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...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7622149 | Reactive metal sources and deposition method for thioaluminate phosphors A physical vapor deposition method for the deposition of thioaluminate phosphor compositions includes providing one or more source materials including an intermetallic barium aluminum compound, a barium aluminum alloy or a protected barium metal, providing an activa... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7517551 | Method of manufacturing a light-emitting device A technique for manufacturing a light-emitting device by using a method of forming a thin film having a highly uniform thickness with high throughput is provided. The technique includes the steps of filling a small molecular organic electroluminescence material into... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7399497 | Method for forming film, method of manufacturing electronic device, film forming system, electronic device, and electronic apparatus To provide a film forming method and a film forming system, which efficiently use materials and forming a high-quality organic thin film, and an electronic device and an electronic apparatus that are manufactured using the method and the device, an organic thin film... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7351442 | Method of preparing storage phosphors from dedicated precursors A method for producing CsX:Eu stimulable phosphors and screens or panels provided with said phosphors as powder phosphors or vapor deposited needle-shaped phosphors suitable for use in image forming methods for recording and reproducing images of objects made by hig... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7338582 | Method for manufacturing manganese oxide nanostructure and oxygen reduction electrode using said manganese oxide nanostructure It is an object of the present invention to provide an oxygen reduction electrode having excellent oxygen reduction catalysis ability. In a method of manufacturing a manganese oxide nanostructure having excellent oxygen reduction catalysis ability and composed of se... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7315027 | Radiation detection device, scintillator panel, method of making the same, making apparatus, and radiation image pick-up system There are provided a scintillator (130) comprising a structure in which a plurality of scintillator layers (131, 132, 135) having columnar crystal structures are stacked with, and a radiation detection device using the scintillator. There are also prov... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7279732 | Enhanced atomic layer deposition A method of enhanced atomic layer deposition is described. In an embodiment, the enhancement is the use of plasma. Plasma begins prior to flowing a second precursor into the chamber. The second precursor reacts with a prior precursor to deposit a layer on the substr... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276182 | Method of preparing storage phosphors from dedicated precursors In a method for producing CsX:Eu stimulable phosphors and screens or panels provided with said phosphors as powder phosphors or vapor deposited needle-shaped phosphors suitable for use in image forming methods for recording and reproducing images of objects made by ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7247073 | Vacuum deposited, non-polymeric flexible organic light emitting devices An organic light emitting device (OLED) is disclosed for which the hole transporting layer, the electron transporting layer and/or the emissive layer, if separately present, is comprised of a non-polymeric material. A method for preparing such OLED's using vacuum de... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7208804 | Crystalline or amorphous medium-K gate oxides, Y0and Gd0 A gate oxide and method of fabricating a gate oxide that produces a more reliable and thinner equivalent oxide thickness than conventional SiO2 gate oxides are provided. Also shown is a gate oxide with a conduction band offset of 2 eV or greater. Gate oxi... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7205620 | Highly reliable amorphous high-k gate dielectric ZrON A gate dielectric and method of fabricating a gate dielectric that produces a more reliable and thinner equivalent oxide thickness than conventional SiO2 gate oxides are provided. Gate dielectrics formed from metals such as zirconium are thermodynamically... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202506 | Multi element, multi color solid state LED/laser A light emitting diode (LED) grown on a substrate doped with one or more rare earth or transition element. The dopant ions absorb some or all of the light from the LED's active layer, pumping the electrons on the dopant ion to a higher energy state. The electrons ar... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193893 | Write once read only memory employing floating gates Structures and methods for write once read only memory employing floating gates are provided. The write once read only memory cell includes a floating gate transistor formed in a modified dynamic random access memory (DRAM) fabrication process. The floating gate tra... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7186439 | Method of manufacturing organic electroluminescent display A method of manufacturing an organic EL display in which organic EL devices are prevented from being promoted in degradation by interfaces that occur between the hole transporting layer and the luminescent layer and between the luminescent layer and the electron tra... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7160577 | Methods for atomic-layer deposition of aluminum oxides in integrated circuits The present inventors devised unique atomic-layer deposition systems, methods, and apparatus suitable for aluminum-oxide deposition. One exemplary method entails providing an outer chamber enclosing a substrate, forming an inner chamber within the outer chamber, and... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7135690 | Radiation image storage panel A radiation image storage panel having a phosphor layer formed by a gas phase-accumulation method, in which the phosphor layer is made of an europium activated alkali metal halide stimulable phosphor (in which the alkali metal atom is Rb and/or Cs and the halogen is... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7084436 | Multi element, multi color solid state LED/laser A light emitting diode (LED) grown on a substrate doped with one or more rare earth or transition element. The dopant ions absorb some or all of the light from the LED's active layer, pumping the electrons on the dopant ion to a higher energy state. The electrons ar... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7067170 | Depositing layers in OLED devices using viscous flow A method of depositing a patterned organic layer includes providing a manifold and an OLED display substrate in a chamber at reduced pressure and spaced relative to each other; providing a structure sealingly covering at least one surface of the manifold, the struct... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7048967 | Organic film vapor deposition method and a scintillator panel An organic film vapor deposition method includes a first step of supporting a substrate formed with a scintillator on at least three protrusions of a target-support element disposed on a vapor deposition table so as to keep a distance from the vapor deposition table... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7045430 | Atomic layer-deposited LaAlO3 films for gate dielectrics A dielectric film containing LaAlO3 and method of fabricating a dielectric film contained LaAlO3 produce a reliable gate dielectric having a thinner equivalent oxide thickness than attainable using SiO2. The LaAlO3 gate di... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7022864 | Ethyleneoxide-silane and bridged silane precursors for forming low k films An organosilicon precursor for vapor deposition, e.g., low pressure ( | 04/04/2006 |
| 7022261 | Sulfur-containing phosphor powders, methods for making phosphor powders and devices incorporating same Sulfur-containing phosphor powders, methods for making phosphor powders and devices incorporating same. The powders have a small particle size, narrow particle size distribution and are substantially spherical. The method of the invention permits the continuous prod... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7005085 | Oxygen-containing phosphor powders, methods for making phosphor powders and devices incorporating same Phosphor powders and a method for making phosphor powders. The powders are oxygen-containing, such as metal oxides, silicates, borates or titanates and have a small particle size, narrow particle size distribution and are substantially spherical. The method of the i... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6967154 | Enhanced atomic layer deposition A method of enhanced atomic layer deposition is described. In an embodiment, the enhancement is the use of plasma. Plasma begins prior to flowing a second precursor into the chamber. The second precursor reacts with a prior precursor to deposit a layer on the substr... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6953730 | Low-temperature grown high quality ultra-thin CoTiO3 gate dielectrics A gate oxide and method of fabricating a gate oxide that produces a more reliable and thinner equivalent oxide thickness than conventional SiO2 gate oxides are provided. Gate oxides formed from alloys such as cobalt-titanium are thermodynamically stable s... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6939536 | Cosmetic compositions containing water-soluble polymer complexes A composition for treating a keratin based substrate that includes a cosmetically acceptable medium containing a water-soluble interjacent complex. The water-soluble interjacent complex includes a first water-soluble polymer and a second water-soluble polymer formed... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6930346 | Evaporation of Y-Si-O films for medium-K dielectrics A gate oxide and method of fabricating a gate oxide that produces a more reliable and thinner equivalent oxide thickness than conventional SiO2 gate oxides are provided. Gate oxides formed from yttrium, silicon, and oxygen are thermodynamically stable suc... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6918963 | Method and apparatus for coating electroluminescent phosphors A process for preparing particles of zinc sulfide-based electroluminescent phosphor having a moisture resistant coating thereon which comprises the steps of selecting a reaction vessel having a given height and a porous disc at the bottom thereof; charging the react... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6885149 | High efficiency transparent organic light emitting devices A highly transparent non-metallic cathode is disclosed that comprises a metal-doped organic electron injection layer that is in direct contact with a transparent non-metallic electron injecting cathode layer, such as indium tin oxide (ITO), wherein the metal-doped o... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6869636 | Method of evaporating film used in an organic electro-luminescent display In evaporating thin film used in organic electro-luminescent (EL) display, a mask having a plurality of openings is placed below a display substrate, and a plane evaporation source is placed below the mask. The plane evaporation source has a plurality of evaporating... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6852356 | Evaporation method and manufacturing method of display device A glass substrate and a shadow mask are put tightly together by inserting the glass substrate between a magnet and the shadow mask made of magnetic material. A pattern forming of an organic EL device is performed by depositing an organic EL material on the surface o... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6852357 | Process for preparing radiation image storage panel by gas phase deposition A radiation image storage panel composed of a support and a phosphor film of a stimulable europium activated cesium bromide phosphor having the formula (I): CsBr.MIX−aMIIX′2+bMIIIX″3:zEu (I... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6802991 | Method for preparing a CsX photostimulable phosphor and phosphor screens therefrom A CsX:Eu phosphor produced by heating a cesium halide with a Europium compound containing one or more halides selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br and I. Preferably the Europium compound is selected from the group consisting of EuX′2, and EuX... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6797314 | Method of handling organic material in making an organic light-emitting device A method of handling powders of organic materials in making an organic light-emitting device (OLED) is disclosed. The method includes forming solid pellets from powders of organic materials and using such pellets in a thermal physical vapor deposition source for mak... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6773813 | Particles with vapor deposition coating A new fluidized bed particle coating method is disclosed by the use of which coatings can be uniformly and conveniently deposited on the surfaces of fluidized particulate materials by vapor deposition processes at temperatures lower than those of the heated coating ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6720026 | Method for improving the optical separation of fluorescent layers In a method for improving the optical separation of needle-shaped fluorescent layers, made from a fluorescent material, which are formed by vapor deposition on a substrate, vapor deposition is controlled so that the fluorescent layer is deposited on the substrate wi... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6686043 | Method for making long-life electroluminescent phosphor A method of coating phosphor particles comprises introducing an inert gas into a reaction vessel and charging phosphor particles into the reaction vessel. The reaction vessel is then heated to a reaction temperature and a coating precursor is introduced w... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6656519 | Multicolor organic electroluminescent panel and process for production thereof In a multicolor organic electroluminescent panel of the present invention, the organic luminescent layers are separated from each other between each adjacent pixels of different colors and the electron transport layer(s) has no gap between each adjacent p... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6610352 | Multiple source deposition process A method for the deposition of a thin film of a pre-determined composition e.g. a phosphor, onto a substrate, in which the composition is a ternary, quaternary or higher composition, especially a composition selected from the group consisting of thioalumi... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6605313 | Process and apparatus for manufacturing auto-collimating phosphors There is described a process and apparatus for the physical vapor deposition of an anisotropic phosphor composition with an auto-collimating, optical waveguide structure.... | 08/12/2003 |
