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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
May. 16, 2014
Applicant:
University of Notre Dame Du Lac, Notre Dame, IN (US);
Inventors:
Wolfgang Porod, Granger, IN (US);
Gary H. Bernstein, Granger, IN (US);
Alexei Orlov, South Bend, IN (US);
Gergo P. Szakmany, Notre Dame, IN (US);
Assignee:
University of Notre Dame du Lac, Notre Dame, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 35/32 (2006.01); G01J 5/12 (2006.01); B82Y 30/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 35/32 (2013.01); G01J 5/12 (2013.01); B82Y 30/00 (2013.01); G01J 2005/123 (2013.01);
Abstract
Nanoscale thermocouples are made of a single material and are shape-engineered to contain one or more variations in their width along their length. The mono-metallic nanowire junctions resulting from the width variation(s) exploit a difference in the Seebeck coefficient that is present at these size scales. Such devices have a wide variety of uses and can be coupled with an antenna in order to serve as an infrared detector.