US 7,321,159 B2
Method and apparatus for self-assembly of functional blocks on a substrate facilitated by electrode pairs
Kenneth David Schatz, San Jose, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Alien Technology Corporation, Morgan Hill, Calif. (US)
Filed on Aug. 05, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/913,681.
Application 10/913681 is a division of application No. 09/953639, filed on Sep. 17, 2001, granted, now 6,780,696.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/232089, filed on Sep. 12, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2005/0009303 A1, Jan. 13, 2005
Int. Cl. H01L 29/06 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 257—622  [257/559] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic assembly including:
a plurality of functional blocks coupled to a substrate, said substrate including a plurality of receptor sites wherein each of said plurality of receptor sites is designed to couple to one of said plurality of functional blocks;
electrodes associated with each of said plurality of receptor sites to create an electrostatic field generated at the time that one of the plurality of functional blocks is coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of receptor sites, said electrodes to guide said plurality of functional blocks into said plurality of receptor sites.