US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Aug. 5 for "Ferroelectric components and cross point array devices including the ferroelectric components" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,846, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Ferroelectric components and cross point array devices including the ferroelectric components" was invented by Jae Gil Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hyangkeun Yoo (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jae Hyun Han (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ferroelectric component includes a first electrode, a tunnel barrier layer disposed on the first electrode to include a ferroelectric material, a tunneling control layer disposed on the tunnel barrier layer to control a tunneling width of electric charges passing through the tunnel barrier layer, and ...