Patents by Inventor Hou T. Ng

Hou T. Ng 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).

  • Publication number: 20240145624
    Abstract: A pixel herein includes a color panel, a light emitting diode (LED) panel, and an adhesive layer disposed between the color panel and the LED panel. The color panel includes a transparent layer, a plurality of sub-pixel isolation structures, and a plurality of black matrix structures disposed between the plurality of sub-pixel isolation structures and the transparent layer. The sub-pixel isolation structures define a plurality color conversion wells of plurality of sub-pixels. A color conversion material is disposed in the color conversion well. The plurality of black matrix structures define a plurality of color resist wells of the plurality of sub-pixels. A color resist is disposed in the color resist wells. The LED panel includes a plurality of micro-LEDs disposed on a backplane. The plurality of micro-LEDs correspond to a sub-pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Peiwen LIU, Hyunsung BANG, Jianfeng SUN, Lisong XU, Zhiyong LI, Sivapackia GANAPATHIAPPAN, Mingwei ZHU, Hou T. NG, Nag. B. PATIBANDLA
  • Publication number: 20240145623
    Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor structures may include a plurality of LED structures and a backplane layer. Exemplary semiconductor structures may also include a light barrier region positioned between the LED structures and the backplane layer. The light barrier region may be operable to absorb light at wavelengths shorter than or about 300 nm and transmit light at wavelengths greater than or about 350.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Fabio Pieralisi, Mingwei Zhu, Zihao Yang, Liang Zhao, Jeffrey L. Franklin, Hou T. Ng, Nag Patibandla
  • Publication number: 20240136485
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to LED pixels and methods of fabricating LED pixels. A device includes a backplane, at least three LEDs disposed on the backplane, subpixel isolation (SI) structures disposed defining wells of at least three subpixels, a reflection material is disposed on sidewalls and a top surface of the SI structures, at least three of the subpixels have a color conversion material disposed in the wells, an encapsulation layer disposed over the subpixel isolation structures and the subpixels, a light filter layer disposed over the encapsulation layer and micro-lenses disposed over the light filter layer and over each of the wells of the subpixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Zhiyong LI, Sivapackia GANAPATHIAPPAN, Mingwei ZHU, Nag B. PATIBANDLA, Hou T. NG, Lisong XU, Ding KAI, Kulandaivelu SIVANANDAN
  • Patent number: 11965103
    Abstract: A formulation, system, and method for additive manufacturing of a polishing pad. The formulation includes monomer, dispersant, and nanoparticles. A method of preparing the formulation includes adding a dispersant that is a polyester derivative to monomer, adding metal-oxide nanoparticles to the monomer, and subjecting the monomer having the nanoparticles and dispersant to sonication to disperse the nanoparticles in the monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Yingdong Luo, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Ashwin Murugappan Chockalingam, Daihua Zhang, Uma Sridhar, Daniel Redfield, Rajeev Bajaj, Nag B. Patibandla, Hou T. Ng, Sudhakar Madhusoodhanan
  • Publication number: 20240123568
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to advanced polishing pads with tunable chemical, material and structural properties, and methods of manufacturing the same. According to one or more embodiments, a method for forming or otherwise preparing a polishing article by sequentially forming a plurality of polymer layers is provided and includes: (a) dispensing a plurality of droplets of a polymer precursor composition onto a surface of a previously formed at least partially cured polymer layer, where the polymer precursor composition contains a first precursor component containing an epoxide group and a photoinitiator component which generates a photoacid when exposed to UV light, (b) at least partially curing the plurality of droplets to form an at least partially cured polymer layer, and (c) repeating (a) and (b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Sivapackia GANAPATHIAPPAN, Boyi FU, Ashwin CHOCKALINGAM, Daniel REDFIELD, Rajeev BAJAJ, Mahendra C. ORILALL, Hou T. NG, Jason G. FUNG, Mayu YAMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11942576
    Abstract: A photocurable composition includes a blue photoluminescent material, one or more monomers, and a photoinitiator that initiates polymerization of the one or more monomers in response to absorption of the ultraviolet light. The blue photoluminescent material is selected to absorb ultraviolet light with a maximum wavelength in a range of about 300 nm to about 430 nm and to emit blue light. The blue photoluminescent material also has an emission peak in a range of about 420 nm to about 480 nm. The full width at half maximum of the emission peak is less than 100 nm, and the photoluminescence quantum yield is in a range of 5% to 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Yingdong Luo, Lisong Xu, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Hou T. Ng, Byung Sung Kwak, Mingwei Zhu, Nag B. Patibandla
  • Patent number: 11942456
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a multi-color display includes dispensing a photo-curable fluid over a display having an array of light emitting diodes (micro-LEDs) disposed below a cover layer. The cover has an outer surface with a plurality of recesses, and the photo-curable fluid fills the recesses. The photo-curable fluid includes a color conversion agent. A plurality of LEDs in the array are activated to illuminate and cure the photo-curable fluid to form a color conversion layer in the recesses over the activated LEDs. This layer will convert light from these LEDs to light of a first color. An uncured remainder of the photo-curable fluid is removed. Then the process is repeated with a different photo-curable fluid having a different color conversion agent and a different plurality of LEDs. This forms a second color conversion layer in different plurality of recesses to convert light from these LEDs to light of a second color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Daihua Zhang, Yingdong Luo, Mingwei Zhu, Hou T. Ng, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Nag B. Patibandla
  • Publication number: 20240096854
    Abstract: Processing methods are described that include forming a group of LED structures on a substrate layer to form a patterned LED substrate. The methods also include depositing a light absorption material on the pattered LED substrate, where the light absorption material includes at least one photocurable compound and at least one ultraviolet light absorbing material. The methods further include exposing a portion of the light absorption material to patterned light, wherein the patterned light cures the exposed portion of the light absorption material into pixel isolation structures. The methods additionally include depositing an isotropic layer on a top portion and a side portion of the pixel isolation structures, where the LED structures are substantially free of the as-deposited isotropic light reflecting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiyong Li, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Kulandaivelu Sivanandan, Hao Yu, Hou T. Ng, Nag Patibandla, Mingwei Zhu, Lisong Xu, Kai Ding
  • Publication number: 20240088116
    Abstract: A display screen includes a backplane, an array of light-emitting diodes electrically integrated with the backplane, the array of light-emitting diodes configured to emit UV light in a first wavelength range, and a plurality of isolation walls formed on the backplane between adjacent light-emitting diodes of the array of light-emitting diodes with the isolation walls spaced apart from the light-emitting diodes and extending above the light-emitting diodes. The plurality of isolation walls include a core of a first material and a coating covering at least a portion of the core extending above the light-emitting diodes. The coating is an opaque second material having transmittance less than 1% of light in the first wavelength range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Lisong Xu, Byung Sung Kwak, Mingwei Zhu, Hou T. Ng, Nag B. Patibandla, Christopher Dennis Bencher
  • Patent number: 11908979
    Abstract: A photocurable composition includes quantum dots, quantum dot precursor materials, a chelating agent, one or more monomers, and a photoinitiator. The quantum dots are selected to emit radiation in a first wavelength band in the visible light range in response to absorption of radiation in a second wavelength band in the UV or visible light range. The second wavelength band is different than the first wavelength band. The quantum dot precursor materials include metal atoms or metal ions corresponding to metal components present in the quantum dots. The chelating agent is configured to chelate the quantum dot precursor materials. The photoinitiator initiates polymerization of the one or more monomers in response to absorption of radiation in the second wavelength band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Yingdong Luo, Daihua Zhang, Hou T. Ng, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Nag B. Patibandla
  • Patent number: 11901477
    Abstract: Exemplary processing methods include forming a group of LED structures on a substrate layer to form a patterned LED substrate. A light absorption barrier may be deposited on the patterned LED substrate. The methods may further include exposing the patterned LED substrate to light. The light may be absorbed by surfaces of the LED structures that are in contact with the substrate layer, and the light absorption barrier. The methods may still further include separating the LED structures for the substrate layer. The bonding between the LED structures and the substrate layer may be weakened by the absorption of the light by the surfaces of the LED structures in contact with the substrate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Fabio Pieralisi, Mingwei Zhu, Zihao Yang, Liang Zhao, Jeffrey L. Franklin, Hou T. Ng, Nag Patibandla
  • Patent number: 11888096
    Abstract: A photocurable composition includes a nanomaterial selected to emit radiation in a first wavelength band in the visible light range in response to absorption of radiation in a second wavelength band in the UV or visible light range. The second wavelength band is different than the first wavelength band. The photocurable composition further includes one or more (meth)acrylate monomers, a thiol crosslinker, and a photoinitiator that initiates polymerization of the one or more (meth)acrylate monomers in response to absorption of radiation in the second wavelength band. A light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes and the cured photocurable composition in contact with a surface through which radiation in a first wavelength band in the UV or visible light range is emitted from each of the light-emitting diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Yingdong Luo, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Daihua Zhang, Hou T. Ng, Nag B. Patibandla
  • Patent number: 11888093
    Abstract: A multi-color display includes a backplane having backplane circuitry, an array of micro-LEDs electrically integrated with backplane circuitry of the backplane, a first color conversion layer over each of a first plurality of light emitting diodes, a second color conversion layer over each of a second plurality of light emitting diodes, and a plurality of isolation walls separating adjacent micro-LEDs of the array. The micro-LEDs of the array are configured to generate illumination of the same wavelength range, the first color conversion layer converts the illumination to light of a first color, and the second color conversion layer converts the illumination to light of a different second color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Daihua Zhang, Yingdong Luo, Mingwei Zhu, Hou T. Ng, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Nag B. Patibandla
  • Patent number: 11851570
    Abstract: Polishing articles and methods of manufacturing polishing articles used in polishing processes and cleaning processes are provided. More particularly, implementations disclosed herein relate to composite polishing articles having tunable properties such as hydrophilicity and zeta potential. 3D printed chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) pads composed of UV curable acrylic chemistry are generally hydrophobic in nature. Such hydrophobic behavior affects the wetting properties with abrasive-based polishing slurries such as ceria-base slurries. However, in order to increase the planarization and removal rate while decreasing defects, hydrophilic pads are preferred. In addition, it is desirable that the zeta potential (Zp) of the pads be tunable over a wide range of conditions at different pH values. Implementations of the present disclosure include methods for increasing the hydrophilicity and tuning the Zp of the pads with anionic additives and pads produced using these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Uma Sridhar, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Ashwin Chockalingam, Yingdong Luo, Daniel Redfield, Rajeev Bajaj, Nag B. Patibandla, Hou T. Ng, Sudhakar Madhusoodhanan
  • Patent number: 11855241
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes, a first cured composition over a first subset of the light-emitting diodes, and a second cured composition over a second subset of light-emitting diodes. The first cured composition includes a first photopolymer and a blue photoluminescent material that is an organic, organometallic, or polymeric material, embedded in the first photopolymer. The second cured composition includes a second photopolymer and a nanomaterial embedded in the second photopolymer. The nanomaterial is selected to emit red or green light in response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Yingdong Luo, Lisong Xu, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Hou T. Ng, Byung Sung Kwak, Mingwei Zhu, Nag B. Patibandla
  • Patent number: 11843025
    Abstract: An apparatus for positioning micro-devices on a substrate includes one or more supports to hold a donor substrate and a destination substrate, an adhesive dispenser to deliver adhesive on micro-devices on the donor substrate, a transfer device including a transfer surface to transfer the micro-devices from the donor substrate to the destination substrate, and a controller. The controller is configured to operate the adhesive dispenser to selectively dispense the adhesive onto selected micro-devices on the donor substrate based on a desired spacing of the selected micro-devices on the destination substrate. The controller is configured to operate the transfer device such that the transfer surface engages the adhesive on the donor substrate to cause the selected micro-devices to adhere to the transfer surface and the transfer surface then transfers the selected micro-devices from the donor substrate to the destination substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Mingwei Zhu, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Boyi Fu, Hou T. Ng, Nag B. Patibandla
  • Patent number: 11826876
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of forming a porous polishing pad is provided. The method comprises depositing a plurality of composite layers with a 3D printer to reach a target thickness. Depositing the plurality of composite layers comprises dispensing one or more droplets of a curable resin precursor composition onto a support. Depositing the plurality of composite layers further comprises dispensing one or more droplets of a porosity-forming composition onto the support, wherein at least one component of the porosity-forming composition is removable to form the pores in the porous polishing pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Boyi Fu, Ashwin Chockalingam, Ankit Vora, Daniel Redfield, Rajeev Bajaj, Nag B. Patibandla, Hou T. Ng, Sudhakar Madhusoodhanan
  • Publication number: 20230352632
    Abstract: A multi-color display includes a backplane having backplane circuitry, an array of micro-LEDs electrically integrated with backplane circuitry of the backplane, a color conversion layer over each of a plurality of light emitting diodes, and a plurality of isolation walls separating adjacent micro-LEDs of the array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Daihua Zhang, Yingdong Luo, Mingwei Zhu, Hou T. Ng, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Nag B. Patibandla
  • Publication number: 20230343904
    Abstract: Micro-LED structures include an LED epilayer that may be formed before the micro-LED structure is coupled to a backplane substrate. In order to prevent light leakage and maximize light output, the sidewalls and other surfaces of the LED epilayer may be coated with a reflective coating. For example, the reflective coating may include a metal layer that is electrically insulated between dielectric layers from the micro-LED electrodes. The reflective coating may also be formed using multiple layers in a distributed Bragg reflector configuration. This reflective coating may be formed during the LED fabrication process before the micro-LED structure is coupled to the backplane. The pixel isolation structures on the backplane may also include a reflective coating that is applied above the LED epilayers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Ding, Lisong Xu, Mingwei Zhu, Zhiyong Li, Hou T. Ng, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Nag Patibandla
  • Patent number: 11798831
    Abstract: A method for printing on a substrate includes printing a support structure by printing a liquid precursor material and curing the liquid precursor material, positioning a substrate within the support structure, printing one or more anchors on the substrate and the support structure by printing and curing the liquid precursor material to secure the substrate to the support structure, and printing one or more device structures on the substrate while anchored by printing and curing the liquid precursor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Daihua Zhang, Hou T. Ng, Nag B. Patibandla, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Yingdong Luo, Kyuil Cho, Han-Wen Chen