Qualcomm Incorporated

Trillion Science, Inc.

Chin-Jen Tseng

Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh

Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev

Yipeng Lu

Jessica Liu Strohmann

Nicholas Ian Buchan

Shiang-Chi Lin

Min-Lun Yang

Tsongming Kao

Chia-Wei Yang

Ila Ravindra Badge

Rong-Chang Liang

John Keith Schneider

David William Burns

Leonard Eugene Fennell

Jae Hyeong Seo

Maung Aung

Mario Francisco Velez

Suryaprakash Ganti

Jack Conway Kitchens

Firas Sammoura

Sandeep Louis D'Souza

Raj Kumar

Stephen Michael Gojevic

Sai Praneeth Sreeram

Fitzgerald John Archibald

Jack Conway Kitchens, Ii

Evan Michael Breloff

Alexei Stoianov

James Anthony Miranto

Chiapu Chang

Ali Lopez

Emily Kathryn Brooks

Nirma Lnu

Jon Gregory Aday

Yuhao Sun

Shuji Rokutanda

Camilo Perez Saaibi

Zhiyao An

An-Yu Ma

Jiannrong Lee

Sumit Agrawal

Legardo Reyes

Bernard Herrera Soukup

Michelle Ma Thin Thin Htay Chan

Ta-Ching Wu

Jia Yen Leong

Some disclosed examples pertain to an apparatus that can include a platen, a light source system, a receiver system, and an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield. The light source system can include light source system circuitry, a light-emitting component, and a light guide component having a substantially uniform cross-section. The light-emitting component provides light to an area of the platen via the light guide component. The receiver system can include at least two receiver stack portions residing proximate on either side of the light guide component. The receiver system detects acoustic waves corresponding to a photoacoustic response of a target object proximate the area of the platen, to light emitted by the light source system. The EMI shield shields the receiver system from at least some of the EMI produced by the light source system circuitry. The light guide component conveys light through a portion of the EMI shield.

Compact photoacoustic sensor

Disclosed are methods, devices, apparatuses, and systems for an under-display ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. A display device may include a platen, a display underlying the platen, and an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor underlying the display, where the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor is configured to transmit and receive ultrasonic waves via an acoustic path through the platen and the display. A light-blocking layer and/or an electrical shielding layer may be provided between the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor and the display, where the light-blocking layer and/or the electrical shielding layer are in the acoustic path. A mechanical stress isolation layer may be provided between the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor and the display, where the mechanical stress isolation layer is in the acoustic path.

Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor for under-display applications

An apparatus may include an ultrasonic sensor stack, a foldable display stack and a transmission enhancement layer. The foldable display stack may include a display stiffener and display stack layers. The display stack layers may form one or more display stack resonators configured to enhance ultrasonic waves transmitted by the ultrasonic sensor stack in a first ultrasonic frequency range. In some implementations, a transmission enhancement resonator may include the display stiffener and the transmission enhancement layer. In some examples, the transmission enhancement resonator may include at least a portion of the ultrasonic sensor stack. The transmission enhancement resonator may be configured to enhance the ultrasonic waves transmitted by the ultrasonic sensor stack in the first ultrasonic frequency range.

Under-display ultrasonic fingerprint sensors for foldable displays

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. In some aspects, a device may include a flexible display. The device may include an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor that is configured to transmit and receive an ultrasonic signal in an acoustic path through the flexible display. The device may include an acoustics configuration layer that is situated between the display and the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. The acoustics configuration layer may be configured to optimize a signal strength of the ultrasonic signal based at least in part on a configuration of one or more layers of the flexible display. Numerous other aspects are provided

Configuration of an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor relative to a display of a device

An apparatus includes an ultrasonic sensor stack, a foldable display stack that includes a display stiffener, and an additional stiffener between the ultrasonic sensor stack and the foldable display stack. The additional stiffener forms an acoustic resonator with the display stiffener and an adhesive layer between the display stiffener and the additional stiffener in order to amplify transmission of ultrasonic waves transmitted by the ultrasonic sensor stack. The additional stiffener includes a material having a high modulus of elasticity, low density, and high acoustic impedance value. In some cases, the additional stiffener includes a metal, a ceramic, a glass, or a glass ceramic. The additional stiffener increases an overall stiffness and mechanical integrity of the apparatus so that a foam backer may be omitted from the ultrasonic sensor stack.

Ultrasonic sensor system and multi-layer stiffener for foldable display

An ultrasonic fingerprint sensor system of the present disclosure may be provided with a flexible substrate. The ultrasonic fingerprint sensor system may include a film stack disposed on the flexible substrate that provides acceptable acoustic coupling for fingerprint sensing. The ultrasonic fingerprint sensor system includes a high acoustic impedance layer in an acoustic path of ultrasonic waves through a display. The high acoustic impedance layer can be electrically conductive or electrically nonconductive. In some implementations, the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor system includes an ultrasonic transceiver or an ultrasonic transmitter separate from an ultrasonic receiver.

Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor with flexible substrate

An apparatus may include a cover layer, a layer of first metamaterial proximate (or in) the cover layer, a light source system configured for providing light to the layer of first metamaterial and a receiver system. The first metamaterial may include nanoparticles configured to create ultrasonic waves when illuminated by light. The receiver system may include an ultrasonic receiver system configured to receive ultrasonic waves reflected from a target object in contact with, or proximate, a surface of the cover layer. The control system may be configured to receive ultrasonic receiver signals from the ultrasonic receiver system corresponding to the ultrasonic waves reflected from the target object and to perform an authentication process and/or an imaging process that is based, at least in part, on the ultrasonic receiver signals.

Fingerprint sensor system including metamaterial

A fingerprint sensor device includes a sensor substrate, a plurality of sensor circuits over a first surface of the sensor substrate, and a transceiver layer located over the plurality of sensor circuits and the first surface of the sensor substrate. The transceiver layer includes a piezoelectric layer and a transceiver electrode positioned over the piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layer and the transceiver electrode are configured to generate one or more ultrasonic waves or to receive one or more ultrasonic waves. The fingerprint sensor device may include a cap coupled to the sensor substrate and a cavity formed between the cap and the sensor substrate. The cavity and the sensor substrate may form an acoustic barrier.

Fingerprint sensor device and methods thereof

An ultrasonic fingerprint sensor system of the present disclosure may be provided with a thick electrically nonconductive acoustic layer and thin electrode layer coupled to a piezoelectric layer of an ultrasonic transmitter or transceiver. The thick electrically nonconductive acoustic layer may have a high density or high acoustic impedance value, and may be adjacent to the piezoelectric layer. The thin electrode layer may be divided into electrode segments. The ultrasonic fingerprint sensor system may use flexible or rigid substrates, and may use an ultrasonic transceiver or an ultrasonic transmitter separate from an ultrasonic receiver.

Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor with electrically nonconductive acoustic layer

A carrier belt for fabricating a device or component such as an anisotropic conductive film. The carrier belt includes a substrate having a sacrificial image enhancing layer. Microcavities are formed in the carrier by laser ablation through the image enhancing layer. After the image enhancement layer is removed, a plurality of conductive particles are distributed into an array of microcavities formed by laser ablation on a surface of a carrier belt and transferred to an adhesive layer. The image enhancing layer enables one to form microcavities with a fine pitch and spacing and partitions having a high aspect ratio.

Microcavity carrier with image enhancement for laser ablation

A method for fabricating an electronic device or component such as an anisotropic conductive film comprising: distributing a plurality of conductive particles into an array of microcavities formed on a surface of a continuous carrier belt, rotating the belt carrying the conductive particles while conveying a surface of an adhesive layer into contact with the surface of the rotating belt, transferring the conductive particles from the microcavities on the belt to the adhesive layer in predefined locations in the adhesive layer corresponding to the array of microcavities on the belt, and separating the adhesive layer from the surface of the belt. In one embodiment, the position of the microcavities is varied in a controlled manner.

Microcavity carrier belt and method of manufacture

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