Lucent Technologies Inc.

University of California

At&t Bell Laboratories

Agere Systems Guardian Corp.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

At&t Corp.

Agere Systems Inc.

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Sensable Technologies, Inc.

American Telephone & Telegraph Co., At&t Bell Laboratories

At&t Laboratories, Limited

Alcatel-lucent USA Inc.

American Telephone and Telegraph, Co.

At&t Ipm Corp.

Agere Systems Optoelectronics Guardian Corp.

Sungho Jin

Wei Zhu

Hareesh Mavoori

Gregory Peter Kochanski

Thomas H Tiefel

Chulmin Choi

Mark T McCormack

Richard C Sherwood

Barry L Merriman

Paul Mola

John Edwin Graebner

Rolando Patricio Espindola

Li-Han Chen

Robert Bruce Van Dover

Tim Geiser

Seunghan Oh

Thomas Andrew Strasser

John J Mottine, Jr

Ainissa G Ramirez

Dong-Wook Kim

Paul Joseph Lemaire

Renkun Chen

Calvin Gardner

Stewart Matthew

John Thomson, Jr

Laura Ellen Adams

Arman Gasparyan

Hyongsok Soh

Guenther Wilhelm Kammlott

Herbert R Shea

Roland Ryf

John A Rogers

Benjamin John Eggleton

Flavio Pardo

David Wilfred Johnson

Robin Ihnfeldt

Lawrence Seibles

Timothy J Klemmer

Ho S Chen

John E Graebner

Thomas Henry Tiefel, Deceased

Kyung Moon Choi

Walter L Brown

Dennis Stanley Greywall

Jungsang Kim

Candido J Arroyo

Dustin Wade Carr

Cyrus Sam Rustomji

Warren Kazmir Waskiewicz

Chien-Shing Pai

Zhaowei Liu

Henry Hon Law

Ruichen Liu

Lloyd Shepherd

Susanne C Arney

Victor Katsap

Thomas T Palstra

Taekyoung Kim

Greg E Blonder

Wayne Harvey Knox

Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Chan-ho Pak

T Wade Fallin

Edwin Arthur Chandross

Kenneth L Walker

Hyuk Jae Chang

Vladimir Anatolyevich Aksyuk

David John Bishop

Joseph Wang

Yiu-Huen Wong

Robert William Filas

Ashish Madhukar Vengsarkar

Randy Clinton Giles

William C Vesperman

Darryl David D'Lima

Raymond Wolfe

Brijesh Vyas

Alastair M Glass

Clifford W Colwell

Debra Anne Fleming

Robert A Boie

Yehuda G Goren

Larry Allen Marcus

Jon W Engelberth

Apurba Roy

Avishay Katz

Neal Henry Thorsten

James C Wadlington

Henry M O'Bryan, Jr

JaiShankar Raman

Xiang-Rong Ye

Michal Edith Gross

Warren W Rhodes

William C Dautremont-Smith

Gregory A Dahlen

Ami Berkowitz

Ratneshwar Lal

Te-Sung Wu

Jin-Yeol Kim

Michael Scott Baldwin

This invention relates to magnetocaloric materials comprising alloys useful for magnetic refrigeration applications. In some embodiments, the disclosed alloys may be Cerium, Neodymium, and/or Gadolinium based compositions that are fairly inexpensive, and in some cases exhibit only 2order magnetic phase transitions near their curie temperature, thus there are limited thermal and structural hysteresis losses. This makes these compositions attractive candidates for use in magnetic refrigeration applications. Surprisingly, the performance of the disclosed materials is similar or better to many of the known expensive rare-earth based magnetocaloric materials.

Magnetocaloric alloys useful for magnetic refrigeration applications

A sequencing device is disclosed. The sequence device includes an array of conducting electrode pairs, each pair of electrodes comprising a source and a drain electrode arrangement separated by a nanogap, the electrode array deposited and patterned on a dielectric substrate; at least one transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) layer disposed on each pair of electrodes, wherein the TMD layer connects each source and drain electrode within each pair, and bridges each nanogap of each pair of electrodes; and a dielectric masking layer disposed on the TMD layer and comprising at least one opening that defines an exposed TMD region, wherein the at least one opening is sized so as to allow a single biomolecule to fit therein and to attach on to the exposed TMD region. In embodiments of the disclosure, the TMD layer be a defective TMD layer.

Solid state sequencing devices comprising two dimensional layer materials

Methods, devices and systems are described for digitally creating new scents or digitally dispensing gas, vapor, or liquid substances. A device includes a container or replaceable cartridge including one or more chambers containing one or more scented substances; a housing structured to include a compartment to hold the cartridge, an opening to allow the one or more scented or unscented substances to dispense to an outer environment from the device, and one or more transporting channels formed between the compartment and the opening, in which each of the one or more transporting channels is configured to deliver a scented substance from the corresponding chamber to the opening for delivering a scent from the one or more scented substances; and an actuator switch arranged in a corresponding transporting channel and rapidly operable to move between an open position and closed position based on an applied signal to selectively allow passage of the scented or unscented substance from the corresponding transporting path.

Switchable digital scent generation and release, and vapor and liquid delivery methods and systems

Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for implementing switchable dispensing and/or delivery of scented substances. In one aspect, a device includes a cartridge structured to include one or more chambers containing one or more scented substances contained in a corresponding chamber, a housing structured to include a compartment to hold the cartridge, an opening to allow the scented substances to dispense to an outer environment from the device, and one or more transporting channels formed between the compartment and the opening, in which each of the one or more transporting channels is configured to accelerate a scented substance from the corresponding chamber to the opening, and an actuator switch arranged in a corresponding transporting channel and operable to move between an open position and a closed position based on an applied signal to selectively allow passage of the scented substance from the corresponding transporting path.

Switchable gas and liquid release and delivery devices, systems, and methods

A DNA or genome sequencing structure is disclosed. The structure includes an electrode pair, each electrode having a tip-shaped end, the electrodes separated by a nanogap defined by facing tip-shaped ends; at least one conductive island deposited at or near each tip-shaped end; and a biomolecule having two ends, each end attached to the conductive islands in the electrode pair such that one biomolecule bridges over the nanogap in the electrode pair, wherein nucleotide interactions with the biomolecule provides electronic monitoring of DNA or genome sequencing without the use of a fluorescing element.

Massively parallel DNA sequencing apparatus

A method of manufacturing a device useable in DNA or genome sequencing comprises disposing pairs of electrodes on a substrate, the electrodes within each pair separated by a nanogap; depositing a resist layer over the electrodes; patterning the resist layer to create an exposed region on each electrode at or near each nanogap; roughening the electrode surface within each exposed region using various methods; and exposing the exposed regions to biomolecules, wherein one biomolecule bridges each nanogap of each electrode pair, with each end of each biomolecule bound to the electrodes at each exposed region.

Electronic label-free DNA and genome sequencing

This invention relates to magnetocaloric materials comprising ternary alloys useful for magnetic refrigeration applications. The disclosed ternary alloys are Cerium, Neodymium, and/or Gadolinium based compositions that are fairly inexpensive, and in some cases exhibit only 2order magnetic phase transitions near their curie temperature, thus there are no thermal and structural hysteresis losses. This makes these compositions attractive candidates for use in magnetic refrigeration applications. The performance of the disclosed materials is similar or better to many of the known expensive rare-earth based magnetocaloric materials.

Devices, systems and techniques are described for producing and implementing articles and materials having nanoscale and microscale structures that exhibit superhydrophobic, superoleophobic or omniphobic surface properties and other enhanced properties. In one aspect, a surface nanostructure can be formed by adding a silicon-containing buffer layer such as silicon, silicon oxide or silicon nitride layer, followed by metal film deposition and heating to convert the metal film into balled-up, discrete islands to form an etch mask. The buffer layer can be etched using the etch mask to create an array of pillar structures underneath the etch mask, in which the pillar structures have a shape that includes cylinders, negatively tapered rods, or cones and are vertically aligned. In another aspect, a method of fabricating microscale or nanoscale polymer or metal structures on a substrate is made by photolithography and/or nano imprinting lithography.

Superhydrophobic and superoleophobic nanosurfaces

Methods and treatments for removing contaminants from nanotube surfaces covering a medical device are disclosed herein. These methods and treatments include commencing exposure of a nanotube surface to at least one condition that at least partially removes the contaminants including: ultraviolet light, elevated temperature, plasma, and/or combinations thereof. These methods and treatments may also include orienting the nanotube surface relative to the at least one condition in order to enhance removal of the contaminants by the at least one condition. Exposure of the nanotube surface to the at least one condition may be ceased after the contaminants are at least partially removed from the nanotube surface.

Shelf-life-improved nanostructured implant systems and methods

Disclosed are novel electrolytes, and techniques for making and devices using such electrolytes, which are based on compressed gas solvents. Unlike conventional electrolytes, disclosed electrolytes are based on 'compressed gas solvents' mixed with various salts, referred to as 'compressed gas electrolytes.' Various embodiments of a compressed gas solvent includes a material that is in a gas phase and has a vapor pressure above an atmospheric pressure at a room temperature. The disclosed compressed gas electrolytes can have wide electrochemical potential windows, high conductivity, low temperature capability and/or high pressure solvent properties.

Electrochemical devices comprising compressed gas solvent electrolytes

A molecular sensor includes a substrate defining a substrate plane, and a plurality of pairs of electrode sheets above or below the substrate at an angle to the substrate plane. The molecular sensor further includes a plurality of inner dielectric sheets between each electrode sheet in each pair of electrode sheets of the plurality of pairs, and an outer dielectric sheet between each pair of electrode sheets of the plurality of pairs.

Multi-electrode molecular sensing devices and methods of making the same

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