Making Device Or Circuit Emissive Of Nonelectrical Signal Patents (Class 438/22)
  • Patent number: 10996505
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a color film substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display, wherein the color film substrate includes a base substrate and a photoresist layer formed on the base substrate, the photoresist layer includes a plurality of recess parts, each of the plurality of recess parts has an opening facing away from the base substrate and a lateral surface with a step structure, and an orthographic projection of the opening of each of the plurality of recess parts onto the base substrate overlaps with an orthographic projection of a bottom of each of the plurality of recess parts onto the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group., Ltd., Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanjie Xu, Pengcheng Zang
  • Patent number: 10991916
    Abstract: A method of encapsulating an organic light emitting diode (OLED) is provided. The method includes generating a first plasma in a process chamber, the first plasma having an electron density of at least 1011 cm?3 when an OLED device is positioned within the process chamber. The OLED device includes a substrate and an OLED formed on the substrate. The method further includes pretreating one or more surfaces of the OLED and substrate with the first plasma; depositing a first barrier layer comprising silicon and nitrogen over the OLED by generating a second plasma comprising silicon and nitrogen in the process chamber, the second plasma having an electron density of at least 1011 cm?3, and depositing a buffer layer over the first barrier layer; and depositing a second barrier layer comprising silicon and nitrogen over the buffer layer by generating a third plasma comprising silicon and nitrogen in the process chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Tae Kyung Won, Soo Young Choi, Sanjay D. Yadav
  • Patent number: 10984708
    Abstract: To manufacture a display using light emitting diodes (LEDs), the LEDs are transferred from fabrication substrates where they are fabricated to a target substrate (e.g., a backplane) that forms part of a display. The LEDs are transferred in three stages: first from fabrication substrates to hard handles, subsequently from the hard handles to a carrier substrate, and last from the carrier substrate to the target substrate. The LEDs are placed onto the carrier substrate to form pixel arrangements. One or more pick-up tools are used to transfer the LEDs. Switchable adhesives are used to facilitate the transfer of the LEDs from the fabrication substrates to the target substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Allan Pourchet, Pooya Saketi
  • Patent number: 10982317
    Abstract: There are provided a vapor deposition mask capable of satisfying both high definition and lightweight in upsizing and forming a vapor deposition pattern with high definition while securing strength, a vapor deposition mask preparation body capable of simply producing the vapor deposition mask and a method for producing a vapor deposition mask, and furthermore, a method for producing an organic semiconductor element capable of producing an organic semiconductor element with high definition. A metal mask 10 in which a slit 15 is provided and a resin mask 20 in which openings 25 corresponding to a pattern to be produced by vapor deposition are provided at a position of overlapping with the slit 15 are stacked, and the metal mask 10 has a general region 10a in which the slit 15 is provided and a thick region 10b larger in thickness than the general region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsunari Obata, Toshihiko Takeda, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Hiroyuki Nishimura, Atsushi Maki, Hiromitsu Ochiai, Yoshinori Hirobe
  • Patent number: 10978625
    Abstract: A method for forming a light-transmissive member includes irradiating a principal surface of a cured resin body containing a silicone resin with ultraviolet rays through a photomask comprising one or more light-blocking regions and one or more light-transmissive regions, so as to cause a height of one or more first regions of the principal surface, which correspond to the one or more light-blocking regions of the photomask, to be different than a height of one or more second regions of the principal surface, which correspond to the one or more light-transmissive regions of the photomask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Musashi, Takayoshi Wakaki
  • Patent number: 10950747
    Abstract: A heterostructure, such as a group III nitride heterostructure, for use in an optoelectronic device is described. The heterostructure can include a sacrificial layer, which is located on a substrate structure. The sacrificial layer can be at least partially decomposed using a laser. The substrate structure can be completely removed from the heterostructure or remain attached thereto. One or more additional solutions for detaching the substrate structure from the heterostructure can be utilized. The heterostructure can undergo additional processing to form the optoelectronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikhail Gaevski, Alexander Dobrinsky, Maxim S. Shatalov, Michael Shur
  • Patent number: 10930529
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) includes an elastomeric material that facilitates adhesive attachment with a pick-up head for pick and place operations. The LED includes an epitaxial layer defining a mesa structure and a light emitting surface. The mesa structure includes an active layer to emit light, and the emitted light is reflected at the mesa structure toward a light emitting region of the light emitting surface and transmitted at the light emitting region. An elastomeric material is on a portion of the light emitting surface, such as the light emitting region or a passive region. At the light emitting region, the elastomeric material may be shaped as a lens that collimates light transmitted from the light emitting region, and also facilitates adhesion to the pick-up head. At the passive region, the elastomeric material facilitates adhesion to the pick-up head without interfering with light emitted from the light emitting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Pooya Saketi, Patrick Joseph Hughes, William Padraic Henry, Joseph O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 10923364
    Abstract: A method comprises: arranging a plurality of semiconductor chips above a carrier, wherein active main surfaces of the semiconductor chips face the carrier; filling a cavity with a molding material; pressing the semiconductor chips arranged on the carrier into the molding material; and separating the molding material with the semiconductor chips embedded therein from the carrier, wherein main surfaces of the semiconductor chips that are situated opposite the active main surfaces are covered by the molding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Kristina Mayer, Michael Ledutke, Johannes Lodermeyer
  • Patent number: 10886257
    Abstract: The present application relates to a micro LED display device and, a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes the following steps. First, a plurality of LED chips are formed on a supplying substrate. Next, a first substrate defining a plurality of groups of printed circuits is provided. Then the supplying substrate is overlaid in an inverted manner on the first substrate in such a manner that the LED chips are aligned with and attached onto the groups of printed circuits correspondingly. After the LED chips are detached from the supplying substrate, the supplying substrate is removed. Then a sol-gel glass is filled into gaps among the LED chips. Finally a second substrate is bonded with the first substrate. The present disclosure is capable of improving the yield rate and the reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: KAISTAR LIGHTING (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Steve Mengyuan Hong
  • Patent number: 10861887
    Abstract: An image sensor may include a substrate including a plurality of unit pixel regions and having first and second surfaces facing each other. Each of the unit pixel regions may include a plurality of floating diffusion parts spaced apart from each other in the substrate, storage nodes provided in the substrate to be spaced apart from and facing the floating diffusion parts, a transfer gate adjacent to a region between the floating diffusion parts and the storage nodes, and photoelectric conversion parts sequentially stacked on one of the first and second surfaces. Each of the photoelectric conversion parts may include common and pixel electrodes respectively provided on top and bottom surfaces thereof and each pixel electrode may be electrically connected to a corresponding one of the storage nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gwi-Deok Ryan Lee, Taeyon Lee
  • Patent number: 10854775
    Abstract: A method and a device for carrying out the method for transferring electronic components from a carrier substrate to a receiving substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: MÜHLBAUER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Schlemper, Hans-Peter Monser, Sigmund Niklas
  • Patent number: 10854774
    Abstract: A lift-off method transfers onto a transfer substrate an optical device layer of an optical device wafer in which the optical device layer is formed over a front surface of an epitaxy substrate through a GaN buffer layer. The lift-off method includes: bonding the transfer substrate onto a front surface of the optical device layer through a bonding layer to form a composite substrate; applying a pulsed laser beam of such a wavelength as to be transferred through the epitaxy substrate constituting the composite substrate but to be absorbed in the buffer layer from a back surface side of the epitaxy substrate, to break the buffer layer; and peeling the optical device layer from the epitaxy substrate and transferring the optical device layer onto the transfer substrate, after the buffer layer breaking step is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tasuku Koyanagi, Hiroki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10840078
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for enclosures for an ion trapping device are described herein. One enclosure for an ion trapping device includes a heat spreader base that includes a perimeter portion and a center portion connected to the perimeter portion by a bridge portion, a grid array coupled to the heat spreader, a spacer with a plurality of studs coupled to the grid array, an interposer and ion trap die coupled to the spacer, a connector coupled to interposer, and a roof portion coupled to the heat spreader base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Youngner, Jason Simmons, Thomas Ohnstein, Jay Gordon Schwitchtenberg
  • Patent number: 10797470
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a first n-type semiconductor layer disposed on a substrate; a tunnel junction layer disposed on a part of the first n-type semiconductor layer; a p-type semiconductor layer disposed on the first n-type semiconductor layer and covering the tunnel junction layer; an active layer disposed on the p-type semiconductor layer; and a second n-type semiconductor layer disposed on the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kawashima, Shunichi Sato
  • Patent number: 10770622
    Abstract: One embodiment of a light-emitting element comprises: a substrate; a first-conductive type semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate and including at least one pit; a superlattice layer disposed on the first-conductive type semiconductor layer and including at least one pit; an active layer disposed on the superlattice layer and including at least one pit; an electron blocking layer disposed on the active layer and including at least one pit; a pit layer disposed on the electron blocking layer and including at least one pit; and a second-conductive type semiconductor layer disposed on the pit layer, wherein the pit layer can be doped with Mg at at least a portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Hun Han
  • Patent number: 10756233
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting element includes: providing a wafer comprising: a sapphire substrate having a first face and a second face, and a semiconductor structure disposed on the second face; irradiating the substrate with a laser beam to form a plurality of modified regions in the substrate; and subsequently, separating the wafer into a plurality of light emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto Inoue, Sho Kusaka
  • Patent number: 10742000
    Abstract: A VCSEL can include: an elliptical oxide aperture in an oxidized region that is located between an active region and an emission surface, the elliptical aperture having a short radius and a long radius with a radius ratio (short radius)/(long radius) being between 0.6 and 0.8, the VCSEL having a relative intensity noise (RIN) of less than ?140 dB/Hz. The VCSEL can include an elliptical emission aperture having the same dimensions of the elliptical oxide aperture. The VCSEL can include an elliptical contact having an elliptical contact aperture therein, the elliptical contact being around the elliptical emission aperture. The elliptical contact can be C-shaped. The VCSEL can include one or more trenches lateral of the oxidized region, the one or more trenches forming an elliptical shape, wherein the oxidized region has an elliptical shape. The one or more trenches can be trapezoidal shaped trenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: II-VI Delaware Inc.
    Inventors: Deepa Gazula, Nicolae Chitica, Marek Chacinski, Gary Landry, Jim Tatum
  • Patent number: 10700489
    Abstract: Provided is an optical semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate; a first semiconductor multilayer that is stacked on a first surface side of the semiconductor substrate, has a mesa structure extending along a light emitting direction, and emits light from an exit end surface; an electrode pad portion for wire bonding which is electrically connected to the upper surface of the mesa structure of the first semiconductor multilayer, is disposed on one side of the mesa structure, and is electrically connected to outside; and an electrode pad peripheral portion including a first rising surface which is in contact with the outer edge of the electrode pad portion on the exit end surface side and rises along the stacking direction from the electrode pad portion, in which a lower surface of the electrode pad portion is higher than the upper surface of the mesa structure of the first semiconductor multilayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Lumentum Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Nakanishi, Noriko Sasada, Takayuki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10692923
    Abstract: An apparatus for positioning micro-devices on a substrate includes one or more supports to hold a donor substrate and a destination substrate, an adhesive dispenser to deliver adhesive on micro-devices on the donor substrate, a transfer device including a transfer surface to transfer the micro-devices from the donor substrate to the destination substrate, and a controller. The controller is configured to operate the adhesive dispenser to selectively dispense the adhesive onto selected micro-devices on the donor substrate based on a desired spacing of the selected micro-devices on the destination substrate. The controller is configured to operate the transfer device such that the transfer surface engages the adhesive on the donor substrate to cause the selected micro-devices to adhere to the transfer surface and the transfer surface then transfers the selected micro-devices from the donor substrate to the destination substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Mingwei Zhu, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Boyi Fu, Hou T. Ng, Nag B. Patibandla
  • Patent number: 10680149
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing at last one light-emitting device including a light-transmissive member, a light-emitting element, and a reflective member, the method including: providing a holding member comprising a plurality of through-holes or recesses; disposing a light-transmissive member in at least one of the through-holes or at least one of the recesses; disposing a light-emitting element on the light-transmissive member in the at least one through-hole or the at least one recess; forming a reflective member in contact with a lateral surface defining the at least one through-hole or the at least one recess and covering a lateral surface of the light-emitting element; and removing the at least one light-emitting device from the holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toru Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10656319
    Abstract: There is provided a high-efficiency and high-definition liquid crystal display device in which a white light source is constituted by using a fluorescent substance composed of a quantum dot having a minute particle size, and an LED light-emitting element, light from the light source is allowed to be incident from one lateral surface of a backlight provided on a rear surface of the liquid crystal display device, and thus an amount of the quantum dot fluorescent substance that is used is reduced, and the thickness of the liquid crystal display device is made smaller as a whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: NS MATERIALS INC.
    Inventors: Shingo Kokudo, Eiichi Kanaumi
  • Patent number: 10649138
    Abstract: A photonic chip having a photonic-circuit layer supported on a substrate, the photonic-circuit layer including a suspended portion that extends beyond the outline of the substrate on the photonic-circuit layer. In various embodiments, the suspended portion may host one or more functional optical elements, such as an on-chip grating coupler, an on-chip microring resonator, and an on chip optical waveguide, that can be used to couple light in and out of the photonic chip. The geometry of the suspended portion enables unencumbered (e.g., double-sided) access to the one or more functional optical elements located therein and can advantageously be used to place an optical fiber and/or a second photonic chip sufficiently close to those functional optical elements to achieve a high chip-to-fiber or chip-to-chip optical-coupling efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Po Dong, Kwangwoong Kim, Argishti Melikyan
  • Patent number: 10636887
    Abstract: Provided is a method for forming a semiconductor structure. In embodiments of the invention, the method includes laterally forming a spacer on a side of the semiconductor structure. The method further includes performing a thermal anneal on the semiconductor structure. The method further includes performing an etch to remove materials formed by the thermal anneal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Choonghyun Lee, Juntao Li, Peng Xu
  • Patent number: 10629842
    Abstract: A display device may include an organic light emitting device and an encapsulation structure provided on the organic light emitting device to seal the organic light emitting device. The encapsulation structure may include a first inorganic encapsulation layer provided on the organic light emitting device, an organic encapsulation layer provided on the first inorganic encapsulation layer, and a second inorganic encapsulation layer provided on the organic encapsulation layer. The first inorganic encapsulation layer may include a first inorganic layer provided on the organic light emitting device and a first plasma-treated layer provided on the first inorganic layer. The first plasma-treated layer may include an upper portion, in which a rugged structure is defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cha-dong Kim, Bumsoo Kam, Hyunae Kim, Cheolho Park
  • Patent number: 10622415
    Abstract: A fingerprint recognition device and an OLED display device, which relate to the technical field of display and can solve the problems of a low recognition accuracy due to a large distance from a finger to a fingerprint recognition device. The fingerprint recognition device comprises recognition units alternately defined by a plurality of scanning lines and signal reading lines which are crisscrossed with each other. Each recognition unit is provided with a switching transistor and a photosensitive element. The photosensitive element comprises a photoelectric conversion layer and a collimator filter layer which are stacked successively. The collimator filter layer is used for irradiating incident light onto the photoelectric conversion layer in parallel, and the photoelectric conversion layer is used for performing photoelectric conversion on the incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Xu, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Pengpeng Wang, Chih-Jen Cheng, Yunke Qin, Yuzhen Guo, Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10622498
    Abstract: Techniques for enhancing the absorption of photons in semiconductors with the use of microstructures are described. The microstructures, such as pillars and/or holes, effectively increase the effective absorption length resulting in a greater absorption of the photons. Using microstructures for absorption enhancement for silicon photodiodes and silicon avalanche photodiodes can result in bandwidths in excess of 10 Gb/s at photons with wavelengths of 850 nm, and with quantum efficiencies of approximately 90% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: W&WSENS DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Shih-Yuan Wang, Shih-Ping Wang
  • Patent number: 10612139
    Abstract: There is provided a tungsten film forming method which includes: forming a first tungsten film on a substrate; and forming a second tungsten film on the first tungsten film. The forming a first tungsten film includes alternately supplying a first raw material gas containing tungsten and a diborane gas together with a first carrier gas to the substrate. The forming a second tungsten film includes alternately supplying a second raw material gas containing tungsten and a hydrogen gas together with a second carrier gas to the substrate on which the first tungsten film is formed. The first carrier gas is a nitrogen gas. The second carrier gas includes at least one kind of nobel gas and has the noble gas at a flow rate of 70% or more with respect to a total flow rate of the second carrier gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Koji Maekawa, Takashi Sameshima, Shintaro Aoyama, Mikio Suzuki, Susumu Arima, Atsushi Matsumoto, Naoki Shibata
  • Patent number: 10615354
    Abstract: An organic photoelectronic device may include a photoelectronic conversion layer between a first electrode and a second electrode and a buffer layer on the photoelectronic conversion layer. The photoelectronic conversion layer may be between a first electrode and a second electrode, and the buffer layer may be between the first electrode and the photoelectronic conversion layer. The photoelectronic conversion layer may include at least a first light absorbing material and a second light absorbing material configured to provide a p-n junction. The buffer layer may include the first light absorbing material and a non-absorbing material associated with a visible wavelength spectrum of light. The non-absorbing material may have a HOMO energy level of about 5.4 eV to about 5.8 eV. The non-absorbing material may have an energy bandgap of greater than or equal to about 2.8 eV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takkyun Ro, Kyung Bae Park, Ryuichi Satoh, Yong Wan Jin, Chul Joon Heo
  • Patent number: 10601201
    Abstract: A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array is provided. Each tunable VCSEL includes an output coupling mirror; a high reflectivity mirror; an active cavity material structure disposed between the output coupling mirror and the high reflectivity mirror; and a spacer layer disposed between the output coupling mirror and the active cavity material. A tuning cavity is defined within the spacer layer. Each VCSEL further includes a first contact pad and a second contact pad designed to receive a driving voltage; a tuning electrode on a first surface of the output coupling mirror for tuning the emission wavelength to a distinct wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexei Sirbu, Vladimir Iakovlev, Yuri Berk, Sylvie Rockman, Elad Mentovich
  • Patent number: 10586883
    Abstract: An energy storage capsule for storing energy in the form of photons. The body of the capsule may surround a sealed vacuum environment in which several layers of reactive material are contained, including an inner reflective coating, a first photovoltaic cell, an optical amplification medium, a second photovoltaic cell, and an outer reflective coating, provided in that order. The body of the capsule may also be reflective, for example polished aluminum. Light may be emitted from an LED wafer which may be integrated with the surface of the optical amplification medium, directed at the several layers of reactive material. Some photons may be reflected by the reflective material, storing them within the capsule, while others may be absorbed by the photovoltaic cells, powering the LEDs to transmit more photons. The thermal environment of the energy storage capsule may be maintained such that the LEDs can operate at over 100% efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Quantum Photonics Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Ryan Hankla
  • Patent number: 10580938
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode chip and a method for manufacturing a light-emitting diode chip are disclosed. In an embodiment a light-emitting diode chip includes an epitaxial semiconductor layer sequence having an active zone configured to generate electromagnetic radiation during operation and a passivation layer comprising statically fixed electrical charge carriers, wherein the passivation layer is located on a side surface of the semiconductor layer sequence covering at least the active zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Ebbecke, Petrus Sundgren, Roland Zeisel
  • Patent number: 10538862
    Abstract: A crystal laminate structure includes a Ga2O3-based substrate, and a ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal film formed by epitaxial crystal growth on a principal surface of the Ga2O3-based substrate. The ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal film includes Cl and a dopant doped in parallel with the crystal growth at a concentration of not less than 1×1013 atoms/cm3 and not more than 5.0×1020 atoms/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignees: TAMURA CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ken Goto, Akinori Koukitu, Yoshinao Kumagai, Hisashi Murakami
  • Patent number: 10526723
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for rapid growth of Group III metal nitrides using plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy. The disclosure includes higher pressure and flow rates of nitrogen in the plasma, and the application of mixtures of nitrogen and an inert gas. Growth rates exceeding 8 ?m/hour can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: William Alan Doolittle, Evan A. Clinton, Chloe A. M. Fabien, Brendan Patrick Gunning, Joseph J. Merola
  • Patent number: 10529955
    Abstract: A method for producing an organic electronic device is disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes applying an organic material to a substrate to form at least one organic functional layer, applying a patterned electrode material to the at least one organic functional layer by a first mask, and removing the organic material from regions which are free of the electrode material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Richard Baisl, Philipp Schwamb, Simon Schicktanz, Johannes Rosenberger
  • Patent number: 10520786
    Abstract: An electro-optic display having a viewing surface through which a user views the display, a bistable, non-electrochromic electro-optic medium, and at least one electrode arranged to apply an electric field to the electro-optic medium, the display further comprising at least 10 micromoles per square meter of the viewing surface of at least one compound having an oxidation potential more negative that about 150 mV with respect to a standard hydrogen electrode, as measured at pH 8, where the compound having the oxidation potential comprises one or more compounds of Formulae I below: where in Formulae I, R1-R4 may be substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl groups, or heteroatomic groups containing hetero atoms of Groups V-VII of the periodic table, and substituents R1 and R2 (taken together), and/or R3 and R4, may form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen J. Telfer, Peter Carsten Bailey Widger, Ana L. Lattes, Dan John Lauber
  • Patent number: 10510929
    Abstract: Disclosed are a light emitting device and a light emitting device package. The light emitting device includes a light emitting structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer on the first conductive semiconductor layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer on the active layer, an adhesive layer contacting a top surface of the first conductive semiconductor layer, a first electrode contacting a top surface of the first conductive semiconductor and a top surface of the adhesive layer, and a second electrode contacting the second conductive semiconductor layer, wherein the adhesive layer contacting the first electrode is spaced apart from the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hwan Hee Jeong, Sang Youl Lee, June O. Song, Ji Hyung Moon, Kwang Ki Choi
  • Patent number: 10497835
    Abstract: A light emitting element according to one embodiment can comprise: a first conductive semiconductor layer; an active layer on the first conductive semiconductor layer; a second conductive semiconductor layer on the active layer; a light-transmitting ohmic layer on the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first electrode electrically connected with the first conductive semiconductor layer; and a second electrode on the light-transmitting ohmic layer. The light emitting element can include two first sides facing each other, and two second sides facing each other. The width of the first side is greater than the width of the second side, and the first side and the second side can be perpendicular to each other. The distance between the first branch electrode and the second branch electrode is ? to ½ of the width of the second side of either one thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Se Yeon Jung
  • Patent number: 10475706
    Abstract: Electronic device fins may be formed by epitaxially growing a first layer of material on a substrate surface at a bottom of a trench formed between sidewalls of shallow trench isolation (STI) regions. The trench height may be at least 1.5 times its width, and the first layer may fill less than the trench height. Then a second layer of material may be epitaxially grown on the first layer in the trench and over top surfaces of the STI regions. The second layer may have a second width extending over the trench and over portions of top surfaces of the STI regions. The second layer may then be patterned and etched to form a pair of electronic device fins over portions of the top surfaces of the STI regions, proximate to the trench. This process may avoid crystaline defects in the fins due to lattice mismatch in the layer interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Niti Goel, Benjamin Chu-Kung, Sansaptak Dasgupta, Niloy Mukherjee, Matthew V. Metz, Van H. Le, Jack T. Kavalieros, Robert S. Chau, Ravi Pillarisetty
  • Patent number: 10446727
    Abstract: A composition and method for formation of ohmic contacts on a semiconductor structure are provided. The composition includes a TiAlxNy material at least partially contiguous with the semiconductor structure. The TiAlxNy material can be TiAl3. The composition can include an aluminum material, the aluminum material being contiguous to at least part of the TiAlxNy material, such that the TiAlxNy material is between the aluminum material and the semiconductor structure. The method includes annealing the composition to form an ohmic contact on the semiconductor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjun Jeff Hu, John Mark Meldrim, Shanming Mou, Everett Allen McTeer
  • Patent number: 10439362
    Abstract: The invention relates to an AlInGaN alloy based laser diode, which uses a gallium nitride substrate. It also includes a lower cladding layer, a lower light-guiding layer-cladding, a light emitting layer, an upper light-guiding-cladding layer, an upper cladding layer, and a subcontact layer. The lower light-guiding-cladding layer and the upper light-guiding-cladding layer have a continuous, non-step-like and smooth change of indium and/or aluminum content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: TOPGAN SP. Z O.O., INST. WYSOKICH CISNIEN POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK
    Inventors: Szymon Stanczyk, Anna Kafar, Tadeusz Suski, Szymon Grzanka, Robert Czernecki, Piotr Perlin
  • Patent number: 10431456
    Abstract: An imprint method includes: applying a applying a material for forming a patterned layer having a pattern, to a substrate; feeding a stamp film including a stamp pattern corresponding to the pattern of the patterned layer, along a pressure roller and an idle roller; forming the patterned layer having the pattern, including: the pressure roller pressing the stamp film toward the material to contact the stamp pattern of the stamp film with the material layer, curing the material layer in contact with the stamp pattern, and moving the pressure roller and the idle roller to peel the stamp film off the cured material layer by a peeling force, to form the patterned layer having the pattern; and detecting a defect in the formed patterned layer, during the peeling of the stamp film, by sensing the peeling force in real time by a pressure sensor connected to the pressure roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Futoshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10431660
    Abstract: Provided is a method for forming a semiconductor structure. In embodiments of the invention, the method includes laterally forming a spacer on a side of the semiconductor structure. The method further includes performing a thermal anneal on the semiconductor structure. The method further includes performing an etch to remove materials formed by the thermal anneal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Choonghyun Lee, Juntao Li, Peng Xu
  • Patent number: 10418412
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, comprises a semiconductor stack comprising a first area and a second area, wherein the second area comprises a first side wall, a first isolation path formed between the first area and the second area, a second isolation path formed in the semiconductor stack, an isolation layer formed in the first isolation path and covering the first side wall, an electrical contact layer formed under the semiconductor stack, and an electrode contact layer directly contacting the electrical contact layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-Hsien Yang, Han-Min Wu, Jhih-Sian Wang, Yi-Ming Chen, Tzu-Ghieh Hsu
  • Patent number: 10420204
    Abstract: A method of making a wiring board having an electrical isolator and metal posts incorporated in a resin core is characterized by the provision of moisture inhibiting caps covering interfaces between the electrical isolator/metal posts and a surrounding plastic material. In a preferred embodiment, the electrical isolator and metal posts are bonded to the resin core by an adhesive substantially coplanar with the metal films on the electrical isolator, the metal posts and the metal layers on two opposite sides of the resin core at smoothed lapped top and bottom surfaces so that a metal bridge can be deposited on the adhesive at the smoothed lapped bottom surface to completely cover interfaces between the electrical isolator/metal posts and the surrounding plastic material. Conductive traces are also deposited on the smoothed lapped top surface to provide electrical contacts for chip connection and electrically coupled to the metal posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGE SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles W. C. Lin, Chia-Chung Wang
  • Patent number: 10367141
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to OLED and PV devices including transparent electrodes that are formed of conductive nanostructures and methods of improving light out-coupling in OLED and input-coupling in PV devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Cambrios Film Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Florian Pschenitzka
  • Patent number: 10359672
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate; a first electrode disposed on the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed on the first electrode; a polarizing plate disposed on the liquid crystal layer; a color conversion layer disposed on the polarizing plate and including a plurality of color conversion portions; and a second substrate disposed on the color conversion layer. The polarizing plate includes a polymer film, and a distance between the liquid crystal layer and the color conversion layer is in a range of about 5 ?m to about 50 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seonggyu Kwon, Sangil Kim, Wontae Kim, Haksun Kim, Namseok Roh, Jaecheol Park, Youyoung Jin
  • Patent number: 10361081
    Abstract: Processes and systems for carbon ion implantation include utilizing phosphine as a co-gas with a carbon oxide gas in an ion source chamber. In one or more embodiments, carbon implantation with the phosphine co-gas is in combination with the lanthanated tungsten alloy ion source components, which advantageously results in minimal oxidation of the cathode and cathode shield, among other components within the ion source chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: AXCELIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Neil Colvin, Tseh-Jen Hsieh
  • Patent number: 10347722
    Abstract: A material structure and system for generating a III-Nitride digital alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Nelson Tansu, Wei Sun, Chee-Keong Tan
  • Patent number: 10347793
    Abstract: A contact to a semiconductor layer in a light emitting structure is provided. The contact can include a plurality of contact areas formed of a metal and separated by a set of voids. The contact areas can be separated from one another by a characteristic distance selected based on a set of attributes of a semiconductor contact structure of the contact and a characteristic contact length scale of the contact. The voids can be configured to increase an overall reflectivity or transparency of the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Lunev, Maxim S. Shatalov, Alexander Dobrinsky, Michael Shur, Remigijus Gaska
  • Patent number: 10333023
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor light emitting device including a conductive substrate, a first electrode layer, an insulating layer, a second electrode layer, a second semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a first semiconductor layer that are sequentially stacked. The contact area between the first electrode layer and the first semiconductor layer is 3% to 13% of the total area of the semiconductor light emitting device, and thus high luminous efficiency is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pun Jae Choi, Yu Seung Kim, Jin Bock Lee