Another patent for Translucent

Here we go again, another patent yet again (two days ago) for Translucent- inc!

http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US8835955.pdf


(12) United States Patent
ArkunetaL US008835955B2 US 8,835,955 B2
Sep. 16, 2014

(54) (75) (73) (*) (21) (22) (65) (60) (51) (52)
IIIOxNy ON SINGLE CRYSTAL SOI SUBSTRATE AND III N GROWTH PLATFORM
Inventors: Erdem Arkun, San Carlos, CA (US); Rytis Dargis, Fremont, CA (US); Andrew Clark, Los Altos, CA (US); Michael Lebby, Apache Junction, AZ (Us)
Assignee: Translucent, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)

(57) ABSTRACT
A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate structure and method of fabrication including a single crystal silicon substrate, a layer of single crystal rare earth oxide formed on the sub strate, a layer of engineered single crystal silicon formed on the layer of single crystal rare earth oxide, and a single crystal insulator layer of llleNy formed on the engineered single crystal silicon layer. In some embodiments the 111 material in the insulator layer includes more than on 111 material. In a preferred embodiment the single crystal rare earth oxide includes Gd2O3 and the single crystal insulator layer of llleNy includes one of AleNy and AlGanNy.