insulators are provided. The programmable array type logic and/or memory devices include non-volatile memory which has a first source/drain ...
10/04/2005
6936900Integrated transistor devices
A self-aligned enhancement mode metal-oxide-compound semiconductor field effect transistor (10) includes a lower oxide layer that is a mixture of Ga2O, Ga2O3, and other gallium oxide compounds (30), and a second insulat...
08/30/2005
6844571III-nitride light-emitting device with increased light generating capability
The present invention is an inverted III-nitride light-emitting device (LED) with enhanced total light generating capability. A large area device has an n-electrode that interposes the p-electrode metallization to provide low series resistance. The p-electrode metal...
01/18/2005
6833556Insulated gate field effect transistor having passivated schottky barriers to the channel
A transistor includes a semiconductor channel disposed nearby a gate and in an electrical path between a source and a drain, wherein the channel and at least one of the source or the drain are separated by an interface layer so as to form a channel-interface layer-s...
12/21/2004
6479863Method and apparatus for injecting charge onto the floating gate of a nonvolatile memory cell
A tunneling charge injector includes a conducting injector electrode, a grid insulator disposed adjacent the conducting injector electrode, a grid electrode disposed adjacent the grid insulator, a retention insulator disposed adjacent the grid electrode, ...
11/12/2002
6344659Superconducting transistor arrangement and a method relating thereto
The present invention relates on an interferometer arrangement comprising a source electrode and a drain electrode, a base electrode to which the source electrode and the drain electrode are connected through tunnel barriers, the base electrode thus formi...
02/05/2002
6023124Electron emission device and display device using the same
An electron emission device exhibits a high electron emission efficiency. The device includes an electron supply layer of metal or semiconductor, an insulator layer formed on the electron supply layer, and a thin-film metal electrode formed on the insulat...
02/08/2000
6020596Superconducting device including an isolation layer
A FET type superconducting device comprises a substrate having a principal surface, a thin superconducting channel formed of an oxide superconductor layer over the principal surface of the substrate, a superconducting source region and a superconducting d...
02/01/2000
5962864Gated resonant tunneling device and fabricating method thereof
A semiconductor device comprises mutually separated first and third barrier layers interposed between the first and second patterned terminals. The device operates by the resonant tunneling of carriers from the second terminal to the first terminal. The f...
10/05/1999
5717222Superconducting device having an extremely thin superconducting channel formed of oxide superconductor material and method for manufacturing the same
A superconducting device includes a substrate, a projecting insulating region formed in a principal surface of the substrate, and a first thin film portion of an oxide superconductor formed on the projecting insulating region. Second and third thin film p...
02/10/1998
5682041Electronic part incorporating artificial super lattice
An electronic part is disclosed which is furnished with an artificial super lattice obtained by alternately superposing a substance of good conductivity formed of a compound between one element selected from among the elements belonging to the transition ...
10/28/1997
5665979Coulomb-blockade element and method of manufacturing the same
A Coulomb-blockade element includes a silicon layer formed on a substrate through an insulating film. The silicon layer includes a narrow wire portion and first and second electrode portions. The narrow wire portion serves as a conductive island for confi...
09/09/1997
5621223Superconducting device having a reduced thickness of oxide superconducting layer and method for manufacturing the same
A superconducting device includes first and second oxide superconducting regions of a relatively thick thickness, formed directly on a principal surface of a substrate to be separate from each other, and a third oxide superconducting region of an extremel...
04/15/1997
5594257Superconducting device having a superconducting channel formed of oxide superconductor material and method for manufacturing the same
A superconducting device comprises a substrate having a principal surface, a non-superconducting oxide layer having a similar crystal structure to that of an oxide superconductor formed on the principal surface, which can compensates the lattice mismatch ...
01/14/1997
5552374Oxide superconducting a transistor in crank-shaped configuration
A superconducting device comprises a thin superconducting channel formed of an oxide superconductor, a superconducting source region and a superconducting drain region formed of an oxide superconductor at the both ends of the superconducting channel which...
09/03/1996
5550389Superconducting device
A superconducting device low in power dissipation and high in operating speed is fabricated by use of a combination of a superconductor material and a semiconductor material. The superconducting device having a low power dissipation and high operating spe...
08/27/1996
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