GALLIUM NITRIDE GEMSTONES

Arash Kani

Patent

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US 11,638,470 B2

GALLIUM NITRIDE GEMSTONES

Arash Kani

May 2, 2023·US

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FIG. 1

process chamber schematic

FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic view of a hexagonal crystal structure, in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2

process chamber schematic

FIGS. 2, 3, and 4 illustrate respective schematic views of different types of cubic crystal structures, in accordance with some embodiments of the present …

FIG. 3

process chamber schematic

FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic view of a body-centered cubic structure 300, in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure. It is to be …

FIG. 4

process chamber schematic

FIG. 4 illustrates a schematic view of a face-centered cubic structure 400, in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure. It is to be …

FIG. 5

process chamber schematic

FIGS. 5 to 28 illustrate schematic views of ﬁnished synthetic gemstones, in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 6

process tool top view

FIG. 6 illustrates a schematic top view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having the round brilliant dia- mond cut 500.

FIG. 7

FIG. 7 illustrates a schematic bottom view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having the round brilliant diamond cut 500.

FIG. 8

process tool top view

FIG. 8 illustrates a schematic top view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having an oval diamond cut 800, in accordance with some embodiments of the present …

FIG. 9

FIG. 9 illustrates a schematic bottom view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having the oval diamond cut 800. The oval diamond cut 800 is a modiﬁed brilliant …

FIG. 10

process tool top view

FIG. 10 illustrates a schematic top view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having a princess diamond cut 1000, in 15 accordance with some embodiments of the …

FIG. 11

FIG. 11 illustrates a schematic bottom view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having the princess diamond cut 1000. The princess diamond cut 1000 is a mixed …

FIG. 12

process tool top view

FIG. 12 illustrates a schematic top view of the ﬁnished 35 synthetic gemstone having a radiant diamond cut 1200, in accordance with some embodiments of the …

FIG. 13

FIG. 13 illustrates a schematic bottom view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having the radiant diamond cut 1200. The radiant diamond cut 1200 is a mixed cut …

FIG. 14

process tool top view

FIG. 14 illustrates a schematic top view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having a baguette diamond cut 1400, in accordance with some embodiments of the …

FIG. 15

FIG. 15 illustrates a schematic bottom view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having the baguette diamond cut 1400. The baguette diamond cut 1400 is a step …

FIG. 16

process tool top view

FIG. 16 illustrates a schematic top view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having an emerald diamond cut 1600, in accordance with some embodiments of the …

FIG. 17

FIG. 17 illustrates a schematic bottom view of the 65 ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having the emerald diamond cut 1600. The emerald diamond cut 1600 is a step …

FIG. 18

process tool top view

FIG. 18 illustrates a schematic top view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having an Asscher diamond cut 1800, in accordance with some embodiments of the …

FIG. 19

FIG. 19 illustrates a schematic bottom view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having the Asscher diamond cut 1800. As shown in

FIG. 20

process tool top view

FIG. 20 illustrates a schematic top view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having cushion diamond cut 2000, in accordance with some embodiments of the present …

FIG. 21

FIG. 21 illustrates a schematic bottom view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having the cushion diamond cut 2000. The cushion diamond cut 2000 is a brilliant …

FIG. 22

process tool top view

FIG. 22 illustrates a schematic top view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having pear diamond cut 2200, in accor- dance with some embodiments of the present …

FIG. 23

FIG. 23 illustrates a schematic bottom view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having the pear diamond cut 2200. The pear diamond cut 2200 is a modiﬁed …

FIG. 24

process tool top view

FIG. 24 illustrates a schematic top view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having marquise diamond cut 2400, in accordance with some embodiments of the present …

FIG. 25

FIG. 25 illustrates a schematic bottom view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having the marquise diamond cut 2400. The marquise diamond cut 2400 is a modiﬁed …

FIG. 26

process tool top view

FIG. 26 illustrates a schematic top view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having rose diamond cut 2600, in accor- dance with some embodiments of the present …

FIG. 27

apparatus side view

FIG. 27 illustrates a schematic side view of the ﬁnished synthetic gemstone having the rose diamond cut 2600.

FIG. 29

FIG. 29 illustrates a method for fabricating synthetic gemstones, in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 30

process chamber schematic

FIGS. 30 and 31 illustrate schematic views of jewelry including a synthetic gemstone combined with an LED system for illuminating the gemstone, with some …

FIG. 31

FIG. 31, the jewelry apparatus 3000 is part of an illuminating ring 3108 having ring structure 45 3109.

FIG. 32

FIGS. 32 and 33 illustrate methods for fabricating syn- thetic gemstones that can function as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), in accordance with some embodiments …

FIG. 33

FIG. 33. The process in method 3300 does not use a foreign substrate; and thus, a foreign substrate does not need to be removed from the resulting LED. As …

FIG. 34

process chamber schematic

FIGS. 34 and 35 illustrate schematic views of jewelry including a synthetic gemstone that functions as an LED, with some portions of a housing of the jewelry …

FIG. 35

FIG. 35, the jewelry apparatus 3400 is part of an illuminating ring 3508 having ring structure 3509. While the invention has been described in conjunction with …

FIG. 65

FIGS. 65 26 to 28), a mogul cut (not depicted), or any other known gemstone cut. B₂

Claims

Claims define the patent's legal scope. Independent claims stand alone; dependent claims (nested) narrow them. Click a claim to expand its dependents.

3 independent · 17 dependent

1
IndependentGaNGaN gemstone
A gemstone, comprising a crystal that comprises syn-thetic gallium nitride and polished faces, wherein the pol-ished faces are polished to an extent to let visible light pass through the faces, and wherein the visible light comprises electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from 380 to 750 nanometers.
1. 2
  Dependent← claim 1GaNGaN gemstone
  The gemstone of claim 1, wherein the crystal is monocrystalline.
2. 3
  Dependent← claim 1GaNGaN gemstone
  The gemstone of claim 1, wherein the polished faces are polished to an extent to let the visible light enter into the gemstone, reﬂect from inside the gemstone, and exit the gemstone.
3. 4
  Dependent← claim 1GaNInGaN gemstone
  The gemstone of claim 1, wherein the crystal comprises indium.
4. 5
  Dependent← claim 1GaNAlGaN gemstone
  The gemstone of claim 1, wherein the crystal comprises aluminum.
5. 6
  Dependent← claim 1GaNGaN gemstone
  The gemstone of claim 1, wherein the synthetic gallium nitride is intrinsic gallium nitride.
6. 7
  Dependent← claim 1GaNGaN gemstone
  The gemstone of claim 1, wherein the crystal comprises a hexagonal crystal structure.
7. 8
  Dependent← claim 1GaNGaN gemstone
  The gemstone of claim 1, wherein the crystal comprises a cubic crystal structure.
8. 9
  Dependent← claim 1GaNGaN gemstone
  The gemstone of claim 1, wherein the crystal is colorless.
9. 10
  Dependent← claim 1GaNGaN gemstone
  The gemstone of claim 1, wherein the faces are conﬁgured according to a diamond cut.
10. 13
  Dependent← claim 1GaNGaN gemstone
  The gemstone of claim 1, wherein the crystal com-prises a dopant of atoms at a concentration sufficient to produce a visibly discernable color.
16
IndependentGaNsynthetic GaN gemstone
A synthetic gemstone, comprising a crystal that com-prises gallium nitride and polished faces, wherein the pol-ished faces are polished to an extent to let visible light to pass through the faces, and wherein the visible light com-prises electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from 380 to 750 nanometers.
1. 17
  Dependent← claim 16GaNsynthetic GaN gemstone
  The synthetic gemstone of claim 16, wherein the crystal is monocrystalline, and wherein the polished faces 15 16 are polished to an extent to let the visible light enter into the gemstone, reﬂect from inside the gemstone, and exit the gemstone.
20
IndependentGaNGaN gemstone
A gemstone, comprising a crystal that comprises gallium nitride or synthetic gallium nitride and polished faces, wherein the polished faces are polished to an extent to let visible light pass through the polished faces, wherein the visible light comprises electromagnetic radiation with wave-lengths ranging from 380 to 750 nanometers, and wherein the gemstone further comprises a diamond cut and the diamond cut comprises a brilliant cut, a modiﬁed brilliant cut, a step cut, a mixed cut, a rose cut, a mogul cut, or any other type of diamond cut.

Device structures

Layer stacks claimed or described, ordered top of device to substrate.

GaN gemstone

GaNcrystal body

synthetic GaN gemstone

GaNcrystal body

Materials

Materials described outside the worked examples.

synthetic gallium nitride

GaN

Gemstone Crystal Material

Undoped Gemstone Crystal Material

indium

Reported properties

Performance values and ranges asserted in the specification or claims.

Property	Value	Material
Thickness	380–750 nm	—
Thickness	0.5–1 µm

Cited prior art

Patents and literature cited by this patent (applicant and examiner references).

Cited patents · 4

US 5,723,391 A5,723,391 A 3/1998 Hunter et al.
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Cited non-patent literature · 1

https://www.gan.msm.cam.ac.uk/resources/crystalmodels. https://ece.illinois.edu/newsroom/news/3591. https://phys.org/news/2019-12-low-cost-gallium-nitride-gan-crystal. html. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_cut. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319- 00176-0_11; See Abstract of “LED Materials: GaN on Si”. https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/16556887/lightemitting-diodes-ganongan-platform-removes-costperformance- tradeoffs-in-led-lighting.

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