Patents Examined by Ermias T Woldegeorgis
  • Patent number: 11482651
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an optoelectronic element comprising: an optoelectronic unit comprising a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and an outermost lateral surface; an insulating layer having a first portion overlapping the optoelectronic unit and extending beyond the lateral surface, and a second portion separated from the first portion in a cross-sectional view; and a first conductive layer formed on the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Nan Han, Tsung-Xian Lee, Min-Hsun Hsieh, Hung-Hsuan Chen, Hsin-Mao Liu, Hsing-Chao Chen, Ching-San Tao, Chih-Peng Ni, Tzer-Perng Chen, Jen-Chau Wu
  • Patent number: 11469134
    Abstract: A plating chuck for holding a substrate during plating processes, wherein the substrate has a notch area (3031) and a patterned region (3032) adjacent to the notch area (3031). The plating chuck comprises a cover plate (3033) configured to cover the notch area (3031) of the substrate to shield the electric field at the notch area (3031) when the substrate is being plated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ACM RESEARCH (SHANGHAI) INC.
    Inventors: Hui Wang, Jian Wang, Zhaowei Jia, Hongchao Yang
  • Patent number: 11450538
    Abstract: A substrate stage includes: a base portion having a mounting surface; an annular support configured to support a substrate; an annular partition wall configured to divide the mounting surface into an outer region and an inner region in a radial direction of the substrate; a plurality of protrusions provided on the mounting surface and configured to support the substrate with a gap left between an upper end surface of the partition wall and the substrate; an outer flow path in communication with the outer region, and configured to allow a heat transfer gas supplied to a space between the substrate and the mounting surface to flow therethrough; an inner flow path in communication with the inner region, and configured to allow the heat transfer gas to flow therethrough; and an annular diffusion portion configured to diffuse the heat transfer gas along a circumferential direction of the partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventor: Hajime Tamura
  • Patent number: 11445104
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for forming a recessed gate electrode that has high thickness uniformity. A gate dielectric layer is deposited lining a recess, and a multilayer film is deposited lining the recess over the gate dielectric layer. The multilayer film comprises a gate electrode layer, a first sacrificial layer over the gate dielectric layer, and a second sacrificial layer over the first sacrificial dielectric layer. A planarization is performed into the second sacrificial layer and stops on the first sacrificial layer. A first etch is performed into the first and second sacrificial layers to remove the first sacrificial layer at sides of the recess. A second etch is performed into the gate electrode layer using the first sacrificial layer as a mask to form the recessed gate electrode. A third etch is performed to remove the first sacrificial layer after the second etch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hung-Shu Huang, Ming Chyi Liu, Tung-He Chou
  • Patent number: 11424418
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent material, an organic electroluminescent device, and a method for preparing the organic electroluminescent device. Due to comprising an organic compound A with 3.0 eV>ET?2.0 eV and a compound B of M(LA)x(LB)y(LC)z, the organic electroluminescent material of the present invention has the advantages of an increased luminescence lifetime and/or a reduced operating voltage on the basis of maintaining other electronic properties at a certain level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SHIJIAZHUANG CHENGZHI YONGHUA DISPLAY MATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianhua Cao, Zhe Shao, Yan Sui, Minhui Jia, Shibo Wang, Weizhuang He
  • Patent number: 11417716
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a substrate (10) that is divided into a plurality of subpixel areas, a drive transistor (20) and a photodetector (30) in each of the plurality of subpixel areas, and an insulation layer (40) on the photodetector (30). The drive transistor (20) includes an electrode layer that includes a source electrode (21) and a drain electrode (22). The photodetector (30) is coupled to one of the source electrode (21) and the drain electrode (22). An entirety of an orthographic projection of the insulation layer (40) on the substrate is inside an orthographic projection of the electrode layer on the substrate (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoying Wang, Zhen Song
  • Patent number: 11417566
    Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a first metal layer over a substrate, forming a dielectric layer over the first metal layer. The method includes forming a trench in the dielectric layer, and performing a surface treatment process on a sidewall surface of the trench to form a hydrophobic layer. The hydrophobic layer is formed on a sidewall surface of the dielectric layer. The method further includes depositing a metal material in the trench and over the hydrophobic layer to form a via structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Hao Kung, Chih-Chieh Chang, Kao-Feng Liao, Hui-Chi Huang, Kei-Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 11401275
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1, an organic electronic device including the heterocyclic compound in an organic active layer, and a method for manufacturing the organic electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Kim, Songrim Jang, Doowhan Choi, Jung Ha Park, Bogyu Lim
  • Patent number: 11404657
    Abstract: A solid-liquid-solid phase transformation (SLSPT) approach is used for fabrication of perovskite periodic nanostructures. The pattern on a mold is replicated by perovskite through phase change of perovskite from initially solid state, then to liquid state, and finally to solid state. The LED comprising perovskite periodic nanostructure shows better performance than that with flat perovskite. Further, the perovskite periodic nanostructure from SLSPT can be applied in many optoelectronic devices, such as solar cells, light emitting diodes (LED), laser diodes, transistors, and photodetectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
    Inventors: Chik Ho Wallace Choy, Jian Mao
  • Patent number: 11406007
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) energy transmission line transition for coupling RF energy between a pair of RF transmission line sections disposed on intersecting surfaces of a corresponding one of a pair of conductive members, a first one of the pair of conductive members having a wall with a jog therein for receiving an end portion of a second one of the pair of conductive members, the end portion of an electrically conductive strip of the first one of the pair of radio frequency transmission line sections being disposed on, and electrically connected to, an electrically conductive strip of a second one of the pair of radio frequency transmission line sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Christopher M. Laighton, Susan C. Trulli, Elicia K. Harper
  • Patent number: 11402556
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing integrated IR (IR=infrared) emitter elements having an optical filter comprises back side etching through a carrier substrate, forming adhesive spacer elements on a conductive layer on the carrier substrate, placing a filter substrate having a filter carrier substrate and a filter layer on the adhesive spacer elements, fixing the adhesive spacer elements to the carrier substrate and the filter substrate by curing, pre-dicing through the filter substrate for exposing the contact pads of the structured conductive layer, and dicing through the frame structure in the carrier substrate for separating the integrated IR emitter elements having the optical filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Stephan Pindl, Matthias Steiert
  • Patent number: 11398573
    Abstract: An x-ray detector can be small and have efficient cooling. In one embodiment, the x-ray detector can comprise a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) with upper electrical connections, a support, a cap, and a silicon drift detector (SDD). A planar side of the support can be directly affixed to upper electrical connections of the TEC. The support can have a non-planar side, opposite of the planar side, with a raised structure. A bottom face of the cap can be affixed to the raised structure, forming a cavity between the cap and the non-planar side of the support. The SDD can be affixed to a top face of the cap. In another embodiment, the non-planar side of the support can face the TEC. In another embodiment, a PIN photodiode can be directly affixed to a plate and the plate directly affixed to upper electrical connections of the TEC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Moxtek, Inc
    Inventors: Jason Maynard, Shawn S. Chin, Jonathan Barron, David S. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 11393944
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for improving ohmic contact behaviour between a contact grid and an emitter layer of a silicon solar cell. The object of the invention is to propose a method for improving contact behaviour between the contact grid and the emitter layer of silicon solar cells, which method is used after the contacting of these solar cells and thus reduces the scrap quota of solar cells with faulty contacting. In order to achieve this object, a method is proposed which has the following method steps. First a silicon solar cell (1) is provided with the emitter layer, the contact grid (5) and a back contact (3). Then the contact grid (5) is electrically contacted by a contact pin matrix (8) or contact plate connected to one terminal of a current source and the back contact (3) is electrically connected by a contact device connected to the other terminal of the current source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: CE CELL ENGINEERING GMBH
    Inventor: Zhao Hongming
  • Patent number: 11387427
    Abstract: A display panel includes a display substrate, an opposite substrate, and a hydrophobic bonding portion disposed between the display substrate and the opposite substrate. The hydrophobic bonding portion is configured to bond the display substrate and the opposite substrate together, and an orthographic projection of the hydrophobic bonding portion on the display substrate is located outside a display region of the display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuli Dai, Qiang Xiong, Chao Liu, Min Li
  • Patent number: 11374056
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are selector devices and related devices and techniques. In some embodiments, a selector device may include a first electrode, a second electrode, and a selector material between the first electrode and the second electrode. The selector material may include germanium, tellurium, and sulfur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elijah V. Karpov, Brian S. Doyle, Ravi Pillarisetty, Prashant Majhi, Abhishek A. Sharma
  • Patent number: 11367557
    Abstract: The structure includes a semiconductor chip connected to a substrate via one or more solder balls. The semiconductor chip includes one or more on-chip metal winding. The structure includes a first ferromagnetic core. The first ferromagnetic core is located below the semiconductor chip and above the substrate. The structure includes a second ferromagnetic core. The second ferromagnetic core is located above the semiconductor chip. The first ferromagnetic core and the second ferromagnetic core create a magnetic loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xin Zhang, Todd Edward Takken
  • Patent number: 11369049
    Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding element and, transmission line assembly and electronic structure package using the same are provided. The electromagnetic shielding element is applied to the transmission line assembly and the electronic structure package to shield electromagnetic noise. The electromagnetic shielding element includes a quantum well structure, and the quantum well structure includes at least two barrier layers and at least one carrier confined layer located between the two barrier layers. Each barrier layer has a thickness between 0.1 nm and 500 nm, and the thickness of the carrier confined layer is between 0.1 nm and 500 nm. The electromagnetic shielding element absorbs electromagnetic wave noise to suppress electromagnetic interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: HOTEK MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao-Wei Fong, Ming-Goo Chien, Chia-Yu Wu
  • Patent number: 11362178
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to asymmetric source and drain structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: at least one gate structure; a straight spacer adjacent to the at least one gate structure; and an L-shaped spacer on a side of the at least one gate structure opposing the straight spacer, the L-shaped spacer extending a first diffusion region further away from the at least one gate structure than the straight spacer extends a second diffusion region on a second side away from the at least one gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. INC.
    Inventors: Jiehui Shu, Rinus Tek Po Lee, Baofu Zhu
  • Patent number: 11362257
    Abstract: A quantum bit device according to the present invention includes a first quantum bit substrate 10 which includes a first superconductive wiring 13 disposed to have a magnetically coupled portion with a first superconductive magnetic flux quantum bit 14 on a surface thereof, a second quantum bit substrate 11 which includes a second superconductive wiring 13 disposed to have a magnetically coupled portion with a second superconductive magnetic flux quantum bit 14 on a surface thereof, and a base substrate 12 which includes a third superconductive wiring 13 configured by two superconductive wirings extending parallel to each other on a surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Mutsuo Hidaka, Masaaki Maezawa
  • Patent number: 11362302
    Abstract: An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display panel. After a metal layer is formed on a substrate, a protective layer is formed on the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: KUNSHAN GO-VISIONOX OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhengshang Sun