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Method for Reducing Process Variation-Induced Threshold Voltage Mismatch in FD-SOI Transistors (Case No. 2025-271)
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Published: 10/6/2025   |   Inventor(s): Subramanian Iyer, Siyun Qiao, Jacklyn Zhu, Samuel Wang
Keywords(s): device stability, Electronics & Semiconductors, frequency modulation, Integrated Circuit, Integrated Circuit Via (Electronics), Microelectronics Semiconductor Device Fabrication, Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit, Semiconductor, Semiconductor Device, Semiconductor Device Fabrication, Semiconductors, Signal Processing, Silicon, Transistor, transistors
Category(s): Electrical, Electrical > Signal Processing, Electrical > Instrumentation, Electrical > Electronics & Semiconductors, Software & Algorithms, Software & Algorithms > Communication & Networking
Frequency Alteration and Performance Enhancement of a Resonant MEMS Device and a Resonant MEMS Array
Advantages Improves resonator precision and quality using localized Joule heating Enables post-fabrication tuning without redesign or full re-manufacture Enhances performance by lowering motional resistance and boosting Q factor Works with a wide range of MEMS materials and device shapes Summary MEMS resonators are widely used in precision...
Published: 6/20/2025   |   Inventor(s): Ugur Guneroglu, Jing Wang, Adnan Zaman
Keywords(s): Electronics, Piezoelectric, Semiconductors
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering > Electrical Engineering, Technology Classifications > Engineering > Mechanical Engineering
Suspended Graphene Energy Harvesting Solid State Structure
An energy harvesting device made possible by the oscillatory behavior of suspending graphene. Background: Even low power devices need consistent, reliable energy sources that in most cases must be powered indefinitely in order to accomplish the device’s objectives. Maintaining a secure and independent energy source for powering small, sometimes...
Published: 6/26/2025   |   Inventor(s): Nicholas Pieniazek, Christopher Hobbs, Vincent LaBella
Keywords(s): battery systems, circuit design, energy storage devices, material science, microsystem, nanoengineering, nanofabrication, nanotechnology, semiconductors, Technologies
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Energy, Technology Classifications > Environment, Technology Classifications > Materials and Chemicals, Technology Classifications > Nanotechnology, Campus > SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Campus > NY CREATES
Semiconductor Annealing Monitoring
Provides real-time, in-situ monitoring of conductivity change in a doped semiconductor wafer that is being subjected to pulsed microwave annealing. Background: Certain semiconductor wafers are manufactured via a process called doping. During this process, a material (the dopant) is introduced into the semiconductor crystal to change its electrical...
Published: 5/13/2025   |   Inventor(s): Fatemeh Shahedipour-Sandvik, Vincent Meyers
Keywords(s): biomedical, chemistry, microsystem, semiconductors, TAF, Technologies
Category(s): Campus > SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Materials and Chemicals
Improved Chemical-Mechanical Polishing Slurry Composition and Method to Improve Polishing of Metals and Non-metals Using Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles
Reducing manufacturing time, cost, and labor by employing chemistry to transform a two-step process into an easily controlled single-step. Background: Integrated circuits are built of many layers. Each layer must be perfectly flat so that connections line up between layers and electricity flows properly throughout. Conventional CMP systems consist...
Published: 5/13/2025   |   Inventor(s): Christopher Netzband, Kathleen Dunn
Keywords(s): abrasive, cerium, cerium oxide, chemical activity, chemical mechanical polishing, CMP, CMP slurries, dielectrics, fiber optics, integrated circuit, lens, mechanical polish, metallic surface, optics, polish, polishing, semiconductor wafers, semiconductors, slurry, surface finishing, surface quality
Category(s): Campus > SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Technology Classifications > Materials and Chemicals, Technology Classifications > Nanotechnology
Deuterized Low-K Dielectric Materials for TDDB Mitigation
Simple, scalable and inexpensive process to replace the hydrogen in low-k dielectrics with deuterium to improve semiconductor performance. Background: Low-k dielectrics are a class of materials used in the manufacture of nanoscale semiconductor devices. The problem with low-k dielectrics is that they are susceptible to a phenomenon known as time dependent...
Published: 5/13/2025   |   Inventor(s): James Lloyd, Patrick Lenahan, Niaz Mahmud
Keywords(s): nanotechnology, semiconductors
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Nanotechnology, Campus > SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Resist Enhancements for Sensitivity and Resolution
Photoresist layer manufacturing for use in a semiconductor component using a generated electric field. Background: Due to the unique properties of semiconductors, their use in modern computing/electronic technologies has found wide use in IC, diodes, LED, rectifiers, MOSFET, transistors, solar cells, and other computing materials. Semiconductor fabrication...
Published: 5/13/2025   |   Inventor(s): Gregory Denbeaux
Keywords(s): material science, materials and chemicals, semiconductors, Technologies
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Materials and Chemicals, Campus > SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Molten Liquid Nanodroplet Vacuum Impaction for Additive Manufacturing
An efficient, high purity material additive manufacturing technique designed to reduce material waste and energy consumption. Background: The additive manufacturing market has an existing need for a high purity material additive manufacturing process with reduced energy usage. Additive manufacturing uses data computer aided design (CAD) software...
Published: 5/13/2025   |   Inventor(s): Gregory Denbeaux
Keywords(s): material science, semiconductors
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Materials and Chemicals, Campus > SUNY Polytechnic Institute
HgTe Quantum Dots With Near Unity Photoluminescent Quantum Yields in the Near and Short-Wave Infrared (Case No. 2024-256)
Summary: Researchers in UCLA’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have developed an innovative synthesis technique to create ultrasmall Mercury Telluride (HgTe) quantum dots, offering tunable optoelectronic properties and high photoluminescent quantum yields across the infrared spectrum. Background: HgTe quantum dots are gaining popularity...
Published: 9/11/2025   |   Inventor(s): Justin Caram, Belle Coffey
Keywords(s): Biochemistry, Chemical, Electronics & Semiconductors, Imaging, Infrared, infrared thermal imaging, Light-Emitting Diode, Materials, Microscale Chemistry, Nanomaterials, nanophotonics, near-infrared, Optoelectronic materials, Optoelectronics, photodetection, photoluminescence, photostability, Quantum Dot, Semiconductor, Semiconductors
Category(s): Electrical > Imaging, Chemical, Optics & Photonics, Materials > Nanotechnology, Chemical > Instrumentation & Analysis, Electrical > Sensors, Materials > Semiconducting Materials
Carrier Storage Frequency Divider Using Silicon PIN Diodes (Case No. 2025-023)
Summary: Researchers in UCLA’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have designed and fabricated an innovative device capable of frequency division at the Terahertz range, featuring low power consumption, quadrature outputs, and high sensitivity. Background: Traditional electronic and optical devices struggle to operate at the...
Published: 8/21/2025   |   Inventor(s): Sidharth Thomas, Aydin Babakhani, Benyamin Fallahi Motlagh
Keywords(s): Analogue Electronics, Antennas/Wireless, artificial electromagnetic materials, Bandwidth (Signal Processing), Bioelectromagnetics, bioelectronics, bistable electroactive polymer, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Consumer Electronics, Continuous-Wave Radar, Digital Electronics, Digital Signal Processing, Electrical Engineering, Electroactive Polymers, Electrocatalyst, electrochemical sensors, Electrode, Electrode 3D Printing, electrodeposition, electrodes, Electroencephalography, Electroencephalography (EEG), Electroencephalography Microsecond Neurofeedback, Electrolyte, electromagnetic, Electromagnetism, Electron, electron emittance, Electron Gun, Electronics & Semiconductors, energy-efficient wireless communication, Extremely High Frequency, high-frequency signals, image signal processing, Imaging, Integrated Circuit, low-power device, Optical networks, PIN Diode, power conversion efficiency, Radar, Radar / Antennae, Remote Sensing, Semiconductor, Semiconductor Device, Semiconductors, signal decoding, Signal Processing, Silicon, Synthetic aperture radar (SAR), Wireless, wireless communication, wireless connectivity, Wireless Sensor Network, wireless spectrum
Category(s): Electrical > Electronics & Semiconductors, Electrical > Electronics & Semiconductors > Circuits, Electrical, Electrical > Wireless, Electrical > Signal Processing
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