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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8173010 | Method of dry reforming a reactant gas with intermetallic catalyst The invention relates to materials used as electrodes and/or catalysts, as well as methods associated with the same. The materials may comprise an alloy or intermetallic compound of a transition metal (e.g., Ni) and a metal additive (e.g., Sn). The transition metal ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8119032 | Gas-phase functionalization of surfaces including carbon-based surfaces The invention provides methods functionalizing a planar surface of a graphene layer, a graphite surface, or microelectronic structure. The graphene layer, graphite surface, or planar microelectronic structure surface is exposed to at least one vapor including at lea... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8093624 | High fill-factor avalanche photodiode A photodiode is provided by the invention, including an n-type active region and a p-type active region. A first one of the n-type and p-type active regions is disposed in a semiconductor substrate at a first substrate surface. A second one of the n-type and p-type ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8092697 | Molecular characterization with carbon nanotube control In a method for fabricating a molecule characterization device, there is formed an aperture in a support structure, and electrical contact pads are formed on a selected surface of the support structure for connection to molecular analysis circuitry. Then at the aper... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8008014 | Capture, recapture, and trapping of molecules with a nanopore In a molecular analysis system, there is provided a structure including a nanopore and first and second fluidic reservoirs. The two reservoirs are fluidically connected via the nanopore. A detector is connected to detect molecular species translocation of the nanopo... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7993538 | Patterning by energetically-stimulated local removal of solid-condensed-gas layers and solid state chemical reactions produced with such layers The invention provides a method for forming a patterned material layer on a structure, by condensing a vapor to a solid condensate layer on a surface of the structure and then localized removal of selected regions of the condensate layer by directing a beam of energ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7969079 | Carbon nanotube device fabrication A carbon nanotube device in accordance with the invention includes a free-standing membrane that is peripherally supported by a support structure. The membrane includes an aperture that extends through a thickness of the membrane. At least one carbon nanotube extend... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7831123 | Microphotonic waveguide including core/cladding interface layer The invention provides a waveguide with a waveguide core having longitudinal sidewall surfaces, a longitudinal top surface, and a longitudinal bottom surface that is disposed on a substrate. An interface layer is disposed on at least one longitudinal sidewall surfac... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7805029 | Thermal sensing fiber devices There is provided a feedback-controlled self-heat-monitoring fiber, including an insulator having a fiber length with at least one metal-semiconductor-metal thermal sensing element along the fiber length and disposed at a position in a cross section of the fiber for... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7803607 | Molecular characterization with carbon nanotube control There is provided a first reservoir containing a liquid solution including a molecule to be characterized and a second reservoir for containing a liquid solution including a molecule that has been characterized. A solid state support structure is provided including ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7767114 | Gas-phase functionalization of carbon nanotubes In a method for functionalizing a carbon nanotube surface, the nanotube surface is exposed to at least one vapor including at least one functionalization species that non-covalently bonds to the nanotube surface, providing chemically functional groups at the nanotub... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7709544 | Microstructure synthesis by flow lithography and polymerization In a method for synthesizing polymeric microstructures, a monomer stream is flowed, at a selected flow rate, through a fluidic channel. At least one shaped pulse of illumination is projected to the monomer stream, defining in the monomer stream a shape of at least o... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7582490 | Controlled fabrication of gaps in electrically conducting structures A method for controlling a gap in an electrically conducting solid state structure provided with a gap. The structure is exposed to a fabrication process environment conditions of which are selected to alter an extent of the gap. During exposure of the structure to ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7567740 | Thermal sensing fiber devices There is provided a thermal sensing fiber including a semiconducting element having a fiber length and characterized by a bandgap energy corresponding to a selected operational temperature range for the fiber in which there can be produced a change in thermally-exci... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7524431 | Lift-off patterning processing employing energetically-stimulated local removal of solid-condensed-gas layers The invention provides a method for forming a patterned material layer on a structure, by condensing a vapor to a solid condensate layer on a surface of the structure and then localized removal of selected regions of the condensate layer by directing a beam of energ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7468271 | Molecular characterization with carbon nanotube control There is provided a first reservoir containing a liquid solution including a molecule to be characterized and a second reservoir for containing a liquid solution including a molecule that has been characterized. A solid state support structure is provided including ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7466069 | Carbon nanotube device fabrication A carbon nanotube device in accordance with the invention includes a support structure including an aperture extending from a front surface to a back surface of the structure. At least one carbon nanotube extends across the aperture and is accessible through the ape... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7435353 | Patterning by energetically-stimulated local removal of solid-condensed-gas layers and solid state chemical reactions produced with such layers The invention provides a method for forming a patterned material layer on a structure, by condensing a vapor to a solid condensate layer on a surface of the structure and then localized removal of selected regions of the condensate layer by directing a beam of energ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7327637 | Acoustic pulse actuator The invention provides an acoustic actuator, including an acoustic stress wave generator and an actuation material operatively positioned relative to the acoustic stress wave generator for delivery of acoustic stress waves from the generator to the actuation materia... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7295734 | Optoelectronic fiber codrawn from conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials The invention provides techniques for drawing fibers that include conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials in intimate contact and prescribed geometries. The resulting fiber exhibits engineered electrical and optical functionalities along extended fiber ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292758 | Optoelectronic fiber photodetector The invention provides an optical fiber photodetector including a photoconductive element, such as a semiconducting element, having a fiber length. The semiconducting element is characterized as a non-composite material in at least one fiber direction. At least one ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7258838 | Solid state molecular probe device A solid state nanopore device including two or more materials and a method for fabricating the same. The device includes a solid state insulating membrane having an exposed surface, a conductive material disposed on at least a portion of the exposed surface of the s... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7253434 | Suspended carbon nanotube field effect transistor The invention provides a carbon nanotube field effect transistor including a nanotube having a length suspended between source and drain electrodes. A gate dielectric material coaxially coats the suspended nanotube length and at least a portion of the source and dra... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7217601 | High-yield single-level gate charge-coupled device design and fabrication In accordance with the invention, an electrically conducting charge transfer channel is formed in a semiconductor substrate and an electrically insulating layer is formed on a surface of the substrate; a layer of gate electrode material is formed on the insulating l... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218067 | Magnetic actuator drive for actuation and resetting of magnetic actuation materials A magnetic actuator is provided including a magnetic field-actuated material and a plurality of interconnected electrically conducting coils, each coil including a number of wire turns arranged relative to at least one other coil to produce at the magnetic field-act... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7118657 | Pulsed ion beam control of solid state features For controlling a physical dimension of a solid state structural feature, a solid state structure is provided, having a surface and having a structural feature. The structure is exposed to a first periodic flux of ions having a first exposure duty cycle characterize... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7091530 | High-speed, high-sensitivity charge-coupled device with independent pixel control of charge collection and storage A charge-coupled device imager including an array of super pixels disposed in a semiconductor substrate having a surface that is accessible to incident illumination. For each super pixel there is provided a plurality of subpixels which each correspond to one in the ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7074016 | Planar turbopump assembly A turbopump including a rotor having a first face and a second face and being characterized by a rotor axial height between the first and second rotor faces and by a rotor diameter. A rotor housing includes bearing surfaces for supporting rotation of the rotor, incl... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7074639 | Fabrication of a high-precision blooming control structure for an image sensor Provided is a method of fabrication of a blooming control structure for an imager. The structure is produced in a semiconductor substrate in which is configured an electrical charge collection region. The electrical charge collection region is configured to accumula... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6977685 | Single-chip imager system with programmable dynamic range The imager system of the invention, provided in a semiconductor substrate, includes a plurality of photosensitive, charge integrating pixels that are arranged in rows and columns of a pixel array for capturing illumination of a scene to be imaged. Each pixel include... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6911891 | Bistable actuation techniques, mechanisms, and applications A bistable structure provided by the invention is characterized as including a deflection element that has mechanically constrained end points and a compliant span between the end points that is substantially free to deflect between two stable positions when a force... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6783643 | Control of solid state dimensional features A solid state structure having a surface is provided and exposed to a flux, F, of incident ions under conditions that are selected based on: ∂ ∂ ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6777660 | CMOS active pixel with reset noise reduction A CMOS image sensor array has rows and columns of active pixels. In addition, there are one or more column lines each cooperating with the active pixels in the respective columns. Each active pixel has an output connected to a column line. Each active pixel includes... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6740247 | HF vapor phase wafer cleaning and oxide etching The invention provides HF vapor process conditions that can be precisely controlled with a high degree of reproducibility for a wide range of starting wafer conditions. These HF vapor processes for, e.g., etching oxide on a semiconductor substrate, cleaning a contam... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6664706 | Electrostatically-controllable diffraction grating The invention provides an electrostatically-controllable diffraction grating including a plurality of electrically isolated and stationary electrodes disposed on a substrate. At least one row of a plurality of interconnected actuation elements is provided... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6635110 | Cyclic thermal anneal for dislocation reduction The invention provides processes for producing a very low dislocation density in heterogeneous epitaxial layers with a wide range of thicknesses, including a thickness compatible with conventional silicon CMOS processing. In a process for reducing disloca... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6600471 | Precise MOS imager transfer function control for expanded dynamic range imaging There is provided an imaging system including a MOS pixel array having a number, r, of rows of pixels. Each pixel of the array includes a light detecting element, a reset node connected to the light detecting element for controlling dissipation of photoge... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6574800 | Garments for support, concealment, and accessibility of medical drainage apparatus The invention provides a garment including a torso portion of an extent sufficient to encircle a garment wearer's torso and arm openings provided in the torso portion. Generally vertical and cooperating front torso portion edges are included, providing a ... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6570432 | Integrator topology for continuous integration Provided are integrator circuit topologies that enable continuous integration without reset of the integrator circuit. One such integrator circuit includes a first integrator and a second integrator, each of the two integrators having a non-inverting term... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6494039 | Force-controlled hydro-elastic actuator Provided is a force-controlled hydro-elastic actuator, including a hydraulic actuator, having a connection to hydraulic fluid and including a mechanical displacement member positioned to be mechanically displaced by fluid flow at the actuator. A valve is ... | 12/17/2002 |
