Abstract:
A method for transferring layers containing semiconductor devices and/or circuits to substrates other than those on which these semiconductor devices and/or circuits have been originally fabricated. The method comprises fabricating the semiconductor devices and/or circuits, coating them with a protective layer of photoresist followed by coating with a layer of wax. A special perforated structure is then also wax coated and the waxed surface of the structure is brought into a contact with the waxed surface of photoresist. The original seed substrate is removed and the exposed surface is then coated with adhesive followed by dissolving wax through the opening in the perforated structure and attaching the layer with semiconductor devices and/or circuits to another permanent substrate. As an alternative, a disk-shaped water-soluble structure can be used instead of the perforated structure.
Abstract:
A phase shifter comprises a coarse phase tuning arrangement and a fine phase tuningarrangement. The coarse phase tuning arrangement provides a discrete number of phase shifts. The fine phase tuning arrangement includes a RLC network, having a resistor, an inductor and a capacitor. The fine phase tuning arrangement also comprisesan optical arrangement for varying the resistance value of the resistor. This phase shifter is able to obtain broadband, continuous 360o phase shifting also a Gigahertzfrequencies. It also allows close to linear phase shift versus frequency resulting in truetime delay capability, very low insertion loss and high value of maximum phase adjust.
Abstract:
A method for transferring of individual devices or circuit elements, fabricated on a semiconducting substrate, to a new substrate and placing said devices and elements in predetermined locations on the new substrate. The method comprises shaping the devices and circuits as truncated cones, lifting them off the original semiconducting substrates and depositing them en masse onto the new substrate, followed by their placing into receptors on the new substrate. The new substrate has preliminarily made receptors in a form of a truncated cone and the devices and circuits fill these receptors. Both the receptors and the devices and circuits have metallization contacts enabling to establish electrical contact between them. A method for real-time monitoring and verification of correctness of placement of the devices and circuits into the receptors by applying voltage pulse waveforms and measuring the resulting current pulse.
Abstract:
An agile spread spectrum waveform generator comprises a photonic oscillator and an optical heterodyne synthesizer. The photonic oscillator comprises a multi-tone optical comb generator for generating a series of RF comb lines on an optical carrier. The optical heterodyne synthesizer includes first and second phase-locked lasers; the first laser feeding the multi-tone optical comb generator and the second laser comprising a rapidly wavelength-tunable single tone laser whose output light provides a frequency translation reference. A photodetector is provided for heterodyning the frequency translation reference with the optical output of the photonic oscillator to generate an agile spread spectrum waveform.
Abstract:
A method for transferring layers containing semiconductor devices and/or circuits to substrates other than those on which these semiconductor devices and/or circuits have been originally fabricated. The method comprises fabricating the semiconductor devices and/or circuits, coating them with a protective layer of photoresist followed by coating with a layer of wax. A special perforated structure is then also wax coated and the waxed surface of the structure is brought into a contact with the waxed surface of photoresist. The original seed substrate is removed and the exposed surface is then coated with adhesive followed by dissolving wax through the openings in the perforated structure and attaching the layer with semiconductor devices and/or circuits to another permanent substrate. As an alternative, a disk-shaped water-soluble structure can be used instead of the perforated structure.
Abstract:
A chip-scale scanning lidar includes a two dimensional (2D) scanning micromirror for a transmit beam and a 2D scanning micromirror for a receive beam, a laser diode and a photodetector, a first waveguide and first grating outcoupler coupled to a front facet of the laser diode, a second waveguide and a second grating outcoupler coupled to a rear facet of the laser diode on a substrate. A first fixed micromirror, a second micromirror, a third micromirror, and a focusing component are in a dielectric layer bonded to the substrate over the laser diode and photodetector. The photodetector is optically coupled to the second fixed micromirror and the third fixed micromirror for coherent detection.
Abstract:
In a method and apparatus for converting optical wavelength division multiplexed channels to wireless channels, the information carrying optical carriers are first de-multiplexed and each optical carrier is then extracted from the data using an optical channelizing technique. The optical frequency of each of the extracted optical carriers is then shifted by an amount equal to the desired wireless carrier frequencies in the broadband wireless channels. Optical heterodyning of the frequency-shifted extracted lightwave carriers with the original data-containing optical signals, which are mutually in phase coherence, in a photodetector results in a set of wireless carriers each modulated with the data carried by the corresponding optical channel.
Abstract:
A method for transferring of individual devices or circuit elements, fabricated on a semiconducting substrate, to a new substrate and placing said devices and elements in predetermined locations on the new substrate. The method comprises shaping the devices and circuits as truncated cones, lifting them off the original semiconducting substrates and depositing them en masse onto the new substrate, followed by their placing into receptors on the new substrate. The new substrate has preliminarily made receptors in a form of a truncated cone and the devices and circuits fill these receptors. Both the receptors and the devices and circuits have metallization contacts enabling to establish electrical contact between them. A method for real-time monitoring and verification of correctness of placement of the devices and circuits into the receptors by applying voltage pulse waveforms and measuring the resulting current pulse.
Abstract:
A phase shifter comprises a coarse phase tuning arrangement and a fine phase tuningarrangement. The coarse phase tuning arrangement provides a discrete number of phase shifts. The fine phase tuning arrangement includes a RLC network, having a resistor, an inductor and a capacitor. The fine phase tuning arrangement also comprisesan optical arrangement for varying the resistance value of the resistor. This phase shifter is able to obtain broadband, continuous 360o phase shifting also a Gigahertzfrequencies. It also allows close to linear phase shift versus frequency resulting in truetime delay capability, very low insertion loss and high value of maximum phase adjust.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for generating an arbitrary UWB waveform are presented. An optical comb generator generates a serial stream of optical tones and an optical beating tone. A serial-to-parallel converter receives the serial tones and converts them into parallel optical tones. A spatial light modulator receives the parallel optical tones, and independently adjusts at least one of the phase and amplitude of each to generate the components of an arbitrary waveform. Next, each one of a plurality of optical-to-electrical converters receives a parallel optical tone and the selected optical beating tone, which are beat with the optical beating tone, producing electrical notes, representing differences between each parallel optical tones and the optical beating tone. Each antenna element is connected to receive an electrical note and to launch a signal based thereon, such that the launched signals are superimposed to the arbitrary waveform signal.