Patents by Inventor Edward Gagnon

Edward Gagnon 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).

  • Patent number: 9368671
    Abstract: A method of fabricating on a semiconductor substrate bifacial tandem solar cells with semiconductor subcells having a lower bandgap than the substrate bandgap on one side of the substrate and with subcells having a higher bandgap than the substrate on the other including, first, growing a lower bandgap subcell on one substrate side that uses only the same periodic table group V material in the dislocation-reducing grading layers and bottom subcells as is present in the substrate and after the initial growth is complete and then flipping the substrate and growing the higher bandgap subcells on the opposite substrate side which can be of different group V material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: MASIMO SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventors: Steven J. Wojtczuk, Philip T. Chiu, Xuebing Zhang, Edward Gagnon, Michael Timmons
  • Publication number: 20150099324
    Abstract: A method of fabricating on a semiconductor substrate bifacial tandem solar cells with semiconductor subcells having a lower bandgap than the substrate bandgap on one side of the substrate and with subcells having a higher bandgap than the substrate on the other including, first, growing a lower bandgap subcell on one substrate side that uses only the same periodic table group V material in the dislocation-reducing grading layers and bottom subcells as is present in the substrate and after the initial growth is complete and then flipping the substrate and growing the higher bandgap subcells on the opposite substrate side which can be of different group V material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Steven J. Wojtczuk, Philip T. Chiu, Xuebing Zhang, Edward Gagnon, Michael Timmons
  • Patent number: 8852994
    Abstract: A method of fabricating on a semiconductor substrate bifacial tandem solar cells with semiconductor subcells having a lower bandgap than the substrate bandgap on one side of the substrate and with subcells having a higher bandgap than the substrate on the other including, first, growing a lower bandgap subcell on one substrate side that uses only the same periodic table group V material in the dislocation-reducing grading layers and bottom subcells as is present in the substrate and after the initial growth is complete and then flipping the substrate and growing the higher bandgap subcells on the opposite substrate side which can be of different group V material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Masimo Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven J. Wojtczuk, Philip T. Chiu, Xuebing Zhang, Edward Gagnon, Michael Timmons
  • Publication number: 20110287578
    Abstract: A method of fabricating on a semiconductor substrate bifacial tandem solar cells with semiconductor subcells having a lower bandgap than the substrate bandgap on one side of the substrate and with subcells having a higher bandgap than the substrate on the other including, first, growing a lower bandgap subcell on one substrate side that uses only the same periodic table group V material in the dislocation-reducing grading layers and bottom subcells as is present in the substrate and after the initial growth is complete and then flipping the substrate and growing the higher bandgap subcells on the opposite substrate side which can be of different group V material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Steven J. Wojtczuk, Philip T. Chiu, Xuebing Zhang, Edward Gagnon, Michael Timmons
  • Patent number: 4122496
    Abstract: Apparatus and method of producing a halftone image reproduction of a continuous tone photograph. Scanning means is provided to scan the photograph to be reproduced along a series of scan lines. Incremental control parameters are provided in accordance with a reproduction ratio to define predetermined scan sample points for each scan line. Control means is provided for controlling the scanning means to produce successive sets of digital sharp and unsharp gray level data signals at the predetermined scan sample points proportional to the light reflected from successive concentric sharp and unsharp areas with the sharp area at each scan sample point corresponding to the general area of a predetermined portion of a halftone cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lorenza Steward Childress, Thomas Edward Gagnon, Donald Russell Thompson, Larry Reed Zucker