Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100001209 | Halide-based scintillator nanomaterial - Scintillator material comprising nanoparticles (nanocrystals) comprising lead (Pb), iodine (I), and optionally one or both of oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H) wherein the nanoparticles exhibit room-temperature scintillation under gamma irradiation. The scintillator nanoparticles can comprise Pb | 01-07-2010 |
20100008390 | Light-emitting device having injection-lockable unidirectional semiconductor ring laser monolithically integrated with master laser - A unidirectional semiconductor ring laser (USRL) section is monolithically integrated with a DFB or DBR master laser section on a semiconductor substrate of a light-emitting device to provide an injection locking mode of operation that can result in low-cost ultrafast (over 100 GHz) functional chip that will be easy to use in practice. | 01-14-2010 |
20100034223 | Light-emitting device having injection-lockable semiconductor ring laser monolithically integrated with master laser - A semiconductor ring laser (SRL) section is monolithically integrated with a DFB or DBR master laser section on a semiconductor substrate of a light-emitting device to provide an injection locking mode of operation that can result in low-cost ultrafast (over 100 GHz) functional chip that will be easy to use in practice. | 02-11-2010 |
20100072374 | Lead-iodide-based scintillator materials - Scintillator material comprising nanoparticles (nanocrystals) comprising lead (Pb), iodine (I), and optionally one or both of oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H) wherein the nanoparticles exhibit room-temperature scintillation under gamma irradiation. The scintillator nanoparticles can comprise Pb | 03-25-2010 |
20120145532 | Efficient hydrogen production by photocatalytic water splitting using surface plasmons in hybrid nanoparticles - Photocatalytic water splitting is employed as a method to directly obtain clean hydrogen from solar radiation by using hybrid nanoparticles with metallic cores and semiconductor photocatalytic shells. Efficient unassisted overall photocatalytic splitting of water is based on resonant absorption from surface plasmon in metal core/semiconductor shell hybrid nanoparticles, which can extend the absorption spectra further towards the visible-near infrared range, thus dramatically increasing the solar energy conversion efficiency. When used in combination with scintillator nanoparticles, the hybrid photocatalytic nanoparticles can be used for conversion of nuclear energy into hydrogen. | 06-14-2012 |
20120286166 | Thermal neutron detectors based on gadolinium-containing nanoscintillators - A thermal neutron detector and method employ Gd-containing nanoscintillators. Thermal neutron radiation is detected by observing scintillation events from the nanoscintillators. | 11-15-2012 |
20130299720 | Halide-based scintillator nanomaterial - A heterogeneous scintillator material is provided comprising core/shell nanoparticles having a highly hygroscopic or deliquescent halide-based core activated with trivalent Ln | 11-14-2013 |
20140061487 | NANOCRYSTALLINE OPTICALLY-BASED NEUTRON IRRADIATION HISTORY SENSOR - A neutron irradiation history sensor and detection method for detection of thermal neutrons exploit transmutation of | 03-06-2014 |
20140161148 | Light-emitting device having photon-lifetime modulation - The invention provides a semiconductor light-emitting device having a monolithically integrated master laser, such as a distributed-Bragg-reflector (DBR) master laser, and injection-locked ring slave laser with modulated photon lifetime for optical communication beyond 100 GHz. | 06-12-2014 |