Patents by Inventor Tsung-Yu Kao

Tsung-Yu Kao 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: 9036674
    Abstract: A third-order distributed feedback laser has an active medium disposed on a substrate as a linear array of segments having a series of periodically spaced interstices therebetween and a first conductive layer disposed on a surface of the active medium on each of the segments and along a strip from each of the segments to a conductive electrical contact pad for application of current along a path including the active medium. Upon application of a current through the active medium, the active medium functions as an optical waveguide, and there is established an alternating electric field, at a THz frequency, both in the active medium and emerging from the interstices. Spacing of adjacent segments is approximately half of a wavelength of the THz frequency in free space or an odd integral multiple thereof, so that the linear array has a coherence length greater than the length of the linear array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, LongWave Photonics LLC
    Inventors: Qing Hu, Alan Wei Min Lee, Tsung-Yu Kao
  • Publication number: 20150003481
    Abstract: A third-order distributed feedback laser has an active medium disposed on a substrate as a linear array of segments having a series of periodically spaced interstices therebetween and a first conductive layer disposed on a surface of the active medium on each of the segments and along a strip from each of the segments to a conductive electrical contact pad for application of current along a path including the active medium. Upon application of a current through the active medium, the active medium functions as an optical waveguide, and there is established an alternating electric field, at a THz frequency, both in the active medium and emerging from the interstices. Spacing of adjacent segments is approximately half of a wavelength of the THz frequency in free space or an odd integral multiple thereof, so that the linear array has a coherence length greater than the length of the linear array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Qing Hu, Alan Wei Min Lee, Tsung-Yu Kao
  • Publication number: 20080062363
    Abstract: This present invention relates to a process of liquid crystal panel with one drop fill (ODF). A black matrix, which can not be penetrated by an ultraviolet light while curing a sealant, is formed on the other substrate. Hence, in this present invention, it can avoid the aforementioned problem during the curing process and simplifies the curing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Tsung-Yu Kao, Po-Hsiu Shih
  • Publication number: 20050094088
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a sealant on the four-side of the bottom substrate during the TFT-LCDs (thin-film transistor liquid crystal display) manufacturing process. The method comprising the starting point droplet of the sealant is first dispensed on the corner of the bottom substrate, and ending on the same corner. Because of the distance between the corner and the liquid crystal on the bottom substrate is larger than the distance between the four-sided and the liquid crystal on the bottom substrate. Thus, after pressing the sealant, the droplet of the sealant would not be spilled to contaminate the TFT-LCDs panel. Therefore, the process window for the liquid crystal display panel manufacturing could be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Tsung-Yu Kao, Po-Hsiu Shih