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Apparatus For High-Speed Surface Relief Measurement
Zongfu Yu, Soongyu Yi | P190233US01
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Apparatus For Identifying Objects Outside Of A Line-Of-Sight
Zongfu Yu, Yixuan Tan, Xingze Wang | P170396US01
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Apparatus For Augmenting Human Vision
Mikhail Kats, Bradley Gundlach | P160105US02
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Wavefront Detector for Advanced Imaging
Zongfu Yu, Soongyu Yi, Dianjing Liu | P180193US01
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High-Speed Dna Sequencing With Optically Active Nanopore
Robert Blick, Paul Gwozdz, Abhishek Bhat, Wolfgang Hansen, Christian Heyn | P150166US01
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Optical Phase Shift Solution: Compact and Easy to Install
Optical phase tuning is highly desired in many precision and imaging tools used by industry, in medicine and in biological research. Various optical phase shifters (OPS) and methods exist, each with c...
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Hongrui Jiang, Alireza Ousati Ashtiani | P170049US01
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Tunable, Silicon-Based Fresnel Lenses
A Fresnel lens or ‘zone plate’ is a type of compact lens made of concentric rings that alternate between opaque and transparent materials. The design is lighter and smaller than conventional lense...
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Hongrui Jiang, Yen-Sheng Lu, Hewei Liu | P140128US01
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Optimized Nanoresonator Design Signals Breakthroughs in Spectrometry and Device Efficiency
An optical resonator is an arrangement of optical components that allows a beam of light to circulate in a closed path. Nanoresonators are a type of optical resonator that can effectively concentrate ...
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Zongfu Yu, Ming Zhou | P160052US01
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Strain-Tunable Light Emitting Diodes Using Germanium
Germanium (Ge), a group-IV semiconductor material, is crucial to many established and potential technologies. In optoelectronics, Ge has been used as a photodetector material for on-chip data distribu...
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Max Lagally, Jose Sanchez Perez | P140041US01
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Compact Spectrometer
Spectrometers are optical instruments used to measure light. They work by detecting spectral lines and measuring their wavelength or intensity. Spectrometers have many applications, including telecomm...
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Zongfu Yu | P140145US01
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“Super” Artificial Compound Eyes Formed from Microlenses
Although current microscopic optical systems are highly sensitive, they are generally bulky and expensive, and most have a severely limited field of vision. One alternative is adaptive microlenses tha...
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Hongrui Jiang, Liang Dong | P07254US
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More Flexible Microlens Assembly
‘Variable-focus’ lenses are lenses that have adjustable focal lengths. Liquid-based, miniaturized lenses of this type are useful in photonics, display systems and biomedical tools. However...
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Hongrui Jiang, Chenhui Li | P120362US01
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Robust Substrates Expand the Utility of Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging for Analysis of Biomolecular Interactions
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) imaging has demonstrated its ability to monitor interactions between biological moieties in real time without the aid of chemical labels such as fluorophores and radioi...
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Lloyd Smith, Matthew Lockett, Michael Shortreed, Robert Corn, Stephen Weibel, Bin Sun, Robert Hamers | P07133US
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Improved Infrared-Responsive Hydrogel for Use in Microfluidics and Optics
Responsive hydrogels can respond to external stimuli such as temperature, pH, photons and antigens, which makes them applicable as functional materials in drug/gene delivery devices, microlenses and s...
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Hongrui Jiang, Chi-Wei Lo, Difeng Zhu | P120025US01
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Micromachined Shock Sensor
Shock sensors are accelerometers that respond to specific levels of acceleration. The design usually consists of a proof mass and a flexible suspension. At a preselected level of acceleration, th...
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Yogesh Gianchandani, Shamus McNamara | P01336US
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Flexible Germanium Lateral PIN Diodes and 3-D Arrays for Photodetector Applications
Flexible single-crystalline semiconductors used in high-performance micro- and macro-electronics have been intensely studied in recent years. Thin-film transistors using single crystalline silic...
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Zhenqiang Ma, Max Lagally, Hao-Chih Yuan | P09168US
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Variable-Focus Lens Assembly
One component of lab-on-a-chip technology is on-chip microlenses for optical analysis. Prior investigators have demonstrated tiny optical lenses with variable focal lengths. These lenses use specializ...
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Hongrui Jiang, Abhishek Agarwal, Liang Dong, David Beebe | P05131US
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Nanoelectromechanical Switch in Co-Planar Waveguide
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) have been used to create mechanical resonators for switching, filtering and other purposes in electrical systems. NEMS/ME...
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Robert Blick, Hua Qin, Hyun-Seok Kim | P07084US
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Machining of Lithium Niobate by Laser Fracturing
Lithium niobate is used in the fabrication of a wide variety of optical and electro-optic devices, including optical modulators, switches, frequency shifting devices, polarized controllers and pulsed ...
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Leon McCaughan, Chad Staus | P02194US
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Multilayer Si/SiO2 Semiconductors for Photoelectric Device Fabrication
Computer chips, composed of silicon (Si) semiconductors, store and transmit information as electrons. The negative charge on electrons, however, hinders the speed with which information can be t...
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Mark Eriksson, Max Lagally, Arnold Kiefer | P06013US
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Nested Waveguides for Generating or Detecting Radiation, Including Terahertz Radiation
Systems based on terahertz (THz) radiation technology show promise for communication and imaging applications. These systems can penetrate through many materials and are sensitive enough to reso...
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Leon McCaughan, Thomas Kuech, Chad Staus | P08271US
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Method of Producing Short-Wavelength Quantum-Entangled Light Beams
Quantum-entanglement is a phenomenon in which the quantum states of two objects become correlated and remain correlated, even when the objects are physically separated from each other. Quantum-entangl...
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Mark Saffman, Oo-Kaw Lim | P07323US
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Multispectral Laser with Improved Time Division Multiplexing
Multi-wavelength fiber lasers provide cost-effective and versatile light sources for applications including high-speed optical communication systems, optical fiber sensors and time- and frequency-reso...
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Scott Sanders, Thilo Kraetschmer | P07511US