H10F 77/146
Superlattices
Official title: {Superlattices; Multiple quantum well structures}
H10F77/146 (Superlattices) appears on 1,055 US grants and 988 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 988
- Assignees
- 487
- Inventors
- 1,925
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Use of a low bandgap absorber region in a laser power converter29 Sep 2026US 12,751,093 B2The Boeing Company
- Quantum cascade element25 Aug 2026US 12,719,239 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Semiconductor device having semiconductor structure with holes25 Aug 2026US 12,720,918 B2Ennostar Corporation
- Light receiving element and infrared imaging device18 Aug 2026US 12,713,732 B2Fujitsu Limited
- Camera having a reduced dark current photodetector4 Aug 2026US 12,701,818 B2
- Architecture of an absorption zone for an infrared detector8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309549 A1
- Cascaded type ii superlattice infrared detector operating at 300 k1 Oct 2026US 2026/0305000 A1Firefly Photonics, LLC
- Semiconductor optoelectronic integrated circuit and methodology for making same employing gate-all-around epitaxial structures17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282412 A1
- Photodetector and photodetection system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282591 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Semiconductor photo detector and semiconductor device10 Sep 2026US 2026/0271424 A1NTT, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Terahertz interconnect system and applications220US 6,967,347 B2The Regents of the University of Colorado · 2005
- Semiconductor components, in particular photodetectors, light emitting diodes, optical modulators and waveguides with multilayer structures grown on silicon substrates219US 6,403,975 B1Max-Planck Gesellschaft zur Forderung der WissenschafteneeV · 2002
- Metal-oxide electron tunneling device for solar energy conversion137US 6,534,784 B2The Regents of the University of Colorado · 2003
- Micro-size LED and detector arrays for minidisplay, hyper-bright light emitting diodes, lighting, and UV detector and imaging sensor applications125US 6,410,940 B1Kansas State University Research Foundation · 2002
- Multiple-wavelength opto-electronic device including a superlattice118US 7,880,161 B2Mears Technologies, Inc. · 2011