Intellectual Property Office

Patents Issued

Electronics Materials

The following patents were issued recently to Penn State faculty or staff members and are now available for licensing. Click on the patent number for a link to the patent document, including an abstract.

1999

  • US 5,945,866 Method and System for the Reduction of Off-State Current in Field Effect Transistors
  • US 5,994,164 Nanostructure Tailoring of Material Properties Using Controlled Crystallization
  • US 5,994,911 Method and Apparatus Testing IC Chips for Damage During Fabrication

2000

  • US 6,013,565 High Conductivity Thin Film Material For Semiconductor Device
  • US 6,113,406 Electrical Interconnect Using Low Melting Point Liquid Metal

2001

  • US 6,171,740 Technique for the Electrostatic Printing of a Metallic Toner to Produce Polycrystalline Silicon from Amorphous Silicon Layers
  • US 6,215,231 Hollow Sphere Transducers
  • US 6,232,702 Modified Cymbal Transducer
  • US 6,236,143 A Method to Enhance Transducer Coupling Coefficients

2002

  • US 6,361,912 Technique for the Electrostatic Printing of a Metallic toner to Produce Polycrystalline Silicon from Amorphous Silicon Layers
  • US 6,399,177 Deposited/Etched Thin Film Void-Column Network Materials
  • US 6,482,527 Bismuth Pyrochlore Dielectric thin Films for Capacitive Applications
  • US 6,339,012 Dip-Coating Technique for Fabricating Polymeric Thin Films with Improved Ordered Structure

2003

  • US 6,620,752 A Method for Fabrication of Dense Lead Based Perovskite Materials by Reaction Sintering
  • US 6,599,118 Nitrogen Oxides and Loss on Ignition Emission Reduction Using Coal Gas
  • US 6,583,302 Development of a Chemically Modified Soybean Oil Based Hydraullic Fluid
  • US 6,503,480 Light Particles for Pulmonary Delivery
  • US 6,635,283 Light Particles for Pulmonary Delivery
  • US 6,652,837 Optimized Aerosols With Lung Surfactant
  • US 6,605,246 Ferroelectric Relaxor P(VDF-TrFE) Copolymers
  • US 6,514,476 Preparation of Anisotropic Perovskite Particles
  • US 6,567,752 Tracking Damage Evolution Via Delay Coordinate Embedding

2004

  • US 6,787,238 Electromechanical and Dielectric Applications of P(VDF-TrFE) Based Terpolymer Systems
  • US 6,811,719 High Power Piezoelectric Ceramics
  • US 6,826,333 Optical Waveguides and Grating Sructures Fabricated Using Polymeric Dielectric Compositions
  • US 6,679,845 Micro-Indexed High Frequency Ultrasound Imaging Array
  • US 6,715,912 Novel Design Upflow Draft Tube Aeration System for High Viscosity Solutions
  • US 6,740,310 Light Particles for Pulmonary Delivery
  • US 6,696,370 Aqueous-based Photolithography on Organic Materials
  • US 6,720,572 Organic Light Emitters with Improved Carrier Injection
  • US 6,794,196 Deposited/Etched Thin Film Void-Column Network Materials

2005

  • US 6,848,197 Control of Process Humidity to Produce Large, Porous Particles
  • US 6,942,868 Light Particles for Pulmonary Delivery
  • US 6,977,087 Light Particles for Pulmonary Delivery
  • US 6,881,348 Activated Carbon for Removing Perchlorate and Other Anions and Chemical Regeneration to Restore Perchlorate and Anion Removal Capacity
  • US 6,964,718 Cofired Multilayer Piezoelectric Materials with Copper Electrodes
  • US 6,919,164 Three Dimensional Nano-Scale Structure Fabrication Process Using Bisbenzocyclobutane Patterned via Electron Beam Lithography
  • US 6,852,416 High Dielectric Constant Composites of Metallophthalaocyanine Oligomer and Poly(vinylidene-Trifluoroethylene) Copolymer

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