Patents by Inventor Mark P. D'Evelyn

Mark P. D'Evelyn 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: 20240133076
    Abstract: A gallium-containing nitride crystals are disclosed, comprising: a top surface having a crystallographic orientation within about 5 degrees of a plane selected from a (0001) +c-plane and a (000-1) ?c-plane; a substantially wurtzite structure; n-type electronic properties; an impurity concentration of hydrogen greater than about 5×1017 cm?3; an impurity concentration of oxygen between about 2×1017 cm?3 and about 1×1020 cm?3; an [H]/[O] ratio of at least 0.3; an impurity concentration of at least one of Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Ca, F, and Cl greater than about 1×1016 cm?3; a compensation ratio between about 1.0 and about 4.0; an absorbance per unit thickness of at least 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Wenkan JIANG, Dirk EHRENTRAUT, Mark P. D'EVELYN
  • Patent number: 11898269
    Abstract: A gallium-containing nitride crystals are disclosed, comprising: a top surface having a crystallographic orientation within about 5 degrees of a plane selected from a (0001)+c-plane and a (000-1)?c-plane; a substantially wurtzite structure; n-type electronic properties; an impurity concentration of hydrogen greater than about 5×1017 cm?3, an impurity concentration of oxygen between about 2×1017 cm?3 and about 1×1020 cm?3, an [H]/[O] ratio of at least 0.3; an impurity concentration of at least one of Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Ca, F, and Cl greater than about 1×1016 cm?3, a compensation ratio between about 1.0 and about 4.0; an absorbance per unit thickness of at least 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SLT Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenkan Jiang, Dirk Ehrentraut, Mark P. D'Evelyn
  • Publication number: 20240026562
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure can include an apparatus for solvothermal crystal growth. The apparatus can include a cylindrical shaped enclosure, a cylindrical heater, a first end closure member, a load-bearing annular insulating member, and a first end plug. The cylindrical heater includes a first end, a second end and a cylindrical wall that extends between the first end and the second end, wherein an interior surface of the cylindrical wall defines a capsule region. The first end closure member is disposed proximate to the first end of the cylindrical heater, the first end closure member being configured to provide axial support for a capsule disposed within the capsule region. The load-bearing annular insulating member is disposed between an inner surface of the cylindrical shaped enclosure and an outer surface of the cylindrical wall of the cylindrical heater. The first end plug is disposed between the first end of the cylindrical heater and the first end closure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Mark P. D'EVELYN, Paul M. VON DOLLEN
  • Publication number: 20240026563
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure include a crystal growth apparatus, comprising a cylindrical-shaped enclosure, a primary liner disposed within the cylindrical-shaped enclosure, wherein the primary liner comprises a cylindrical wall that extends between a first end and a second end, and an interior surface of the primary liner defines an interior region, at least one load-bearing annular insulating member disposed between the cylindrical-shaped enclosure and the primary liner, a plurality of heating elements disposed between the primary liner and the at least one load-bearing annular insulating member, at least one end closure member disposed proximate to a first end of the cylindrical-shaped enclosure, and a primary liner lid disposed proximate to the first end of the cylindrical wall of the primary liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Mark P. D'EVELYN, Paul M. VON DOLLEN
  • Publication number: 20230420586
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, techniques related to manufacturing and applications of power photodiode structures and devices based on group-III metal nitride and gallium-based substrates are provided. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for fabricating photodiode devices comprising one or more of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, structures and devices. Such structures or devices can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic devices, photodiodes, power-over-fiber receivers, and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Islam SAYED, Sang Ho OH, Nathan YOUNG, Drew W. CARDWELL, Mark P. D'EVELYN
  • Publication number: 20230340695
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques related to techniques for processing materials for manufacture of group-III metal nitride and gallium based substrates. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for growing large area substrates using a combination of processing techniques. Merely by way of example, the disclosure can be applied to growing crystals of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, and others for manufacture of bulk or patterned substrates. Such bulk or patterned substrates can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic and electronic devices, lasers, light emitting diodes, solar cells, photo electrochemical water splitting and hydrogen generation, photodetectors, integrated circuits, and transistors, and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Dirk EHRENTRAUT, Mark P. D'EVELYN, Drew W. CARDWELL
  • Publication number: 20230317444
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques related to techniques for processing materials for manufacture of group-III metal nitride and gallium based substrates. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for growing large area substrates using a combination of processing techniques. Merely by way of example, the disclosure can be applied to growing crystals of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, and others for manufacture of bulk or patterned substrates. Such bulk or patterned substrates can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic and electronic devices, lasers, light emitting diodes, solar cells, photo electrochemical water splitting and hydrogen generation, photodetectors, integrated circuits, and transistors, and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SLT Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenkan JIANG, Mark P. D'EVELYN, Derrick S. KAMBER, Dirk EHRENTRAUT, Jonathan D. COOK, James WENGER
  • Publication number: 20230295839
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques related to techniques for processing materials for manufacture of group-III metal nitride and gallium based substrates. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for growing large area substrates using a combination of processing techniques. Merely by way of example, the disclosure can be applied to growing crystals of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, and others for manufacture of bulk or patterned substrates. Such bulk or patterned substrates can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic and electronic devices, lasers, light emitting diodes, solar cells, photo electrochemical water splitting and hydrogen generation, photodetectors, integrated circuits, and transistors, and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: SLT Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Keiji FUKUTOMI, Wenkan JIANG, Motoi TAMAKI, Mark P. D'EVELYN
  • Patent number: 11721549
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques related to techniques for processing materials for manufacture of group-III metal nitride and gallium based substrates. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for growing large area substrates using a combination of processing techniques. Merely by way of example, the disclosure can be applied to growing crystals of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, and others for manufacture of bulk or patterned substrates. Such bulk or patterned substrates can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic and electronic devices, lasers, light emitting diodes, solar cells, photo electrochemical water splitting and hydrogen generation, photodetectors, integrated circuits, and transistors, and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SLT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mark P. D'Evelyn, Wenkan Jiang, Drew W. Cardwell, Dirk Ehrentraut
  • Patent number: 11705322
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques related to techniques for processing materials for manufacture of group-III metal nitride and gallium based substrates. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for growing large area substrates using a combination of processing techniques. Merely by way of example, the disclosure can be applied to growing crystals of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, and others for manufacture of bulk or patterned substrates. Such bulk or patterned substrates can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic and electronic devices, lasers, light emitting diodes, solar cells, photo electrochemical water splitting and hydrogen generation, photodetectors, integrated circuits, and transistors, and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SLT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Wenkan Jiang, Mark P. D'Evelyn, Derrick S. Kamber, Dirk Ehrentraut, Jonathan D. Cook, James Wenger
  • Publication number: 20230170213
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques related to techniques for processing materials for manufacture of group-III metal nitride and gallium based substrates. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for substrates with a controlled oxygen gradient using a combination of processing techniques. Merely by way of example, the disclosure can be applied to growing crystals of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, and others for manufacture of bulk or patterned substrates. Such bulk or patterned substrates can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic and electronic devices, lasers, light emitting diodes, solar cells, photo electrochemical water splitting and hydrogen generation, photodetectors, integrated circuits, and transistors, and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Mark P. D'EVELYN, Keiji FUKUTOMI, Drew W. CARDWELL, David N. ITALIANO
  • Publication number: 20230167586
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques related to techniques for processing materials for manufacture of group-III metal nitride and gallium based substrates. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for substrates with a controlled oxygen gradient using a combination of processing techniques. Merely by way of example, the disclosure can be applied to growing crystals of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, and others for manufacture of bulk or patterned substrates. Such bulk or patterned substrates can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic and electronic devices, lasers, light emitting diodes, solar cells, photo electrochemical water splitting and hydrogen generation, photodetectors, integrated circuits, and transistors, and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Mark P. D'EVELYN, Keiji FUKUTOMI, Drew W. CARDWELL, David N. ITALIANO, Chiaki DOMOTO
  • Patent number: 11661670
    Abstract: High quality ammonothermal group III metal nitride crystals having a pattern of locally-approximately-linear arrays of threading dislocations, methods of manufacturing high quality ammonothermal group III metal nitride crystals, and methods of using such crystals are disclosed. The crystals are useful for seed bulk crystal growth and as substrates for light emitting diodes, laser diodes, transistors, photodetectors, solar cells, and for photoelectrochemical water splitting for hydrogen generation devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SLT Technologies, Inc
    Inventors: Mark P. D'Evelyn, Drew W. Cardwell, Jonathan D. Cook
  • Publication number: 20230111390
    Abstract: Embodiments of disclosure may provide a method for forming an aluminum-containing nitride ceramic matrix composite, comprising heating a green body, an aluminum-containing composition, ammonia and a mineralizer composition in a sealable container to a temperature between about 400 degrees Celsius and about 800 degrees Celsius and a pressure between about 10 MPa and about 1000 MPa, to form an aluminum-containing nitride ceramic matrix composite characterized by a phosphor-to-aluminum nitride (AlN) ratio, by volume, between about 1% and about 99%, by a porosity between about 1% and about 50%, and by a thermal conductivity between about 1 watt per meter-Kelvin and about 320 watts per meter-Kelvin. The green body comprises a phosphor powder comprising at least one phosphor composition, wherein the phosphor powder particles are characterized by a D50 diameter between about 100 nanometers and about 500 micrometers, and the green body has a porosity between about 10% and about 80%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Mark P. D'EVELYN, David N. ITALIANO
  • Publication number: 20230110306
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure an apparatus for solvothermal crystal growth, comprising: a pressure vessel having a cylindrical shape and a vertical orientation; a cylindrical heater having an upper zone and a lower zone that can be independently controlled; at least one end heater; and an inward-facing surface of a baffle placed within 100 millimeters of a bottom end or top end surface of the growth chamber. The end heater is configured to enable: a variation in the temperature distribution along a first surface to be less than about 10° C., and a variation in the temperature distribution along a second surface to be less than about 20° C., during a crystal growth process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Mark P. D'EVELYN, Paul M. VON DOLLEN, Rajeev Tirumala PAKALAPATI, Keiji FUKUTOMI, Maimi MONZEN, Koji MIYAMOTO, Motoi TAMAKI
  • Publication number: 20230104302
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, techniques related to manufacturing and applications of power photodiode structures and devices based on group-III metal nitride and gallium-based substrates are provided. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for fabricating photodiode devices comprising one or more of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, structures and devices. Such structures or devices can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic devices, photodiodes, power-over-fiber receivers, and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Drew W. CARDWELL, Mark P. D'EVELYN
  • Publication number: 20230108564
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, techniques related to manufacturing and applications of power photodiode structures and devices based on group-III metal nitride and gallium-based substrates are provided. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for fabricating photodiode devices comprising one or more of GaN, AIN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, structures and devices. Such structures or devices can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic devices, photodiodes, power-over-fiber receivers, and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Drew W. CARDWELL, Mark P. D'EVELYN
  • Patent number: 11575055
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, techniques related to manufacturing and applications of power photodiode structures and devices based on group-III metal nitride and gallium-based substrates are provided. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for fabricating photodiode devices comprising one or more of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, structures and devices. Such structures or devices can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic devices, photodiodes, power-over-fiber receivers, and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventors: Drew W. Cardwell, Mark P. D'Evelyn
  • Patent number: 11569398
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, techniques related to manufacturing and applications of power photodiode structures and devices based on group-III metal nitride and gallium-based substrates are provided. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for fabricating photodiode devices comprising one or more of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, structures and devices. Such structures or devices can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic devices, photodiodes, power-over-fiber receivers, and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventors: Drew W. Cardwell, Mark P. D'Evelyn
  • Patent number: RE49677
    Abstract: Techniques for processing materials for manufacture of gallium-containing nitride substrates are disclosed. More specifically, techniques for fabricating and reusing large area substrates using a combination of processing techniques are disclosed. The methods can be applied to fabricating substrates of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, and others. Such substrates can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic devices, lasers, light emitting diodes, solar cells, photo electrochemical water splitting and hydrogen generation, photo detectors, integrated circuits, transistors, and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SLT Technologies, Inc
    Inventors: Mark P. D'Evelyn, Michael Ragan Krames