Patents by Inventor Meint de Boer
Meint de Boer 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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Publication number: 20170365371Abstract: A multilayer mirror (M) reflecting extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation from a first wavelength range in an EUV spectral region includes a substrate (SUB) and a stack of layers (SL). The stack of layers has layers having a low index material and layers having a high index material. The low index material has a lower real part of the refractive index than does the high index material at a given operating wavelength in the first wavelength range. The stack of layers also includes a spectral purity filter on the stack of layers. The spectral purity filter is effective as an anti-reflection layer for ultraviolet (UV) radiation from a second wavelength range in a UV spectral region to increase an EUV-UV-reflectivity ratio of the multilayer mirror. The spectral purity filter (SPF) includes a non-diffractive graded-index anti-reflection layer (GI-AR) effective to reduce reflectivity in the second wavelength range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Qiushi HUANG, Erich LOUIS, Frederik BIJKERK, Meint DE BOER, Gisela VON BLANCKENHAGEN
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Patent number: 8454844Abstract: A method for processing a wafer to form a plurality of hollow microneedles projecting from a substrate includes forming, by use of a dry etching process, a number of groups of recessed features, each including at least one slot deployed to form an open shape having an included area and at least one hole located within the included area. The internal surfaces of the holes and the slots are then coated with a protective layer. An anisotropic wet etching process is then performed in such a manner as to remove material from outside the included areas while leaving a projecting feature within each of the included areas. The protective layer is then removed to reveal the microneedles.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: NanoPass Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Yehoshua Yeshurun, Mier Hefetz, Meint De Boer, Erwin J W Berenschot, Hans Gardeniers
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Publication number: 20110073560Abstract: A method for processing a wafer to form a plurality of hollow microneedles projecting from a substrate includes forming, by use of a dry etching process, a number of groups of recessed features, each including at least one slot deployed to form an open shape having an included area and at least one hole located within the included area. The internal surfaces of the holes and the slots are then coated with a protective layer. An anisotropic wet etching process is then performed in such a manner as to remove material from outside the included areas while leaving a projecting feature within each of the included areas. The protective layer is then removed to reveal the microneedles.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: Nanopass Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Yehoshua Yeshurun, Mier Hefetz, Meint De Boer, J.W. Berenschot, J.G.E. Gardeniers
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Patent number: 7850657Abstract: A method for processing a wafer to form a plurality of hollow microneedles projecting from a substrate includes forming, by use of a dry etching process, a number of groups of recessed features, each including at least one slot deployed to form an open shape having an included area and at least one hole located within the included area. The internal surfaces of the holes and the slots are then coated with a protective layer. An anisotropic wet etching process is then performed in such a manner as to remove material from outside the included areas while leaving a projecting feature within each of the included areas. The protective layer is then removed to reveal the microneedles.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2010Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Nanopass Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Yehoshua Yeshurun, Meir Hefetz, Meint de Boer, J.W. Berenschot, J.G.E. Gardeniers
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Publication number: 20100224590Abstract: A method for forming a hollow microneedle structure includes processing the front side of a wafer to form at least one microneedle projecting from a substrate and a through-bore passing through the microneedle and through a thickness of the substrate. An entire length of the through-bore is formed by a dry etching process performed from the front side of the wafer. Most preferably, upright surfaces of the microneedle structure and the through bore of the structure are formed by dry etching performed via a single mask with differing depths obtained by harnessing aspect ratio limitations of the dry etching process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2008Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: NanoPass Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Yehoshua Yeshurun, Meint de Boer, J.W. Berenschot
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Publication number: 20100106105Abstract: A method for processing a wafer to form a plurality of hollow microneedles projecting from a substrate includes forming, by use of a dry etching process, a number of groups of recessed features, each including at least one slot deployed to form an open shape having an included area and at least one hole located within the included area. The internal surfaces of the holes and the slots are then coated with a protective layer. An anisotropic wet etching process is then performed in such a manner as to remove material from outside the included areas while leaving a projecting feature within each of the included areas. The protective layer is then removed to reveal the microneedles.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2010Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: NANOPASS TECHNOLOGIES LTD.Inventors: Yehoshua Yeshurun, Meir Hefetz, Meint De Boer, J.W. Berenschot, J.G.E. Gardeniers
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Patent number: 7648484Abstract: A method for processing a wafer to form a plurality of hollow microneedles projecting from a substrate includes forming, by use of a dry etching process, a number of groups of recessed features, each including at least one slot deployed to form an open shape having an included area and at least one hole located within the included area. The internal surfaces of the holes and the slots are then coated with a protective layer. An anisotropic wet etching process is then performed in such a manner as to remove material from outside the included areas while leaving a projecting feature within each of the included areas. The protective layer is then removed to reveal the microneedles.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2001Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Nanopass Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Yehoshua Yeshurun, Mier Hefetz, Meint De Boer, J. W. Berenschot, J. G. E. Gardeniers
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Patent number: 6924087Abstract: A method for producing microneedles. The method including disposing a first layer of a radiation sensitive polymer on to a working surface and selectively irradiating the first layer such that the first layer has at least one irradiated region and at least one non-irradiated region. The method also including developing the first layer so as to selectively remove one of the at least one irradiated region and the at least one non-irradiated region such that, at least part of at least one remaining region at least partially defines a form of at least part of a microneedle structure. A microneedle structure including a plurality of microneedles at least partially formed from a radiation sensitive polymer.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2003Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Nano Pass Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Yehoshua Yeshurun, Meir Hefetz, Erwin Berenschot, Meint de Boer, Dominique Maria Altpeter, Garrit Boom
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Publication number: 20050029223Abstract: A method for processing a wafer to form a plurality of hollow microneedles projecing from a substrate includes forming, by use of a dry etching process, a number of groups of recessed features, each including at least one slot deployed to form an open shape having an included area and at least one hole located within the included area. The internal surfaces of the holes and the slots are then coated with a protective layer. An anisotropic wet etching process is then performed in such a manner as to remove material from outside the included areas while leaving a projecting feature within each of the included areas. The protective layer is then removed to reveal the microneedles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2001Publication date: February 10, 2005Inventors: Yehoshua Yeshurun, Mier Hefetz, Meint De Boer, J. W. Berenschot, J. G. E. Gardeniers
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Publication number: 20040072105Abstract: A method for producing microneedles. The method including disposing a first layer of a radiation sensitive polymer on to a working surface and selectively irradiating the first layer such that the first layer has at least one irradiated region and at least one non-irradiated region. The method also including developing the first layer so as to selectively remove one of the at least one irradiated region and the at least one non-irradiated region such that, at least part of at least one remaining region at least partially defines a form of at least part of a microneedle structure. A microneedle structure including a plurality of microneedles at least partially formed from a radiation sensitive polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Applicant: Nano Pass Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Yehoshua Yeshurun, Meir Hefetz, Erwin Berenschot, Meint de Boer, Dominique Maria Altpeter, Gerrit Boom
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Patent number: 6533949Abstract: A method for processing a wafer to form a plurality of hollow microneedles projecting from a substrate includes forming, by use of a dry etching process, a number of groups of recessed features, each including at least one slot deployed to form an open shape having an included area and at least one hole located within the included area. The internal surfaces of the holes and the slots are then coated with a protective layer. An anisotropic wet etching process is then performed in such a manner as to remove material from outside the included areas while leaving a projecting feature within each of the included areas. The protective layer is then removed to reveal the microneedles.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2000Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Assignee: Nanopass Ltd.Inventors: Yehoshua Yeshurun, Meir Hefetz, Meint de Boer, J. W. Berenschot, J. G. E. Gardeniers