Inventor: Philip J. Kuekes

Address: Menlo Park, CA
No. of patents: 69
Last patent issue date: 01/22/2013

Number	Title	Issue Date
8357926	Gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifiers A gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier comprises: at least one first surface; at least one second surface, each second surface facing and electrically isolated from a respective first surface; a plurality of nanowires connecting each opposing pair of the fir...	01/22/2013
8314475	Nanoscale electronic device with anisotropic dielectric material One example of the present invention is a nanoscale electronic device comprising a first conductive electrode, a second conductive electrode, and an anisotropic dielectric material layered between the first and second electrodes having a permittivity in a direction ...	11/20/2012
8270200	Nanoscale three-terminal switching device A nanoscale three-terminal switching device has a bottom electrode, a top electrode, and a side electrode, each of which may be a nanowire. The top electrode extends at an angle with respect to the bottom electrode and has an end section going over and overlapping t...	09/18/2012
8258801	Nanoscale multiplexer In one embodiment of the present invention, a microscale or sub-microscale signal line, interconnected with one set of parallel nanowires of a nanowire crossbar, serves as a multiplexer. The multiplexer is used to detect the conductivity state of a nanowire junction...	09/04/2012
8214786	Scalable, component-accessible, and highly interconnected three-dimensional component arrangement within a system Embodiments of the present invention include dense, but accessible and well-interconnected component arrangements within multi-component systems, such as high-end multi-processor computer systems, and methods for constructing such arrangements. In a described embodi...	07/03/2012
8212235	Nanowire-based opto-electronic device Nanowire-based opto-electronic devices including nanowire lasers, photodetectors and semiconductor optical amplifiers are disclosed. The devices include nanowires grown from single crystal and/or non-single surfaces. The semiconductor optical amplifiers include nano...	07/03/2012
8188897	Analog to digital converter An analog to digital converter includes a dielectric substrate, an analog input wire, and digital output wires, with a metal insulator extending over the digital output wires. The analog input wire can be in proximity to the dielectric substrate and can generate hea...	05/29/2012
8149485	Dynamically reconfigurable holograms with electronically erasable programmable intermediate layers Dynamically reconfigurable holograms with electronically erasable programmable intermediate layers are disclosed. An example apparatus includes first nanowires, each of the first nanowires having protuberances along a length thereof. The example apparatus also inclu...	04/03/2012
8121807	Method and system for device reconfiguration for defect amelioration Embodiments of the present invention are directed to cost-effective defect amelioration in manufactured electronic devices that include nanoscale components. Certain embodiments of the present invention are directed to amelioration of defects in electronic devices t...	02/21/2012
8112700	Nanoscale interconnection interface One embodiment of the present invention provides a demultiplexer implemented as a nanowire crossbar or a hybrid nanowire/microscale-signal-line crossbar with resistor-like nanowire junctions. The demultiplexer of one embodiment provides demultiplexing of signals inp...	02/07/2012
8086706	System and method for self configuration of reconfigurable systems The invention is a system and method for reconfigurable computers. The invention involves a plurality of reconfigurable component clusters (RCCs), each of which can change their respective configuration upon receiving a configuration command. The invention uses a re...	12/27/2011
8045253	Sub-diffraction-limited imaging systems and methods Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for obtaining images of objects with higher resolution than the diffraction limit. In one aspect, a method for collecting evanescent waves scattered from an object comprises electronica...	10/25/2011
8004876	Configurable molecular switch array A computing system for implementing at least one electronic circuit with gain comprises at least one two-dimensional molecular switch array. The molecular switch array is formed by assembling two or more crossed planes of wires into a configuration of devices. Each ...	08/23/2011
7975068	System and method for self configuration of reconfigurable systems The invention is a system and method for reconfigurable computers. The invention involves a plurality of reconfigurable component clusters (RCCs), each of which can change their respective configuration upon receiving a configuration command. The invention uses a re...	07/05/2011
7948271	Molecular wire crossbar logic (MWCL) A programmable logic array (PLA) comprising a two-dimensional array of a plurality of nanometer-scale switches is provided. Each switch comprises a pair of crossed wires which form a junction where one wire crosses another and at least one connector species connecti...	05/24/2011
7947485	Method and apparatus for molecular analysis using nanoelectronic circuits Devices and methods for detecting the constituent parts of biological polymers are disclosed. A molecular analysis device comprises a molecule sensor and a molecule guide. The molecule sensor comprises a single electron transistor including a first terminal, a secon...	05/24/2011
7924413	Nanowire-based photonic devices Embodiments of the present invention are related to nanowire-based devices that can be configured and operated as modulators, chemical sensors, and light-detection devices. In one aspect, a nanowire-based device includes a reflective member, a resonant cavity surrou...	04/12/2011
7922919	Crossbar-array designs and wire addressing methods that tolerate misalignment of electrical components at wire overlap points Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to crossbar array designs that interfaces wires to address wires, despite misalignments between electrical components and wires. In one embodiment, a nanoscale device may be composed of a first layer of two o...	04/12/2011
7899091	Defect-tolerant demultiplexers based on threshold logic Embodiments of the present invention include defect-tolerant demultiplexer crossbars that employ, or that can be modeled by demultiplexer crossbars that employ, threshold logic “TL” elements. The threshold-logic elements provide for tolerance for signal variatio...	03/01/2011
7872502	Defect-and-failure-tolerant demultiplexer using series replication and error-control encoding One embodiment of the present invention is a method for constructing defect-and-failure-tolerant demultiplexers. This method is applicable to nanoscale, microscale, or larger-scale demultiplexer circuits. Demultiplexer circuits can be viewed as a set of AND gates, e...	01/18/2011
7869714	Electronic system having free space optical elements An electronic system includes a first circuit board having a first optical element and a second circuit board having a second optical element positioned to electronically communicate with the first optical element over free space. The system also includes a cold pla...	01/11/2011
7803712	Multilevel imprint lithography A mold with a protruding pattern is provided that is pressed into a thin polymer film via an imprinting process. Controlled connections between nanowires and microwires and other lithographically-made elements of electronic circuitry are provided. An imprint stamp i...	09/28/2010
7786467	Three-dimensional nanoscale crossbars Various embodiments of the present invention include three-dimensional, at least partially nanoscale, electronic circuits and devices in which signals can be routed in three independent directions, and in which electronic components can be fabricated at junctions in...	08/31/2010
7778061	Crossbar-memory systems and methods for writing to and reading from crossbar memory junctions of crossbar-memory systems Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to crossbar-memory systems to methods for writing information to and reading information stored in such systems. In one embodiment of the present invention, a crossbar-memory system comprises a first layer of...	08/17/2010
7760506	Electronic components, systems and apparatus with air flow devices Electronic components, systems and apparatus including one or more air flow devices, such as an aerodynamic element and/or an air diverter. ...	07/20/2010
7741638	Control layer for a nanoscale electronic switching device A control layer for use in a junction of a nanoscale electronic switching device is disclosed. The control layer includes a material that is chemically compatible with a connecting layer and at least one electrode in the nanoscale switching device. The control layer...	06/22/2010
7691201	Method of forming three-dimensional nanocrystal array A method of forming an assembly of isolated nanowires of at least one material within a matrix of another material is provided. The method comprises: providing a substrate; forming a catalyst array on a major surface of the substrate; growing an array of the nanowir...	04/06/2010
7657137	Photonic interconnect system A photonic interconnect system avoids high capacitance electric interconnects by using optical signals to communicate data between devices. The system can provide massively parallel information output by mapping logical addresses to frequency bands, so that modulati...	02/02/2010
7652911	Nanoscale shift register and signal demultiplexing using microscale/nanoscale shift registers Methods for inputting a data-value pattern into a nanowire crossbar, for inputting a data-value pattern into a nanowire crossbar that support computer instructions stored in a computer-readable medium, and for distributing a received data value to each of a set of n...	01/26/2010
7609089	FPGA architecture at conventional and submicron scales Reconfigurable logic devices and methods of programming the devices are disclosed. The logic device includes a look-up table (LUT) and at least one storage element configured for sampling LUT output signals. The LUT comprises a plurality of input signals, an array o...	10/27/2009
7560726	Quantum information processing using electromagnetically induced transparency Quantum information processing structures and methods use photons and four-level matter systems in electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) arrangements for one and two-qubit quantum gates, two-photon phase shifters, and Bell state measurement devices. For eff...	07/14/2009
7545999	Photonic configuration An apparatus comprising an integrated circuit having a plurality of devices each having device characteristics, and a waveguide structure coupled to the integrated circuit, wherein photons provided to the waveguide structure are directed to one or more devices of th...	06/09/2009
7546004	Photonic interconnect system A photonic interconnect system avoids high capacitance electric interconnects by using optical signals to communicate data between devices. The system can provide massively parallel information output by mapping logical addresses to frequency bands, so that modulati...	06/09/2009
7525833	Nanoscale shift register and signal demultiplexing using microscale/nanoscale shift registers One embodiment of the present invention is a nanoscale shift register that can be used, in certain nanoscale and mixed-scale logic circuits, to distribute an input signal to individual nanowires of the logic circuit. In a described embodiment, the nanoscale shift re...	04/28/2009
7511725	Apparatus and method for providing a three-dimensional moving image from a non-fixed pixel display Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for providing a three-dimensional moving image from a non-fixed pixel display. In one embodiment, a display having a plurality of pixels is provided, wherein at least one of the pixels is non-fixed and dynamic...	03/31/2009
7507293	Photonic crystals with nanowire-based fabrication Fabrication of a photonic crystal is described. A patterned array of nanowires is formed, the nanowires extending outward from a surface, the nanowires comprising a catalytically grown nanowire material. Spaces between the nanowires are filled with a slab material, ...	03/24/2009
7492803	Fiber-coupled single photon source A device comprising a single photon generator and a waveguide, wherein a single photon generated by the single photon generator is coupled to the waveguide. ...	02/17/2009
7489583	Constant-weight-code-based addressing of nanoscale and mixed microscale/nanoscale arrays Various embodiments of the present invention include methods for determining nanowire addressing schemes and include microscale/nanoscale electronic devices that incorporate the nanowire addressing schemes for reliably addressing nanowire-junctions within nanowire c...	02/10/2009
7449776	Cooling devices that use nanowires Different types of cooling devices using nanowires are described. For example, a cooling device may include a plurality of diamond nanowires coupled to a surface. The diamond nanowires conduct heat energy from the surface and dissipate the heat energy into a neighbo...	11/11/2008
7447055	Multiplexer interface to a nanoscale-crossbar Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to electronic means for reading the content of a nanowire-crossbar memory. In one embodiment of the present invention, a microscale or sub-microscale signal line is interconnected with one set of parallel nan...	11/04/2008

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