Patents by Inventor Shing-Kuo Pan

Shing-Kuo Pan 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).

  • Millimeter- and submillimeter-wave noise generator
    Patent number: 6844786
    Abstract: A noise generator for generating multi-octave, high-level, millimeter- and submillimeter-wave noise is disclosed. According to one embodiment of the invention, the noise generator includes: a microwave noise source; a microwave power-amplifier chain; a level-set attenuator; a frequency multiplier; and a transmission structure. The output of the generator has a high-intensity noise power spectrum over a frequency range from about 60 GHz to about 1 THz. This type of noise is particularly suited and has sufficient power for testing and calibrating millimeter- and submillimeter-wave components, devices, and circuits; material evaluation and characterization; and for use as a broadband millimeter- and submillimeter-wave noise source for a Fourier Transform Spectrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Associated Universities, Inc.
    Inventors: Shing-Kuo Pan, Geoffrey A. Ediss, Anthony R. Kerr
  • Millimeter-and submillimeter-wave noise generator
    Publication number: 20030038935
    Abstract: A noise generator for generating multi-octave, high-level, millimeter- and submillimeter-wave noise is disclosed. According to one embodiment of the invention, the noise generator includes: a microwave noise source; a microwave power-amplifier chain; a level-set attenuator; a frequency multiplier; and a transmission structure. The output of the generator has a high-intensity noise power spectrum over a frequency range from about 60 GHz to about 1 THz. This type of noise is particularly suited and has sufficient power for testing and calibrating millimeter- and submillimeter-wave components, devices, and circuits; material evaluation and characterization; and for use as a broadband millimeter- and submillimeter-wave noise source for a Fourier Transform Spectrometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Shing-Kuo Pan, Geoffrey A. Ediss, Anthony R. Kerr