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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107152 | Electro-optical tunable birefringent filter An electrically tunable Lyot type filter is a Lyot that include one or more filter elements. Each filter element may have a planar, solid crystal comprised of a material that exhibits birefringence and is electro-optically active. Transparent electrodes may be coate... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7835058 | Broad spectral range polarization rotator A switchable apochromatic polarization rotator is provided. A first fixed waveplate has a first principal axis fixed in a first orientation. A second fixed waveplate has a second principal axis fixed in a second orientation. First and second switchable waveplates ha... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7605967 | Liquid crystal electro-optical modulator and method of optical modulation An electro-optical modulator includes a substrate, a first electrode over the substrate, a second electrode over the first electrode, the first electrode and second electrode being capable of providing an electric field between the first electrode and the second ele... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7525712 | Broad spectral range polarization rotator A switchable apochromatic polarization rotator is provided. A first fixed waveplate has a first principal axis fixed in a first orientation. A second fixed waveplate has a second principal axis fixed in a second orientation. First and second switchable waveplates ha... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7431518 | Optical device, lens unit, and imaging apparatus An optical device and a lens unit each include a liquid container containing an insulating liquid and an electroconductive liquid which are mutually immiscible and optically transparent and have different refractive indices. The optical device and the lens unit also... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430370 | Optical element, lens unit and image pickup apparatus An optical element and a lens unit each includes: a liquid container transmitting light at least in a predetermined optical axis direction, the liquid container containing an insulating liquid and an ionic liquid being mutually immiscible and optically transparent, ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426069 | Optical apparatus and imaging apparatus An optical apparatus is disclosed. The optical apparatus includes: a first optical element having a first polarizing layer containing a material having a refractive index that changes in accordance with the magnitude of applied voltage and first and second transpare... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7403677 | Fiberoptic reconfigurable devices with beam shaping for low-voltage operation An apparatus and method to operate on a light beam by using a lens that collimates the light beam to a collimated beam with at least one cross-sectional dimension less than a critical dimension of 400 μm or less over a working range WR. The apparatus has a bulk ele... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7375870 | Enhancement electrode configuration for electrically controlled light modulators An electrically controlled light modulator device comprises at least one cell, where two deformable dielectric layers meet at an interface, at least one of said layers consisting of viscoelastic relief forming gel. A first support electrode structure and a second si... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7365900 | Electrophoretic sheet, electrophoretic device, method for manufacturing electrophoretic device, and electronic apparatus An electrophoretic sheet, comprises: a substrate having a first side; a microcapsule contained layer having a second side and a third side facing the second side, the second side being disposed on the first side of the substrate, the layer including: a microcapsule;... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7355776 | Acoustic damping material for electro-optic materials An acoustic damping material for electro-optic material has an adhesive material combined with a ceramic crystalline material such that the acoustic impedance of the combined adhesive material and the ceramic crystalline material is substantially the same as the aco... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354793 | Method of forming a PCRAM device incorporating a resistance-variable chalocogenide element A method of forming a memory device, such as a PCRAM, including selecting a chalcogenide glass backbone material for a resistance variable memory function and devices formed using such a method. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7326950 | Memory device with switching glass layer A memory device, such as a PCRAM, including a chalcogenide glass backbone material with germanium telluride glass and methods of forming such a memory device. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324257 | Low bias drift modulator with buffer layer The invention relates to an electro-optic modulator structure containing an additional set of bias electrodes buried within the device for applying bias to set the operating point. Thus the RF electrodes used to modulate incoming optical signals can be operated with... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7307781 | Techniques for using chirped fields to reconfigure a medium that stores spectral features Techniques for reconfiguring spectral features stored in a medium based on a two-state atomic system with transition dipole moment μ includes causing a chirp to pass into the medium. The chirp includes a monochromatic frequency that varies in time by a chirp rate Î... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305743 | Method of producing piezoelectric ceramic device A piezoelectric ceramic compound expressed by a basic formula of Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)aZrxTiyO3 (where 0.90 | 12/11/2007 |
| 7295360 | Structure having light modulating film and light control device using the same A structure includes a substrate and a light modulating film formed on top of the substrate. The light modulating film is made of polycrystalline PLZT containing Pb, Zr, Ti, and La as constituent elements. The film has a La concentration in the range of 5 at % to 30... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7288490 | Increased alignment in carbon nanotube growth Method and system for fabricating an array of two or more carbon nanotube (CNT) structures on a coated substrate surface, the structures having substantially the same orientation with respect to a substrate surface. A single electrode, having an associated voltage s... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289347 | System and method for optically interconnecting memory devices A memory device includes a semiconductor substrate in which memory circuitry has been fabricated. An address converter and a control signal converter are coupled to an address decoder and control logic, respectively. The address and control converters are operable t... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7277219 | Particle movement-type display device and particle movement-type display apparatus A particle movement type display device includes a plurality of pixels each of which is constituted by a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to each other with a spacing therebetween, charged particles disposed between the first substrate and th... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7268849 | Spatial light modulator employing voltage gradient pixels, and associated methods A spatial light modulator has a transmissive window with a transparent conductive film forming a ground plane and a direct drive backplane with a plurality of voltage gradient pixels. Each of the voltage gradient pixels has (a) resistive film, (b) resistive metal co... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7234853 | Textile product with illuminated fibers manufacturing process Textile product comprising light guiding fibres (2) consisting of a central core capable of transmitting the light and of an external sheath, in which at least a length portion of said external sheath presents, in respect to the internal core, a refraction in... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7206115 | Optical switching element, and device, optically addressed type display medium and display each using the optical switching element The invention provides an optical switching element and a device, an optically addressed type display medium and a display each including such an optical switching element. The optical switching element comprising an optical switching layer including lower and upper... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7190503 | Electro-optical device, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus A method of manufacturing an electro-optical device having a curved display surface with high reliability is provided. A liquid crystal panel 100 comprising a TFT array substrate 10 and a counter substrate 20, each composed of a glass substrate ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7180648 | Electro-absorption modulator device and methods for fabricating the same An electro-absorption light intensity modulator device is provided that comprises a first and a second layer disposed relative to the first layer so as to provide a light-absorbing optical confinement region. The first layer comprises a first insulator layer, and th... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7179535 | Polymer sheets and multiple layer glass panels having adjustable tint The present invention is in the field of polymer sheets and multiple layer glass panels having adjustable tint, and, more specifically, the present invention is in the field of polymer sheets and multiple layer glass panels comprising agents that cause a change in l... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7154656 | Radiation absorption in electro-optical devices Electro-optical apparatus includes a housing having at least one electrical subassembly (ESA) and at least one optical subassembly (OSA) therein as well as cavities within the housing and paths for transmitting electrical signals between the electrical and optical s... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7142344 | Optical apparatus To provide an optical apparatus which controls an interface state to change a focal length by using an optical element having a container sealing first liquid that is conductive or polarized and second liquid that does not mutually mix with the first liquid with the... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7095559 | Variable optical delay circuit In a variable optical delay circuit to be used for compensation for polarization mode dispersion of an optical signal and for other purposes, there are provided a first birefringent member, a second birefringent member and a variable optical rotator interposed betwe... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7064886 | Light regulating device and photonic crystal display utilizing photonic bandgap controls A light regulating device and photonic crystal display device utilizing bandgap controls including a photonic crystal including a material that is capable of varying its refractive index in accordance with an electric field, the photonic crystal having a photonic ba... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064315 | Method and device for compensating for interfering variables in an optical sensor The method and the device are used for compensating for interfering variables in an optical sensor (50), which is at least sensitive with respect to a measured variable (M), a wavelength (λ) of the optical signal (S1) fed in and an interfering variabl... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057787 | Architecture for large-FOR EO-crystal-based agile beam steering An electro-optic crystal based beam-steering device preferably based on KTN, having a first deflector and a second deflector. The first deflector has a pair of substrates each having a plurality of first electrode lines extending along a first direction and a plural... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053407 | Liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a method for manufacturing the same, in which wirings connected between pads and an integrated circuit is protected from being corroded. A pixel array is formed on a display region of a substrate. A plurality of pads... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050218 | Electrophoretic dispersion, electrophoretic display device, method of manufacturing electrophoretic display device, and electronic system To provide an electrophoretic dispersion capable of reducing or preventing the aggregation of electrophoretic particles, an electrophoretic display device using the electrophoretic dispersion, a method of manufacturing the electrophoretic display device, and an elec... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7038832 | Electrophoretic display, method for making the electrophoretic display, and electronic apparatus An electrophoretic display comprising a plurality of microcapsules disposed between a pair of substrates, wherein each microcapsule comprises a capsule body containing an insulating fluid and charged particles dispersed in the fluid. The microcapsules are contacted ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7023603 | Micro-mirror device including dielectrophoretic microemulsion A micro-mirror device includes a substrate having a surface, and a plate spaced from and oriented substantially parallel to the surface of the substrate such that the plate and the surface of the substrate define a cavity therebetween. A dielectrophoretic microemuls... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7006063 | Display unit and display device A display unit includes a transparent hollow tube member, and a display liquid sealed in the transparent hollow tube member. The display liquid includes a liquid and at least one kind of charged or non-charged particle dispersed in the liquid. An image formed by a d... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6987605 | Transflective electrophoretic display This invention relates to an electrophoretic display comprising isolated cells of well-defined shape, size and aspect ratio which cells are filled with charged pigment particles dispersed in a solvent, a backlight and optionally a background layer. The display may h... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6980351 | Electrophoretic display An electrophoretic display utilizing a phenomenon of electrophoresis is provided. The electrophoretic display includes an lower electrode located on an under layer, an lower electrode protection layer formed on the lower electrode, a plurality of microcapsules locat... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978069 | Polymer guest-host systems and polymer electro-optic waveguide systems An electro-optic system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises a high glass transition temperature (Tg≧about 210° C.) polymer matrix featuring aromatic groups on the backbone repeating unit, which hosts a guest, high hyperpolarizabili... | 12/20/2005 |
