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Title: Optical systems fabricated by printing-based assembly

Abstract

Provided are optical devices and systems fabricated, at least in part, via printing-based assembly and integration of device components. In specific embodiments the present invention provides light emitting systems, light collecting systems, light sensing systems and photovoltaic systems comprising printable semiconductor elements, including large area, high performance macroelectronic devices. Optical systems of the present invention comprise semiconductor elements assembled, organized and/or integrated with other device components via printing techniques that exhibit performance characteristics and functionality comparable to single crystalline semiconductor based devices fabricated using conventional high temperature processing methods. Optical systems of the present invention have device geometries and configurations, such as form factors, component densities, and component positions, accessed by printing that provide a range of useful device functionalities. Optical systems of the present invention include devices and device arrays exhibiting a range of useful physical and mechanical properties including flexibility, shapeability, conformability and stretchablity.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1131021
Patent Number(s):
8722458
Application Number:
13/100,774
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, IL); Semprius, Inc. (Durham, NC)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B81 - MICROSTRUCTURAL TECHNOLOGY B81C - PROCESSES OR APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B82 - NANOTECHNOLOGY B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES
DOE Contract Number:  
FG02-91ER45439
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION

Citation Formats

Rogers, John, Nuzzo, Ralph, Meitl, Matthew, Menard, Etienne, Baca, Alfred J, Motala, Michael, Ahn, Jong-Hyun, Park, Sang-Il, Yu, Chang-Jae, Ko, Heung Cho, Stoykovich, Mark, and Yoon, Jongseung. Optical systems fabricated by printing-based assembly. United States: N. p., 2014. Web.
Rogers, John, Nuzzo, Ralph, Meitl, Matthew, Menard, Etienne, Baca, Alfred J, Motala, Michael, Ahn, Jong-Hyun, Park, Sang-Il, Yu, Chang-Jae, Ko, Heung Cho, Stoykovich, Mark, & Yoon, Jongseung. Optical systems fabricated by printing-based assembly. United States.
Rogers, John, Nuzzo, Ralph, Meitl, Matthew, Menard, Etienne, Baca, Alfred J, Motala, Michael, Ahn, Jong-Hyun, Park, Sang-Il, Yu, Chang-Jae, Ko, Heung Cho, Stoykovich, Mark, and Yoon, Jongseung. Tue . "Optical systems fabricated by printing-based assembly". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1131021.
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abstractNote = {Provided are optical devices and systems fabricated, at least in part, via printing-based assembly and integration of device components. In specific embodiments the present invention provides light emitting systems, light collecting systems, light sensing systems and photovoltaic systems comprising printable semiconductor elements, including large area, high performance macroelectronic devices. Optical systems of the present invention comprise semiconductor elements assembled, organized and/or integrated with other device components via printing techniques that exhibit performance characteristics and functionality comparable to single crystalline semiconductor based devices fabricated using conventional high temperature processing methods. Optical systems of the present invention have device geometries and configurations, such as form factors, component densities, and component positions, accessed by printing that provide a range of useful device functionalities. Optical systems of the present invention include devices and device arrays exhibiting a range of useful physical and mechanical properties including flexibility, shapeability, conformability and stretchablity.},
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Alpha-particle protection of semiconductor devices
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Screen printed organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) on a flexible substrate
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Morphology of nanostructured materials
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Vertical Etching of Silicon at very High Aspect Ratios
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Ink-Jet Printing of Binders for Ceramic Components
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Atomic Force Microscopy of Atomic-Scale Ledges and Etch Pits Formed During Dissolution of Quartz
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CMOL FPGA: a reconfigurable architecture for hybrid digital circuits with two-terminal nanodevices
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Coating system transparent to light and reflecting thermal radiation
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Web process interconnect in electronic assemblies
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Electrical imaging of neuronal activity by multi-transistor-array (MTA) recording at 7.8 μm resolution
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Scalable Interconnection and Integration of Nanowire Devices without Registration
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Nanotechnology: High-speed integrated nanowire circuits
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Free-standing Single Crystal Silicon Nanoribbons
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Toward Paperlike Displays
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Soft, conformable electrical contacts for organic semiconductors: High-resolution plastic circuits by lamination
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Micromachining of three-dimensional GaAs membrane structures using high-energy nitrogen implantation
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Flexible a-Si:H Position-Sensitive Detectors
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Polymer-controlled growth of Sb2Se3 nanoribbons via a hydrothermal process
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Ultrathin Silicon Circuits With Strain-Isolation Layers and Mesh Layouts for High-Performance Electronics on Fabric, Vinyl, Leather, and Paper
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Inkjet Printing of Functional Materials
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Controlled Growth of Large-Area, Uniform, Vertically Aligned Arrays of α-Fe2O3 Nanobelts and Nanowires
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Photon confinement in high-efficiency, thin-film III–V solar cells obtained by epitaxial lift-off
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Surface-functionalized inorganic semiconductor particles as electrical semiconductors for microelectronics applications
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Holographic photonic crystals with diamond symmetry
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Application of carbon nanotubes to field emission displays
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Vectorial Growth of Metallic and Semiconducting Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
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Analog and digital circuits using organic thin-film transistors on polyester substrates
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3-D ICs: a novel chip design for improving deep-submicrometer interconnect performance and systems-on-chip integration
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High-κ dielectrics for advanced carbon-nanotube transistors and logic gates
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One-dimensional hole gas in germanium/silicon nanowire heterostructures
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A Novel Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Micromachined Silicon Solar Cell
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Functionalized silicon membranes for selective bio-organism capture
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Extraordinary Mobility in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes
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Collapse of stamps for soft lithography due to interfacial adhesion
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Printed plastic electronics and paperlike displays
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Backplanes for display applications, and components for use therein
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Printed thin-film transistors and complementary logic gates that use polymer-coated single-walled carbon nanotube networks
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Preparation of thin-film transistors with chemical bath deposited CdSe and CdS thin films
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An Efficient Two-Photon-Generated Photoacid Applied to Positive-Tone 3D Microfabrication
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High-performance poly-Si TFTs on plastic substrates using a nano-structured separation layer approach
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Catalytic Amplification of the Soft Lithographic Patterning of Si. Nonelectrochemical Orthogonal Fabrication of Photoluminescent Porous Si Pixel Arrays
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Adhesion enhancement by a dielectric barrier discharge of PDMS used for flexible and stretchable electronics
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Improved field emission properties from metal-coated diamond films
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