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Quantum wave circuit

Patent 5233205 Issued on August 3, 1993. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject June 22, 2012. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

Three-terminal quantum device
Patent #: 4912531
Issued on: 03/27/1990
Inventor: Reed, et al.

Electron tuned quantum well device
Patent #: 4942437
Issued on: 07/17/1990
Inventor: Fowler, et al.

Quantum-well logic using self-generated potentials Patent #: 4969018
Issued on: 11/06/1990
Inventor: Reed

Inventors

Assignee

Application

No. 902554 filed on 06/22/1992

US Classes:

257/23, Current flow across well257/24, Field effect device257/25, Employing resonant tunneling257/192, Field effect transistor257/194, Doping on side of heterojunction with lower carrier affinity (e.g., high electron mobility transistor (HEMT))257/E27.012, Made of compound semiconductor material, e.g. III-V material (EPO)257/E29.168, Quantum effect device (EPO)326/101, SIGNIFICANT INTEGRATED STRUCTURE, LAYOUT, OR LAYOUT INTERCONNECTIONS326/104, FUNCTION OF AND, OR, NAND, NOR, OR NOT326/116Schottky-gate FET (i.e., MESFET)

Examiners

Primary: James, Andrew J.
Assistant: Ngo, Ngan Van

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 89/07832 WO 08/13/1989

International Classes

H01L 029/161
H01L 027/12
H01L 045/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1989-09-25 JP

Abstract

A novel concept and structure of a semiconductor circuit are disclosed which utilize the fact that the interaction between the carriers such as electrons and holes supplied in a meso-scopic region and the potential field formed in the meso-scopic region leads to such effects as quantum interference and resonance, with the result that the output intensity is changed.

Other References

  • Reed, "The Quantum Transistor", pp. 275 to 281, May 1989, BYTE magazine
  • Datta, et al., Proposed Structure for Large Quantum Interference Effects, Applied Physics Letter 48, Feb. 17, 1986, pp. 487-489
  • Usagawa, Quantum Interference Effect on Low-Energy He Atomic Beam Scattering at the Surface of He II, Physics Letters, vol. 73A, No. 4, Oct. 1, 1979, pp. 339-34
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