| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7391372 |
Integrated phased array antenna |
June 24, 2008 |
| An integrated communication device having a substrate layer of substantially electrically nonconductive material with two substantially parallel surfaces, an antenna element disposed on one of the surfaces, a ground layer of substantially electrically conductive material disposed on |
| 7351660 |
Process for producing high performance interconnects |
April 1, 2008 |
| A method for fabricating high performance vertical and horizontal electrical connections in a three dimensional semiconductor structure. A dielectric film is imprinted with a stamp pattern at high vacuum and with precise temperature and stamping pressure control. The stamp pattern may |
| 7253091 |
Process for assembling three-dimensional systems on a chip and structure thus obtained |
August 7, 2007 |
| A method for assembling an electronic system with a plurality of layers. Recesses in formed in one or more dielectric layers and electronic components are positioned within the recesses. One or more layers containing the components are placed on a host substrate containing host circu |
| 7223635 |
Oriented self-location of microstructures with alignment structures |
May 29, 2007 |
| An electronic apparatus comprising one or more microstructures on a substrate and a method for fabricating the electronic apparatus. The microstructures have alignment structures that allow the microstructures to be oriented in receptacles having shapes that are complementary to the |
| 7142348 |
Conformal retro-modulator optical devices |
November 28, 2006 |
| A conformal retro-modulator optical apparatus. The apparatus includes an array of multiple quantum well devices disposed in a thin array. A plastic support element is bonded to the thin array, the plastic support element having a thickness greater that of the thin array. The plastic |
| 7141446 |
Optically- and electrically-addressable concentrators of biological and chemical materials |
November 28, 2006 |
| A concentrator for detecting biological and/or chemical materials in an environment. The concentrator comprises an engineered superlattice structure having alternating layers of elemental, binary or ternary group III-group V, or group IV-group IV semiconducting materials. A method for |
| 7105376 |
Self-location method and apparatus |
September 12, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for transporting and dispersing microstructures on a substrate by fluidic self-assembly. The apparatus has an assembly vessel that is tilted and rotated to apply uncaptured microstructures back onto the substrate as the assembly vessel rotates. The assembly ves |
| 7018575 |
Method for assembly of complementary-shaped receptacle site and device microstructures |
March 28, 2006 |
| A method for assembly including the steps of:(a) providing a plurality of microstructure components with each of the components having a bottom with the same three dimensional shape;(b) forming a mold with at least one protuberance from a surface thereof so that the at least one prot |
| 6974604 |
Method of self-latching for adhesion during self-assembly of electronic or optical components |
December 13, 2005 |
| A method for assembling components on a substrate including the steps of: (a) selectively coating at least a first receptor site of the substrate with a liquid precursor that forms a solid adhesive upon contact with an initiator; (b) providing each of the components with an adhesion surf |
| 6954302 |
Conformal retro-modulator optical devices |
October 11, 2005 |
| A conformal retro-modulator optical apparatus. The apparatus includes an array of multiple quantum well devices disposed in a thin array. A plastic support element is bonded to the thin array, the plastic support element having a thickness greater that of the thin array. The plastic supp |
| 6946322 |
Large area printing method for integrating device and circuit components |
September 20, 2005 |
| A method for fabricating arbitrarily configured arrays of devices or circuit modules onto a host circuit substrate by using an assembly technique that temporarily locates and aligns the devices or circuit modules in positions to be received by the host circuit substrate. The method g |
| 6870234 |
Optically- and electrically-addressable concentrators of biological and chemical materials |
March 22, 2005 |
| A concentrator for detecting biological and/or chemical materials in an environment. The concentrator comprises an engineered superlattice structure having alternating layers of elemental, binary or ternary group III-group V, or group IV-group IV semiconducting materials. A method for |
| 6858537 |
Process for smoothing a rough surface on a substrate by dry etching |
February 22, 2005 |
| A process for smoothing a rough surface on a substrate, such as a diamond or silicon carbide substrate, said rough surface including protruding peak portions separated by valleys, said smoothing comprising (a) depositing a coating on said rough surface so as to adhere to and to fill at l |
| 6828556 |
Millimeter wave imaging array |
December 7, 2004 |
| A focal plane array for millimeter wave imaging comprising a three dimensional stack of antenna elements and radiometer microwave monolithic integrated circuits (MMICs) embedded in polymer dielectric layers built on top of a silicon substrate. Each radiometer MMIC and antenna element |
| 5976958 |
Method for growth of in situ p-type semiconductor films using a group V flux |
November 2, 1999 |
| A method of growing a p-type doped Group II-VI semiconductor film includes the steps of forming a lattice comprising a Group II material and a Group VI material and generating a first Group V flux by evaporating a solid Group V source material. The first Group V flux is then decomposed t |
| 5598260 |
Apparatus and method for optical-based flux monitoring of an effusion cell adjacent the output o |
January 28, 1997 |
| An apparatus and method for optically monitoring the output of an effusion cell during the MBE process where resonant radiation is guided through an optical radiation guide across the output orifice of the effusion cell to determine the atomic flux according to the concentration and abso |
| 5454902 |
Production of clean, well-ordered CdTe surfaces using laser ablation |
October 3, 1995 |
| Chemically-etched and or sputtered CdTe surfaces are exposed to UV excimer laser radiation at a fluence ranging from about 15 to 75 mJ/cm.sup.2, followed by either a low temperature (<300.degree. C.) thermal anneal or exposure of the CdTe surface to UV excimer laser radiation at a flu |
| 5433791 |
MBE apparatus with photo-cracker cell |
July 18, 1995 |
| Ultraviolet (UV) light from a lamp or UV laser, such as a metal can short arc xenon lamp or excimer laser, respectively, is provided for cracking Group V and Group VI species comprising clusters (dimers and tetramers) or metal-organic molecules to form monomers (atoms). The UV radiation |
| 5298759 |
Photo-cracker cell |
March 29, 1994 |
| Ultraviolet (UV) light from a lamp (12) or laser (38) is provided for cracking Group V and Group VI species comprising clusters (dimers and tetramers) or metal-organic molecules to form monomers (atoms). The UV radiation interacts with a molecular beam (14) of Group V and Group VI sp |
| 5018164 |
Excimer laser ablation method and apparatus for microcircuit fabrication |
May 21, 1991 |
| A pulsed beam from an excimer laser is used for precision ablation of cadmium telluride (CdTe) and other materials to fabricate and delineate devices in electronic microcircuit structures. The fluence of the beam may be adjusted to selectively remove one constituent of the material, such |
