| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7609089 |
FPGA architecture at conventional and submicron scales |
October 27, 2009 |
| Reconfigurable logic devices and methods of programming the devices are disclosed. The logic device includes a look-up table (LUT) and at least one storage element configured for sampling LUT output signals. The LUT comprises a plurality of input signals, an array of programmable imp |
| 7592255 |
Fabricating arrays of metallic nanostructures |
September 22, 2009 |
| A patterned array of metallic nanostructures and fabrication thereof is described. A plurality of nanowires is grown on a substrate, the plurality of nanowires being laterally arranged on the substrate in a predetermined array pattern. The plurality of nanowires is coated with a meta |
| 7560726 |
Quantum information processing using electromagnetically induced transparency |
July 14, 2009 |
| Quantum information processing structures and methods use photons and four-level matter systems in electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) arrangements for one and two-qubit quantum gates, two-photon phase shifters, and Bell state measurement devices. For efficient coupling of |
| 7546004 |
Photonic interconnect system |
June 9, 2009 |
| A photonic interconnect system avoids high capacitance electric interconnects by using optical signals to communicate data between devices. The system can provide massively parallel information output by mapping logical addresses to frequency bands, so that modulation of a selected f |
| 7545999 |
Photonic configuration |
June 9, 2009 |
| An apparatus comprising an integrated circuit having a plurality of devices each having device characteristics, and a waveguide structure coupled to the integrated circuit, wherein photons provided to the waveguide structure are directed to one or more devices of the plurality of dev |
| 7525833 |
Nanoscale shift register and signal demultiplexing using microscale/nanoscale shift registers |
April 28, 2009 |
| One embodiment of the present invention is a nanoscale shift register that can be used, in certain nanoscale and mixed-scale logic circuits, to distribute an input signal to individual nanowires of the logic circuit. In a described embodiment, the nanoscale shift register includes two |
| 7511725 |
Apparatus and method for providing a three-dimensional moving image from a non-fixed pixel displ |
March 31, 2009 |
| Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for providing a three-dimensional moving image from a non-fixed pixel display. In one embodiment, a display having a plurality of pixels is provided, wherein at least one of the pixels is non-fixed and dynamically adjustable. In |
| 7507293 |
Photonic crystals with nanowire-based fabrication |
March 24, 2009 |
| Fabrication of a photonic crystal is described. A patterned array of nanowires is formed, the nanowires extending outward from a surface, the nanowires comprising a catalytically grown nanowire material. Spaces between the nanowires are filled with a slab material, the patterned arra |
| 7492803 |
Fiber-coupled single photon source |
February 17, 2009 |
| A device comprising a single photon generator and a waveguide, wherein a single photon generated by the single photon generator is coupled to the waveguide. |
| 7489583 |
Constant-weight-code-based addressing of nanoscale and mixed microscale/nanoscale arrays |
February 10, 2009 |
| Various embodiments of the present invention include methods for determining nanowire addressing schemes and include microscale/nanoscale electronic devices that incorporate the nanowire addressing schemes for reliably addressing nanowire-junctions within nanowire crossbars. The addr |
| 7449776 |
Cooling devices that use nanowires |
November 11, 2008 |
| Different types of cooling devices using nanowires are described. For example, a cooling device may include a plurality of diamond nanowires coupled to a surface. The diamond nanowires conduct heat energy from the surface and dissipate the heat energy into a neighboring fluid. |
| 7447055 |
Multiplexer interface to a nanoscale-crossbar |
November 4, 2008 |
| Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to electronic means for reading the content of a nanowire-crossbar memory. In one embodiment of the present invention, a microscale or sub-microscale signal line is interconnected with one set of parallel nanowires emanating f |
| 7436209 |
Nanoscale electronic latch |
October 14, 2008 |
| In one embodiment of the present invention, a nanoscale latch is implemented by interconnecting an enable line, two control lines, and a pull-down line, when needed, to a signal line carrying encoded binary values to be latched and subsequently output. The enable line is interconnect |
| 7405866 |
Composite material with controllable resonant cells |
July 29, 2008 |
| An apparatus for controlling propagation of incident electromagnetic radiation is described, comprising a composite material having electromagnetically reactive cells of small dimension relative to a wavelength of the incident electromagnetic radiation. At least one of a capacitive a |
| 7405462 |
FPGA architecture at conventional and submicron scales |
July 29, 2008 |
| Reconfigurable logic devices and methods of programming the devices are disclosed. The logic device includes a look-up table (LUT) and at least one storage element configured for sampling LUT output signals. The LUT comprises a plurality of input signals, an array of programmable imp |
| 7378347 |
Method of forming catalyst nanoparticles for nanowire growth and other applications |
May 27, 2008 |
| Methods for forming a predetermined pattern of catalytic regions having nanoscale dimensions are provided for use in the growth of nanowires. The methods include one or more nanoimprinting steps to produce arrays of catalytic nanoislands or nanoscale regions of catalytic material cir |
| 7350132 |
Nanoscale interconnection interface |
March 25, 2008 |
| One embodiment of the present invention provides a demultiplexer implemented as a nanowire crossbar or a hybrid nanowire/microscale-signal-line crossbar with resistor-like nanowire junctions. The demultiplexer of one embodiment provides demultiplexing of signals input on k microscale |
| 7343059 |
Photonic interconnect system |
March 11, 2008 |
| A photonic interconnect system avoids high capacitance electric interconnects by using optical signals to communicate data between devices. The system can provide massively parallel information output by mapping logical addresses to frequency bands, so that modulation of a selected f |
| 7342656 |
Dynamically variable separation among nanoparticles for nano-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (NERS) |
March 11, 2008 |
| A NERS-active structure includes a deformable, active nanoparticle support structure for supporting a first nanoparticle and a second nanoparticle that is disposed proximate the first nanoparticle. The nanoparticles each comprise a NERS-active material. The deformable, active nanoparticl |
| 7307448 |
Interconnectable nanoscale computational stages |
December 11, 2007 |
| Embodiments of the present invention implement computing circuits comprising a number of interconnectable nanoscale computational stages. Each nanoscale computational stage includes: (1) a nanoscale logic array; and (2) a number of nanoscale latch arrays interconnected with the confi |
| 7307345 |
Crossbar-array designs and wire addressing methods that tolerate misalignment of electrical comp |
December 11, 2007 |
| Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to crossbar array designs that interfaces wires to address wires, despite misalignments between electrical components and wires. In one embodiment, a nanoscale device may be composed of a first layer of two or more wires and a |
| 7307271 |
Nanowire interconnection and nano-scale device applications |
December 11, 2007 |
| A nano-colonnade structure-and methods of fabrication and interconnection thereof utilize a nanowire column grown nearly vertically from a (111) horizontal surface of a semiconductor layer to another horizontal surface of another layer to connect the layers. The nano-colonnade structure |
| 7292384 |
Method and apparatus for providing a three-dimensional moving image display |
November 6, 2007 |
| Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for providing a three-dimensional moving image display. In one embodiment, a display having a plurality of pixels is provided. In addition, a refractive index controller is provided for controlling a modifiable and reversible index |
| 7289690 |
Photonic crystal device for fluid sensing |
October 30, 2007 |
| An apparatus for sensing at least one property of a fluid is described. A first photonic crystal structure and a second photonic crystal structure are defined in a dielectric slab. The first and second photonic crystal structures comprise differently patterned arrays of channels extendin |
| 7256435 |
Multilevel imprint lithography |
August 14, 2007 |
| A mold with a protruding pattern is provided that is pressed into a thin polymer film via an imprinting process. Controlled connections between nanowires and microwires and other lithographically-made elements of electronic circuitry are provided. An imprint stamp is configured to form |
| 7242215 |
Nanoscale latches and impedance-encoded logic for use in nanoscale state machines, nanoscale pip |
July 10, 2007 |
| Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to implementation and use of logic-state-storing, impedance-encoded nanoscale, impedance-encoded latches that store logic values as impedance states within nanoscale electronic circuits that employ impedance-driven logic. In c |
| 7242199 |
Active interconnects and control points in integrated circuits |
July 10, 2007 |
| In various embodiments of the present invention, tunable resistors are introduced at the interconnect layer of integrated circuits in order to provide a for adjusting internal voltage and/or current levels within the integrated circuit to repair defective components or to configure the |
| 7233711 |
Autonomous evanescent optical nanosensor |
June 19, 2007 |
| A sensor includes traps that are adjacent to a waveguide and capable of holding a contaminant for an interaction with an evanescent field surrounding the waveguide. When held in a trap, a particle of the contaminant, which may be an atom, a molecule, a virus, or a microbe, scatters l |
| 7227379 |
Nanoscale latch-array processing engines |
June 5, 2007 |
| One embodiment of the present invention is an array of nanoscale latches interconnected by a nanowire bus to form a latch array. Each nanoscale latch in the nanoscale-latch array serves as a nanoscale register, and is driven by a nanoscale control line. Primitive operations for the latch |
| 7205941 |
Composite material with powered resonant cells |
April 17, 2007 |
| A composite material and related methods are described, the composite material being configured to exhibit a negative effective permittivity and/or a negative effective permeability for incident radiation at an operating wavelength, the composite material comprising an arrangement of |
| 7194609 |
Branch reconfigurable systems and methods |
March 20, 2007 |
| The invention is a system and method for executing programs. The invention involves a plurality of processing elements, wherein a processing element of the plurality of processing elements generates a branch command. The invention uses a programmable network that transports the branch co |
| 7191380 |
Defect-tolerant and fault-tolerant circuit interconnections |
March 13, 2007 |
| Methods for increasing defect tolerance and fault tolerance in systems containing interconnected components, in which a signal level is classified as belonging to one of a plurality of different, distinguishable classes based on one or more thresholds separating the signal-level clas |
| 7050659 |
Optically modulable photonic bandgap medium |
May 23, 2006 |
| Controlling the propagation of electromagnetic radiation is described. A photonic bandgap medium is placed in the path of the electromagnetic radiation, the photonic bandgap medium comprising a photorefractive material. Control radiation is projected onto a surface of the photonic ba |
| 7030408 |
Molecular wire transistor (MWT) |
April 18, 2006 |
| Bipolar and field effect molecular wire transistors are provided. The molecular wire transistor comprises a pair of crossed wires, with at least one of the wires comprising a doped semiconductor material. The pair of crossed wires forms a junction where one wire crosses another, one |
| 6903366 |
Chemically synthesized and assembled electronic devices |
June 7, 2005 |
| A route to the fabrication of electronic devices is provided, in which the devices consist of two crossed wires sandwiching an electrically addressable molecular species. The approach is extremely simple and inexpensive to implement, and scales from wire dimensions of several microme |
| 6898098 |
Molecular-junction-nanowire-crossbar-based associative array |
May 24, 2005 |
| A method for configuring an associative array within a molecular-junction-nanowire crossbar, and nanoscale associative arrays configured by the method Keys are encoded as field-effect transistors selectively configured within the molecular-junction-nanowire crossbar, and values assoc |
| 6870394 |
Controlled input molecular crossbar latch |
March 22, 2005 |
| A molecular crossbar latch is provided, comprising two control wires and a signal wire that crosses the two control wires to form a junction with each control wire. The latch further includes a control mechanism for controllably electrically connecting and disconnecting signal input to t |
| 6846682 |
Chemically synthesized and assembled electronic devices |
January 25, 2005 |
| A route to the fabrication of electronic devices is provided, in which the devices consist of two crossed wires sandwiching an electrically addressable molecular species. The approach is extremely simple and inexpensive to implement, and scales from wire dimensions of several microme |
| 6806453 |
Scanning, copying, and printing with rewritable media |
October 19, 2004 |
| A scan-print device is hand-held and is scanned over the surface of a paper-like rewritable sheet. The sheet has a colorant responsive to a linear array of pixel-sized electric fields written over the sheet by the scan-print device during each scan, producing a bistable pixel (e.g., |
| 6559468 |
Molecular wire transistor (MWT) |
May 6, 2003 |
| Bipolar and field effect molecular wire transistors are provided. The molecular wire transistor comprises a pair of crossed wires, with at least one of the wires comprising a doped semiconductor material. The pair of crossed wires forms a junction where one wire crosses another, one wire |
| 6459095 |
Chemically synthesized and assembled electronics devices |
October 1, 2002 |
| A route to the fabrication of electronic devices is provided, in which the devices consist of two crossed wires sandwiching an electrically addressable molecular species. The approach is extremely simple and inexpensive to implement, and scales from wire dimensions of several microme |
| 6314019 |
Molecular-wire crossbar interconnect (MWCI) for signal routing and communications |
November 6, 2001 |
| A molecular-wire crossbar interconnect for signal routing and communications between a first level and a second level in a molecular-wire crossbar is provided. The molecular wire crossbar comprises a two-dimensional array of a plurality of nanometer-scale switches. Each switch is rec |
| 6256767 |
Demultiplexer for a molecular wire crossbar network (MWCN DEMUX) |
July 3, 2001 |
| A demultiplexer for a two-dimensional array of a plurality of nanometer-scale switches (molecular wire crossbar network) is disclosed. Each switch comprises a pair of crossed wires which form a junction where one wire crosses another and at least one connector species connecting said |
| 6128214 |
Molecular wire crossbar memory |
October 3, 2000 |
| A molecular wire crossbar memory (MWCM) system is provided. The MWCM comprises a two-dimensional array of a plurality of nanometer-scale devices, each device comprising a junction formed by a pair of crossed wires where one wire crosses another and at least one connector species conn |
| 6107038 |
Method of binding a plurality of chemicals on a substrate by electrophoretic self-assembly |
August 22, 2000 |
| An electrophoretic technique is provided for moving a plurality of chemicals into distinct zones for immobilization on a solid surface. The technique includes introducing a first electrolyte and a second electrolyte into a channel, and interposing between the first and second electro |
