Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080308844 | Spin Transistor Using Perpendicular Magnetization - A spin transistor useful for device miniaturization and high-density integration is provided. The spin transistor includes: a semiconductor substrate including a channel layer; ferromagnetic source and drain disposed on the semiconductor substrate to be separated from each other and to be magnetized in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the channel layer; a gate formed on the semiconductor substrate between the source and the drain to adjust spins of electrons passing through the channel layer, wherein spin-polarized electrons are injected from the source to the channel layer, and the electrons injected into the channel layer pass though the channel layer and are injected into the drain, and wherein the spins of the electrons passing through the channel layer undergo precession due to a spin-orbit coupling induced magnetic field according to a voltage of the gate. | 12-18-2008 |
20090152554 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A thin film transistor, a display device, and a manufacturing method thereof. The thin film transistor includes a control electrode, a semiconductor overlapping the control electrode, and an input electrode and an output electrode disposed on or under the semiconductor and opposite to each other. The semiconductor includes a first portion disposed between the input electrode and the output electrode and having a first crystallinity, and a second portion connected with the first portion, which overlaps the input electrode or the output electrode, and having a second crystallinity. The first crystallinity is higher than the second crystallinity. | 06-18-2009 |
20090152606 | Spin Transistor Using Epitaxial Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Junction - A spin transistor conducive to the miniaturization and large scale integration of devices, because a magnetization direction of a source and a drain is determined by a direction of the epitaxial growth of a ferromagnet. The spin transistor includes a semiconductor substrate having a channel layer formed thereinside; ferromagnetic source and drain epitaxially grown on the semiconductor substrate and magnetized in a longitudinal direction of the channel layer due to magnetocrystalline anisotropy—the source and drain being disposed spaced apart from each other in a channel direction and magnetized in the same direction—; and a gate disposed between the source and the drain to be insulated with the semiconductor substrate and formed on the semiconductor substrate to control the spin of electrons that are passed through the channel layer. | 06-18-2009 |
20090174690 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A display device and a manufacturing method thereof, include a first thin film transistor including a first control electrode, a first semiconductor disposed on the first control electrode, and a first input electrode and a first output electrode opposite to each other on the first semiconductor; and a second thin film transistor including a second control electrode, a second semiconductor disposed on the second control electrode, and a second input electrode and a second output electrode opposite to each other on the second semiconductor, wherein the first semiconductor includes a first lower semiconductor including polysilicon, and a first upper semiconductor disposed on the first lower semiconductor, the first upper semiconductor including amorphous silicon. | 07-09-2009 |
20100027330 | MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR READING MAGNETIC MEMORY CELL USING SPIN HALL EFFECT - A magnetic memory device includes a substrate for reading and a magnetic memory cell. The substrate has a channel layer. The magnetic memory cell is formed on the substrate and has a magnetized magnetic material that transfers spin data to electrons passing the channel layer. Data stored in the magnetic memory cell are read by a voltage across both side ends of the channel layer that is generated when the electrons passing the channel layer deviate in the widthwise direction of the channel layer by a spin Hall effect. | 02-04-2010 |
20100051957 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR ARRAY PANEL - A thin film transistor array panel, in which a middle storage electrode and a storage electrode overlapping a drain electrode of a thin film transistor thereby forming a storage capacitance are formed. Accordingly, sufficient storage capacitance may be formed without a decrease of the aperture ratio and fight transmittance of a liquid crystal display. Also, the capacitance may be sufficiently formed through the connecting member connected to a gate metal layer. | 03-04-2010 |
20100084633 | SPIN TRANSISTOR USING DOUBLE CARRIER SUPPLY LAYER STRUCTURE - A spin transistor includes a semiconductor substrate including a channel layer having a 2-dimensional electron gas structure and upper and lower cladding layers disposed respectively in upper and lower sides of the channel layer; ferromagnetic source and drain electrodes formed on the semiconductor substrate and disposed spaced apart from each other; a gate electrode disposed between the source electrode and the drain electrode and having a gate voltage applied thereto in order to control the spin of electrons passed through the channel layer; a first carrier supply layer disposed between the lower cladding layer and the channel layer to supply carriers to the channel layer; and a second carrier supply layer disposed between the upper cladding layer and the channel layer to supply carriers to the channel layer. | 04-08-2010 |
20110042648 | RECONFIGURABLE LOGIC DEVICE USING SPIN ACCUMULATION AND DIFFUSION - A logic device includes: a substrate having a channel layer; two input terminal patterns of ferromagnetic material formed on the substrate and spaced apart from each other along a longitudinal direction of the channel layer so as to serve as the input terminals of a logic gate; and an output terminal pattern of ferromagnetic material formed on the substrate and disposed between the two input terminal patterns to serve as an output terminal of the logic gate. The output terminal pattern reads an output voltage by using spin accumulation and diffusion of electron spins which are injected into the channel layer from the input terminal patterns. | 02-24-2011 |
20110057194 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR ARRAY PANEL - A thin film transistor array panel, in which a middle storage electrode and a storage electrode overlapping a drain electrode of a thin film transistor thereby forming a storage capacitance are formed. Accordingly, sufficient storage capacitance may be formed without a decrease of the aperture ratio and light transmittance of a liquid crystal display. Also, the capacitance may be sufficiently formed through the connecting member connected to a gate metal layer. | 03-10-2011 |
20110133198 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A thin film transistor, a display device, and a manufacturing method thereof. The thin film transistor includes a control electrode, a semiconductor overlapping the control electrode, and an input electrode and an output electrode disposed on or under the semiconductor and opposite to each other. The semiconductor includes a first portion disposed between the input electrode and the output electrode and having a first crystallinity, and a second portion connected with the first portion, which overlaps the input electrode or the output electrode, and having a second crystallinity. The first crystallinity is higher than the second crystallinity. | 06-09-2011 |
20110279146 | COMPLEMENTARY SPIN TRANSISTOR LOGIC CIRCUIT - There is provided a complementary spin transistor logic circuit, including: a parallel spin transistor that includes a magnetized first source, a first drain magnetized in parallel with the magnetization direction of the first source, a first channel layer and a first gate electrode; and an anti-parallel spin transistor that includes a magnetized second source, a second drain magnetized in anti-parallel with the magnetization direction of the second source, a second channel layer and a second gate electrode, wherein the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are connected to a common input terminal. | 11-17-2011 |
20110284937 | SPIN TRANSISTOR USING N-TYPE AND P-TYPE DOUBLE CARRIER SUPPLY LAYER STRUCTURE - A spin transistor that includes: a semiconductor substrate including an upper cladding layer and a lower cladding layer, and a channel layer interposed between the upper and lower cladding layers; a ferromagnetic source and a ferromagnetic drain formed on the semiconductor substrate and spaced from each other in a length direction of the channel layer; and a gate electrode formed on the semiconductor substrate between the source and the drain and having applied a gate voltage thereto to control a spin precession of an electron passing through the channel layer, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a first carrier supply layer of a first conductivity type disposed below the lower cladding layer and supplying carriers to the channel layer, and a second carrier supply layer of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type formed on the upper cladding layer and supplying the carriers to the channel layer. | 11-24-2011 |
20120007045 | P-TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE COMPRISING TYPE-2 QUANTUM WELL AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed herein are a method of generating a two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) using a type-2 quantum well formed using semiconductors with different electron affinities or band gap, and a high-speed p-type semiconductor device using the 2DHG. To this end, the method includes providing a semiconductor substrate; growing a first semiconductor layer on the semiconductor substrate, growing a second semiconductor layer with a different electron affinity or band gap from the first semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer, and growing a third semiconductor layer with a different electron affinity or band gap from the second semiconductor layer, thereby forming a type-2 quantum well; and forming a p-type doping layer in the vicinity of the type-2 quantum well, thereby generating the 2DHG. | 01-12-2012 |
20130140606 | COMPLEMENTARY LOGIC DEVICE USING SPIN INJECTION - A complementary logic device includes: an insulating layer formed on a substrate; a source electrode formed of a ferromagnetic body on the insulating layer; a gate insulating film; a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film and controlling a magnetization direction of the source electrode; a channel layer formed on each of a first side surface and a second side surface of the source electrode and transmitting spin-polarized electrons from the source electrode; a first drain electrode formed on the first side surface of the source electrode; and a second drain electrode formed on the second side surface of the source electrode, wherein a magnetization direction of the first drain electrode and a magnetization direction of the second drain electrode are antiparallel to each other. Therefore, not only characteristics of low power and high speed but also characteristics of non-volatility and multiple switching by spin may be obtained. | 06-06-2013 |
20130260498 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR HAVING SEMICONDUCTOR WITH DIFFERENT CRYSTALLINITIES AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A thin film transistor, a display device, and a manufacturing method thereof. The thin film transistor includes a control electrode, a semiconductor overlapping the control electrode, and an input electrode and an output electrode disposed on or under the semiconductor and opposite to each other. The semiconductor includes a first portion disposed between the input electrode and the output electrode and having a first crystallinity, and a second portion connected with the first portion, which overlaps the input electrode or the output electrode, and having a second crystallinity. The first crystallinity is higher than the second crystallinity. | 10-03-2013 |
20140021518 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes: a first substrate; a photo transistor on the first substrate; and a switching transistor connected to the photo transistor. The photo transistor includes a light blocking film on the first substrate, a first gate electrode on the light blocking film and in contact with the light blocking film, a first semiconductor layer on the first gate electrode and overlapping the light blocking film, and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode on the first semiconductor layer. The switching transistor includes a second gate electrode on the first substrate, a second semiconductor layer on the second gate electrode and overlapping the second gate electrode, and a second source electrode and a second drain electrode on the second semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer are at a same layer of the display device, and each includes crystalline silicon germanium. | 01-23-2014 |
20140264514 | COMPLEMENTARY SPIN DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATION - A complementary device including a gate electrode, a channel, a source electrode connected to the gate electrode and the channel, and a first drain electrode and a second drain electrode connected to the gate electrode and the channel is provided. The first/second drain electrode is formed so that, in accordance with a voltage applied to the gate electrode, electron spins injected into the source electrode are moved from the source electrode to the first/second drain electrode through the channel while rotating in a first/second direction. Directions of the electron spins that reach the first drain electrode and the second drain electrode are opposite to each other. | 09-18-2014 |