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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178384 | Interfacial architecture for nanostructured optoelectronic devices An optoelectronic apparatus, a method for making the apparatus, and the use of the apparatus in an optoelectronic device are disclosed. The apparatus may include an active layer having a nanostructured network layer with a network of regularly spaced structures with... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8173481 | Thin film deposition apparatus and method of manufacturing organic light-emitting display device by using thin film deposition apparatus A thin film deposition apparatus to remove static electricity generated between a substrate and a mask, and a method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display device using the thin film deposition apparatus. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8153468 | Light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same A light emitting device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The light emitting device comprises a substrate, a gate electrode positioned on the substrate, a first insulating layer positioned on the substrate comprising the gate electrode, an amorpho... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8114703 | Organic EL device According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing an organic EL device includes providing a structure including a substrate and an electrode positioned above the substrate, and forming an organic layer including a mixture of first and second organic materials a... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8105865 | Liquid charge transporting material The present invention relates to optoelectronic and/or electrochemical devices comprising an organic charge transporting material which is liquid at a temperature of ≦180° C. In particular in dye-sensitised solar cells, quantum efficiency higher than with prior a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8080438 | Organic semiconductor film forming method, organic semiconductor film and organic thin film transistor A method for forming an organic semiconductor film having a high carrier mobility is provided by having an average volatilization rate of a solvent within a prescribed range during a step of drying, at the time of applying a coating solution, which includes an organ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8058094 | Transistor, method of fabricating the same and organic light emitting display including the transistor A transistor includes; at least two polycrystalline silicon layers disposed substantially parallel to each other, each polycrystalline silicon layer including a channel region and at least two high conductivity regions disposed at opposing sides of the channel regio... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8058093 | Method of forming an encapsulating electrode An organic photosensitive optoelectronic device is formed in which the organic photoconductive materials are encapsulated by an electrode of the device. A first transparent film is provided that comprises a first electrically conductive material, arranged on a trans... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8008109 | Flat display active plate A method for manufacturing the active plate of a flat matrix display screen, in which each cell comprises an electrode plate connected by a transistor to a first conductive line, comprising the steps of providing an outgrowth coated with an insulator of each first c... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7998783 | Manufacturing method for organic light emitting device A method for manufacturing an organic light emitting device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes an organic light emitting diode comprising a first electrode, a light emission layer, and a second electrode on a substrate; forming a first protection f... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7989255 | Optical device A method of forming an optical device comprising the steps of: providing a substrate comprising a first electrode capable of injecting or accepting charge carriers of a first type; forming over the first electrode a first layer that is at least partially insoluble i... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7955889 | Organic photosensitive cells grown on rough electrode with nano-scale morphology control An optoelectronic device and a method for fabricating the optoelectronic device includes a first electrode disposed on a substrate, an exposed surface of the first electrode having a root mean square roughness of at least 30 nm and a height variation of at least 200... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7892878 | Organic light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same Provided are a method of manufacturing an organic light emitting device. The method includes forming an electron injection layer by vacuum co-depositing an organic semiconductor material having an electron mobility of about 1×10−6 cm2/V·s o... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7888163 | Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same An object is to increase resistance against an electrostatic breakdown and to increase resistance to an external stress. Another object is to reduce cost by simplifying the manufacturing process. In a step in which an element formation layer is provided between a fi... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7883927 | Method and apparatus to sort nanotubes Methods and systems for sorting nanostructures, such as nanodot or nanotubes, are described. The sorting of the nanostructures removes remnants of the nanotube fabrication from the mixture or bundle of material. The sorting includes suspending the mixture in a plasm... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7883928 | Image sensor and fabricating method thereof An image sensor and fabricating method thereof are provided. The image sensor can include a color filter on a semiconductor substrate, a microlens on the color filter layer, and a carbon-doped low temperature oxide layer on the microlens. ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7871852 | Method for fabricating carbon-enriched film A method for fabricating a carbon-enriched film includes the following steps. First, a substrate is provided. Next, a CFx film (fluorinated carbon films) containing carbon-fluoride bonded molecules is formed on the substrate. Next, a treatment process is ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7871851 | Method for integrating nanotube devices with CMOS for RF/analog SoC applications A method is provided of integrating the formation of nanotube devices on the same substrate or wafer as CMOS devices in a standard CMOS process. During a CMOS formation process, a region of the substrate containing CMOS devices is protected from certain nanotube fab... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7867811 | Encapsulated organic luminescent display panel and method for manufacturing the same Provided is a display panel comprised of a white color organic luminescent element and a color filter for full color implementation, wherein a substrate in which an organic luminescent element is formed and a color filter are assembled and fixed to face each other w... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7863081 | Field effect transistor and method of manufacturing the same Provided is a field effect transistor having an organic semiconductor layer, in which crystal grains having a maximum diameter of 10 μm or more account for 25% or more of the surface area of the organic semiconductor layer. The organic semiconductor layer preferabl... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7833820 | Nanoparticle containing siloxane polymers A method of producing a polymer composition for semiconductor optoelectronics, comprising the steps of providing at least one type of disilane monomer which is homo- or copolymerized to form a (co)polymer and then combined with nanoparticles to provide a polymer com... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7816171 | Component packaging apparatus, systems, and methods Dielectric materials comprising release agents are described. Also described are a process for improving the processability of dielectric materials during hot embossing, substrates prepared by hot embossing, and integrated-circuit packages comprising the improved su... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7754521 | Dual panel type organic electroluminescent device An organic electroluminescent device includes first and second substrates facing each other and spaced apart from each other, each of the first and second substrates having a first region and a second region in a periphery of the first region; an array element on an... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7754520 | Donor film and methods for fabricating patterned organic electroluminescent devices using the same A donor film has a soft polymer film and a transfer layer to be transferred which is formed on the soft polymer film. When fabricating a patterned organic electroluminescent device using the donor film for thin film transfer, the transfer layer is transferred even w... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7745252 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof It is an object of the present invention to manufacture, with high yield, a semiconductor device in which an element that has a layer containing an organic compound is provided over a flexible substrate. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: fo... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7741145 | Highly efficient organic light-emitting device using substrate or electrode having nanosized half-spherical convex and method for preparing the same The present invention provides a transparent substance formed with a plurality of continuous half-spherical convexes having a diameter of 25˜1,000 nm on its first main surface; an organic light-emitting device comprising a substrate, a first electrode, an organic m... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7727795 | Exponentially doped layers in inverted metamorphic multijunction solar cells A method of forming a multijunction solar cell including an upper subcell, a middle subcell, and a lower subcell, including providing first substrate for the epitaxial growth of semiconductor material; forming a first solar subcell on the substrate having a first ba... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7682864 | Method for fabricating organic electroluminescent device A method for fabricating an organic electroluminescent device (OLED) includes the following steps. First, a substrate is provided. Next, an anode layer is formed on the substrate. Next, a buffer layer is formed on the anode layer, wherein the buffer layer include a ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7648852 | Low-voltage organic thin film transistor and fabrication method thereof The present invention provides an organic thin film transistor (OTFT) being operatable at a low-voltage. The OTFT has a gate dielectric layer of ultra-thin metal oxide or a dual gate dielectric layer of metal oxide and organic dielectric. The metal oxide layer is se... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7638356 | Controlled growth of larger heterojunction interface area for organic photosensitive devices An optoelectronic device and a method of fabricating a photosensitive optoelectronic device includes depositing a first organic semiconductor material on a first electrode to form a continuous first layer having protrusions, a side of the first layer opposite the fi... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7618838 | Hybrid solar cells based on nanostructured semiconductors and organic materials A method for forming a photovoltaic cell which includes forming a nanostructured layer in a semiconductor material having a plurality of pores opening onto a surface, the plurality of pores having a depth greater than about 1 micron and a diameter between about 5 na... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7598111 | Thin film transistor and method of manufacturing the same A thin film transistor and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. More specifically, there is provided a thin film transistor having a thin film transistor and a method of manufacturing the same wherein an inorganic layer and an organic planarization laye... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7544534 | Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and method of fabrication thereof An OLED includes a substrate having a circuit region and a pixel region. At least one circuit Thin Film Transistor (TFT) and at least one pixel TFT are respectively arranged on the circuit region and the pixel region. Each TFT has a semiconductor layer, a gate elect... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7534646 | Method of fabricating an organic field transistor The present invention provides an organic field effect transistor and a method of fabricating the transistor. The transistor includes a semiconductive film comprising organic molecules. Probe molecules capable of binding to target molecules are coupled to an outer s... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7531377 | Optical device A method of forming an optical device comprising the steps of: providing a substrate comprising a first electrode capable of injecting or accepting charge carriers of a first type; forming over the first electrode a first layer that is at least partially insoluble i... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7507601 | Encapsulated organic luminescent display panel and method for manufacturing the same Provided is a display panel comprised of a white color organic luminescent element and a color filter for full color implementation, wherein a substrate in which an organic luminescent element is formed and a color filter are assembled and fixed to face each other w... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7491572 | Method for fabricating an image sensor mounted by mass reflow A package for semiconductor image pickup device is provided. The package is fabricated by using flip chip bumping. During deposition process of forming a metallic bonding layer and a metal layer for plating, a surface of a semiconductor image pickup device is mainta... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7445953 | Low temperature curable materials for optical applications The invention relates to low temperature curable spin-on glass materials which are useful for electronic applications, such as optical devices. A substantially crack-free and substantially void-free silicon polymer film is produced by (a) preparing a composition com... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7435630 | Active matrix type organic light emitting diode device and fabrication method thereof An active matrix type organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) device and its fabrication method are discussed. In one embodiment, an OLED device includes an EL configured to emit light, a driving TFT configured to control the EL, a storage capacitor coupled to the dri... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435996 | Nanowire light emitting device and method of fabricating the same A nanowire light emitting device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The nanowire light emitting device includes a first conductive layer formed on a substrate, a plurality of nanowires vertically formed on the first conductive layer, each of the nano... | 10/14/2008 |