US Patent Issued to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE on June 24 for "Systems and methods for precise signal injection into microelectronic devices" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,317, issued on June 24, was assigned to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Columbus, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for precise signal injection into microelectronic devices" was invented by Thomas F. Kent (Columbus, Ohio) and Jeffrey A. Simon (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical carrier injection method, a pulsed optical beam having pulse duration of 900 fs or lower is applied on a backside of a substrate of an integrated circuit (IC) wafer or chip, and is focused at a focal point in an active layer on a frontside of the substrate. Photons of the optical beam are absorbed at the focal point by nonlinear optical intera...