Patents by Inventor Gennady A. Smolyakov

Gennady A. Smolyakov has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Efficient hydrogen production by photocatalytic water splitting using surface plasmons in hybrid nanoparticles
    Publication number: 20120145532
    Abstract: Photocatalytic water splitting is employed as a method to directly obtain clean hydrogen from solar radiation by using hybrid nanoparticles with metallic cores and semiconductor photocatalytic shells. Efficient unassisted overall photocatalytic splitting of water is based on resonant absorption from surface plasmon in metal core/semiconductor shell hybrid nanoparticles, which can extend the absorption spectra further towards the visible-near infrared range, thus dramatically increasing the solar energy conversion efficiency. When used in combination with scintillator nanoparticles, the hybrid photocatalytic nanoparticles can be used for conversion of nuclear energy into hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Gennady A. Smolyakov, Marek A. Osinski
  • Light-emitting device having injection-lockable semiconductor ring laser monolithically integrated with master laser
    Patent number: 8009712
    Abstract: A semiconductor ring laser (SRL) section is monolithically integrated with a DFB or DBR master laser section on a semiconductor substrate of a light-emitting device to provide an injection locking mode of operation that can result in low-cost ultrafast (over 100 GHz) functional chip that will be easy to use in practice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: STC.UNM
    Inventors: Marek A. Osinski, Omar K. Qassim, Nathan J. Withers, Gennady A. Smolyakov
  • Lead-iodide-based scintillator materials
    Publication number: 20100072374
    Abstract: Scintillator material comprising nanoparticles (nanocrystals) comprising lead (Pb), iodine (I), and optionally one or both of oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H) wherein the nanoparticles exhibit room-temperature scintillation under gamma irradiation. The scintillator nanoparticles can comprise Pb3O2I2. The scintillator nanoparticles can comprise PbIOH in generally equiatomic proportions or non-equiatomic variants thereof that exhibit scintillation under gamma irradiation. The scintillator nanoparticles have a particle dimension in the range of about 5 to about 100 nm. Microparticles (microcrystals) also are provided comprising lead (Pb), iodine (I), and optionally one or both of oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H) grown in a nanoparticle colloidal solution over time to a particle dimension greater than 0.1 ?m, such as about 2 microns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Marek A. Osinski, Nathan J. Withers, Brian A. Akins, Gennady A. Smolyakov, Krishnaprasad Sankar
  • Light-emitting device having injection-lockable semiconductor ring laser monolithically integrated with master laser
    Publication number: 20100034223
    Abstract: A semiconductor ring laser (SRL) section is monolithically integrated with a DFB or DBR master laser section on a semiconductor substrate of a light-emitting device to provide an injection locking mode of operation that can result in low-cost ultrafast (over 100 GHz) functional chip that will be easy to use in practice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventors: Marek A. Osinski, Omar K. Qassim, Nathan J. Withers, Gennady A. Smolyakov
  • Light-emitting device having injection-lockable unidirectional semiconductor ring laser monolithically integrated with master laser
    Publication number: 20100008390
    Abstract: A unidirectional semiconductor ring laser (USRL) section is monolithically integrated with a DFB or DBR master laser section on a semiconductor substrate of a light-emitting device to provide an injection locking mode of operation that can result in low-cost ultrafast (over 100 GHz) functional chip that will be easy to use in practice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Marek A. Osinski, Omar K. Qassim, Nathan J. Withers, Gennady A. Smolyakov
  • Halide-based scintillator nanomaterial
    Publication number: 20100001209
    Abstract: Scintillator material comprising nanoparticles (nanocrystals) comprising lead (Pb), iodine (I), and optionally one or both of oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H) wherein the nanoparticles exhibit room-temperature scintillation under gamma irradiation. The scintillator nanoparticles can comprise Pb3O2I2. The scintillator nanoparticles can comprise PbIOH in generally equiatomic proportions or non-equiatomic variants thereof that exhibit scintillation under gamma irradiation. The scintillator nanoparticles have a particle dimension in the range of about 5 to about 100 nm. Microparticles (microcrystals) also are provided comprising lead (Pb), iodine (I), and optionally one or both of oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H) grown in a nanoparticle colloidal solution over time to a particle dimension greater than 0.1 ?m, such as about 2 microns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Marek A. Osinski, Nathan J. Withers, Brian A. Akins, Gennady A. Smolyakov, Krishnaprasad Sankar