Ramachandra Divakaruni

Ramachandra Divakaruni is a prolific inventor from India and is a Project Manager at IBM. He completed his B. Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from IIT, Madras.

Records held:

  • 9th most patents issued to a person of Indian Origin (Complete list)

He is currently based in New York, United States of America (USA).

Background of Ramachandra Divakaruni

Name: Ramachandra Divakaruni
Patents: 304
Associated: IBM
First patent: 2000

Education:

  • B. Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras in 1984 to 1988
  • PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1988 to 1994

Ramachandra Divakaruni spent 10 years in education in Electrical and Electronics Engineering across B. Tech and PhD.

He joined IBM Burlington in 1994 and is a IBM Distinguished Engineer. He has been working at IBM for over the last 27 years.

Patents by Ramachandra Divakaruni

Research area Ramachandra Divakaruni focused on:

  • Process Technology Research and Fabless Interface
  • DRAM Technology
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Planar hi-K RMG technology

Some of the notable patents by Ramachandra Divakaruni are:

  • Stacked nanowire devices
  • FinFET vertical flash memory
  • FinFET with epitaxial source and drain regions and dielectric isolated channel region
  • Fully depleted SOI device for reducing parasitic back gate capacitance
  • Multiple-bit electrical fuses
  • Integrated strained stacked nanosheet FET
  • Semiconductor fin isolation by a well trapping fin portion
  • Integrated strained stacked nanosheet FET
  • Porous silicon relaxation medium for dislocation free CMOS devices
  • Methods and structures for protecting one area while processing another area on a chip
  • Local thinning of semiconductor fins
  • Self-aligned contacts for high k/metal gate process flow
  • Silicon-germanium fins and silicon fins on a bulk substrate
  • Semiconductor fin isolation by a well trapping fin portion

Fellow Researchers with whom Ramachandra Divakaruni frequently collaborated and published important patents are:

  • Arvind Kumar
  • Carl J. Radens
  • Kangguo Cheng
  • Ali Khakifirooz
  • Alexander Reznicek
  • Soon-Cheon Seo
  • Juntao Li
  • Xin Miao
  • Huiling Shang
  • Reinaldo A. Vega
  • Henry K. Utomo
  • Xin Miao
  • Jeehwan Kim
  • Katherina E. Babich
  • Arpan P. Mohorowala
  • Harald Okorn-Schmidt
  • Henry K. Utomo

You can contact Ramachandra Divakaruni at rdivakar [at] us.ibm.com.

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