Patents Examined by Mark W Tornow
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Patent number: 12272620Abstract: The present application provides a semiconductor structure having an elastic member within a via. The semiconductor structure includes a wafer including a substrate, a dielectric layer under the substrate, and a conductive pad surrounded by the dielectric layer; a passivation layer disposed over the substrate; a conductive via extending from the conductive pad through the substrate and the passivation layer and partially through the dielectric layer; and an elastic member disposed within the conductive via.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Shing-Yih Shih
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Patent number: 12272680Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a light-emitting device package and an electronic device. In an embodiment, a light-emitting device package is provided that includes a lead frame, at least two light-emitting devices mounted on the lead frame and configured to emit different wavelengths of a same color of light, and a phosphor configured to emit light having a color different from the color of light emitted from the at least two light-emitting devices. The embodiments of the present disclosure also relate to an electronic device including the light-emitting device package as a light source. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, various expressible color spaces can be selectively expressed.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: JeYoung Moon, SangHo Han
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Patent number: 12266641Abstract: A support structure for receiving planar microchips, comprising a planar support substrate and at least two receiving elements. The receiving elements are connected to the carrier substrate and configured in such a way that they detachably hold a flat microchip between the at least two receiving elements in such a way that the microchip can be moved out with a defined minimum force transversely to a support structure plane.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbHInventors: Alexander Pfeuffer, Korbinian Perzlmaier, Kerstin Neveling
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Semiconductor light-emitting device and method for manufacturing semiconductor light-emitting device
Patent number: 12261251Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device includes: a substrate having a wiring electrode; a semiconductor light-emitting element mounted on the wiring electrode and having a light-emitting functional layer with an upper surface exposed; a wavelength conversion plate mounted on the light-emitting functional layer and being made of a sintered body including fluorescent material particles and binder particles; and an adhesive layer including a resin medium for adhering a light-incident surface of the wavelength conversion plate to a light output surface of the light-emitting functional layer, and resin particles dispersed in the resin medium. The light-incident surface can expose a sintered surface of the sintered body with a concave portion, and the resin particles are fitted in the concave portion and compressively deformed. The semiconductor light-emitting device is capable of reducing the heat generated from the wavelength conversion plate and of maintaining the high light output.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuichi Ito -
Patent number: 12261196Abstract: In some embodiments, the present application provides an integrated chip (IC). The IC includes a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) device disposed over a substrate. The MIM device includes a plurality of conductive plates that are spaced from one another. The MIM device further includes a first conductive plug structure that is electrically coupled to a first conductive plate and to a third conductive plate of the plurality of conductive plates. A first plurality of insulative segments electrically isolate a second conductive plate and a fourth conductive plate from the first conductive plug structure. The MIM device further includes a second conductive plug structure that is electrically coupled to the second conductive plate and to the fourth conductive plate of the plurality of conductive plates. A second plurality of insulative segments electrically isolate the first conductive plate and the third conductive plate from the second conductive plug structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Lu-Sheng Chou, Hsuan-Han Tseng, Chun-Yuan Chen, Hsiao-Hui Tseng, Ching-Chun Wang
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Patent number: 12261183Abstract: An image pickup device having a pixel region in which pixels are arranged, and in which a multilayer wiring structure is disposed. Each pixel includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge accumulation unit, a floating diffusion, a light shielding portion covering the charge accumulation unit and opening above the photoelectric conversion unit, and a waveguide which overlaps at least partially a portion at which the light shielding portion opens in a plan view. The device includes an insulating film disposed below the optical waveguide. The insulating film has a refractive index higher than that of an interlayer insulating film. The insulating film is disposed closer to the photoelectric conversion unit than to the lowermost wiring layer among wiring layers of the multilayer wiring structure. The insulating film extends to a portion above the light shielding portion. The insulating film is wider than a lower portion of the optical waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kentaro Suzuki, Shunsuke Nakatsuka
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Patent number: 12255264Abstract: Mid-IR light emitting diodes (LEDs) based on type-II quantum dot (QD) active regions grown with monolithically integrated semiconductor metal layers are provided. These LEDs comprise layers of type-II semiconductor (e.g., InGaSb) quantum dots integrated into a pn junction diode (e.g., InAs) grown above a highly doped backplane, such as an n++ InAs backplane, all in the same epitaxial growth. Aspects described herein minimize non-radiate recombination times and significantly increase radiative recombination rates by controlling the emission of the emitting QDs in the near field of an optical metal.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: Daniel Wasserman, Seth Bank, Andrew Briggs, Leland Nordin
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Patent number: 12255269Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting laminated structure, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first electrode has a reflection layer, an intermediate layer, and an electrically conductive layer. The intermediate layer includes a barrier layer having a first repeating paired layer unit and a second repeating paired layer unit, each of which has a platinum layer. The first repeating paired layer unit is closer to the electrically conductive layer than the second repeating paired layer unit, and a thickness of the platinum layer of the first repeating paired layer unit is greater than a thickness of the platinum layer of the second repeating paired layer unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: XIAMEN SAN'AN OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Huining Wang, Hongwei Xia, Quanyang Ma, Jiali Zhuo, Weibin Shi, Su-Hui Lin, Renlong Yang, Chung-Ying Chang
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Patent number: 12249645Abstract: A laterally diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) device and a method of manufacturing the LDMOS device are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a substrate with a drift region formed thereon, the drift region having a first conductivity type and disposed on the substrate of a second conductivity type; etching the drift region to form therein a sinking structure, the sinking structure includes at least one of an implanting groove and an implanting hole; implanting ions of the second conductivity type at the bottom of the sinking structure; forming a buried layer of the second conductivity type by causing diffusion of the ions of the second conductivity type using a thermal treatment; and filling an electrical property modification material into the sinking structure, the electrical property modification material differs from the material of the drift region.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: CSMC TECHNOLOGIES FAB2 CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhili Zhang, Jingchuan Zhao, Sen Zhang
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Patent number: 12243963Abstract: A light emitting element ink comprises a light emitting element solvent, a light emitting element dispersed in the light emitting element solvent, the light emitting element including a plurality of semiconductor layers, and an insulating film surrounding outer surfaces of the plurality of semiconductor layers, and a thickener dispersed in the light emitting element solvent, wherein the thickener includes a compound represented by Chemical Structural Formula 1 as a polyol-based compound capable of forming a hydrogen bond with the light emitting element solvent or another thickener, and the thickener has a boiling point in a range of about 200° C. to about 450° C.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyo Jin Ko, Duk Ki Kim, Jun Bo Sim, Na Mi Hong, Yong Hwi Kim, Chang Hee Lee, Jae Kook Ha
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Patent number: 12230745Abstract: A display device and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The display device may include a pixel circuit layer including a plurality of transistors, a first partition wall and a second partition wall on the pixel circuit layer, and each protruding in a thickness direction, a first electrode and a second electrode formed on the same layer, and on the first partition wall and the second partition wall, respectively; a light emitting element between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a first organic pattern directly on the light emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Hong Park, Tae Gyun Kim, Jun Chun, Eui Suk Jung, Hyun Young Jung
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Patent number: 12219879Abstract: A method includes forming Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) stack layers, which includes depositing a bottom electrode layer; depositing a bottom magnetic electrode layer over the bottom electrode layer; depositing a tunnel barrier layer over the bottom magnetic electrode layer; depositing a top magnetic electrode layer over the tunnel barrier layer; and depositing a top electrode layer over the top magnetic electrode layer. The method further includes patterning the MTJ stack layers to form a MTJ; and performing a passivation process on a sidewall of the MTJ to form a protection layer. The passivation process includes reacting sidewall surface portions of the MTJ with a process gas comprising elements selected from the group consisting of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tai-Yen Peng, Yu-Shu Chen, Sin-Yi Yang, Chen-Jung Wang, Chien Chung Huang, Han-Ting Lin, Jyu-Horng Shieh, Qiang Fu
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Patent number: 12211828Abstract: A light emitting device includes a backplane, an array of light emitting diodes attached to a frontside of the backplane, a positive tone, imageable dielectric material layer, such as a positive photoresist layer, located on the frontside of the backplane and laterally surrounding the array of light emitting diodes, such that sidewalls of the light emitting diodes contacting the positive tone, imageable dielectric material layer have a respective reentrant vertical cross-sectional profile, and at least one common conductive layer located over the positive tone, imageable dielectric material layer and contacting the light emitting diodes.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Willibrordus Gerardus Maria Van Den Hoek, Tsun Yin Lau, Cameron Danesh, Fariba Danesh
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Patent number: 12213375Abstract: There is provided a photoelectric conversion film including a quinacridone derivative represented by the following General formula and a subphthalocyanine derivative represented by the following General formula.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Obana, Yuki Negishi, Yuta Hasegawa, Ichiro Takemura, Osamu Enoki, Hideaki Mogi, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa
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Patent number: 12211910Abstract: Bipolar junction transistor (BJT) structures are provided. A BJT structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a collector region formed in the semiconductor substrate, a base region formed over the collector region, an emitter region formed over the collector region, a ring-shaped shallow trench isolation (STI) region formed in the collector region, and a base dielectric layer formed over the collector region and on opposite sides of the base region. The base dielectric layer is surrounded by an inner side wall of the ring-shaped STI region.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kuan-Jung Chen, Chun-Ming Lin, Tsung-Lin Lee, Shiuan-Jeng Lin, Hung-Lin Chen
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Patent number: 12206053Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbHInventor: Peter Brick
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Patent number: 12206054Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbHInventors: Hubert Halbritter, Ines Pietzonka
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Patent number: 12205933Abstract: A light emitting device including first, second, and third light emitting stacks each including first and second conductivity type semiconductor layers, a first lower contact electrode in ohmic contact with the first light emitting stack, and second and third lower contact electrodes respectively in ohmic contact with the second conductivity type semiconductor layers of the second and third light emitting stacks, in which the first lower contact electrode is disposed between the first and second light emitting stacks, the second and third lower contact electrodes are disposed between the second and third light emitting stacks, and the first, second, and third lower contact electrodes include transparent conductive oxide layers.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: SEOUL VIOSYS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong Min Jang, Chang Yeon Kim
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Patent number: 12199219Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbHInventors: Andreas Biebersdorf, Stefan Illek, Ines Pietzonka, Petrus Sundgren, Christoph Klemp, Felix Feix, Christian Berger, Ana Kanevce
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Patent number: 12199220Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbHInventors: Andreas Biebersdorf, Stefan Illek, Ines Pietzonka, Petrus Sundgren, Christoph Klemp, Felix Feix, Christian Berger, Ana Kanevce