The State University of New York

Gerald L Leake

Douglas Duane Coolbaugh

Thomas N Adam

Douglas La Tulipe

Christopher V Baiocco

There is set forth herein a method including fabricating a photonics structure having one or more photonics device. The method can include forming one or more conductive material formation for communicating electrical signals to and/or from the one or more photonics device.

Fabricating photonics structure conductive pathways

There is set forth herein an optoelectrical device, comprising: a substrate; an interposer dielectric stack formed on the substrate, the interposer dielectric stack including a base interposer dielectric stack, a photonics device dielectric stack, and a bond layer that integrally bonds the photonics device dielectric stack to the base interposer dielectric stack. There is set forth herein a method comprising building an interposer base structure on a first wafer having a first substrate, including fabricating a plurality of through vias in the first substrate and fabricating within an interposer base dielectric stack formed on the first substrate one or more metallization layers; and building a photonics structure on a second wafer having a second substrate, including fabricating one or more photonics devices within a photonics device dielectric stack formed on the second substrate.

Wafer scale bonded active photonics interposer

A photonic structure can include in one aspect one or more waveguides formed by patterning of waveguiding material adapted to propagate light energy. Such waveguiding material may include one or more of silicon (single-, poly-, or non-crystalline) and silicon nitride.

Integrated photonics including waveguiding material

There is set forth herein an optoelectrical system comprising: a conductive path for supplying an input voltage to a photonics device, wherein the conductive path comprises a base structure through via extending through a substrate and a photonics structure through via, the photonics structure through via extending through a photonics device dielectric stack. There is set forth herein an optoelectrical system comprising: a second structure fusion bonded to an interposer base dielectric stack of a first structure. There is set forth herein a method comprising: fabricating a second wafer built structure using a second wafer, the second wafer built structure defining a photonics structure and having a photonics device integrated into a photonics device dielectric stack of the second wafer based structure; and wafer scale bonding the second wafer built structure to a first wafer built structure.

Integrated photonics including germanium

There is set forth herein a method including building an interposer base structure on a first wafer having a first substrate, wherein the building an interposer base structure includes fabricating a plurality of through vias that extend through the first substrate and fabricating within an interposer base dielectric stack formed on the first substrate one or more metallization layer; building a photonics structure on a second wafer having a second substrate, wherein the building a photonics structure includes fabricating within a photonics device dielectric stack formed on the second substrate one or more photonics device; and bonding the photonics structure to the interposer base structure to define an interposer having the interposer base structure and one or more photonics device fabricated within the photonics device dielectric stack. There is set forth herein an optoelectrical system including a substrate; an interposer dielectric stack formed on the substrate, the interposer dielectric stack including a base interposer dielectric stack, and a photonics device dielectric stack, and a bond layer dielectric stack that integrally bonds the photonics device dielectric stack to the base interposer dielectric stack.

A semiconductor structure can include an active device FET region having a FET and a photonics region having a photonic device including a waveguide. A semiconductor structure can include an active device FET region having a FET and a trench isolation region having a photonic device that includes a waveguide. A method can include forming a FET at an active device FET region of a semiconductor structure. A method can include forming a photonic device at a trench isolation region of a semiconductor structure.

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Delmar, NY, United States of America

Gerald L Leake