Demodulation, Inc.

Kyocera Corporation

Alfred University

Alexis G Clare

Howard Horst Liebermann

William C LaCourse

James E O'Keefe, Jr

Wesley A King

Tatsuji Furuse

Matthew M Hall

An optical glass consisting essentially of BOin an amount of 10-40 wt %, SiOin an amount less than or equal to 5 wt %, ZnO in an amount less than or equal to 15 wt %, SrO in an amount less than or equal to 9 wt %, ZrOin an amount less than or equal to 9 wt %, LaOin an amount of 15 to 45 wt %, BaFin an amount of 1 to 10 wt %, BaO in an amount less than or equal to 5 wt %, HfOin an amount of 0.1 to 7.5 wt %, GdOin an amount less than or equal to 16 wt %, CaO in an amount less than or equal to 7 wt %, ZrFin an amount less than or equal to 5 wt %, NaO in an amount less than or equal to 2 wt % and YOin an amount less than or equal to 16 wt %. The optical glass has a glass transition temperature in a range of 500-670&#xb0; C. and a refractive index (nd) in a range of 1.60 to 2.00.

Optical glass

A glass-coated amorphous metallic microwire is encoded with multi-bit digital information. Encoding is achieved magnetically, optically or through a combination of magnetic and optical encoding processes. Magnetic encoding is carried out by modifying the constituent magnetic domain structure through selective relief of interfacial stress between the glass coating and the amorphous metallic alloy core. It is also achieved by selective surface crystallization of the amorphous metallic core in order to produce a controlled magnetic bias field. Optical encoding is associated with the glass coating. It is readily achieved by fluorescent element deposition, patterned removal of fluorescent element coating, Bragg grating, and thermally activated pattern deposition. The magnetic and optical multi-bit encoding approaches for glass-coated amorphous metallic microwire can be used individually or collectively in either a redundant or a complementary manner. Encoded microwire of the instant invention can be assembled into tags for electronic article surveillance and into numerous other structures as well.

Multi-bit encoded glass-coated microwire and articles composed thereof

A drawn glass-coated metallic member has a thermal contraction coefficient differential such that the thermal contraction coefficient of the glass is less than that of the metallic member. The thermal contraction coefficient differential is maintained within a predetermined range during drawing. Drawn glass is placed under residual compression, interfacial bonding between said glass and said wire is substantially uniform, and surface cracking and bond breaks between metal and glass are substantially prevented. Optical properties of the glass coated microwire provide a basis for enabling multi-bit encoding capability. Advantageously data encoding is achieved optically, magneto-optically or using a combined magnetic and optical encoding mechanism. The duplex material constitution of the glass coated microwire permits imparting of data thereon by selection and processing of the glass. Data implantation is readily achieved in-line, during an initial drawing operation, or as a separate post-draw process. Reading of data on optically encoded glass coated microwire is readily accomplished by optical or magnetic methodology, or a combination thereof.

Optically encoded glass-coated microwire

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Alfred Station, NY, United States of America

Alexis G Clare