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).

  • Polymeric Blends and Related Optoelectronic Devices
    Publication number: 20130247992
    Abstract: Disclosed are all-polymer blends including an electron-acceptor polymer and an electron-donor polymer, capable of providing improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, when used in photovoltaic cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Martin Drees, Hualong Pan, Zhihua Chen, Shaofeng Lu, Antonio Facchetti
  • Polycyclic aromatic molecular semiconductors and related compositions and devices
    Patent number: 8513445
    Abstract: Disclosed are new semiconductor materials prepared from polycyclic aromatic compounds. 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: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Jordan Quinn, Yu Xia
  • Solution-processed high mobility inorganic thin-film transistors
    Patent number: 8513646
    Abstract: Thin film transistor devices comprising a dielectric component and an inorganic semiconductor component coupled thereto, wherein said coupled inorganic semiconductor component is obtainable by a process that comprises contact of said dielectric component and a fluid medium comprising said inorganic semiconductor component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti, Paul D. Byrne, Hyun Sung Kim
  • Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Thin-Film Transistors Using Inorganic Semiconducting Films
    Publication number: 20130193421
    Abstract: Inorganic semiconducting compounds, composites and compositions thereof, and related device structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti, Lian Wang, Myung-Han Yoon, Yu Yang
  • Crosslinked hybrid gate dielectric materials and electronic devices incorporating same
    Patent number: 8471253
    Abstract: Disclosed are thin film transistor devices incorporating a crosslinked inorganic-organic hybrid blend material as the gate dielectric. The blend material, obtained by thermally curing a mixture of an inorganic oxide precursor sol and an organosilane crosslinker at relatively low temperatures, can afford a high gate capacitance, a low leakage current density, and a smooth surface, and can be used to enable satisfactory transistor device performance at low operating voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Tobin J. Marks, Young-geun Ha, Antonio Facchetti
  • Naphtalene-imide semiconductor polymers
    Patent number: 8470961
    Abstract: Disclosed are new semiconductor materials prepared from naphthalene-imide copolymers. Such polymers can exhibit desirable electronic properties and can possess processing advantages including solution-processability and/or good stability at ambient conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignees: BASF SE, Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Zhihua Chen, He Yan, Yan Zheng, Jordan Quinn, Marcel Kastler, Florian Doetz, Silke Koehler
  • Organic semiconductors and devices incorporating same
    Patent number: 8440828
    Abstract: Disclosed are thionated fused-ring (aromatic) imides and diimides that can exhibit desirable electronic properties and can possess processing advantages including solution-processability and/or good stability at ambient conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Jordan Quinn, Yan Zheng, Zhihua Chen, Hakan Usta, Christopher Newman, He Yan, Antonio Facchetti
  • Conjugated Polymers and Their Use in Optoelectronic Devices
    Publication number: 20130098448
    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: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Zhengguo Zhu, Martin Drees, Hualong Pan, Yan Yao, He Yan, Shaofeng Lu, Antonio Facchetti
  • Perylene semiconductors and methods of preparation and use thereof
    Patent number: 8404844
    Abstract: The present invention relates to semiconducting compounds, materials prepared from such compounds, methods of preparing such compounds and semiconductor materials, as well as various compositions, composites, and devices that incorporate the compounds and semiconductor materials. The semiconducting compounds can have higher electron-transport efficiency and higher solubility in common solvents compared to related representative compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignees: BASF SE, Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Marcel Kastler, Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Florian Doetz, Silke Annika Koehler, He Yan, Antonio Facchetti, Shaofeng Lu, Yan Zheng
  • Compounds Having Semiconducting Properties and Related Compositions and Devices
    Publication number: 20130062598
    Abstract: Disclosed are new compounds having semiconducting properties. Such compounds can be processed in solution-phase at a temperature of less than about 50° C. into thin film semiconductors that exhibit high carrier mobility and/or good current modulation characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Hakan Usta, Damien Boudinet, Jordan Quinn, Antonio Facchetti
  • Inorganic-organic hybrid thin-film transistors using inorganic semiconducting films
    Patent number: 8395150
    Abstract: Inorganic semiconducting compounds, composites and compositions thereof, and related device structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti, Lian Wang, Myung-Han Yoon, Yu Yang
  • Carbonaceous Nanomaterial-Based Thin-Film Transistors
    Publication number: 20130048949
    Abstract: Disclosed are thin film transistor devices incorporating a thin film semiconductor derived from carbonaceous nanomaterials and a dielectric layer composed of an organic-inorganic hybrid self-assembled multilayer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Yu Xia, He Yan, Antonio Facchetti
  • Semiconducting Compounds and Devices Incorporating Same
    Publication number: 20130035464
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Chun Huang, Hualong Pan
  • Photopolymers and their use in organic thin film transistors
    Patent number: 8338555
    Abstract: Photopolymers are provided with composites and electronic devices including such photopolymers. Specifically, organic thin film transistors comprising a semiconductor layer, a polymeric layer in contact with the semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode are disclosed, wherein the semiconductor layer comprises an organic semiconductor compound, and the polymeric layer comprises a photocrosslinked product of a photopolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: He Yan, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks
  • Conjugated polymers and their use in optoelectronic devices
    Patent number: 8334456
    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: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Zhengguo Zhu, Martin Drees, Hualong Pan, Yan Yao, He Yan, Shaofeng Lu, Antonio Facchetti
  • Thienocoronene-imide semiconducting compounds and polymers
    Patent number: 8329855
    Abstract: Disclosed are new semiconductor materials prepared from thienocoronene-imide-based small molecule and/or polymeric compounds. 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: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignees: Polyera Corporation, BASF SE
    Inventors: Hakan Usta, Zhihua Chen, Antonio Facchetti
  • Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Thin-Film Transistors Using Inorganic Semiconducting Films
    Publication number: 20120261655
    Abstract: Inorganic semiconducting compounds, composites and compositions thereof, and related device structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti, Lian Wang, Myung-Han Yoon, Yu Yang
  • THIENOCORONENE-IMIDE SEMICONDUCTING COMPOUNDS AND POLYMERS
    Publication number: 20120264900
    Abstract: Disclosed are new semiconductor materials prepared from thienocoronene-imide-based small molecule and/or polymeric compounds. 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: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Hakan Usta, Zhihua Chen, Antonio Facchetti
  • SEMICONDUCTING COMPOUNDS AND DEVICES INCORPORATING SAME
    Publication number: 20120264906
    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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti, Pierre-Luc Boudreault, Hiroyuki Miyauchi
  • Conjugated monomers and polymers and preparation and use thereof
    Patent number: RE44304
    Abstract: Disclosed are new conjugated compounds (e.g., monomers and polymers) that include ladder-type moieties which can be used for preparing semiconducting materials. Such conjugated compounds can exhibit high n-type carrier mobility and/or good current modulation characteristics. Compounds of the present teachings also can exhibit ambipolar semiconducting activity. In addition, the compounds of the present teachings can possess certain processing advantages such as solution-processability and/or good stability in ambient conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti, Hakan Usta