Patents Examined by Mark W Tornow
  • Patent number: 12272620
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shing-Yih Shih
  • Patent number: 12272680
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JeYoung Moon, SangHo Han
  • Patent number: 12266641
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Pfeuffer, Korbinian Perzlmaier, Kerstin Neveling
  • Patent number: 12261251
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichi Ito
  • Patent number: 12261196
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Lu-Sheng Chou, Hsuan-Han Tseng, Chun-Yuan Chen, Hsiao-Hui Tseng, Ching-Chun Wang
  • Patent number: 12261183
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kentaro Suzuki, Shunsuke Nakatsuka
  • Patent number: 12255264
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Daniel Wasserman, Seth Bank, Andrew Briggs, Leland Nordin
  • Patent number: 12255269
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 12249645
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: CSMC TECHNOLOGIES FAB2 CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhili Zhang, Jingchuan Zhao, Sen Zhang
  • Patent number: 12243963
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 12230745
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hong Park, Tae Gyun Kim, Jun Chun, Eui Suk Jung, Hyun Young Jung
  • Patent number: 12219879
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 12211828
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Willibrordus Gerardus Maria Van Den Hoek, Tsun Yin Lau, Cameron Danesh, Fariba Danesh
  • Patent number: 12213375
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Obana, Yuki Negishi, Yuta Hasegawa, Ichiro Takemura, Osamu Enoki, Hideaki Mogi, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 12211910
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kuan-Jung Chen, Chun-Ming Lin, Tsung-Lin Lee, Shiuan-Jeng Lin, Hung-Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 12206053
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Brick
  • Patent number: 12206054
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Halbritter, Ines Pietzonka
  • Patent number: 12205933
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SEOUL VIOSYS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Min Jang, Chang Yeon Kim
  • Patent number: 12199219
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Biebersdorf, Stefan Illek, Ines Pietzonka, Petrus Sundgren, Christoph Klemp, Felix Feix, Christian Berger, Ana Kanevce
  • Patent number: 12199220
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Biebersdorf, Stefan Illek, Ines Pietzonka, Petrus Sundgren, Christoph Klemp, Felix Feix, Christian Berger, Ana Kanevce