Patents of Paul R. Berger, Professor


U. S. Patent Office

Great Britain Patent Office

  1. "Tunneling Static Random Access Memory (TSRAM) Gain Cell," Paul R. Berger and Anisha Ramesh [Disclosure submitted August 3, 2010, Provisional patent filed September 10, 2010].

  2. "Si-based Tunneling Field Effect Transistor," Paul R. Berger [Disclosure submitted February 23, 2009, Provisional patent filed September 17, 2009, Full patent filed September 13, 2010].

  3. "Display Devices," Paul Berger, Jeremy Henley Burroughes, Julian Charles Carter and Stephen Karl Heeks [Full patent filed July 14, 2008, Publ. Appl. No. 20090033214].

  4. "Strained Si-based Resonant Interband Tunneling Diode on SiGe Virtual Substrate With Outside Barriers," Paul R. Berger, Niu Jin, and Phillip E. Thompson [Disclosure submitted November 29, 2006; Provisional patent filed July 17, 2007; Full patent filed July 16, 2008, U. S. Patent # 7,902,569]., Granted on March 8, 2011.

  5. "Strained Si-based Resonant Interband Tunneling Diode on SiGe Virtual Substrate With P-doping Cladding," Paul R. Berger, Niu Jin, and Phillip E. Thompson [Disclosure submitted November 29, 2006; Provisional patent filed July 17, 2007; Full patent filed July 16, 2008, U. S. Patent # 7,902,569]., Granted on March 8, 2011.

  6. "Demonstration of Room Temperature Negative Differential Resistance in Polymer Diodes Using a Thin Oxide Tunneling Barrier at the Anode," Paul R. Berger and Woo-Jun Yoon, [Disclosure submitted May 17, 2005; provisional filed November 3, 2005, full patent filed November 3, 2006, U. S. Patent # 7,745,820]., Granted on June 30, 2010.

  7. "Demonstration of Room Temperature Negative Differential Resistance in Polymer Diodes Using a Thin Oxide Tunneling Barrier at the Anode," Paul R. Berger and Woo-Jun Yoon, [Disclosure submitted May 17, 2005; provisional filed November 3, 2005, full patent filed November 3, 2006, Serial. No. & Code 11/592,419].

  8. "Silicon-based Backward Diodes for Zero-biased Square Law Detection and Detector Arrays of Same," Paul R. Berger, Niu Jin, and Phillip E. Thompson, [Disclosure submitted on July 7, 2004; provisional filed April 19, 2005, full patent filed April 19, 2006, Serial. No. & Code 60/672,833 and 11/407,120]. U. S. Patent #7,361,9530, Granted on April 22, 2008.

  9. "Diffusion Barriers for Resonant Interband Tunnel Diodes," Paul R. Berger, Niu Jin, and Phillip E. Thompson U. S. Patent #7,297,990, Granted on November 20, 2007.

  10. "Self-Aligned and Self-Limited Quantum Dot Nanoswitches and Methods Making Same," Paul R. Berger, [Disclosure submitted on November 2002; provisional filed August 2002; full patent filed August 27, 2003]. U. S. Patent #7,015,497, Granted on March 21, 2006.

  11. One pending application to be filed by Cambridge Display Technology on light emitting polymers during consulting services. (July 17, 1999).

  12. "Covering," filed by Cambridge Display Technology Limited in Great Britain (App. No. GB9928694.0), Filed December 3, 1999.

  13. "Fibre Optic Device," ," Alec Gunner, Karl Stephen Heeks, Peter Devine, Julian Charles Carter, George Bead, Richard O'Dell, Ian Millard and Paul Berger, filed by Cambridge Display Technology Limited in Great Britain (App. No. GB9927594.3), Filed November 22, 1999. Granted May 23, 2001, GB2356464.

  14. "Light Emitting Devices," Paul Raymond Berger and Stephen Karl Heeks, filed by Cambridge Display Technology Limited in Great Britain

  15. "Method of Producing Organic Light-Emissive Devices," Paul Raymond Berger and Stephen Karl Heeks, filed by Cambridge Display Technology Limited in Great Britain

  16. "Display Devices," filed by Cambridge Display Technology Limited in Great Britain

  17. "Patterned Organic Light-Emitting Device," filed by Cambridge Display Technology Limited in Great Britain (App. No. GB9618476.7), Filed September 4, 1996.

  18. "Method of Making Interband Tunneling Diodes," Paul R. Berger, Sean L. Rommel, Phillip E. Thompson, Karl D. Hobart, and Roger Lake, U. S. Patent #7,303,969, Granted on December 4, 2007.

  19. "Si-Based Resonant Interband Tunneling Diodes and Method of Making Interband Tunneling Diodes," Paul R. Berger, Sean L. Rommel, Phillip E. Thompson, Karl D. Hobart, and Roger Lake, U. S. Patent #6,803,598, Granted on October 12, 2004.

  20. "Asymmetric Contacted Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (MSM) Photodetector,'' Paul R. Berger and Wei Gao, U. S. Patent #5,780,916, Granted on July 14, 1998.

  21. "Transparent/Opaque Electrode Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (MSM) Photodetector,'' Wei Gao and Paul R. Berger, U. S. Patent #5,777,390, Granted on July 7, 1998.

  22. "InGaAs p-i-n Photodiodes with Transparent Cadmium Tin Oxide Contacts," Paul R. Berger, John Lopata, George Zydzik, Hank O'Bryan, Niloy K. Dutta, D. Sivco, and Alfred Y. Cho, U. S. Patent #5,212,395, Granted on May 18, 1993.

  23. "Buried Heterostructure Lasers Using a Single-step Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth Over Patterned Substrates," John Lopata, Niloy K. Dutta, W. S. Hobson, and Paul R. Berger, U. S. Patent #5,208,821, Granted on May 4 1993.


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