ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,225, issued on June 17, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Thin-film transistor" was invented by Jung Bae Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Dong Kil Yim (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Soo Young Choi (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein include thin-film transistors (TFTs) including channel layer stacks with layers having differing mobilities. The TFTs disclosed herein transport higher total current through both the low mobility and the high mobility channel layers due to higher carrier density in high mobility channel layer and/or the high mobility channel layers, which increases the speed of...