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Ashay Chitnis, Goleta, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080284541Bulk acoustic device and method for fabricating - A method for fabricating a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) device comprising providing a growth substrate and growing an Group-III nitride epitaxial layer on the growth substrate. A first electrode is deposited on the epitaxial layer. A carrier substrate is provided and the growth substrate, epitaxial layer and first electrode combination is flip-chip mounted on the carrier substrate. The growth substrate is removed and a second electrode is deposited on the epitaxial layer with the epitaxial layer sandwiched between the first and second electrodes. A bulk acoustic wave (BAW) device comprises first and second metal electrodes and a Group-III nitride epitaxial layer sandwiched between the first and second electrodes. A carrier substrate is included, with the first and second electrodes and epitaxial layer on the carrier substrate.11-20-2008
20090050903Selective wet etching of gold-tin based solder - The present invention is directed to post-deposition, wet etch processes for patterning AuSn solder material and devices fabricated using such processes. The processes can be applied to uniform AuSn layers to generate submicron patterning of thin AuSn layers having a wide variety of features. The use of multiple etching steps that alternate between different mixes of chemicals enables the etch to proceed effectively, and the same or similar processes can be used to etch under bump metallization. The processes are simple, cost-effective, do not contaminate equipment or tools, and are compatible with standard cleanroom fabrication processes.02-26-2009
20090121241Wire bond free wafer level LED - A wire-bond free semiconductor device with two electrodes both of which are accessible from the bottom side of the device. The device is fabricated with two electrodes that are electrically connected to the oppositely doped epitaxial layers, each of these electrodes having leads with bottom-side access points. This structure allows the device to be biased with an external voltage/current source, obviating the need for wire-bonds or other such connection mechanisms that must be formed at the packaging level. Thus, features that are traditionally added to the device at the packaging level (e.g., phosphor layers or encapsulants) may be included in the wafer level fabrication process. Additionally, the bottom-side electrodes are thick enough to provide primary structural support to the device, eliminating the need to leave the growth substrate as part of the finished device.05-14-2009
20100224890Light emitting diode chip with electrical insulation element - A light emitting diode chip comprising a light emitting diode and a thermally conductive substrate. The light emitting diode is on the substrate with the substrate providing a thermal path from the light emitting diode through the substrate. A mounting pad is also on a substrate and an electrically insulating layer is integral to the substrate. The insulating layer electrically insulates the mounting pad from the light emitting diode. A method for fabricating a light emitting diode chip comprises providing a thermally conductive substrate, forming an electrical insulating layer integral to the substrate and forming a mounting pad on the substrate. A light emitting diode is fabricated and mounted to the substrate, with the light emitting diode electrically insulated from the mounting pad by the electrically insulating layer.09-09-2010

Patent applications by Ashay Chitnis, Goleta, CA US

Ashay Chitnis, Santa Barbara, CA US

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20090065790LED chips having fluorescent substrates with microholes and methods for fabricating - Methods for fabricating semiconductor devices such as LED chips at the wafer level, and LED chips and LED chip wafers fabricated using the methods. An LED chip wafer according to the present invention comprises a plurality of LEDs on a wafer and a plurality of pedestals, each of which is on one of the LEDs. A fluorescent substrate or preform (“preform”) is provided covering at least some of the LEDs, the preform comprising holes with the pedestals arranged within the holes. During operation of the covered ones of said LEDs at least some light from the LEDs passes through the preform and is converted. LED chips are provided that are singulated from this LED chip wafer. One embodiment of a method for fabricating LED chips from a wafer comprises depositing LED epitaxial layers on an LED growth wafer to form a plurality of LEDs on the growth wafer. Pedestals are formed on the LEDs and a fluorescent preform is formed with holes. The fluorescent preform is bonded over at least some of the plurality of LEDs so that at least some light from the covered ones of said LEDs passes through the preform and is converted. The pedestals are arranged in the holes so that an electrical signal is applied to the LEDs through the pedestals.03-12-2009
20090261358EMISSION TUNING METHODS AND DEVICES FABRICATED UTILIZING METHODS - A method for fabricating light emitting diode (LED) chips comprising providing a plurality of LEDs, typically on a wafer, and coating the LEDs with a conversion material so that at least some light from the LEDs passes through the conversion material and is converted. The light emission from the LED chips comprises light from the conversion material, typically in combination with LED light. The emission characteristics of at least some of the LED chips is measured and at least some of the conversion material over the LEDs is removed to alter the emission characteristics of the LED chips. The invention is particularly applicable to fabricating LED chips on a wafer where the LED chips have light emission characteristics that are within a range of target emission characteristics. This target range can fall within an emission region on a CIE curve to reduce the need for binning of the LEDs from the wafer. The emission characteristics of the LED chips in the wafer can be tuned to the desired range by micro-machining the conversion material over the LEDs.10-22-2009

Mandar Chitnis, Pleasanton, CA US

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20100318954MANAGING AND CONTROLLING THE USE OF HARDWARE RESOURCES ON INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods and apparatus for managing and allocating hardware resources during RTL synthesis. For example, in one exemplary method disclosed herein, an RTL description of a circuit to be implemented in a target architecture is received. The target architecture of this embodiment comprises a fixed number of hardware resources in a class of hardware resources. One or more operator instances are determined from the RTL description received, where at least some of the operator instances are implementable by the hardware resources in the class of hardware resources. In this embodiment, and prior to initially synthesizing the RTL description into a gate-level netlist, assignment information indicative of how the operator instances are to be implemented using the hardware resources in the class of hardware resources is automatically determined. A graphical user interface is also provided that allows a user to view and modify the assignment information.12-16-2010

Smita Chitnis, San Diego, CA US

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20120046178PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES FOR MULTIPLEX NUCLEIC ACID IDENTIFICATION - Provided herein are products and processes for detecting the presence or absence of multiple target nucleic acids. Certain methods include amplifying the target nucleic acids, or portion thereof; extending oligonucleotides that specifically hybridize to the amplicons, where the oligonucleotides include distinguishable labels and a capture agent; capturing the extended oligonucleotides to a solid phase via the capture agent; releasing and detecting the distinguishable label, and thereby determining the presence or absence of each target nucleic acid by the presence or absence of the distinguishable label.02-23-2012

Sunil P. Chitnis, San Jose, CA US

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20100023618SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPLICANT BASED ACCOUNTING AND ACCESS - The method of the present invention comprises initiating a connection to a port on an access device by a supplicant and associating supplicant identification information with the port. The access device may comprise any network connectivity device, including a wireless access point. Data packets transmitted over the port by the supplicant are statistically sampled as they are transmitted, with each of the sample data packets also associated with the supplicant identification information. The sample data packets are stored according to their associated supplicant identification information in order to perform accounting. The sample data packets, with the supplicant identification information, are sent to a network management system where the data is archived and presented in a human readable form, e.g., charts, etc.01-28-2010