US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW on Sept. 9 for "Ferroelectric device" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,302, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Ferroelectric device" was invented by Mihaela Ioana Popovici (Haasrode, Belgium), Jan Van Houdt (Bekkevoort, Belgium), Amey Mahadev Walke (Heverlee, Belgium), Gouri Sankar Kar (Leuven, Belgium) and Jasper Bizindavyi (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to ferroelectric devices. An example ferroelectric device layer structure includes a first electrode. The ferroelectric device layer structure also includes a second electrode. Additionally, the ferroelectric device layer structure includes a ferroelectric layer of hafnium zircon...