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公开(公告)号:US20230160820A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US17968779
申请日:2022-10-18
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Austin LANE , Ankit VORA , Richard FARRELL , Keren ZHANG
IPC: G01N21/47 , G03F7/20 , G01N21/956
CPC classification number: G01N21/4788 , G01N21/956 , G03F7/70625 , G01N2021/95676
Abstract: A method is provided. The method includes forming a shrink material layer over a substrate including a photoresist pattern. The method also includes exposing the substrate with the shrink material layer to an activating radiation via a grey-tone mask that provides a predetermined light transmittance profile for the activating radiation. The method also includes removing at least a portion of the shrink material layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20220334289A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-20
申请号:US17720058
申请日:2022-04-13
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Keren ZHANG , Sara AZARI , Austin LANE , Feyza DUNDAR ARISOY , Ankit VORA , Nihar Ranjan MOHANTY , Vivek GUPTA
IPC: G02B1/11 , G02B27/01 , C09D133/08 , C08K9/04 , B05D1/00
Abstract: An optical device includes a substrate, a first surface-relief grating including grooves and ridges formed on or in the substrate, a first overcoat layer in the grooves of the first surface-relief grating, and a first antireflective layer on the first overcoat layer. The ridges of the first surface-relief grating include high-refractive index, photoactive metal oxide nanoparticles and a material of the first overcoat layer in regions between the metal oxide nanoparticles, or the first overcoat layer includes the metal oxide nanoparticles and a material of the first antireflective layer in regions between the metal oxide nanoparticles. Methods of fabricating the optical device are also described.
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公开(公告)号:US20240151971A1
公开(公告)日:2024-05-09
申请号:US17571990
申请日:2022-01-10
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Ankit VORA , Keren ZHANG , Matthew E. COLBURN , Feyza DUNDAR ARISOY , Igor ABRAMSON
IPC: G02B27/01
CPC classification number: G02B27/0172 , G02B2027/0178 , G02B2027/0194
Abstract: A method of planarizing an overcoat layer on a surface-relief grating includes dispensing a layer of a resin material that is curable by heat or electromagnetic radiation on a surface-relief grating that includes a plurality of grating grooves, pressing the layer of the resin material using a planar imprint stamp, curing the resin material in the layer of the resin material, and detaching the planar imprint stamp from the layer of the resin material. In one example, a thickness of the overcoat layer on top of grating ridges of the surface-relief grating is equal to or less than 20 nm, and a surface peak-to-valley height of a top surface of the overcoat layer is equal to or less than 5 nm.
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公开(公告)号:US20230130753A1
公开(公告)日:2023-04-27
申请号:US17970439
申请日:2022-10-20
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Keren ZHANG , Xu ZHANG , Feyza DUNDAR ARISOY , Joshua Andrew KAITZ , Ankit VORA , Elliott FRANKE , John SPORRE
Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for fabricating a straight or slanted surface-relief grating with a uniform or non-uniform grating depth. According to certain embodiments, a gray-tone photoresist includes a novolac resin, a diazonaphthoquinone (DNQ) dissolution inhibitor, and one or more crosslinking agents for crosslinking the novolac resin at an elevated temperature to increase a glass transition temperature of the gray-tone photoresist and/or lower an etch rate of the gray-tone photoresist. After gray-tone photo exposure and development, the gray-tone photoresist is baked at the elevated temperature to crosslink. The crosslinked gray-tone photoresist has a higher density and a higher glass transition temperature, and thus would not become flowable to cause ripples or other surface roughness during the etching.
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公开(公告)号:US20230037929A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-09
申请号:US17815944
申请日:2022-07-29
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Austin LANE , Richard FARRELL , Ankit VORA
Abstract: Layered waveguides, multi-layer waveguide displays with layered waveguides, and methods of fabricating layered waveguides with selective bonding material deposition and/or patterning.
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公开(公告)号:US20220373725A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-24
申请号:US17327060
申请日:2021-05-21
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Keren ZHANG , Ankit VORA
Abstract: An optical device includes an overcoat layer on a surface-relief grating. The overcoat layer is formed by a process including: depositing a layer of a first resin material that is curable by heat or electromagnetic radiation on a surface-relief grating that includes a plurality of grating ridges and a plurality of grating grooves to at least partially fill the plurality of grating grooves, curing the layer of the first resin material, depositing a layer of a second resin material that is curable by heat or electromagnetic radiation and has a higher flowability than the first resin material on the layer of the first resin material, annealing the layer of the second resin material to allow the second resin material to flow and form a planar top surface, and curing the layer of the second resin material.
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公开(公告)号:US20220334302A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-20
申请号:US17720083
申请日:2022-04-13
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Keren ZHANG , Sara AZARI , Feyza DUNDAR ARISOY , Ankit VORA
Abstract: An optical device includes a substrate, a surface-relief grating including grooves and ridges formed on or in the substrate, and an overcoat layer in the grooves of the surface-relief grating. The ridges of the surface-relief grating or the overcoat layer includes a plurality of clusters of metal oxide (e.g., TiO2 or NbOx) nanoparticles. Each cluster of the plurality of clusters of metal oxide nanoparticles includes metal oxide nanoparticles dispersed in an inorganic barrier that isolates the metal oxide nanoparticles from other materials of the optical device. The ridges of the surface-relief grating or the overcoat layer is made of a resin material that includes a resin with inorganic content, and/or TiOx or NbOx nanoparticles including inorganic-containing ligands. A high-energy treatment process can remove organics surrounding the metal oxide nanoparticles and form the barrier layers that surround clusters of metal oxide nanoparticles.
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公开(公告)号:US20230041380A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-09
申请号:US17874229
申请日:2022-07-26
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Alejo LIFSCHITZ ARRIBIO , Ankit VORA , Keren ZHANG , Jonathan William ONORATO , Vivek GUPTA
IPC: F21V8/00 , G02B27/01 , C09C1/36 , C09C3/06 , C09D7/62 , C09D7/40 , C09D11/037 , C09D11/322
Abstract: A nanocomposite includes a plurality of nanoparticles, where each nanoparticle of the plurality of nanoparticles includes a TiO2 nanoparticle core characterized by a diameter between about 1 nm and about 20 nm and a surface .OH density below about 6.OH/nm2, and a nanoparticle shell conformally formed on surfaces of the TiO2 nanoparticle core. The nanoparticle shell is continuous and is thinner than about 2 nm. The nanoparticle shell includes a transparent material with a refractive index greater than about 1.7 for visible light. A valence band of the nanoparticle shell is more than about 0.1 eV lower than a valence band of the TiO2 nanoparticle core. A conduction band of the nanoparticle shell is more than about 0.5 eV higher than a conduction band of the TiO2 nanoparticle core.
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