Patents by Inventor Sheila K. Hurtt

Sheila K. Hurtt 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: 20230387348
    Abstract: The disclosure describes various aspects of monolithic integration of different light emitting structures on a same substrate. In an aspect, a device for light generation is described having a substrate with one or more buffer layers made a material that includes GaN. The device also includes light emitting structures, which are epitaxially grown on a same surface of a top buffer layer of the substrate, where each light emitting structure has an active area parallel to the surface and laterally terminated, and where the active area of different light emitting structures is configured to directly generate a different color of light. The device also includes a p-doped layer disposed over the active area of each light emitting structure and made of a p-doped material that includes GaN. The device may be part of a light field display and may be connected to a backplane of the light field display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Gang He, Sheila K. Hurtt
  • Patent number: 10720428
    Abstract: A high bandgap Schottky contact layer device and methods for producing same are provided herein. According to one aspect, a high bandgap Schottky contact layer device comprises a substrate, a first Schottky layer over the substrate, the first Schottky layer having a first bandgap, and a second Schottky layer over the first Schottky layer, the second Schottky layer having a second bandgap. The device further comprises a first metal contact over the second Schottky layer and at least one ohmic contact, a portion of which being in direct contact with the substrate. The first bandgap is greater than 1.7 electronvolts (eV). In one embodiment, the second bandgap is also greater than 1.7 eV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventors: Corey A. Nevers, Sheila K. Hurtt
  • Patent number: 10012797
    Abstract: A semiconductor monolithic transmitter photonic integrated circuit (TxPIC) comprises two different situations, either at least one signal channel in the PIC having a modulated source with the channel also extended to include at least one additional element or a plurality of modulated sources comprising N signal channels in the PIC of different transmission wavelengths, where N is equal to or greater than two (2), which may also approximate emission wavelengths along a standardized wavelength grid. In these two different situations, a common active region for such modulated sources and additional channel elements is identified as an extended identical active layer (EIAL), as it extends from a single modulated source to such additional channel elements in the same channel and/or extends to additional modulated sources in separate channels where the number of such channels is N equal to two or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventors: Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan, Fred A. Kish, Jr., Masaki Kato, Charles H. Joyner, David F. Welch, Randal A. Salvatore, Richard P. Schneider, Mehrdad Ziari, Damien Jean Henri Lambert, Sheila K. Hurtt, Andrew G. Dentai, Atul Mathur, Vincent G. Dominic
  • Patent number: 9923088
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device with vertically integrated pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (pHEMTs). The disclosed semiconductor device includes a substrate, a lower pHEMT structure with a lower pHEMT, an isolation layer, and an upper pHEMT structure with an upper pHEMT. The lower pHEMT structure is formed over the substrate and has a first region and a second region that is laterally disposed with the first region. The lower pHEMT is formed in or on the second region. The isolation layer resides over the first region. The upper pHEMT structure is formed over the isolation layer and does not extend over the second region. Herein, the isolation layer separates the lower pHEMT structure from the upper pHEMT structure such that the lower pHEMT and the upper pHEMT operate independently from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventors: Corey A. Nevers, Sheila K. Hurtt, Dana A. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20180012986
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device with vertically integrated pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (pHEMTs). The disclosed semiconductor device includes a substrate, a lower pHEMT structure with a lower pHEMT, an isolation layer, and an upper pHEMT structure with an upper pHEMT. The lower pHEMT structure is formed over the substrate and has a first region and a second region that is laterally disposed with the first region. The lower pHEMT is formed in or on the second region. The isolation layer resides over the first region. The upper pHEMT structure is formed over the isolation layer and does not extend over the second region. Herein, the isolation layer separates the lower pHEMT structure from the upper pHEMT structure such that the lower pHEMT and the upper pHEMT operate independently from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Corey A. Nevers, Sheila K. Hurtt, Dana A. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20170133368
    Abstract: A high bandgap Schottky contact layer device and methods for producing same are provided herein. According to one aspect, a high bandgap Schottky contact layer device comprises a substrate, a first Schottky layer over the substrate, the first Schottky layer having a first bandgap, and a second Schottky layer over the first Schottky layer, the second Schottky layer having a second bandgap. The device further comprises a first metal contact over the second Schottky layer and at least one ohmic contact, a portion of which being in direct contact with the substrate. The first bandgap is greater than 1.7 electronvolts (eV). In one embodiment, the second bandgap is also greater than 1.7 eV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Corey A. Nevers, Sheila K. Hurtt
  • Patent number: 9608084
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses, methods, and systems of an integrated circuit (IC) device. The IC device includes a diffusion control layer as part of an emitter epitaxial structure. The IC device may utilize a common metallization scheme to simultaneously form an emitter contact and a base contact. Other embodiments may also be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy S. Henderson, Sheila K. Hurtt
  • Patent number: 9372306
    Abstract: A method provides acceptable performance from a semiconductor transmitter photonic integrated circuit (TxPIC) that contains a plurality of modulated sources each comprising a laser source and an external modulator where each laser source provides a different emission wavelength and each modulated source forms a separate signal channel, comprising the steps of providing at least some of the signal channels with an extended identical active layer (EIAL) so that the modulated sources each have an identical active region wavelength and detuning the laser emission wavelength in each laser source within the EIAL from the laser active region wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventors: Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan, Fred A. Kish, Jr., Masaki Kato, Charles H. Joyner, David F. Welch, Randal A. Salvatore, Richard P. Schneider, Mehrdad Ziari, Damien Jean Henri Lambert, Sheila K. Hurtt, Andrew G. Dentai, Atul Mathur, Vincent G. Dominic
  • Publication number: 20160049493
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses, methods, and systems of an integrated circuit (IC) device. The IC device includes a diffusion control layer as part of an emitter epitaxial structure. The IC device may utilize a common metallization scheme to simultaneously form an emitter contact and a base contact. Other embodiments may also be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Timothy S. Henderson, Sheila K. Hurtt
  • Patent number: 9231088
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses, methods, and systems of an integrated circuit (IC) device. The IC device includes a diffusion control layer as part of an emitter epitaxial structure. The IC device may utilize a common metallization scheme to simultaneously form an emitter contact and a base contact. Other embodiments may also be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy S. Henderson, Sheila K. Hurtt
  • Publication number: 20150200284
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses, methods, and systems of an integrated circuit (IC) device. The IC device includes a diffusion control layer as part of an emitter epitaxial structure. The IC device may utilize a common metallization scheme to simultaneously form an emitter contact and a base contact. Other embodiments may also be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy S. Henderson, Sheila K. Hurtt