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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6262461 | Method and apparatus for creating a voltage threshold in a FET A method of fabricating a field effect transistor including doping a continuous blanket layer in a semiconductor substrate structure adjacent the surface to include a source area and a drain area spaced from the source area. A high dielectric constant ins... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6156582 | Method of fabricating top emitting ridge VCSEL with self-aligned contact and sidewall reflector A method of fabricating a ridge VCSEL having a first stack of mirrors, a second stack of mirrors and an active area sandwiched therebetween, including the steps of depositing a metal layer, an etchable layer and a masking layer on the second stack, removi... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6111839 | Optical pickup head including a coherent first order mode laser light source An optical pickup head for high density optical storage applications and a method of fabrication including a first order mode light source and a phase shift mask. The light source is capable of emitting a power output of at least 10 mW. The phase shift ma... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6091754 | VCSEL having integrated photodetector for automatic power control A VCSEL (113) having a first and a second stack of distributed Bragg reflectors (120, 116) and an active region (118) is formed. Conductive layers (108 and 109) having an opening is formed on the second stack of distributed Bragg reflectors (116). A first... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6064780 | Interconnect substrate with a single contact accessible in an upper and an end surface An interconnect substrate is provided. The interconnect substrate has a first surface with a conductive path and an end surface. The first surface and the end surface join to form a nexus or a corner. A conductive contact is positioned at the nexus, there... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6061485 | Method for wavelength division multiplexing utilizing donut mode vertical cavity surface emitting lasers A method for wavelength division multiplexing including the steps of providing at least two annular waveguide or spatially donut mode and spectrally single mode vertical cavity surface emitting lasers for operating in a single high order transverse mode. ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6029073 | Display carrier with binocular viewing for a portable electronic device A portable electronic device including a display carrier detachably mounted to the portable electronic device. The display carrier including a virtual image display apparatus. A data communication interface is provided between the display carrier and the ... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6023485 | Vertical cavity surface emitting laser array with integrated photodetector A vertical cavity surface emitting laser array with an integrated PIN photodiode. The PIN photodiode includes a first region of a first doped material, a second region of an undoped material and a third region composed of an n-doped stack of distributed B... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6022410 | Alkaline-earth metal silicides on silicon A method of forming a thin silicide layer on a silicon substrate 12 including heating the surface of the substrate to a temperature of approximately 500° C. to 750° C. and directing an atomic beam of silicon 18 and an atomic beam of an alkaline-earth me... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5985417 | Polymer stabilized molecular whole transporting materials for organic electroluminescence displays An organic electroluminescent display device (10) includes a plurality of organic layers (16, 18, 20, 22 and 24) disposed between opposing electrodes (14 and 26). The hole transporting layer (22) is composed of a hole transporting material stabilized by a... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5956568 | Methods of fabricating and contacting ultra-small semiconductor devices A method of fabricating ultra-small semiconductor devices including providing a mesa on a substrate. A plurality of overlying layers of semiconductor material are grown in overlying relationship to the mesa so that a perpendicular discontinuity is produce... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5942952 | VCO with multiple negative differential resistance devices A VCO includes a transistor having a plurality of negative differential resistance devices coupled in series to the source terminal of the transistor, with each of the devices having a negative differential resistance operating region. Biasing circuits ar... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5940319 | Magnetic random access memory and fabricating method thereof An improved and novel MRAM device with magnetic memory elements and circuitry for controlling magnetic memory elements is provided. The circuitry, for example, transistor (12a) having a gate (17a), a drain (18) and a source (16a) is integrated on a substr... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5904553 | Fabrication method for a gate quality oxide-compound semiconductor structure A method of fabricating a gate quality oxide-compound semiconductor structure includes forming an insulating Ga2 O3 layer on the surface of a compound semiconductor wafer structure by a supersonic gas jet containing gallium oxide mol... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5905750 | Semiconductor laser package and method of fabrication A semiconductor laser package including a laser chip mounted to an uppermost surface of a leadframe, and a molded structure at least partially encapsulating the laser chip. The laser chip composed of a vertical cavity surface emitting laser and an optiona... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5902130 | Thermal processing of oxide-compound semiconductor structures A method of thermal processing a supporting structure comprised of various compound semiconductor layers having a Gd free Ga2 O3 surface layer including coating the surface layer with a dielectric or a metallic cap layer or combinati... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5903586 | Long wavelength vertical cavity surface emitting laser A VCSEL for emitting long wavelength light including a GaAs substrate element, a first mirror stack with mirror pairs in a GaAs/AlGaAs material system lattice matched to a GaInAsN active region with an active structure sandwiched between a first cladding ... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5902677 | Modified anode for a display device An organic electroluminescent display device (10) includes a plurality of organic layers (16, 18, and 20) disposed between opposing electrode assemblies (12 and 14). One electrode assembly (12), the anode assembly, is fabricated of a substrate (22) and el... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5897627 | Method of determining statistically meaningful rules A method including providing a database with a plurality of items, each item having several attributes, and developing and displaying a cluster map (SOM) attribute plane from the items and attributes, including clusters of items having similar attributes.... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5898612 | Magnetic memory cell with increased GMR ratio First and second layers of magnetic material are stacked in parallel, overlying relationship and separated by a first layer of non-magnetic material sandwiched therebetween to form a magnetic memory cell. A layer of oxide (e.g. NiO) is positioned on eithe... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5893721 | Method of manufacture of active matrix LED array A method of fabricating an active matrix LED array includes forming layers of material on a substrate, which layers cooperate to emit light when activated. Row and column dividers are formed in the layers to divide the layers into an array of LEDs arrange... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5888662 | Modified electrodes for display devices An organic electroluminescent display device (10) includes a plurality of organic layers (16, 18, and 20) disposed between opposing electrode assemblies (12 and 14). One electrode assembly, for example the anode assembly (12), may be fabricated of a subst... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5886464 | Organic electroluminescent device with emission from hole transporting layer An organic EL device comprises a cathode, an electron transporting layer (ETL), a hole transporting layer (HTL) and an anode which are laminated in sequence, wherein the materials making up the ETL and HTL are so selected that the energy barrier for hole ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5886972 | Recording information in a phase change optical medium with a vertical cavity surface emitting laser An apparatus for changing the phase of an optical storage medium changeable between a reflective phase and a dispersive phase. The apparatus including a quasi-multimode vertical cavity surface emitting laser constructed to provide a laser beam in a square... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5866922 | Color display with integrated semiconductor leds and organic electroluminescent devices An integrated matrix of light emitting devices includes a plurality of isolated semiconductor LEDs positioned in a matrix of rows and columns on the surface of a substrate. A plurality of column buses, one each positioned adjacent each column of semicondu... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5861328 | Method of fabricating GMR devices A method of fabricating GMR devices on a CMOS substrate structure with a semiconductor device formed therein. The method includes forming a dielectric system with a planar surface having a roughness in a range of 1 Å to 20 Å RMS on the substrate; dispos... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5859497 | Stand-alone spacer for a flat panel display A stand-alone spacer for use in a flat-panel display includes a plurality of members being joined at a common axis. A first one of the members is a load-bearing member; a second one of the members is a stabilizing member. The load bearing member extends i... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5853905 | Efficient single layer electroluminescent device An electroluminescent device is composed of a body of small molecule organic material(s) sandwiched between a first and a second electrode, wherein a layer of first insulative material is placed between the body of small molecule organic material(s) and t... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5848086 | Electrically confined VCSEL A semiconductive substrate (101) with a surface (102) having a first stack of distributed Bragg reflectors (109) disposed on the surface (102) of the semiconductive substrate (101) that has dot patterned features (252 and 354). A first cladding region (11... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5846609 | Masking methods for semiconductor materials A method of forming a mask including providing a fluid from a group including oxygen based, nitrogen based, or carbon based fluids, introducing a substrate of semiconductor material into the fluid, and growing a film with thickness in a range of 10-20 Å ... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5838608 | Multi-layer magnetic random access memory and method for fabricating thereof A new magnetic random access memory (MRAM) unit (30) is provided suitable for fabricating a MRAM device (20). The MRAM cell includes a magnetic storage element (32) and a current control element (33), for example, a diode, connected to the magnetic storag... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5838703 | Semiconductor laser package with power monitoring system and optical element A semiconductor laser package including a mounting structure at least partially encapsulating a vertical cavity surface emitting laser and a photodetector. The vertical cavity surface emitting laser generating an emission along a path. The photodetector o... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5838705 | Light emitting device having a defect inhibition layer A first stack (112) of distributed Bragg reflectors, a first cladding region (114) disposed on the first stack of distributed Bragg reflectors (112) and including a defect inhibition layer (117) an active area (122) disposed on the first cladding region (... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5838707 | Ultraviolet/visible light emitting vertical cavity surface emitting laser and method of fabrication An ultraviolet/blue/green vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) for use in high density data storage that includes the fabrication of a VCSEL structure on a metallic single crystal substrate. The metallic single crystal substrate is utilized as a... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5838416 | Device and method for enhancing the viewing angle of a display A device and method for enhancing the viewing angle of a display including the positioning of a liquid crystal beam deflector on display device, such as a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal beam deflector is capable of deflecting a display ... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5838607 | Spin polarized apparatus Spin polarized apparatus includes a spin polarizing section of magnetic material with an electron input port and a polarized electron port and a transport section of magnetic material with a polarized electron input port electrically coupled to the polari... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5837560 | Method of masking substrates leaving exposed facets A method of masking a substrate to leave an exposed facet for processing during fabrication of a semiconductor devices including providing a substrate formed of a semiconductor material and having a structure projecting therefrom, the structure including ... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5835521 | Long wavelength light emitting vertical cavity surface emitting laser and method of fabrication A longwavelength vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) for use in optical telecommunications and method of fabrication that includes the fabrication of an active VCSEL structure on a supporting substrate and the fabrication of a highly reflective... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5831295 | Current confinement via defect generator and hetero-interface interaction A semiconductor device including a plurality of layers of material defining a diffusion barrier. A defect generator positioned on the plurality of layers in overlying relationship to the diffusion barrier so as to produce a collection of defects at the di... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5831960 | Integrated vertical cavity surface emitting laser pair for high density data storage and method of fabrication An integrated vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) pair for use in an optical pickup head for high density optical storage applications and a method of fabrication. The VCSEL pair includes a high power VCSEL capable of emitting a power output of... | 11/03/1998 |
