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7616376 |
Widely wavelength tunable polychrome colloidal photonic crystal device
A method of wavelength tuning a composite material. The method includes the steps of: producing an ordered array of first constituents having a first refractive index embedded within a cross-linked...
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7604717 |
Electrochemical device
The invention relates to an essentially metallic target of a cathodic sputtering device, in particular a magnetic-field-assisted device, the said target mainly comprising nickel alloyed with at...
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7580604 |
Zero index material omnireflectors and waveguides
We have shown that a single layer of a 3D Zero Index Material (ZIM) has omnidirectional reflection properties. In the range between the electric plasma frequency and the magnetic plasma frequency,...
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7564616 |
Electro-optical element and scanning optical apparatus
An electro-optical element includes an optical element that scans a laser beam made incident thereon when a refractive index distribution changes according to a size of an electric field generated...
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7551346 |
Electro-optic displays, and materials for use therein
An electro-optic display comprises a layer of solid electro-optic material; a backplane comprising at least one electrode; and an adhesive layer disposed between the layer of electro-optic material...
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7542195 |
Triple alignment substrate method and structure for packaging devices
A method for aligning multiple substrates. The method includes providing a handle substrate, providing a spacer substrate, and forming a plurality of first alignment marks on a first surface of the...
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7535621 |
Aluminum fluoride films for microelectromechanical system applications
A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device utilizing an aluminum fluoride layer as an etch stop is disclosed. In one embodiment, a MEMS device includes a first electrode having a first surface;...
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7525717 |
Multi-layer ligand exchange thermochromic systems
Ligand exchange of thermochromic, LETC, systems exhibiting a reversible change in absorbance of electromagnetic radiation as the temperature of the system is reversibly changed are described. The...
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7525711 |
Actively tunable electromagnetic metamaterial
In one general aspect, a tunable electromagnetic metamaterial as described herein includes a substrate and an array of split ring resonators formed on the substrate. At least one of the split ring...
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7518783 |
Element for modulating area
An element for modu1ating an area is provided. The element for modulating area, in which there is used a functional molecular element adapted to change, by application of electric field,...
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7486432 |
Method for preparing a periodically poled structure
A method for preparing a periodically poled structure according to this aspect of the present invention comprises the steps of providing a ferroelectric substrate and performing a poling process by...
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7471446 |
Scan-type optical apparatus
A scan-type optical apparatus includes a light source device that emits a laser beam, an electro-optic element that conducts scan of the laser beam emitted from the light source device by varying...
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7459324 |
Metal nanoparticle photonic bandgap device in SOI method
A Metal Nanoparticle Photonic Bandgap Device in SOI Method (NC#098884). The method includes providing a substrate having a semiconductor layer over an insulator layer, operatively coupling the...
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7453625 |
Method of producing domain inversion parts and optical devices
A comb electrode 3 is provided on a first main face 2 a and a uniform electrode 4 is provided on a second main face 2 b of a substrate made of a ferroelectric single crystal of a single...
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7453622 |
Micro-electromechanical system (mems) polyelectrolyte gel network pump
According to embodiments of the present invention, a first layer of electrically conductive material may be disposed in a recess in a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) base. An electrically...
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7421185 |
Optical receiving device, free space optics transmission apparatus, receiving apparatus
An optical receiving device includes an optical receiving element and a light collecting portion having an output surface close to or in contact with the optical receiving surface of the optical...
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7421171 |
Efficient terahertz sources by optical rectification in photonic crystals and metamaterials exploiting tailored transverse dispersion relations
A system and a method for generating terahertz (THz) radiation are provided. The system includes a photonic crystal structure comprising at least one nonlinear material that enables optical...
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7420733 |
Electrically switchable polymer-dispersed liquid crystal materials including switchable optical couplers and reconfigurable optical interconnects
A new photopolymerizable material allows single-step, fast recording of volume holograms with properties that can be electrically controlled. Polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) in accordance...
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7414772 |
Color-neutral reflective control switchable thin film material
The present invention provides a reflective control switchable thin film material that can become completely colorless when transparent, and the present invention relates to a reflective control...
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7414768 |
Electro-optical transducer and jelly layer therefor, method for producing a jelly layer and a compound for carrying out said method
The electrooptical converter comprises sequentially located on the optical axis: at least one optical lighter, a transparent support or M transparent supports, each in the form of at least one...
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7405867 |
Miniature optical modulator module using flexible printed circuit board
An optical modulator module is disclosed, comprising a bendable flexible printed circuit board in which a circuit pattern is formed, and to which control signals are inputted from the outside; an...
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7405866 |
Composite material with controllable resonant cells
An apparatus for controlling propagation of incident electromagnetic radiation is described, comprising a composite material having electromagnetically reactive cells of small dimension relative to...
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7394587 |
Apparatus having a photonic crystal
An apparatus, including a substrate, having an internal surface where at least a portion of the internal surface has a smoothly varying curvature in three orthogonal directions. The apparatus also...
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7379231 |
Ferroelectric Light Control Device
A light control device is formed by ferroelectric material and N electrodes positioned adjacent thereto to define an N-sided regular polygonal region or circular region therebetween where N is a...
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7357973 |
Flat plate and light guide plate
A flat plate made of a cycloolefin polymer comprising at least 30% by weight, based on the cycloolefin polymer, of repeating units (A) having an alicyclic structure. The repeating units (A)...
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7349136 |
Method and device for a display having transparent components integrated therein
A display panel includes an array of interferometric modulators arranged over a transparent substrate and a transparent electrical device arranged between the array of interferometric modulators...
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7346239 |
Device for crossing optical beams, in particular in an integrated optical circuit
A device for crossing optical beams. At least a first input optical waveguide is directed along a first axis, a second optical waveguide is directed along a second axis inclined with respect to the...
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7335873 |
Light condensing method and light condenser as well as near-field optical microscope and storage device formed by applying the same
A light-condensing method of irradiating light whose electric field vectors show two or more than two different directions onto a member having apertures arranged at least at two positions and...
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7317566 |
Electrode with transparent series resistance for uniform switching of optical modulation devices
Switching uniformity of an optical modulation device for controlling the propagation of electromagnetic radiation is improved by use of an electrode comprising an electrically resistive layer that...
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7317106 |
Reversible electro-optic device employing aprotic molten salts and method
A single-compartment reversible mirror device having a solution of aprotic molten salt, at least one soluble metal-containing species comprising metal capable of being electrodeposited, and at...
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7310182 |
Method and apparatus for modulating an optical beam in an optical device with a photonic crystal lattice
An apparatus and method for modulating an optical beam by modulating a photonic band gap of a photonic crystal lattice. In one embodiment, an apparatus according to embodiments of the present...
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7298544 |
Method for patterning self-assembled colloidal photonic crystals and method for fabricating 3-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides of an inverted-opal structure using the patterning method
A method for patterning self-assembled colloidal photonic crystals and a method for fabricating three-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides having an inverted-opal structure using the patterning...
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7282083 |
Methods, systems, and uses for calixarenes
A method of identifying, detecting and/or chemically using NO X compounds is provided, wherein calixarene complexes are exposed to a nitrogen-oxide gas containing samples and form...
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7265891 |
Electrochromic device with self-forming ion transfer layer and lithium-fluoro-nitride electrolyte
An electrochromic device is prepared by forming multiple layers of selected materials on a substrate in a vacuum processing chamber. A first of these layers is an electrode layer deposited directly...
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7262902 |
High gain resonant modulator system and method
An optical resonant modulator includes an optical ring resonator and an optical loop that is coupled to the optical ring resonator by two couplers. The optical ring resonator can have a hybrid...
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7242515 |
Structure and method for reducing thermal stresses on a torsional hinged device
Method and structure for mounting a torsional hinged device, such as a mirror, having a first TCE (thermal coefficient of expansion) on a substrate having a second TCE different than said first...
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7230753 |
Method for forming domain-inverted structure and optical element with domain-inverted structure
A method for forming a domain-inverted structure includes the following: using a ferroelectric substrate ( 1 ) having a principal surface substantially perpendicular to the Z axis of crystals;...
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7226966 |
Structures incorporating polymer-inorganic particle blends
Polymer-inorganic particle blends are incorporated into structures generally involving interfaces with additional materials that can be used advantageously for forming desirable devices. In some...
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7215457 |
Apparatus and methods for modulating refractive index
An iono-refractive structure that includes one or more ion insertion layers having a real portion and an imaginary portion of the dielectric constant is provided. While both the real portion and...
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7212331 |
Reciprocating optical modulator
A reciprocating optical modulator includes a continuous light path fulfilling an amplification function, an optical modulation part formed on the light path, a first optical band-pass filter and a...
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7211455 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor module
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor module incorporated with an optical isolator making use of a Faraday rotator formed of a magnetic garnet film in which a magnetically saturated condition...
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7206121 |
Optical path switching device
An optical path switching device comprises a light transmitting portion, a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, a first adhesive layer, a second adhesive layer, a first supporting...
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7206114 |
Plasmon-photon coupled optical devices
The present invention is directed to optical devices. More specifically, the disclosed devices include a film defining a periodic array of surface elements so as to give rise to surface plasmon...
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7190502 |
Oscillating micromirror with bimorph actuation
The present invention relates to a micromirror comprising a mobile part with a reflecting area, a fixed part, two torsion arms originating from the mobile part materializing an axis about which the...
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7187491 |
Beam steering using photonic crystal
A device for deflecting an incident radiation beam through a steering angle to produce a deflected radiation beam is described. The device comprises a photonic crystal receiving the incident...
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7184201 |
Digital micro-mirror device having improved contrast and method for the same
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a digital micro-mirror device having improved contrast and a method for the same are provided. The digital micro-mirror device includes a...
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7184193 |
Systems and methods for amorphous flexures in micro-electro mechanical systems
A micro-electro mechanical system includes a flexure, wherein the flexure is made of an amorphous material. Similarly, a method for forming a micro-electro mechanical system includes forming a...
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7177061 |
Semiconductor optical modulator having a quantum well structure for increasing effective photocurrent generating capability
An optical modulator comprises a first waveguide layer and a barrier layer, and a quantum well layer sandwiched between the first waveguide layer and the barrier layer, where the quantum well layer...
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7163649 |
Minimizing spatial-dispersion-induced birefringence
A composition formed from Group II fluorides in which the composition has little or no intrinsic birefringence at a selected wavelength. The composition is a mixed solid solution of CaF 2 with a...
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7161726 |
Linear optical modulators and method of linear optical modulation
A device that comprises: a) a first optical waveguide; b) a second optical waveguide; c) an optical coupling region including the first and second optical waveguides, the optical coupling region...
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