Quantum Well Patents (Class 257/14)
  • Patent number: 12245523
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are quantum dot devices, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include: a substrate and a quantum well stack disposed on the substrate. The quantum well stack may include a quantum well layer and a back gate, and the back gate may be disposed between the quantum well layer and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jeanette M. Roberts, Ravi Pillarisetty, David J. Michalak, Zachary R. Yoscovits, James S. Clarke, Van H. Le
  • Patent number: 12245414
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, including: providing a substrate; forming a film stack structure on the substrate, a top of the film stack structure being a cover layer; forming a mask structure on the cover layer, the mask structure including a mask layer and a pattern transfer layer sequentially stacked from top to bottom; performing a first etching on the mask structure to form first blind holes, the first blind holes running through the mask structure and terminating in the cover layer; and performing a second etching on the mask structure, and removing the mask layer, to flatten a top surface of the pattern transfer layer and trim bottoms of the first blind holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Runsheng Shen, Xifei Bao, Changli Zhu
  • Patent number: 12229635
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for estimating the fidelity of quantum hardware. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a set of quantum gates; sampling a subset of quantum gates from the set of quantum gates, wherein the subset of quantum gates defines a quantum circuit; applying the quantum circuit to a quantum system and performing measurements on the quantum system to determine output information of the quantum system; calculating output information of the quantum system based on application of the quantum circuit to the quantum system; and estimating a fidelity of the quantum circuit based on the determined output information and the calculated output information of the quantum system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: John Martinis, Nan Ding, Ryan Babbush, Sergei V. Isakov, Hartmut Neven, Vadim Smelyanskiy, Sergio Boixo Castrillo
  • Patent number: 12224369
    Abstract: A radiation detector includes a stack of layers along a direction Z, the stack comprising: an absorbent layer, a first contact layer, an assembly consisting of at least one intermediate layer, referred to as an intermediate assembly, an upper layer, the first contact layer and the upper layer having a plurality of detection zones and separation zones, a detection zone corresponding to a pixel of the detector, a passivation layer made from a dielectric material, arranged on the upper layer and having openings at the level of the detection zones of the upper layer, the semiconductor layers of the stack being compounds based on elements of groups IIIA and VA of the periodic table of the elements, the second material comprising the VA element antimony and the third material not comprising the VA element antimony.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: THALES, COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Axel Evirgen, Jean-Luc Reverchon, Michel Garcia, Olivier Parillaud, Bruno Gerard
  • Patent number: 12199219
    Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Biebersdorf, Stefan Illek, Ines Pietzonka, Petrus Sundgren, Christoph Klemp, Felix Feix, Christian Berger, Ana Kanevce
  • Patent number: 12199220
    Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Biebersdorf, Stefan Illek, Ines Pietzonka, Petrus Sundgren, Christoph Klemp, Felix Feix, Christian Berger, Ana Kanevce
  • Patent number: 12191420
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light emitting element includes: n-side and p-side nitride semiconductor layers; and an active layer. The active layer includes a plurality of well layers and a plurality of barrier layers. The plurality of well layers include first well layers, and second well layers positioned closer to the p-side nitride semiconductor layer than the first well layers. At least one of the plurality of barrier layers positioned between the first well layers and at least one of the plurality of barrier layers positioned between the second well layers respectively include a first barrier layer containing an n-type impurity, and a second barrier layer, wherein a concentration of the n-type impurity in the second barrier layer is lower than a concentration of the n-type impurity in the first barrier layer, and wherein the second barrier layer is positioned closer to the p-side nitride semiconductor layer than the first barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Abe, Tomoya Yamashita, Kenji Uchida
  • Patent number: 12176469
    Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Biebersdorf, Laura Kreiner, Stefan Illek, Ines Pietzonka, Petrus Sundgren, Christoph Klemp, Felix Feix, Christian Berger, Ana Kanevce
  • Patent number: 12166052
    Abstract: Provided is an image sensor including a sensor array including a plurality of light-sensors respectively including an optoelectronic device, the optoelectronic device including a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and an active layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, the active layer including a plurality of quantum dot layers having different energy bands, and a circuit including circuits respectively connected to the plurality of light-sensors and configured to readout an optoelectronic signal generated from each of the plurality of light-sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyungsang Cho, Hojung Kim, Chanwook Baik, Yooseong Yang
  • Patent number: 12125675
    Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor processing methods may include providing a silicon-containing precursor to a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. A substrate may be disposed within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include forming a plasma of the silicon-containing precursor in the processing region. The plasma may be at least partially formed by an RF power operating at between about 50 W and 1,000 W, at a pulsing frequency below about 100,000 Hz, and at a duty cycle between about 5% and 95%. The methods may include forming a layer of material on the substrate. The layer of material may include a silicon-containing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruitong Xiong, Bo Xie, Xiaobo Li, Yijun Liu, Li-Qun Xia
  • Patent number: 12086685
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for error correction of fermionic quantum simulation. In one aspect, a method includes representing a fermionic system as a graph of vertices and edges, where each vertex represents a fermionic system fermionic mode and each edge represents an interaction between two respective fermionic modes; allocating a qubit to each edge in the graph to form a qubit system; determining qubit operators that satisfy a set of fermionic commutation and dependence relations, where the qubit operators are non-uniform with respect to the graph vertices; determining stabilizer operators corresponding to products of quadratic Majorana operators on respective loops in the graph, where a common eigenspace of the defined stabilizer operators defines a code subspace that encodes states of the fermionic system to be simulated; and simulating the fermionic system by evolving the qubit system under a qubit Hamiltonian that includes the determined qubit operators and stabilizer operators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Zhang Jiang, Ryan Babbush, Jarrod Ryan McClean
  • Patent number: 12079688
    Abstract: A device includes photon detectors, first photonic modes (coupled with photons sources) for outputting a first set of four photons, second photonic modes to provide a second set of at least four photons to the photon detectors, third photonic modes (coupled with the photon sources) to provide a third set of at least photons to the photon detectors, first couplers coupling modes in the first set of photonic modes to modes in the second set of photonic modes, and second couplers coupling modes of the third set of photonic modes to modes of the second set of photonic modes. The first and second couplers are configured to cause the first photonic modes to output, with a first non-zero probability, a pair of photons in a Bell state when a first number of photons is provided to respective inputs of the first photonic modes and the third photonic modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: PSIQUANTUM CORP.
    Inventor: Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia
  • Patent number: 12072819
    Abstract: An electronic component (10) is formed by a semiconductor component or a semiconductor-like structure having gate electrode assemblies (16, 18, 20) for moving a quantum dot (52). The electronic component (10) comprises a substrate (12) having a two-dimensional electron gas or electron hole gas. Electrical contacts connect the gate electrode assemblies (16, 18, 20) to voltage sources. A first gate electrode assembly (16) having gate electrodes (22, 24), which is arranged on a surface (14) of the electronic component in order to produce a potential well (50) in the substrate (12). The gate electrode assembly (16) has parallel electrode fingers (32, 34), wherein the electrode fingers (32, 34) are interconnected in a periodically alternating manner, which causes an almost continuous movement of the potential well (50) through the substrate (12), whereby a quantum dot (52) is transported in one direction together with this potential well (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Künne, Hendrik Bluhm, Lars Schreiber
  • Patent number: 12068431
    Abstract: A single-photon source includes a substrate of a wide-bandgap semiconductor provided with a light-emission region including only one target point detect, a cover mask arranged on a main surface of the substrate and having an opening to which the light-emission region in the substrate is exposed, and an excitation system configured to shift an electron in a defect-ground state to an excited state at the point defect in the light-emission region. A single photon released from the point defect in the light-emission region when the electron in the excited state is shifted to the ground state is output through the opening in the cover mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiya Nagasawa, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Yoshinori Miyamae, Koji Taniuchi
  • Patent number: 12066697
    Abstract: The invention refers to a quantum dot light diffuser plate that can be assembled on a backlight module with blue LEDs as the bottom light source. Microstructures having concave portions and convex portions are formed on the surface of the diffuser plate. A quantum dot layer comprising green quantum dots and red quantum dots is applied only on the concave portions of the microstructures, and thus is separated by the convex portions into small parts independent of each other. A water-blocking and gas-blocking layer is arranged on the upper surface of the quantum dot layer. The water vapor and oxygen from the outside cannot penetrate the side end faces of the quantum dot layer and invade the entire quantum dot layer, such that, the diffuser plate of the invention can have the advantages of simple process, low cost and high production yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Entire Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Wen Yang, Yu Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 12067460
    Abstract: There is described a method for performing a two-qubit gate. The method comprises coupling a first qubit to a second qubit, and coupling a third qubit to the first qubit and to the second qubit, wherein the third qubit is a coupler. A drive signal is applied to the coupler to perform the two-qubit gate on the first qubit and the second qubit by driving the coupler, the drive signal creating coupling between eigenstates of a Hamiltonian of the coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ANYON SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Gabriel Ethier-Majcher, Claudéric Ouellet-Plamondon, Alireza Najafi-Yazdi
  • Patent number: 12061698
    Abstract: This application discloses a method and device for determining a malicious file. The method includes: whether a plurality of received file blocks meet a preset condition is judged. Herein, the plurality of file blocks are file blocks of a file to be detected, and the preset condition at least includes: a size condition of each of the plurality of file blocks and a sorting condition of each of the plurality of file blocks. When the plurality of file blocks do not meet the preset condition, a Hash eigenvalue of at least one header file block is calculated, wherein the at least one header file block is at least one file block cached in a device cache area according to the order of the file blocks. The plurality of file blocks are divided into subfiles with a preset quantity, and the Hash eigenvalue unrelated to the order of each subfile is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Hillstone Networks Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ye Zhao, Wei Yuan, Peng Lu, Haixu Wang
  • Patent number: 12055801
    Abstract: A device for modulating the amplitude of an incident laser radiation of wavelength ?i is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE PARIS SACLAY
    Inventors: Raffaele Colombelli, Stefano Pirotta, Ngoc Linh Tran
  • Patent number: 12032204
    Abstract: A photonic structure is provided. The photonic structure includes a semiconductor substrate, and an oxide structure embedded in the semiconductor substrate, and an optical coupling region directly above the buried oxide layer. A side surface of the oxide structure is exposed from an edge of the semiconductor substrate. The optical coupling region is tapered to a terminus of the optical coupling region at the edge of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan-Hong Chern, Min-Hsiang Hsu
  • Patent number: 12031004
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous dispersion, comprising or consisting of A) at least one cyclic olefin copolymer, B) at least one surfactant; optionally C) at least one adhesion promoter; optionally D) at least one film-forming resin; optionally E) at least one additive; and F) water. Additionally, the invention relates to methods of manufacturing the aqueous dispersion, to an article, which comprises at least one substrate and at least one coating layer obtained from the aqueous dispersion and applied onto the substrate; and to methods of improving MVTR of a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ard de Zeeuw, Maria Tomé Jorge, Robin Leif Krug, Thomas Moeller, Juergen Stodt
  • Patent number: 12035640
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods enable active compensation for unwanted discrepancies in the superconducting elements of a quantum processor. A qubit may include a primary compound Josephson junction (CJJ) structure, which may include at least a first secondary CJJ structure to enable compensation for Josephson junction asymmetry in the primary CJJ structure. A qubit may include a series LC-circuit coupled in parallel with a first CJJ structure to provide a tunable capacitance. A qubit control system may include means for tuning inductance of a qubit loop, for instance a tunable coupler inductively coupled to the qubit loop and controlled by a programming interface, or a CJJ structure coupled in series with the qubit loop and controlled by a programming interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: 1372934 B. C. LTD.
    Inventors: Richard G. Harris, Andrew J. Berkley, Jan Johansson, Mark Johnson, Mohammad Amin, Paul I. Bunyk
  • Patent number: 12026588
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for controlling charge stability in a device for quantum information processing. According to examples, a device for quantum information processing comprises a first plurality of confinement regions confining spinful charge carriers for use as qudits. The device further comprises a second plurality of confinement regions confining spinful charge carriers, each confinement region of the second plurality of confinement regions adjacent to a confinement region of the first plurality of confinement regions. The device further comprises one or more charge reservoirs, wherein each confinement region of the second plurality of confinement regions is attachable to a charge reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: QUANTUM MOTION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Simon Benjamin, Zhenyu Cai, John Morton, Michael Fogarty, Simon Schaal, Sofia Patomaki
  • Patent number: 12014246
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for making a quantum network node. A plurality of scoring function F values are calculated for an array of at least two photonic crystal cavity unit cells, each having a lattice constant a and a hole having a length Hx and a width Hy. A value of a, a value of Hx, and a value of Hy are selected for which a scoring function value is at a maximum. A waveguide region and the array of at least two photonic crystal cavity unit cells based on the selected values are formed on a substrate. At least one ion between a first photonic crystal cavity unit cell and a second photonic crystal cavity unit cell are implanted and annealed into a quantum defect. A coplanar microwave waveguide is formed on the substrate in proximity to the array of at least two photonic crystal cavity unit cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Mihir Keshav Bhaskar, Denis D. Sukachev, Christian Thieu Nguyen, Bartholomeus Machielse, David S. Levonian, Ralf Riedinger, Mikhail D. Lukin, Marko Loncar
  • Patent number: 12008437
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for detecting a state of a data qubit by means of a parity qubit, wherein both the data qubit and the parity qubit can be moved by a moving means, wherein the distance between the data qubit and the parity qubit is so large that the parity qubit cannot query the state of the data qubit, wherein the distance between the data qubit and the parity qubit is reduced by moving the data qubit along a first path and the parity qubit along a second path until the state of the data qubit can be queried by the parity qubit, characterized in that the first path is longer than the second path and/or that the speed of movement of the parity qubit is greater than the speed of movement of the data qubit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
    Inventors: Veit Langrock, David Divincenzo
  • Patent number: 12010862
    Abstract: Embodiments of an electroluminescent device are described. The electroluminescent device includes a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate, an emission layer comprising luminescent nanostructures disposed on the first electrode, a hybrid transport layer disposed on the emission layer, and a second electrode disposed on the hybrid transport layer. The hybrid transport layer includes an organic layer and inorganic nanostructures disposed within the organic layer. The luminescent nanostructures are separated from the inorganic nanostructures by the organic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SHOEI CHEMICAL INC.
    Inventors: Daekyoung Kim, Ruiqing Ma, Emma Dohner, Donald Zehnder
  • Patent number: 12009468
    Abstract: A displaying apparatus including a panel substrate and pixel modules arranged thereon, each pixel module including a circuit board and unit pixels on the circuit board, in which each unit pixel includes light emitting devices longitudinally extending along a first direction on the circuit board and including a substrate, a light emitting structure including first and second conductivity type semiconductor layers and an active layer therebetween, a first connection layer electrically connected to the first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a second connection layer electrically connected to the second conductivity type semiconductor layer, a step adjustment layer disposed between the first connection layer and the second connection layer and covering a portion of the light emitting device, in which the light emitting devices in the unit pixel are arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung Sik Hong
  • Patent number: 11982919
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a technique for making it possible to reduce the size of a Mach-Zehnder type optical modulator. In a clad layer, provided are a plurality of first and second via holes along an optical waveguide. The Mach-Zehnder type optical modulator includes a first travelling wave electrode connected to a first semiconductor region through the plurality of first via holes, extending along the optical waveguide in a plan view to have a width which is wider and a length and a second travelling wave electrode connected to a second semiconductor region through the plurality of second via holes, extending along the optical waveguide in a plan view to have a width which is wider and a length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marika Nakamura, Shusaku Hayashi, Koichi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11948896
    Abstract: A package structure is provided. The package structure includes a through substrate via structure, a first stacked die package structure, an underfill layer, and a package layer. The through substrate via structure is formed over a substrate. The first stacked die package structure is over the through substrate via structure, wherein the first stacked die package structure comprises a plurality of memory dies. The underfill layer is over the first stacked die package structure. the package layer is over the underfill layer, wherein the package layer has a protruding portion that extends below a top surface of the through substrate via structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Fu Tsai, Kung-Chen Yeh, I-Ting Huang, Shih-Ting Lin, Szu-Wei Lu
  • Patent number: 11903225
    Abstract: A photodetector includes a first electrode; an interlayer disposed on the first electrode; a photoabsorbing layer disposed on the interlayer, the photoabsorbing layer having one or more charge transport materials, and a plurality of two-dimensional quantum dots (2D QDs) dispersed in the one or more charge transport material; and a second electrode disposed on the photoabsorbing layer. A heterostructure photodetector includes a first electrode; a first photoabsorbing layer disposed on the first electrode, the first photoabsorbing layer having a first photoabsorbing material; a second photoabsorbing layer disposed on the first photoabsorbing layer, the second photoabsorbing layer having a second photoabsorbing material; and a second electrode disposed on the second photoabsorbing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Nigel Pickett, Stuart Stubbs, Nathalie Gresty
  • Patent number: 11876150
    Abstract: The disclosure describes various aspects of strain management layers for light emitting elements such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The present disclosure describes an LED structure formed on a substrate and having a strain management region supported on the substrate, and an active region configured to provide a light emission associated with the LED structure. The strain management region includes a first layer including a superlattice having a plurality of repeated first and second sublayers, and a second layer including a bulk layer. In an embodiment, at least one of the first and second sublayers and the bulk layer includes a composition of InxAlyGa1-x-yN. A device having multiple LED structures and a method of making the LED structure are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Miao-Chan Tsai, Benjamin Leung, Richard Peter Schneider
  • Patent number: 11869794
    Abstract: A substrate support for a plasma chamber includes a base plate arranged along a plane, a first layer of an electrically insulating material arranged on the base plate along the plane, a plurality of heating elements arranged in the first layer along the plane, and a plurality of diodes arranged in respective cavities in the first layer. The plurality of diodes are connected in series to the plurality of heating elements, respectively. Each of the plurality of diodes includes a die of a semiconductor material arranged in a respective one of the cavities. The semiconductor material has a first coefficient of thermal expansion. A first side of the die is arranged on the first layer along the plane. A first terminal of the die is connected to a first electrical contact on the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventor: Siyuan Tian
  • Patent number: 11870005
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device comprising at least one quantum well (QW) and at least one quantum dot (QD) incorporated in the quantum well with the band gap of the quantum well being larger than the band gap of the quantum dot. The QDs and QD arrays are embedded in various QW, thus providing higher yields in optoelectronic devices, such as light emitting diodes, lasers, and photodetectors. This is achieved by a nearly complete suppression of the nonradiative Auger recombination and enhancement of the light extraction efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Alexander L. Efros, Michael Shur
  • Patent number: 11862743
    Abstract: An opto-electronic device includes a base portion, a first electrode and a second electrode formed on an upper surface of the base portion apart from each other, a quantum dot layer, and a bank structure. The quantum dot layer is between the first electrode and the second electrode on the base portion and includes a plurality of quantum dots. The bank structure covers at least partial regions of the first electrode and the second electrode, defines a region where the quantum dot layer is formed, and is formed of an inorganic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chanwook Baik, Kyungsang Cho, Hojung Kim, Yooseong Yang
  • Patent number: 11863989
    Abstract: A system and method for resisting quantum perturbation threats to quantum communication devices, especially to a quantum cyber security technology for sensing external perturbations to a quantum communication device and for performing perturbation-bias correction in a non-Hermitian system. Through observing and analyzing on a resonant model, such technology not only senses suspicious potential variation which may make potential energy related to a quantum computing device be changed, but also enhances to implement a correction policy coupling to an information-correction sub-system. Meanwhile it patterns the detected perturbation threats with relative permeability so as to provide early protection on a quantum communication device for resisting a risky perturbation threat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AhP-Tech Inc.
    Inventor: Chao-Huang Chen
  • Patent number: 11848400
    Abstract: A device having a layered structure that includes a layer of phase change material and a matrix material layer having embedding quantum emitters is tuned. An electric field is applied through the matrix material layer and the layer of phase change material to change the emission wavelengths of the quantum emitters. A phase of the phase change material is changed, in a non-volatile manner, in each of one or more of local areas of the phase change material, to form local alterations that are opposite to respective ones of the quantum emitters in the matrix material layer, to locally modify the electric field at the respective quantum emitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thilo Hermann Curt Stoeferle, Michael A. Becker, Rainer F. Mahrt, Darius Urbonas, Fabio Scafirimuto
  • Patent number: 11848401
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device includes a multi-quantum-well structure, a first capping layer, a second capping layer, and an electron barrier layer stacked in order. The multi-quantum-well structure includes a plurality of alternately-stacked potential barrier layers and potential well layers. The first capping layer is a semiconductor layer, and the second capping layer is a p-doped semiconductor layer. Each of the first and second capping layers has an aluminum mole fraction larger than that of each of the potential barrier layers, and the aluminum mole fraction of the first capping layer is larger than that of at least a portion of the electron barrier layer. A method for preparing the semiconductor light emitting device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Xiamen San'An Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yung-Ling Lan, Chan-Chan Ling, Chi-Ming Tsai, Chia-Hung Chang
  • Patent number: 11822163
    Abstract: A novel and useful quantum computing machine includes classic computing and quantum computing cores. A programmable pattern generator executes instructions that control the quantum core. A pulse generator generates the control signals input to the quantum core to perform quantum operations. A partial readout of the quantum state is re-injected into the quantum core to extend decoherence time. Access gates control movement of quantum particles in the quantum core. Errors are corrected from the readout before being re-injected into the quantum core. Internal and external calibration loops calculate error syndromes and calibrate control pulses input to the quantum core. Control of the quantum core is provided from an external support unit via the pattern generator or retrieved from classic memory where sequences of commands are stored in memory. A cryostat unit functions to cool the quantum computing core to approximately 4 Kelvin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Equal1.Labs Inc.
    Inventors: Dirk Robert Walter Leipold, George Adrian Maxim, Michael Albert Asker
  • Patent number: 11817492
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for forming a multi-layer structure including highly controlled diffusion interfaces between alternating layers of different semiconductor materials. According to embodiments, during a deposition of semiconductor layers, the process is controlled to remain at low temperatures such that an inter-diffusion rate between the materials of the deposited layers is managed to provide diffusion interfaces with abrupt Si/SiGe interfaces. The highly controlled interfaces and first and second layers provide a multi-layer structure with improved etching selectivity. In an embodiment, a gate all-around (GAA) transistor is formed with horizontal nanowires (NWs) from the multi-layer structure with improved etching selectivity. In embodiments, horizontal NWs of a GAA transistor may be formed with substantially the same size diameters and silicon germanium (SiGe) NWs may be formed with “all-in-one” silicon (Si) caps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shahaji B. More, Shih-Chieh Chang
  • Patent number: 11809179
    Abstract: Many different types of systems are utilized and tasks are performed in a marine environment. The present invention provides various configurations of castable devices that can be operated and/or controlled for such systems or tasks. One or more castable devices can be integrated with a transducer assembly, such as a phased array, that emits sonar beams and receives sonar returns from the underwater environment. Processing circuitry may receive the sonar returns, process the sonar returns, generate an image, and transmit the image to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Navico, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremiah Clark, Matthew Laster, William B. Newberry, Jr., Kristopher C. Snyder
  • Patent number: 11788699
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus for generating fiber delivered laser-induced dynamically controlled white light emission. The apparatus includes a laser diode unit for generating a laser electromagnetic radiation with a blue emission in a range from 395 nm to 490 nm that is delivered by an optical fiber. The apparatus further includes a dynamic phosphor unit configured to receive the laser exited from the optical fiber and controllably deflect a beam focused by a first optics sub-unit to a surface spot on a phosphor plate to produce a white light emission. Additionally, and the dynamic phosphor unit includes a second optics sub-unit configured to collect the white light emission and to project to a far field. Furthermore, the apparatus includes an electronics control unit comprising a laser diode driver and a MEMS driver for respectively control the laser diode unit and the dynamic phosphor unit in mutually synchronized manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA SLD Laser, Inc.
    Inventors: Jim Harrison, Lj Ristic, Oscar Romero, Eric Goutain, Paul Rudy, James W. Raring, Vlad Novotny
  • Patent number: 11791788
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to parametric amplifiers that can be used in the presence of a magnetic field. In particular the present disclosure relates to an integrated signal amplifier that comprises: a quantum dot; a first conductive electrode arranged in a manner such that tunnelling of electrons to the quantum dot is prevented; and a second conductive electrode arranged in a manner such tunnelling of electrons to the quantum dot is permitted. When an oscillating signal is applied across the first and second electrodes, the equivalent capacitance across the first and the second electrodes oscillates at the frequency of the oscillating signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NEWSOUTH INNOVATIONS PTY LTD
    Inventor: Matthew G. House
  • Patent number: 11760640
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a nano-graphitic sponge (NGS) and methods for preparing the nano-graphitic sponge. The disclosed nano-graphitic sponge possesses many excellent properties, including large surface areas and pore volumes, low-mass densities, good electrical conductivities and mechanical properties. These excellent properties make the nano-graphitic sponge an ideal material for many applications, such as electrodes for batteries and supercapacitors, fuel cells and solar cells, catalysts and catalyst supports, and sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
    Inventors: Thomas J. Nosker, Bernard H. Kear, Nofel Z. Whieb, Jennifer K. Lynch-Branzoi, Arya S. Tewatia
  • Patent number: 11764327
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode includes an n-type aluminum nitride layer formed on a substrate, a multiple quantum well formed on the n-type aluminum nitride layer, and a p-type aluminum nitride hole-injection layer formed adjacent to the multiple quantum well. The multiple quantum well includes a first aluminum nitride quantum well layer having a fixed composition and surrounded by first and second aluminum nitride quantum barrier layers, and a second aluminum nitride quantum well layer having a fixed composition and surrounded by the second aluminum nitride quantum barrier layer and a third aluminum nitride quantum barrier layer. At least one of the first, second, and third aluminum nitride quantum barrier layers has a graded aluminum composition. The first aluminum nitride quantum barrier layer is adjacent to the n-type aluminum nitride layer and the third aluminum nitride quantum barrier layer is adjacent to the p-type aluminum nitride hole-injection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Xiaohang Li
  • Patent number: 11764339
    Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Biebersdorf, Laura Kreiner, Stefan Illek, Ines Pietzonka, Petrus Sundgren, Christoph Klemp, Felix Feix, Christian Berger, Ana Kanevce
  • Patent number: 11764064
    Abstract: Provided are a monitoring device and method. A monitoring device includes a laser processor configured to emit a processing laser beam to perform a melting annealing process on a wafer; a laser monitor configured to emit a monitoring laser beam onto the wafer while the laser processor performs the melting annealing process, the laser monitor configured to measure reflectivity of the wafer; and a data processor configured to process data on the reflectivity measured by the laser monitor, and monitor one or more characteristics of the wafer based on the data on the reflectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nam Hoon Lee, Ill Hyun Park, Tae Hee Han, Jin Won Ma, Byung Joo Oh, Bong Ju Lee, Jae Hee Lee, Joo Yong Lee, Nam Ki Cho, Chang Seong Hong
  • Patent number: 11742472
    Abstract: A displaying apparatus including a panel substrate and pixel modules arranged thereon, each pixel module including a circuit board and unit pixels on the circuit board, in which each unit pixel includes light emitting devices longitudinally extending along a first direction on the circuit board and including a substrate, a light emitting structure including first and second conductivity type semiconductor layers and an active layer therebetween, a first connection layer electrically connected to the first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a second connection layer electrically connected to the second conductivity type semiconductor layer, a step adjustment layer disposed between the first connection layer and the second connection layer and covering a portion of the light emitting device, in which the light emitting devices in the unit pixel are arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung Sik Hong
  • Patent number: 11728448
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes steps of providing a cavity structure, the cavity structure including a seed area including a seed material. The method further includes growing, within the cavity structure, a first embedding layer in a first growth direction from a seed surface of the seed material. The method includes further steps of removing the seed material, growing, in a second growth direction, from a seed surface of the first embedding layer, a quantum dot structure and growing, within the cavity structure, on a surface of the quantum dot structure, a second embedding layer in the second growth direction. The second growth direction is different from the first growth direction. The invention further relates to devices obtainable by such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Markus Scherrer, Kirsten Emilie Moselund, Preksha Tiwari, Noelia Vico Trivino
  • Patent number: 11721723
    Abstract: Quantum dot devices, and related systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include a quantum well stack; a plurality of first gate lines above the quantum well stack; a plurality of second gate lines above the quantum well stack, wherein the second gate lines are perpendicular to the first gate lines; and an array of regularly spaced magnet lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: Intel Corporation, Technische Universiteit Delft
    Inventors: Kanwaljit Singh, James S. Clarke, Menno Veldhorst, Lieven Mark Koenraad Vandersypen
  • Patent number: 11721748
    Abstract: Quantum dot devices, and related systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include a quantum well stack having a first face and a second opposing face; an array of parallel first gate lines at the first face or the second face of the quantum well stack; and an array of parallel second gate lines at the first face or the second face of the quantum well stack, wherein the second gate lines are oriented diagonal to the first gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: Intel Corporation, Technische Universiteit Delft
    Inventors: Kanwaljit Singh, James S. Clarke, Menno Veldhorst, Lieven Mark Koenraad Vandersypen
  • Patent number: 11706936
    Abstract: A light emitting device including a first electrode and a second electrode spaced from each other, and, a light emitting film between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the light emitting film has a first surface facing the second electrode and a second surface opposite thereto, the light emitting film includes a quantum dot layer including a plurality of quantum dots and a matrix including a metal chalcogenide, the plurality of quantum dots includes selenium, the matrix covers at least a portion of the quantum dot layer, the metal chalcogenide comprises zinc and sulfur, and in an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis of the first surface of the light emitting film, a mole ratio of zinc with respect to selenium is greater than or equal to about 2:1 and a mole ratio of sulfur with respect to selenium is greater than or equal to about 1.1:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwanghee Kim, Moon Gyu Han, Eun Joo Jang, Hyo Sook Jang