Patents by Inventor Garcia Villora

Garcia Villora 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: 20110175028
    Abstract: A garnet-type single crystal is represented by a general formula, A3B2C3O12 (having a crystal structure with three sites A, B and C occupied by cations, wherein A represents an element occupying the site A, B represents an element occupying the site B, C represents an element occupying the site C, O represents an oxygen atom), and contains fluorine, in which the fluorine attains any one or both of substituting for the oxygen atom or compensating for oxygen defect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shimamura, Encarnacion Garcia Villora, Yasuhiko Kuwano
  • Patent number: 7977673
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor layer in which a GaN system epitaxial layer having high crystal quality can be obtained. The semiconductor layer includes a ?-Ga2O3 substrate 1 made of a ?-Ga2O3 single crystal, a GaN layer 2 formed by subjecting a surface of the ?-Ga2O3 substrate 1 to nitriding processing, and a GaN growth layer 3 formed on the GaN layer 2 through epitaxial growth by utilizing an MOCVD method. Since lattice constants of the GaN layer 2 and the GaN growth layer 3 match each other, and the GaN growth layer 3 grows so as to succeed to high crystalline of the GaN layer 2, the GaN growth layer 3 having high crystalline is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Kazuo Aoki, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora
  • Patent number: 7800105
    Abstract: To provide a Ga2O3 compound semiconductor device in which a Ga2O3 system compound is used as a semiconductor, which has an electrode having ohmic characteristics adapted to the Ga2O3 system compound, and which can make a heat treatment for obtaining the ohmic characteristics unnecessary. An n-side electrode 20 including at least a Ti layer is formed on a lower surface of an n-type ?-Ga2O3 substrate 2 by utilizing a PLD method. This n-side electrode 20 has ohmic characteristics at 25° C. The n-side electrode 20 may have two layer including a Ti layer and an Au layer, three layers including a Ti layer, an Al layer and an Au layer, or four layers including a Ti layer, an Al layer, a Ni layer and an Au layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Waseda University
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Kazuo Aoki, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora
  • Patent number: 7727865
    Abstract: To provide a method of controlling a conductivity of a Ga2O3 system single crystal with which a conductive property of a ?-Ga2O3 system single crystal can be efficiently controlled. The light emitting element includes an n-type ?-Ga2O3 substrate, and an n-type ?-AlGaO3 cladding layer, an active layer, a p-type ?-AlGaO3 cladding layer and a p-type ?-Ga2O3 contact layer which are formed in order on the n-type ?-Ga2O3 substrate. A resistivity is controlled to fall within the range of 2.0×10?3 to 8×102 ?cm and a carrier concentration is controlled to fall within the range of 5.5×1015 to 2.0×1019/cm3 by changing a Si concentration within the range of 1×10?5 to 1 mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Waseda University
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Kazuo Aoki, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora
  • Patent number: 7713353
    Abstract: A method for growing a ?-Ga2O3 single includes preparing a ?-Ga2O3 seed crystal and growing the ?-Ga2O3 single crystal from the ?-Ga2O3 seed crystal in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Waseda University
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Kazuo Aoki, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora
  • Publication number: 20100065779
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an iodide single crystal material that provides a scintillator material for the next-generation TOF-PET, and a production process for high-quality iodide single crystal materials. The iodide single crystal material of the invention having the same crystal structure as LuI3 and activated by a luminescence center RE where RE is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb is characterized in that a part or the whole of lutetium (Lu) in said iodide single crystal material is substituted by Y and/or Gd.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: SAKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shimamura, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kenji Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20100038652
    Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlxInyGa(1?X?Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
  • Patent number: 7629615
    Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlXInYGa(1-X-Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
  • Patent number: 7608472
    Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlXInYGa(1-X-Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
  • Patent number: 7524741
    Abstract: A method of forming a low temperature-grown buffer layer having the steps of: placing a Ga2O3 substrate in a MOCVD apparatus; providing a H2 atmosphere in the MOCVD apparatus and setting a buffer layer growth condition having an atmosphere temperature of 350° C. to 550° C.; and supplying a source gas having two or more of TMG, TMA and NH3 onto the Ga2O3 substrate in the buffer layer growth condition to form the low temperature-grown buffer layer on the Ga2O3 substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Ushida, Daisuke Shinoda, Daisuke Yamazaki, Koji Hirata, Yuhei Ikemoto, Naoki Shibata, Kazuo Aoki, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kiyoshi Shimamura
  • Publication number: 20080265264
    Abstract: A method for growing a ?-Ga2O3 single includes preparing a ?-Ga2O3 seed crystal and growing the ?-Ga2O3 single crystal from the ?-Ga2O3 seed crystal in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: Waseda University
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Kazuo Aoki, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora
  • Publication number: 20080237607
    Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlXInYGa(1-X-Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20080142795
    Abstract: To provide a Ga2O3 compound semiconductor device in which a Ga2O3 system compound is used as a semiconductor, which has an electrode having ohmic characteristics adapted to the Ga2O3 system compound, and which can make a heat treatment for obtaining the ohmic characteristics unnecessary. An n-side electrode 20 including at least a Ti layer is formed on a lower surface of an n-type ?-Ga2O3 substrate 2 by utilizing a PLD method. This n-side electrode 20 has ohmic characteristics at 25° C. The n-side electrode 20 may have two layer including a Ti layer and an Au layer, three layers including a Ti layer, an Al layer and an Au layer, or four layers including a Ti layer, an Al layer, a Ni layer and an Au layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: WASEDA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Kazuo Aoki, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora
  • Patent number: 7319249
    Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlXInYGa(1?X?Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Koha Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
  • Publication number: 20060289860
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor layer in which a GaN system epitaxial layer having high crystal quality can be obtained. The semiconductor layer includes a ?-Ga2O3 substrate 1 made of a ?-Ga2O3 single crystal, a GaN layer 2 formed by subjecting a surface of the ?-Ga2O3 substrate 1 to nitriding processing, and a GaN growth layer 3 formed on the GaN layer 2 through epitaxial growth by utilizing an MOCVD method. Since lattice constants of the GaN layer 2 and the GaN growth layer 3 match each other, and the GaN growth layer 3 grows so as to succeed to high crystalline of the GaN layer 2, the GaN growth layer 3 having high crystalline is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Kazuo Aoki, Encarnacion Garcia Villora
  • Publication number: 20060223287
    Abstract: A method of forming a low temperature-grown buffer layer having the steps of: placing a Ga2O3 substrate in a MOCVD apparatus; providing a H2 atmosphere in the MOCVD apparatus and setting a buffer layer growth condition having an atmosphere temperature of 350° C. to 550° C.; and supplying a source gas having two or more of TMG, TMA and NH3 onto the Ga2O3 substrate in the buffer layer growth condition to form the low temperature-grown buffer layer on the Ga2O3 substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicants: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd, KOHA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Ushida, Daisuke Shinoda, Daisuke Yamazaki, Koji Hirata, Yuhei Ikemoto, Naoki Shibata, Kazuo Aoki, Encarnacion Garcia Villora, Kiyoshi Shimamura
  • Publication number: 20060150891
    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: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Kazuo Aoki, Encarnacion Garcia Villora
  • Publication number: 20060001031
    Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlXInYGa(1?X?Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Applicant: Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
  • Patent number: 6977397
    Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlXInYGa(1?X?Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki