Patents by Inventor Clifton G. Fonstad
Clifton G. Fonstad 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).
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Publication number: 20140328362Abstract: Described herein is a novel technique used to make novel thin III-V semiconductor cleaved facet edge emitting active optical devices, such as lasers and optical amplifiers. These fully processed laser platelets with both top side and bottom side electrical contacts can be thought of as freestanding optoelectronic building blocks that can be integrated as desired on diverse substrates for a number of applications, many of which are in the field of communications. The thinness of these platelets and the precision with which their dimensions are defined using the process described herein makes it conducive to assemble them in dielectric recesses on a substrate, such as silicon, as part of an end-fire coupled, coaxial alignment optoelectronic integration strategy. This technology has been used to integrate edge emitting lasers onto silicon substrates, a significant challenge in the field of silicon optoelectronics.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: November 6, 2014Inventors: Joseph John Rumpler, Clifton G. Fonstad, JR.
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Patent number: 8409888Abstract: Described herein is a novel technique used to make novel thin III-V semiconductor cleaved facet edge emitting active optical devices, such as lasers and optical amplifiers. These fully processed laser platelets with both top side and bottom side electrical contacts can be thought of as freestanding optoelectronic building blocks that can be integrated as desired on diverse substrates for a number of applications, many of which are in the field of communications. The thinness of these platelets and the precision with which their dimensions are defined using the process described herein makes it conducive to assemble them in dielectric recesses on a substrate, such as silicon, as part of an end-fire coupled, coaxial alignment optoelectronic integration strategy. This technology has been used to integrate edge emitting lasers onto silicon substrates, a significant challenge in the field of silicon optoelectronics.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Inventors: Joseph John Rumpler, Clifton G. Fonstad, Jr.
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Patent number: 7956382Abstract: A wafer having heterostructure therein is formed using a substrate with recesses formed within a dielectric layer. A magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material is formed at the bottom of each recess. The magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material provides a predetermined magnetic or electrical field pattern. A plurality of heterostructures is formed from on an epitaxial wafer wherein each heterostructure has formed thereon a non-magnetized magnetic layer that is attracted to the magnetized magnetic layer formed at the bottom of each recess or dielectric layer that is attracted to the polarized electret material formed at the bottom of each recess. The plurality of heterostructures is etched from the epitaxial wafer to form a plurality of heterostructure pills.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2003Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Clifton G. Fonstad, Jr., Markus Zahn
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Publication number: 20100329297Abstract: Described herein is a novel technique used to make novel thin III-V semiconductor cleaved facet edge emitting active optical devices, such as lasers and optical amplifiers. These fully processed laser platelets with both top side and bottom side electrical contacts can be thought of as freestanding optoelectronic building blocks that can be integrated as desired on diverse substrates for a number of applications, many of which are in the field of communications. The thinness of these platelets and the precision with which their dimensions are defined using the process described herein makes it conducive to assemble them in dielectric recesses on a substrate, such as silicon, as part of an end-fire coupled, coaxial alignment optoelectronic integration strategy. This technology has been used to integrate edge emitting lasers onto silicon substrates, a significant challenge in the field of silicon optoelectronics.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: Joseph John Rumpler, Clifton G. Fonstad
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Patent number: 7323757Abstract: A wafer having heterostructure therein is formed using a substrate with recesses formed within a dielectric layer. A magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material is formed at the bottom of each recess. The magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material provides a predetermined magnetic or electrical field pattern. A plurality of heterostructures is formed from on an epitaxial wafer wherein each heterostructure has formed thereon a non-magnetized magnetic layer that is attracted to the magnetized magnetic layer formed at the bottom of each recess or dielectric layer that is attracted to the polarized electret material formed at the bottom of each recess. The plurality of heterostructures is etched from the epitaxial wafer to form a plurality of heterostructure pills.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2003Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Clifton G. Fonstad, Jr., Markus Zahn
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Patent number: 6888178Abstract: A wafer having heterostructure therein is formed using a substrate with recesses formed within a dielectric layer. A magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material is formed at the bottom of each recess. The magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material provides a predetermined magnetic or electrical field pattern. A plurality of heterostructures is formed from on an epitaxial wafer wherein each heterostructure has formed thereon a non-magnetized magnetic layer that is attracted to the magnetized magnetic layer formed at the bottom of each recess or dielectric layer that is attracted to the polarized electret material formed at the bottom of each recess. The plurality of heterostructures is etched from the epitaxial wafer to form a plurality of heterostructure pills.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2003Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Clifton G. Fonstad, Jr., Markus Zahn
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Patent number: 6833277Abstract: A wafer having heterostructure therein is formed using a substrate with recesses formed within a dielectric layer. A magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material is formed at the bottom of each recess. The magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material provides a predetermined magnetic or electrical field pattern. A plurality of heterostructures is formed from on an epitaxial wafer wherein each heterostructure has formed thereon a non-magnetized magnetic layer that is attracted to the magnetized magnetic layer formed at the bottom of each recess or dielectric layer that is attracted to the polarized electret material formed at the bottom of each recess. The plurality of heterostructures is etched from the epitaxial wafer to form a plurality of heterostructure pills.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2003Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Clifton G. Fonstad, Jr., Markus Zahn
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Patent number: 6825049Abstract: A wafer having heterostructure therein is formed using a substrate with recesses formed within a dielectric layer. A magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material is formed at the bottom of each recess. The magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material provides a predetermined magnetic or electrical field pattern. A plurality of heterostructures is formed from on an epitaxial wafer wherein each heterostructure has formed thereon a non-magnetized magnetic layer that is attracted to the magnetized magnetic layer formed at the bottom of each recess or dielectric layer that is attracted to the polarized electret material formed at the bottom of each recess. The plurality of heterostructures is etched from the epitaxial wafer to form a plurality of heterostructure pills.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2003Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Clifton G. Fonstad, Jr., Markus Zahn
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Publication number: 20040016717Abstract: A wafer having heterostructure therein is formed using a substrate with recesses formed within a dielectric layer. A magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material is formed at the bottom of each recess. The magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material provides a predetermined magnetic or electrical field pattern. A plurality of heterostructures is formed from on an epitaxial wafer wherein each heterostructure has formed thereon a non-magnetized magnetic layer that is attracted to the magnetized magnetic layer formed at the bottom of each recess or dielectric layer that is attracted to the polarized electret material formed at the bottom of each recess. The plurality of heterostructures is etched from the epitaxial wafer to form a plurality of heterostructure pills.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2003Publication date: January 29, 2004Inventors: Clifton G. Fonstad, Markus Zahn
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Publication number: 20040016998Abstract: A wafer having heterostructure therein is formed using a substrate with recesses formed within a dielectric layer. A magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material is formed at the bottom of each recess. The magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material provides a predetermined magnetic or electrical field pattern. A plurality of heterostructures is formed from on an epitaxial wafer wherein each heterostructure has formed thereon a non-magnetized magnetic layer that is attracted to the magnetized magnetic layer formed at the bottom of each recess or dielectric layer that is attracted to the polarized electret material formed at the bottom of each recess. The plurality of heterostructures is etched from the epitaxial wafer to form a plurality of heterostructure pills.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2003Publication date: January 29, 2004Inventors: Clifton G. Fonstad, Markus Zahn
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Publication number: 20030234401Abstract: A wafer having heterostructure therein is formed using a substrate with recesses formed within a dielectric layer. A magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material is formed at the bottom of each recess. The magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material provides a predetermined magnetic or electrical field pattern. A plurality of heterostructures is formed from on an epitaxial wafer wherein each heterostructure has formed thereon a non-magnetized magnetic layer that is attracted to the magnetized magnetic layer formed at the bottom of each recess or dielectric layer that is attracted to the polarized electret material formed at the bottom of each recess. The plurality of heterostructures is etched from the epitaxial wafer to form a plurality of heterostructure pills.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2003Publication date: December 25, 2003Inventors: Clifton G. Fonstad, Markus Zahn
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Publication number: 20030182794Abstract: A wafer having heterostructure therein is formed using a substrate with recesses formed within a dielectric layer. A magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material is formed at the bottom of each recess. The magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material provides a predetermined magnetic or electrical field pattern. A plurality of heterostructures is formed from on an epitaxial wafer wherein each heterostructure has formed thereon a non-magnetized magnetic layer that is attracted to the magnetized magnetic layer formed at the bottom of each recess or dielectric layer that is attracted to the polarized electret material formed at the bottom of each recess. The plurality of heterostructures is etched from the epitaxial wafer to form a plurality of heterostructure pills.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2003Publication date: October 2, 2003Inventors: Clifton G. Fonstad, Markus Zahn
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Publication number: 20030186469Abstract: A wafer having heterostructure therein is formed using a substrate with recesses formed within a dielectric layer. A magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material is formed at the bottom of each recess. The magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material provides a predetermined magnetic or electrical field pattern. A plurality of heterostructures is formed from on an epitaxial wafer wherein each heterostructure has formed thereon a non-magnetized magnetic layer that is attracted to the magnetized magnetic layer formed at the bottom of each recess or dielectric layer that is attracted to the polarized electret material formed at the bottom of each recess. The plurality of heterostructures is etched from the epitaxial wafer to form a plurality of heterostructure pills.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2003Publication date: October 2, 2003Inventors: Clifton G. Fonstad, Markus Zahn
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Publication number: 20030183904Abstract: A wafer having heterostructure therein is formed using a substrate with recesses formed within a dielectric layer. A magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material is formed at the bottom of each recess. The magnetized magnetic layer or a polarized electret material provides a predetermined magnetic or electrical field pattern. A plurality of heterostructures is formed from on an epitaxial wafer wherein each heterostructure has formed thereon a non-magnetized magnetic layer that is attracted to the magnetized magnetic layer formed at the bottom of each recess or dielectric layer that is attracted to the polarized electret material formed at the bottom of each recess. The plurality of heterostructures is etched from the epitaxial wafer to form a plurality of heterostructure pills.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2003Publication date: October 2, 2003Inventors: Clifton G. Fonstad, Markus Zahn
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Patent number: 6455398Abstract: In a method for bonding a silicon substrate to a III-V material substrate, a silicon substrate is contacted together with a III-V material substrate and the contacted substrates are annealed at a first temperature that is above ambient temperature, e.g., at a temperature of between about 150° C. and about 350° C. The silicon substrate is then thinned. This bonding process enables the fabrication of thick, strain-sensitive and defect-sensitive optoelectronic devices on the optimum substrate for such, namely, a thick III-V material substrate, while enabling the fabrication of silicon electronic devices in a thin silicon layer, resulting from the thinned Si substrate, that is sufficient for such fabrication but which has been thinned to eliminate thermally-induced stress in both the Si and III-V materials. The III-V material substrate thickness thereby provides the physical strength of the composite substrate structure, while the thinned silicon substrate minimizes stress in the composite structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2000Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Clifton G. Fonstad, Jr., Joanna M. London, Joseph F. Ahadian
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Patent number: 4827482Abstract: A method and apparatus for phase-locking semiconductor laser arrays is described wherein individual light waves propagating in adjacent waveguides are phase-locked by intercoupling the waveguides in a specific manner. The waveguides are intercoupled in an unguided mode-mixing region wherein various modes of propagation mix by diffraction. The length of this region is fixed at a distance z which produces a phase difference an integral multiple of 2.pi. between adjacent waveguides.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1988Date of Patent: May 2, 1989Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Elias Towe, Clifton G. Fonstad, Jr.
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Patent number: 4773355Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming epitaxial thin film layers on substrates having abrupt transitions between layers of different composition or layers of different or like composition with different degrees of doping included therein. Gaseous reactants containing the desired elements to be included in the first film layer are injected into a CVD reaction chamber containing a substrate. The substrate is heated to a temperature high enough to obtain an epitaxial deposit, but low enough so as not to cause decomposition of the reactants. Once the gaseous reactant flows reach steady-state, an electric discharge or plasma is created in the gases to initiate the decomposition reaction and obtain a deposit. In this way, no transient effects are present. Once the deposit has attained sufficient thickness, the electric discharge is turned off to abruptly terminate deposition.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1986Date of Patent: September 27, 1988Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: L. Rafael Reif, Clifton G. Fonstad, Jr.
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Patent number: 4659401Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming epitaxial thin film layers on substrates having abrupt transitions between layers of different composition or layers of different or like composition with different degrees of doping included therein. Gaseous reactants containing the desired elements to be included in the first film layer are injected into a CVD reaction chamber containing a substrate. The substrate is heated to a temperature high enough to obtain an epitaxial deposit, but low enough so as not to cause decomposition of the reactants. Once the gaseous reactant flows reach steady-state, an electric discharge or plasma is created in the gases to initiate the decomposition reaction and obtain a deposit. In this way, no transient effects are present. Once the deposit has attained sufficient thickness, the electric discharge is turned off to abruptly terminate deposition.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1985Date of Patent: April 21, 1987Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: L. Rafael Reif, Clifton G. Fonstad, Jr.
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Patent number: 4494995Abstract: A method for Ion implantation using multiple energy Be.sup.+ to produce p-type regions in n-In.sub.0.53 Ga.sub.0.47 As. A simple technique is used to develop capless annealing of InGaAs up to 700.degree. C. The ion implantation of silicon is then accomplished to create n.sup.+ layers in previously Be-implanted InGaAs epilayers. The active efficiency of 40% for 50 KeV Be implant has been found and efficiencies of 86% and 38% are found for the low and high energy Si implants respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 1983Date of Patent: January 22, 1985Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Kamal Tabatabaie-Alavi, Abu N. M. M. Choudhury, Nancy J. Slater Gabriel, Clifton G. Fonstad
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Patent number: 4414076Abstract: A method for obtaining a very low resistance ohmic contact on p-type Indium hosphide (InP) by light-assisted plating of Au and Zn. The plating technique, which uses alternating positive and negative current pulses, has been used for producing patterned, small area contacts on device structures and is compatible with established n-type ohmic contacting procedures.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 1983Date of Patent: November 8, 1983Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Kamal Tabatabaie-Alavi, Abu N. M. M. Choudhury, Nancy J. (Slater) Gabriel, Clifton G. Fonstad