摘要:
A drop emission device includes a chamber having a nozzle orifice through which a drop of liquid can be emitted. A deformable electrode is associated with the chamber such that movement of the electrode in a first direction increases the chamber's volume and movement of the electrode in a second direction decreases the chamber's volume to emit a drop through the nozzle orifice. A fixed electrode opposes to the deformable electrode to define a second chamber there between such that control of relative voltage differences between the deformable and the fixed electrodes selectively moves the deformable electrode in the first or second directions. The variable volume is vented to a source of dielectric material through an opening in the fixed electrode. The ratio of the cross-sectional area of the opening to the perimeter of the opening is greater than 0.5 μm, and is preferably about 5 μm.
摘要:
An emission device for ejecting a liquid drop, and methods of operating and manufacturing same are provided. The device includes a structure defining a chamber volume adapted to receive a liquid and has a nozzle orifice through which a drop of received liquid can be emitted. The chamber volume defining structure includes a membrane portion having a plurality of individually deformable portions. A controller is adapted to selectively actuate at least one of the plurality of individually deformable portions of the membrane.
摘要:
An interline sensor is constructed using photocapacitors. The vertical shift register of the interline sensor is operated in a uniphase mode, i.e., holding one of the two phase (.phi.2) at a D.C. potential while fluctuating the other phase (.phi.1) between a voltage that is sufficiently above and below that D.C. potential to facilitate transfer of charge from one phase to the next. The uniphase mode is facilitated by a single electrode, an indium tin oxide electrode, that covers both the phase that is held at a constant D.C. potential and the photodetector having photocapacitor charges. The charges are transferred from the photocapacitors to the vertical shift register by a third level clock into (.phi.1) adjacent the photodetectors utilizing the same ITO electrode for phase 2 of both the vertical and horizontal CCD shift registers is also proposed. Furthermore, to avoid having to separate the ITO electrode into the photocapacitor gate and the phase 2 gate, it is proposed that no cut is made within the electrode and that the vertical register be operated in the uniphase mode. That is the ITO electrode is biased to voltage of about -5 volts. It is important that the photocapacitor accumulation potential be about -4 volts so that its surface remains accumulated at all times and thus the dark current remains low. The horizontal register can be operated in the standard two phase mode so that the electrical noise in the video signal is maintained at a low level.
摘要:
In accordance with the invention, a full frame solid-state image sensor with altered accumulation potential comprises a substrate that includes a semiconductor of one conductivity type and has a surface at which is situated a photodetector that comprises a first storage area and a second storage area. The first and second storage areas each comprise a CCD channel of conductivity type opposite to the conductivity type of the semiconductor, and the channel comprises an uppermost region of opposite conductivity type to the remainder of the CCD channel. A first barrier region separates the first storage area from the second storage area, and a second barrier region separates the second storage area from an adjacent photodetector; the second barrier region is shallower than the first barrier region. Adjacent to one side of the photodetector is a channel stop of the same conductivity type as the semiconductor. A first and a second gate each comprising a conductive layer overlie the CCD channel, and a dielectric is interposed between the conductive layer and the CCD channel. In the method of the invention, the uppermost region of the CCD channel is doped with a dopant of conductivity opposite to the conductivity of the CCD channel, thereby lowering the accumulation potential.
摘要:
Image source, for converting image data in the form of serial charges into a high-resolution imagewise light pattern, includes a CCD emitter having a semiconductor charge-coupled device (CCD) structure for receiving and transferring the charges, a charge amplification means including a charge-modulated control field effect transistor structure (C-FET), and plural small-scale field emission cells (FEC). The CCD emitter is operable to convert the charges to an imagewise pattern of electron emissions that are directed to a luminescent phosphor layer susceptible to light output according to the impact of the incident electrons. The light output may be directed onto a photosensitive image recording medium to provide means for image recording, or in alternative embodiments, the light output may be viewed directly.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to a method of making an image sensor having a CCD shift register and at least one photocapacitor wherein features of the shift register and photocapacitor are commonly made and the photocapacitor has a thin plate of conductive polycrystalline silicon. The method includes the steps of embedding into a body of a semiconductor material of one conductivity type dopants of the opposite conductivity type to simultaneously form a channel region of the shift register and a channel region of a photocapacitor. A layer of a dielectric material is formed on the body and over the channel regions. A layer of conductive polycrystalline silicon is formed on the dielectric layer and is defined to form a top plate of the photocapacitor over the photocapacitor channel region and at least some gate electrodes of the shift register over the shift register channel region. The top plate of the photocapacitor is then thinned, such as by etching, to a thickness which allows reduced absorption and interference losses of the incident illumination and, thus, improves the light reaching the photocapacitor channel region beneath the top plate and the portion of the body beneath the photocapacitor channel region.
摘要:
In the present invention there is provided a plurality of photosensitive elements arranged in a symmetrical pattern around a central circular area. The area surrounding the central area is formed of a square area having the circular area at its center with the square area divided into four equal quadrants. The next area is rectangular in shape and surrounds the second area. The rectangular area is formed in four equal sections with each of the corners of the square area lying along two adjacent edges of the rectangular areas. A selection means is provided for selecting the output signal from any one the photodiodes or for selecting the output signals from any combination of two or more of the photodiodes so as to accentuate the responsiveness of the light meter to a selected area or feature of the image to be photographed.
摘要:
A technique for fabricating an oxidized polysilicon electrode structure is disclosed that results in a gently tapered profile at electrode step regions, thereby facilitating the formation of an overlying electrode structure free from physical defects.
摘要:
Disclosed is a process for imaging a media for receiving jetted ink, including a support, coated with a hydrophobic film, bearing a predetermined array of three dimensional cells composed of hydrophobic walls and a hydrophilic base, the cell walls being composed of a material that fused subsequent to printing to provide an overcoat layer.
摘要:
A printer and method for printing indicia on a disk. According to an embodiment of the invention, a printer comprises a plurality of elongate print heads arranged orthogonally with respect to each other about a center axis defined between the print heads. The print heads are capable of printing indicia on a disk having an annular printing area. The disk may be a recordable compact disk or a read-only memory compact disk, if desired. The print heads may be coupled to a rotatable hub centered at the center axis, such that the print heads extend radially outwardly from the hub. A motor is coupled to the hub for rotating the hub, so that the print heads rotate in unison about the center axis as the hub rotates. A controller coupled to the motor and print heads synchronously control operation of the motor and print heads. In this configuration of the invention, the print heads rotate while the disk is stationary.