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20090096136 | THIOL-ENE BASED POLY(ALKYLSILOXANE) MATERIALS - A stamp is comprised of a thiol-ene polymer, wherein the thiol-ene polymer allows for creation of micro-scale or nano-scale patterns useful in soft or imprint lithography. A patterned thiol-ene polymer is fabricated by casting a thiol-ene mixture onto a patterned mold, curing the thiol-ene mixture to form the patterned thiol-ene polymer, and peeling off the patterned thiol-ene polymer from the silicon mold. A stamp comprised of a thiol-ene polymer may be replicated by exposing the to oxygen plasma to form a hydrophilic mold, exposing the hydrophilic mold to a fluorinating agent under vacuum conditions to form a functionalized surface of the hydrophilic mold, casting a thiol-ene mixture on top of the functionalized surface, photocuring the thiolene mixture to form a replica thiol-ene polymer, and peeling off the replica thiol-ene polymer. | 04-16-2009 |
20090098340 | METHOD FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNING OF PHOTONIC CRYSTALS EMPLOYED FOR SOLID-STATE LIGHT EXTRACTION - A method for patterning metal oxides or ceramics on surfaces, and more particularly, a method of forming photonic crystals. The patterning is done using a solution coating process and a polymer-based template made by nano-imprint lithography. The methodology to pattern a sol-gel can be used to make features without the undesired scum layer. Furthermore, the patterned photonic crystals were demonstrated to efficiently increase the light extraction efficiency of solid state devices based on GaN. | 04-16-2009 |
20100258804 | BACKPLANE STRUCTURES FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES - There is provided a backplane for an organic electronic device including a TFT substrate having a base substrate, a polysilicon layer, a gate dielectric layer, a gate electrode, an interlayer dielectric, and a data electrode; an insulating layer over the TFT substrate; a multiplicity of first openings in the insulating layer having a depth d | 10-14-2010 |
20110221061 | ANODE FOR AN ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE - There is provided an anode for an organic electronic device. The anode has (a) a first layer which is a conducting inorganic material and (b) a second ultrathin layer which is a metal oxide | 09-15-2011 |
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20090147001 | COMPUTER PROGRAM TO OUTPUT CONTRAST ENHANCED MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - A string of computer instructions is presented to output medical image data containing voxels representative of contrast enhanced material, and arranged to operate on a first object data set comprising voxels depicting contrast enhancement, whereby it segments a sub-set of voxels in the first object data set which voxels describe contrast enhanced vessels, and uses the results of the segmentation to partition the voxels depicting contrast enhancement into a first group of voxels describing the segmented vessels and a second group of voxels describing the remaining contrast enhanced voxels, and uses the partition to output a second object data set comprising voxels depicting contrast enhancement in which the difference between the voxels of the first group and the voxels of the second group is identifiable. It is particularly advantageously applied to dynamic contrast enhanced breast imaging. | 06-11-2009 |
20110087089 | MULTIPLE MODALITY COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD - A diagnostic system having an image loader including a processor for processing multiple modality images, at least one of the multiple modality images being a mammogram image, the processing including generating diagnostic information based on a computer aided diagnostic tool and an image viewer simultaneously displaying the multiple modality images. | 04-14-2011 |
20110170755 | SELECTION OF SNAPSHOTS OF A MEDICAL IMAGE SEQUENCE - A system is provided for automatic selection of medical images. The system comprises an input ( | 07-14-2011 |
20110229004 | SYNOPSIS OF MULTIPLE SEGMENTATION RESULTS FOR BREAST LESION CHARACTERIZATION - When characterizing a tumor or lesion as malignant or benign, a system ( | 09-22-2011 |
20120041779 | CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A clinical decision support (CDS) system comprises: a case grouping sub-system ( | 02-16-2012 |
20120303384 | TREATMENT PLAN CREATION WORKFLOW TRACKING - A method for tracking creation of a treatment plan for a patient includes obtaining an input indicative of a state of a task in the treatment plan creation workflow and generating a signal indicative of a set of tasks of the treatment plan creation workflow, including the state of the task corresponding to the received input. A system includes a processor ( | 11-29-2012 |
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20120061570 | INFRARED LIGHT TRANSMISSIVITY FOR A MEMBRANE SENSOR - In conventional membrane infrared (IR) sensors, little to no attention has been paid toward transmissivity of IR near metal traces. Here, because the substrate of an integrated circuit carrying the sensor is used as a visible light filter, reflection of IR radiation back into the substrate can affect the operation and reliability of the IR sensor. As a result, an arrangement is provided that reduces the area occupied by metal lines by reducing the pitch and compacting the routing so as to reduce the effects from the reflection of IR radiation by metal traces. | 03-15-2012 |
20120063093 | REDUCING THERMAL GRADIENTS TO IMPROVE THERMOPILE PERFORMANCE - With infrared (IR) sensors, repeatability and accuracy can become an issue when there are thermal gradients between the sensor and an underlying printed circuit board (PCB). Conventionally, a large thermal mass is included in the sensor packaging to reduce the effect from such thermal gradients, but this increase costs and size of the sensor. Here, however, a PCB is provided that includes an isothermal cage included therein that generally ensures that the temperature of the underlying PCB and sensor are about the same by including structural features (namely, the isothermal cage) that generally ensure that the thermal time constant for a path from a heat source to the thermopile (which is within the sensor) is approximately the same as thermal time constants for paths through the PCB. | 03-15-2012 |
20120086098 | IONIC ISOLATION RING - There has been very little (if any) attention to address contamination diffusion within an integrated circuit (IC) because there are very few applications where a protective overcoat will be penetrated as part of the manufacturing process. Here, a sealing ring is provided that address this problem. Preferably, the sealing ring uses the combination of electrically conductive barrier rings and the tortuous migration path to allow an electronic device (i.e., thermopile), where a protective overcoat is penetrated during manufacture, to communicate with external devices while being isolated to prevent contamination. | 04-12-2012 |
20120139077 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING THERMOPILE VARIATIONS - Here, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus generally comprises a substrate and a thermopile. The thermopile includes a cavity that is etched into the substrate, a functional area that is formed over the substrate (where the cavity is generally coextensive with the functional area), and a metal ring formed over the substrate along the periphery of the functional area (where the metal ring is thermally coupled to the substrate). | 06-07-2012 |
20130175072 | REDUCING THERMAL GRADIENTS TO IMPROVE THERMOPILE PERFORMANCE - With infrared (IR) sensors, repeatability and accuracy can become an issue when there are thermal gradients between the sensor and an underlying printed circuit board (PCB). Conventionally, a large thermal mass is included in the sensor packaging to reduce the effect from such thermal gradients, but this increase costs and size of the sensor. Here, however, a PCB is provided that includes an isothermal cage included therein that generally ensures that the temperature of the underlying PCB and sensor are about the same by including structural features (namely, the isothermal cage) that generally ensure that the thermal time constant for a path from a heat source to the thermopile (which is within the sensor) is approximately the same as thermal time constants for paths through the PCB. | 07-11-2013 |
20130214159 | INFRARED LIGHT TRANSMISSIVITY FOR A MEMBRANE SENSOR - In conventional membrane infrared (IR) sensors, little to no attention has been paid toward transmissivity of IR near metal traces. Here, because the substrate of an integrated circuit carrying the sensor is used as a visible light filter, reflection of IR radiation back into the substrate can affect the operation and reliability of the IR sensor. As a result, an arrangement is provided that reduces the area occupied by metal lines by reducing the pitch and compacting the routing so as to reduce the effects from the reflection of IR radiation by metal traces. | 08-22-2013 |
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20120223400 | INFRARED SENSOR DESIGN USING AN EPOXY FILM AS AN INFRARED ABSORPTION LAYER - A MEMS IR sensor, with a cavity in a substrate underlapping an overlying layer and a temperature sensing component disposed in the overlying layer over the cavity, may be formed by forming an IR-absorbing sealing layer on the overlying layer so as to cover access holes to the cavity. The sealing layer is may include a photosensitive material, and the sealing layer may be patterned using a photolithographic process to form an IR-absorbing seal. Alternately, the sealing layer may be patterned using a mask and etch process to form the IR-absorbing seal. | 09-06-2012 |
20120223401 | CAVITY PROCESS ETCH UNDERCUT MONITOR - A MEMS device having a device cavity in a substrate has a cavity etch monitor proximate to the device cavity. An overlying layer including dielectric material is formed over the substrate. A monitor scale is formed in or on the overlying layer. Access holes are etched through the overlying layer and a cavity etch process forms the device cavity and a monitor cavity. The monitor scale is located over a lateral edge of the monitor cavity. The cavity etch monitor includes the monitor scale and monitor cavity, which allows visual measurement of a lateral width of the monitor cavity; the lateral dimensions of the monitor cavity being related to lateral dimensions of the device cavity. | 09-06-2012 |
20120225559 | CAVITY OPEN PROCESS TO IMPROVE UNDERCUT - A process of forming a MEMS device with a device cavity underlapping an overlying dielectric layer stack having an etchable sublayer over an etch-resistant lower portion, including: etching through at least the etchable sublayer of the overlying dielectric layer stack in an access hole to expose a lateral face of the etchable sublayer, covering exposed surfaces of the etchable sublayer by protective material, and subsequently performing a cavity etch. A cavity etch mask may cover the exposed surfaces of the etchable sublayer. Alternatively, protective sidewalls may be formed by an etchback process to cover the exposed surfaces of the etchable sublayer. Alternatively, the exposed lateral face of the etchable sublayer may be recessed by an isotropic etch, than isolated by a reflow operation which causes edges of an access hole etch mask to drop and cover the exposed lateral face of the etchable sublayer. | 09-06-2012 |
20130062720 | EXTENDED AREA COVER PLATE FOR INTEGRATED INFRARED SENSOR - An integrated circuit chip includes a window cover over etchant holes in a dielectric layer and over a cavity in the substrate of said integrated circuit chip. The window cover extends at least 400 microns beyond the edge of the cavity. An integrated sensor chip with a sensor cover which extends at least 400 microns beyond the edges of a cavity. A method of forming an integrated sensor chip with a sensor cover which extends at least 400 microns beyond the edge of a cavity. | 03-14-2013 |