2750 results about "Micro structure" patented technology

A micro structure manufacture method includes the steps of: (a) preparing an etching object having an etching target film, provided with a lower hard mask layer and an upper hard mask layer stacked on the etching target film; (b) forming a resist pattern above the etching object; (c) etching the upper hard mask film by using the resist pattern as an etching mask to form an upper hard mask; (d) after the step (c), removing the resist pattern; (e) after the step (d), thinning the upper hard mask by etching; (f) etching the lower hard mask film by using the thinned upper hard mask as an etching mask to form a lower hard mask; and (g) etching the etching target film by using the upper hard mask and the lower hard mask as an etching mask, wherein the upper hard mask film is capable of being more easily etched, using the resist pattern as a mask, than the lower hard mask film. The micro structure manufacture method can etch a fine pattern with good yield.

A method and apparatus for determining a pose of an elongate object and an absolute position of its tip while the tip is in contact with a plane surface having invariant features. The surface and features are illuminated with a probe radiation and a scattered portion, e.g., the back-scattered portion, of the probe radiation returning from the plane surface and the feature to the elongate object at an angle τ with respect to an axis of the object is detected. The pose is derived from a response of the scattered portion to the surface and the features and the absolute position of the tip on the surface is obtained from the pose and knowledge about the feature. The probe radiation can be directed from the object to the surface at an angle σ to the axis of the object in the form of a scan beam. The scan beam can be made to follow a scan pattern with the aid of a scanning arrangement with one or more arms and one or more uniaxial or biaxial scanners. Angle τ can also be varied, e.g., with the aid of a separate or the same scanning arrangement as used to direct probe radiation to the surface. The object can be a pointer, a robotic arm, a cane or a jotting implement such as a pen, and the features can be edges, micro-structure or macro-structure belonging to, deposited on or attached to the surface which the tip of the object is contacting.

What is described here is an antireflective coating comprising a carrier layer consisting of an optically transparent material, which, at least on one surface side, presents antireflective properties with respect the wavelengths of the radiation incident on the surface. Moreover, methods of producing the coating are described.The invention excels itself by the provision that the antireflective surface side presents a surface roughness with stochastically distributed structures-the so-called macro structures-and that the macro structures are additionally modulated with surface structures presenting a periodic sequence-the so-called micro structures-which present period or cycle lengths smaller than the wave lengths of the radiation incident on the antireflective surface.

A method for forming a battery from via thin-film deposition processes is disclosed. A mesoporous carbon material is deposited onto a surface of a conductive substrate that has high surface area, conductive micro-structures formed thereon. A porous, dielectric separator layer is then deposited on the layer of mesoporous carbon material to form a half cell of an energy storage device. The mesoporous carbon material is made up of CVD-deposited carbon fullerene “onions” and carbon nano-tubes, and has a high porosity capable of retaining lithium ions in concentrations useful for storing significant quantities of electrical energy. Embodiments of the invention further provide for the formation of an electrode having a high surface area conductive region that is useful in a battery structure. In one configuration the electrode has a high surface area conductive region comprising a porous dendritic structure that can be formed by electroplating, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, thermal spraying, and / or electroless plating techniques.

A new conceptual biomedical method is presented for designing scaffold-based bone implants and using these implants in treating deteriorated bones. These implants have micro-architectural bone structures that are capable of mimicking the stochastic micro-structure as in natural bone bio-mineral structures. Moreover, they can be adapted as specific tailor-made compatible bone-repair mediator implants to be used as effective substitutes for natural damaged bone fracture structures.

An optical fiber having a longitudinal direction and a cross-section perpendicular thereto, the optical fiber includes a core region; and a micro-structured cladding region, the cladding region surrounding the core region and having longitudinally extending micro-structure cladding elements arranged in a background cladding material, the micro-structured cladding elements having cross-sectional sizes which are equal or different, at least a number of the cladding elements being arranged in a substantially two dimensional periodic manner or a Bragg-type of manner, such as concentric rings of cladding elements surrounding the core, and the at least a number of the cladding elements are filled in at least one longitudinally extending section of the optical fiber with a liquid crystal material. The at least one filled section exhibits a photonic bandgap effect for at least one phase state of the liquid crystal.

The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing a brightness enhancement structure comprising micro-reflectors. The process comprises forming an array of micro-structures by embossing; and depositing a metal layer over the surface of the micro-structures. The present invention also relates to a process for manufacturing a display device comprising micro-reflectors. The present invention further relates to a display device comprising micro-reflectors.

The present invention is directed to display devices with a brightness enhancement structure comprising display cells comprising partition walls, and brightness enhancement micro-structures. The present invention is also directed to processes for the manufacture of display devices. The processes enable fabricating a display device with the micro-structures aligned with the display cells of the display device.

An edge lighting back light unit (BLU) includes at least a point illuminant, a light guide unit, and a light guide plate. The light guide unit includes a plurality of micro-structures for breaking the total reflection inside the light guide unit to generate a uniform linear light illuminating outside the light guide unit. Then, the light guide plate could reflect the light from the linear illuminant to form a uniformly planar illuminant. The edge lighting BLU in the present invention could reduce the components, lower the temperature, and avoid the light mura.

A method and apparatus for measuring microstructures, anistropy and birefringence in polymers using laser scattered light includes a laser which provides a beam that can be conditioned and is directed at a fiber or film which causes the beam to scatter. Backscatter light is received and processed with detectors and beam splitters to obtain data. The data is directed to a computer where it is processed to obtain information about the fiber or film, such as the birefringence and diameter. This information provides a basis for modifications to the production process to enhance the process.

An apparatus and method for compensating for mode-profile distortions caused by bending optical fibers having large mode areas. In various embodiments, the invention micro-structures the index of refraction in the core and surrounding areas of the inner cladding from the inner bend radius to the outer bend radius in a manner that compensates for the index changes that are otherwise induced in the index profile by the geometry and / or stresses to the fiber caused by the bending.

Embodiments of methods and apparatus for micro-printing films are disclosed. According to various embodiments, the printing apparatus includes printheads with ink-jets for dispensing droplets of ink formed from a carrier liquid and a print material. The printheads also include thermal-jets for depositing the print material onto a substrate from the droplets of ink dispensed by ink-jets. The droplets of ink dispensed by ink-jets flow into micro-structures on the thermal-jets and the thermal-jets are heated to evaporate the carrier liquid and to vaporize and direct the print material onto a substrate. The printing apparatus further includes a control unit that is configured to automatically adjust an output from one or more printheads based on one or more measured quantities.

A method to fabricate an optical scattering probe and the method includes the steps of a) depositing an conductive layer on a substrate followed by depositing a noble metal layer on top of the conductive layer and then an aluminum layer on top the noble metal layer; b) anodizing the aluminum layer to form a porous aluminum oxide layer having a plurality of pores; and c) etching the plurality of pores through the aluminum oxide layer and the noble metal layer for forming a nano-hole array. In a preferred embodiment, the step of etching the plurality of pores through the aluminum oxide layer and the noble metal layer further comprising a step of widening the pores followed by removing the aluminum oxide layer for forming a plurality of noble metal column on top of the conductive layer.

An apparatus and method for compensating for mode-profile distortions caused by bending optical fibers having large mode areas. In various embodiments, the invention micro-structures the index of refraction in the core and surrounding areas of the inner cladding from the inner bend radius to the outer bend radius in a manner that compensates for the index changes that are otherwise induced in the index profile by the geometry and / or stresses to the fiber caused by the bending. Some embodiments of an apparatus and method include a fiber having a plurality of substantially parallel cores, the fiber including a straight section and a curved section; guiding signal light primarily in a second core in the straight section; guiding the signal light from the second core into a first core between the straight section and the curved section; and guiding the signal light primarily in the first core in the curved section.

Mass transfer of micro structures are effected from one substrate to another using adhesives. In the context of an integrated micro LED display, a micro LED array is fabricated on a native substrate and corresponding CMOS pixel drivers are fabricated on a separate substrate. The micro LED substrate (e.g., sapphire) and the CMOS substrate (e.g., silicon) may be incompatible. For example, they may have different thermal coefficients of expansion which make it difficult to bond the micro LEDs to the pixel driver circuitry. The micro LED array is transferred to an intermediate substrate (e.g., silicon) by use of an adhesive. This intermediate substrate may be used in a process of bonding the micro LED array to the array of pixel drivers. The intermediate substrate is separated from the micro LED array by releasing the adhesive.

A reduced density article of manufacture, and process for making same, made from a thermoplastic polycarbonate composition. The reduced density article of manufacture has (1) a certain density and (2) a certain micro structure containing from 1% to 20% by volume of voids wherein at least 80% of the voids are high aspect voids and less than 20% of the voids are spherical voids with a diameter of 10 to 100 microns. The polycarbonate thermoplastic composition comprises at least 50 mole % of a certain bisphenol A. The reduced density article of manufacture is made by a monofilament additive manufacturing technique.

An optical sensor includes a substrate having an upper surface, a plurality of protrusions on the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of protrusions is defined by a base at the upper surface of the substrate and by one or more sloped surfaces oriented at oblique angles relative to the upper surface, and two or more structural layers in the sloped surfaces. The surfaces of the two or more structural layers can adsorb molecules of a chemical or biological substance.

The invention provides a method for preparing a polymer superhydrophobic surface by using nano-particles for assisting micromolding. The method firstly uses a PDMS as a raw material for copying a micro-structure on the surface of a fresh lotus leaf to be used as a soft template, then casts or hot presses the modified nano particles and a polymer on the surface of the PDMS soft template and strips after molding, thereby obtaining the polymer superhydrophobic surface which contains a micro / nano second-order structure on the surface and has a certain function. The method has simple operation process, high efficiency and good controllability and repeatability; as the obtained surface contains the functional nano-particles, the method not only gives the superhydrophobic property to the polymer surface, but also gives a certain function to the superhydrophobic surface, thereby providing a simple and effective way for preparing the superhydrophobic surface and having wide application value and broad market prospect.

Fine structure stents physiologically acceptable to the body.

Methods, apparatus, and systems of fabricating ordered or hierarchically ordered small-scale structures (e.g. micro- or sub-micro size) without the need for lithographic techniques or external fields. The methods use irreversible solvent evaporation to deposit the solute on a surface. A spherical lens is brought down into contact with the droplet. By selection and control of one or more relevant parameters, various characteristics or features of the resulting structures can be controlled. Nano-scale structures or materials can be formed or included in the micro- or sub-micro-scale formed structures. The nano-scale structures or materials can self-assembly in hierarchical order by selection and control of certain process parameters.

A fractionating apparatus is used for fractionating sample into micro-structures different in size, and includes a fractionating unit formed with a fractionating passage; the fractionating passage is defined in a groove formed in a substrate of the fractionating unit, and pillar patches are formed in the groove at intervals wider than the gap among the pillar patches; while the sample is migrated through the fractionating passage, small-sized DNA molecules are trapped in the pillar patches, and large-sized DNA molecules are smoothly migrated through the wide intervals; this results in that the large-sized DNA molecules reaches the end of the fractionating passage faster than the small-sized DNA molecules without clogging.

A heat spreader comprising a casing, a micro-structure layer, a support device, and a working fluid is provided. The casing has an inner surface and is defined by a sealed chamber where the working fluid circulates therein. The micro-structure layer is formed on the inner surface of the casing, wherein the micro-structure layer comprises a first structure layer which is formed by the first metallic mesh. Specifically, the first metallic mesh forms the first structure layer on the inner surface through diffusion bonding so that the working fluid can circulate within the micro-structure layer by capillary action. In addition, the support device is disposed in the sealed chamber for supporting the casing. Thus, a heat spreader with a composite micro-structure can not only enhance the capillarity but also reduce the flowing resistance during operation.

A micro structure which is preferred as an original plate of an antireflection, a mold of nano imprint or injection molding is obtained by a single particle film etching mask on which each particle is precisely aligned and closest packed in two dimensions. A single particle film etching mask is produced by a drip step wherein a dispersed liquid in which particles dispersed in a solvent are dripped onto a liquid surface of a water tank, a single particle film formation step in which a single particle film which consists of the particles by volatizing a solvent is formed, and a transfer step in which the single particle film is transferred to a substrate. The single particle film etching mask on which particles are closest packed in two dimensions, has a misalignment D(%) of an array of the particles that is defined by D(%)=|B−A|×100 / A being less than or equal to 10%. However, A is the average diameter of the particles, and B is the average pitch between the particles in the single particle film.

The invention provides an eye precision orientation technology in the field of human face identifying. It is characterized in that it provides an eye precision orientation method on complex background image. It adopts a micro structure character with high efficiency and high redundant to express eye mode local and area grey distributing character and uses AdaBoost computing method to choose the most differential micro structure character to form the strong classer.

A micro structure has: a semiconductor substrate; an insulating film having a via hole and formed on the semiconductor substrate; an interlock structure formed on a side wall of the via hole and having a retracted portion and a protruded portion above the retracted portion; a conductive member having at one end a connection portion formed burying the via hole and an extension portion continuous with the connection portion and extending along a direction parallel to a surface of the semiconductor substrate.

Various complex structures (nano / micro particles) are incorporated into a taggant providing different optical, magnetic and spectroscopic identification codes. The size and shape of the taggant can be tailored for many different types of products ranging from pharmaceuticals, auto and airplane parts all the way to apparel goods. By integrating a number of different nano / micro structures with various optical, electrical and magnetic properties, significant barriers are introduced to the counterfeiters attempting to replicate the taggant. The latter is easily incorporated to different types of products and is detected with various types of handheld readers / detectors depending on the complexity of the security level. The taggant may detect environmental materials or conditions.

The invention discloses a lithium ion battery phosphatic composite cathode material and a preparation method thereof. The composite material is a multinuclear core shell structure composed of a plurality of cores and a housing layer, the cores are lithium iron phosphate particles wrapped by lithium vanadium phosphate and the housing layer is amorphous carbon. Preparation of the lithium iron phosphate particles wrapped by lithium vanadium phosphate comprises the following steps: preparing precursor sol with a sol gel method, adding lithium iron phosphate powder to disperse uniformly, carrying out spray drying on the above mixture, calcining the above resultant in inert gas, and followed by cooling and grinding to obtain the lithium iron phosphate particles wrapped by lithium vanadium phosphate. Preparation of the composite cathode material comprises the following steps: dissolving a carbon source compound into deionized water, adding core materials, dispersing the above resultant uniformly, carrying out second spray drying, calcining the above resultant in inert gas, and followed by cooling to obtain the composite cathode material. The composite material prepared in the invention has good electronic conduction performance, good ionic conduction performance and excellent electrochemistry performance. Because of existence of lithium vanadium phosphate, energetic density of a material is raised. Because of the multinuclear core shell structure like nano / micro structures, the composite material has good processing performance, and tap density of the material is greatly raised.