Patents Examined by Peter M Albrecht
  • Patent number: 12256570
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display panel are provided. The display substrate includes: a base including a front surface, a back surface and a side surface; a driving circuit layer disposed on the front surface; a back electrode disposed on the back surface; a side printed wire electrically connected to the driving circuit layer, the side printed wire extends to the back electrode from the side surface and is electrically connected to the back electrode, the side printed wire includes a wire top portion located on a side of the driving circuit layer facing away from the base; and a bonding adhesive layer disposed overlying the side of the driving circuit layer facing away from the base, the bonding adhesive layer is further in contact with and covers the wire top portion. The display substrate and the display panel can solve a problem of excessive height in a non-display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Xiamen Extremely PQ Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yanxi Ye
  • Patent number: 12256574
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to electrical circuits. In a specific embodiment, the present invention provides a Single-Photon Avalanche Detector (SPAD) circuit that includes a junction region that is characterized by a wave-shaped profile that corresponds to a plurality of filling structures. The wave-shaped profile is associated with electric field and breakdown voltage uniformity. There are other embodiments as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN ADAPS PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ching-Ying Lu, Yangsen Kang, Shuang Li
  • Patent number: 12249631
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a layer of a first semiconducting material, where the first semiconducting material is epitaxially grown to have a crystal structure of a first substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a layer of a second semiconducting material disposed adjacent to the layer of the first semiconducting material to form a heterojunction with the layer of the first semiconducting material. The semiconductor device further includes a first component that is electrically coupled to the heterojunction, and a second substrate that is bonded to the layer of the first semiconducting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Puneet Srivastava, James G. Fiorenza
  • Patent number: 12250836
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. Semiconductor devices may include first and second active patterns on a substrate. Each of the first and second active patterns may extend in a first direction. The first and second active patterns may be aligned along the first direction and may be separated by a first trench extending in a second direction. The first trench may define a first sidewall of the first active pattern. The semiconductor devices may also include a channel pattern including first and second semiconductor patterns stacked on the first active pattern, a dummy gate electrode on the channel pattern and extending in the second direction, and a gate spacer on one side of the dummy gate electrode, the one side of the dummy gate electrode being adjacent to the first trench. The gate spacer may cover a first sidewall of the first active pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-Jun Kim, Jaehyeoung Ma, Geumjong Bae
  • Patent number: 12243876
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area, a first voltage line disposed on the first substrate and supplying a first voltage, a second substrate disposed on the first voltage line, and a thin film transistor layer disposed on the second substrate and comprising a plurality of thin film transistors and a second voltage line disposed in the non-display area and electrically connected to the first voltage line through a first contact hole penetrating the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Doo Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 12245422
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate, with word lines arranged at intervals in the substrate, and trenches between adjacent word lines; a bit line contact layer, wherein the bottom surface of the bit line contact layer is in contact with the bottom surface of the trench, and the bit line contact layer has a non-planar contact portion in the direction away from the bottom surface of the trench; the conductive layer is in contact with the non-planar contact portion of the bit line contact layer. The embodiments of the present application are beneficial in reducing the resistance of the bit line itself including the bit line contact layer and the conductive layer, thereby helping to improve the electrical performance of the semiconductor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Shibing Qian
  • Patent number: 12243915
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides source/drain epitaxial structures and source/drain contacts wrapped with graphene layers in fin structures of field effect transistors, and fabricating methods thereof. In some embodiments, a disclosed semiconductor device includes a fin structure on a substrate. The fin structure includes an epitaxial region. The semiconductor device further includes a metal contact above the epitaxial region, and a graphene film covering a top surface and sidewalls of the epitaxial region and covering a bottom surface and sidewalls of the metal contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mrunal Abhijith Khaderbad, Wei-Yen Woon
  • Patent number: 12237338
    Abstract: An array substrate, a method for manufacturing an array substrate, and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate and a thin film transistor layer arranged on the substrate. The thin film transistor layer includes a plurality of thin film transistors. The thin film transistors each include an active layer, a source/drain, a first gate, a second gate, and a first insulating layer. The first gate and the second gate are electrically connected through the through hole. The problems of difficulty in etching and excessively long etching time are avoided while reducing the gate resistance of the thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhixiong Jiang
  • Patent number: 12238988
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area disposed outside of the display area. The display area includes a plurality of pixels. The display device further includes an inorganic insulating layer disposed in the display area. The inorganic insulating layer includes a groove disposed in a region between the plurality of pixels. The display device further includes an organic material layer filling the groove, a first connection wiring, and a second connection wiring. The first connection wiring is disposed on the organic material layer, overlaps the plurality of pixels, and extends in a second direction. The second connection wiring is insulated from the first connection wiring, and extends in a first direction that crosses the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juchan Park, Sunho Kim, Younggug Seol, Sunhee Lee, Joosun Yoon, Jonghyuk Lee, Jonghyun Choi
  • Patent number: 12237326
    Abstract: A finger-type semiconductor capacitor array layout includes a first conductive structure and a second conductive structure. The first conductive structure includes longitudinal first conductive strips and lateral power supply strips. The second conductive structure includes longitudinal second conductive strips and P lateral power supply strip(s). The longitudinal first conductive strips and the longitudinal second conductive strips are alternately disposed in a first integrated circuit (IC) layer; and the longitudinal first conductive strips include a first row of strips and a second row of strips. The lateral power supply strips are located in a second IC layer, and coupled to the first and second rows of strips through vias. The P lateral power supply strip(s) is/are located in the second IC layer, and include(s) a first-capacitor-group power supply strip that is coupled to K strip(s) of the longitudinal second conductive strips through K via(s). The P and K are positive integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shih-Hsiung Huang
  • Patent number: 12239000
    Abstract: A display device includes a display member and a touch member disposed on the display member. The touch member includes a first touch insulating disposed on the display member, a first touch conductive layer disposed on the first touch insulating layer and including a touch bridge electrode, a second touch insulating layer disposed on the first touch conductive layer, including an organic material, and including a first contact hole penetrating the second touch insulating layer in a thickness direction, a second touch conductive layer disposed on the second touch insulating layer and including a first lower sensing line overlapping the second touch bridge electrode, and a third touch conductive layer disposed on the second touch conductive layer and including a first upper sensing line overlapping the first lower sensing line. A width of the first upper sensing line is greater than a width of the first lower sensing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Su Byun, Woong Sik Kim, Dong Hwan Bae, Sang Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 12230719
    Abstract: To improve field-effect mobility and reliability of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor film, a gate electrode, an insulating film over the gate electrode, the oxide semiconductor film over the insulating film, and a pair of electrodes over the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film includes a first oxide semiconductor film and a second oxide semiconductor film over the first oxide semiconductor film. The first oxide semiconductor film and the second oxide semiconductor film, include the same element. The first oxide semiconductor film includes a region having lower crystallinity than the second oxide semiconductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kenichi Okazaki, Daisuke Kurosaki, Yasutaka Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 12230639
    Abstract: The present application relates to an array substrate and a preparation method thereof, and a display device; wherein the array substrate comprises a substrate and a plurality of sub-pixels distributed in an array on the substrate, the sub-pixels comprising M oxide thin film transistors, each oxide thin film transistor comprising a modulation electrode, a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode arranged in a stack, wherein the modulation electrodes of the M oxide thin film transistors are electrically connected to each other as a modulation layer, and the modulation layer is electrically connected to the gate electrode through N first vias, wherein M and N are both integers, and N<M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Xin Yuan, Xiufeng Zhou, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 12230640
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device and an electronic device. The display device includes a display panel and a source driving chip. The display panel includes a plurality of traces in a fan-shaped distribution. A plurality of signal output terminals and a plurality of compensation traces are disposed in the source driving chip. The compensation traces are configured to reduce a resistance difference among the plurality of traces in a fan-shaped distribution, and each signal output terminal is electrically connected to a corresponding one of the traces in a fan-shaped distribution using one corresponding compensation trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jinfeng Liu
  • Patent number: 12230637
    Abstract: An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel are provided. The present invention uses an inkjet printing method to construct a two-dimensional nanomaterial as a photosensitive film, and adjusts a composition of the nanomaterial to construct a photoelectric film with high gain, which is then combined with a high mobility film to construct a display device with high mobility and broad spectrum light response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Miao Jiang, Jiangbo Yao, Lixuan Chen, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 12225798
    Abstract: A transparent display substrate, a transparent display panel and a display device. The display substrate includes at least one pixel unit. The at least one pixel unit includes at least three sub-pixel groups emitting light of different colors. The sub-pixel groups includes at least two sub-pixels, and the sub-pixels include a first electrode, a light-emitting structure block located on the first electrode, and a second electrode located on the light-emitting structure block. In the at least one pixel unit, two first electrodes of two adjacent sub-pixels in a sub-pixel group are electrically connected by a first connecting portion, two first electrodes of two sub-pixels in another of the sub-pixel groups are electrically connected by a second connecting portion. The second connecting portion at least partially surrounds sides of the sub-pixels in other sub-pixel groups. The first connecting portion and the second connecting portion are located in a same layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuanzhi Xu, Lu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12225830
    Abstract: A magnetoresistance effect element includes a magnetic recording layer which includes a ferromagnetic material, a non-magnetic layer laminated on the magnetic recording layer, and a magnetization reference layer which is laminated on the non-magnetic layer. The magnetic recording layer includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a spacer layer, and a second ferromagnetic layer in order from the non-magnetic layer. The first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer are antiferromagnetically coupled to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Yamada, Minoru Ota, Tatsuo Shibata
  • Patent number: 12218148
    Abstract: Provided is a display module including a glass substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT) layer provided on a front surface of the glass substrate, a driving circuit provided on a rear surface of the glass substrate and configured to drive the TFT layer, a plurality of light emitting diodes (LED) electrically connected to the TFT layer, a plurality of first connection pads provided at intervals in a portion of the front surface of the glass substrate and electrically connected to a TFT circuit provided in in the TFT layer, a plurality of second connection pads provided at intervals in a portion of the rear surface of the glass substrate and electrically connected to the driving circuit, and a plurality of side wirings extending from the lateral surface of the glass substrate to a portion of an insulating layer and extending to another portion of the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeongyun Kim, Hosuk Kang, Jinwoo Jung, Changjoon Lee, Tackmo Lee, Gyun Heo, Soonmin Hong
  • Patent number: 12211943
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer, and a conductive layer. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate, includes a channel of a first transistor, and includes a channel of a second transistor. The insulating layer is disposed on the semiconductor layer. The conductive layer is disposed on the insulating layer, includes a gate electrode of the first transistor, and includes a gate electrode of the second transistor. The channel of the first transistor includes a first first-element impurity ion and a second-element impurity ion different from the first first-element impurity ion. The channel of the second transistor includes a second first-element impurity ion identical to the first first-element impurity ion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Oh Seo, Jang Hyun Kim, Jae Woo Jeong, Jong Hoon Choi
  • Patent number: 12207508
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises: a base substrate; multiple contact electrodes, arranged on the base substrate in a non-display region of the display panel; an inorganic film layer, arranged on the side of the contact electrodes in proximity to the base substrate; the inorganic film layer comprising an inorganic material; an organic film layer, arranged on the side of the contact electrodes away from the base substrate; and a barrier layer, arranged on the side of the organic film layer away from the base substrate; the barrier layer comprising an inorganic material; and, the organic film layer being provided with openings in at least some gaps between adjacent contact electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tianlong Zhao, Hyoungseok Park, Zifeng Wang, Dawei Shi