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| 20080283751 | Organic field effect transistor systems and methods - An OFET on a pyroelectric or piezoelectric substrate, such as PVDF, can provide highly adaptable and manufacturable radiation or acoustic sensing. Local charge amplification can be provided, such to construct an array of sensing pixels, which can be configured in an active or passive matrix. A susceptor or guide element can be provided. Systems, devices, methods of making, and methods of using are among the examples described. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080309412 | ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An OFET includes a ferroelectric gate dielectric permitting electrical reprogramming, such as to implement an electrically re-programmable array logic (PAL) or a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Methods of constructing such an OFET, PAL, or FPGA, can including roll printing. An OFET on a piezoelectric substrate provides local amplification in an active matrix. Methods of constructing such an OFET on a piezoelectric substrate can including rolling printing. Techniques permit direct measurement of trap distribution, such as across the channel length of an OFET device. Techniques permit direct measurement of the size and location of an electrically active grain structure in OFET devices. Techniques permit confirmation of the mechanism of operation of a number of OFET techniques, including use of silanes or thiols, or OFET operation or aging. Techniques provide an internal circuit probe, such as for a ferroelectric gate dielectric OFET or a piezoelectric substrate OFET, for example. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090215208 | Composition including material, methods of depositing material, articles including same and systems for depositing material - Methods for depositing nanomaterial onto a substrate are disclosed. Also disclosed are compositions useful for depositing nanomaterial, methods of making devices including nanomaterials, and a system and devices useful for depositing nanomaterials. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090278141 | Light-emitting devices and displays with improved performance - Light-emitting devices and displays with improved performance are disclosed. A light-emitting device includes an emissive material disposed between a first electrode, and a second electrode. Various embodiments include a device having a peak external quantum efficiency of at least about 2.2%; a device that emits light having a CIE color coordinate of x greater than 0.63; a device having an external quantum efficiency of at least about 2.2 percent when measured at a current density of 5 mA/cm | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100014799 | Optical structures including nanocrystals - An optical structure can include a nanocrystal on a surface of an optical waveguide in a manner to couple the nanocrystal to the optical field of light propagating through the optical waveguide to generate an emission from the nanocrystal. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100134520 | Displays including semiconductor nanocrystals and methods of making same - A display comprises a substrate and a light-emitting device disposed on the substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a semiconducting material and a circuit for controlling the light-emitted from the light-emitting device. A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting material comprising semiconductor nanocrystals and an electrode in electrical connection with the light-emitting material on a side thereof remote from the substrate. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100135937 | METAL OXIDE NANOCRYSTALS: PREPARATION AND USES - Nanocrystalline forms of metal oxides, including binary metal oxide, perovskite type metal oxides, and complex metal oxides, including doped metal oxides, are provided. Methods of preparation of the nanocrystals are also provided. The nanocrystals, including uncapped and uncoated metal oxide nanocrystals, can be dispersed in a liquid to provide dispersions that are stable and do not precipitate over a period of time ranging from hours to months. Methods of preparation of the dispersions, and methods of use of the dispersions in forming films, are likewise provided. The films can include an organic, inorganic, or mixed organic/inorganic matrix. The films can be substantially free of all organic materials. The films can be used as coatings, or can be used as dielectric layers in a variety of electronics applications, for example as a dielectric material for an ultracapacitor, which can include a mesoporous material. Or the films can be used as a high-K dielectric in organic field-effect transistors. In various embodiments, a layered gate dielectric can include spin-cast (e.g., 8 nm-diameter) high-K BaTiO | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100213467 | DIRECT BANDGAP SUBSTRATES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING - An indirect bandgap thin film semiconductor circuit can be combined with a compound semiconductor LED such as to provide an active matrix LED array that can have high luminous capabilities such as for a light projector application. In another example, a highly efficient optical detector is achievable through the combination of indirect and direct bandgap semiconductors. Applications can include display technologies, light detection, MEMS, chemical sensors, or piezoelectric systems. An LED array can provide structured illumination, such as for a light and pattern source for projection displays, such as without requiring spatial light modulation (SLM). An example can combine light from separate monolithic light projector chips, such as providing different component colors. An example can provide full color from a single monolithic light projector chip, such as including selectively deposited phosphors, such as to contribute individual component colors to an overall color of a pixel. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100248099 | SOFTWARE-CONTROLLED MASKLESS OPTICAL LITHOGRAPHY USING FLUORESCENCE FEEDBACK - A software-controlled maskless optical lithography system uses fluorescence feedback to control an aspect of the lithography, such as light source dose, wavelength, or flashing instances or duration, spatial light modulator (SLM) pattern, an optics parameter, a beamsplitter control parameter, or movement or positioning of a stage carrying a target workpiece, such as a semiconductor wafer. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100266126 | FRIEND OR FOE DETECTION - An identification friend or foe (IFF) system and method can covertly identify an object as friend or foe (FoF). An encoded illumination signal can be calculated using a detected ambient signal and an identification (ID) signal and emitted. The encoded illumination signal can be detected by analyzing a detected ambient signal and decoded using a specified key. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110095261 | FLEXIBLE DEVICES INCLUDING SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS, ARRAYS, AND METHODS - The present invention relates to flexible devices including semiconductor nanocrystals, arrays including such devices, systems including the foregoing, and related methods. In one embodiment, a flexible light-emitting device includes a flexible substrate including a first electrode, an emissive layer comprising semiconductor nanocrystals disposed over the substrate, and second electrode disposed over the emissive layer comprising semiconductor nanocrystals, wherein, when the device is curved, the emissive layer comprising semiconductor nanocrystals lies substantially in the neutral plane of the device. In another embodiment, a light-emitting device includes an emissive layer comprising semiconductor nanocrystals disposed between two flexible substrates, a first electrode disposed over the emissive layer comprising semiconductor nanocrystals, and a second electrode disposed under the emissive layer comprising semiconductor nanocrystals. In certain preferred embodiments, at least one charge transport layer is disposed between one of the electrodes and the layer comprising semiconductor nanocrystals. | 04-28-2011 |
