US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 30 for "Ferroelectrically modulated spin orbit logic device" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,911, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Ferroelectrically modulated spin orbit logic device" was invented by Hai Li (Portland, Ore.), Dmitri Evgenievich Nikonov (Beaverton, Ore.), Chia-Ching Lin (Portland, Ore.), Tanay A Gosavi (Portland, Ore.) and Ian Alexander Young (Olympia, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spin orbit logic (SOL) device includes a first electrically conductive layer; a layer comprising a ferroelectric material (FE layer) on the first electrically conductive layer; a second electrically conductive layer on the FE layer; and a spin orbit coupling (SOC) stack including a firs...