Patents by Inventor Michael D. Bremser

Michael D. Bremser 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: 20150204520
    Abstract: An indirect LED light engine including a printed circuit board mounting one or more LEDs, a dome-shaped heat sink component having an internal mounting structure for mounting the printed circuit board, a heat conductive hollow metal tube attached to the heat sink component, and a lens component mounted over the one or more LEDs. Such a light engine may be positioned within a lamp shade by attaching the metal tube to a junction box disposed within the lamp shade to create, for example, a pendant light wherein an undersurface of the junction box is adapted to receive light transmitted from the LEDs and to reflect that light in a desired manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Michael D. Bremser, Guang Jin
  • Patent number: 6602763
    Abstract: A gallium nitride semiconductor layer is fabricated by masking an underlying gallium nitride layer with a mask that includes an array of openings therein, and growing the underlying gallium nitride layer through the array of openings and onto the mask, to thereby form an overgrown gallium nitride semiconductor layer. Although dislocation defects may propagate vertically from the underlying gallium nitride layer to the grown gallium nitride layer through the mask openings, the overgrown gallium nitride layer is relatively defect free. The overgrown gallium nitride semiconductor layer may be overgrown until the overgrown gallium nitride layer coalesces on the mask, to form a continuous overgrown monocrystalline gallium nitride semiconductor layer. The gallium nitride semiconductor layer may be grown using metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. Microelectronic devices may be formed in the overgrown gallium nitride semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventors: Robert F. Davis, Ok-Hyun Nam, Tsvetanka Zheleva, Michael D. Bremser
  • Patent number: 6570192
    Abstract: A gallium nitride semiconductor layer is fabricated by masking an underlying gallium nitride layer with a mask that includes an array of openings therein, and growing the underlying gallium nitride layer through the array of openings and onto the mask, to thereby form an overgrown gallium nitride semiconductor layer. Although dislocation defects may propagate vertically from the underlying gallium nitride layer to the grown gallium nitride layer through the mask openings, the overgrown gallium nitride layer is relatively defect free. The overgrown gallium nitride semiconductor layer may be overgrown until the overgrown gallium nitride layer coalesces on the mask, to form a continuous overgrown monocrystalline gallium nitride semiconductor layer. The gallium nitride semiconductor layer may be grown using metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. Microelectronic devices may be formed in the overgrown gallium nitride semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventors: Robert F. Davis, Ok-Hyun Nam, Tsvetanka Zheleva, Michael D. Bremser
  • Publication number: 20010007242
    Abstract: A gallium nitride semiconductor layer is fabricated by masking an underlying gallium nitride layer with a mask that includes an array of openings therein, and growing the underlying gallium nitride layer through the array of openings and onto the mask, to thereby form an overgrown gallium nitride semiconductor layer. Although dislocation defects may propagate vertically from the underlying gallium nitride layer to the grown gallium nitride layer through the mask openings, the overgrown gallium nitride layer is relatively defect free. The overgrown gallium nitride semiconductor layer may be overgrown until the overgrown gallium nitride layer coalesces on the mask, to form a continuous overgrown monocrystalline gallium nitride semiconductor layer. The gallium nitride semiconductor layer may be grown using metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. Microelectronic devices may be formed in the overgrown gallium nitride semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Publication date: July 12, 2001
    Inventors: Robert F. Davis, Ok-Hyun Nam, Tsvetanka Zheleva, Michael D. Bremser
  • Patent number: 6051849
    Abstract: A gallium nitride semiconductor layer is fabricated by masking an underlying gallium nitride layer with a mask that includes an array of openings therein, and growing the underlying gallium nitride layer through the array of openings and onto the mask, to thereby form an overgrown gallium nitride semiconductor layer. Although dislocation defects may propagate vertically from the underlying gallium nitride layer to the grown gallium nitride layer through the mask openings, the overgrown gallium nitride layer is relatively defect free. The overgrown gallium nitride semiconductor layer may be overgrown until the overgrown gallium nitride layer coalesces on the mask, to form a continuous overgrown monocrystalline gallium nitride semiconductor layer. The gallium nitride semiconductor layer may be grown using metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. Microelectronic devices may be formed in the overgrown gallium nitride semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventors: Robert F. Davis, Ok-Hyun Nam, Tsvetanka Zheleva, Michael D. Bremser