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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6891319 | Field emission display and methods of forming a field emission display A field emission device and method of forming a field emission device are provided in accordance with the present invention. The field emission device is comprised of a substrate (12) having a deformation temperature that is less than about six hundred and fi... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6890230 | Method for activating nanotubes as field emission sources A field emission source comprising a first conductive region, a layer of nanotubes deposited on the first conductive region, and a second conductive region placed over and spaced from the nanotube coated first conductive region. After the device structure is fabrica... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6829158 | Magnetoresistive level generator and method A magnetoresistive multi-level generator including a first series circuit with a first magnetoresistive element having a resistance equal to Rmax connected in series with n first magnetoresistive elements each having a resistance equal to Rmin. Where n is equal to a... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6819054 | Charge ballast electronic circuit for charge emission device operation An electronic circuit apparatus (5) for a field emission device (14) comprises a charge emission device electrically connected to a charge ballast electronic circuit (13,15). The charge ballast electronic circuit includes a capacitance device ( | 11/16/2004 |
| 6798441 | Teleconference system with personal presence cells A teleconference system including a plurality of personal presence cells positioned at a local communication site and at a remote communication site. The plurality of personal presence cells are characterized as either sensor cells or display cells. The sensor cells... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6793462 | Fluidic pump A fluidic pump (108) comprises an electrolyte cavity (110) and a pump outlet (115) fluidically coupled to the electrolyte cavity that are within at least a portion of a fluid guiding structure (105), two electrodes (112, 113) exten... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6787339 | Microfluidic devices having embedded metal conductors and methods of fabricating said devices The present invention provides low cost microfluidic devices having embedded metal conductors. The devices of the invention comprise a electronic component comprising a substrate having a first surface, a layer of electrically-conductive material deposited on a port... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6781319 | Display and method of manufacture A field emissive display (40) having an anode plate (10) coupled to a cathode plate (20) and a method for manufacturing the field emissive display (40). A substrate (21) of the cathode plate (20) is manufactured or selected ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6777727 | Flexural plate wave systems An exemplary system and method for providing an acoustic plate wave apparatus is disclosed as comprising inter alia: a monocrystalline silicon substrate (200); an amorphous oxide material (220); a monocrystalline perovskite oxide material (230);... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6764874 | Method for chemical vapor deposition of single walled carbon nanotubes A method of fabricating a nanotube structure which includes providing a substrate, depositing a supporting layer and an active catalyst film layer onto the substrate, and forming at least one nanotube on the surface of the substrate using a reaction chamber having a... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6756223 | Electro-chemical analysis device with integrated thermal sensor and method for monitoring a sample using the device An electro-chemical analysis device and method for analyzing biomolecular samples, including a means for holding a sample on a substrate platform, a thermal sensor, a biosensor formed having a specific spatial resolution as related to the thermal sensor, and a means... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6749407 | Method of installing valves in a micro-pump An exemplary method for making a micropump device is disclosed as providing inter alia a substrate (300), an inlet opening (310), and outlet opening (340), a pump chamber (370) and flapper valves (350, 360). The fluid inlet channel... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6737202 | Method of fabricating a tiered structure using a multi-layered resist stack and use An improved and novel method of forming a tiered structure, such as a T-gate structure, including the fabrication of a stabilized resist layer that provides for the prevention of interlayer intermixing with the deposition of subsequent resist layers. The method incl... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6732567 | Multilayered ceramic micro-gas chromatograph and method for making the same A micro-gas chromatograph column is formed by texturing a channel into a plurality of green-sheet layers, which are then sintered together to form a substantially monolithic structure. A thick-film paste may be added to the channel textured in the green-sheet layers... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6730623 | Cofireable dielectric composition An exemplary composition of matter and method for making high-efficiency, low-loss capacitors is disclosed as including inter alia a B2O3—Bi2O3—ZnO glass in admixture with material typically comprising about 30-40 wt %... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6727016 | Direct methanol fuel cell including a water recovery and re-circulation system and method of fabrication A fuel cell device and method of forming the fuel cell device including a base portion having a major surface. At least one fuel cell membrane electrode assembly is formed on the major surface of the base portion. A water recovery and recirculation system is defined... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6720569 | Electro-optical device including a field emission array and photoconductive layer An electro-optical device including a cathode plate, a plurality of emitters and an anode plate. The anode plate including a photoconductive layer formed on an interior surface and in alignment to receive emitter emissions. The device is characterized as matrix addr... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6720597 | Cladding of a conductive interconnect for programming a MRAM device using multiple magnetic layers A cladded conductive interconnect for programming a magnetoresistive memory device which includes a conductive material with a length, a first barrier conductive material positioned on the conductive material, and a multi-layer cladding region positioned along the l... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6716078 | Field emission display and method of manufacture A field emission display (30) having an anode plate (10) that has phosphor channels (13, 14, 15). The phosphor channels (13, 14, 15) are formed by depositing a first layer of photosensitive film (58) on a substrate (11). Str... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6714095 | Tapered constant “R” network for use in distributed amplifiers A constant “R” network distributed amplifier formed in a multi-layer, low temperature co fired ceramic structure comprises multiple cascaded constant “R” networks for amplifying a signal applied thereto. Each one of the multiple cascaded constant “R” net... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6714446 | Magnetoelectronics information device having a compound magnetic free layer A magnetoelectronics information device is provided that includes two multi-layer structures and a spacer layer interposed between the two multi-layer structures. Each of the multi-layer structures has two magnetic sublayers and a spacer layer interposed between the... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6703258 | Enhanced probe for gathering data from semiconductor devices An enhanced conductive probe that facilitates the gathering of data and a method of fabricating the probe. The probe includes an amplifier fabricated to define the probe tip. More particularly, the probe structure is defined by an amplifier formed as one ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6703784 | Electrode design for stable micro-scale plasma discharges A microcavity plasma discharge device comprising a micro-cavity device structure which includes N dielectric material structures wherein N is a whole number greater than or equal to one, each N dielectric material structure including a dielectric spacer r... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6696195 | Direct methanol fuel cell including a water recovery and recirculation system and method of fabrication A fuel cell device and method of forming the fuel cell device including a base portion, formed of a singular body, and having a major surface. At least one fuel cell membrane electrode assembly is formed on the major surface of the base portion and includ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6696189 | Direct methanol fuel cell system including an integrated methanol sensor and method of fabrication A fuel cell system and method of forming the fuel cell system including a base portion, formed of a singular body, and having a major surface. At least one fuel cell membrane electrode assembly is formed on the major surface of the base portion. A fluid s... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6689674 | Method for selective chemical vapor deposition of nanotubes A method of fabricating a nanotube structure which includes providing a substrate, providing a mask region positioned on the substrate, patterning and etching through the mask region to form at least one trench, depositing a conductive material layer with... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6677515 | High performance thermoelectric material and method of fabrication A thermoelectric material is disclosed that is manufactured from a method including the steps of: providing a Group IV element boride, and doping the Group IV element boride with a doping element chosen from one of the column III, IV, V elements, wherein ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6672925 | Vacuum microelectronic device and method A vacuum microelectronic device (10,40) emits electrons (37) from surfaces of nanotube emitters (17, 18). Extracting electrons from the surface of each nanotube emitter (17) results is a small voltage variation between each emitter utilized in the device ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6670403 | Polymer electrolyte membrane and method of fabrication A polymer electrolyte membrane comprised of a hydrophobic hydrocarbon region, a hydrophilic region containing covalently bound acid functional groups and protic functional groups. The hydrophobic hydrocarbon region and the hydrophilic region are covalentl... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6664606 | Multi-layer integrated circuit structure with reduced magnetic coupling A method of utilizing passive circuit components in an integrated circuit comprising the steps of providing a plurality of integrated capacitive elements and a plurality of integrated inductive elements interconnected to form an electrical circuit wherein... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6664935 | Broad band impedance matching device with coupled transmission lines A broadband impedance matching integrated circuit apparatus comprising an alternating current ground plane, a direct current ground plane positioned proximate to the alternating current ground plane, a first conductive transmission line positioned a dista... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6660423 | Direct methanol fuel cell including a water management system and method of fabrication A fuel cell device and method of forming the fuel cell device including a base portion, formed of a singular body, and having a major surface. At least one fuel cell membrane electrode assembly including a plurality of hydrophilic threads for the wicking ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6660324 | Viewing screen for a display device and method for the fabrication thereof A method for fabricating viewing screen (100) includes the steps of: adding to a black surround paste a ductile metal paste, adding to the black surround paste lead titanate particles, depositing the black surround paste on glass substrate (110), and heat... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6656339 | Method of forming a nano-supported catalyst on a substrate for nanotube growth Methods of forming a nano-supported catalyst on a substrate and at least one carbon nanotube on the substrate are comprised of configuring a substrate with an electrode (102), immersing the substrate with the electrode into a solvent containing a first me... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6657421 | Voltage variable capacitor with improved C-V linearity An electronic control circuit for a voltage variable capacitor, the electronic control circuit comprising a plurality of voltage variable capacitors, a plurality of resistors, and a plurality of variable electrical power sources wherein the plurality of v... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6654278 | Magnetoresistance random access memory A magnetoresistive tunneling junction memory cell comprises a magnetoresistive tunneling barrier (16), a bit magnetic region (15), a reference magnetic region (17), and current lines (20, 30) for inducing an applied magnetic field in the bit and reference... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6653911 | Broad band impedance matching device with reduced line width A stripline integrated circuit apparatus comprising a first ground plane, a stripline section positioned on the first ground plane, the stripline section including N stripline regions where N is a whole number greater than or equal to one, wherein each st... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6653910 | Spiral balun A monolithically integrable spiral balun comprises a substrate having first, second, third, and fourth transmission lines formed thereon. The first transmission line has a first end coupled to receive an input signal and has a second end. The first transm... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6648999 | Low pressure laminated ceramic devices and method An intermediate low-pressure laminated ceramic device is formed from a plurality of layers of unfired ceramic material each including ceramic particles in an organic binder. A polymer interfacial layer having a glass transition temperature such that it fl... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6645028 | Method for improving uniformity of emission current of a field emission device A method for improving uniformity of emission current of a field emission display (100) includes the step of providing a first carbon nanotube (119) and a second carbon nanotube (118), which at least partially define an electron emitter (116). First carbo... | 11/11/2003 |
