Abstract: A portable electronic device with virtual image display including a semiconductor array providing a real image and an optical system mounted to receive the real image and produce a virtual image at a viewing aperture. Electronics are associated with the array to produce real images in accordance with messages received by a data source such as a communication receiver. The display is sufficiently small to mount in a hand held microphone for viewing by the operator while using the microphone.

Abstract: Organic electroluminescent apparatus including an organic electroluminescent device for emitting blue-green light. A microcavity structure receives the blue-green light and is tuned to a resonance such that the blue-green light is enhanced to blue and green light. A color converting medium receives and absorbs the blue-green light and emits red light in response thereto.

Abstract: An insulator-compound semiconductor interface structure is disclosed including compound semiconductor material with a spacer layer of semiconductor material having a bandgap which is wider than the bandgap of the compound semiconductor material positioned on a surface of the compound semiconductor material and an insulating layer positioned on the spacer layer. Minimum and maximum thicknesses of the spacer layer are determined by the penetration of the carrier wave function into the spacer layer and by the desired device performance. In a specific embodiment, the interface structure is formed in a multi-wafer epitaxial production system including a transfer and load module with a III-V growth chamber attached and an insulator chamber attached.

Abstract: An organic thin film transistor including a gate on a layer of gate insulator material, a source and a drain positioned in spaced apart relationship on a film of organic semiconductor material with uniaxially aligned molecules, the film of organic semiconductor material being positioned so that the molecules are aligned between the source and drain in a direction from the source to the drain, and an orientation film positioned adjacent the film of organic semiconductor material so that molecular uniaxial alignment of the film of organic semiconductor material is achieved by the orientation film.

Abstract: A sparse-carrier device comprising a crystal structure formed of a first material and including a crystallographic facet having a length, a first width and a second width, and quantum dots formed of a second material and positioned on the crystallographic facet, the quantum dots extending along the length of the crystallographic facet in a first distribution pattern along the first width and a second distribution pattern along the second width.

Abstract: A field effect transistor with an enhanced dielectric constant gate insulator including spaced apart source and drain terminals positioned on a substrate structure so as to define a gate area therebetween. A layer of laterally strained, enhanced dielectric constant dielectric material is epitaxially grown on the substrate structure in the gate area, and a gate metal is positioned on the layer of dielectric material to form a gate terminal in the gate area.

Abstract: An electrode structure for semiconductor devices includes first electrode material positioned in overlying relationship to the surface of a substrate so as to define a first side wall perpendicular thereto. A nonconductive side wall spacer is formed on the first side wall and defines a second side wall parallel to and spaced from the first side wall. Second electrode material is formed in overlying relationship to the substrate and on the second side wall so as to define a third side wall parallel to and spaced from the second side wall. The first and second electrode materials are connected as first and second electrodes in a common semiconductor device. Additional electrodes can be formed by forming electrode material on additional side walls.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a field effect transistor including doping a continuous blanket layer in a semiconductor substrate structure adjacent the surface to include a source area and a drain area spaced from the source area. A high dielectric constant insulator layer is positioned on the surface of the semiconductor substrate structure overlying the continuous blanket layer to define a gate area between the source and drain areas. A gate contact on the insulator layer is selected to provide a work function difference that depletes the doped layer beneath the insulator layer. Further, the doped layer depth and dosage are designed such that the doped layer is depleted beneath the insulator layer by the selected work function difference of the gate contact and the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A portable communications transceiver having a first hollow body, a second hollow body, and a virtual image display that includes a semiconductor array providing a real image and an optical system mounted in the second body to receive the real image and produce a virtual image at a viewing aperture. Electronics are associated with the array to produce real images in accordance with messages and graphical images received by the receiver. The display is sufficiently small enough to mount in a hand held cellular or portable telephone by the operator while using the telephone.

Abstract: A rapid thermal processing susceptor including a base having a planar surface and an upright sidewall extending around a periphery thereof and encircling a working portion of the planar surface. The working portion and the sidewall define a cavity. A plurality of minimum contact points extend from the working portion into the cavity and are positioned to receive thereon a semiconductor wafer. A cover is receivable by the sidewall for enclosing the cavity.

Abstract: A sparse-carrier device includes a crystal structure with a crystallographic facet having contacts at opposite ends. Quantum dots are formed in first and second rows on the facet approximately one quantum dot wide and a plurality of quantum dots long, the quantum dots in the first row being separated from each other by a first distance smaller than a second distance between the quantum dots in the first row and adjacent quantum dots in a second row. The first distance is small enough to allow carrier tunneling between adjacent quantum dots and the second distance is large enough to substantially prevent tunneling between adjacent quantum dots and small enough to allow Coulombic interaction between adjacent quantum dots. Electrical contacts are formed at opposite ends of the rows to allow tunneling of carriers into and out of quantum dots in the first and second rows.

Abstract: A symmetric magnetic tunnel device including first and second magnetic tunnel junctions each including a pinned magnetic layer, an insulating tunnel layer and a free magnetic layer stacked in parallel juxtaposition to allow tunneling of electrons through the insulating tunnel layer between the pinned and free magnetic layers. The first and second magnetic tunnel junctions positioned in parallel juxtaposition so as to form a continuous electron path through the first and second magnetic tunnel junctions and to provide a cell signal across the first and second magnetic tunnel junctions greater than a cell signal across each of the first and second magnetic tunnel junctions individually.

Abstract: A bio-molecule analyzer includes an array of addressable light sources, a photoconductive layer of material having a layer of electrically conductive material on a surface thereof mounted on the array of addressable light sources, and a plurality of test sites on an opposing surface of the photoconductive layer of material defined by the plurality of light sources. A solution containing a plurality of bio-molecules is positioned in electrical contact with the plurality of test sites. An electrical potential is connected between the solution and the layer of electrically conductive material, whereby the array of addressable light sources emit beams of light through a plurality of portions of the photoconductive layer of material to define the test sites and complete electrical circuits between the layer of electrically conductive material and the solution.

Abstract: An organic EL device includes a cathode, an organic electroluminescent layer and an anode, laminated in sequence. The organic layer is composed of a continuous organic medium AxByCz, where A, B and C are components capable of transporting electrons and holes and a hole injecting component, respectively, x represents the content of the A component with a value ranging from 0 adjacent the anode to 100% adjacent the cathode, y represents the content of the B component with a value ranging from 0 adjacent the cathode to 100% adjacent the anode, and z represents the content of the C component and is a maximum adjacent the anode. The C component includes a hole injecting component such as porphyrinic compound, for example one of CuPc and MgPc.

Abstract: A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (103) and a diode (105) is provided. The diode (105) is electrically coupled in reverse parallel to the vertical cavity surface emitting laser (103), thereby providing a portion of protection against electro-static discharge damage to the vertical cavity surface emitting laser (103).

Abstract: A low resistance magnetic tunnel junction with low resistance barrier layer and method of fabrication is disclosed. A first magnetic layer of material with a surface is provided and a continuous layer of material, e.g. aluminum, is formed on the surface of the first magnetic layer. The continuous layer of material is treated to produce a low resistance barrier layer of oxynitride material and a second magnetic layer is formed on the barrier layer of oxynitride material to complete the low resistance magnetic tunnel junction.

Abstract: A sensing circuit (202) uses correlated double sampling to sample a first pixel signal of a pixel stream (V.sub.PIXEL) at two different times to produce a dark signal and a light signal on two capacitors (310, 314). The dark and light signals are amplified in an amplifier (302) to produce a differential output signal (V.sub.PP -V.sub.PN) proportional to their difference. While the samples of the first pixel signal are being amplified, a second pixel signal is double-sampled to produce dark and light signals on two other capacitors (312, 316) for amplifying in the same amplifier. The period of the pixel signal is divided into time slots (T.sub.1 -T.sub.16) by a clocked oscillator (52). Programming signals (PROG1, PROG2) control the time slots in which sampling control pulses (V.sub.S1, V.sub.S2) are generated.

Abstract: A portable electronic device adapted to be worn on a user's wrist including an electronic unit including a transceiver for receiving and transmitting messages and a watch included within the electronic unit having movements for displaying a time of day. A wrist band including a plurality of electrically conductive fibers is electrically coupled to the electronic unit thereby creating an electronic circuit. A power source is integrated with the plurality of electrically conductive fibers fabricating the wrist band. At least one display is integrated with the electronic unit for the display of informative data.

Abstract: A perishable media system including a media writer for writing information to a perishable media information storage mechanism, a media reader for reading information written on the perishable media information storage mechanism, a data access eliminator for eliminating access to the information written on the perishable media information storage mechanism, and an interpretation mechanism. The system operates by writing information to the perishable media information storage mechanism with the media writer, thereafter reading the information with the media reader. Once the information is read by the media reader and interpreted by the interpretation mechanism, the data access eliminator, in the form of a light, magnetic field, or bias eliminates access to the information.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a ridge VCSEL having a first stack of mirrors, a second stack of mirrors and an active area sandwiched therebetween, including the steps of depositing a metal layer, an etchable layer and a masking layer on the second stack, removing portions of the masking layer, the etchable layer and the metal layer to form a mask, using the mask to etch the second stack to form a mesa, removing portions of the etchable layer to expose the metal layer, depositing an additional metal layer on the side of the mesa and the exposed portion of the metal layer to define a light emitting area, removing the etchable and masking layers to expose the metal layer in the light emitting area, and removing the exposed portion of the metal layer to expose the light emitting area.