Patents Examined by Anthony Ho
  • Patent number: 11721554
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques for bonded wafers that includes a first wafer bonded with a second wafer, and a stress compensation layer in contact with the first wafer or the second wafer. The first wafer has a first stress level at a first location, and a second stress level different from the first stress level at a second location. The stress compensation layer includes a first material at a first location of the stress compensation layer that induces a third stress level at the first location of the first wafer, a second material different from the first material at a second location of the stress compensation layer that induces a fourth stress level different from the third stress level at the second location of the first wafer. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Anant Jahagirdar, Chytra Pawashe, Aaron Lilak, Myra McDonnell, Brennen Mueller, Mauro Kobrinsky
  • Patent number: 11721246
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates a display device, including a flexible display panel with a bendable region and a flexible support attached to a back side of the flexible display panel, the flexible support includes a flexible support body, and a first part of the flexible support body corresponding to the bendable region is provided with a concave structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haoran Wang, Dejun Bu, Paoming Tsai
  • Patent number: 11716871
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light emitting diode, a method of preparing the same, and a display device. The light emitting diode includes an anode, a quantum dot light emitting layer, an electron transport layer, a cathode, and a transition layer located between the electron transport layer and the cathode, the cathode including a transparent conductive oxide material, and a material of the transition layer having a work function WF between an LUMO of a material of the electron transport layer and a work function WF of a material of the cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gang Yu, Zhuo Chen
  • Patent number: 11716894
    Abstract: A method for preparing a perovskite solar cell is disclosed, which comprises the following steps: providing a first electrode; forming an active layer on the first electrode; and forming a second electrode on the active layer. Herein, the active layer can be prepared by the following steps: mixing a perovskite precursor and a solvent mixture to form a precursor solution, wherein the solvent mixture comprises a first solvent and a second solvent, the first solvent is selected from the group consisting of ?-butyrolactone (GBL), dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), 2-methylpyrazine (2-MP), dimethylformamide (DMF), 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP), dimethylacetamide (DMAc) and a combination thereof, and the second solvent is an alcohol; and coating the first electrode with the precursor solution and heating the precursor solution to form the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wei-Fang Su, Shih-Han Huang, Yu-Ching Huang
  • Patent number: 11710717
    Abstract: A method includes providing a structure including a carrier wafer, and a first device wafer with an adhesion layer between the carrier wafer and the first device wafer; and forming a plurality of first ablation structures in the structure, each of the plurality of first ablation structures extending through the first device wafer, the adhesion layer and a portion of the carrier wafer. Each of the plurality of first ablation structures has a portion inside the carrier wafer with a depth no greater than one half of a thickness of the carrier wafer. The first device wafer includes a plurality of first dies, each pair of adjacent first dies being separated by one of the plurality of first ablation structures. The plurality of first ablation structures are formed by either laser grooving or mechanical sawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jialan He
  • Patent number: 11711929
    Abstract: A field-effect transistor comprises, on a substrate, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode; a semiconductor layer in contact with the source electrode and the drain electrode; wires individually electrically connected to the source electrode and the drain electrode; and a gate insulating layer that insulates the semiconductor layer from the gate electrode, wherein a connecting portion between the source electrode and the wire forms a continuous phase, and a connecting portion between the drain electrode and the wire forms a continuous phase, the portions constituting the continuous phases contain at least an electrically conductive component and an organic component, and integrated values of optical reflectance at a region of a wavelength of 600 nm or more and 900 nm or less on the wires are higher than integrated values of optical reflectance at a region of a wavelength of 600 nm or more and 900 nm or less on the source electrode and the drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Shota Kawai, Hiroji Shimizu, Seiichiro Murase
  • Patent number: 11711973
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to an organic electronic device capable of ensuring high luminous efficiency, low driving voltage and high heat resistance, and improving color purity or lifespan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Duk San Neolux Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyoung Keun Park, Junggeun Lee, Sun-Hee Lee, Yong Wook Park, Sung Yong Han
  • Patent number: 11705493
    Abstract: A MOS transistor, in particular a vertical channel transistor, includes a semiconductor body housing a body region, a source region, a drain electrode and gate electrodes. The gate electrodes extend in corresponding recesses which are symmetrical with respect to an axis of symmetry of the semiconductor body. The transistor also has spacers which are also symmetrical with respect to the axis of symmetry. A source electrode extends in electrical contact with the source region at a surface portion of the semiconductor body surrounded by the spacers and is in particular adjacent to the spacers. During manufacture the spacers are used to form in an auto-aligning way the source electrode which is symmetrical with respect to the axis of symmetry and equidistant from the gate electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventor: Vincenzo Enea
  • Patent number: 11706937
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; m emission units stacked between the first electrode and the second electrode, each emission unit including at least one emission layer; and m?1 charge generating layers respectively located between two adjacent emission units among them emission units, each of the charge generating layers including one n-type charge generating region and one p-type charge generating region, wherein m is an integer of 2 or more, and at least one of the m?1 p-type charge generating regions includes a phosphate-containing compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeongpil Kim, Wonjong Kim, Yeongrong Park, Dongkyu Seo, Junyong Shin, Junghee An, Byeongwook Yoo, Daeho Lee, Byungseok Lee
  • Patent number: 11706938
    Abstract: Photoelectric conversion element including: substrate; first electrode; hole-blocking layer; photoelectric conversion layer; and second electrode, the photoelectric conversion layer including electron-transporting layer and hole-transporting layer, wherein in photoelectric conversion element edge part in direction orthogonal to stacking direction of the substrate, first electrode, hole-blocking layer, photoelectric conversion layer, and second electrode, electron-transporting layer outermost end is positioned inside than first electrode outermost end, hole-transporting layer outermost end is positioned outside than second electrode outermost end, and the second electrode outermost end is positioned inside than the electron-transporting layer outermost end, and height of edge part including the first electrode outermost end in the stacking direction is smaller than total of average thicknesses of first electrode, hole-blocking layer, and electron-transporting layer, where the height is distance between substra
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naomichi Kanei, Nozomu Tamoto, Yuuji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11699658
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a test transistor over the substrate; and multi-level metal interconnections formed over the substrate spaced apart from the test transistor, wherein at least one metal interconnection among the multi-level metal interconnections is a spiral metal interconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Eunsung Lee
  • Patent number: 11699673
    Abstract: A semiconductor package is provided, including a package component and a number of conductive features. The package component has a non-planar surface. The conductive features are formed on the non-planar surface of the package component. The conductive features include a first conductive feature and a second conductive feature respectively arranged in a first position and a second position of the non-planar surface. The height of the first position is less than the height of the second position, and the size of the first conductive feature is smaller than the size of the second conductive feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Lin, Chien-Kuo Chang, Tzu-Kai Lan, Chung-Chih Chen, Jr-Lin Hsu
  • Patent number: 11696488
    Abstract: A method for enhancing aggregation state stability of organic semiconductor (OSC) films includes constructing the OSC film; introducing uniform and discontinuous nanoparticles on a surface of the film or an inside of the film. Electrical properties of the OSC film are not influenced by introducing the nanoparticles. Grain boundary, dislocation, stacking fault, and surface of the film are pinned by the nanoparticles, increasing potential barrier of the aggregation state evolution of the film, and thus enhancing the stability of the aggregation state and greatly improving maximum working temperature and storage lifetime of organic field-effect transistors. Under room temperature storage, morphology of the OSC film introduced with the nanoparticles is difficult to change, so that the stability of electrical properties of organic transistor components prepared from the film is ensured in a high-temperature and atmospheric working environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TIANJIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Liqiang Li, Xiaosong Chen, Jiannan Qi, Wenping Hu
  • Patent number: 11694898
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic packages and methods of forming such packages. In an embodiment, an electronic package comprises a package substrate, a first die over the package substrate, the first die having a first bump pitch, a second die over the package substrate, the second die having a second bump pitch that is greater than the first bump pitch, and a plurality of conductive traces over the package substrate, the plurality of conductive traces electrically coupling the first die to the second die. In an embodiment, a first end region of the plurality of conductive traces proximate to the first die has a first line space (L/S) dimension, and a second end region of the plurality of conductive traces proximate to the second die has a second L/S dimension. In an embodiment, the second L/S dimension is greater than the first L/S dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Suddhasattwa Nad, Jeremy Ecton, Bai Nie, Rahul Manepalli, Marcel Wall
  • Patent number: 11691952
    Abstract: The present application relates to a nitrogen-containing compound. The structural formula of the nitrogen-containing compound is as shown in a Formula 1, in which a ring A and a ring B are each independently selected from a benzene ring or a fused aromatic ring with 10 to 14 ring-forming carbon atoms, and at least one of the ring A and the ring B is selected from the fused aromatic ring with 10 to 14 ring-forming carbon atoms; L is selected from a single bond, a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group with 6 to 30 carbon atoms, and a substituted or unsubstituted heteroarylene group with 3 to 30 carbon atoms; and Het is a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heteroaryl group with 3 to 30 carbon atoms. The nitrogen-containing compound of the present application can improve the luminous efficiency of an organic electroluminescent device and the conversion efficiency of a photoelectric conversion device using the nitrogen-containing compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SHAANXI LIGHTE OPTOELECTRONICS MATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Yang, Peng Nan
  • Patent number: 11690277
    Abstract: A method of p-type doping a carbon nanotube includes the following steps: providing a single carbon nanotube; providing a layered structure, wherein the layered structure is a tungsten diselenide film or a black phosphorus film; and p-type doping at least one portion of the carbon nanotube by covering the carbon nanotube with the layered structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gao-Tian Lu, Yang Wei, Shou-Shan Fan, Yue-Gang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11690236
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a top-gate, bottom-contact organic field effect transistor on a substrate, which organic field effect transistor comprises source and drain electrodes, a semiconducting layer, a cured first dielectric layer and a gate electrode, and which process comprises the steps of: i) applying a composition comprising an organic semiconducting material to form the semiconducting layer, ii) applying a composition comprising a first dielectric material and a crosslinking agent carrying at least two azide groups to form a first dielectric layer, iii) curing portions of the first dielectric layer by light treatment, iv) removing the uncured portions of the first dielectric layer, and v) removing the portions of the semiconducting layer that are not covered by the cured first dielectric layer, wherein the first dielectric material comprises a star-shaped polymer consisting of at least one polymer block A and at least two polymer blocks B, wherein each polymer b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: CLAP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Hsiang Lin, Mi Zhou, JunMin Lee, Giseok Lee, Stefan Becker
  • Patent number: 11690240
    Abstract: An electroluminescent device, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided. The electroluminescent device includes an anode layer, a light emitting layer, a cathode layer, a hole transport layer located between the anode layer and the light emitting layer, and a electron transport layer located between the cathode layer and the light emitting layer. The electroluminescent device further includes: a first interface modification layer between the light emitting layer and one of the hole transport layer and the electron transport layer; wherein an energy level of the first interface modification layer matches an energy level of the light emitting layer and an energy level of the one of the hole transport layer and the electron transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11690242
    Abstract: Provided are a light emitting device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other; an emissive layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and a display device including the same. The emissive layer comprises: a first emission layer disposed on the first electrode and having a hole transporting property; a second emission layer and a third emission layer disposed on the first emission layer; wherein the second emission layer comprises an organic compound having a bipolar transport property and the third emission layer has a composition different from the first emission layer and the second emission layer; wherein the first emission layer, the second emission layer, and the third emission layer comprises a plurality of quantum dots, and wherein the first emission layer, the second emission layer, and the third emission layer are configured to emit light of a same color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Moon Gyu Han, Kwanghee Kim, Heejae Lee, Eun Joo Jang, Dae Young Chung
  • Patent number: 11688720
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, a logic circuit provided on the substrate, and a memory cell array provided over the logic circuit that includes a plurality of electrode layers stacked on top of one another and a semiconductor layer provided over the plurality of electrode layers. The semiconductor device further includes a first plug and a second plug provided above the logic circuit and electrically connected to the logic circuit, a bonding pad provided on the first plug, and a metallic wiring layer provided on the memory cell array, electrically connected to the semiconductor layer, and electrically connected to the second plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Uchiyama