High efficiency replicated x-ray optics and fabrication method
    1.
    发明授权
    High efficiency replicated x-ray optics and fabrication method 有权
    高效复制x射线光学元件及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US06278764B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-08-21

    申请号:US09359581

    申请日:1999-07-22

    IPC分类号: G21K106

    摘要: Replicated x-ray optics are fabricated by sputter deposition of reflecting layers on a super-polished reusable mandrel. The reflecting layers are strengthened by a supporting multilayer that results in stronger stress-relieved reflecting surfaces that do not deform during separation from the mandrel. The supporting multilayer enhances the ability to part the replica from the mandrel without degradation in surface roughness. The reflecting surfaces are comparable in smoothness to the mandrel surface. An outer layer is electrodeposited on the supporting multilayer. A parting layer may be deposited directly on the mandrel before the reflecting surface to facilitate removal of the layered, tubular optic device from the mandrel without deformation. The inner reflecting surface of the shell can be a single layer grazing reflection mirror or a resonant multilayer mirror. The resulting optics can be used in a wide variety of applications, including lithography, microscopy, radiography, tomography, and crystallography.

    摘要翻译: 通过在超级抛光的可重复使用的心轴上溅射沉积反射层来制造复制的x射线光学器件。 反射层通过支撑多层增强,其导致在与心轴分离期间不变形的较强应力消除的反射表面。 支撑多层增强了从芯轴部分复制品而不降低表面粗糙度的能力。 反射表面的平滑度与心轴表面相当。 外层电沉积在支撑层上。 分离层可以在反射表面之前直接沉积在心轴上,以有助于将层状管状光学器件从心轴移除而不变形。 外壳的内反射面可以是单层放射反射镜或共振多层反射镜。 所得到的光学器件可以用于各种各样的应用,包括光刻,显微镜,放射照相,断层摄影和晶体学。

    Selectively-etched nanochannel electrophoretic and electrochemical devices
    2.
    发明授权
    Selectively-etched nanochannel electrophoretic and electrochemical devices 失效
    选择性蚀刻的纳米通道电泳和电化学装置

    公开(公告)号:US06818964B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-11-16

    申请号:US10261349

    申请日:2002-09-30

    IPC分类号: H01L2900

    CPC分类号: B82Y30/00 C23F1/02

    摘要: Nanochannel electrophoretic and electrochemical devices having selectively-etched nanolaminates located in the fluid transport channel. The normally flat surfaces of the nanolaminate having exposed conductive (metal) stripes are selectively-etched to form trenches and baffles. The modifications of the prior utilized flat exposed surfaces increase the amount of exposed metal to facilitate electrochemical redox reaction or control the exposure of the metal surfaces to analytes of large size. These etched areas variously increase the sensitivity of electrochemical detection devices to low concentrations of analyte, improve the plug flow characteristic of the channel, and allow additional discrimination of the colloidal particles during cyclic voltammetry.

    摘要翻译: 纳米通道电泳和电化学装置具有位于流体输送通道中的选择性蚀刻的纳米级氨基酸盐。 具有暴露的导电(金属)条纹的纳米材料的通常平坦表面被选择性蚀刻以形成沟槽和挡板。 现有利用的平坦暴露表面的改进增加暴露的金属的量以促进电化学氧化还原反应或控制金属表面暴露于大尺寸分析物。 这些蚀刻区域将电化学检测装置的灵敏度各不相同地提高到低浓度的分析物,改善了通道的插塞流动特性,并允许在循环伏安法期间对胶体颗粒进行额外的鉴别。

    Nanolaminate microfluidic device for mobility selection of particles
    3.
    发明授权
    Nanolaminate microfluidic device for mobility selection of particles 失效
    用于迁移率选择颗粒的纳米级氨基酸微流体装置

    公开(公告)号:US07118661B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-10-10

    申请号:US10261392

    申请日:2002-09-30

    IPC分类号: G01N27/453

    CPC分类号: G01N27/447

    摘要: A microfluidic device made from nanolaminate materials that are capable of electrophoretic selection of particles on the basis of their mobility. Nanolaminate materials are generally alternating layers of two materials (one conducting, one insulating) that are made by sputter coating a flat substrate with a large number of layers. Specific subsets of the conducting layers are coupled together to form a single, extended electrode, interleaved with other similar electrodes. Thereby, the subsets of conducting layers may be dynamically charged to create time-dependent potential fields that can trap or transport charge colloidal particles. The addition of time-dependence is applicable to all geometries of nanolaminate electrophoretic and electrochemical designs from sinusoidal to nearly step-like.

    摘要翻译: 由纳米材料制成的微流体装置,其能够基于它们的迁移率电泳选择颗粒。 纳米层压材料通常是通过溅射涂覆具有大量层的平坦基底而制成的两种材料(一个导体,一个绝缘体)的交替层。 导电层的特定子集耦合在一起以形成与其它类似电极交错的单个延伸电极。 因此,导电层的子集可以被动态充电以产生可以捕获或运输电荷胶体颗粒的时间依赖性电场。 时间依赖性的增加适用于从正弦曲线到几乎阶梯状的纳米压电电泳和电化学设计的所有几何形状。

    Selectively-etched nanochannel electrophoretic and electrochemical devices
    4.
    发明授权
    Selectively-etched nanochannel electrophoretic and electrochemical devices 失效
    选择性蚀刻的纳米通道电泳和电化学装置

    公开(公告)号:US07067351B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-06-27

    申请号:US10864778

    申请日:2004-06-08

    IPC分类号: H01L21/44

    CPC分类号: B82Y30/00 C23F1/02

    摘要: Nanochannel electrophoretic and electrochemical devices having selectively-etched nanolaminates located in the fluid transport channel. The normally flat surfaces of the nanolaminate having exposed conductive (metal) stripes are selectively-etched to form trenches and baffles. The modifications of the prior utilized flat exposed surfaces increase the amount of exposed metal to facilitate electrochemical redox reaction or control the exposure of the metal surfaces to analytes of large size. These etched areas variously increase the sensitivity of electrochemical detection devices to low concentrations of analyte, improve the plug flow characteristic of the channel, and allow additional discrimination of the colloidal particles during cyclic voltammetry.

    摘要翻译: 纳米通道电泳和电化学装置具有位于流体输送通道中的选择性蚀刻的纳米级氨基酸盐。 具有暴露的导电(金属)条纹的纳米材料的通常平坦表面被选择性蚀刻以形成沟槽和挡板。 现有利用的平坦暴露表面的改进增加暴露的金属的量以促进电化学氧化还原反应或控制金属表面暴露于大尺寸分析物。 这些蚀刻区域将电化学检测装置的灵敏度各不相同地提高到低浓度的分析物,改善了通道的插塞流动特性,并允许在循环伏安法期间对胶体颗粒进行额外的鉴别。

    Nanosensors based on functionalized nanoparticles and surface enhanced raman scattering
    5.
    发明授权
    Nanosensors based on functionalized nanoparticles and surface enhanced raman scattering 有权
    基于官能化纳米粒子和表面增强拉曼散射的纳米传感器

    公开(公告)号:US07301624B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-11-27

    申请号:US10935783

    申请日:2004-09-07

    IPC分类号: G01J3/44

    CPC分类号: G01N21/658 G01J3/44

    摘要: Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) is a vibrational spectroscopic technique that utilizes metal surfaces to provide enhanced signals of several orders of magnitude. When molecules of interest are attached to designed metal nanoparticles, a SERS signal is attainable with single molecule detection limits. This provides an ultrasensitive means of detecting the presence of molecules. By using selective chemistries, metal nanoparticles can be functionalized to provide a unique signal upon analyte binding. Moreover, by using measurement techniques, such as, ratiometric received SERS spectra, such metal nanoparticles can be used to monitor dynamic processes in addition to static binding events. Accordingly, such nanoparticles can be used as nanosensors for a wide range of chemicals in fluid, gaseous and solid form, environmental sensors for pH, ion concentration, temperature, etc., and biological sensors for proteins, DNA, RNA, etc.

    摘要翻译: 表面增强拉曼光谱(SERS)是一种振动光谱技术,利用金属表面提供几个数量级的增强信号。 当感兴趣的分子连接到设计的金属纳米粒子时,可以通过单分子检测限达到SERS信号。 这提供了检测分子存在的超灵敏手段。 通过使用选择性化学成分,金属纳米粒子可以被功能化,以在分析物结合时提供独特的信号。 此外,通过使用诸如比例接收的SERS光谱的测量技术,除了静态结合事件之外,这种金属纳米颗粒可用于监测动态过程。 因此,这种纳米颗粒可用作流体,气体和固体形式的广泛化学品的纳米传感器,用于pH,离子浓度,温度等的环境传感器,以及用于蛋白质,DNA,RNA等的生物传感器。

    Saccharide sensing molecules having enhanced fluorescent properties
    6.
    发明授权
    Saccharide sensing molecules having enhanced fluorescent properties 有权
    具有增强的荧光性质的糖感测分子

    公开(公告)号:US06673625B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-01-06

    申请号:US09823522

    申请日:2001-03-30

    IPC分类号: G01N3300

    摘要: The present invention provides formulae for fluorescent compounds that have a number of properties which make them uniquely suited for use in sensors of analytes such as saccharides. The advantageous fluorescent properties include favorable excitation wavelengths, emission wavelengths, fluorescence lifetimes, and photostability. Additional advantageous properties include enhanced aqueous solubility, as well as temperature and pH sensitivity. The compound comprises an aryl or a substituted phenyl botonic acid that acts as a substrate recognition component, a fluorescence switch component, and a fluorophore. Fluorescent compounds are described that are excited at wavelengths greater than 400 nm and emit at wavelengths greater than 450 nm, which is advantageous for optical transmission through skin. The fluorophore is typically selected from transition metal-ligand complexes and thiazine, oxazine, oxazone, or oxazine-one as well as anthracene compounds. The fluorescent compound can be immobilized in a glucose permeable biocompatible polymer matrix that is implantable below the skin.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供具有多种性质的荧光化合物的配方,使其独特地适用于分析物如糖的传感器。 有利的荧光特性包括有利的激发波长,发射波长,荧光寿命和光稳定性。 其他有利的性质包括提高水溶性,以及温度和pH敏感性。 化合物包括用作底物识别组分的芳基或取代的苯基苯甲酸,荧光开关组分和荧光团。 描述了在波长大于400nm被激发并且以大于450nm的波长发射的荧光化合物,这对于通过皮肤的光学透射是有利的。 荧光团通常选自过渡金属 - 配体络合物和噻嗪,恶嗪,恶唑酮或恶嗪 - 以及蒽化合物。 荧光化合物可以固定在可植入皮肤下面的葡萄糖可渗透的生物相容性聚合物基质中。

    Chemical sensor system
    8.
    发明授权
    Chemical sensor system 失效
    化学传感器系统

    公开(公告)号:US06480730B2

    公开(公告)日:2002-11-12

    申请号:US09742775

    申请日:2000-12-20

    IPC分类号: A61B505

    摘要: An implantable chemical sensor system for medical applications is described which permits selective recognition of an analyte using an expandable biocompatible sensor, such as a polymer, that undergoes a dimensional change in the presence of the analyte. The expandable polymer is incorporated into an electronic circuit component that changes its properties (e.g., frequency) when the polymer changes dimension. As the circuit changes its characteristics, an external interrogator transmits a signal transdermally to the transducer, and the concentration of the analyte is determined from the measured changes in the circuit. This invention may be used for minimally invasive monitoring of blood glucose levels in diabetic patients.

    摘要翻译: 描述了用于医疗应用的可植入化学传感器系统,其允许使用在分析物存在下经历尺寸变化的可扩展生物相容性传感器(例如聚合物)来选择性识别分析物。 当聚合物改变尺寸时,可膨胀聚合物结合到电子电路组件中,其改变其性质(例如,频率)。 随着电路改变其特性,外部询问器将信号经皮传递至换能器,并根据测量的电路变化确定分析物的浓度。 本发明可用于糖尿病患者血糖水平的微创监测。

    Air-core grid for scattered x-ray rejection
    9.
    发明授权
    Air-core grid for scattered x-ray rejection 失效
    用于散射X射线抑制的空心电网

    公开(公告)号:US5455849A

    公开(公告)日:1995-10-03

    申请号:US299387

    申请日:1994-09-01

    IPC分类号: G21K1/02

    CPC分类号: G21K1/025

    摘要: The invention is directed to a grid used in x-ray imaging applications to block scattered radiation while allowing the desired imaging radiation to pass through, and to process for making the grid. The grid is composed of glass containing lead oxide, and eliminates the spacer material used in prior known grids, and is therefore, an air-core grid. The glass is arranged in a pattern so that a large fraction of the area is open allowing the imaging radiation to pass through. A small pore size is used and the grid has a thickness chosen to provide high scatter rejection. For example, the grid may be produced with a 200 .mu.m pore size, 80% open area, and 4 mm thickness.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种用于x射线成像应用中的格栅,以阻止散射的辐射,同时允许期望的成像辐射通过,并且用于制造网格。 电网由含氧化铅的玻璃构成,消除了现有技术中使用的间隔物,因此是空心网。 玻璃布置成图案,使得大部分区域是敞开的,允许成像辐射通过。 使用小孔径,并且栅格具有选择的厚度以提供高散射抑制。 例如,栅格可以生产具有200μm孔径,80%开口面积和4mm厚度。