Patent ID: 9322996
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G02B,G02F,H01L

Claim Text:
1. A method for forming a plurality of photonic heterogeneous devices on a shared silicon wafer substrate, including a first device and a second device, comprising: forming a plurality of silicon device components on a silicon semiconductor layer of the shared silicon wafer substrate for each of the plurality of heterogeneous devices; forming a plurality of non-silicon device component layers from a plurality of non-silicon semiconductor wafer substrates, wherein at least one non-silicon device component layer for the first device is included in a first non-silicon semiconductor wafer substrate, and at least one non-silicon device component layer for the second device is included in a second non-silicon semiconductor wafer substrate separate from the first non-silicon semiconductor substrate, and the second non-silicon device component layer comprises a different non-silicon material than the first non-silicon device component layer; bonding at least a portion of each of the plurality of the non-silicon semiconductor wafer substrates including their respective device component layers to the shared silicon wafer substrate, including bonding at least a portion of the first non-silicon semiconductor wafer substrate separate from at least a portion of the second non-silicon semiconductor wafer substrate; for each of the plurality of non-silicon semiconductor device component layers, removing portions of their respective non-silicon semiconductor wafer substrates; and performing a processing operation to process all of the plurality of bonded non-silicon semiconductor photonic component layers when forming the plurality of heterogeneous devices, including the first device and the second device.