Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno

Nxp B.v.

Asml Netherlands B.v.

U.S. Philips Corporation

Iii Holdings 1, LLC

Koninklijke Phillips Electronics N.v.

Tp Vision Holding B.v.

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

Erwin Rinaldo Meinders

Robertus Adrianus Maria Wolters

Martijn Henri Richard Lankhorst

Peter Theodorus Maria Giesen

Franciscus Petrus Widdershoven

Hubert Cécile François Martens

Cheng-Qun Gui

Liesbeth Van Pieterson

Herman Hendrikus Maalderink

Hermanus Johannes Borg

Wilhelmus Johannes Maria De Laat

Martinus Bernardus Van Der Mark

Hubert Cecile Francois Martens

Mária Péter

Jacobus Hermanus Maria Neijzen

Gerwin Hermanus Gelinck

Elmo Marcus Attila Diederiks

Erwin John Van Zwet

Ralph Hubert Peters

Guo-Fu Zhou

Jacobus Hubertus Theodoor Jamar

Wilhelmus Sebastianus Marcus Maria Ketelaars

Edwin Van Lier

Elmo M A Diederiks

Marcus Theodoor Wilhelmus Van Der Heijden

Johannes Cornelis Norbertus Rijpers

Paulus Wilhelmus Leonardus Van Dijk

Roland Anthony Tacken

Renatus Marius De Zwart

Maarten Buijs

Ruud Vullers

Rolf Antonie Loch

Henri Jacques Antoine Jean Starmans

Joseph R R Pankert

Joseph C M Bosman

Petrus C P Bouten

Robertus A M Wolters

Francois Furthner

Martijn H R Lankhorst

Wilhelmus S M M Ketelaars

Jasper I Van Kuijk

Josephus H Eggen

Ralph H Peters

A layerwise production method of a tangible object (). A layer of uncured building material is provided onto a carrier (). Repeatedly, method cycles are performed, each comprising: providing layer data corresponding to an object layer, selectively exposing the layer of building material based on the layer data for curing thereof, and providing a next layer of building material onto the preceding layer. Each method cycle further includes verifying the cured preceding layer for identifying regions of insufficiently cured building material, and adapting a radiation dose locally for the next layer dependent on whether or not a location to be exposed in accordance with the layer data of the next layer coincides with one of the identified regions of insufficiently cured building material in the preceding layer.

Method and apparatus for layerwise production of a tangible object

The electric device () has a body () with a resistor () comprising a phase change material being changeable between a first phase and a second phase. The resistor () has an electric resistance which depends on whether the phase change material is in the first phase or the second phase. The resistor () is able to conduct a current for enabling a transition from the first phase to the second phase. The phase change material is a fast growth material which may be a composition of formula SbMwith c satisfying 0.05&#x2264;c&#x2264;0.61, and M being one or more elements selected from the group of Ge, In, Ag, Ga, Te, Zn and Sn, or a composition of formula SbTeXwith a, b and 100&#x2212;(a+b) denoting atomic percentages satisfying 1&#x2264;a/b&#x2264;8 and 4&#x2264;100&#x2212;(a+b)&#x2264;22, and X being one or more elements selected from Ge, In, Ag, Ga and Zn.

Electric device comprising phase change material

The invention is directed at an exposure head for use in an exposure apparatus for illuminating a surface, the exposure head comprising one or more radiative sources for providing one or more beams, an optical scanning unit arranged for receiving the one or more beams and for directing the beams towards the surface for impinging each of the beams on an impingement spot, a rotation actuating unit connected to the optical scanning unit for at least partially rotating the optical scanning unit, wherein the impingement spots of the one or more beams are scanned across the surface by said at least partial rotation of the optical scanning unit, wherein the optical scanning unit comprises a transmissive element including one or more facets for receiving the one or more beams and for outputting the beams after conveying thereof through the transmissive element, for displacing the beams upon said rotation of the transmissive element for enabling the scanning of the impingement spots.

Exposure head, exposure apparatus and method of operating an exposure head

A method of obtaining information indicative of the topography of a surface of a flexible substrate, the method including directing a beam of radiation at the surface of the flexible substrate; and detecting changes in intensity distribution, or angle of reflection, of the beam of radiation after the beam of radiation has been reflected from the surface of the substrate to obtain information indicative of the topography of the surface of the flexible substrate.

Lithographic apparatus and method

A method for manufacturing a thermoelectric generator includes the steps of replicating a structure into a flexible substrate for providing a set of cavities; providing an initiator in the cavities for growing respective piles of thermoelectric materials; growing the respective piles of thermoelectric materials from said initiator; and providing electrical connection between the respective piles of thermoelectric materials for forming thermocouples of the thermoelectric generator.

Method for manufacturing a thermoelectric generator

The invention provides a method for preparing a pattern for an electric circuit comprising the steps of: (a) providing a substrate; (b) providing a pattern of an inhibiting material for an electrical circuit onto said substrate by i) applying a layer of the inhibiting material onto said substrate and mechanically removing locally the layer of the inhibiting material to obtain said pattern; or ii) applying a layer of the inhibiting material onto said substrate, wherein said layer has pre-determined pattern which incompletely covers said substrate; (c) establishing a distribution of particles of a first metal or alloy thereof on the layer of the inhibiting material and the pattern as obtained in step. (b); and (d) depositing by means of an electroless process a layer of a second metal or alloy thereof on the distribution of the particles of the first metal or alloy thereof as obtained in step (c), whereby the inhibiting material that is still present on the substrate after step (b) locally inhibits the second metal or alloy thereof to be deposited on the first metal or alloy thereof, ensuring that the second metal or alloy thereof will selectively be deposited on the particles of the first metal or alloy thereof that are distributed on the pattern obtained in step (b).

Method for preparing a patterned electric circuit

The invention relates to a methodfor forming a multi-level surface on a substrate, wherein said surface comprises areas of different wettability, the method comprising the step (A, B) of applying a multi-level stamp to the substrate for forming the multi-level surface, said multi-level stamp having different structural regionsarranged along the multi-level surface for locally altering wettability properties of at least a portion of a level of the multi-level surface. The invention further relates to a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device.

Method for forming a multi-level surface on a substrate with areas of different wettability and a semiconductor device having the same

The electric device () has a body () with a resistor () comprising a phase change material being changeable between a first phase and a second phase. The resistor () has an electric resistance which depends on whether the phase change material is in the first phase or the second phase. The resistor () is able to conduct a current for enabling a transition from the first phase to the second phase. The phase change material is a fast growth material which may be a composition of formula SbMwith c satisfying 0.05&#x2266;c&#x2266;0.61, and M being one or more elements selected from the group of Ge, In, Ag, Ga, Te, Zn and Sn, or a composition of formula SbTeXwith a, b and 100&#x2212;(a+b) denoting atomic percentages satisfying 1&#x2266;a/b&#x2266;8 and 4&#x2266;100&#x2212;(a+b)&#x2266;22, and X being one or more elements selected from Ge, In, Ag, Ga and Zn.

The invention relates to a method of aligning a flexible foil sheet having a general first foil sheet length direction to form stacked foil sheet layers on a reel having a reel diameter. The method comprises providing multiple alignment markers in the foil sheet, distanced conform the reel diameter and each having an mark length direction transverse to the first foil sheet length direction, to form protrusions and corresponding recesses on opposite faces of the foil sheet; winding the foil sheet on the reel in the first foil sheet length direction of the foil sheet; and co-aligning the alignment markers to have protrusions of one mark matching with a recess of another mark, so as to block relative movement of the stacked foil sheet layers in the first foil sheet length direction. Preferably, the foil sheet layers are provided with device functionality to form a stacked foil sheet layered device.

Method of manufacturing a stacked foil sheet device

According to one aspect, the invention provides a table for compensating deformation in flexible foils () The table comprises a supportive base () and a deformation compensation system (). This system comprises a plurality of movable elements (), supported by the base (), wherein the movable elements form a surface for supporting the flexible foil. The movable elements comprise clamps () for clamping the foil (). The movable elements () are individually movable parallel to the surface for supporting the foil, so as to stretch the clamped foil into a predefined shape. The table for compensating deformation in flexible foils may be used in a manufacturing process of flexible functional foils to compensate deformation of the foils during sequential patterning.

System for patterning flexible foils

An exposure pattern is written on a substrate, by scanning a light spot along a trajectory over the substrate and switching it on and off according to a desired pattern. Respective spot sizes of the light for illuminating the substrate in respective parts of the trajectory according to a geometry of the pattern. Respective pitch values between successive ones of the parts of the trajectory are selected, in relation to the spot size selected for the respective parts. The light spot is scanned over the substrate along the trajectory, with the selected pitch values between the trajectory parts and a position dependent spot size along the trajectory. In an embodiment a helical trajectory is used.

Scanned writing of an exposure pattern on a substrate having a spot size modulator and dual motor for moving the substrate table and a laser spot relative to each other

The electric device according to the invention has a resistor comprising a layer of a phase change material which is changeable between a first phase with a first electrical resistivity and a second phase with a second electrical resistivity different from the first electrical resistivity. The phase change material is a fast growth material. The electric device further comprises a switching signal generator for switching the resistor between at least three different electrical resistance values by changing a corresponding portion of the layer of the phase change material from the first phase to the second phase.

A carrier substrate is provided with a layer of PDMS and curing agent on one side of the carrier substrate. The PDMS and curing agent can be arranged to receive and adhere to a lithographic substrate. The carrier substrate can be dimensioned such that the combined carrier substrate and lithographic substrate may be handled by a conventional lithographic apparatus.

Lithographic method and carrier substrate

The invention relates to a master substrate, a method for making a high density relief structure, and optical discs replicated with the high-density relief structure, the master substrate comprising a substrate layer () and a recording stack deposited on the substrate layer, the recording stack comprising:&#x2014;an information layer (),&#x2014;an interface layer () sandwiched between said information layer and the substrate , forming marks and spaces representing an encoded data pattern, wherein said recording material is an alloy comprising at least two materials of the group of materials containing Ge, Sb, Te, In, Se, Bi, Ag, Ga, Sn, Pb, As. A very high-density relief structure is achieved.

Optical master substrate and method to manufacture high-density relief structure

In order to distinguish a duplicated record carrier from an original record carrier, a pattern is included in a ROM type record carrier. The pattern is oriented perpendicular to the reading direction of the record carrier. During illegal duplication the spatial relationship is disturb which can be easily detected. The patterns can be read out simultaneously by the same single read-out spot by including both patterns within the diameter of the optical spot, thus guaranteeing that the read-out patterns are actually still spatially close together.

Recognizable patterns in adjacent tracks of ROM record carriers for simultaneous scanning for copy protection

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