US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on June 23 for "Structures including a photonic device and an undercut" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,584, issued on June 23, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Structures including a photonic device and an undercut" was invented by Yarong Lin (Flushing, N.Y.), Thomas Houghton (Marlboro, N.Y.), Teck Jung Tang (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), Mini Modh Ghosal (Maharashtra, India) and Arunraj Prakash (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structures including a photonic device, such as a spot-size converter, and an undercut, and related methods. The structure comprises a photonic device, a semiconductor substrate, and a dielectric layer disposed between the photonic device and the semiconductor substrate. The die...