Patents Assigned to Banpil Photonics, Inc.
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Patent number: 7922976Abstract: A sensing device able to do concurrent real time detection of different kinds of chemical, biomolecule agents, or biological cells and their respective concentrations using optical principles. The sensing system can be produced at a low cost (below $1.00) and in a small size (˜1 cm3). The novel sensing system may be of great value to many industries, for example, medical, forensics, and military. The fundamental principles of this novel invention may be implemented in many variations and combinations of techniques.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2006Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Banpil Photonics, Inc.Inventors: Achyut Kumar Dutta, Rabi S Sengupta
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Patent number: 7889031Abstract: High-speed interconnect systems for connecting two or more electrical elements for both on-chip and off-chip applications are provided. Interconnect system has the means, which could reduce the microwave loss induced due to the dielectrics. Reducing the effective loss tangent of the dielectrics reduces the microwave loss. With optimize design of the interconnects, the speed of the electrical signal can be made to closer to the speed of the light. The interconnect systems consists of the electrical signal line, inhomogeneous dielectric systems and the ground line, wherein inhomogeneous dielectric system consisting of the opened-trenches into the dielectric substrate or comb-shaped dielectrics to reduce the microwave loss. Alternatively dielectric structure can have the structure based on the fully electronic or electromagnetic crystal or quasi crystal with the line defect.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Banpil Photonics, Inc.Inventor: Achyut Kumar Dutta
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Patent number: 7880556Abstract: Fundamental interconnect systems for connecting high-speed electronics elements are provided. The interconnect systems consists of signal line, dielectric system with open trench or slot filled up with air or lower dielectric loss material, and the ground plane. The signal line could be for example, microstripline, strip line, coplanar line, single line or differential pairs. The interconnect system can be used for on-chip interconnects or can also be used for off-chip interconnects. The fundamental techniques provided in this invention can also be used for high-speed connectors and high-speed cables.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Banpil Photonics, Inc.Inventor: Achyut Kumar Dutta
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Patent number: 7880555Abstract: Fundamental interconnect systems for connecting high-speed electronics elements are provided. The interconnect systems consists of signal line, dielectric system with open trench or slot filled up with air or lower dielectric loss material, and the ground plane. The signal line could be for example, microstripline, strip line, coplanar line, single line or differential pairs. The interconnect system can be used for on-chip interconnects or can also be used for off-chip interconnects. The fundamental techniques provided in this invention can also be used for high-speed connectors and high-speed cables.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Banpil Photonics, Inc.Inventor: Achyut Kumar Dutta
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Publication number: 20100320444Abstract: It is highly desirable to design a monolithic image sensor (and array), which could offer high quantum efficiency over broad spectral ranges, and the possibility to rapidly and randomly address any element in the array. This invention utilizes the growth of semiconductor nanowires such as Si, Ge, Si:Ge, ZnO, or their alloys based nanowires on standard substrates to create multispectral image sensors and photovoltaic cells having these highly desirable features.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: BANPIL PHOTONICS, INC.Inventor: ACHYUT KUMAR DUTTA
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Patent number: 7851816Abstract: An optoelectronics chip-to-chip interconnects system is provided, including at least one packaged chip to be connected on the printed-circuit-board with at least one other packaged chip, optical-electrical (O-E) conversion mean, waveguide-board, and (PCB). Single to multiple chips interconnects can be interconnected provided using the technique disclosed in this invention. The packaged chip includes semiconductor die and its package based on the ball-grid array or chip-scale-package. The O-E board includes the optoelectronics components and multiple electrical contacts on both sides of the O-E substrate. The waveguide board includes the electrical conductor transferring the signal from O-E board to PCB and the flex optical waveguide easily stackable onto the PCB to guide optical signal from one chip-to-other chip. Alternatively, the electrode can be directly connected to the PCB instead of including in the waveguide board. The chip-to-chip interconnections system is pin-free and compatible with the PCB.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2007Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Banpil Photonics, Inc.Inventor: Achyut Kumar Dutta
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Patent number: 7852169Abstract: Fundamental interconnect systems for connecting high-speed electronics elements are provided. The interconnect systems consists of signal line, dielectric system with open trench or slot filled up with air or lower dielectric loss material, and the ground plane. The signal line could be for example, microstripline, strip line, coplanar line, single line or differential pairs. The interconnect system can be used for on-chip interconnects or can also be used for off-chip interconnects. The fundamental techniques provided in this invention can also be used for high-speed connectors and high-speed cables.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2008Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Banpil Photonics, IncInventor: Achyut Kumar Dutta
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Patent number: 7851811Abstract: An optoelectronics chip-to-chip interconnects system is provided, including at least one packaged chip to be connected on the printed-circuit-board with at least one other packaged chip, optical-electrical (O-E) conversion mean, waveguide-board, and (PCB). Single to multiple chips interconnects can be interconnected provided using the technique disclosed in this invention. The packaged chip includes semiconductor die and its package based on the ball-grid array or chip-scale-package. The O-E board includes the optoelectronics components and multiple electrical contacts on both sides of the O-E substrate. The waveguide board includes the electrical conductor transferring the signal from O-E board to PCB and the flex optical waveguide easily stackable onto the PCB to guide optical signal from one chip-to-other chip. Alternatively, the electrode can be directly connected to the PCB instead of including in the waveguide board. The chip-to-chip interconnections system is pin-free and compatible with the PCB.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2007Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Banpil Photonics, Inc.Inventor: Achyut Kumar Dutta
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Patent number: 7755445Abstract: High speed printed circuit boards (PCBs) are disclosed comprising a dielectrics systems with the back-side trenches, prepregs, signal lines and ground-plans, wherein the signal line and ground-plan are located on the dielectrics. Using of the open trenches in the substrate help to reduce the microwave loss and dielectric constant and thus increasing the signal carrying speed of the interconnects. Thus, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a simple high speed PCB using the conventional material and conventional PCB manufacturing which facilitates the design of circuits with controlled bandwidth based on the trench opening in the dielectrics, and affords excellent reliability. According to this present invention, high speed PCB with the interconnect system contains whole portion or portion of interconnects for high speed chips interconnects and that have have the dielectric system with opened trench or slot to reduce the microwave loss.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2005Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Banpil Photonics, Inc.Inventors: Achyut Kumar Dutta, Robert Olah
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Patent number: 7719379Abstract: Fundamental interconnect systems for connecting high-speed electronics elements are provided. The interconnect systems consists of signal line, dielectric system with open trench or slot filled up with air or lower dielectric loss material, and the ground plane. The signal line could be for example, microstripline, strip line, coplanar line, single line or differential pairs. The interconnect system can be used for on-chip interconnects or can also be used for off-chip interconnects. The fundamental techniques provided in this invention can also be used for high-speed connectors and high-speed cables.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2008Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Banpil Photonics, Inc.Inventor: Achyut Kumar Dutta
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Patent number: 7719105Abstract: A high speed electrical interconnection system is provided. The interconnection system comprises one or more electrical signal lines, or differential pairs of signal lines, and an inhomogeneous dielectric system. The dielectric system further comprises a homogeneous dielectric layer interposed between the electrical signal lines, and electrical conducting planes including a periodic array etched in the conducting material of the conducting plane. The inhomogeneous dielectric system exhibits a lower dielectric constant as compared to the dielectric constant of the homogeneous dielectric layer, resulting in lower microwave loss, reduced signal propagation delay, reduced signal skew, and increased signal bandwidth. The interconnection system may be implemented for connecting one or more high speed electron elements on-chip, off-chip, chip-chip connection on multilayer printed circuit boards, high speed die-package, high speed connectors, and high speed electric cables.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2008Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Banpil Photonics, Inc.Inventor: Achyut Kumar Dutta
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Patent number: 7662659Abstract: The invention is a method of producing an array, or multiple arrays of quantum dots. Single dots, as well as two or three-dimensional groupings may be created. The invention involves the transfer of quantum dots from a receptor site on a substrate where they are originally created to a separate substrate or layer, with a repetition of the process and a variation in the original pattern to create different structures.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2005Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Banpil Photonics, Inc.Inventors: Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi, Achyut Kumar Dutta
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Patent number: 7663064Abstract: Multilayer high speed flex printed circuit boards (FLEX-PCBs) are disclosed including a dielectrics systems with the back-side trenches, adhesives, signal lines and ground planes, wherein the signal line and ground plane lane are located on the dielectrics. Using of the open trenches in the substrate help to reduce the microwave loss and dielectric constant and thus increasing the signal carrying speed of the interconnects. Thus, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a simply constructed multiplayer high speed FLEX-PCB using the conventional material and conventional FLEX-PCB manufacturing which facilitates the design of circuits with controlled bandwidth based on the trench opening in the dielectrics, and affords excellent connection reliability. As the effective dielectric constant is reduced, the signal width is required to make wider or the dielectric thickness is required to make thinner keeping fixed characteristics impedance.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2005Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Banpil Photonics, Inc.Inventors: Achyut Kumar Dutta, Robert Olah
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Publication number: 20100027947Abstract: An optoelectronics chip-to-chip interconnects system is provided, including at least one packaged chip to be connected on the printed-circuit-board with at least one other packaged chip, optical-electrical (O-E) conversion mean, waveguide-board, and (PCB). Single to multiple chips interconnects can be interconnected provided using the technique disclosed in this invention. The packaged chip includes semiconductor die and its package based on the ball-grid array or chip-scale-package. The O-E board includes the optoelectronics components and multiple electrical contacts on both sides of the O-E substrate. The waveguide board includes the electrical conductor transferring the signal from O-E board to PCB and the flex optical waveguide easily stackable onto the PCB to guide optical signal from one chip-to-other chip. Alternatively, the electrode can be directly connected to the PCB instead of including in the waveguide board. The chip-to-chip interconnections system is pin-free and compatible with the PCB.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2007Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: BANPIL PHOTONICS, INC.Inventor: ACHYUT KUMAR DUTTA
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Publication number: 20100027577Abstract: An optoelectronics chip-to-chip interconnects system is provided, including at least one packaged chip to be connected on the printed-circuit-board with at least one other packaged chip, optical-electrical (O-E) conversion mean, waveguide-board, and (PCB). Single to multiple chips interconnects can be interconnected provided using the technique disclosed in this invention. The packaged chip includes semiconductor die and its package based on the ball-grid array or chip-scale-package. The O-E board includes the optoelectronics components and multiple electrical contacts on both sides of the O-E substrate. The waveguide board includes the electrical conductor transferring the signal from O-E board to PCB and the flex optical waveguide easily stackable onto the PCB to guide optical signal from one chip-to-other chip. Alternatively, the electrode can be directly connected to the PCB instead of including in the waveguide board. The chip-to-chip interconnections system is pin-free and compatible with the PCB.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2007Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: BANPIL PHOTONICS, INC.Inventor: ACHYUT KUMAR DUTTA
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Publication number: 20100027946Abstract: An optoelectronics chip-to-chip interconnects system is provided, including at least one packaged chip to be connected on the printed-circuit-board with at least one other packaged chip, optical-electrical (O-E) conversion mean, waveguide-board, and (PCB). Single to multiple chips interconnects can be interconnected provided using the technique disclosed in this invention. The packaged chip includes semiconductor die and its package based on the ball-grid array or chip-scale-package. The O-E board includes the optoelectronics components and multiple electrical contacts on both sides of the O-E substrate. The waveguide board includes the electrical conductor transferring the signal from O-E board to PCB and the flex optical waveguide easily stackable onto the PCB to guide optical signal from one chip-to-other chip. Alternatively, the electrode can be directly connected to the PCB instead of including in the waveguide board. The chip-to-chip interconnections system is pin-free and compatible with the PCB.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2007Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: BANPIL PHOTONICS, INC.Inventor: ACHYUT KUMAR DUTTA
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Publication number: 20090189207Abstract: Novel structures of the photodetector having broad spectral ranges detection capability are provided. The photodetector offers high quantum efficiency>95% over wide spectral ranges, high frequency response>10 GHz (@3 dB). The photodiode array of N×N (or M×N) elements is also provided. The array also offers wide spectral detection ranges ultraviolet to 2500 nm with high quantum efficiency>95% and high frequency response of >10 GHz, cross-talk of <0.1%. In the array, each photodiode is independently addressable and is made either as top-illuminated or as bottom illuminated type detector. The photodiode and its array provided in this invention, could be used in multiple purpose applications such as telecommunication, imaging, and sensing applications including surveillance, satellite tracking, advanced lidar systems, etc. The advantages of this photodetectors are that they are uncooled and performance will not be degraded under wide range of temperature variation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2009Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: BANPIL PHOTONICS, INC.Inventor: ACHYUT KUMAR DUTTA
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Publication number: 20090189208Abstract: Novel structures of the photodetector having broad spectral ranges detection capability are provided. The photodetector offers high quantum efficiency>95% over wide spectral ranges, high frequency response>10 GHz (@3 dB). The photodiode array of N×N (or M×N) elements is also provided. The array also offers wide spectral detection ranges ultraviolet to 2500 nm with high quantum efficiency>95% and high frequency response of >10 GHz, cross-talk of <0.1%. In the array, each photodiode is independently addressable and is made either as top-illuminated or as bottom illuminated type detector. The photodiode and its array provided in this invention, could be used in multiple purpose applications such as telecommunication, imaging, and sensing applications including surveillance, satellite tracking, advanced lidar systems, etc. The advantages of this photodetectors are that they are uncooled and performance will not be degraded under wide range of temperature variation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2009Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: BANPIL PHOTONICS, INC.Inventor: Achyut Kumar Dutta
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Patent number: 7561006Abstract: A delay line system able to reduce the microwave loss by reducing the effective dielectric loss and dielectric constant of the system including a signal line, dielectric system with opened trench or slot filled up with the air or lower dielectric loss material, a ground plane, and a system of switches if the line is to be variable. The delay line proposed in this invention could be made of any type of signal line configuration, for example: micro-strip line, strip line, or coplanar line. The signal line can also be made as single ended or differential pairs of any configurations. The delay line systems based on the fundamental techniques provided in this invention can be used for on-chip devices where the delay line is laid on the oxide or dielectric material, or in a traditional PCB implementation such as FR4.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Banpil Photonics, Inc.Inventor: Achyut Kumar Dutta
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Publication number: 20090165844Abstract: A hybrid photovoltaic device comprising a plurality of nanostructures embedded in a matrix of a photosensitive material including one or more layers. A combination of innovative structural aspects of the hybrid photovoltaic device results in significant improvements in collection of incident light from the solar spectrum, better absorption of light, and better collection of the photo-carriers generated in response to the incident light, thereby improving efficiency of the hybrid photovoltaic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2007Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: BANPIL PHOTONICS INC.Inventor: Achyut Kumar Dutta