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Optical Projection System and Method for Photolithography. A lithographic immersion projection system and method for projecting an image at high resolution over a wide field of view. The projection system and method include a final lens which decreases the marginal ray angle of the optical path before light passes into the immersion liquid to impinge on the image plane.

A primary radiator used for a parabolic antenna including: a radiator body having a horn part provided at one end of a waveguide; and a waterproof cover covering an open end of the horn part of the radiator body, wherein a step is formed on an inner surface of the horn part of the radiator body, and a position of the step is set so that radio waves reflected on the waterproof cover are cancelled out by radio waves reflected on the step to prevent multiple reflection in the radiator body.

This invention relates to a front electrode/contact for use in an electronic device such as a photovoltaic device. In certain example embodiments, the front electrode of a photovoltaic device or the like includes a multilayer coating including at least one transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layer (e.g., of or including a material such as tin oxide, ITO, zinc oxide, or the like) and/or at least one conductive substantially metallic IR reflecting layer (e.g., based on silver, gold, or the like). In certain example instances, the multilayer front electrode coating may include one or more conductive metal(s) oxide layer(s) and one or more conductive substantially metallic IR reflecting layer(s) in order to provide for reduced visible light reflection, increased conductivity, cheaper manufacturability, and/or increased infrared (IR) reflection capability. At least one of the surfaces of the front glass substrate may be textured in certain example embodiments of this invention.

A home video network, and a home video and data network, utilizing wireless protocol communications over coaxial cable (CX) are disclosed. In the home video network, a main network station (10) includes video processing functionality, such as one or more of a DVD player, personal video recorder (PVR), and a set-top box (STB) for cable or satellite television reception. The main network station (10) also includes a matched splitter (27) that receives coaxial cable (CX) inputs, and provides low-pass filtered and high-pass filtered output. The low-pass filtered output (LF) corresponding to video signals is provided to the video processing functionality (20) and the high-pass filtered output (HF) corresponding to wireless protocol communications is provided to a wireless access point function (22). Other network stations and combinations of functions are also disclosed, including those that utilize a function switch (25) to switch between network communications over coaxial cable (CX) and communications over an antenna (A), in either a single BSS mode or a double BSS mode.

This invention relates to a front electrode/contact for use in an electronic device such as a photovoltaic device. In certain example embodiments, the front electrode of a photovoltaic device or the like includes a multilayer coating including at least one transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layer (e.g., of or including a material such as tin oxide, ITO, zinc oxide, or the like) and/or at least one conductive substantially metallic IR reflecting layer (e.g., based on silver, gold, or the like). In certain example instances, the multilayer front electrode coating may include one or more conductive metal(s) oxide layer(s) and/or one or more conductive substantially metallic IR reflecting layer(s) in order to provide for reduced visible light reflection, increased conductivity, cheaper manufacturability, and/or increased infrared (IR) reflection capability.

A lightweight photovoltaic concentrator is disclosed. The concentrator comprises at least two sections each comprising a cell panel, a radiator panel and a reflector panel. In one embodiment, the concentrator system of the present invention comprises at least two hinged sections each comprising a solar cell panel, a flat radiator panel, and a curved reflective concentrator panel. The solar cell panel comprises at least one photovoltaic cell for generating electrical power in response to radiation. The solar cell panel is aligned with the radiator panel at an angle less than 180 degrees but not less than 90 degrees facing the reflective concentrator panel. In another embodiment, the cell panels on adjoining sections are angled in opposite directions with respect to the radiator panels and wherein the reflective concentrator panels are located on opposite sides of the radiator panels. A heat pipe or loop heat pipe is located in the radiator panel to dissipate heat from the solar cells.

An apparatus comprises a metamaterial including a first conducting layer, a second conducting layer, and a dielectric layer located between the first conducting layer and the second conducting layer. Each conducting layer has holes formed therethrough, for example as an array of holes formed through the metamaterial. The holes are configured so that the metamaterial has a gradient refractive index at an operational wavelength. The operational wavelength may be an IR or visible wavelength. The apparatus may be an optical element, and for example may have the functionality of a lens or prism through the refractive index gradient. Interfaces may be parallel planar interfaces.

An illumination device comprising a housing fixture, a light source, and an active heat transfer device is provided. The housing fixture includes a base adapted to be receivable in a light fixture receptacle configured to receive a gas-discharge lamp. The light source emits light with a color rendering index higher than a respective color rendering index of at least a type of gas-discharge lamp. The active heat transfer device is physically coupled to the light source and mounted to the housing fixture. The active heat transfer device receives power from a power supply to remove thermal energy from the light source.

An optical switch enabling optical communications between an input port and an output port of an optical waveguide by minimizing loss error of an optical signal without using a collimator comprised of a separate mediate optical waveguide, lens or the like is provided. The multi-channel optical switch, which changes optical paths, includes four pairs of input optical waveguides and output optical waveguide arranged in parallel to each other, the first pair of input optical waveguide and output optical waveguide facing the second pair of input optical waveguide and output optical waveguide at an angle of 90 degrees, the first input optical waveguide being installed to correspond to the second output optical waveguide, four mirrors installed to enter in optical path directions between the four pairs of input optical waveguides and output optical waveguides, thereby changing the optical paths, and a mirror actuator for selectively operating the entering of the mirror.

A display screen of touch type is prepared for using top base plate in display component also as bottom base plate of touch screen, plating conduction layer on external surface of top base plate in display component and arranging electrode used as an operation surface of touch screen on said conduction layer then integrating display component and touch screen to be an unified body.

A concentrator-type photovoltaic module includes a module enclosure having a rigid surface, and a flexible backplane within the enclosure and laminated to the rigid surface by an adhesive layer. The flexible backplane includes an array of interposer substrates having transfer-printed solar cells thereon and an interconnect network that provides electrical connections to the solar cells. A respective secondary spherical lens element is provided on respective ones of the solar cells within the enclosure. An optically transparent encapsulation layer may be provided on the secondary lens element of the respective ones of the solar cells, such that the secondary lens element including the encapsulation layer thereon has a different refractive index. A primary lens element is attached to the enclosure opposite to and spaced-apart from the rigid surface, and is positioned to concentrate light onto the respective ones of the solar cells through the secondary lens element thereon.

The static birefringent polarizing interference imaging spectrometer consists of a pre-telescope system, a polarizing interferometer, an imaging lens set and an area array detector arranged coaxially and successively in the incident light direction, as well as a computerized signal treating system connected to the output of the area array detector. The polarizing interferometer consists of a polarizer, a Savart polariscope and an analyzer. The present invention adopts Savart polariscope as the transverse shearing beam splitter, and the advantages of infinitely far target, linear light path, simple structure, high stability, high S/N ratio, high resolution, etc.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a hollow silicon nano conical array, in particular to a method for preparing the hollow silicon nano conical array with large area, uniform bottom diameter length, controllable spacing, controllable period and orderly arrangement. The method comprises the following four steps: washing and surface hydrophilization treatment of a monocrystalline silicon piece, preparation of polystyrene monolayer colloidal crystals, preparation of a hollow silicon nano column array, and construction of a hollow silicon nano conical array. The hollow silicon nano conical array obtained by the method has the advantages of large area, uniform bottom diameter length, controllable spacing, controllable period and orderly arrangement, has extremely superior broad-band dereflection performance, and effectively reduces the surface reflection loss from deep ultraviolet band to medium infrared band (250 nanometers to 15 mu m). The method is simple and controllable, and has wide application prospect on construction of photoelectric devices with low cost and large area and deflection surfaces.

The invention relates to a process for preparing a silicon dioxide nano-cone array which has large area, controllable interval, controllable cycle and sequential arrangement, and is directly fabricated on a substrate. The process includes three steps: cleaning the quartz plate substrate and performing hydrophilic process on the surface of the quartz plate substrate; preparing polystyrene single-layer colloidal crystals; fabricating the silicon dioxide nano-cone array. The silicon dioxide nano-cone array prepared by the process has extremely excellent wide-band anti-reflection and transmission increasing properties, can realize effectively reducing surface reflection loss and increasing light transmission from ultraviolet light to visible light (350nm to 800 nm) and then to the inside of middle-infrared-band (800nm to 2.5 micrometer) by controlling the cycle. Simultaneously, by changing nature of the surface of nano-cones, antifogging and super-hydrophobic surfaces can be fabricated. The process is simple, comparatively controllable and has wide application prospect on photoelectric devices with low cost and large area and on fabrication of anti-reflection surfaces.

Apparatus and methods for focusing transcranial ultrasound. The systems described herein are advantageous for noninvasive neuromodulation and other transcranial ultrasound applications such as high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). In particular, described herein are compound acoustic lens apparatus having a short focal length for use with a transcranial ultrasound system, systems including methods of using them. These compound lens assemblies allow transcranial stimulation of even superficial cortical regions of the brain for ultrasound neuromodulation with a compact, single transducer element system at low (e.g., 0.2 to 1 MHz) frequencies with relatively large diameter (e.g., >15 mm) transducers applying 1 to 10 watts/cm2 of acoustic energy (spatial-peak, temporal-average intensity at the target brain region), and short focal length (e.g., between 15 and 35 mm).

We discovered that the use of certain dopants or dopant moieties in polymeric coating formulations, that when applied over carbon nanotubes, unexpectedly decrease the measured electrical resistance of the coated carbon nanotubes (CNTs), when measured through the coating, even though the polymer coatings themselves do not have bulk conductivity. CNT compositions with enhanced electrical conductivity and methods of making such compositions are described. The CNTs are preferably coated with a dopant or dopant moiety having a HOMO energy of −7.0 eV or lower.

The invention relates to a laser scanning processing device which comprises a galvanometer scanning focusing module, a positive pressure gas chamber and/or a negative pressure gas chamber, and an air-blowing mask template, wherein a distributed air-blowing ports are formed by presetting the thickness of the air-blowing mask template, the shapes of air flow windows and the like; and gas, of which the flowing direction is the same as or basically consistent with the transmission directions of lasers transmitting each of air flow windows, is formed by presetting gas pressure difference between a laser incidence surface and a laser emergent surface of the air-blowing mask template. The laser scanning processing device solves a difficult problem in distributed auxiliary air blowing of a galvanometer scanning focusing processing module during large-format laser processing, is a perfect solution of distributed auxiliary air blowing of a laser galvanometer scanning focusing processing method, and is particularly suitable for industrial mass production.

The invention relates to a hybrid lumped distribution miniature band-pass filter. The hybrid lumped distribution miniature band-pass filter comprises a 50-ohmage input-output port installed on the surface, four parallel-connection resonance units, two interstage coupling inductors, a interstage coupling capacitor, a Z-shaped cross coupling capacitor and an input/output inductor which are all achieved through the multilayer low-temperature co-fired ceramic technical skill. The hybrid lumped distribution miniature band-pass filter has the advantages of being good in band-pass selectivity and out of band rejection, low in insertion loss, light in weight, small in volume, high in reliability, good in electric performance, phase-frequency characteristic linearity, temperature stability and electric performance batch uniformity, low in cost, capable of being produced massively and the like, and is especially applicable to radars, communication, rocket carrying, plane carrying, missile carrying, spacecrafts, man-portable mobile communication terminals and other wireless communication handheld and portable terminal products and corresponding frequency range systems with strict requirements for volume, weight, electric performance, reliability and the like.