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BEIJING SUPERSTRING ACADEMY OF MEMORY TECHNOLOGY
Beijing Superstring Academy of Memory Technology's patent strategy reveals a surprising shift: while Memory Devices (Structural) remains their dominant focus at 47.7% of their portfolio, it experienced a significant decline of -71.4% so far in 2026 after rapid growth in prior years. Concurrently, categories like Integrated Circuit Layout & Arrangement and Transistor & Device Structure, which were once significant, have seen near-total declines in recent years, indicating a dramatic reprioritization away from these areas.
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149 US filings (since 2023) · 10 categories · 12 themes
Focuses on the physical design, materials, and manufacturing processes for individual memory cells, including transistor structures, interconnects, and multi-layered (3D) architectures to enhance density and performance.
Design and operation of transistors optimized for memory applications, including floating body devices, ferroelectric FETs (FeFETs), vertical TFTs for 3D arrays, and charge-trapping memory cells.
Development of memory cells utilizing resistive switching or phase-change materials, including novel material compositions, multi-layered structures, and integration with selector devices like bipolar junction transistors, to achieve non-volatile storage.
Techniques for stacking multiple semiconductor dies or active layers vertically to achieve higher density and shorter interconnections, often utilizing through-silicon vias (TSVs) or other vertical conductive paths like through-hole electrodes.
Techniques and methodologies for fabricating semiconductor devices, including etching, deposition, annealing, isolation, and doping steps, aimed at improving yield, performance, or enabling new structures.
Design and fabrication techniques for magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) cells, focusing on magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack profiles, electrode configurations, and dielectric encapsulation to improve performance and reliability.
Novel materials and processes for forming low-resistance electrical contacts and interconnects within semiconductor devices, including selective deposition, silicidation, and barrier layers for improved performance and scaling.
Structural innovations in individual transistors, such as fin-based field-effect transistors (FinFETs), 3D gate structures, or multi-layer active regions, aimed at improving performance or density.
Advanced techniques for forming and optimizing gate dielectrics, work function layers, and other dielectric layers within transistor structures to improve performance, reliability, and scaling.
Manufacturing processes and structural designs for transistors utilizing fin-shaped channels or multiple gates (e.g., FinFETs, Gate-All-Around FETs) to enhance gate control and reduce short-channel effects.
Focuses on the design and manufacturing of transistors where the gate material fully encircles the channel, often using nanosheets or fins, to improve electrostatic control and reduce short-channel effects.
Methods for depositing thin films with controlled conformality, thickness, and material properties, including selective deposition on specific areas, often using atomic layer deposition (ALD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), or epitaxial growth.
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Novel Memory Transistor Architectures