Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Gazillion Bits, Inc.

W&wsens, Devices, Inc.

Intel Corporation

Attollo Engineering, LLC

Idea Zoo, Inc.

M Saif Islam

Shih-Yuan Wang

Philip John Kuekes

Zhiyong Li

Richard Stanley Williams

Alexandre M Bratkovski

Wei E Wu

Raymond G Beausoleil

Yong Qin Chen

Nobuhiko P Kobayashi

Theodore I Kamins

Shashank Sharma

Shih-Ping Wang

Miao Zhu

Alex Bratkovski

Zuhua Zhu

Haiqing Wei

Gun Young Jung

Mohammad A Abdallah

Duncan R Stewart

William M Tong

Scott E Siers

Pieter Stroeve

Ray Beausoleil

Ben Shand Farber

Bora Onat

Edmond Edward Routhier

A back-illuminated photo detector array (PDA) includes a front side and a back side. The back side receives optical energy incident on the back side at an incident direction. The front side includes a detection layer that includes detection structures and a plurality of photon-trapping nanostructures (PTN). The PTN cause optical energy incident on the back side to disperse in a direction perpendicular to the incident direction, and thereby improve an absorption efficiency of the back-illuminated PDA.

Responsivity enhanced photodetector with photon-trapping nanostructures

Microstructure enhanced photodiodes and avalanche photodiodes are monolithically integrated with CMOS/BiCMOS circuitry such as transimpedance amplifiers. Microstructures, such as holes, can improve quantum efficiency in silicon and III-V materials and can also reduce avalanche voltages for avalanche photodiodes. Applications include optical communications within and between datacenters, telecommunications, LIDAR, and free space data communication.

Microstructure enhanced absorption photosensitive devices

A device for manipulating colloidal particles in a bistable medium, the device includes a microcontroller, which stores a color and/or design scheme for a bistable medium, and a mechanism for changing the bistable medium from a first state to a second state.

Apparatus to manipulate colloidal particles in a bistable medium

A gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier comprises: at least one first surface; at least one second surface, each second surface facing and electrically isolated from a respective first surface; a plurality of nanowires connecting each opposing pair of the first and second surfaces in a bridging configuration; and a signal waveguide overlapping the nanowires such that an optical signal traveling along the signal waveguide is amplified by energy provided by electrical excitation of the nanowires.

Gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifiers

Nanowire-based opto-electronic devices including nanowire lasers, photodetectors and semiconductor optical amplifiers are disclosed. The devices include nanowires grown from single crystal and/or non-single surfaces. The semiconductor optical amplifiers include nanowire arrays that act as ballast lasers to amplify a signal carried by a signal waveguide. Embodiments of the nanowire lasers and photodetectors include horizontal and vertical nanowires that can provide different polarizations.

Nanowire-based opto-electronic device

One embodiment in accordance with the invention is an apparatus that can include a light emitting diode that is for of outputting light in the blue wavelength. Furthermore, the apparatus can also include a nanowire or nanoparticle coupled to a surface of the light emitting diode. Additionally, the apparatus can include an electrode coupled to the light emitting diode, wherein the nanowire or nanoparticle is for receiving and converting the light into red and green light that is output from the nanowire or nanoparticle.

Utilizing nanowire for generating white light

A patterned array of metallic nanostructures and fabrication thereof is described. A device comprises a patterned array of metallic columns vertically extending from a substrate. Each metallic column is formed by metallically coating one of an array of non-metallic nanowires catalytically grown from the substrate upon a predetermined lateral pattern of seed points placed thereon according to a nanoimprinting process. An apparatus for fabricating a patterned array of metallic nanostructures is also described.

Fabricating arrays of metallic nanostructures

An apparatus for controlling propagation of incident electromagnetic radiation is described, comprising a composite material having electromagnetically reactive cells of small dimension relative to a wavelength of the incident electromagnetic radiation. At least one of a capacitive and inductive property of at least one of the electromagnetically reactive cells is temporally controllable to allow temporal control of an associated effective refractive index encountered by the incident electromagnetic radiation while propagating through the composite material.

Composite material with controllable resonant cells

A nano-scale device and method of fabrication provide a nanowire having (111) vertical sidewalls. The nano-scale device includes a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate polished in a [110] direction, the nanowire, and an electrical contact at opposite ends of the nanowire. The method includes wet etching a semiconductor layer of the semiconductor-on-insulator substrate to form the nanowire extending between a pair of islands in the semiconductor layer. The method further includes depositing an electrically conductive material on the pair of islands to form the electrical contacts. A nano-pn diode includes the nanowire as a first nano-electrode, a pn-junction vertically stacked on the nanowire, and a second nano-electrode on a (110) horizontal planar end of the pn-junction. The nano-pn diode may be fabricated in an array of the diodes on the semiconductor-on-insulator substrate.

Nanowire device with (111) vertical sidewalls and method of fabrication

Irradiation devices and methods of amplification and irradiation are disclosed for displaying pixels and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) analysis. The devices include an optical modulator, which may be configured for operation in a variably transmissive state. An active region may be formed in an optical waveguide with the optical modulator configured substantially adjacent at least one surface of the active region.

Method and apparatus for pixel display and SERS analysis

A patterned array of metallic nanostructures and fabrication thereof is described. A plurality of nanowires is grown on a substrate, the plurality of nanowires being laterally arranged on the substrate in a predetermined array pattern. The plurality of nanowires is coated with a metal to generate a plurality of metal-coated nanowires. Vacancies between the metal-coated nanowires are filled in with a sacrificial material for stabilization, and the metal-coated nanowires are planarized. The sacrificial material is removed, the patterned array of metallic nanostructures being formed by the plurality of planarized metal-coated nanowires.

Fabrication of a photonic crystal is described. A patterned array of nanowires is formed, the nanowires extending outward from a surface, the nanowires comprising a catalytically grown nanowire material. Spaces between the nanowires are filled with a slab material, the patterned array of nanowires defining a patterned array of channels in the slab material. The nanowire material is then removed from the channels.

Photonic crystals with nanowire-based fabrication

A sensor apparatus includes a laser optically coupled to a photonic crystal structure configured to provide an evanescent field through a sensed medium region such that the photonic crystal structure functions as a cavity/resonator for the laser.

Photonic crystal laser sensors and methods

Different types of cooling devices using nanowires are described. For example, a cooling device may include a plurality of diamond nanowires coupled to a surface. The diamond nanowires conduct heat energy from the surface and dissipate the heat energy into a neighboring fluid.

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