US Patent Issued to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CENTER on Sept. 9 for "Edge coupler and manufacturing method therefor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,286, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CENTER Co. LTD (Chongqing, China).

"Edge coupler and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Bowen Li (Chongqing, China), Junbo Feng (Chongqing, China), Jiguang Zhu (Chongqing, China) and Guowei Cao (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge coupler and a fabrication method therefor are provided. The method includes: providing a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate, the semiconductor-on-insulator substrate including a first substrate, an insulating layer on the first substrate, and a semiconductor layer on the insulating layer; patterning the semico...