Patents by Inventor Maurice Couchaud

Maurice Couchaud 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: 8303745
    Abstract: A process of transferring a layer of a first material from a first substrate, having defects in a zone close to the surface, onto a host substrate made of a second material includes a step of thinning the first substrate in order to form a first thinned substrate, an ion or atom implantation in the first substrate in order to form an implantation plane therein, delimiting the layer to be transferred, and a transfer of the layer onto the host substrate by fracturing the substrate along the implantation plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Hubert Moriceau, Maurice Couchaud, Jean-Luc Deschanvres, Anne-Laure Joudrier
  • Patent number: 8216926
    Abstract: Method of producing a partly or completely semi-insulating or p-type doped ZnO substrate from an n-type doped ZnO substrate, in which the n-type doped ZnO substrate is brought into contact with an anhydrous molten salt chosen from anhydrous molten sodium nitrate, lithium nitrate, potassium nitrate and rubidium nitrate. Partly or completely semi-insulating or p-type doped ZnO substrate, said substrate being in particular in the form of a thin layer, film or in the form of nanowires; and said substrate being doped at the same time by an element chosen from Na, Li, K and Rb; by N; and by O; it being furthermore possible for ZnO or GaN to be epitaxially grown on this substrate. Electronic, optoelectronic or electro-optic device such as a light-emitting diode (LED) comprising this substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Maurice Couchaud, Céline Chevalier
  • Publication number: 20110030611
    Abstract: A method for preparing polycrystalline or single-crystal zinc oxide ZnO on a seed placed in an enclosure under a controlled atmosphere, by sublimation of a zinc oxide source placed in a crucible inside the enclosure and distant from the seed, by formation of gas species, transport of gas species, condensation of gas species on the seed, recombination of the ZnO at the surface of the seed, growth of polycrystalline or single-crystal ZnO on the seed, and cooling of the polycrystalline or single-crystal ZnO, wherein: the zinc oxide source is heated by induction at a temperature, a so-called sublimation temperature, from 900 to 1,400° C. under a pressure from 2.10?3 atmospheres to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Santailler, Guy Chichignoud, Maurice Couchaud
  • Publication number: 20100200850
    Abstract: Method of producing a partly or completely semi-insulating or p-type doped ZnO substrate from an n-type doped ZnO substrate, in which the n-type doped ZnO substrate is brought into contact with an anhydrous molten salt chosen from anhydrous molten sodium nitrate, lithium nitrate, potassium nitrate and rubidium nitrate. Partly or completely semi-insulating or p-type doped ZnO substrate, said substrate being in particular in the form of a thin layer, film or in the form of nanowires ; and said substrate being doped at the same time by an element chosen from Na, Li, K and Rb; by N; and by O; it being furthermore possible for ZnO or GaN to be epitaxially grown on this substrate. Electronic, optoelectronic or electro-optic device such as a light-emitting diode (LED) comprising this substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Maurice Couchaud, Céline Chevalier
  • Publication number: 20090133811
    Abstract: A process of transferring a layer of a first material from a first substrate, having defects in a zone close to the surface, onto a host substrate made of a second material includes a step of thinning the first substrate in order to form a first thinned substrate, an ion or atom implantation in the first substrate in order to form an implantation plane therein, delimiting the layer to be transferred, and a transfer of the layer onto the host substrate by fracturing the substrate along the implantation plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Hubert Moriceau, Maurice Couchaud, Jean-Luc Deschanvres, Anne-Laure Joudrier
  • Patent number: 4915869
    Abstract: Mixed lathanum-magnesium aluminates, their production process and lasers using these aluminates.These lasers comprise two flash lamps for longitudinally pumping a bar of an aluminate of formula La.sub.1-x Nd.sub.x Mg.sub.Y Al.sub.11 O.sub.18+y, x and y being numbers such that O<x.ltoreq.0.2 and O<y<1, preferably with y ranging from 0.5 to 0.55, emitting in the infrared, mirrors for amplifying the light emitted by the bar and a polarizing prism for passing the amplified light beam outside the laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignees: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Jean-Jacques Aubert, Maurice Couchaud, Anne-Marie Lejus, Daniel Vivien
  • Patent number: 4853354
    Abstract: These lasers in particular have two flashlamps (30, 32) for longitudinally pumping a monocrystalline aluminate bar (28) emitting in the visible and near infrared, two mirrors (38, 40) for amplifying the light emitted by the bath, a polarizer prism (42) used for feeding the amplified light beam to the outside of the laser cavity. The magnetoplumbite-type aluminate has in particular the formula:La.sub.1-x Mg.sub.1-y-z Mt.sub.v Al.sub.11+x+2y/ 3-v O.sub.19-z(II)in which Mt represents a transition metal chosen from titanium and zirconium; x is a number such that 0<x<0.3; y and z are numbers such that 0.ltoreq.y+z.ltoreq.1 with 0.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.1 and 0.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.1; v is a number such that 0<v<1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Assignee: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Center National De La Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Claude Calvat, Laurent Colle, Maurice Couchaud, Anne-Marie LeJus, Richard Moncorge, Daniel Vivien, Christophe Wyon