US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 19 for "Silicon-based photonic quantum memory devices and methods for forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,820, issued on May 19, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Silicon-based photonic quantum memory devices and methods for forming the same" was invented by Chung-Hao Tsai (Huatan Township, Taiwan), Ching-Ho Chin (Chung-Li City, Taiwan), Wei-Ting Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chuei-Tang Wang (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum memory device includes: a waveguide configured to spatially confine paths of photons therein; a memory cell that includes a micro-ring resonator (MRR), a frequency tuner, and a quantum memory material porti...