Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
250336200 | Superconducting type | 10 |
20080197285 | Ultrasensitive Optical Detector Having a Large Temporal Resolution and Using a Waveguide, and Methods For Producing Said Detector - Ultrasensitive optical detector with high resolution in time, using a waveguide, and processes for manufacturing this detector | 08-21-2008 |
20080272302 | Ultra-Sensitive Optical Detector With High Time Resolution - An ultra-sensitive optical detector with large time resolution, using a surface plasmon. The optical detector is configured to detect at least one photon, and including a dielectric substrate, and on the substrate, at least one bolometric detection component, that generates an electrical signal from the energy of received photon(s). Additionally, at least one coupling component is formed on the substrate, distinct from the detection component and including a metal component, and generates a surface plasmon by interaction with the photon(s) and guiding the plasmon right up to the detection component, which then absorbs the energy of the surface plasmon. | 11-06-2008 |
20090020701 | HIGH TIME-RESOLUTION ULTRASENSITIVE OPTICAL DETECTOR, USING GRATING COUPLING - This detector is intended to detect at least one photon and comprises a dielectric substrate ( | 01-22-2009 |
20090072141 | Neutron Detector and Neutron Imaging Sensor - A neutron detector includes a plurality of neutron detecting element sections, each of the neutron detecting element sections having; a superconducting element including a substrate having at least one of surfaces thereof formed of a dielectric material, a strip line of the superconducting material formed on the surface and electrodes formed at opposed ends of the strip line, resistance determining sections for determining generation of heat resulting from a nuclear reaction between a superconducting element in the strip line and neutrons, through detection of change in a resistance value of said strip line, heat dissipation setting sections provided on a back side portion of the substrate opposite to the surface having the strip line formed thereon, the heat dissipation setting sections setting dissipation characteristics of the heat resulting from the nuclear reaction, and the heat dissipation characteristics being differentiated from each other between/among the neutron detecting element sections. | 03-19-2009 |
20090127460 | HIGH TIME-RESOLUTION ULTRASENSITIVE OPTICAL SENSOR USING A PLANAR WAVEGUIDE LEAKAGE MODE, AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME - A high time-resolution ultrasensitive optical detector, using a planar waveguide leakage mode, and methods for making the detector. The detector includes a stacking with a dielectric substrate, a detection element, first and second dielectric layers, and a dielectric superstrate configured to send photon(s) into the light guide formed by the first layer. The thicknesses of the layers is chosen to enable a resonant coupling between the photon(s) and a leakage mode of the guide, the stacking having an absorption resonance linked to the leakage mode for a given polarization of the photon(s). | 05-21-2009 |
20100019152 | Superconducting radiometry apparatus - There is provided a superconducting radiometry apparatus capable of performing, while sample-measuring, an energy correction in regard to a fluctuation of a peak value of an output signal, which is due to a radiation heat and a magnetic field from an outside. The superconducting radiometry apparatus is constituted by comprising a micro-calorie meter detecting an energy of a radiant ray as a temperature change, a signal detection mechanism for detecting a displacement of an electric current flowing to the micro-calorie meter, a shunt resistance which is connected in parallel to the micro-calorie meter and whose resistance value is smaller than the micro-calorie meter, a bias electric source connected to the micro-calorie meter and the shunt resistance and applying a constant voltage, a heat addition device adding a constant and already-known heat quantity to the micro-calorie meter, a peak value monitor measuring a peak value corresponding to an added heat quantity within an output signal from the signal detection mechanism while synchronizing with a heat quantity addition from the heat addition device, and an energy correction device correcting, on the basis of an output from the peak value monitor, so as to become a peak value corresponding to the heat quantity from the heat addition device. | 01-28-2010 |
20100032568 | DETECTION OF THE ENERGY OF PHOTONS FROM BIOLOGICAL ASSAYS - A cryogenic detector is used for detection in a biological assay. | 02-11-2010 |
20100327163 | Superconducting Transition Edge Sensors and Methods for Design and Manufacture Thereof - Methods for forming sensors using transition edge sensors (TES) and sensors therefrom are described. The method includes forming a plurality of sensor arrays includes at least one TES device. The TES device includes a TES device body, a first superconducting lead contacting a first portion of the TES device body, and a second superconducting lead contacting of a second portion of the TES device body, where the first and second superconducting leads separated on the TES device body by a lead spacing. The lead spacing can be selected to be different for at least two of the plurality of sensor arrays. The method also includes determining a transition temperature for each of the plurality of sensor arrays and generating a signal responsive to detecting a change in the electrical characteristics of one of the plurality of sensor arrays meeting a transition temperature criterion. | 12-30-2010 |
20160018267 | Superconducting thermal detector (bolometer) of terahertz (sub-millimeter wave) radiation - A superconducting thermal detector (bolometer) of THz (sub-millimeter) wave radiation based on sensing the change in the amplitude or phase of a resonator circuit, consisting of a capacitor (Csh) and a superconducting temperature dependent inductor where the said inductor is thermally isolated from the heat bath (chip substrate) by micro-suspensions. The bolometer design includes a thin film inductor located on the membrane, a single or/and multi-layered thin film capacitor, and a thin film absorber of incoming radiation. The bolometer design can also include a lithographic antenna with antenna termination and/or a back reflector beneath the membrane for optimal wavelength detection by the resonance circuit. The superconducting thermal detector (bolometer) and arrays of these detectors operate in a temperature range from 1 Kelvin to 10 Kelvin. | 01-21-2016 |
20190145822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIPHOTON DETECTION USING A CONVENTIONAL SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE SINGLE PHOTON DETECTOR | 05-16-2019 |