Abstract:
A photonic-crystal (PC)-based transparent-conductor assembly is disclosed, wherein the assembly includes a photonic-crystal cloaking element (PCCE) that surrounds at least one opaque conducting element. The PCCE has a refractive index distribution designed to 'cloak' the at least one conductor contained therein from light incident upon the PCCE within a select wavelength range. The cloaking effect from the PCCE leaves light incident upon the assembly traveling in its original path as if undisturbed, thereby effectively rendering the conductor, as well as the PCCE, "transparent." This allows for the formation of a transparent conductor from an otherwise opaque conductor. One or more such PC transparent-conductor assemblies can be configured so that a pattern of otherwise opaque conducting elements can form a transparent electrode array useful for a variety of electric-field-driven optical devices such as optical displays.
Abstract:
Photonic crystal fibers include a plurality of extruded non-circular canes, each of the extruded non-circular canes comprising at least one hole. Methods for manufacturing photonic crystal fibers include hot-forming a glass material into a glass tube having a non-circular outer cross-section, drawing the glass tube to obtain a plurality of canes, stacking the canes to create a preform build and drawing the preform build to obtain a photonic crystal fiber.
Abstract:
Optical waveguides are fabricated in glass-ceramic materials utilizing an ion-exchange process to pattern the waveguide at a temperature below the ceramming temperature of the glass-ceramic material. The optical waveguides may include optically-active dopants dispersed preferably within the crystallite phase of the glass-ceramic material.
Abstract:
Disclosed are masks and mask blanks for photolithographic processes, photosensitive materials and fabrication method therefor. Photosensitive materials are used in the masks for recording permanent pattern features via UV exposure. The masks are advantageously phase-shifting, but can be gray-scale masks having index patterns with arbitrary distribution of refractive index and pattern dimension. The masks may have features above the surface formed from opaque or attenuating materials. Alumino-boro-germano-silicate glasses having a composition comprising, in terms of mole percentage, 1-6% of Al 2 O 3 , 10-36% of B 2 O 3 , 2-20% of GeO 2 , 40-80% of SiO 2 , 2-10% of R 2 O, where R is selected from Li, Na and K, and expressed in terms of weight percentage of the glass, 0-5% of F, can be used for the mask substrate.
Abstract translation:公开了用于光刻工艺的掩模和掩模坯料,感光材料及其制造方法。 光敏材料用于通过紫外线曝光记录永久图案特征的掩模。 掩模有利地是相移,但是可以是具有折射率和图案尺寸的任意分布的索引图案的灰度掩模。 掩模可以具有由不透明或衰减材料形成的表面上方的特征。 氧化铝 - 硼 - 锗酸 - 硅酸盐玻璃,其组成包括以摩尔百分比计为1〜6%的Al 2 O 3,10-36%的B 2 O 3,2〜20%的GeO 2,40〜80%的SiO 2,2-10 R 2选自Li,Na和K的R 2 O%,并且以玻璃重量百分比表示,0-5%的F可以用于掩模基板。
Abstract:
Methods of patterning or forming color gradients and/or designs on a glass surface are disclosed. Patterns are formed by depositing a film of metal on at least one surface of the glass; forming a layer of photoresist over the metal; exposing the article to light through a mask which contains a desired pattern; developing the piece to remove the exposed photoresist to reveal the underlying metal; removing the underlying metal to reveal the underlying glass; and removing the unexposed photoresist to reveal the underlying metal. To form color gradients or color patterns, the glass article is further treated in hydrogen at a temperature in the range of 300-600 DEG C to effect the desired surface coloration.
Abstract:
Methods of fabricating dimensional silica-based substrates or structures comprising a porous silicon layers are contemplated. According to one embodiment, oxygen is extracted from the atomic elemental composition of a silica glass substrate by reacting a metallic gas with the substrate in a heated inert atmosphere to form a metal-oxygen complex along a surface of the substrate. The metal-oxygen complex is removed from the surface of the silica glass substrate to yield a crystalline porous silicon surface portion and one or more additional layers are formed over the crystalline porous silicon surface portion of the silica glass substrate to yield a dimensional silica-based substrate or structure comprising the porous silicon layer. Embodiments are also contemplated where the substrate is glass-based, but is not necessarily a silica-based glass substrate. Additional embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
Abstract:
Textured superstrates for photovoltaic cells, for example, silicon tandem photovoltaic cells with light scattering properties which are sufficient for light trapping independent of wavelength are described herein. Features of a textured surface of a superstrate, via the method(s) used to make the textured superstrate, can be tailored to provide the desired light scattering/trapping properties. The method includes grinding and lapping or grinding, lapping, and etching of a glass superstrate.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to polarizing devices that can be scaled to polarize electromagnetic radiation having wavelengths in ultraviolet to microwave range; and more particularly to devices suitable for use at visible and IR wavelengths. The device has a length, a width and a thickness, and a patterned system of channels, voids or holes embedded in or through a glass matrix and running through the thickness of the glass to thereby polarize incoming electromagnetic radiation having two polarization modes orthogonal to one another, blocking the passage of or reflecting one mode and permitting the other mode to pass through the device. The glass can be any glass suitable for transmitting the electromagnetic radiation in the range it will be used without excessive transmission losses due to absorbance of radiation in that range by moieties present in the glass. In one aspect, the device according to the invention may be deemed a "universal" polarizer: in the sense that it can be made to work in wavelength ranges from the microwave to the ultraviolet. The devices can also be made of polymeric materials utilizing the principles enumerated in the specification.
Abstract:
Systems and methods related to an image sensor of one or more embodiments include subjecting a donor semiconductor wafer to an ion implantation process to create an exfoliation layer of semiconductor film on the donor semiconductor wafer, forming an anodic bond between the exfoliation layer and an insulator substrate by means of electrolysis; separating the exfoliation layer from the donor semiconductor wafer to transfer the exfoliation layer to the insulator substrate; and creating a plurality of image sensor features proximate to the exfoliation layer. Forming the anodic bonding by electrolysis may include the application of heat, pressure and voltage to the insulator structure and the exfoliation layer attached to the donor semiconductor wafer. Image sensor devices include an insulator structure, a semiconductor film, an anodic bond between them, and a plurality of image sensor features. The semiconductor film preferably comprises an exfoliation layer of a substantially single-crystal donor semiconductor wafer.
Abstract:
A magnetic photonic crystal for providing asymmetry of spatial frequencies in the propagation of light is provided. The crystal is formed from at least two materials having different indices of refraction which are aligned along the longitudinal axis of the crystal. And arranged in an array whose symmetry does not include a spatial inversion operator such that (x,y) =/= (-x,-y). One or more of the materials forming the array is magnetic such that the magnetic group representation of the array does not include time inversion as a symmetric operator. In operation, when the magnetic material forming the material is magnetized, the group velocity property of light propagated in one direction along the axis of the array is different from the group velocity property of light transmitted in an opposite direction through the array. The magnetic photonic crystal may be used, for example, as an optical memory device or a high speed modulator/demodulator.