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| 20100103101 | SPATIALLY-AWARE PROJECTION PEN INTERFACE - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for providing an end user with a digital pen embedded with a spatially-aware miniature projector for use in a design environment. Paper documents are augmented to allow a user to access additional information and computational tools through projected interfaces. Virtual ink may be managed in single and multi-user environments to enhance collaboration and data management. The spatially-aware projector pen provides end-users with dynamic visual feedback and improved interaction capabilities. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100103167 | SPATIALLY-AWARE PROJECTION PEN DISPLAY - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for providing an end user with a digital pen embedded with a spatially-aware miniature projector for use in a design environment. Paper documents are augmented to allow a user to access additional information and computational tools through projected interfaces. Virtual ink may be managed in single and multi-user environments to enhance collaboration and data management. The spatially-aware projector pen provides end-users with dynamic visual feedback and improved interaction capabilities. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100103178 | SPATIALLY-AWARE PROJECTION PEN - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for providing an end user with a digital pen embedded with a spatially-aware miniature projector for use in a design environment. Paper documents are augmented to allow a user to access additional information and computational tools through projected interfaces. Virtual ink may be managed in single and multi-user environments to enhance collaboration and data management. The spatially-aware projector pen provides end-users with dynamic visual feedback and improved interaction capabilities. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110216001 | BIMANUAL INTERACTIONS ON DIGITAL PAPER USING A PEN AND A SPATIALLY-AWARE MOBILE PROJECTOR - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for providing an end user with a spatially-aware projector combined with a spatially-aware digital pen for use in a design environment. Paper documents are augmented to allow a user to access additional information and computational tools through projected interfaces. Virtual ink may be managed in single and multi-user environments to enhance collaboration and data management. The spatially-aware projector pen provides end-users with dynamic visual feedback and improved interaction capabilities. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110216091 | BIMANUAL INTERACTIONS ON DIGITAL PAPER USING A PEN AND A SPATIALLY-AWARE MOBILE PROJECTOR - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for providing an end user with a spatially-aware projector combined with a spatially-aware digital pen for use in a design environment. Paper documents are augmented to allow a user to access additional information and computational tools through projected interfaces. Virtual ink may be managed in single and multi-user environments to enhance collaboration and data management. The spatially-aware projector pen provides end-users with dynamic visual feedback and improved interaction capabilities. | 09-08-2011 |
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| 20080271866 | Paper substrate containing a functional layer and methods of making and using the same - The invention relates to the papermaking art and, in particular, to the manufacture of paper or paperboard substrates, paper-containing articles such as multilayered paper or paperboard or corrugated-based packaging, having a functional layer, as well as methods of making and using the same. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090020247 | Paper with improved stiffness and bulk and method for making same - The invention provides a three layered reprographic paper having improved strength, stiffness and curl resistance properties, and a method for making same. The paper has a central core layer made largely of cellulose and bulked with a bulking agent such as a diamide salt. A starch-based metered size press coating is pressed on both sides of the core layer, wherein the starch has a high solid content. The coating forms a three layered paper having an I-beam arrangement with high strength outer layers surrounding a low density core. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090297738 | Fast Dry Coated Inkjet Paper - Disclosed are a coating composition, coated article, and a method for treating one or more sides of the printable web with the composition, for providing improved printing ink dry time and gloss. The coating composition comprises: a calcium carbonate pigment component comprising a mixture high and low surface area calcium carbonate pigment; a metal salt drying agent; and a cationic dye fixing agent; a pigment binder; optionally a plastic pigment; and optionally an optical brightener; and which provides: a solids content of at least about 25%; a ratio of high to low surface area calcium carbonate in the range of from about 0.5:1 to about 20:1; and a ratio of calcium carbonate pigment component to pigment binder in the range of from about 4:1 to about 50:1. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100080916 | Composition Suitable for Multifunctional Printing and Recording Sheet Containing Same - A paper sizing or coating composition is provided, which includes: a first binder resin, which is compatible with dry toner binder resin; a second binder resin, which is compatible with liquid toner binder resin, and which is different from the first binder resin; a first pigment, which has a BET surface area of from greater than zero to about 35 m | 04-01-2010 |
| 20110011547 | PAPER SUBSTRATE HAVING ENHANCED PRINT DENSITY - The present invention relates to a sizing composition that, when applied to paper substrate, creates a substrate, preferably suitable for inkjet printing, having increased print density, print sharpness, low HST, and/or image dry time, the substrate preferably having high brightness and reduced color-to-color bleed as well. In addition, the present invention relates to a method of reducing the HST of a paper substrate by applying the sizing composition to at least one surface thereof. Further, the application relates to methods of making and using the sizing composition, as well as methods of making and using the paper containing the sizing composition. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110069106 | GLOSS COATED MULTIFUNCTIONAL PRINTING PAPER - The invention relates to a gloss coated multifunctional printing paper that can be used with a variety of office printing equipment including inkjet and electrophotographic and to processes of making and using the paper. a paper substrate; and a pigmented composition coated on at least one surface of the substrate, said pigmented coating composition comprising (1) a first pigment having a BET surface area in the range of from about 50 to about 750 m | 03-24-2011 |
| 20130040159 | PAPER SUBSTRATE HAVING ENHANCED PRINT DENSITY - The present invention relates to a sizing composition that, when applied to paper substrate, creates a substrate, preferably suitable for inkjet printing, having increased print density, print sharpness, low HST, and/or image dry time, the substrate preferably having high brightness and reduced color-to-color bleed as well. In addition, the present invention relates to a method of reducing the HST of a paper substrate by applying the sizing composition to at least one surface thereof. Further, the application relates to methods of making and using the sizing composition, as well as methods of making and using the paper containing the sizing composition. | 02-14-2013 |
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| 20090086784 | Quantum well intermixing - Embodiments of a method of quantum well intermixing (QWI) comprise providing a wafer comprising upper and lower epitaxial layers, which each include barrier layers, and a quantum well layer disposed between the upper and lower epitaxial layers, applying at least one sacrificial layer over the upper epitaxial layer, and forming a QWI enhanced region and a QWI suppressed region by applying a QWI enhancing layer over a portion of the sacrificial layer, wherein the portion under the QWI enhancing layer is the QWI enhanced region, and the other portion is the QWI suppressed region. The method further comprises the steps of applying a QWI suppressing layer over the QWI enhanced region and the QWI suppressed region, and annealing at a temperature sufficient to cause interdiffusion of atoms between the quantum well layer and the barrier layers of the upper epitaxial layer and the lower epitaxial layer. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090246707 | Semiconductor buried grating fabrication method - Methods for forming grating profiles in semiconductor laser structures comprise the steps of providing a semiconductor wafer comprising a wafer substrate, an etch stop layer disposed over the wafer substrate, a grating layer disposed over the etch stop layer, an etch mask layer disposed over the grating layer, and a photoresist layer disposed over the etch mask layer, forming a photoresist grating pattern, transferring the photoresist grating pattern into the grating layers via dry etching, and removing the photoresist layer, selectively wet etching the grating layer to form the grating profile in the grating layer. The placement of the grating layer between the etch mask and etch stop layers controls the selective wet etching step. The method also comprises removing the etch mask layer via selective wet etching without altering the grating profile, and regrowing an upper cladding layer to produce the semiconductor laser structure. | 10-01-2009 |
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| 20110195259 | Metallizable and Metallized Polyolefin Films and a Process of Making Same - Films that include at least one metallizable layer, wherein the metallizable layer includes a polyolefin and at least one organosilicon compound, such as silane, polysilane, side group modified polysilane, graft or block copolymer of silane, polycarbosilane, particularly organosilicon compounds having a silicon:(oxygen+nitrogen) molar ratio of 0.3 to 3.5 are described. Metallized films having good barrier properties and metal adhesion as well as methods for making such films are described. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20120100383 | Metallized Polypropylene Film and a Process of Making the Same - This disclosure relates to a multilayer film and a process making such a film. The multilayer film of this disclosure includes (a) a metallizable skin layer having at least one of a grafted isotactic polypropylene, a grafted minirandom copolymer of isotactic polypropylene, a grafted propylene-based elastomer, or any combinations thereof; and (b) a metal layer deposited on the metallizable skin layer, wherein the isotacticity of said isotactic polypropylene is 85% or greater; the ethylene concentration of said minirandom copolymer is 1.0 wt. % or lower; the propylene concentration of said propylene-based elastomer is 89 wt. % or greater; and, wherein the graft monomer includes at least one of ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids, ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid derivatives and any combination thereof. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120114958 | FILM WITH A METAL RECEIVING LAYER HAVING HIGH METAL ADHESION AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME - This disclosure relates to a film including a metal receiving layer having at least 15 wt. % of oriented lamellar crystals of a polymer, wherein the oriented lamellar crystals of the polymer have an average thickness in a range from about 1.0 nm to 25 nm as measured by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120157598 | Polymeric Films and Method of Making Same - Provided are polymeric films that include a polyolefin and at least one cavitating agent including a poly(alkylene terephthalate) of formula (I); | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120263960 | Film Composition and Method of Making the Same - This disclosure relates to a film comprising a metal receiving layer, the first layer comprising a blend of a first polymer and 5-25 wt. % of a second polymer, the second polymer is a metallocene-catalyzed elastomeric ethylene-propylene copolymer having an ethylene content of less than or equal to 10 wt. %, the first polymer is different from the second polymer. | 10-18-2012 |
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| 20090105854 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING QUEUE TIMES IN A PRODUCTION CYCLE - A method of optimizing production cycle queue time includes selecting a plurality of process steps for a production cycle, calculating queue times for each of the plurality of process steps, statistically analyzing the queue times, and generating at least one visual output that illustrates the statistically analyzed queue times. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20100201376 | DETECTING ASYMMETRICAL TRANSISTOR LEAKAGE DEFECTS - A method of detecting low-probability defects in large transistor arrays (such as large arrays of SRAM cells), where the defects manifesting themselves as asymmetrical leakage in a transistor (such as a pulldown nFET in an SRAM cell). These defects are detected by creating one or more test arrays, identical in all regards to the large transistor arrays up until the contact and metallization layers. The test array(s) is (are) disposed side-by-side with the “normal” array(s) on the same reticle so that process variations that affect the normal array will also affect the test array. The contact and metallization layers for the test array are adapted to connect groups (sub-blocks) of transistors together in parallel for leakage testing. The group size is chosen to ensure that the leakage current associated with a single defective transistor is significantly greater than the aggregate leakage current associated with all of non-defective transistors in the group. Leakage is measured by applying an appropriate off-state voltage (e.g., 0V) by a common connection to all of the gates of the transistors in the test array, then measuring the aggregate drain/source leakage current, both forward and reverse (e.g., first grounded source and positively biased drain, then grounded drain and positively biased source) comparing the difference between the two leakage current measurements. The sub-blocks (groups) may be tested one at a time using a sub-block selection decoder to select the sub-block being tested. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20110077765 | TOOL COMMONALITY AND STRATIFICATION ANALYSIS TO ENHANCE A PRODUCTION PROCESS - A method of analyzing production steps includes inputting application data associated with a production process having a plurality of process steps into a memory with each of the plurality of process steps including a plurality of tools. The method also includes loading process data associated with one of the plurality of process steps into the memory, performing a tool commonality analysis on each of the tools associated with the at least one of the plurality of process steps, identifying all tool-to-tool differences for the at least one of the plurality of process steps, performing a tool stratification analysis to identify one of the plurality of tools that provides the largest variance contribution to the at least one of the plurality of process steps, and stopping the one of the plurality of tools that provides the largest variance contribution to the at least one of the plurality of process steps. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110080189 | YIELD ENHANCEMENT FOR STACKED CHIPS THROUGH ROTATIONALLY-CONNECTING-INTERPOSER - A set of first substrate and second substrate are manufactured with a built-in N-fold rotational symmetry around the center axis of each substrate, wherein N is an integer greater than 1. A set of N different interposers is provided such that an i-th interposer provides electrical connection between the first substrate and the second substrate with a rotational angle of (i−1)/N×2π. The first and second substrates are tested with each of the N different interposers therebetween. Once the rotational angle that provides the highest stacked chip yield is determined, the first and the second substrates can be bonded with an azimuthal rotation that provides the highest stacked chip yield. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110099529 | GEOMETRY BASED ELECTRICAL HOTSPOT DETECTION IN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUTS - A method of failure detection of an integrated circuit (IC) layout includes determining a critical path distance between a first geometric feature of the IC layout and a second geometric feature of the IC layout; and comparing the determined critical path distance to a defined minimum critical path distance between the first and second geometric features, wherein the defined minimum critical path distance corresponds to a desired electrical property of the IC layout, independent of any geometric-based ground rule minimum distance for the IC layout; identifying any determined critical path distances that are less than the defined minimum critical path distance as a design violation; and modifying the IC layout by eliminating the identified design violations. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110115082 | CONFIGURABLE INTERPOSER - A modularized interposer includes a plurality of interposer units that are assembled to provide a complete set of electrical connections between two semiconductor chips. At least some of the plurality of interposer units can be replaced with other interposer units having an alternate configuration to enable selection of different functional parts of semiconductor chips to be connected through the modularized interposer. Bonding structures, connected to conductive metal pads located at peripheries of neighboring interposer units and an overlying or underlying portion of a semiconductor chip, can provide electrical connections between the neighboring interposer units. The interposer units can be provided by forming through-substrate vias (TSV's) in a substrate, forming patterned conductive structures on the substrate, and cutting the substrate into interposers. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20120232686 | WAFER ALIGNMENT SYSTEM WITH OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY - A system for performing alignment of two wafers is disclosed. The system comprises an optical coherence tomography system and a wafer alignment system. The wafer alignment system is configured and disposed to control the relative position of a first wafer and a second wafer. The optical coherence tomography system is configured and disposed to compute coordinate data for a plurality of alignment marks on the first wafer and second wafer, and send that coordinate data to the wafer alignment system | 09-13-2012 |
| 20130016895 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEFECT-BITMAP-FAIL PATTERNS MATCHING ANALYSIS INCLUDING PERIPHERAL DEFECTSAANM Song; ZhigangAACI Hopewell JunctionAAST NYAACO USAAGP Song; Zhigang Hopewell Junction NY USAANM Ouyang; XuAACI Hopewell JunctionAAST NYAACO USAAGP Ouyang; Xu Hopewell Junction NY USAANM Song; YunshengAACI Hopewell JunctionAAST NYAACO USAAGP Song; Yunsheng Hopewell Junction NY US - A system and method for fail pattern analysis for a memory device is disclosed. The peripheral circuits of a memory device are divided into different zones based on circuit design and layout. Defects are detected by inline inspection of multiple SRAM devices at various stages in the manufacturing process and saved into a database. When the devices are fabricated, electrical tests are then performed. Electrical failure patterns are also recorded and saved in the database. A correlation between the zone in which a visual defect resides and an electrical failure is recorded in computer storage. Visual defects found during inline inspection are then associated with an electrical failure in the memory device. | 01-17-2013 |
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| 20090000475 | Zeolite membrane structures and methods of making zeolite membrane structures - Inorganic membrane structures of high stability, high permeability, and large surface area. Zeolite membranes can be disposed onto an intermediate pore size modification layer which reduces the pore size of the inorganic porous support. The intermediate pore size modification layer minimizes the defects in the zeolite membrane and provides a more continuous and uniform zeolite membrane. The inorganic membrane structure can be in the form of a honeycomb monolith. The applications for the zeolite membranes include, for example, membrane ultra-filtration of gas or liquid fluids, biological assays and cell culture surfaces. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090214770 | Conductive film formation during glass draw - Methods for coating a glass substrate as it is being drawn, for example, during fusion draw or during fiber draw are described. The coatings are conductive metal oxide coatings which can also be transparent. The conductive thin film coated glass substrates can be used in, for example, display devices, solar cell applications and in many other rapidly growing industries and applications. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100129533 | Conductive Film Formation On Glass - Methods for coating a glass substrate are described. The coatings are conductive metal oxide coatings which can also be transparent. The conductive thin film coated glass substrates can be used in, for example, display devices, solar cell applications and in many other rapidly growing industries and applications. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100251888 | Oxygen-Ion Conducting Membrane Structure - An oxygen-ion conducting membrane structure comprising a monolithic inorganic porous support, optionally one or more porous inorganic intermediate layers, and an oxygen-ion conducting ceramic membrane. The oxygen-ion conducting hybrid membrane is useful for gas separation applications, for example O | 10-07-2010 |
| 20110050091 | NANO-WHISKER GROWTH AND FILMS - Methods for making tin oxide films comprising nano-whiskers comprises providing a solution comprising a tin precursor and a solvent; preparing aerosol droplets of the solution; and applying the aerosol droplets to a heated glass substrate, converting the tin chloride to tin oxide to form a tin oxide film on the glass substrate, wherein the tin oxide film comprises nano-whiskers. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110094577 | CONDUCTIVE METAL OXIDE FILMS AND PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES - Article comprising a substrate; and a conductive metal oxide film adjacent to a surface of the substrate, wherein the conductive metal oxide film has an electron mobility (cm | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110114169 | DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS AND METHODS OF MAKING - Dye sensitized solar cells having conductive metal oxide layers with nano-whiskers and methods of making the dye sensitized solar cells having conductive metal oxide layers with nano-whiskers are described. The method for making a dye sensitized solar cell comprises providing a conductive metal oxide layer comprising nano-whiskers, applying a porous semi-conducting layer on the conductive metal oxide layer, applying a dye to at least a portion of the porous semi-conducting layer, and applying an electrolyte adjacent to at least a portion of the dye. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20120132584 | Inorganic membranes and method of making - An inorganic membrane having an improved pore structure. The membrane has a mean pore size of up to about 100 nm and a mean particle size in a range from about 10 nm to about 100 nm. In one embodiment, the membrane comprises α-alumina and is formed by providing a coating slip comprising δ-alumina; applying the coating slip to a support surface to form a coating layer; drying the coating layer; and firing the dried coating layer at a temperature of at least about 1000° C. to convert at least a portion of the δ-alumina to α-alumina and form the inorganic membrane. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120134891 | Porous Ceramic Honeycomb Articles and Methods for Making The Same - A porous ceramic honeycomb article comprising a honeycomb body formed from cordierite ceramic, wherein the honeycomb body has a porosity P %≧55% and a cell channel density CD ≧150 cpsi. The porous channel walls have a wall thickness T, wherein (11+(300−CD)*0.03)≧T≧(8+(300−CD)*0.02), a median pore size ≦20 microns, and a pore size distribution with a d-factor of ≦0.35. The honeycomb body has a specific pore volume of VP≦0.22. The porous ceramic honeycomb article exhibits a coated pressure drop increase of ≦8 kPa at a flow rate of 26.5 cubic feet per minute when coated with 100 g/L of a washcoat catalyst and loaded with 5 g/L of soot. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120216675 | Sorbent Articles for CO2 Capture - A sorbent article having a substrate having porous channel walls defining open channels, and an organic-inorganic hybrid sorbent material distributed on a surface of the porous channel walls, wherein the sorbent material is derived from an amino-functionalized alkoxysilane and a polyamine, wherein the sorbent material is present in an amount equal to or greater than 10 g/l, wherein at least some of the sorbent material resides in the porous channel walls and forms CO | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120272823 | Article for CO2 Capture Having Heat Exchange Capability - An article comprising a plurality of intersecting walls having outer surfaces that define a plurality of cells extending from one end to a second end, wherein the walls forming each cell in a first subset of cells are covered by a barrier layer to form a plurality of heat exchange flow channels, and wherein the walls forming each cell in a second subset of cells different from the first subset of cells, comprise a CO | 11-01-2012 |
