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Search Patents by Thomas A. Germer

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.

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Mueller Matrix Ellipsometer

NIST Inventors
Thomas A. Germer
A multi-mirror polarization state generator is combined with a multi-mirror polarization state analyzer and a detector to realize a Mueller matrix ellipsometer. It is found that grazing incidence reflection from a number of materials provides sufficient optical phase retardance to make this possible
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