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Search Patents by Kris A. Bertness

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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Core-Shell Nanofin Vertical Switch and High-Voltage Switching

NIST Inventors
Kris A. Bertness and Matthew Brubaker
A core-shell nanofin vertical switch performs high-voltage switching and includes: an n-type GaN nanofin core including: an n-type drift layer; an n-type channel; and an n-type source; a p-type nanofin shell surrounding the n-type GaN nanofin core at an interface surface of the n-type GaN nanofin

Thermoelectric Devices Based On Nanophononic Metamaterials

NIST Inventors
Kris A. Bertness and Joel Weber
A nanophononic metamaterial-based thermoelectric energy conversion device and processes for fabricating a nanophononic metamaterial-based thermoelectric energy conversion device is provided. In one implementation, for example, a nanophononic metamaterial-based thermoelectric energy conversion device
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