Patents by Inventor Kazuki Nomoto

Kazuki Nomoto 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: 11955502
    Abstract: It is an object of the present technology to provide a solid-state image sensor capable of reducing display unevenness of a captured image. A solid-state image sensor includes a first substrate that includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a transfer gate unit that is connected to the photoelectric conversion unit, an FD unit that is connected to the transfer gate unit, and an interlayer insulating film that covers the photoelectric conversion unit, the transfer gate unit, and the FD unit. The solid-state image sensor further includes a second substrate that includes an amplifier transistor and is disposed to be adjacent to the interlayer insulating film, the amplifier transistor constituting a part of a pixel transistor connected to the FO unit via the interlayer insulating film and including a back gate unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20240088191
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first semiconductor layer in which a transfer transistor is provided; a second semiconductor layer in which a pixel transistor is provided; and a wiring layer in which a gate wiring line coupled to a gate of the transfer transistor is provided. A portion or all of the pixel transistor is disposed, in plan view, in a region between a first gate wiring line and a second gate wiring line. The first gate wiring line is coupled to the gate of the transfer transistor in one of two pixels adjacent to each other. The second gate wiring line is coupled to the gate of the transfer transistor in another of the two pixels adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki NOMOTO, Hiroaki AMMO
  • Patent number: 11894468
    Abstract: Described herein are the design and fabrication of Group III trioxides, such as ?-Ga2O3, trench-MOS barrier Schottky (TMBS) structures with high voltage (>1 kV), low leakage capabilities, while addressing on the necessary methods to meet the requirements unique to Group III trioxides, such as ?-Ga2O3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Wenshen Li, Zongyang Hu, Kazuki Nomoto, Debdeep Jena, Huili Grace Xing
  • Patent number: 11810932
    Abstract: Improvement of noise characteristics is achievable. A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements (333) arranged in a two-dimensional grid shape in a matrix direction and each generating a charge corresponding to a received light amount, and a detection unit (400) that detects a photocurrent produced by the charge generated in each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. A chip (201a) on which the photoelectric conversion elements are disposed and a chip (201b) on which at least a part of the detection unit is disposed are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20230326984
    Abstract: A vertical gallium oxide (Ga2O3) device having a substrate, an n-type Ga2O3 drift layer on the substrate, an, n-type semiconducting channel extending from the n-type Ga2O3 drift layer, the channel being one of fin-shaped or nanowire shaped, an n-type source layer disposed on the channel; the source layer has a higher doping concentration than the channel, a first dielectric layer on the n-type Ga2O3 drift layer and on sidewalls of the n-type semiconducting channel, a conductive gate layer deposited on the first dielectric layer and insulated from the n-type source layer, n-type semiconducting channel as well as n-type Ga2O3 drift layer, a second dielectric layer deposited over the conductive gate layer, covering completely the conductive gate layer on channel sidewalls and an ohmic source contact deposited over the n-type source layer and over at least a part of the second dielectric layer; the source contact being configured not to be in electrical contact with the conductive gate layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Cornell University
    Inventors: Zongyang Hu, Kazuki Nomoto, Grace Huili Xing, Debdeep Jena, Wenshen Li
  • Patent number: 11715774
    Abstract: A vertical gallium oxide (Ga2O3) device having a substrate, an n-type Ga2O3 drift layer on the substrate, an, n-type semiconducting channel extending from the n-type Ga2O3 drift layer, the channel being one of fin-shaped or nanowire shaped, an n-type source layer disposed on the channel; the source layer has a higher doping concentration than the channel, a first dielectric layer on the n-type Ga2O3 drift layer and on sidewalls of the n-type semiconducting channel, a conductive gate layer deposited on the first dielectric layer and insulated from the n-type source layer, n-type semiconducting channel as well as n-type Ga2O3 drift layer, a second dielectric layer deposited over the conductive gate layer, covering completely the conductive gate layer on channel sidewalls and an ohmic source contact deposited over the n-type source layer and over at least a part of the second dielectric layer; the source contact being configured not to be in electrical contact with the conductive gate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Zongyang Hu, Kazuki Nomoto, Grace Huili Xing, Debdeep Jena, Wenshen Li
  • Publication number: 20230197883
    Abstract: A method for achieving voltage-controlled gate-modulated light emission using monolithic integration of fin- and nanowire-n-i-n vertical FETs with bottom-tunnel junction planar InGaN LEDs is described. This method takes advantage of the improved performance of bottom-tunnel junction LEDs over their top-tunnel junction counterparts, while allowing for strong gate control on a low-cross-sectional area fin or wire without sacrificing LED active area as in lateral integration designs. Electrical modulation of 5 orders, and an order of magnitude of optical modulation are achieved in the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Cornell University
    Inventors: Shyam Bharadwaj, Kevin Lee, Kazuki Nomoto, Austin Hickman, Len van Deurzen, Huili Grace Xing, Debdeep Jena, Vladimir Protasenko
  • Publication number: 20230140880
    Abstract: Improvement of noise characteristics is achievable. A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements (333) arranged in a two-dimensional grid shape in a matrix direction and each generating a charge corresponding to a received light amount, and a detection unit (400) that detects a photocurrent produced by the charge generated in each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. A chip (201a) on which the photoelectric conversion elements are disposed and a chip (201b) on which at least a part of the detection unit is disposed are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventor: Kazuki Nomoto
  • Patent number: 11521998
    Abstract: Improvement of noise characteristics is achievable. A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements (333) arranged in a two-dimensional grid shape in a matrix direction and each generating a charge corresponding to a received light amount, and a detection unit (400) that detects a photocurrent produced by the charge generated in each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. A chip (201a) on which the photoelectric conversion elements are disposed and a chip (201b) on which at least a part of the detection unit is disposed are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Nomoto
  • Patent number: 11476383
    Abstract: A device that includes a metal(III)-polar III-nitride substrate having a first surface opposite a second surface, a tunnel junction formed on one of the first surface or a buffer layer disposed on the first surface, a p-type III-nitride layer formed directly on the tunnel junction, and a number of material layers; a first material layer formed on the p-type III-nitride layer, each subsequent layer disposed on a preceding layer, where one layer from the number of material layers is patterned into a structure, that one layer being a III-nitride layer. Methods for forming the device are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Henryk Turski, Debdeep Jena, Huili Grace Xing, Shyam Bharadwaj, Alexander Austin Chaney, Kazuki Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20210400218
    Abstract: Improvement of noise characteristics is achievable. A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements (333) arranged in a two-dimensional grid shape in a matrix direction and each generating a charge corresponding to a received light amount, and a detection unit (400) that detects a photocurrent produced by the charge generated in each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. A chip (201a) on which the photoelectric conversion elements are disposed and a chip (201b) on which at least a part of the detection unit is disposed are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Kazuki Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20210384362
    Abstract: Described herein are the design and fabrication of Group III trioxides, such as ?-Ga2O3, trench-MOS barrier Schottky (TMBS) structures with high voltage (>1 kV), low leakage capabilities, while addressing on the necessary methods to meet the re-quirements unique to Group III trioxides, such as ?-Ga2O3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Cornell University
    Inventors: Wenshen Li, Zongyang Hu, Kazuki Nomoto, Debdeep Jena, Huili Grace Xing
  • Publication number: 20210351223
    Abstract: It is an object of the present technology to provide a solid-state image sensor capable of reducing display unevenness of a captured image. A solid-state image sensor includes: a first substrate that includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a transfer gate unit that is connected to the photoelectric conversion unit, an FD unit that is connected to the transfer gate unit, and an interlayer insulating film that covers the photoelectric conversion unit, the transfer gate unit, and the FD unit; and a second substrate that includes an amplifier transistor and is disposed to be adjacent to the interlayer insulating film, the amplifier transistor constituting a part of a pixel transistor connected to the FD unit via the interlayer insulating film and including a back gate unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventor: KAZUKI NOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210043795
    Abstract: A device that includes a metal(III)-polar III-nitride substrate having a first surface opposite a second surface, a tunnel junction formed on one of the first surface or a buffer layer disposed on the first surface, a p-type III-nitride layer formed directly on the tunnel junction, and a number of material layers; a first material layer formed on the p-type III-nitride layer, each subsequent layer disposed on a preceding layer, where one layer from the number of material layers is patterned into a structure, that one layer being a III-nitride layer. Methods for forming the device are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Cornell University
    Inventors: Henryk Turski, Debdeep Jena, Huili Grace Xing, Shyam Bharadwaj, Alexander Austin Chaney, Kazuki Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20210013314
    Abstract: A vertical gallium oxide (Ga2O3) device having a substrate, an n-type Ga2O3 drift layer on the substrate, an, n-type semiconducting channel extending from the n-type Ga2O3 drift layer, the channel being one of fin-shaped or nanowire shaped, an n-type source layer disposed on the channel; the source layer has a higher doping concentration than the channel, a first dielectric layer on the n-type Ga2O3 drift layer and on sidewalls of the n-type semiconducting channel, a conductive gate layer deposited on the first dielectric layer and insulated from the n-type source layer, n-type semiconducting channel as well as n-type Ga2O3 drift layer, a second dielectric layer deposited over the conductive gate layer, covering completely the conductive gate layer on channel sidewalls and an ohmic source contact deposited over the n-type source layer and over at least a part of the second dielectric layer; the source contact being configured not to be in electrical contact with the conductive gate layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Cornell University
    Inventors: Zongyang Hu, Kazuki Nomoto, Grace Huili Xing, Debdeep Jena, Wenshen Li
  • Patent number: 9806121
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a substrate, a photoelectric conversion section, a first impurity layer having a carrier polarity of a second conductivity type, a charge-to-voltage converting section, an amplifying section, and a second impurity layer having a carrier polarity of the second conductivity type. The second impurity layer is disposed in a region between the photoelectric conversion section and the amplifying section. The second impurity concentration of the second P-type impurity layer is made higher than the first impurity concentration of the first impurity layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Nomoto, Kaneyoshi Takeshita, Hiroyuki Ohri
  • Publication number: 20160351613
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a substrate, a photoelectric conversion section, a first impurity layer having a carrier polarity of a second conductivity type, a charge-to-voltage converting section, an amplifying section, and a second impurity layer having a carrier polarity of the second conductivity type. The second impurity layer is disposed in a region between the photoelectric conversion section and the amplifying section. The second impurity concentration of the second P-type impurity layer is made higher than the first impurity concentration of the first impurity layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: KAZUKI NOMOTO, KANEYOSHI TAKESHITA, HIROYUKI OHRI
  • Patent number: 9455295
    Abstract: There is provided a solid-state image sensor including a plurality of unit pixels arranged thereon, the plurality of unit pixels each including a light receiving section which stores a charge generated by photoelectric conversion, a signal storage section which is connected to the light receiving section and has a structure of a MOS capacitor, and a signal output section to which a gate electrode of the MOS capacitor is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaneyoshi Takeshita, Kazuki Nomoto
  • Patent number: 9437641
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a substrate, a photoelectric conversion section, a first impurity layer having a carrier polarity of a second conductivity type, a charge-to-voltage converting section, an amplifying section, and a second impurity layer having a carrier polarity of the second conductivity type. The second impurity layer is disposed in a region between the photoelectric conversion section and the amplifying section. The second impurity concentration of the second P-type impurity layer is made higher than the first impurity concentration of the first impurity layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Nomoto, Kaneyoshi Takeshita, Hiroyuki Ohri
  • Patent number: 9362389
    Abstract: A nitride-based field effect transistor (FET) comprises a compositionally graded and polarization induced doped p-layer underlying at least one gate contact and a compositionally graded and doped n-channel underlying a source contact. The n-channel is converted from the p-layer to the n-channel by ion implantation, a buffer underlies the doped p-layer and the n-channel, and a drain underlies the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: University of Notre Dame du Lac
    Inventors: Huili (Grace) Xing, Debdeep Jena, Kazuki Nomoto, Bo Song, Mingda Zhu, Zongyang Hu