Fabrication of a total internal reflection optical switch with vertical
fluid fill-holes
    32.
    发明授权
    Fabrication of a total internal reflection optical switch with vertical fluid fill-holes 失效
    具有垂直流体填充孔的全内反射光学开关的制造

    公开(公告)号:US6055344A

    公开(公告)日:2000-04-25

    申请号:US025892

    申请日:1998-02-18

    IPC分类号: G02B26/08 G02B6/35 G02B26/02

    摘要: A method of fabricating a switching element or a matrix of switching elements includes providing a waveguide substrate having at least two waveguides that intersect at a trench such that optical coupling between the waveguides is dependent upon the presence or absence of an index-matching fluid at the intersection of the waveguides with the trench. Fluid is supplied to the trench via a fluid fill-hole that extends through a heater substrate in a direction that is generally perpendicular to a substrate surface on which at least one heater is fabricated. In the preferred embodiment, the fluid fill-hole is formed in a step of inductively coupled plasma (ICP) reactive ion etching (RIE). The waveguide substrate having at least two waveguides and the heater substrate having the heaters and the fill-hole are bonded together after the substrates are aligned such that the trench is in fluid communication with at least one fluid fill-hole and is in thermal communication with at least one heater. Optical fibers are then coupled to the waveguides. Preferably, a structurally weakened edge portion is formed during the ICP RIE step so that the edge portion can be removed after the two substrates are bonded, allowing uninhibited access of the optical fibers to the waveguides.

    摘要翻译: 制造开关元件或开关元件矩阵的方法包括提供具有至少两个在沟槽处相交的波导的波导基板,使得波导之间的光耦合取决于在该波导处的存在或不存在折射率匹配流体 波导与沟槽的交点。 流体通过流体填充孔被供应到沟槽,流体填充孔沿着大致垂直于其上制造至少一个加热器的基板表面的方向延伸穿过加热器基板。 在优选实施例中,在电感耦合等离子体(ICP)反应离子蚀刻(RIE)的步骤中形成流体填充孔。 具有至少两个波导的波导基板和具有加热器和填充孔的加热器基板在基板对准之后结合在一起,使得沟槽与至少一个流体填充孔流体连通并且与 至少一个加热器。 然后将光纤耦合到波导。 优选地,在ICP RIE步骤期间形成结构弱化的边缘部分,使得在两个基板接合之后可以去除边缘部分,允许光纤到波导的不受限制的访问。

    Method for preparation of anisotropic materials

    公开(公告)号:US20080258103A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-10-23

    申请号:US12214578

    申请日:2008-06-19

    IPC分类号: C09K3/00

    摘要: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods for manufacturing complex, anisotropic materials with desirable properties for information storage, processing, and display. Certain of these methods involve employing a magnetic field during manufacture to induce desired orientations of precursors, subunits, and/or molecular subassemblies. The applied magnetic field steers the precursors, subunits, and/or molecular subassemblies into desirable orientations while the precursors, subunits, and/or molecular subassemblies are assembled or self-assemble into a complex, anisotropic material. One embodiment of the present invention is a class of new, complex, well-ordered, network-like materials that include a ferromagnetic-material-based framework in which organic and/or organometallic compounds are organized. The ferromagnetic-molecule-based framework provides a scaffold for assembling the stable, precisely separated layers of organic and/or organometallic compounds and maintaining the layers of organic and/or organometallic compounds in well-ordered, anisotropic arrangements. Additional embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods for manufacturing the new ferromagnetic-molecule-based, network-like materials.

    Method for preparation of anisotropic materials
    36.
    发明授权
    Method for preparation of anisotropic materials 失效
    各向异性材料的制备方法

    公开(公告)号:US07390540B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-06-24

    申请号:US10896182

    申请日:2004-07-21

    IPC分类号: C09K19/00 C08G63/195

    摘要: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods for manufacturing complex, anisotropic materials with desirable properties for information storage, processing, and display. Certain of these methods involve employing a magnetic field during manufacture to induce desired orientations of precursors, subunits, and/or molecular subassemblies. The applied magnetic field steers the precursors, subunits, and/or molecular subassemblies into desirable orientations while the precursors, subunits, and/or molecular subassemblies are assembled or self-assemble into a complex, anisotropic material. One embodiment of the present invention is a class of new, complex, well-ordered, network-like materials that include a ferromagnetic-material-based framework in which organic and/or organometallic compounds are organized. The ferromagnetic-molecule-based framework provides a scaffold for assembling the stable, precisely separated layers of organic and/or organometallic compounds and maintaining the layers of organic and/or organometallic compounds in well-ordered, anisotropic arrangements. Additional embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods for manufacturing the new ferromagnetic-molecule-based, network-like materials.

    摘要翻译: 本发明的各种实施方案涉及用于制造具有用于信息存储,处理和显示的所需特性的复杂的各向异性材料的方法。 这些方法中的某些涉及在制造过程中采用磁场来诱导前体,亚基和/或分子子组件的所需取向。 施加的磁场将前体,亚基和/或分子子组件转向所需的取向,同时将前体,亚基和/或分子子组件组装或自组装成复杂的各向异性材料。 本发明的一个实施方案是一类新的,复杂的,有序的网状材料,其包括其中组织有机和/或有机金属化合物的基于铁磁材料的框架。 基于铁磁分子的框架提供了用于组装稳定且精确分离的有机和/或有机金属化合物层的支架,并且将有机和/或有机金属化合物层保持在有秩序的各向异性布置中。 本发明的另外的实施方案涉及用于制造新的基于铁磁分子的网络状材料的方法。

    Heating Element Structure with Isothermal and Localized Output
    37.
    发明申请
    Heating Element Structure with Isothermal and Localized Output 失效
    具有等温和局部输出的加热元件结构

    公开(公告)号:US20080083744A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-04-10

    申请号:US11469588

    申请日:2006-09-01

    IPC分类号: H05B3/08

    摘要: A microheater for heating at least one target area, the microheater comprising a substrate, a resistive material adjacent to the substrate and connector traces connected to the resistive material. The microheater is formed so that when a predetermined current flows through the resistive material, the target area is heated to a substantially isothermal temperature.

    摘要翻译: 用于加热至少一个目标区域的微加热器,所述微加热器包括基板,邻近所述基板的电阻材料和连接到所述电阻材料的连接器迹线。 微加热器形成为使得当预定电流流过电阻材料时,目标区域被加热到基本上等温的温度。

    Microfabrication method
    38.
    发明申请
    Microfabrication method 失效
    微加工方法

    公开(公告)号:US20080014416A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-01-17

    申请号:US11485504

    申请日:2006-07-12

    IPC分类号: G03G7/00

    摘要: Methods and structures including a release mechanism for use with the formation and then separation of a multi-layered structure are provided. The methods and structures provide for a master substrate on which is formed a temperature-sensitive release layer. A releasable structure is then formed on top of the temperature-sensitive release layer. The releasable structure can be freed from the master substrate by exposing the temperature-sensitive release layer to a temperature sufficient to soften or melt of the release layer.

    摘要翻译: 提供了包括用于形成并分离多层结构的释放机制的方法和结构。 所述方法和结构提供了在其上形成温度敏感的释放层的母基板。 然后在温敏释放层的顶部形成可释放的结构。 通过将温度敏感的释放层暴露于足以软化或熔化释放层的温度,可释放的结构可以脱离母版基板。

    Photopatternable molecular circuitry
    39.
    发明授权
    Photopatternable molecular circuitry 失效
    Photopatternable分子电路

    公开(公告)号:US07175961B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-02-13

    申请号:US10001756

    申请日:2001-10-24

    IPC分类号: G03F7/004

    摘要: Bistable molecules are provided with at least one photosensitive functional group. As thus constituted, the bistable molecules are photopatternable, thereby allowing fabrication of micrometer-scale and nanometer-scale circuits in discrete areas without relying on a top conductor as a mask. The bistable molecules may comprise molecules that undergo redox reactions, such as rotaxanes and catenanes, or may comprise molecules that undergo an electric-field-induced band gap change that causes the molecules, or a portion thereof, to rotate, bend, twist, or otherwise change from a substantially fully conjugated state to a less conjugated state. The change in states in the latter case results in a change in electrical conductivity.

    摘要翻译: 双稳态分子具有至少一个光敏官能团。 如此构成,双稳态分子是可光图案化的,从而允许在离散区域中制造微米级和纳米级电路,而不依赖于顶部导体作为掩模。 双稳态分子可以包含进行氧化还原反应的分子,例如轮烷和连接子,或者可以包含经历电场诱导的带隙变化的分子,其导致分子或其一部分旋转,弯曲,扭曲或 否则从基本上完全共轭状态转变为较少共轭状态。 在后一种情况下状态的变化导致电导率的变化。

    Media with pre-recorded alignment transitions
    40.
    发明授权
    Media with pre-recorded alignment transitions 有权
    媒体具有预先记录的对齐转换

    公开(公告)号:US06898045B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-05-24

    申请号:US10723757

    申请日:2003-11-26

    摘要: A device for precision alignment of a write element of a tape head to a transport direction of a media that is transported across the tape head is disclosed. The tape head includes at least one alignment element that is cofabricated with the write element so that both the write element and the alignment element have a fixed orientation with respect to a magnetic axis of the tape head. The alignment element and the write element can be fabricated on the tape head using standard microelectronic photolithographic processes. Preferably, the tape head includes a plurality of alignment elements. Those alignment elements are operative to write alignment transitions onto the media. The alignment transitions can be observed to determine if they are indicative of the write element having a predetermined orientation with respect to the transport direction. A read transducer can be used to generate signals from the alignment transitions and those signals can be analyzed to determine if the predetermined orientation of the write element has been achieved. The tape head can include horizontal and/or vertical elements for a gross visual alignment of the tape head to the media. The alignment transitions can be read by a data element of a separate data head. A signal from the data element can be used to adjust the azimuth of the data head with respect to a direction of transport. In servo writer applications where servo code is prerecorded on the media, the alignment transitions can be used to align the write elements of a servo write head to the transport direction of the media so that inter band skew between adjacent servo bands is significantly reduced.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于将带头的写入元件精确对准到跨磁带头传送的介质的输送方向的装置。 带头包括与写入元件共同构成的至少一个对准元件,使得写入元件和对准元件相对于磁带头的磁轴具有固定取向。 可以使用标准微电子光刻工艺在带头上制造对准元件和写入元件。 优选地,带头包括多个对准元件。 这些对准元件可操作以将对准转变写入到介质上。 可以观察对准转换以确定它们是否表示相对于输送方向具有预定取向的写入元件。 读取换能器可用于从对准转换产生信号,并且可以分析这些信号以确定是否已经实现了写入元件的预定取向。 带头可以包括水平和/或垂直元件,用于将磁带头与介质的总体视觉对准。 对齐转换可以由单独数据头的数据元素读取。 可以使用来自数据元素的信号来相对于传送方向调整数据头的方位角。 在伺服写入器应用中,伺服代码被预先记录在介质上,对准转换可用于将伺服写入头的写入元件与介质的传输方向对齐,以使相邻伺服带之间的带间偏移明显减小。