Patents by Inventor Ching-Fuh Lin

Ching-Fuh Lin 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: 20110048538
    Abstract: A suspension or solution for an organic optoelectronic device is disclosed. The composition of the suspension or solution includes at least one kind of micro/nano transition metal oxide and a solvent. The composition of the suspension or solution can selectively include at least one kind of transition metal oxide ions or a precursor of transition metal oxide. Moreover, the method of making and applications of the suspension or solution are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: JING-SHUN HUANG, CHING-FUH LIN
  • Publication number: 20110037055
    Abstract: A flexible optoelectronic device having inverted electrode structure is disclosed. The flexible optoelectronic device having inverted electrode structure includes a flexible plastic substrate having a cathode structure, an n-type oxide semiconductor layer, an organic layer, and an anode. The n-type oxide semiconductor layer is disposed on the cathode structure. The organic layer is disposed on the n-type oxide semiconductor layer. The anode is electrically connected with the organic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: CHING-FUH LIN, KAO-HUA TSAI
  • Publication number: 20110012505
    Abstract: An organic/inorganic white lighting device is disclosed. The organic/inorganic white lighting device includes an anode, an organic/inorganic lighting layer, and a cathode. The organic/inorganic lighting layer is disposed between the anode and the cathode. The organic/inorganic lighting layer includes organic material and an inorganic micro/nano structure of Zinc Oxide (ZnO), wherein the organic material is capable of emitting blue light, the inorganic micro/nano structure of Zinc Oxide is capable of emitting green-yellow light, and the blue light and green-yellow light are mixed for generating white light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: CHING-FUH LIN, CHUN-YU LEE
  • Patent number: 7863608
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a high-efficiency lighting device and a method for fabricating the same. The method of the present invention comprises steps: providing an insulation substrate and sequentially forming an electrode layer and a seed layer on the insulation layer; forming a plurality of zinc oxide micro and nano structures and a plurality of first insulation units on the seed layer, wherein each zinc oxide micro and nano structure is arranged between two neighboring first insulation units; forming a nitride layer on the side wall of each zinc oxide micro and nano structure; and forming an electrode layer on each nitride layer. The present invention achieves a high-efficiency lighting device via growing nitride layers on the side walls of zinc oxide micro and nano structures. Further, the present invention can reduce the fabrication cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Ching-Fuh Lin, Cha-Hsin Chao
  • Publication number: 20100326508
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a mixed-type heterojunction thin-film solar cell structure and a method for fabricating the same. Firstly, a conductive substrate and a template are provided, and the template has a substrate and an inorganic wire array formed on the substrate. Next, a conjugate polymer layer is formed on the conductive substrate. Next, the inorganic wire array is embedded into the conjugate polymer layer. Next, the substrate is separated from the inorganic wire array. Then, an electrode layer is formed over the inorganic wire array and the conjugate polymer layer. The solar cell structure of the present invention has advantages of flexibility, high energy conversion efficiency and low fabrication cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: CHING-FUH LIN, CHIEH-YU HSIAO, JIUN-JIE CHAO
  • Publication number: 20100283387
    Abstract: An organic-inorganic lighting device and a method for fabricating the same is disclosed. Firstly, a conductive substrate is provided, and an inorganic conducting film layer and a seed layer are formed in turn on the conductive substrate. Next, an array of micro and nano zinc oxide wire is formed on the seed layer by using properties of the seed layer. Finally, an electrode layer is formed on the array of micro and nano zinc oxide wire. The invention solves the problem of low mobility of electrons in inorganic materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: Ching-Fuh Lin, Chun-Yu Lee
  • Publication number: 20100133527
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a high-efficiency lighting device and a method for fabricating the same. The method of the present invention comprises steps: providing an insulation substrate and sequentially forming an electrode layer and a seed layer on the insulation layer; forming a plurality of zinc oxide micro and nano structures and a plurality of first insulation units on the seed layer, wherein each zinc oxide micro and nano structure is arranged between two neighboring first insulation units; forming a nitride layer on the side wall of each zinc oxide micro and nano structure; and forming an electrode layer on each nitride layer. The present invention achieves a high-efficiency lighting device via growing nitride layers on the side walls of zinc oxide micro and nano structures. Further, the present invention can reduce the fabrication cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Ching-Fuh Lin, Cha-Hsin Chao
  • Publication number: 20100055824
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a micro/nanostructure PN junction diode array thin-film solar cell and a method for fabricating the same, wherein a microstructure or sub-microstructure PN junction diode array, such as a nanowire array or a nanocolumns array, is transferred from a source-material wafer to two pieces of transparent substrates, which are respectively corresponding to two electric conduction types, to fabricate a thin-film solar cell. In the present invention, the micro/nanostructure PN junction diode array has advantages of a fine-quality crystalline semiconductor, and the semiconductor substrate can be reused to save a lot of semiconductor material. Besides, the present invention can make the best of sunlight energy via stacking up the solar cells made of different types of semiconductor materials to absorb different wavebands of the sunlight spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Ching-Fuh Lin, Jiun-Jie Chao, Shu-Chia Shiu
  • Publication number: 20100025871
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for smoothing a surface of an optical element with a laser. Firstly, an optical element having a rough surface is provided. Next, the rough surface of the optical element is illuminated with a laser. The rough surface absorbs laser energy and melts into a liquid. The liquid is stretched and planarized by the surface tension of the rough surface and then solidifies into a smooth surface. The present invention can smooth the surface of an optical element and promote the resonant or waveguide performance of the optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Ching-Fuh Lin, Shih-Che Hung, Shu-Chia Shiu
  • Publication number: 20090293946
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a mixed-type heterojunction thin-film solar cell structure and a method for fabricating the same. Firstly, a conductive substrate and a template are provided, and the template has a substrate and an inorganic wire array formed on the substrate. Next, a conjugate polymer layer is formed on the conductive substrate. Next, the inorganic wire array is embedded into the conjugate polymer layer. Next, the substrate is separated from the inorganic wire array. Then, an electrode layer is formed over the inorganic wire array and the conjugate polymer layer. The solar cell structure of the present invention has advantages of flexibility, high energy conversion efficiency and low fabrication cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Ching-Fuh Lin, Chieh-Yu Hsiao, Jiun-Jie Chao
  • Publication number: 20080199669
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an electroluminescent element implemented by a zinc oxide nanoparticle-containing organic-inorganic composite film. In the present invention, a spin-coating technology together with a phase-segregation technology is used to fabricate zinc oxide nanoparticles and an organic electrically-conductive material into a layered organic-inorganic composite film, and an electroluminescent element is fabricated with the layered structure, which can increase the probability of the electron-hole pair recombination in zinc oxide nanoparticles. Thereby, the present invention can realize a low-cost blue light-emitting element having a large emitting area and an extensive application field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventors: Chun-Yu Lee, Ching-Fuh Lin
  • Publication number: 20070161134
    Abstract: A method of using nanoparticles to fabricate an emitting layer of an optical communication light source on a substrate is proposed, in which a host capable of reacting with unstable ions on the surface of a rare earth ions nanomaterial is used as a carrier of nanoparticles to make the rare earth ions nanomaterial release rare earth ions, thereby forming an emitting layer that can be excited by an external current or light source to emit light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Ching-Fuh Lin, Kuo-Jui Sun, Ping-Hung Shih, Yi-Shin Su
  • Publication number: 20070096171
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device that has the effect of phonon-assisted light amplification and a method for manufacturing the same are proposed. A conductive layer is formed on a semiconductor silicon substrate. A current flow is used to accomplish electro-luminescence of silicon. A silicon dioxide nanometer particle layer is sandwiched between the conductive layer and the semiconductor silicon substrate to form a MOS junction for carrier confinement. The phonon-assisted light emission mechanism can thus be strengthened to enhance the electro-luminescence efficiency of silicon so as to accomplish the lasing effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Inventors: Ching-Fuh Lin, Chu-Ting Huang, Shu-Chia Hsu, Kung-An Lin, Eih-Zhe Liang
  • Publication number: 20070081252
    Abstract: A single panel reflective-type color optical engine makes use of a grating matched with a reflecting mirror set for adjusting the traveling directions of three primary color lights or at least a beam-splitting rotating disk and a reflecting mirror to split an incident light into the three primary color lights and separately adjusts their reflected directions and orders, or makes use of three reflecting mirrors with continually varying angles to reflect three primary color lights to adjust their reflected directions and orders, thereby simultaneously projecting the three primary color lights onto different regions of a single panel in the red-green-blue, green-blue-red, and then blue-red-green order. The single panel reflective-type color optical engine can apply to LCOS and DLP reflective-type projection systems, and has the advantages of high brightness, good uniformity, small size, and low price.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Inventors: Shu-I Lin, Ching-Fuh Lin
  • Publication number: 20060226215
    Abstract: A pattern identification system for an automatic teller machine includes an illumination device, a video camera unit, a controller and a programmable identification element. The illumination device initially projects light on a sample or security pattern. The controller controls the video camera to magnify an image sufficient for identification at the predetermined position of the sample or security pattern so as to allow capturing an identifiable image of difference with respect to a programmed feature. The video camera unit captures the identifiable image of the predetermined position of the sample or security pattern and sends it to the programmable identification element for processing identification of the sample or security pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Kun-Lang Yu, Ching-Fuh Lin, Andy Cheng
  • Publication number: 20060228025
    Abstract: A portable electronic device having a pattern identification system includes a substrate, an illumination device, a video camera unit (containing a controllable camera lens), a controller, a programmable identification element and a display unit. The substrate is electrically connected to the illumination device, the video camera unit, the controller, the programmable identification element and the display unit. The illumination device initially projects light on a sample pattern. The controller controls the video camera to magnify an image sufficient for identification at the predetermined position of the sample pattern so as to allow capturing an identifiable image of difference with respect to a programmed feature. The video camera unit captures the identifiable image of the predetermined position of the sample pattern and sends it to the programmable identification element for identifying the sample pattern. The display unit displays an identified result of the sample pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Kun-Lang Yu, Ching-Fuh Lin, Andy Cheng
  • Patent number: 7045812
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology for increasing the spectral width of semiconductor optical amplifiers, employing different separate confinement heterostructures (SCH's) so as to form non-identical multiple quantum wells such that the semiconductor photo-electronic devices have better temperature characteristics and more reliable modulation characteristics. If such a technology is used in the fabrication of semiconductor laser with a tunable wavelength, it is possible to achieve a large range of modulated wavelength, which is very useful in optical communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: National Science Council
    Inventors: Ching Fuh Lin, Bing Ruey Wu
  • Publication number: 20060078653
    Abstract: Disclosed is preservation structure and preservation repository using the same. The preservation structure is constituted by a porous two-dimensional or three-dimensional solid structure with a slackness nature and a variety of nano-materials being uniformly distributed over the surface of the porous two-dimensional or three-dimensional solid structure, and is used to preserve an article therein over a long period of time. The freshness of the article is retained by making a direct contact between the nano-materials and the article. The usage of term or the period of preservation for the article is prolonged by placing the article needing to be preserved in the preservation repository.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: Ching-Fuh Lin, Chin-Long Chen, Chien-An Liu, Chien-Ten Chen, Shu-I Lin
  • Publication number: 20050276478
    Abstract: A pattern identification system includes a platform, a conveying device, an illumination device, a video camera unit, a controller, a programmable identification member and a switching member. The conveying device transports a feeding sample sheet on the platform mounted in the pattern identification apparatus. The illumination device projects light on the sample sheet. The controller controls the video camera to magnify an image with a predetermined multiple sufficient for identification at the predetermined position of the sample pattern so as to allow capturing an identifiable image of difference with respect to a programmed feature. The identifiable image of the selected pattern is captured and sent to the programmable identification member for identifying the selected pattern of the sample sheet. After identifying, the switching member is switched for outputting and sorting the sample sheet by the controller in response to a control signal of the programmable identification member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Inventors: Kun-Lang Yu, Ching-Fuh Lin, Andy Cheng
  • Publication number: 20050243283
    Abstract: A reflective type beam splitting and combining device comprises a cubic prism set and three light valves. A first dielectric thin film and a second dielectric thin film are formed on diagonal tangential planes of two sets of opposed surfaces of the prism set so that the prism set can reflect or transmit two light beams of the three primary colors incident from two incidence faces, respectively. The three light valves are arranged on three adjacent surfaces of the prism set to let every two of them be adjacent to each other. The three light valves are used for modulating the three primary colors transmitted or reflected by the prism set. Finally, the three primary color lights are assembled into an output light beam by the prism set. The above optical structure can effectively shorten the back focus to shrink the size and reduce the difficulty in manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Inventors: Ching-Fuh Lin, Shu-I Lin