US Patent Issued to TetraMem on Dec. 2 for "Tunneling-based selectors incorporating van der Waals (vdW) materials" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,441, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TetraMem Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Tunneling-based selectors incorporating van der Waals (vdW) materials" was invented by Minxian Zhang (Amherst, Mass.) and Ning Ge (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure a tunneling-based selector is provided. The selector includes a multilayer barrier structure fabricated between a first electrode and a second electrode. The multilayer barrier structure includes a first layer of a first van der Waals (vdW) material; a second layer of a second vdW material; and a third layer of a third vdW ma...