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Assignee: QuNano AB


Location: Lund, SE
No. of patents: 24

NumberTitleIssue Date
8183587LED with upstanding nanowire structure and method of producing such
The present invention relates to light emitting diodes, LEDs. In particular the invention relates to a LED comprising a nanowire as an active component. The nanostructured LED according to the embodiments of the invention comprises a substrate and at an upstanding n...
05/22/2012
8178403Method of producing precision vertical and horizontal layers in a vertical semiconductor structure
The present invention relates to providing layers of different thickness on vertical and horizontal surfaces (15, 20) of a vertical semiconductor device (1). In particular the invention relates to gate electrodes and the formation of precision layers (...
05/15/2012
8143658Charge storage nanostructure
The present invention relates to a nanostructured device for charge storage. In particular the invention relates to a charge storage device that can be used for memory applications. According to the invention the device comprise a first nanowire with a first wrap ga...
03/27/2012
8138493Optoelectronic semiconductor device
The present invention provides an optoelectronic semiconductor device comprising at least one semiconductor nanowire, wherein the nanowire comprises a nanowire core and at least one shell layer arranged around at least a portion of the nanowire core. The nanowire co...
03/20/2012
8120009Nanowhiskers with PN junctions, doped nanowhiskers, and methods for preparing them
Nano-engineered structures are disclosed, incorporating nanowhiskers of high mobility conductivity and incorporating pn junctions. In one embodiment, a nanowhisker of a first semiconducting material has a first band gap, and an enclosure comprising at least one seco...
02/21/2012
8084337Growth of III-V compound semiconductor nanowires on silicon substrates
The present invention relates to growth of III-V semiconductor nanowires (2) on a Si substrate (3). Controlled vertical nanowire growth is achieved by a step, to be taken prior of the growing of the nanowire, of providing group III or group V atoms to ...
12/27/2011
8067299Nanoelectronic structure and method of producing such
The present invention relates to semiconductor devices comprising semiconductor nanoelements. In particular the invention relates to devices having a volume element having a larger diameter than the nanoelement arranged in epitaxial connection to the nanoelement. Th...
11/29/2011
8063450Assembly of nanoscaled field effect transistors
The present invention relates to vertical nanowire transistors with a wrap-gated geometry. The threshold voltage of the vertical nanowire transistors is controlled by the diameter of the nanowire, the doping of the nanowire, the introduction of segments of heterostr...
11/22/2011
8049203Nanoelectronic structure and method of producing such
The present invention relates to semiconductor devices comprising semiconductor nanoelements. In particular the invention relates to devices having a volume element having a larger diameter than the nanoelement arranged in epitaxial connection to the nanoelement. Th...
11/01/2011
7960260Formation of nanowhiskers on a substrate of dissimilar material
A method for forming a nanowhisker of, e.g., a III-V semiconductor material on a silicon substrate, comprises: preparing a surface of the silicon substrate with measures including passivating the substrate surface by HF etching, so that the substrate surface is esse...
06/14/2011
7911035Directionally controlled growth of nanowhiskers
Nanowhiskers are grown in a non-preferential growth direction by regulation of nucleation conditions to inhibit growth in a preferential direction. In a preferred implementation, III-V semiconductor nanowhiskers are grown on an (001) III-V semiconductor substr...
03/22/2011
7910492Nanowhiskers with PN junctions, doped nanowhiskers, and methods for preparing them
Nano-engineered structures are disclosed, incorporating nanowhiskers of high mobility conductivity and incorporating pn junctions. In one embodiment, a nanowhisker of a first semiconducting material has a first band gap, and an enclosure comprising at least one seco...
03/22/2011
7875536Nanostructures formed of branched nanowhiskers and methods of producing the same
A method of forming a nanostructure having the form of a tree, comprises a first stage and a second stage. The first stage includes providing one or more catalytic particles on a substrate surface, and growing a first nanowhisker via each catalytic particle. The sec...
01/25/2011
7829443Nitride nanowires and method of producing such
The present invention relates to the growing of nitride semiconductors, applicable for a multitude of semiconductor devices such as diodes, LEDs and transistors. According to the method of the invention nitride semiconductor nanowires are grown utilizing a CVD based...
11/09/2010
7826336Data storage nanostructures
The present invention relates to a device for data storage. In particular the invention relates to a single electron memory device utilizing multiple tunnel junctions, and arrays or matrixes of such devices. The data storage device according to the invention compris...
11/02/2010
7745813Nanostructures and methods for manufacturing the same
A resonant tunneling diode, and other one dimensional electronic, photonic structures, and electromechanical MEMS devices, are formed as a heterostructure in a nanowhisker by forming length segments of the whisker with different materials having different band gaps....
06/29/2010
7682943Nanostructures and methods for manufacturing the same
A resonant tunneling diode, and other one dimensional electronic, photonic structures, and electromechanical MEMS devices, are formed as a heterostructure in a nanowhisker by forming length segments of the whisker with different materials having different band gaps....
03/23/2010
7662706Nanostructures formed of branched nanowhiskers and methods of producing the same
A method of forming a nanostructure having the form of a tree, comprises a first stage and a second stage. The first stage includes providing one or more catalytic particles on a substrate surface, and growing a first nanowhisker via each catalytic particle. The sec...
02/16/2010
7608147Precisely positioned nanowhiskers and nanowhisker arrays and method for preparing them
A nanoengineered structure comprising an array of more than about 1000 nanowhiskers on a substrate in a predetermined spatial configuration, for use for example as a photonic band gap array, wherein each nanowhisker is sited within a distance from a predetermined si...
10/27/2009
7528002Formation of nanowhiskers on a substrate of dissimilar material
A method for forming a nanowhisker of, e.g., a III-V semiconductor material on a silicon substrate, comprises: preparing a surface of the silicon substrate with measures including passivating the substrate surface by HF etching, so that the substrate surface is esse...
05/05/2009
7432522Nanowhiskers with pn junctions, doped nanowhiskers, and methods for preparing them
Nano-engineered structures are disclosed, incorporating nanowhiskers of high mobility conductivity and incorporating pn junctions. In one embodiment, a nanowhisker of a first semiconducting material has a first band gap, and an enclosure comprising at least one seco...
10/07/2008
7354850Directionally controlled growth of nanowhiskers
Nanowhiskers are grown in a non-preferential growth direction by regulation of nucleation conditions to inhibit growth in a preferential direction. In a preferred implementation, III-V semiconductor nanowhiskers are grown on an (001) III-V semiconductor substr...
04/08/2008
7335908Nanostructures and methods for manufacturing the same
A resonant tunneling diode, and other one dimensional electronic, photonic structures, and electromechanical MEMS devices, are formed as a heterostructure in a nanowhisker by forming length segments of the whisker with different materials having different band gaps....
02/26/2008
7223444Particle deposition apparatus and methods for forming nanostructures
A fast method of creating nanostructures comprising the steps of forming one or more electrically-charged regions (5) of predetermined shape on a surface (1) of a first material, by contacting the regions with a stamp for transferring electric charge, ...
05/29/2007
 
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