221 |
SYSTEM FOR MANIPULATING AND OPTICALLY TARGETING MICRO OBJECTS |
US14368098 |
2012-12-28 |
US20140346335A1 |
2014-11-27 |
Jesper Glückstad; Darwin Palima |
The present invention relates to a system 100 for independently holding and manipulating one or more microscopic objects 158 and for targeting at least a part of the one or more microscopic objects within a trapping volume 102 with electromagnetic radiation 138. The system comprises trapping means for holding and manipulating the one or more microscopic objects and electromagnetic radiation targeting means (116). The light means comprising a light source and a spatial light modulator which serve to modify the light from the light source so as to enable specific illumination of at least a part of the one or more microscopic objects. The trapping means and the electromagnetic radiation targeting means (116) are enabled to function independently of each other, so that the trapped objects may be moved around without taking being dependent on which parts are being targeted and vice versa. |
222 |
Laser accelerator driven particle brachytherapy devices, systems, and methods |
US13251047 |
2011-09-30 |
US08878464B2 |
2014-11-04 |
James E. Clayton; Paul A. Lovoi; Wim Leemans |
A laser accelerator driven electronic brachytherapy system, device, and method for particle based treatment of a tumor or other human diseases and conditions. |
223 |
CONTOURED SUPPORT GRID FOR HERMETICALLY SEALED THIN FILM APPLICATIONS |
US14243554 |
2014-04-02 |
US20140209820A1 |
2014-07-31 |
Kenneth J. Barry; Mark T. Brown; Michael L. Bufano; Gerald M. Friedman; Peter M. King; Matthew A. Medford; Anne L. Testoni; Steven R. Walther; Tzvi Avnery |
Systems and methods for manufacturing a vacuum device, such as an electron emitter, that includes a foil exit window palced over and joined to a support grid. In one particular method, the vacuum chamber of an electron emitter has a thin foil forming an exit window at one end. The thin foil may be titanium or any suitable material and the foil will typically enlarge during a bonding process that attaches the foil to the support grid. In one manufacturing process, the support grid is provided with a surface that has contours, typically being smooth recessed surfaces, that the foil once enlarged can lie against as the vacuum pulls the foil against the grid. |
224 |
ARRAY STRUCTURES FOR FIELD-ASSISTED POSITRON MODERATION AND CORRESPONDING METHODS |
US14125868 |
2012-06-12 |
US20140184061A1 |
2014-07-03 |
Ryan Weed; Joshua Machacek |
Apparatuses and methods for the moderation of positrons are provided herein. The apparatus may include a structure consisting of linear arrays of electrode and semiconductor structures of generally planar or cylindrical form with vacuum gaps between each element electrode. This structure may be contained within a vacuum chamber. The positron source may be positioned adjacent to the moderator structure or the electrodes may act as the positron source by pair production through bombardment of high energy photons, electrons, or neutrons. Positrons from this source may be implanted into the moderator material and drift to the moderator surfaces through the influence of the electric fields produced by the electrodes. Positrons may be emitted from the surfaces of the moderator material and may be confined by orthogonal electric and magnetic fields while they drift out from the vacuum gap between cathodes and anodes for extraction. |
225 |
Stacked Zone Plates for Pitch Frequency Multiplication |
US14068322 |
2013-10-31 |
US20140126703A1 |
2014-05-08 |
Michael Feser; Alan Francis Lyon |
A compound x-ray lens and method of fabricating these lenses are disclosed. These compound lenses use multiple zone plate stacking to achieve a pitch frequency increase for the resulting combined zone plate. The compound equivalent zone plate includes a first zone plate having an initial pitch frequency stacked onto a second zone plate to form an equivalent compound zone plate. The equivalent zone plate has a pitch frequency that is at least twice the initial pitch frequency. Also, in one example, the equivalent zone plate has a mark-to-space ratio of 1:1. |
226 |
Applying CRT tube-type electron directingplates in a double slit system to provide an observable bridge between classical and quantum physics |
US13998521 |
2013-11-08 |
US20140084178A1 |
2014-03-27 |
James D. Welch |
Applying a Double Slit System in combination with Cathode Ray Tube-type electron directing plates between which an electron travels on its way to the Slits, and to which plates are applied precise voltage potentials in use, allows controlling where, within the width of a Double Slit System Slit an electron passes, and perhaps enables predicting where on a Double Slit Screen a specific electron will impinge. |
227 |
Charged particle source from a photoionized cold atom beam |
US13369008 |
2012-02-08 |
US08530853B2 |
2013-09-10 |
Adam V. Steele; Brenton J. Knuffman; Jabez J. McClelland |
A system for producing a charged particle beam from a photoionized cold atom beam. A vapor of neutral atoms is generated. From these atoms, an atom beam having axial and transverse velocity distributions controlled by the application of laser light is produced. The produced atom beam is spatially compressed along each transverse axis, thus reducing the cross-sectional area of the produced beam and reducing a velocity spread of the produced beam along directions transverse to the beam's direction of propagation. Laser light is directed onto at least a portion of the neutral atoms in the atom beam, thereby producing ions and electrons. An electric field is generated at the location of the produced ions and electrons, thereby producing a beam of ions traveling in a first direction and electrons traveling in substantially the opposite direction. A vacuum chamber contains the atom beam, the ion beam and the electron beam. |
228 |
ULTRA THIN RADIATION WINDOW AND METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURING |
US13700791 |
2010-10-08 |
US20130077761A1 |
2013-03-28 |
Heikki Johannes Sipilä |
For manufacturing a radiation window for an X-ray measurement apparatus, and etch stop layer is first produced on a polished surface of a carrier. A thin film deposition technique is used to produce a structural layer on an opposite side of said etch stop layer than said carrier. The combined structure comprising said carrier, said etch stop layer, and said structural layer is attached to a region around an opening in a support structure with said structural layer facing said support structure. The carrier is etched away. |
229 |
PRODUCTION OF MEV MICRO BEAMS OF PROTONS FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS |
US13253988 |
2011-10-06 |
US20130032731A1 |
2013-02-07 |
Thomas Anthony Tombrello, JR.; Eran Nardi |
A proton beam guidance apparatus and a method of providing proton beams having sub-micron beam width and MeV energies. The apparatus is a structure having an enclosed channel that can reflect or guide protons by grazing incidence interactions. The enclosed channel is in some embodiments an annular channel. The enclosed channel is shaped to provide a helical path for each proton in the beam. Protons are provided to an input port of the channel, and after multiple grazing incidence interactions with the walls of the channel, are provided as an output beam having dimensions comparable to the cross sectional dimensions of the channel. The channels can have cross sectional dimensions of tens of nanometers or less. No externally applied electromagnetic fields are needed to guide the proton beam. Contemplated applications include use of the exit proton beams to provide medical treatment to patients. |
230 |
Generic electromagnetically-countered systems |
US12961111 |
2010-12-06 |
US08369105B2 |
2013-02-05 |
Youngtack Shim |
Various electromagnetically-countered systems are provided and include at least one wave source irradiating harmful electromagnetic waves and at least one counter unit emitting counter electromagnetic waves for countering the harmful waves. Various generic counter units of such systems and various mechanisms are provided to counter the harmful waves by the counter units by matching configurations of the counter units with those of the wave sources, matching shapes of such counter waves with shapes of the harmful waves, etc. Various methods are provided for countering the harmful waves with the counter waves by such source or wave matching. Various methods are also provided for the counter units as well as counter waves. Various processes are provided for providing such systems and counter units. Various electric and/or magnetic shields may be used alone or in conjunction with such counter units to minimize irradiation of the harmful waves from the system. |
231 |
LASER ACCELERATOR DRIVEN PARTICLE BRACHYTHERAPY DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS |
US13251014 |
2011-09-30 |
US20120085916A1 |
2012-04-12 |
James E. CLAYTON; Paul A. LOVOI |
A laser accelerator driven electronic brachytherapy system, device, and method for particle based treatment of a tumor or other human diseases and conditions. |
232 |
Process for making models of photons, electrons, magnitism, gravity and other things |
US12806375 |
2010-08-11 |
US20110046928A1 |
2011-02-24 |
John R. Ross |
A process for making models of very small things and very big things. Since the structure of the smallest and largest things in our Universe are unknown to science and hold the key to understanding how our Universe was created and functions, the Ross Model is a process for modeling the secrets of our Universe. In preferred embodiments the present invention is used to create models of subatomic particles (including tronnies, entrons, photons, electrons, protons) and other things in our Universe such as atoms, molecules, electricity, magnetism, gravity, Black Holes, galaxies, the Big Bang, and our Universe itself, including its shell. |
233 |
OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR RADIATION IN THE EUV AND/OR SOFT X-RAY REGION AND AN OPTICAL SYSTEM WITH AT LEAST ONE OPTICAL ELEMENT |
US12625336 |
2009-11-24 |
US20100067653A1 |
2010-03-18 |
Marco Wedowski; Markus Weiss; Stephan Mûllender; Johann Trenkler; Hartmut Enkisch; Gisela Sipos; H.A. van Mierlo; Michiel David Nijkerk; Fokko Pieter Wieringa; Nadyeh Shariloo |
An optical element, especially a normal-incidence collector mirror, for radiation in the EUV and/or soft X-ray region of wavelengths is described. The element has a substrate, a multilayer coating with an optically active region, and a capacitor, having a first and a second capacitor electrode. At least one layer of the multilayer coating serves as the first capacitor electrode. At least one dielectric layer is provided between the two capacitor electrodes. Also described is an optical system with at least one optical element, having a first electrode arranged in the vicinity of the optical element. |
234 |
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LONG-TERM STORAGE OF ANTIMATTER |
US12175856 |
2008-07-18 |
US20100012864A1 |
2010-01-21 |
Gerald A. Smith |
A long-term antimatter storage device that may be energized by a low power magnetron and can function autonomously for hundreds of hours on the energy provided by batteries. An evacuated, cryogenic container is arranged with a source of positrons and a source of electrons positioned in capture relation to one another within the container so as to allow for the formation of a plurality of positronium atoms. A microwave resonator is located within the container forming a circularly polarized standing wave within which the plurality of positronium atoms rotate. Radioactive sources for small stores and low energy positron accelerators for large stores are used to efficiently fill the device with positronium in seconds to minutes. The device may also be arranged to provide for the extraction of positrons. A method for storing antimatter is also provided. |
235 |
Process for making models of the building blocks of our universe |
US12455989 |
2009-06-09 |
US20090254321A1 |
2009-10-08 |
John R. Ross |
A process for making models of very small things and very big things. Since the structure of the smallest and largest things in our Universe are unknown to science and hold the key to understanding how our Universe was created and functions, the Ross Model is a process for modeling the secrets of our Universe. In preferred embodiments the present invention is used to create models of subatomic particles (including tronnies, entrons, photons, electrons, protons) and other things in our Universe such as atoms, molecules, electricity, magnetism, gravity, Black Holes, galaxies, the Big Bang, and our Universe itself, including its shell. |
236 |
Antiscattering grids with multiple aperture dimensions |
US11183377 |
2005-07-18 |
US07356126B2 |
2008-04-08 |
Guillaume Bacher; Rémy Klausz |
An antiscattering grid for a radiation imaging apparatus is disclosed. The antiscattering grid having a plurality of strips substantially absorbing X-rays and separated from each other by inter-strip spaces substantially transparent to the X-rays. The dimensions of apertures separating two successive strips among the plurality of strips is not constant. |
237 |
Optical element for radiation in the EUV and/or soft X-ray region and an optical system with at least on optical element |
US11439854 |
2006-05-24 |
US20070114466A1 |
2007-05-24 |
Marco Wedowski; Markus Weiss; Stephan Mullender; Johann Trenkler; Hartmut Enkisch; Gisela Sipos; H.A. van Mierlo; Michiel Nijkerk; Fokko Wieringa; Nadyeh Shariloo |
An optical element, especially a normal-incidence collector mirror, for radiation in the EUV and/or soft X-ray region of wavelengths is described. The element has a substrate, a multilayer coating with an optically active region, and a capacitor, having a first and a second capacitor electrode. At least one layer of the multilayer coating serves as the first capacitor electrode. At least one dielectric layer is provided between the two capacitor electrodes. Also described is an optical system with at least one optical element, having a first electrode arranged in the vicinity of the optical element. |
238 |
Quantum state transfer between matter and light |
US11286020 |
2005-11-23 |
US07220954B2 |
2007-05-22 |
Alexander M. Kuzmich; Dzmitry N. Matsukevich |
Disclosed are apparatus and methods that provide for a coherent quantum state transfer of information from a two-level atomic system (matter) to a single photon (light). Entanglement between a single photon (signal) and a two-component atomic ensemble of cold Rubidium atoms is used to project a quantum memory element (the atomic ensemble) onto any desired state by measuring the signal in a suitable basis. The atomic qubit is read out by stimulating directional emission of a single photon (idler) from the (entangled) collective state of the ensemble. Faithful atomic memory preparation and readout are verified by observed correlations between the signal and idler photons. These results are an important component of distributed quantum networking. |
239 |
Neutrino telescope |
US11410356 |
2006-04-25 |
US20070025494A1 |
2007-02-01 |
Robert Beckwith |
A neutrino telescope is made up of four devices. A neutrino modulating device velocity modulates neutrinos passing through a thin walled steel tube. This encodes the neutrinos as being different than any neutrinos found in nature. The steel tube is electrically driven to its lengthwise resonant frequency. A directive steel tube can be added, as a second device, to restrict neutrinos passing into the telescope and the directional resolution thus improved. A third device uses a barium titanate cylinder to detect forces from modulated neutrinos. An analog circuit filters and amplifies the signal as necessary. An oscilloscope can be used to measure and study the output. A fourth device uses a Blackfin processor to provide digital processing and a service computer for further processing and studying results over periods of time. |
240 |
Apparatus for generating focused electromagnetic radiation |
US11389183 |
2006-03-27 |
US20060192504A1 |
2006-08-31 |
Arzhang Ardavan; Houshang Ardavan |
The fact that the intensity of the pulse decays more slowly than predicted by the inverse square law is not therefore incompatible with the conservation of energy, for it is not the same wave packet that is observed at different distances from the source: the wave packet in question is constantly dispersed and reconstructed out of other waves. The cusp curve of the envelope of the wavefronts emanating from an infinitely long-lived source is detectable in the radiation zone not because any segment of this curve can be identified with a caustic that has formed at the source and has subsequently travelled as an isolated wavepacket to the radiation zone, but because a certain set of waves superpose coherently only at infinity. |