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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Patrick Sanders, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Carlo Alberto Bignozzi, Ferrara, IT;
Assignee:
Molecular Storage Technologies, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 3/02 ; G03C 1/492 ; G03C 1/76 ; G03C 5/00 ; G03C 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 3/02 ; G03C 1/492 ; G03C 1/76 ; G03C 5/00 ; G03C 1/00 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to use of transition metal complexes in photochromic devices, to the production of optical information storage devices based on a polymeric matrix and on metal oxides with adsorbed transition metal complexes, to the production of photochromic materials constituted by a film of metal oxide with adsorbed two different type of molecular systems, one acting as a charge transfer sensitizer and the second as an electron acceptor.