US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Feb. 17 for "Photonic structure and methods of manufacturing" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,406, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Photonic structure and methods of manufacturing" was invented by Shih-Yu Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations described herein provide an optoelectronic device including a multi-layer photodiode structure having multiple sensing structures formed from one or more quantum effect materials (e.g., formed from multiple layers of quantum effect materials). The multiple sensing structures, which include sidewalls that are in contact with a substrate of the optoelectronic device, may be stacked and inc...