Patents by Inventor Kay Lederer

Kay Lederer 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).

  • Patent number: 11787965
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an ink composition for forming an organic semiconductor layer, wherein the ink composition comprises: —at least one p-type dopant comprising electron withdrawing groups; —at least one first auxiliary compound, wherein the first auxiliary compound is an aromatic nitrile compound, wherein the aromatic nitrile compound has about ?1 to about ?3 nitrile groups and a melting point of about <100° C., wherein the first auxiliary compound is different from the p-type dopant; and wherein the electron withdrawing groups are fluorine, chlorine, bromine and/or nitrile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Novaled GmbH
    Inventors: Kay Lederer, Steffen Runge, Jerome Ganier, Anke Limbach
  • Patent number: 11322687
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a charge transporting semi-conducting material comprising: a) optionally at least one electrical dopant, and b) at least one cross-linked charge-transporting polymer comprising 1,2,3-triazole cross-linking units, a method for its preparation and a semiconducting device comprising the charge transporting semi-conducting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Novaled GMBH
    Inventors: Mike Zoellner, Kay Lederer, Anton Kiriy, Volodymyr Senkovskyy, Brigitte Isabell Voit
  • Publication number: 20210005397
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a solar cell comprising a first electrode; a second electrode; and a stack of layers provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; wherein the stack of layers comprises one light absorbing layer provided with a perovskite crystal structure; and at least one dopant layer, wherein the dopant layer consists of one or more n-dopant material(s); or one or more p-dopant material(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Kay Lederer, Steffen Runge, Hendrik Bolink, Michele Sessolo, Jorge Avila, Maria Grazia La Placa, Pablo B. Boix
  • Patent number: 10873030
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a charge transporting semi-conducting material comprising: a) at least one electrical dopant, and b) a branched or cross-linked charge-transporting polymer comprising cyclobutenone cross-linking units of at least one of the general formulae la and/or lb, wherein aa) Pol1, Pol2, Pol3 and Pol4 are independently selected chains of the charge-transporting polymer, bb) X1, X2, X3, and X4 are independently selected optional spacer units or, independently, represent direct bonding of Pol1, Pol2, Pol3 and Pol4 chains to the cyclobutenone ring, cc) Z1, Z2, Z3, and Z4 are independently selected from H, halogen or a carbon-containing group; the charge transporting semi-conducting material being obtainable by a process comprising: i) providing a solution containing aaa) at least one precursor charge transporting compound comprising at least one covalently attacked alkenyloxy group having generic formula II wherein X is an optional spacer which is further linked to a charge transporting st
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Novaled GmbH
    Inventors: Kay Lederer, Steffen Runge, Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth, Felix Limberg, Hartmut Krüger
  • Publication number: 20200032093
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an ink composition for forming an organic semiconductor layer, wherein the ink composition comprises: —at least one p-type dopant comprising electron withdrawing groups; —at least one first auxiliary compound, wherein the first auxiliary compound is an aromatic nitrile compound, wherein the aromatic nitrile compound has about ?1 to about ?3 nitrile groups and a melting point of about <100° C., wherein the first auxiliary compound is different from the p-type dopant; and wherein the electron withdrawing groups are fluorine, chlorine, bromine and/or nitrile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Kay Lederer, Steffan Runge, Jerome Garnier, Anke Teichler
  • Patent number: 10468601
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a charge transporting semi-conducting material. The charge transporting semi-conducting material may include optionally at least one electrical dopant, and a branched or cross-linked charge transporting polymer that includes 1,2,3-triazole cross-linking units of at least one of the general formulae Ia and/or Ib herein. The charge transporting polymer can include ethylene building units substituted with at least one pending side group including a conjugated system of delocalized electrons. Also provided herein are processes for obtaining the charge transporting semi-conducting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Novaled GmbH
    Inventors: Kay Lederer, Steffen Runge, Felix Limberg, Hartmut Krueger
  • Publication number: 20190058128
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a charge transporting semi-conducting material comprising: a) at least one electrical dopant, and b) a branched or cross-linked charge-transporting polymer comprising cyclobutenone cross-linking units of at least one of the general formulae la and/or lb, wherein aa) Pol1, Pol2, Pol3 and Pol4 are independently selected chains of the charge-transporting polymer, bb) X1, X2, X3, and X4 are independently selected optional spacer units or, independently, represent direct bonding of Pol1, Pol2, Pol3 and Pol4 chains to the cyclobutenone ring, cc) Z1, Z2, Z3, and Z4 are independently selected from H, halogen or a carbon-containing group; the charge transporting semi-conducting material being obtainable by a process comprising: i) providing a solution containing aaa) at least one precursor charge transporting compound comprising at least one covalently attacked alkenyloxy group having generic formula II wherein X is an optional spacer which is further linked to a charge transporting st
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Kay Lederer, Steffen Runge, Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth, Felix Limberg, Hartmut Krüger
  • Publication number: 20170244033
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a charge transporting semi-conducting material. The charge transporting semi-conducting material may include optionally at least one electrical dopant, and a branched or cross-linked charge transporting polymer that includes 1,2,3-triazole cross-linking units of at least one of the general formulae Ia and/or Ib herein. The charge transporting polymer can include ethylene building units substituted with at least one pending side group including a conjugated system of delocalised electrons. Also provided herein are processes for obtaining the charge transporting semi-conducting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Kay Lederer, Steffen Runge, Felix Limberg, Hartmut Krueger
  • Publication number: 20150349262
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a charge transporting semi-conducting material comprising: a) optionally at least one electrical dopant, and b) at least one cross-linked charge-transporting polymer comprising 1,2,3-triazole cross-linking units, a method for its preparation and a semiconducting device comprising the charge transporting semi-conducting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Novaled GmbH
    Inventors: Mike Zoellner, Kay Lederer, Anton Kiriy, Volodymyr Senkovskyy, Brigitte Isabell Voit
  • Patent number: 8964188
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of measurement technology and concerns a method and an apparatus, such as may be used, by way of example, in thin-layer technology for organic dielectric semi-conducting or conducting layers on substrates. The object of the invention is to indicate a method and an apparatus with which both the surface topography of the coating and that of the surface may be determined independently of one another, at the same position. The object is achieved by a method wherein the three-dimensional topography of the coating is determined using chromatic white light measurement and, subsequently, the thickness of the coating is determined using UV interferometry, and the surface topography of the coated surface is determined by a comparison with the overall dimensions of the coated surface. The object is further achieved by an apparatus wherein an apparatus for chromatic white light measurement and an apparatus for UV interferometry are disposed on a test bench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignees: Leibniz-Institut fur Polymerforschung Dresden E.V., Plastic Logic Limited
    Inventors: Alfredo Calvimontes, Kay Lederer
  • Publication number: 20130110421
    Abstract: Performing an analysis of an electronic device sample by measuring a property at a plurality of points of said electronic device sample, and in advance of said analysis subjecting said plurality of points to at least one treatment that increases the difference in said property between at least two elements of said electronic device sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: PLASTIC LOGIC LIMITED
    Inventor: Kay Lederer
  • Publication number: 20130038861
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of measurement technology and concerns a method and an apparatus, such as may be used, by way of example, in thin-layer technology for organic dielectric semi-conducting or conducting layers on substrates. The object of the invention is to indicate a method and an apparatus with which both the surface topography of the coating and that of the surface may be determined independently of one another, at the same position. The object is achieved by a method wherein the three-dimensional topography of the coating is determined using chromatic white light measurement and, subsequently, the thickness of the coating is determined using UV interferometry, and the surface topography of the coated surface is determined by a comparison with the overall dimensions of the coated surface. The object is further achieved by an apparatus wherein an apparatus for chromatic white light measurement and an apparatus for UV interferometry are disposed on a test bench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicants: Leibniz-Institut fur Polymreforschung Dresen e.V., PLASTIC LOGIC GmbH
    Inventors: Alfredo CALVIMONTES, Kay LEDERER
  • Patent number: 6858376
    Abstract: In a negative or positive photoresist layer structured with the aid of the customary lithography technique, the photoresist layer is heated briefly, in the region of the interface with the semiconductor substrate, to a temperature above the melting point to fuse the photoresist layer at the interface with the layer underneath on the semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Kay Lederer
  • Patent number: 6797029
    Abstract: In a process facility for producing semiconductor wafers, a third physical unit is configured between two physical units that produce mini environments. The third physical unit has a laminar flow at right angles to the laminar flows of the two physical units and is operated with a slightly higher flow velocity. According to the Bernoulli equation, the static pressure in the third physical unit is therefore lower than in the surrounding two physical units. Advantageously, therefore, no contamination from the more highly loaded one of the two physical units passes over into the lesser loaded one of the two physical units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Kay Lederer, Steffen Hornig
  • Publication number: 20030121417
    Abstract: In a process facility for producing semiconductor wafers, a third physical unit is configured between two physical units that produce mini environments. The third physical unit has a laminar flow at right angles to the laminar flows of the two physical units and is operated with a slightly higher flow velocity. According to the Bernoulli equation, the static pressure in the third physical unit is therefore lower than in the surrounding two physical units. Advantageously, therefore, no contamination from the more highly loaded one of the two physical units passes over into the lesser loaded one of the two physical units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Kay Lederer, Steffen Hornig
  • Publication number: 20030027087
    Abstract: In a negative or positive photoresist layer structured with the aid of the customary lithography technique, the photoresist layer is heated briefly, in the region of the interface with the semiconductor substrate, to a temperature above the melting point to fuse the photoresist layer at the interface with the layer underneath on the semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Kay Lederer
  • Publication number: 20030027060
    Abstract: A negative photoresist for transferring a photomask to a semiconductor wafer includes a passivated component that is activated by an exposure radiation, the activated component being configured to interact with the uppermost layer of the semiconductor wafer at the interface, the interaction ensuring increased adhesion between the negative photoresist and the substrate. Alternatively, a positive photoresist for transferring a photomask to a semiconductor wafer includes a component that is passivated by an exposure radiation, the activated component being configured to interact with the uppermost layer of the semiconductor wafer at the interface, the interaction ensuring increased adhesion between the positive photoresist and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Kay Lederer