Patents by Inventor Antonio Facchetti

Antonio Facchetti has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTING COMPOUNDS AND RELATED OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES
    Publication number: 20170104160
    Abstract: The present teachings relate to new organic semiconducting compounds and their use as active materials in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The present compounds can provide improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, fill factor, open circuit voltage, field-effect mobility, on/off current ratios, and/or air stability when used in photovoltaic cells or transistors. The present compounds can have good solubility in common solvents enabling device fabrication via solution processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Mark Seger, Ali Mohebbi
  • Polymeric Semiconductors and Related Devices
    Publication number: 20170096523
    Abstract: The present teachings relate to new semiconducting polymers including an optionally substituted naphtho[1,2-d:5,6-d]bis[1,2,3]thiadiazole moiety, an optionally substituted naphtho[2,1-d:6,5-d]bis[1,2,3]thiadiazole moiety, or a chalcogen analog thereof. The present polymers can be used to prepare thin film semiconductor components which can be incorporated into various electronic, optical, and optoelectronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Zhihua Chen
  • ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR FORMULATIONS
    Publication number: 20170012208
    Abstract: The present teachings relate to organic semiconductor formulations including an organic semiconducting compound in a liquid medium, where the liquid medium includes (1) a compound in liquid state that has electronic properties complementary to the electronic structure of the organic semiconducting compound and optionally (2) a solvent or solvent mixture for solubilizing the organic semiconducting compound. The present formulations can be used as inks in the fabrication of organic semiconductor devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Chun Huang, Damien Boudinet, Yan Zheng, Zhikai Wang, Yu Xia, Theresa L. Starck, Antonio Facchetti
  • Compounds Having Semiconducting Properties and Related Compositions and Devices
    Publication number: 20160351832
    Abstract: Disclosed are new compounds having semiconducting properties. Such compounds can be processed in solution-phase at a temperature of less than about 50° C. into thin film semiconductors that exhibit high carrier mobility and/or good current modulation characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Hakan Usta, Damien Boudinet, Jordan Quinn, Antonio Facchetti
  • Phenazine-Based Molecular and Polymeric Semiconductors
    Publication number: 20160351815
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new semiconducting compounds having at least one optionally substituted phenazine moiety. The compounds disclosed herein can exhibit high carrier mobility and/or efficient light absorption/emission characteristics, and can possess certain processing advantages such as solution-processability and/or good stability at ambient conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Antonio Papagni, Antonio Facchetti, Zhihua Chen
  • Dopant-Free Polymeric Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cell
    Publication number: 20160343965
    Abstract: The present teachings relate to hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells including a hole-transport layer in contact with the perovskite light-absorbing layer, where the hole-transport layer (HTL) is a pristine (undoped) polymer. More specifically, the HTL comprises a copolymer including a benzo[1,2-d;4,5-d?]bistriazole-containing repeating unit and a benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b?]dithiophene-containing repeating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Tobin J. Marks, Robert P.H. Chang, Teck Lip Dexter Tam, Hsueh-Chung Liao, Antonio Facchetti
  • Conjugated polymers and their use in optoelectronic devices
    Patent number: 9472764
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain polymeric compounds and their use as organic semiconductors in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The present compounds can provide improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, fill factor, open circuit voltage, field-effect mobility, on/off current ratios, and/or air stability when used in photovoltaic cells or transistors. The present compounds can have good solubility in common solvents enabling device fabrication via solution processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignees: Northwestern University, Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Tobin J. Marks, Xugang Guo, Nanjia Zhou, Robert P. H. Chang, Martin Drees, Antonio Facchetti
  • CHARGE-TRANSPORTING METAL OXIDE-POLYMER BLEND THIN FILMS
    Publication number: 20160268526
    Abstract: The present teachings relate to charge-transporting metal oxide-polymer blend thin films which can be incorporated as the semiconductor component or one of the conductor components of a thin film transistor. Generally, the present charge-transporting metal oxide-polymer blend thin film includes a semiconducting or conducting metal oxide lattice and an electrically insulating polymer dispersed within the lattice. The electrically insulating polymer is present at about 20% or less by weight of the metal oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks, Xinge Yu, William Christopher Sheets, Wei Huang
  • Light-emitting transistors with improved performance
    Patent number: 9437842
    Abstract: Disclosed are light-emitting transistors having novel structures that can lead to enhanced device brightness, specifically, via incorporation of additional electrically insulating components that can favor charge localization and in turn, carrier recombination and exciton formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventor: Antonio Facchetti
  • Curable polymeric materials and their use for fabricating electronic devices
    Patent number: 9431234
    Abstract: Disclosed are curable linear polymers that can be used as active and/or passive organic materials in various electronic, optical, and optoelectronic devices. In some embodiments, the device can include an organic semiconductor layer and a dielectric layer prepared from such curable linear polymers. In some embodiments, the device can include a passivation layer prepared from the linear polymers described herein. The present linear polymers can be solution-processed, then cured thermally (particularly, at relatively low temperatures) and/or photochemically into various thin film materials with desirable properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Shaofeng Lu, Damien Boudinet, Yu Xia, Wei Zhao, Antonio Facchetti
  • Perylene-Based Semiconductors
    Publication number: 20160240789
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new semiconductor materials prepared from perylene-based compounds. Such compounds can exhibit high carrier mobility and/or good current modulation characteristics. In addition, the compounds of the present teachings can possess certain processing advantages such as solution-processability and/or good stability at ambient conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Mitchell Denti
  • Low-temperature fabrication of nanomaterial-derived metal composite thin films
    Patent number: 9412852
    Abstract: Disclosed are new methods of fabricating nanomaterial-derived metal composite thin films via solution processes at low temperatures (<400° C.). The present thin films are useful as thin film semiconductors, thin film dielectrics, or thin film conductors, and can be implemented into semiconductor devices such as thin film transistors and thin film photovoltaic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignees: Northwestern University, Polyera Corporatoin
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Myung-Gil Kim, William Christopher Sheets, He Yan, Yu Xia
  • Organic-inorganic hybrid multilayer gate dielectrics for thin film transistors
    Patent number: 9385332
    Abstract: Disclosed are organic-inorganic hybrid self-assembled multilayers that can be used as electrically insulating (or dielectric) materials. These multilayers generally include an inorganic primer layer and one or more bilayers deposited thereon. Each bilayer includes a chromophore or “?-polarizable” layer and an inorganic capping layer composed of zirconia. Because of the regularity of the bilayer structure and the aligned orientation of the chromophore resulting from the self-assembly process, the present multilayers have applications in electronic devices such as thin film transistors, as well as in nonlinear optics and nonvolatile memories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Tobin J. Marks, Young-geun Ha, Antonio Facchetti
  • Photopatternable Materials and Related Electronic Devices and Methods
    Publication number: 20160190337
    Abstract: The present polymeric materials can be patterned with relatively low photo-exposure energies and are thermally stable, mechanically robust, resist water penetration, and show good adhesion to metal oxides, metals, metal alloys, as well as organic materials. In addition, these polymeric materials can be solution-processed (e.g., by spin-coating), and can exhibit good chemical (e.g., solvent and etchant) resistance in the cured form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Shaofeng Lu, Daniel Batzel, Chun Huang, Minhuei Wang, Meko McCray, Yu Xia, Antonio Facchetti
  • Bithiophene Sulfonamide-Based Molecular and Polymeric Semiconductors
    Publication number: 20160149138
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new semiconducting compounds having at least one optionally substituted bithiophene sulfonamide moiety. The compounds disclosed herein can exhibit high carrier mobility and/or efficient light absorption/emission characteristics, and can possess certain processing advantages such as solution-processability and/or good stability at ambient conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks, Yu Xia, Martin Drees, Ferdinand Melkonyan, Wei Zhao
  • Photopatternable materials and related electronic devices and methods
    Patent number: 9341948
    Abstract: Described herein is a solution-processable composition for preparing a photopatternable material. The solution-processable composition generally includes (a) an oligomeric siloxane component that includes, based on its total weight, between about 40% by weight and about 100% by weight one or more cage-structured polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes that are functionalized with one or more crosslinkable moieties such as cycloaliphatic epoxy moieties, (b) a polymerization initiator; (c) one or more thermosettable polymers that collectively are present in an amount between about 1% by weight and about 20% by weight based on the total weight of the oligomeric siloxane component; and (d) a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Chun Huang, Zhikai Wang, Yu Xia, Meko McCray, Theresa L. Starck, Darwin Scott Bull, Antonio Facchetti, Xiang Yu
  • Semiconducting Compounds and Devices Incorporating Same
    Publication number: 20160133858
    Abstract: Disclosed are molecular and polymeric compounds having desirable properties as semiconducting materials. Such compounds can exhibit desirable electronic properties and possess processing advantages including solution-processability and/or good stability. Organic transistor and photovoltaic devices incorporating the present compounds as the active layer exhibit good device performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti, Pierre-Luc Boudreault, Hiroyuki Miyauchi
  • Semiconducting compounds and optoelectronic devices incorporating same
    Patent number: 9312501
    Abstract: Disclosed are new compounds having semiconducting properties. Such compounds can be processed in solution-phase into thin film semiconductors that exhibit high carrier mobility and/or good current modulation characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Hakan Usta, Mitchell Denti, William Christopher Sheets, Antonio Facchetti
  • Polymeric blends and related optoelectronic devices
    Patent number: 9312492
    Abstract: The present invention relates to all-polymer blends including an electron-acceptor polymer and an electron-donor polymer, capable of providing improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, when used in photovoltaic cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: RAYNERGY TEK INC.
    Inventors: Martin Drees, Hualong Pan, Zhihua Chen, Shaofeng Lu, Antonio Facchetti
  • Organic semiconductor formulations
    Patent number: 9293711
    Abstract: Disclosed are formulations including an organic semiconducting compound in a liquid medium, where the liquid medium includes (1) a compound in liquid state that has electronic properties complementary to the electronic structure of the organic semiconducting compound and optionally (2) a solvent or solvent mixture for solubilizing the organic semiconducting compound. The present formulations can be used as inks in the fabrication of organic semiconductor devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Chun Huang, Damien Boudinet, Yan Zheng, Zhikai Wang, Yu Xia, Theresa L. Starck, Antonio Facchetti