A method for producing a patterned layer of material includes producing a first substrate having a patterned face, producing, against the patterned face of the first substrate, a stack of layers having an intermediate layer and the layer to be patterned, the intermediate layer being disposed between the layer to be patterned and the first substrate, a first face of the intermediate layer disposed on the first substrate side being patterned in accordance with a design that is the inverse of that of the patterned face of the first substrate, and removing the first substrate. The intermediate layer is anisotropically etched from the first face of the intermediate layer, and at least part of the thickness of the layer to be patterned is etched, patterning a face of the layer to be patterned in accordance with the design of the first face of the intermediate layer.

Disclosed is a color emissive LED array having a substantially flat backplane which has circuitry. The color emissive LED array includes a plurality of multi thickness color emissive LED units disposed in an array on the substantially flat backplane; The plurality of multi thickness color emissive LED units have a thickness of the first color emissive LED unit is less than a thickness of the second color emissive LED unit and less than a thickness of the third color emissive LED unit. Meanwhile, the substantially flat backplane having circuitry has one or more anode and one or more cathode. Further, the array is attached to the substantially flat backplane having circuitry by using a jointing layer.

A method and apparatus are provided. In an example, a volume portion of the solid body is exposed to light waves of different wavelengths, wherein the light waves are partly reflected at surfaces of the solid body. Light parameters of the reflected light waves are at least partly acquired using a sensor device. Distance information and/or intensity information are/is ascertained from at least a portion of the acquired light parameters. A thickness and/or a transmittance of the solid body in the volume portion are/is determined based upon the distance information and/or the intensity information. Laser radiation is introduced into the volume portion to produce a modification in the interior of the solid body, wherein at least one laser parameter of the laser radiation is set at least depending on the thickness and/or the transmittance such that the modification is at a predefined distance from a surface of the solid body.

An electronic or optoelectronic device includes: (1) a layer of a first material; and (2) a layer of a second material disposed on the layer of the first material, wherein the first material is different from the second material, and the layer of the first material is spaced from the layer of the second material by a gap.

A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes: applying a laser beam to a plane extending at a predetermined depth in a semiconductor substrate from a second main surface side of the semiconductor substrate opposite to a first main surface side on which a device structure including a channel is formed; and peeling off a device layer including the device structure from the semiconductor substrate along the plane applied with the laser beam. In the applying of the laser beam, the laser beam is applied so that a power density is lower in a region corresponding to the channel in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate than in the other region, in the plane extending at the predetermined depth in the semiconductor substrate.

A device configured for a laser treatment including a substrate transparent for the laser and objects, each object being bonded to the substrate via a photonic crystal.

In order to enable simple removal of a substrate used for manufacturing a semiconductor element, a manufacturing method includes forming a graphene layer on a substrate portion formed of a semiconductor, forming an element portion on the graphene layer, the element portion including a semiconductor layer directly formed on the graphene layer, which takes over crystal information relating to the substrate portion when the semiconductor layer is formed on the substrate portion without intermediation of the graphene layer, and performing cutting-off between the substrate portion and the element portion at the graphene layer.

A laser processing apparatus emits a laser light with a part of a focusing region being on an object to form a modified region along a virtual plane inside the object. The laser processing apparatus includes a support portion, an emission portion that emits the laser light onto the object, a moving mechanism that moves at least one of the support portion and the emission portion so that the part of the focusing region moves along the virtual plane inside the object, and a controller. The emission portion includes a shaping portion that shapes the laser light such that the shape of the part of the focusing region in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the laser light has a longitudinal direction. The longitudinal direction is a direction intersecting the direction of movement of the part of the focusing region.

Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having a doped subfin, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having a doped subfin, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a subfin structure having well dopants. A vertical arrangement of horizontal semiconductor nanowires is over the subfin structure. A gate stack is surrounding a channel region of the vertical arrangement of horizontal semiconductor nanowires, the gate stack overlying the subfin structure. A pair of epitaxial source or drain structures is at first and second ends of the vertical arrangement of horizontal semiconductor nanowires.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is described. The method includes providing a parent substrate including a substrate portion of a first conductivity type. The method further includes forming an absorption layer in the parent substrate by an ion implantation process of an element through a first surface of the parent substrate. The method further includes forming a semiconductor layer structure on the first surface of the parent substrate. The method further includes splitting the parent substrate along a splitting section through a detachment layer. The detachment layer is arranged between the absorption layer and a second surface of the parent substrate at a vertical distance to the absorption layer.