MOLECULAR AGGREGATE FOR OPTICALLY-PUMPED NONRECIPROCAL EXCITON DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20230054578A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-23

    申请号:US17443285

    申请日:2021-07-23

    发明人: Bernard Yurke

    IPC分类号: G02F1/35 G02F1/361

    摘要: The present disclosure is directed to an optically active medium comprising dye aggregates and optionally a nucleotide oligomer or other nucleotide-based architecture, which may be used in in optical devices, in particular nonreciprocal devices (i.e., devices in which energy flows in one direction only), that can respond to differences in the polarization of light. An analysis is presented of the energy levels and the strengths of the optical transitions (changes in energy states) for a three-chromophore (dye) aggregate in which the chromophores are coupled with a J-like (i.e., end-to-end) stacking. Specific devices and methods of use are also disclosed herein.

    BALLISTIC EXCITON TRANSISTOR
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220181566A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-09

    申请号:US17643080

    申请日:2021-12-07

    发明人: Bernard Yurke

    IPC分类号: H01L51/42

    摘要: An excitonic device comprises an exciton transmission line comprised of a row of molecules. Propagation of excitons is mediated by an exciton exchange interaction. The gate consists of a molecule “a” that interacts with a proximal molecule via a two-body exciton interaction. If the gate molecule is not excited, it does not couple to the transmission line thereby allowing incoming signals to propagate unimpeded. If the gate molecule is excited, signals are back scattered as a result of the two-body interaction between the exciton residing on “a” and the excitons on the transmission line. The ballistic exciton transistor has industrial applications that extend to at least fast optical switching, optical communication, exciton devices, and exciton-based information processing.

    DNA TEMPLATING OF DYES INTO LONG POLYMER DYE AGGREGATES (SUPERDYES) USING MONOMER OR AGGREGATE SUB-UNITS

    公开(公告)号:US20240327643A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-03

    申请号:US18625767

    申请日:2024-04-03

    IPC分类号: C09B62/357 G16B50/30

    CPC分类号: C09B62/357 G16B50/30

    摘要: Chemical (e.g., click chemistry), enzymatic- or photo-induced polymerization or other polymerization approaches (e.g., thermally activated) of (1) single dyes (monomer) can be used to produce an extended dye network in which each successive dye is arranged in a head-to-tail arrangement (J-like packing arrangement) of their transition dipole moments or (2) dye aggregate sub-units to achieve polymer branching. Furthermore, various routing patterns are achieved by templating a linear series of dyes onto DNA oligomers of various configurations. Dye aggregate dye sub-unit junctions (e.g., triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, etc.) are used to achieve polymer branching enable creating various circuit patterns and circuit elements (e.g., optical transistors, gates, etc.). Branched configurations can occur on any surface (e.g., DNA nanostructure, chips substrate, hydrogel, etc.) using DNA (or any similar specific [bio]chemistry).

    Entanglement of excitons by acoustic guiding

    公开(公告)号:US12068085B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US17447839

    申请日:2021-09-16

    发明人: Bernard Yurke

    IPC分类号: G21K1/00 H04B10/70

    CPC分类号: G21K1/00 H04B10/70

    摘要: A system is described that exhibits the functionality of a beam-splitter, typically an optical device that splits a beam of light in two. In this case, the beams are acoustic pulses and can lead to the creation of a Wannier-Mott exciton: a bound state of an electron and an electron hole whose attraction to each other is maintained by the electrostatic Coulomb force. This exciton beam-splitter is lossy (i.e., involves the dissipation of electrical or electromagnetic energy). Half of the time the exciton is radiated away. Nevertheless, if the exciton is not lost, the exciton is now in a superposition of two states that can be well separated in position. Four such beam-splitters can be used to make an exciton interferometer that uses the interference patterns from the interacting acoustic pulses to extract information.