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Low Bend Loss Optical Fiber with Step Index Core
20 May 20
A single mode optical fiber, comprising: (i) a silica based core having a step refractive index profile with an alpha of greater than 10, a relative refractive index Δ1MAX, and an outer radius r1, wherein 6.25 microns>r1≥4.75 microns, the core further comprising Cl, Ge, or a combination thereof; (ii) a first cladding region in contact with and surrounding the core, the first cladding region having a relative refractive index Δ2MIN, an inner radius r1, and an outer radius r2, wherein r2<20 microns; and (iii) an outer cladding region surrounding the first cladding region, the outer cladding region having a relative refractive index Δ3.
Scott Robertson Bickham, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Ming-Jun Li, Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra, Pushkar Tandon
Filed: 15 Nov 18
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Glass Articles Having Damage-resistant Coatings and Methods for Coating Glass Articles
20 May 20
A coated glass article and methods for producing the same are provided herein.
Eric Lewis Allington, Matthew Lee Black, Steven Edward DeMartino, Jody Paul Markley, Charles Andrew Paulson, Jamie Todd Westbrook
Filed: 20 Oct 19
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Glass, Glass-ceramic and Ceramic Articles with Protective Coatings Having Hardness and Toughness
20 May 20
An article includes: a transparent substrate having a primary surface; and a protective film disposed on the primary surface, such that each of the substrate and the protective film have an optical transmittance of 20% or more in the visible spectrum, and such that the protective film includes at least one of: (1) a hardness of greater than 13 GPa, as measured by a Berkovich nanoindenter, or (2) an effective fracture toughness (Kc) of greater than 2.5 MPa·m1/2, as measured by indentation fracture at a depth of greater than 1 μm.
Bill Baloukas, Robert Alan Bellman, Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Ludvik Martinu, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price, Jincheng Qian
Filed: 20 Nov 19
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Apparatus and Method for Conditioning Molten Glass
20 May 20
Disclosed is an apparatus for conditioning molten glass.
Gilbert De Angelis, Pierre Laronze
Filed: 24 Nov 19
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Laminated Glass Articles Comprising a Hydrogen-containing Glass Core Layer and Methods of Forming the Same
20 May 20
Laminated glass articles and glass-based articles are disclosed.
Timothy Michael Gross, Adam Robert Sarafian, Jingshi Wu, Zheming Zheng
Filed: 12 Nov 19
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Inorganic Oxide Articles with Thin, Durable Anti-reflective Structures
20 May 20
An article that includes: an inorganic oxide substrate having opposing major surfaces; and an optical film structure disposed on a first major surface of the substrate, the optical film structure comprising one or more of a silicon-containing oxide, a silicon-containing nitride and a silicon-containing oxynitride and a physical thickness from about 50 nm to less than 500 nm.
Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Lin Lin, James Joseph Price
Filed: 21 Jan 20
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Optical Film Structures, Inorganic Oxide Articles with Optical Film Structures, and Methods of Making the Same
20 May 20
An optical film structure that includes: an optical film comprising a physical thickness from about 50 nm to about 3000 nm, and a silicon-containing nitride or a silicon-containing oxynitride.
Shandon Dee Hart, Chang-gyu Kim, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, Dong-gun Moon, Jung-keun Oh, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
Filed: 14 Nov 19
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Cell Culture Vessel for 3D Culture and Methods of Culturing 3D Cells
13 May 20
A cell culture vessel (100) has walls and a substrate having a plurality of microcavities (120), where each microcavity of the plurality of microcavities includes a concave well and an opening to allow the microcavity to be filled with liquid.
Ann MeeJin Ferrie, Vasiliy Nikolaevich Goral, Jeffrey Glenn Lynn
Filed: 12 Jul 18
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Coated, Antimicrobial, Chemically Strengthened Glass and Method of Making
13 May 20
The disclosure is directed to a chemically strengthened glass having antimicrobial properties and to a method of making such glass.
Nicholas Francis Borrelli, David Lathrop Morse, Wageesha Senaratne, Florence Christine Monique Verrier, Ying Wei
Filed: 8 Dec 19
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Bendable Laminated Article Including Anisotropic Layer
13 May 20
A laminated glass article including a base layer, an anisotropic layer disposed over a top surface of the base layer, and a glass layer disposed over the anisotropic layer.
Shinu Baby, Dhananjay Joshi, Inna Igorevna Kouzmina, Yousef Kayed Qaroush, Arlin Lee Weikel
Filed: 31 May 18
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Glass Composition
13 May 20
A glass article, having SiO2 from about 61 wt. % to about 62 wt. %; Al2O3 from about 18 wt. % to about 18.4 wt. %; B2O3 from about 7.1 wt. % to about 8.3 wt. %; MgO from about 1.9 wt. % to about 2.2 wt. %; CaO from about 6.5 wt. % to about 6.9 wt. %; SrO from about 2.5 wt. % to about 3.6 wt. %; BaO from about 0.6 wt. % to about 1.0 wt. %; and SnO2 from about 0.1 wt. % to about 0.2 wt. %, a refractive index of about 1.515 to about 1.517 at an optical wavelength of about 589 nm; a VD of about 57 to about 67; less than or equal to about 5 μm total thickness variation over a component diameter of about 200 mm, less than or equal to about 20 μm warp over a component diameter of about 200 mm, and wedge less than or equal to about 0.1 arcmin.
Bradley Frederick Bowden, Mark Francis Krol, Karan Mehrotra, Katherine Rose Rossington
Filed: 23 Oct 19
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Glass Substrates with Improved Compositions
13 May 20
Methods of making glass substrates comprise: obtaining a base glass from a bulk process; exposing the base glass to a first ion exchange treatment including ions of a first metal to form a protected base glass; exposing the protected base glass to a second ion exchange treatment including the ions of the first metal and ions of a second metal to form a modified base glass; and annealing the modified base glass to remove substantially all stress and to obtain a distributed concentration profile of the alkali metal oxide, an oxide of the first metal, and an oxide of the second metal, thereby forming the glass substrate.
Vitor Marino Schneider
Filed: 7 Nov 19
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Chemically Strengthened Lithium Disilicate-petalite Glass-ceramics
13 May 20
Ion-exchanged glass ceramic articles described herein have a stress that decreases with increasing distance according to a substantially linear function from a depth of about 0.07 t to a depth of about 0.26 t from the outer surface of the ion-exchanged glass ceramic article from a compressive stress to a tensile stress.
Ryan Claude Andrews, Albert Joseph Fahey, Lisa Marie Noni, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev, Charlene Marie Smith, Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Shelby Kerin Wilson
Filed: 12 Nov 19
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3D Interposer with Through Glass Vias - Method of Increasing Adhesion Between Copper and Glass Surfaces and Articles Therefrom
13 May 20
In some embodiments, a method comprises: depositing an adhesion layer comprising manganese oxide (MnOx) onto a surface of a glass or glass ceramic substrate; depositing a first layer of conductive metal onto the adhesion layer; and annealing the adhesion layer in a reducing atmosphere.
Hoon Kim, Prantik Mazumder, Aram Rezikyan, Rajesh Vaddi
Filed: 28 Oct 19
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Burner Design for Particle Generation
13 May 20
A method of producing bi-modal particles includes the steps of igniting a first precursor gas using a primary burner thereby producing a first plurality of particles of a first size, fluidly transporting the first plurality of particles down a particle tube, igniting a second precursor gas using a secondary burner thereby producing a second plurality of particles of a second size, flowing the second plurality of particles into the first plurality of particles, and capturing the first and second plurality of particles.
Laura Beth Cook, Curtis Robert Fekety, Yunfeng Gu, Dale Robert Powers, Christopher Scott Thomas, Srinivas Vemury, Fei Xia, Chunfeng Zhou
Filed: 12 Jan 20
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Articles Capable of Individual Singulation
13 May 20
A method of forming a glass article includes steps of: providing a glass substrate sheet, forming a first array of first damage regions, forming a second array of second damage regions which define a plurality of portions, wherein the second array of second damage regions define one or more interrupted zones.
Kristopher Allen Wieland
Filed: 16 Jan 20
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Perfusion Bioreactor Platform
13 May 20
A cell culture apparatus includes one or more plates having a first major surface and an opposing second major surface.
Gregory Roger Martin, Allison Jean Tanner
Filed: 12 Sep 19
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Systems and Methods for Automated Evaluation of Glass-based Substrates for Birefringence Defects
13 May 20
Systems and methods for evaluating glass-based substrates for birefringence defects are disclosed.
Raymond Geroe Greene, Tomohiro Ishikawa, Rohit Rai, Seungcheol Yang
Filed: 13 Nov 19
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Low Bend Loss Optical Fiber with a Chlorine Doped Core and Offset Trench
13 May 20
An optical fiber includes (i) a chlorine doped silica based core having a core alpha (Coreα)≥4, a radius r1, and a maximum refractive index delta Δ1max % and (ii) a cladding surrounding the core.
Dana Craig Bookbinder, Ming-Jun Li, Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra, Pushkar Tandon
Filed: 13 Jan 20
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Quantum Memory Systems and Quantum Repeater Systems Comprising Doped Polycrystalline Ceramic Optical Devices and Methods of Manufacturing the Same
13 May 20
A method of manufacturing a doped polycrystalline ceramic optical device includes mixing a plurality of transition metal complexes and a plurality of rare-earth metal complexes to form a metal salt solution, heating the metal salt solution to form a heated metal salt solution, mixing the heated metal salt solution and an organic precursor to induce a chemical reaction between the heated metal salt solution and the organic precursor to produce a plurality of rare-earth doped crystalline nanoparticles, and sintering the plurality of rare-earth doped nanoparticles to form a doped polycrystalline ceramic optical device having a rare-earth element dopant that is uniformly distributed within a crystal lattice of the doped polycrystalline ceramic optical device.
Jason Allen Brown, Stuart Gray, Thomas Dale Ketcham, Daniel Aloysius Nolan, Wageesha Senaratne, Jun Yang, Haitao Zhang
Filed: 16 Jan 20