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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2012
Elwha Llc, Bellevue, WA (US);
Paul G Allen, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Jeffrey A. Bowers, Issaquah, WA (US);
Kenneth G. Caldeira, Redwood City, CA (US);
William D. Duncan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, WA (US);
Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Livermore, CA (US);
Edward K.Y. Jung, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jordin T. Kare, Seattle, WA (US);
John Latham, Boulder, CO (US);
Eric C. Leuthardt, St. Louis, MO (US);
Nathan P. Myhrvold, Medina, WA (US);
Thomas J. Nugent, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
Stephen H. Salter, Edinburgh, GB;
Clarence T. Tegreene, Mercer Island, WA (US);
David B. Tuckerman, Lafayette, CA (US);
Thomas A. Weaver, San Mateo, CA (US);
Charles Whitmer, North Bend, WA (US);
Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
Victoria Y. H. Wood, Livermore, CA (US);
Elwha LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A thermal insulator includes a plurality of layers. At least some of the layers include phononic crystals having a phononic bandgap, wherein heat transporting phonons within a selected range of frequencies are substantially blocked by each phononic crystal layer. The plurality of layers thermally isolate a first region from a second region, wherein the first region is at one end of the plurality of layers and the second region is at the other end of the plurality of layers.