US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Oct. 14 for "Optical device with phase-change materials and method of fabricating the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,061, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical device with phase-change materials and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Kuo-Pin Chang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Kuo-Ching Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Wei Ting (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hung-Ju Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present disclosure provides an optical device which includes a waveguide and a light modulator. The light modulator comprising a bridge segment positioned on the waveguide, wherein the bridge segment comprises a phase-change material. The optical de...