Lumera Corporation

Gigoptix, Inc.

Eastman-kodak Company

Other

Unipixel Displays, Inc.

Plexera, LLC

Brphotonics Produtos Optoeletronicos Ltda

Brphotonics Productos Optoelectronicos Ltda.

Brphotonics Produtos Optoelectronicos Ltda

Danliang Jin

Raluca Dinu

Guomin Yu

Hui Chen

Baoquan Chen

Bing Li

Christopher A Wiklof

Diyun Huang

Eric R Miller

Louis J Bintz

Anna Barklund

Ed Sundaram Ramakrishnan

Robert John Petcavich

Lixin Zheng

Nick Wolf

Nicholas Adam Wolf

An integrated circuit is configured for optical communication via an optical polymer stack located on top of the integrated circuit. The optical polymer stack may include one or more electro-optic polymer devices including an electro-optic polymer. The electro-optic polymer may include a host polymer and a second order nonlinear chromomophore, the host polymer and the chromophore both including aryl groups configured to interact with one another to provide enhanced thermal and/or temporal stability.

Method for making an integrated circuit having optical data communication

A method of manufacturing a scratch resistant, touch sensor comprising: (1) applying a non-polymer protective coating solution to a touch sensor; and (2) forming a cross-linked polymer structure by curing the protective coating solution.

Scratch resistant touch sensor

A low index of refraction hybrid optical cladding may be formed from a fluorinated sol-gel. An electro-optic device may include a poled organic chromophore-loaded modulation layer (electro-optic polymer) and at least one adjacent fluorinated hybrid sol-gel cladding layer.

Fluorinated sol-gel low refractive index hybrid optical cladding and electro-optic devices made therefrom

Systems and methods disclosed herein are directed towards flexographic printing of microscopic high resolution conductive patterns (HRCP). These HRCP may be printed using one or more formulations for high polarity and stable viscosity inks for use in the flexographic printing process. The inks may be water permeable, UV curable, and configured to resist loss of integrity when exposed to water and atmospheric moisture.

Ink formulations for flexographic printing of high-resolution conducting patterns

Disclosed herein are systems methods for using ink comprising organometallics in a flexographic printing process using engraved anilox rolls to transfer ink to an impression roll that prints a pattern on a substrate. A banded anilox roll with more than one geometry and/or volume of cells may be used in these production systems and methods. The pattern printed may comprise a plurality of lines which are each from 1 micrometer-25 micrometers wide and may be part of an electronics application such as a touch screen sensor or an RF antenna that requires microscopic conductive patterns such as touch screen displays or antennas.

Manufacturing of high resolution conductive patterns using organometallic ink and banded anilox rolls

Integrated circuit with optical data communication

According to an embodiment, an electro-optic polymer comprises a host polymer and a guest nonlinear optical chromophore having the structure D-&#x3c0;-A, wherein: D is a donor, &#x3c0; is a &#x3c0;-bridge, and A is an acceptor; a bulky substituent group is covalently attached to at least one of D, &#x3c0;, or A; and the bulky substituent group has at least one non-covalent interaction with part of the host polymer that impedes chromophore depoling.

Stabilized electro-optic materials and electro-optic devices made therefrom

An electro-optic polymer semiconductor integrated circuit includes one or more doped regions configured to drive one or more electrodes, and the electrodes are configured to drive a juxtaposed electro-optic core. The assembly may include a planarization layer disposed at least partially coplanar with the electrodes. The circuit may include an integrated multiplexer, driver configured to receive a signal from the multiplexer, at least one high speed electrode configured to be driven by the driver and modulate light energy passed through a hyperpolarizable poled chromophore regions disposed near the high speed electrode. The circuit may include a calibration storage circuit. The circuit may include, during fabrication, structures to provide voltage to a buried electrode and a shield to prevent damage from the poling field.

Integrated electro-optic device and method of making

A low resistivity hybrid organic-inorganic material may include a proportion of charge traps including a trap element indirectly covalently bonded to a donor or acceptor element. The trap element may include tin. The donor or acceptor element may include indium and/or antimony. Bonding includes cross-linking via oxygen bonds and via organic cross-linkers. The material may be formed as a hybrid sol-gel. The material may have optical transmission and refractive index characteristics. The material may be formed as optical cladding proximal to a non-linear optical layer, and may form a portion of a second order nonlinear optical device. The second order nonlinear optical device may include and electro-optic device including an organic chromophore-loaded modulation layer.

Intrinsically low resistivity hybrid sol-gel polymer clads and electro-optic devices made therefrom

An article, process, and method for surface plasmon resonance plates are described. A substrate is covered with a thin metal film onto which a second thin metal film is deposited. The surface of the second thin metal film is converted to the metal oxide which is used to covalently bond organosilanes to the surface. Reactive organosilanes containing terminal bonding groups are arranged in a plurality of spots that are surrounded by inert organosilanes. Biomolecule attachment to the binding group is detected or measured from surface plasmon signals from the first thin metal film.

Methods for making and using SPR microarrays

An electro-optic waveguide device comprising an electro-optic polymer core and at least one crosslinked polymer clad, wherein the crosslinked polymer clad is comprised of a first constitutional unit derived from a compound having the formula  wherein, m=0-6; n=0-1; q=1-3; y=0-3; Aris an aryl or heteroaryl group; and independently at each occurrence p=0-1; R is an alkyl, heteroalkyl, aryl, or heteroaryl group; Aris an aryl or heteroaryl group; and X is a crosslinkable group. The R group may be an alkyl or heteroalkyl group with at least 6 atoms in a straight chain. In some embodiments, the R group is an alkoxy capped oligoalkylene group. Other embodiments include a polymer comprising a first constitutional unit derived from a compound having the formula described above.

Electro-optic polymer devices with semiconducting oligomer clads

A process that comprises dry etching a trench into a side clad polymer layer using an underlying passive polymer layer as an etch stop, and then back filling the trench with an electro-optic polymer.

Method of fabricating polymer modulators with etch stop clads

Highly stable surface plasmon resonance plates, microarrays, and methods

A method including poling an optical waveguide device including an optical waveguide core, an electrode, and an organically modified sol-gel layer.

Electro-optic polymer waveguide devices incorporating organically modified sol-gel clads

Electro-optic waveguide devices that comprise an electro-optic polymer core and a polymer buffer clad. The polymer buffer clad comprises an organically modified sol-gel and has a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the core.

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Danliang Jin