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Molecular Scrivener For Reading Or Writing Data To A Macromolecule

NIST Inventors
Joseph Robertson and Kin (Charles) Cheung
A molecular scrivener reads data from or writes data to a macromolecule and includes: a pair of shielding electrodes; a scrivener electrode between the first and second shielding electrodes and that electrically floats at a third potential that, in an absence of a charged or dipolar moiety of the

Micromechanical Vibrasolator

NIST Inventors
Jason J. Gorman
Micromechanical resonators are devices that vibrate at specified resonance frequencies and are used for timing, sensing, and signal processing. The most important performance metric for micromechanical resonators is the quality factor, which determines how quickly energy is dissipated in the

Process For Making Alkali Metal Vapor Cells

NIST Inventors
John Kitching
Making alkali metal vapor cells includes: providing a preform wafer that includes cell cavities in a cavity layer; providing a sealing wafer having a cover layer and transmission apertures; disposing a deposition assembly on the sealing wafer; disposing an alkali metal precursor in the deposition

Photonic Calorimeter

NIST Inventors
Ronald Tosh , Zeeshan Ahmed , Ryan P. Fitzgerald and Nikolai Klimov
A photonic calorimeter converts ionizing radiation dose to heat and includes: a radiation absorber, a temperature compensator disposed within the radiation absorber, a compensation waveguide, a compensation resonator, a compensation resonator, a thermal isolator on which the radiation absorber is
A list of radiation-induced materials modifications that are NIST traceable

Photonic Dosimeter

NIST Inventors
Ronald Tosh , Zeeshan Ahmed , Ryan P. Fitzgerald and Nikolai Klimov
A photonic dosimeter accrues cumulative dose and includes: a substrate; a waveguide disposed on the substrate and that: receives a primary input light; transmits secondary input light from the primary input light to a dosimatrix; receives a secondary output light from the dosimatrix; and produces

Optical Reference Cavity

NIST Inventors
Franklyn Quinlan , Scott Diddams and Andrew Ludlow
An optical reference cavity includes: a cell that includes: a cylindrical body; end faces; an optical canal having an interior cylindrical geometry; and an exterior surface having an exterior cylindrical geometry; mirrors disposed on the end faces; an aspect ratio that is less than 1; a compression

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
Schematic comparison of the conventional approach and this invention for a sample (analyte + solvent) with a strong solvent absorption band in the spectral range of interest.

Spectrum Adjuster and Producing a Pure Analyte Spectrum

NIST Inventors
Young Jong Lee
A spectrum adjuster produces a pure analyte spectrum and includes: a dynamic opacity optic that receives input light, receives an adjustment signal, produces primary adjusted light, and produces secondary adjusted light from the input light based on the adjustment signal; a light source in optical

Device Having a Array of Sensors on a Single Chip

NIST Inventors
Albert Davydov and Vladimir Oleshko
Nanowire-nanocluster hybrid chemical sensors were realized by functionalizing gallium nitride (GaN) nanowires (NWs) with titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoclusters for selectively sensing benzene and other related aromatic compounds. Hybrid sensor devices were developed by fabrication two-terminal devices

Phase Transition Based Resistive Random-Access Memory

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Albert Davydov , Sergiy Krylyuk and Huairuo Zhang
A method of switching a phase-change device (Device), including changing phase of the Device from a semiconducting 2H phase to a new 2H d phase with a higher conductivity, the Device having an active material with a thickness including a phase transition material to thereby transition the Device

Methods And Apparatus For Generating Mid-Infrared Frequency Combs

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Scott Diddams , Scott Papp , Abijith Kowligy and Alexander Lind
Apparatus and methods for generating mid-IR frequency combs using intra-pulse DFG. A mode-locked pulse generation laser generates near-IR pulses which are amplified. The amplified pulses are spectrally broadened by a nonlinear element, for example a normal dispersion highly nonlinear fiber (ND-HNLF)
Experminetal system configuration for Ultra-High Spectral Resolution Spectrometer Based on Electromagnetically-Induced Transparency

Direct Absolute Spectrometer for Direct Absolute Spectrometry

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Lijun Ma , Xiao Tang and Oliver T. Slattery
A direct absolute spectrometer includes: a first light source; a second light source; an optical combiner that produces dual light; an optical cell that receives the dual light; an electromagnetically induced transparent medium that is optically transparent to single photon light in a presence of
A timeline of long distance communication techniques

Communication Linker for Communication Linking

NIST Inventors
Sergey Polyakov and Ivan Burenkov
A communication linker includes: a classical encoder; an optical transmitter; a receiver; a local oscillator in communication with the receiver and that: receives a feedback signal; and produces a displacement frequency, based on the feedback signal; a single photon detector in communication with

Optical Phantom for Producing a Time-Resolved Diffuse Reflectance Spectrum

NIST Inventors
Jeeseong C. Hwang
An optical phantom produces a time-resolved diffuse reflectance spectrum and includes: a light source; a spatial light modulator; and an optical delay line including optical fibers of different length that produce different time-of-flight distributions, such that different time-of-flight

Nanohole Array Based Sensors with Various Coating and Temperature Control

NIST Inventors
Kurt D Benkstein , Steve Semancik and Yangyang Zhao
This invention combines very fast chemical separation with very fast photonic detection to achieve gas-phase monitoring for use in a range of applications, including medical breath analysis. Appropriately "matched" timescales are needed so that fast chemical discrimination, related to slightly

Liquid Crystal Thermometer for MRI

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Elizabeth Mirowski , Michael Snow and Kathryn Keenan
Cost effective and quality assurance friendly magnetic resonance imaging thermometer using non-encapsulated liquid c1ystals to be incorporated in standard reference objects for magnetic resonance imaging.

Non-Resonant Electron Spin Resonant Probe And Associated Hardware

NIST Inventors
Jason Campbell , Jason Ryan , Kin (Charles) Cheung , Robert Gougelet and Pragya Shrestha
This invention details a non-resonant probe designed to measure changes in the density of broken bonds (unpaired electrons) in materials exposed to ionizing radiation. The probe functions to excite and detect electron spin resonance transitions in these materials. Accumulated radiation dose can then

Collaborative Robot Motion and Force-Torque Gauges

NIST Inventors
Yong Sik Kim
A collaborative robot motion gauge determines a motion of a collaborative robot and includes: a bar; a dextral metrology member disposed on the bar; a dextral motion coupler moveably disposed on the bar; a dextral displacement sensor disposed on the dextral metrology member in communication with the
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