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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8093474 | Metallic nanospheres embedded in nanowires initiated on nanostructures and methods for synthesis thereof A nanostructure includes a nanowire having metallic spheres formed therein, the spheres being characterized as having at least one of about a uniform diameter and about a uniform spacing there between. A nanostructure in another embodiment includes a substrate havin... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7442575 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor nanowires A method is shown for manufacturing silicon semiconductor nanowires on graphite cloth conducting substrates. The nanowires are grown on the substrate by first depositing a thin gold film on the graphite cloth using RF sputtering. The substrate structure is then expo... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438759 | Ambient environment nanowire sensor An ambient environment nanowire sensor and corresponding fabrication method have been provided. The method includes: forming a substrate such as Silicon (Si) or glass; growing nanowires; depositing an insulator layer overlying the nanowires; etching to expose tips o... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7427541 | Carbon nanotube energy well (CNEW) field effect transistor A structure to form an energy well within a Carbon nanotube is described. The structure includes a doped semiconductor region and an undoped semiconductor region. The Carbon nanotube is between the doped semiconductor region and the undoped semiconductor region. The... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425487 | Method for fabricating a nanoelement field effect transistor with surrounded gate structure The invention relates to a method for the production of a nanoelement field effect transistor, a nanoelement field effect transistor and a nanoelement arrangement. According to the method for the production of a nanoelement field effect transistor, a nanoelement is ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7425491 | Nanowire transistor with surrounding gate One aspect of the present subject matter relates to a method for forming a transistor. According to an embodiment of the method, a pillar of amorphous semiconductor material is formed on a crystalline substrate, and a solid phase epitaxy process is performed to crys... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7422696 | Multicomponent nanorods Multicomponent nanorods having segments with differing electronic and/or chemical properties are disclosed. The nanorods can be tailored with high precision to create controlled gaps within the nanorods or to produce diodes or resistors, based upon the identities of... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7416993 | Patterned nanowire articles on a substrate and methods of making the same Nanowire articles and methods of making the same are disclosed. A conductive article includes a plurality of inter-contacting nanowire segments that define a plurality of conductive pathways along the article. The nanowire segments may be semiconducting nanowires, m... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7416911 | Electrochemical method for attaching molecular and biomolecular structures to semiconductor microstructures and nanostructures A method by which silicon nanostructures may be selectively coated with molecules or biomolecules using an electrochemical process. This chemical process may be employed as a method for coating many different nanostructures within a circuit, each with a different mo... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7410912 | Methods of manufacturing metal oxide nanowires Metal oxide nanowires are being investigated to make nanodevices and nanosensors. High operation temperatures or vacuum is required in the manufacturing of metal oxide nanowires by existing vapor phase evaporation methods. This invention provides a method of manufac... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7399691 | Methods of forming nanoscopic wire-based devices and arrays Electrical devices comprised of nanoscopic wires are described, along with methods of their manufacture and use. The nanoscopic wires can be nanotubes, preferably single-walled carbon nanotubes. They can be arranged in crossbar arrays using chemically patterned surf... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7393516 | Preparation of metal chalcogenides from reactions of metal compounds and chalcogen A method of preparing metal chalcogenides from elemental metal or metal compounds has the following steps: providing at least one elemental metal or metal compound; providing at least one element from periodic table groups 13-15; providing at least one chalcogen; an... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391074 | Nanowire based non-volatile floating-gate memory A non-volatile memory transistor with a nanocrystal-containing floating gate formed by nanowires is disclosed. The nanocrystals are formed by the growth of short nanowires over a crystalline program oxide. As a result, the nanocrystals are single-crystals of uniform... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388200 | Sensing method and nanosensing device for performing the same A sensing method includes exposing a nano-transducer having a controlled surface to a sample including at least one species. Adsorption of the species on the nano-transducer is transduced to a measurable signal as a function of time. Desorption of the species from t... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7385267 | Nanosensors Electrical devices comprised of nanowires are described, along with methods of their manufacture and use. The nanowires can be nanotubes and nanowires. The surface of the nanowires may be selectively functionalized. Nanodetector devices are described. ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7375368 | Superlattice for fabricating nanowires This disclosure relates to a system and method for creating nanowires. A nanowire can be created by exposing layers of material in a superlattice and dissolving and transferring material from edges of the exposed layers onto a substrate. The nanowire can also be cre... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7371674 | Nanostructure-based package interconnect An embodiment of the present invention is an interconnect technique. A nanostructure bump is formed on a die. The nanostructure bump has a template defining nano-sized openings and metallic nano-wires extending from the nano-sized openings. The die is attached to a ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365395 | Artificial dielectrics using nanostructures Artificial dielectrics using nanostructures, such as nanowires, are disclosed. In embodiments, artificial dielectrics using other nanostructures, such as nanorods, nanotubes or nanoribbons and the like are disclosed. The artificial dielectric includes a dielectric m... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358614 | Antisymmetric nanowire crossbars Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to antisymmetric nanowire-crossbar-circuit designs. Antisymmetric nanowire crossbars are composed, in certain embodiments of the present invention, of two or more microregions that receive input signals and t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354871 | Nanowires comprising metal nanodots and method for producing the same Nanowires methods for producing the nanowires are provided. The nanowires include a plurality of metal nanodots uniformly disposed therein, and a core portion, wherein each of the plurality of metal nanodots is coupled to the core portion. According to the method, m... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351313 | Production device and production method for conductive nano-wire The object of the present invention is to provide a nano-scale molecular assembly such as a conductive nano-wire. Specifically, there is provided an electrolytic apparatus for forming a molecular assembly, including two electrodes and an electrolytic cell holding an... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348591 | Switch element, memory element and magnetoresistive effect element A switch element includes a substrate; a plurality of carbon nanotubes provided upright on the substrate; magnetic particles arranged at tip ends of the carbon nanotubes respectively; and a plurality of conductive layers formed between base ends of the carbon nanotu... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348670 | Nanostructure, electronic device and method of manufacturing the same Cylinders having Al as a major constituent are orderly arrayed in an (Si, Ge) matrix. In a nanostructure in the form of a mixture film having a plurality of cylinders having Al as a major constituent, and a matrix region surrounding the plurality of cylinders and ha... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7344961 | Methods for nanowire growth The present invention is directed to methods to produce, process, and exploit nanomaterials, and particularly elongated nanowire materials. The invention provides a method for producing nanowires that includes providing a thin film of a catalyst material with varyin... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7345307 | Fully integrated organic layered processes for making plastic electronics based on conductive polymers and semiconductor nanowires The present invention is directed to thin film transistors using nanowires (or other nanostructures such as nanoribbons, nanotubes and the like) incorporated in and/or disposed proximal to conductive polymer layer(s), and production scalable methods to produce such ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7339244 | Small scale wires with microelectromechanical devices A process cycles between etching and passivating chemistries to create rough sidewalls that are converted into small structures. In one embodiment, a mask is used to define lines in a single crystal silicon wafer. The process creates ripples on sidewalls of the line... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336515 | Method of manipulating a quantum system comprising a magnetic moment A method for manipulating a quantum system comprises at least one mobile charge carrier with a magnetic moment. The method comprises the steps or acts of applying magnetic field to the charge carrier. The magnetic is spatially non-homogeneous. The method also compri... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7335908 | Nanostructures and methods for manufacturing the same A resonant tunneling diode, and other one dimensional electronic, photonic structures, and electromechanical MEMS devices, are formed as a heterostructure in a nanowhisker by forming length segments of the whisker with different materials having different band gaps.... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7335259 | Growth of single crystal nanowires The present invention provides nanowires which are substantially straight and substantially free of nanoparticles and methods for making the same The nanowires can be made by seeded approaches, wherein nanocrystals bound to a substrate are used to promote growth of ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332810 | Integrated circuit device and method of producing the same An integrated circuit device having vias having good resistance to migration causing the breaking of a wiring line, or an integrated circuit device having a wiring structure that is fined by breaking the limit of lithography technique is provided. The former device ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7310623 | Games using pair-wise entanglements A quantum approach to the economically significant n-player public goods or similar n-player game requires only two-particle entanglement and is thus much easier to implement than games requiring n-particle entanglements. Two-particle entanglements are sufficient to... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307271 | Nanowire interconnection and nano-scale device applications A nano-colonnade structure-and methods of fabrication and interconnection thereof utilize a nanowire column grown nearly vertically from a (111) horizontal surface of a semiconductor layer to another horizontal surface of another layer to connect the layers. The nan... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307345 | Crossbar-array designs and wire addressing methods that tolerate misalignment of electrical components at wire overlap points Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to crossbar array designs that interfaces wires to address wires, despite misalignments between electrical components and wires. In one embodiment, a nanoscale device may be composed of a first layer of two o... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7297615 | Si nanowire substrate, method of manufacturing the same, and method of manufacturing thin film transistor using the same A silicon nanowire substrate having a structure in which a silicon nanowire film having a fine line-width is formed on a substrate, a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor using the same. The method of manufacturing t... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7291299 | Nanotube, nano thermometer and method for producing the same A novel nano thermometer, which can be used for temperature measurement of a wide temperature range, in a micrometer size environment, and a method for producing the same. The nano thermometer is a carbon nanotube filled with a continuous columnar gallium, which ena... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288460 | Capacitor having an anodic metal oxide substrate A structure and method including an anodic metal oxide substrate used to form a capacitor are described herein. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7276424 | Fabrication of aligned nanowire lattices Methodologies associated with fabricating aligned nanowire lattices are described. One exemplary method embodiment includes providing a twist wafer bonded thin single crystal semiconductor film and a bulk single crystal substrate of the same material. Periodic non-u... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7265375 | Optoelectonic devices having arrays of quantum-dot compound semiconductor superlattices therein Methods of forming a nano-scale electronic and optoelectronic devices include forming a substrate having a semiconductor layer therein and a substrate insulating layer on the semiconductor layer. An etching template having a first array of non-photolithographically ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265037 | Nanowire array and nanowire solar cells and methods for forming the same Homogeneous and dense arrays of nanowires are described. The nanowires can be formed in solution and can have average diameters of 40-300 nm and lengths of 1-3 μm. They can be formed on any suitable substrate. Photovoltaic devices are also described. ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 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 |
