Intellectual Property Law

US Patent 7411241 - Vertical nanotube transistor memory cell

This patent from Samsung with priority going back to March 28, 2005 presents some basic claims to vertically oriented carbon nanotubes channels connected to a bit line. Claim 1 reads:

1. An integrated circuit device, comprising:

a substrate;

an electrically conductive bit line on said substrate; and

a field effect transistor having a first current carrying terminal electrically connected to said bit line, said field effect transistor comprising a nanotube channel region and a gate electrode surrounding the nanotube channel region.

However, some examples of pertinent prior art seem to have been overlooked such as US Patent 6,515,325 which teaches forming a carbon nanotube transistor with an annular gate as part of a memory cell (see column 7, lines 5-17) or US Patent 6,740,910 which teaches a vertical nanotube channel formed in a through hole of a gate structure.

Full post as published by TinytechIP on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).