Abstract:
A MODIFIED SINGLE-CRYSTAL, MAGNESIUM ALUMINATE SPINEL WAFER IS FORMED FROM COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE SPINEL BY A SOLID STATE DIFFUSION OF ALUMINA FROM SUBMICRON ALUMINA PARTICLES. THE RESULTANT WAFTER IS PARTICULARLY SUITED FOR USE AS AN EPITAXIAL SILICON UBSTRATE. A METHOD IS GIVEN FOR PRODUCING THESE MODIFIED SPINEL WAFTERS BY SOLID STATE DIFFUSION.
Abstract:
A gas laser employing a single bore tube having the laser mirrors attached to and terminating the opposite ends thereof and a bulb surrounding the bore tube, with the ends of the bulb being attached to the bore tube at two spaced points intermediate the ends of the bore tube. A hole through the wall of the bore tube provides communication between the bore and the inside of the bulb. Also disclosed is means for shock mounting such a discharge tube in a cylindrical container with the axis of the bore tube in substantially coincident relationship with the axis of the container.
Abstract:
A method of making an MOS transistor which has a gate insulator layer composed of aluminum oxide made by plasma anodizing a thin layer of aluminum, in which the thin aluminum layer and the anodized layer are not defined by etching. The gate electrode insulator layer is formed by depositing a thin layer of aluminum over the entire surface of the device after the source and drain contacts are made and then converting the entire aluminum layer to aluminum oxide.
Abstract:
Automatic chroma control circuitry employs a peak detector circuit, operated from a chroma oscillator configuration, which oscillator exhibits a varying amplitude response determined by a narrow band filter included in an a.c. feedback path for the oscillator and arranged to selectively filter signal frequencies within the narrow bandpass as coupled thereto during the oscillatory burst interval. The bandpass filtered signals, including noise components serving to vary the peak amplitude of the oscillator cause the detector to provide at an output a control voltage proportional to the highest peak of the oscillator. This control voltage is applied to a chroma amplifier stage for varying the gain in accordance with varying oscillator amplitude.
Abstract:
A technique for providing information transducing with a moving optical record medium so that a desired transducing resolution is achieved while preventing abrasion damage to the recording medium and build up of foreign substances in the information interface. This is accomplished by vibrating the medium into intermittent contact with an image forming means, which is enabled only during the contacting relation, to transduce information with the recording medium.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device assembly includes a semiconductor element mounted on a pedestal of a mounting plate. The mounting plate is secured between a pair of flanges, and co-axial terminals extend from the flanges. The co-axial terminals include outer ground plane walls and inner conductor pins electrically insulated from the outer walls. The conductor pins extend to the semiconductor element. The contacts of the semiconductor element are electrically connected to the mounting plate and conductor pins by short wires. A cover block is mounted on the flanges and extends over the semiconductor element. A retainer ring fits around the cover block and the flanges and firmly secures the cover block to the flanges.
Abstract:
The electron gun of a kinescope is operated at a negative high voltage so as to permit its thin faceplate to be grounded to reduce the possibility of ''''punch-through'''' while still maintaining reasonable spot size. Signals to be displayed are direct current coupled to the cathode of the electron gun through a first power supply of substantially the same magnitude as a second power supply providing the high voltage potential to the control grid. The use of a thin faceplate kinescope enables increases in light efficiency for recording on electrophotographic paper while the use of the direct current coupling provides an average brightness level which is substantially independent of the instantaneous value of applied signal amplitude.
Abstract:
A Fabry-Perot interferometer is multipassed to provide improved contrast for Brillouin spectra measurements, the interferometer being provided with a stabilization system which compensates for both thermal and mechanical drift of the interferometer mirrors with respect to each other. While the instrument is scanning the frequency spectrum of the multi-passed beam of incident wave energy, each pass being displaced with respect to the next adjacent pass, the stabilization system maintains the mirrors within the required degree of parallelism.
Abstract:
A network for use with arithmetic units such as adder circuits wherein a large number of bits are added together. Provision is made for evaluating the added bits in conjunction with the carryin signal supplied to the adder so that the carry signal may be ''''skipped ahead,'''' i.e. passed over, one or more adder circuit segments in order to avoid the delay of propagating a carry signal through each adder circuit segment in the arithmetic unit.
Abstract:
A pair of four-pole magnet rings, each mounted for independent, concentric rotational adjustment about the neck of an in-line, tri-beam shadow-mask color kinescope, constitute a facility for introducing mutually opposing shifts of the outer beams of the in-line trio in any desired direction, without substantially affecting the central, axial beam, and without requiring internal pole piece structures for field directing purposes. A pair of 6pole magnet rings, each mounted for independent, concentric rotational adjustment about an adjacent region of the color kinescope neck, constitute an additional facility for introducing like-direction shifts of the outer beams of the in-line trio in any desired direction, without substantially affecting the central beam, and without requiring internal pole piece structures for field directing purposes. The two magnet ring pairs together provide an arrangement for effecting static convergence of the beam trio at the kinescope screen. A third pair of two-pole magnet rings, similarly subject to rotational adjustment about the kinescope neck, provide means for introducing like-direction shifts of all three beams in any desired direction for conventional purity adjustment purposes. In a preferred application of the invention, the two-pole ring pair, six-pole ring pair and four-pole ring pair, appear in axially spaced relation of a common mount surrounding the kinescope neck to the rear of a deflection yoke (with the ring pairs in the order named, progressing from the neck base toward the yoke rear) and constitute the only neck components (exclusive of the deflection yoke) required in set-up and operation of the color kinescope.