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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7501640 | Low energy electron cooling system and method for increasing the phase space intensity and overall intensity of low energy ion beams A low energy electron cooling system and method for increasing the phase space intensity and overall intensity of low energy ion beams, including a vacuum chamber to allow electron beam and ion beam merging and separation, a cathode to generate the electron beam, a ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7442945 | Faraday assembly of ion implantation apparatus A Faraday assembly of an ion implantation apparatus includes a Faraday cup in a vacuum chamber, a driving shaft to which the Faraday cup is connected, a motor for inserting the driving shaft further into and drawing the driving shaft out of the vacuum chamber to cau... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7427864 | Ion balance monitor An ion balance monitor for simultaneous monitoring of the positive and negative ion production rates, and therefore ion concentration, by measurement of currents resulting from the presence of airborne ions as created for example by an air (gas) ionizer. Additionall... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7421973 | System and method for performing SIMOX implants using an ion shower An ion shower comprises a plasma source operable to generate source gas ions within a chamber, and an extraction assembly associated with a top portion of the chamber. The extraction assembly is operable to extract ions from the top portion of the chamber. The ion s... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7355169 | Method of selectively inhibiting reaction between ions A method of inhibiting the reaction between ions of opposite polarity is disclosed. The method includes exposing a population of ions to a resonance excitation frequency during a mass-to-charge altering reaction between a first subpopulation of ions and a second sub... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7282702 | Ion neutralizer An ion neutralizer enhances a heat transfer rate between a reflecting plate and a frame while preventing the reflecting plate from being bent due to thermal deformation. The ion neutralizer includes a frame and a plurality of reflecting plates integrally formed with... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7180078 | Integrated planar ion traps An apparatus for an ion trap includes an electrically conductive substrate having top and bottom surfaces and having vias that cross from the top surface to the bottom surface. The apparatus includes a pair of planar first electrodes supported over said top surface ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7064321 | Ion funnel with improved ion screening An ion funnel screen ions from a gas stream flowing into a differential pump stage of a mass spectrometer, transfers them to a subsequent differential pump stage. The ion funnel uses apertured diaphragms between which gas escapes easily. Holders for the apertured di... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064317 | Method of selectively inhibiting reaction between ions A method of inhibiting the reaction between ions of opposite polarity is disclosed. The method includes exposing a population of ions to a resonance excitation frequency during a mass-to-charge altering reaction between a first subpopulation of ions and a second sub... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6946667 | Apparatus to decelerate and control ion beams to improve the total quality of ion implantation An ion implantation method is disclosed in this invention. The disclosed method is for implanting a target wafer with ions extracted from an ion source traveling along an original ion beam path. The method includes steps of a) employing a set of deceleration electro... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6822238 | Monitoring The invention provides apparatus and methods which facilitate movement of an instrument relative to an item or location being monitored and/or the item or location relative to the instrument, whilst successfully excluding extraneous ions from the detection location.... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6653637 | X-ray detector and charged-particle apparatus In a high-sensitivity X-ray detector, an image of the secondary electrons is little shifted and deformed by the astigmatism or the like even when it approaches very close to a specimen set on the stage of an electron microscope. When a beam of charged par... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6566661 | Ion implanter with wafer angle and faraday alignment checking A beam/wafer alignment arrangement has a laser and sensor mounted on the scanning magnet. Direct alignment of the wafer relative to the scanning magnet is determined by reflecting the beam in a specular surface on the wafer holder back to the sensor. Corr... | 05/20/2003 |
| 5527731 | Surface treating method and apparatus therefor A surface treating method of the invention comprises the steps of generating mixed chemical species containing an intended chemical species of ions necessary for surface treatment by ionization of a gas, selectively trapping the intended chemical species ... | 06/18/1996 |
| 4545383 | Antenna structure for collection and detection of radiation A tapered substantially cylindrical housing forming an antenna structure to collect radiation as an emission from a human body and consisting of an antenna, the antenna forming a reflective liner having an upward taper relative to the housing becoming red... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4302679 | Method of determining the x-ray limit of an ion gauge An ion gauge having a reduced "x-ray limit" and means for measuring that limit. The gauge comprises an ion gauge of the Bayard-Alpert type having a short collector and having means for varying the grid-collector voltage. The "x-ray limit" (i.e. the collector c... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4286153 | Method and apparatus for the separation of isotope mixtures Method and apparatus for separation of an isotope substance from a mixture of isotope substances such as UF6 by adiabatically decompressing the mixture in vaporous or gaseous form to cool the mixture to a temperature below 100° K. and irradiat... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4250430 | Multi-stage collector for transit-time tubes A multi-stage collector for a transit-time tube has a catcher plate with a hollow element extending inwardly therefrom and coaxially aligned with the electron beam of the tube.... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4179615 | Faraday dish for making measurements at the beam paths of a _heavy ion accelerator A Faraday dish for making measurements at a beam path of a heavy ion accelerator comprising a supporting structure, a hollow outer conductor and an inner conductor coaxial with the outer conductor. The outer and inner conductors each have a first portion ... | 12/18/1979 |
| 3986024 | Arrangement for electrical detection of ions for mass-spectroscopic determination of the mass-magnitudes and mass-intensities of ions An arrangement for the electrical detection of ions for mass spectroscopic etermination of the mass values and of the mass intensities, in which a channel multiplier plate has a number of electron multipliers of minimum dimension, and is located behind the... | 10/12/1976 |
