Patents by Inventor Joseph G. Gordon, II
Joseph G. Gordon, II 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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Patent number: 11276886Abstract: Embodiments of the invention generally relate to solid state battery structures, such as Li-ion batteries, methods of fabrication and tools for fabricating the batteries. One or more electrodes and the separator may each be cast using a green tape approach wherein a mixture of active material, conductive additive, polymer binder and/or solid electrolyte are molded or extruded in a roll to roll or segmented sheet/disk process to make green tape, green disks or green sheets. A method of fabricating a solid state battery may include: preparing and/or providing a green sheet of positive electrode material; preparing and/or providing a green sheet of separator material; laminating together the green sheet of positive electrode material and the green sheet of separator material to form a laminated green stack; and sintering the laminated green stack to form a sintered stack comprising a positive electrode and a separator.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Subramanya P. Herle, Joseph G. Gordon, II
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Publication number: 20180198171Abstract: Embodiments of the invention generally relate to solid state battery structures, such as Li-ion batteries, methods of fabrication and tools for fabricating the batteries. One or more electrodes and the separator may each be cast using a green tape approach wherein a mixture of active material, conductive additive, polymer binder and/or solid electrolyte are molded or extruded in a roll to roll or segmented sheet/disk process to make green tape, green disks or green sheets. A method of fabricating a solid state battery may include: preparing and/or providing a green sheet of positive electrode material; preparing and/or providing a green sheet of separator material; laminating together the green sheet of positive electrode material and the green sheet of separator material to form a laminated green stack; and sintering the laminated green stack to form a sintered stack comprising a positive electrode and a separator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Subramanya P. HERLE, Joseph G. GORDON, II
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Patent number: 9912014Abstract: Embodiments of the invention generally relate to solid state battery structures, such as Li-ion batteries, methods of fabrication and tools for fabricating the batteries. One or more electrodes and the separator may each be cast using a green tape approach wherein a mixture of active material, conductive additive, polymer binder and/or solid electrolyte are molded or extruded in a roll to roll or segmented sheet/disk process to make green tape, green disks or green sheets. A method of fabricating a solid state battery may include: preparing and/or providing a green sheet of positive electrode material; preparing and/or providing a green sheet of separator material; laminating together the green sheet of positive electrode material and the green sheet of separator material to form a laminated green stack; and sintering the laminated green stack to form a sintered stack comprising a positive electrode and a separator.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Subramanya P. Herle, Joseph G. Gordon, II
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Publication number: 20180047980Abstract: Disclosed are a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The disclosed cathode active material includes a core including a compound represented by Formula 1; and a shell including a compound represented by Formula 2, in which the core and the shell have different material compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: BYUNG-SUNG LEO KWAK, JOSEPH G. GORDON, II, OMKARAM NALAMASU, YANGKOOK SUN, WONGI KIM, SEUNGMIN OH
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Publication number: 20160343552Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for improving the fabrication of thin film electrochemical devices such as thin film batteries and electrochromic devices, with respect to deposition of LiPON, or other lithium ion conducting electrolyte, thin films on electrodes such as Li metal, Li—CoO2, WO3, NiO, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2015Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Lizhong SUN, Byung-Sung Leo KWAK, Joseph G. GORDON, II
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Thin film structures and devices with integrated light and heat blocking layers for laser patterning
Patent number: 9252320Abstract: Selective removal of specified layers of thin film structures and devices, such as solar cells, electrochromics, and thin film batteries, by laser direct patterning is achieved by including heat and light blocking layers in the device/structure stack immediately adjacent to the specified layers which are to be removed by laser ablation. The light blocking layer is a layer of metal that absorbs or reflects a portion of the laser energy penetrating through the dielectric/semiconductor layers and the heat blocking layer is a conductive layer with thermal diffusivity low enough to reduce heat flow into underlying metal layer(s), such that the temperature of the underlying metal layer(s) does not reach the melting temperature, Tm, or in some embodiments does not reach (Tm)/3, of the underlying metal layer(s) during laser direct patterning.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Daoying Song, Chong Jiang, Byung-Sung Leo Kwak, Joseph G. Gordon, II -
Thin film structures and devices with integrated light and heat blocking layers for laser patterning
Patent number: 9252308Abstract: Selective removal of specified layers of thin film structures and devices, such as solar cells, electrochromics, and thin film batteries, by laser direct patterning is achieved by including heat and light blocking layers in the device/structure stack immediately adjacent to the specified layers which are to be removed by laser ablation. The light blocking layer is a layer of metal that absorbs or reflects a portion of the laser energy penetrating through the dielectric/semiconductor layers and the heat blocking layer is a conductive layer with thermal diffusivity low enough to reduce heat flow into underlying metal layer(s), such that the temperature of the underlying metal layer(s) does not reach the melting temperature, Tm, or in some embodiments does not reach (Tm)/3, of the underlying metal layer(s) during laser direct patterning.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Daoying Song, Chong Jiang, Byung-Sung Leo Kwak, Joseph G. Gordon, II -
Thin film structures and devices with integrated light and heat blocking layers for laser patterning
Patent number: 9240508Abstract: Selective removal of specified layers of thin film structures and devices, such as solar cells, electrochromics, and thin film batteries, by laser direct patterning is achieved by including heat and light blocking layers in the device/structure stack immediately adjacent to the specified layers which are to be removed by laser ablation. The light blocking layer is a layer of metal that absorbs or reflects a portion of the laser energy penetrating through the dielectric/semiconductor layers and the heat blocking layer is a conductive layer with thermal diffusivity low enough to reduce heat flow into underlying metal layer(s), such that the temperature of the underlying metal layer(s) does not reach the melting temperature, Tm, or in some embodiments does not reach (Tm)/3, of the underlying metal layer(s) during laser direct patterning.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Daoying Song, Chong Jiang, Byung-Sung Leo Kwak, Joseph G. Gordon, II -
THIN FILM STRUCTURES AND DEVICES WITH INTEGRATED LIGHT AND HEAT BLOCKING LAYERS FOR LASER PATTERNING
Publication number: 20150364629Abstract: Selective removal of specified layers of thin film structures and devices, such as solar cells, electrochromics, and thin film batteries, by laser direct patterning is achieved by including heat and light blocking layers in the device/structure stack immediately adjacent to the specified layers which are to be removed by laser ablation. The light blocking layer is a layer of metal that absorbs or reflects a portion of the laser energy penetrating through the dielectric/semiconductor layers and the heat blocking layer is a conductive layer with thermal diffusivity low enough to reduce heat flow into underlying metal layer(s), such that the temperature of the underlying metal layer(s) does not reach the melting temperature, Tm, or in some embodiments does not reach (Tm)/3, of the underlying metal layer(s) during laser direct patterning.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Daoying SONG, Chong JIANG, Byung-Sung Leo KWAK, Joseph G. GORDON, II -
THIN FILM STRUCTURES AND DEVICES WITH INTEGRATED LIGHT AND HEAT BLOCKING LAYERS FOR LASER PATTERNING
Publication number: 20150364638Abstract: Selective removal of specified layers of thin film structures and devices, such as solar cells, electrochromics, and thin film batteries, by laser direct patterning is achieved by including heat and light blocking layers in the device/structure stack immediately adjacent to the specified layers which are to be removed by laser ablation. The light blocking layer is a layer of metal that absorbs or reflects a portion of the laser energy penetrating through the dielectric/semiconductor layers and the heat blocking layer is a conductive layer with thermal diffusivity low enough to reduce heat flow into underlying metal layer(s), such that the temperature of the underlying metal layer(s) does not reach the melting temperature, Tm, or in some embodiments does not reach (Tm)/3, of the underlying metal layer(s) during laser direct patterning.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Daoying SONG, Chong JIANG, Byung-Sung Leo KWAK, Joseph G. GORDON, II -
THIN FILM STRUCTURES AND DEVICES WITH INTEGRATED LIGHT AND HEAT BLOCKING LAYERS FOR LASER PATTERNING
Publication number: 20150364630Abstract: Selective removal of specified layers of thin film structures and devices, such as solar cells, electrochromics, and thin film batteries, by laser direct patterning is achieved by including heat and light blocking layers in the device/structure stack immediately adjacent to the specified layers which are to be removed by laser ablation. The light blocking layer is a layer of metal that absorbs or reflects a portion of the laser energy penetrating through the dielectric/semiconductor layers and the heat blocking layer is a conductive layer with thermal diffusivity low enough to reduce heat flow into underlying metal layer(s), such that the temperature of the underlying metal layer(s) does not reach the melting temperature, Tm, or in some embodiments does not reach (Tm)/3, of the underlying metal layer(s) during laser direct patterning.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Daoying SONG, Chong JIANG, Byung-Sung Leo KWAK, Joseph G. GORDON, II -
Thin film structures and devices with integrated light and heat blocking layers for laser patterning
Patent number: 8993443Abstract: Selective removal of specified layers of thin film structures and devices, such as solar cells, electrochromics, and thin film batteries, by laser direct patterning is achieved by including heat and light blocking layers in the device/structure stack immediately adjacent to the specified layers which are to be removed by laser ablation. The light blocking layer is a layer of metal that absorbs or reflects a portion of the laser energy penetrating through the dielectric/semiconductor layers and the heat blocking layer is a conductive layer with thermal diffusivity low enough to reduce heat flow into underlying metal layer(s), such that the temperature of the underlying metal layer(s) does not reach the melting temperature, Tm, or in some embodiments does not reach (Tm)/3, of the underlying metal layer(s) during laser direct patterning.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Daoying Song, Chong Jiang, Byung-Sung Leo Kwak, Joseph G. Gordon, II -
Publication number: 20150079481Abstract: A method of fabricating an electrochemical device comprising a lithium metal electrode, may comprise: providing a substrate with a lithium metal electrode on the surface thereof; depositing a first layer of dielectric material on the lithium metal electrode, the depositing the first layer being sputtering Li3PO4 in an argon ambient; after the depositing the first layer, inducing and maintaining a nitrogen plasma over the first layer of dielectric material to provide ion bombardment of the first layer for incorporation of nitrogen therein; and after the depositing, the inducing and the maintaining, depositing a second layer of dielectric material on the ion bombarded first layer of dielectric material, the depositing the second layer being sputtering Li3PO4 in a nitrogen-containing ambient. Electrochemical devices may comprise a barrier layer between the lithium metal electrode and the LiPON electrolyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Lizhong SUN, Chong JIANG, Byung-Sung Leo KWAK, Joseph G. GORDON, II
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THIN FILM STRUCTURES AND DEVICES WITH INTEGRATED LIGHT AND HEAT BLOCKING LAYERS FOR LASER PATTERNING
Publication number: 20150056744Abstract: Selective removal of specified layers of thin film structures and devices, such as solar cells, electrochromics, and thin film batteries, by laser direct patterning is achieved by including heat and light blocking layers in the device/structure stack immediately adjacent to the specified layers which are to be removed by laser ablation. The light blocking layer is a layer of metal that absorbs or reflects a portion of the laser energy penetrating through the dielectric/semiconductor layers and the heat blocking layer is a conductive layer with thermal diffusivity low enough to reduce heat flow into underlying metal layer(s), such that the temperature of the underlying metal layer(s) does not reach the melting temperature, Tm, or in some embodiments does not reach (Tm)/3, of the underlying metal layer(s) during laser direct patterning.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2012Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Daoying Song, Chong Jiang, Byung-Sung Leo Kwak, Joseph G. Gordon, II -
Publication number: 20140342229Abstract: Disclosed are a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The disclosed cathode active material includes a core including a compound represented by Formula 1; and a shell including a compound represented by Formula 2, in which the core and the shell have different material compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Byung-Sung Leo Kwak, Joseph G. Gordon, II, Omkaram Nalamasu, Yangkook Sun, Wongi Kim, Seugmin Oh
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Patent number: 8736947Abstract: The present invention generally relates to electrochromic (EC) devices, such as used in electrochromic windows (ECWs), and their manufacture. The EC devices may comprise a transparent substrate; a first transparent conductive layer; a doped coloration layer, wherein the coloration layer dopants provide structural stability to the arrangement of atoms in the coloration layer; an electrolyte layer; a doped anode layer over said electrolyte layer, wherein the anode layer dopant provides increased electrically conductivity in the doped anode layer; and a second transparent conductive layer. A method of fabricating an electrochromic device may comprise depositing on a substrate, in sequence, a first transparent conductive layer, a doped coloration layer, an electrolyte layer, a doped anode layer, and a second transparent conductive layer, wherein at least one of the doped coloration layer, the electrolyte layer and the doped anode layer is sputter deposited using a combinatorial plasma deposition process.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Byung-Sung Leo Kwak, Kaushal K. Singh, Joseph G. Gordon, II, Omkaram Nalamasu
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Publication number: 20140060723Abstract: Embodiments of the invention generally relate to solid state battery structures, such as Li-ion batteries, methods of fabrication and tools for fabricating the batteries. One or more electrodes and the separator may each be cast using a green tape approach wherein a mixture of active material, conductive additive, polymer binder and/or solid electrolyte are molded or extruded in a roll to roll or segmented sheet/disk process to make green tape, green disks or green sheets. A method of fabricating a solid state battery may include: preparing and/or providing a green sheet of positive electrode material; preparing and/or providing a green sheet of separator material; laminating together the green sheet of positive electrode material and the green sheet of separator material to form a laminated green stack; and sintering the laminated green stack to form a sintered stack comprising a positive electrode and a separator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Inventors: Subramanya P. HERLE, Joseph G. GORDON, II
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Publication number: 20120218621Abstract: The present invention generally relates to electrochromic (EC) devices, such as used in electrochromic windows (ECWs), and their manufacture. The EC devices may comprise a transparent substrate; a first transparent conductive layer; a doped coloration layer, wherein the coloration layer dopants provide structural stability to the arrangement of atoms in the coloration layer; an electrolyte layer; a doped anode layer over said electrolyte layer, wherein the anode layer dopant provides increased electrically conductivity in the doped anode layer; and a second transparent conductive layer. A method of fabricating an electrochromic device may comprise depositing on a substrate, in sequence, a first transparent conductive layer, a doped coloration layer, an electrolyte layer, a doped anode layer, and a second transparent conductive layer, wherein at least one of the doped coloration layer, the electrolyte layer and the doped anode layer is sputter deposited using a combinatorial plasma deposition process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2010Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Byung Sung Leo Kwak, Kaushal K. Singh, Joseph G. Gordon, II, Omkaram Nalamasu
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Patent number: 6727873Abstract: A reflective color electrophoretic display intended to be viewed while illuminated from the front window by ambient light and to operate without the need of a backlight has a plurality of laterally adjacent picture elements or pixels. Each pixel is comprised of two or more subpixels, or cells, which are vertically stacked, one directly above the other on the horizontal surface of a reflective panel located at the rear or bottom of the stacks. The cells contain a light-transmissive fluid and charged pigment particles that can absorb a portion of the visible spectrum, with each cell in a stack containing particles having a color different from the colors of the particles in the other cells in the stack.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2001Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joseph G. Gordon, II, Mark W. Hart, Anthony C. Lowe, Sally A. Swanson
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Patent number: 4249796Abstract: A projection display device is provided in which variation in the index of refraction is used to modulate attenuated total reflection.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1979Date of Patent: February 10, 1981Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Glenn T. Sincerbox, Joseph G. Gordon, II