Patents Examined by Robert Kunemund
  • Patent number: 7473316
    Abstract: What is described here is a process for the initial growth of nitrogenous semiconductor crystal materials in the form AXBYCZNVMW wherein A, B, C is an element of group II or III, N is nitrogen, M represents an element of group V or VI, and X, Y, Z, W denote the molar fraction of each element of this compound, using a, which are deposited on sapphire, SiC or Si, using various ramp functions permitting a continuous variation of the growth parameters during the initial growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Aixtron AG
    Inventors: Bernd Schottker, Michael Heuken, Holger Jürgensen, Gerd Strauch, Bernd Wachtendorf
  • Patent number: 7465354
    Abstract: A process, for patterning a thin film that is highly resistant to conventional etching processes and that is to be deposited at a high substrate temperature, is disclosed. The process uses a liftoff method wherein a refractory material has been substituted for the conventional organic resin. The method is particularly useful for the fabrication of tunable microwave devices and ferroelectric memory elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: National University of Singapore
    Inventors: Chong Kim Ong, Chin Yaw Tan
  • Patent number: 7459024
    Abstract: Synthetic monocrystalline diamond compositions having one or more monocrystalline diamond layers formed by chemical vapor deposition, the layers including one or more layers having an increased concentration of one or more impurities (such as boron and/or isotopes of carbon), as compared to other layers or comparable layers without such impurities. Such compositions provide an improved combination of properties, including color, strength, velocity of sound, electrical conductivity, and control of defects. A related method for preparing such a composition is also described, as well as a system for use in performing such a method, and articles incorporating such a composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Apollo Diamond, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert C. Linares, Patrick J. Doering
  • Patent number: 7438760
    Abstract: Methods of making Si-containing films that contain relatively high levels of substitutional dopants involve chemical vapor deposition using trisilane and a dopant precursor. Extremely high levels of substitutional incorporation may be obtained, including crystalline silicon films that contain 2.4 atomic % or greater substitutional carbon. Substitutionally doped Si-containing films may be selectively deposited onto the crystalline surfaces of mixed substrates by introducing an etchant gas during deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: ASM America, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthias Bauer, Keith Doran Weeks, Pierre Tomasini, Nyles Cody
  • Patent number: 7431766
    Abstract: Processing and systems to create, and resulting products related to, very small-dimension singular, or monolithically arrayed, mechanical devices. Processing is laser-performed in relation to a selected material whose internal crystalline structure becomes appropriately changed thereby to establish the desired mechanical properties for a created device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: John W. Hartzell
  • Patent number: 7422633
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for forming a bulk monocrystalline gallium-containing nitride, i.e. GaN etc., on the surface of heterogeneous substrate, i.e. SiC etc., comprising the steps of forming a supercritical ammonia solvent containing ion or ions of alkali metals in an autoclave, dissolving a gallium-containing feedstock in the supercritical ammonia solvent to form a supercritical solution in which the feedstock is dissolved, and crystallizing gallium-containing nitride on the face of a seed which contains no element of oxygen and has a lattice constant of 2.8 to 3.6 with respect to ao-axis from the supercritical solution, under a condition of a higher temperature and/or a lower pressure than the temperature and/or the pressure where the gallium-containing feedstock is dissolved in the supercritical solvent. Therefore nitride gallium system compound semiconductor device can be formed on a conductive substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignees: Ammono SP. ZO. O., Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Dwilinski, Roman Doradzinski, Jerzy Garczynski, Leszek Sierzputowski, Yasuo Kanbara
  • Patent number: 7413430
    Abstract: The upper block 12 contacts the bearing block 20, and the bearing block 20 is coupled to the upper plate 21. The upper block 12 has a protruding part 22 on the upper surface that is worked into a convex surface with a radius of R1, and the bearing block 20 has a recessed part 23 in the undersurface that is worked into a concave surface with a radius of R2 (R2>R1). As a result of such a construction being used, the pressing surface of the upper pressing plate 15 always conforms to the surface of the quartz crystal substrate 11 during pressing, so that a uniform load is applied to the quartz crystal substrate 11. As a result, the surface of the quartz crystal can be uniformly pressed in the hot pressing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventors: Sunao Kurimura, Masaki Harada
  • Patent number: 7413607
    Abstract: Composite particles of a semiconductor particle such as a metal chalcogenide within a crosslinked, cored dendrimer are described. Additionally, methods of making the composite particles and compositions that contain the composite particles are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Neal A. Rakow, Michael S. Wendland, Mary I. Buckett
  • Patent number: 7404857
    Abstract: An improved method for synthesizing superabrasive particles provides high quality industrial superabrasive particles with high yield and a narrow size distribution. The synthesis method includes forming a substantially homogeneous mixture of raw material and catalyst material or layers of raw material and metal catalyst. A plurality of crystalline seeds is placed in a predetermined pattern in the mixture or one of the layers to form a growth precursor. The growth precursor is maintained at a temperature and pressure at which the superabrasive crystal is thermodynamically stable for a time sufficient for a desired degree of growth. Advantageously, the patterned placement of crystalline seeds and disclosed processes allow for production of various morphologies of synthetic diamonds, including octahedral and cubic diamonds, and improved growth conditions generally. As a result, the grown superabrasive particles typically have a high yield of high quality particles and a narrow distribution of particle sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Inventor: Chien-Min Sung
  • Patent number: 7399357
    Abstract: A method for the controlled growth of thin films by atomic layer deposition by making use of multilayers and using energetic radicals to facilitate the process is described in this invention. In this method, a first reactant is admitted into the reaction chamber volume, where there is a substrate to be coated. This first reactant then adsorbs, in a self-limiting process, onto the substrate to be coated. After removing this first reactant from the reaction chamber volume, leaving a layer coating the substrate, a second reactant is then admitted into the reaction chamber volume, which adsorbs onto this initial layer in a self-limiting process. The second reactant is then also removed from the reaction chamber volume. Following this procedure a self-limited multilayer of unreacted species remains adsorbed on the substrate to be coated. If additional chemical species are desirable, these exposures and removals could be continued. Next this multilayer is exposed to a flux of radicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Inventor: Arthur Sherman
  • Patent number: 7396409
    Abstract: By uniformly forming an indefinite number of microscopic acicular crystals on a surface of a silicon substrate so as to be perpendicular to the surface of the substrate by plasma CVD method using a catalyst, it is possible to reliably, homogeneously and massively form an ultramicroscopic acicular silicon crystal having a substantial cone shape tapered so as to have a radius of curvature of not less than 1 nm to no more than 20 nm at its tip end and having a diameter of bottom surface of not less than 10 nm, and a height equivalent to or more than the diameter of bottom surface, at a desired location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignees: Covalent Materials Corporation, Techno Network Shikoku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akitmitsu Hatta, Hiroaki Yoshimura, Keiichi Ishimoto, Hiroaki Kanakusa, Shinichi Kawagoe
  • Patent number: 7396411
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a single crystal includes the steps of: flowing a raw material gas toward a seed crystal in a reactive chamber so that the single crystal grows from the seed crystal; controlling the raw material gas by a gas flow control member having a cylindrical shape; passing the raw material gas through a clearance between the seed crystal and an inner wall of the gas flow control member; and flowing a part of the raw material gas to bypass the seed crystal. The method provides the single crystal having good quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Tomohisa Kato, Shinichi Nishizawa, Fusao Hirose
  • Patent number: 7393410
    Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a nano-wire using a crystal structure. In the method of manufacturing a nano-wire, a crystal grain having a plurality of crystal faces is used as a seed, and a crystal growing material having a lattice constant difference within a predetermined range is deposited on the crystal grain, thereby allowing the nano-wire to grow from at least one of the crystal faces. Therefore, it is possible to give the positional selectivity with a simple process using a principle of crystal growth and to generate a nano-structure such as a nano-wire, etc. having good crystallinity. Further, it is possible to generate a different-kind junction structure having various shapes by adjusting a feature of a crystal used as a seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Hyun Lee, Tae-Won Jeong, Jeong-Na Huh
  • Patent number: 7393411
    Abstract: A method for growing a ?-Ga2O3 single crystal hardly cracking and having a weakened twinning tendency and an improved crystallinity, a method for growing a thin-film single crystal with high quality, a GazO3 light-emitting device capable of emitting a light in the ultraviolet region, and its manufacturing method are disclosed. In an infrared-heating single crystal manufacturing system, a seed crystal and polycrystalline material are rotated in mutually opposite directions and heated, and a ?-Ga2O3 single crystal is grown in one direction selected from among the a-axis <100> direction, the b-axis <010> direction, and the c-axis <001> direction. A thin film of a ?-Ga2O3 single crystal is formed by PLD. A laser beam is applied to a target to excite atoms constituting the target Ga atoms are released from the target by thermal and photochemical actions. The free Ga atoms are bonded to radicals in the atmosphere in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Waseda University
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Kazuo Aoki, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora
  • Patent number: 7390360
    Abstract: Compositions useful in the manufacture of compound semiconductors are provided. Methods of manufacturing compound semiconductors using these compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC
    Inventors: Deodatta Vinayak Shenai-Khatkhate, Egbert Woelk
  • Patent number: 7384476
    Abstract: A method for crystallizing silicon is provided. The method includes: forming an amorphous silicon layer on a substrate; aligning a mask above the substrate, the mask being divided into a plurality of blocks, each block having at least two transmission patterns, the transmission patterns of one block and the transmission patterns of another adjacent block being complimentary with each other and the mask including at least two diffraction patterns disposed between the transmission patterns; forming a first crystallization region on the amorphous silicon layer by irradiating a laser beam through the transmission patterns of the mask; and displacing the substrate or the mask by a predetermined distance and irradiating a laser beam onto the substrate to recrystallize the crystallization region using the laser beam that passes through the diffraction patterns, and forming a second crystallization region using the laser beam that passes through the transmission patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: JaeSung You
  • Patent number: 7384480
    Abstract: This apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor single crystal includes: a crucible; a heater; a crucible driving unit; a chamber for housing the crucible and the heater; and a hydrogen mixed gas supplying device for supplying into the chamber a hydrogen mixed gas including an inert gas in admixture with a hydrogen-containing gas that contains hydrogen atoms, wherein the hydrogen mixed gas supplying device includes: a hydrogen-containing gas supply unit; an inert gas supply unit; a hydrogen-containing gas flow rate controller; an inert gas flow rate controller; and a gas mixing unit for uniformly mixing together the hydrogen-containing gas and the inert gas so as to form a hydrogen mixed gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: SUMCO Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Sugimura, Toshiaki Ono, Masataka Hourai
  • Patent number: 7384479
    Abstract: An optical semiconductor device operable in a 0.6 ?m band includes an active layer of GaInNP sandwiched by a pair of GaInP layer with a thickness of about 2 molecular layers or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Jikutani, Shunichi Sato, Takashi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7384478
    Abstract: A process for preparing crystalline particles, especially particles of a pharmaceutical or carrier substance suitable for inhalation therapy, in addition to apparatus for the preparation of such particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Glaxo Group Limited
    Inventor: Hardev Singh
  • Patent number: RE40647
    Abstract: The first object of the present invention is to provide a PDP with improved panel brightness which is achieved by improving the efficiency in conversion from discharge energy to visible rays. The second object of the present invention is to provide a PDP with improved panel life which is achieved by improving the protecting layer protecting the dielectrics glass layer. To achieve the first object, the present invention sets the amount of xenon in the discharge gas to the range of 10% by volume to less than 100% by volume, and sets the charging pressure for the discharge gas to the range of 500 to 760 Torr which is higher than conventional charging pressures. With such construction, the panel brightness increases. Also, to achieve the second object, the present invention has, on the surface of the dielectric glass layer, a protecting layer consisting of an alkaline earth oxide with (100)-face or (110)-face orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Aoki, Hideo Torii, Eiji Fujii, Mitsuhiro Ohtani, Takashi Inami, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Hiroyoshi Tanaka, Ryuichi Murai, Yasuhisa Ishikura, Yutaka Nishimura, Katsuyoshi Yamashita