Patents by Inventor Antonio Facchetti

Antonio Facchetti has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Semiconducting compounds and devices incorporating same
    Patent number: 8754188
    Abstract: Disclosed are molecular and polymeric compounds having desirable properties as semiconducting materials. Such compounds can exhibit desirable electronic properties and possess processing advantages including solution-processability and/or good stability. Organic transistor and photovoltaic devices incorporating the present compounds as the active layer exhibit good device performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti, Pierre-Luc Boudreault, Hiroyuki Miyauchi
  • Conjugated polymers and their use in optoelectronic devices
    Patent number: 8748739
    Abstract: Disclosed are certain polymeric compounds and their use as organic semiconductors in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The disclosed compounds can provide improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, fill factor, open circuit voltage, field-effect mobility, on/off current ratios, and/or air stability when used in photovoltaic cells or transistors. The disclosed compounds can have good solubility in common solvents enabling device fabrication via solution processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Zhengguo Zhu, Martin Drees, Hualong Pan, Yan Yao, He Yan, Shaofeng Lu, Antonio Facchetti
  • Naphthobisthiadiazole polymers for use in organic semiconductor devices
    Patent number: 8735536
    Abstract: Disclosed are new semiconducting polymers. The polymers disclosed herein can exhibit high carrier mobility and/or efficient light absorption/emission characteristics, and can possess certain processing advantages such as solution-processability and/or good stability at ambient conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Jordan Quinn, Hualong Pan, Antonio Facchetti
  • Conjugated polymers and their use in optoelectronic devices
    Patent number: 8723028
    Abstract: Disclosed are certain polymeric compounds and their use as organic semiconductors in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The disclosed compounds can provide improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, fill factor, open circuit voltage, field-effect mobility, on/off current ratios, and/or air stability when used in photovoltaic cells or transistors. The disclosed compounds can have good solubility in common solvents enabling device fabrication via solution processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Zhengguo Zhu, Hualong Pan, Martin Drees, Hakan Usta, Shaofeng Lu, Antonio Facchetti
  • Semiconducting Compounds and Optoelectronic Devices Incorporating Same
    Publication number: 20140091283
    Abstract: Disclosed are new compounds having semiconducting properties. Such compounds can be processed in solution-phase into thin film semiconductors that exhibit high carrier mobility and/or good current modulation characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: POLYERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hakan Usta, Mitchell Denti, William Christopher Sheets, Antonio Facchetti
  • Organic semiconducting polymers
    Patent number: 8664339
    Abstract: Disclosed are new organic semiconducting polymers. The polymers disclosed herein can exhibit high carrier mobility and/or efficient light absorption/emission characteristics, and can possess certain processing advantages such as solution-processability and/or good stability at ambient conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignees: Polyera Corporation, BASF SE
    Inventor: Antonio Facchetti
  • Light-Emitting Transistors with Improved Performance
    Publication number: 20140054613
    Abstract: Disclosed are light-emitting transistors having novel structures that can lead to enhanced device brightness, specifically, via incorporation of additional electrically insulating components that can favor charge localization and in turn, carrier recombination and exciton formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventor: Antonio Facchetti
  • Novel Structures for Light-Emitting Transistors
    Publication number: 20140054566
    Abstract: Disclosed are light-emitting transistors having novel structures that can lead to enhanced device brightness, specifically, via new arrangements of electrodes that can favor carrier recombination and exciton formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventor: Antonio Facchetti
  • Organic Semiconductor Formulations
    Publication number: 20140042369
    Abstract: Disclosed are formulations including an organic semiconducting compound in a liquid medium, where the liquid medium includes (1) a compound in liquid state that has electronic properties complementary to the electronic structure of the organic semiconducting compound and optionally (2) a solvent or solvent mixture for solubilizing the organic semiconducting compound. The present formulations can be used as inks in the fabrication of organic semiconductor devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventors: Chun Huang, Damien Boudinet, Yan Zheng, Zhikai Wang, Yu Xia, Theresa L. Starck, Antonio Facchetti
  • Conjugated polymers and devices incorporating same
    Patent number: 8598305
    Abstract: Disclosed are conjugated polymers having desirable properties as semiconducting materials. Such polymers can exhibit desirable electronic properties and possess processing advantages including solution-processability and/or good stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Northwestern University, Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks, Hui Huang, Zhihua Chen
  • Conjugated polymers and their use in optoelectronic devices
    Patent number: 8598449
    Abstract: Disclosed are certain oligomeric and polymeric compounds and their use as organic semiconductors in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The disclosed compounds can provide high power conversion efficiency, fill factor, open circuit voltage, field-effect mobility, on/off current ratios, and/or air stability when used in photovoltaic cells or transistors. The disclosed compounds can have good solubility in common solvents enabling device fabrication via solution processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Hualong Pan, He Yan, Yan Yao, Shaofeng Lu, Zhengguo Zhu, Antonio Facchetti
  • Pyrrolo[3,2-B]pyrrole semiconducting compounds and devices incorporating same
    Patent number: 8598448
    Abstract: Disclosed are semiconducting compounds having one or more pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole-2,5(1H,4H)-dione 3,6-diyl units. Such compounds can be monomeric, oligomeric, or polymeric, and can exhibit desirable electronic properties and possess processing advantages including solution-processability and/or good stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Shaofeng Lu, Antonio Facchetti, Yan Yao, Martin Drees, He Yan
  • Conjugated polymers and their use in optoelectronic devices
    Patent number: 8598450
    Abstract: Disclosed are certain polymeric compounds and their use as organic semiconductors in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, field effect transistors, and photodetectors. The disclosed compounds can provide improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, fill factor, open circuit voltage, field-effect mobility, on/off current ratios, and/or air stability when used in photovoltaic cells or transistors. The disclosed compounds can have good solubility in common solvents enabling device fabrication via solution processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Hualong Pan, Martin Drees, Zhengguo Zhu, Yan Yao, Shaofeng Lu, Antonio Facchetti
  • Semiconducting compounds and related compositions and devices
    Patent number: 8598575
    Abstract: Disclosed are new semiconductor materials prepared from thienocoronene-based compounds and related heteroaromatic analogs. Such compounds can exhibit high carrier mobility and/or good current modulation characteristics. In addition, the compounds of the present teachings can possess certain processing advantages such as solution-processability and/or good stability at ambient conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Zhihua Chen, Hakan Usta, Christopher Newman, He Yan
  • Dielectric materials and methods of preparation and use thereof
    Patent number: 8580384
    Abstract: Disclosed are dendritic macromolecule-based dielectric compositions (e.g., formulations) and materials (e.g. films) and associated devices. The dendritic macromolecules have branched ends that are functionalized with an organic group that includes at least one 3-40 membered cyclic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Yan Zheng, Jordan Quinn, He Yan, Yan Hu, Shaofeng Lu, Antonio Facchetti
  • Semiconductor materials and methods of preparation and use thereof
    Patent number: 8569501
    Abstract: Disclosed are new semiconductor materials prepared from dimeric perylene compounds. Such compounds can exhibit high n-type carrier mobility and/or good current modulation characteristics. In addition, the compounds of the present teachings can possess certain processing advantages such as solution-processability and/or good stability at ambient conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignees: BASF SE, Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Zhihua Chen, Florian Doetz, Marcel Kastler, Tobin J. Marks, He Yan, Yan Zheng
  • PERYLENE-BASED SEMICONDUCTORS AND METHODS OF PREPARATION AND USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130270543
    Abstract: Provided are semiconductors prepared from an enantiomerically enriched mixture of a nitrogen-functionalized rylene bis(dicarboximide) compound. Specifically, the enantiomerically enriched mixture has unexpected electron-transport efficiency compared to the racemate or either of the enantiomers in optically pure form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicants: Polyera Corporation, BASF SE
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Zhihua Chen, He Yan, Marcel Kastler, Florian Doetz
  • Conjugated Polymers and Their Use in Optoelectronic Devices
    Publication number: 20130247991
    Abstract: Disclosed are certain polymeric compounds and their use as organic semiconductors in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The disclosed compounds can provide improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, fill factor, open circuit voltage, field-effect mobility, on/off current ratios, and/or air stability when used in photovoltaic cells or transistors. The disclosed compounds can have good solubility in common solvents enabling device fabrication via solution processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Kap-Soo Cheon, Hualong Pan, Martin Drees
  • Conjugated Polymers and Their Use in Optoelectronic Devices
    Publication number: 20130247990
    Abstract: Disclosed are certain polymeric compounds and their use as organic semiconductors in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The disclosed compounds can provide improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, fill factor, open circuit voltage, field-effect mobility, on/off current ratios, and/or air stability when used in photovoltaic cells or transistors. The disclosed compounds can have good solubility in common solvents enabling device fabrication via solution processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Hakan Usta, Hualong Pan, Martin Drees, Mitchell Denti
  • Conjugated Polymers and Their Use in Optoelectronic Devices
    Publication number: 20130248831
    Abstract: Disclosed are certain polymeric compounds and their use as organic semiconductors in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The disclosed compounds can provide improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, fill factor, open circuit voltage, field-effect mobility, on/off current ratios, and/or air stability when used in photovoltaic cells or transistors. The disclosed compounds can have good solubility in common solvents enabling device fabrication via solution processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: POLYERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hualong Pan, Martin Drees, Antonio Facchetti