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https://www.nist.gov/patents/inventors/1149866
Search Patents by Thomas P. Moffat
Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.
Making a curved metallic grating for matching angular divergence of incident radiation includes: providing a mandrel with a curved receiving surface; disposing a planar substrate on the curved receiving surface; applying a clamping force to the planar substrate at the planar field surface; bending
A metallic grating is formed to include a substrate; a plurality of high aspect ratio trenches disposed in the substrate such that the high aspect ratio trenches are spaced apart from one another by a field surface of the substrate; a metallic superconformal filling formed and disposed in the high
Hysteretic current-voltage mediated void-free superconformal and bottom-up filling of recessed features includes providing an electrodeposition composition with a hysteretic cyclic voltammogram; providing the substrate controlling applied electric potential; autonomously reducing the deposition
A metallic grating includes a substrate; a plurality of high aspect ratio trenches disposed in the substrate such that the high aspect ratio trenches are spaced apart from one another by a field surface of the substrate; a metallic superconformal filling formed and disposed in the high aspect ratio
These invention comprises special chemical solutions and methods for filling tiny grooves or shapes in materials with metals like gold. The methods ensure the metal fills the space evenly from the bottom up, which is hard to do with regular techniques and leads to smoother, more accurate results.
Forming a transition zone terminated superconformal filling in a recess includes: providing an electrodeposition composition including: a metal electrolyte including a plurality of metal ions, solvent, and suppressor; providing the article including: a field surface and the recess that includes a