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US 6,657,289 B1Granted
Apparatus relating to block configurations and fluidic self-assembly processes
AssigneeAlien Technology Corporation
InventorsGordon S. W. Craig, Eric Jonathan Snyder, Jay Kuang-Jieh Tu
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Abstract
An apparatus and methods of making an electronic assembly. The electronic assembly comprises a functional block having at least one asymmetric feature. The functional block comprises an integrated circuitry to perform a function pertaining to the electronic assembly. The electronic assembly further comprises a substrate having a receptor site to mate with the functional block using a fluidic self-assembly process.
Claims51
An electronic assembly comprising:
- at least one functional block having at least one asymmetric feature, said functional block comprising an integrated circuitry to perform a function pertaining to said electronic assembly;
- a substrate having at least one receptor site shaped to mate with said functional block using a fluidic self-assembly process.
An electronic assembly comprising:
- at least one functional block having
- a top surface,
- a bottom surface,
- a plurality of vertical edges,
- at least one asymmetric feature, and
- an integrated circuitry coupling to said top surface to perform a function pertaining to said electronic assembly;
- a substrate having at least one receptor site to fit with said functional block using a fluidic self assembly process wherein when said functional block couples to said receptor site said top surface faces upward and said bottom surface contacts the bottom of said receptor site;
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- wherein said functional block has a shape that prevents said functional block from mating with said receptor site with said top surface facing downward and contacting the bottom of said receptor site.
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An electronic assembly comprising:
- at least one functional block having at least one asymmetrical feature, said functional block comprising an integrated circuitry to perform a function pertaining to said electronic assembly;
- a substrate having at least one receptor site to mate with said functional block using a fluidic self-assembly process;
- said functional block and said at least one asymmetric feature being shaped to optimize efficient use of a starting material used to fabricate said functional block.
An electronic assembly comprising:
- a substrate having at least one receptor site;
- at least one functional block having an integrated circuitry to perform a function pertaining to said electronic assembly, said functional block having at least two asymmetric features arranged to create at least one top-surface rotational symmetry about the center axis perpendicular to the top surface of said at least one functional block,
- wherein said functional block is further a chiral structure of another functional block having another integrated circuitry,
- wherein said at least two asymmetric features are arranged to create said top-surface rotational symmetry about the center axis perpendicular to the top surface of said another functional block;
- and
- wherein said receptor site couples to said functional block.
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An electronic assembly comprising:
- a substrate having a plurality of receptor sites;
- and
- a plurality of functional blocks to couple to said plurality of receptor sites, said plurality of functional blocks having integrated circuits to perform functions pertaining to said electronic assembly, wherein said plurality of functional blocks includes at least two different types of functional blocks each of which perform a different function pertaining to said electronic assembly, wherein at least one type of said plurality of functional blocks has at least one asymmetric feature, and wherein each of said plurality of receptor sites mates with one of said plurality of functional blocks.
An electronic assembly comprising:
- at least two differently shaped functional blocks having integrated circuits to perform functions pertaining to said electronic assembly;
- and
- at least two differently shaped receptor sites;
- each of said two differently shaped receptor sites having a complimentary shape to at least one of said at least two differently shaped functional blocks, said at least two differently shaped receptor sites couple to said at least two differently shaped functional blocks.
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An electronic assembly comprising
- at least one functional block having an integrated circuitry to perform a function pertaining to said electronic assembly, said functional block has a plurality of asymmetric features wherein said functional block has a top surface that has four sides and four corners and at least one of said four corners is one of an angle greater than 90-degrees and an angle smaller than 90-degree not a right angle;
- and
- a substrate having at least one receptor site shaped to match said functional block wherein said functional block is coupled to said receptor site.
A functional block comprising:
- an integrated circuitry located on a surface of said functional block, said integrated circuitry to perform a function pertaining an electronic assembly;
- at least one asymmetrical feature on said surface of functional block wherein said at least one asymmetric feature is shaped to optimize efficient use of a starting material used to fabricate said functional block.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.