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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2015
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Zena Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Kwanyong Seo, Cambridge, MA (US);
Munib Wober, Topsfield, MA (US);
Paul Steinvurzel, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ethan Schonbrun, Newton Highlands, MA (US);
Yaping Dan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Kenneth Crozier, Cambridge, MA (US);
ZENA TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Cambridge, MA (US);
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A nanowire array is described herein. The nanowire array comprises a substrate and a plurality of nanowires extending essentially vertically from the substrate; wherein: each of the nanowires has uniform chemical along its entire length; a refractive index of the nanowires is at least two times of a refractive index of a cladding of the nanowires. This nanowire array is useful as a photodetector, a submicron color filter, a static color display or a dynamic color display.