Patents by Inventor Boone Thomas

Boone Thomas 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).

  • Publication number: 20060237811
    Abstract: A method for non-destructively determining parameters of a doped semiconductor material involves applying an excitation to a surface of the semiconductor material to photogenerate minority carriers in a region of the semiconductor material, presenting an electric field across the region of the semiconductor material, measuring photoluminescence produced by recombination of the photogenerated minority carriers, and using the photoluminescence measurements to compute one or more parameters of the doped semiconductor material. Excitation may involve pulsed or CW lasers. Computed parameters may include one or more of: the minority carrier mobility of the semiconductor material; the saturation drift velocity of minority carriers in the semiconductor material; the diffusion constant of minority carriers in the semiconductor material; the recombination lifetime of minority carriers in the semiconductor material; and/or the effective temperature of the semiconductor material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Boone Thomas, Hironori Tsukamoto, Jerry Woodall