Patents by Inventor Gordon L. Graff
Gordon L. Graff 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).
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Patent number: 7510913Abstract: A method of making an encapsulated plasma sensitive device. The method comprises: providing a plasma sensitive device adjacent to a substrate; depositing a plasma protective layer on the plasma sensitive device using a process selected from non-plasma based processes, or modified sputtering processes; and depositing at least one barrier stack adjacent to the plasma protective layer, the at least one barrier stack comprising at least one decoupling layer and at least one barrier layer, the plasma sensitive device being encapsulated between the substrate and the at least one barrier stack, wherein the decoupling layer, the barrier layer, or both are deposited using a plasma process, the encapsulated plasma sensitive device having a reduced amount of damage caused by the plasma compared to an encapsulated plasma sensitive device made without the plasma protective layer. An encapsulated plasma sensitive device is also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2006Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Vitex Systems, Inc.Inventors: Lorenza Moro, Xi Chu, Martin Philip Rosenblum, Kenneth Jeffrey Nelson, Paul E. Burrows, Mark E. Gross, Mac R. Zumhoff, Peter M. Martin, Charles C. Bonham, Gordon L. Graff
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Patent number: 7198832Abstract: An edge-sealed, encapsulated environmentally sensitive device. The device includes at least one initial barrier stack, an environmentally sensitive device, and at least one additional barrier stack. The barrier stacks include at least one decoupling layer and at least one barrier layer. The environmentally sensitive device is sealed between the at least one initial barrier stack and the at least one additional barrier stack. A method of making the edge-sealed, encapsulated environmentally sensitive device is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Vitex Systems, Inc.Inventors: Paul E. Burrows, Eric S. Mast, Peter M. Martin, Gordon L. Graff, Mark E. Gross
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Patent number: 6962671Abstract: A multilayer plastic substrate. The substrate comprises a plurality of thin film layers of at least one polymer, the plurality of thin film layers being adjacent to one another and having sufficient strength to be self-supporting, wherein the multilayer plastic substrate has an average visible light transmittance of greater than about 80%.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2003Date of Patent: November 8, 2005Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Peter M. Martin, Gordon L. Graff, Mark E. Gross, Michael G. Hall, Eric S. Mast
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Patent number: 6909230Abstract: A method of making a composite polymer of a molecularly doped polymer. The method includes mixing a liquid polymer precursor with molecular dopant forming a molecularly doped polymer precursor mixture. The molecularly doped polymer precursor mixture is flash evaporated forming a composite vapor. The composite vapor is cryocondensed on a cool substrate forming a composite molecularly doped polymer precursor layer, and the cryocondensed composite molecularly doped polymer precursor layer is cross linked thereby forming a layer of the composite polymer layer of the molecularly doped polymer.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2003Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: John D. Affinito, Peter M. Martin, Gordon L. Graff, Paul E. Burrows, Mark E. Gross, Linda S. Sapochak
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Patent number: 6866901Abstract: An edge-sealed barrier film composite. The composite includes a substrate and at least one initial barrier stack adjacent to the substrate. The at least one initial barrier stack includes at least one decoupling layer and at least one barrier layer. One of the barrier layers has an area greater than the area of one of the decoupling layers. The decoupling layer is sealed by the first barrier layer within the area of barrier material. An edge-sealed, encapsulated environmentally sensitive device is provided. A method of making the edge-sealed barrier film composite is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2001Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignee: Vitex Systems, Inc.Inventors: Paul E. Burrows, J. Chris Pagano, Eric S. Mast, Peter M. Martin, Gordon L. Graff, Mark E. Gross
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Patent number: 6858259Abstract: A method for making a polymer layer with a selected index of refraction. The method includes flash evaporating a polymer precursor material capable of cross linking into a polymer with the selected index of refraction, forming an evaporate, passing the evaporate to a glow discharge electrode creating a glow discharge polymer precursor plasma from the evaporate, and cryocondensing the glow discharge polymer precursor plasma on a substrate as a condensate and crosslinking the condensate thereon, the crosslinking resulting from radicals created in the glow discharge polymer precursor plasma, forming a polymer having the selected index of refraction.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2001Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: John D. Affinito, Gordon L. Graff, Peter M. Martin, Mark E. Gross, Paul E. Burrows, Linda S. Sapochak
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Publication number: 20040265508Abstract: An edge-sealed barrier film composite. The composite includes a substrate and at least one initial barrier stack adjacent to the substrate. The at least one initial barrier stack includes at least one decoupling layer and at least one barrier layer. One of the barrier layers has an area greater than the area of one of the decoupling layers. The decoupling layer is sealed by the first barrier layer within the area of barrier material. An edge-sealed, encapsulated environmentally sensitive device is provided. A method of making the edge-sealed barrier film composite is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2001Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: Paul E. Burrows, J. Chris Pagano, Eric S. Mast, Peter M. Martin, Gordon L. Graff, Mark E. Gross
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Patent number: 6811829Abstract: A method for conformally coating a microtextured surface. The method includes flash evaporating a polymer precursor forming an evaporate, passing the evaporate to a glow discharge electrode creating a glow discharge polymer precursor plasma from the evaporate, cryocondensing the glow discharge polymer precursor plasma on the microtextured surface and crosslinking the glow discharge polymer precursor plasma thereon, wherein the crosslinking resulting from radicals created in the glow discharge polymer precursor plasma.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2001Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: John D. Affinito, Gordon L. Graff, Peter M. Martin, Mark E. Gross, Paul E. Burrows, Linda S. Sapochak
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Publication number: 20040009306Abstract: A method for making a polymer layer with a selected index of refraction. The method includes flash evaporating a polymer precursor material capable of cross linking into a polymer with the selected index of refraction, forming an evaporate, passing the evaporate to a glow discharge electrode creating a glow discharge polymer precursor plasma from the evaporate, and cryocondensing the glow discharge polymer precursor plasma on a substrate as a condensate and crosslinking the condensate thereon, the crosslinking resulting from radicals created in the glow discharge polymer precursor plasma, forming a polymer having the selected index of refraction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2001Publication date: January 15, 2004Inventors: John D. Affinito, Gordon L. Graff, Peter M. Martin, Mark E. Gross, Paul E. Burrows, Linda S. Sapochak
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Publication number: 20030235648Abstract: A method of making a composite polymer of a molecularly doped polymer. The method includes mixing a liquid polymer precursor with molecular dopant forming a molecularly doped polymer precursor mixture. The molecularly doped polymer precursor mixture is flash evaporated forming a composite vapor. The composite vapor is cryocondensed on a cool substrate forming a composite molecularly doped polymer precursor layer, and the cryocondensed composite molecularly doped polymer precursor layer is cross linked thereby forming a layer of the composite polymer layer of the molecularly doped polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2003Publication date: December 25, 2003Inventors: John D. Affinito, Peter M. Martin, Gordon L. Graff, Paul E. Burrows, Mark E. Gross, Linda S. Sapochak
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Patent number: 6656537Abstract: A method for plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of low vapor monomeric materials. The method includes flash evaporating a polymer precursor forming an evaporate, passing the evaporate to a glow discharge electrode creating a glow discharge polymer precursor plasma from the evaporate, and cryocondensing the glow discharge polymer precursor on a substrate as a cryocondensed polymer precursor layer, and crosslinking the cryocondensed polymer precursor layer thereon, the crosslinking resulting from radicals created in the glow discharge polymer precursor plasma.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2001Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: John D. Affinito, Gordon L. Graff, Peter M. Martin, Mark E. Gross, Eric Mast, Michael G. Hall
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Publication number: 20030215575Abstract: A multilayer plastic substrate. The substrate comprises a plurality of thin film layers of at least one polymer, the plurality of thin film layers being adjacent to one another and having sufficient strength to be self-supporting, wherein the multilayer plastic substrate has an average visible light transmittance of greater than about 80%.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2003Publication date: November 20, 2003Inventors: Peter M. Martin, Gordon L. Graff, Mark E. Gross, Michael G. Hall, Eric S. Mast
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Patent number: 6623861Abstract: A multilayer plastic substrate. The substrate comprises a plurality of thin film layers of at least one polymer, the plurality of thin film layers being adjacent to one another and having sufficient strength to be self-supporting, wherein the multilayer plastic substrate has an average visible light transmittance of greater than about 80%.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2001Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Peter M. Martin, Gordon L. Graff, Mark E. Gross, Michael G. Hall, Eric S. Mast
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Patent number: 6613395Abstract: A method of making a composite polymer of a molecularly doped polymer. The method includes mixing a liquid polymer precursor with molecular dopant forming a molecularly doped polymer precursor mixture. The molecularly doped polymer precursor mixture is flash evaporated forming a composite vapor. The composite vapor is cryocondensed on a cool substrate forming a composite molecularly doped polymer precursor layer, and the cryocondensed composite molecularly doped polymer precursor layer is cross linked thereby forming a layer of the composite polymer layer of the molecularly doped polymer.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: John D. Affinito, Peter M. Martin, Gordon L. Graff, Paul E. Burrows, Mark E. Gross, Linda S. Sapochak
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Patent number: 6570325Abstract: An encapsulated organic light emitting device. The device may include a substrate, an organic light emitting layer stack adjacent to the substrate, and at least one first barrier stack adjacent to the organic light emitting device, the at least one first barrier stack comprising at least one first barrier layer and at least one first decoupling layer wherein the at least one first barrier stack encapsulates the organic light emitting device. There may be a second barrier stack adjacent to the substrate and located between the substrate and the organic light emitting device. The second barrier stack has at least one second barrier layer and at least one second decoupling layer. A method of making the encapsulated organic light emitting device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Gordon L. Graff, Mark E. Gross, John D. Affinito, Ming-Kun Shi, Michael G. Hall, Eric S. Mast, Robert Walty, Nicole Rutherford, Paul E. Burrows, Peter M. Martin
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Patent number: 6544600Abstract: A method for making conjugated polymers. The method includes flash evaporating a conjugated material forming an evaporate, passing the evaporate to a glow discharge electrode creating a glow discharge conjugated material plasma from the evaporate, and cryocondensing the glow discharge conjugated polymer precursor plasma on a substrate as a condensate and crosslinking the condensate thereon, the crosslinking resulting from radicals created in the glow discharge conjugated material plasma.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2001Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: John D. Affinito, Gordon L. Graff, Mark E. Gross
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Publication number: 20030064171Abstract: An edge-sealed barrier film composite. The composite includes a substrate and at least one initial barrier stack adjacent to the substrate. The at least one initial barrier stack includes at least one decoupling layer and at least one barrier layer. One of the barrier layers has an area greater than the area of one of the decoupling layers. The decoupling layer is sealed by the first barrier layer within the area of barrier material. An edge-sealed, encapsulated environmentally sensitive device is provided. A method of making the edge-sealed barrier film composite is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2001Publication date: April 3, 2003Inventors: Paul E. Burrows, J. Chris Pagano, Eric S. Mast, Peter M. Martin, Gordon L. Graff, Mark E. Gross
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Patent number: 6522067Abstract: An encapsulated organic light emitting device. The device includes a first barrier stack comprising at least one first barrier layer and at least one first polymer layer. There is an organic light emitting layer stack adjacent to the first barrier stack. A second barrier stack is adjacent to the organic light emitting layer stack. The second barrier stack has at least one second barrier layer and at least one second polymer layer. A method of making the encapsulated organic light emitting device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1999Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Gordon L. Graff, Mark E. Gross, John D. Affinito, Ming-Kun Shi, Michael Hall, Eric Mast
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Patent number: 6497924Abstract: A method for making a non-linear optical polymer layer. The method includes flash evaporating a liquid polymer precursor mixture containing a plurality of non-linear optical molecules forming an evaporate, cryocondensing the evaporate on a substrate forming a cyrocondensed polymer precursor layer, and crosslinking the cryocondensed polymer precursor layer. The surface may be electrically biased for poling during crosslinking.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2001Date of Patent: December 24, 2002Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: John D. Affinito, Gordon L. Graff, Peter M. Martin, Mark E. Gross, Paul E. Burrows, Linda S. Sapochak
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Patent number: RE40787Abstract: A multilayer plastic substrate. The substrate comprises a plurality of thin film layers of at least one polymer, the plurality of thin film layers being adjacent to one another and having sufficient strength to be self-supporting, wherein the multilayer plastic substrate has an average visible light transmittance of greater than about 80%.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2004Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Peter M. Martin, Gordon L. Graff, Mark E. Gross, Michael G. Hall, Eric S. Mast