Patents Assigned to CIC NanoGune
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Patent number: 11444218Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for operating with THz and/or IR and/or MW radiation, comprising: —an antenna having one or more antenna branches (A1; A1, A2) and adapted to operate in the THz and/or IR and/or MW frequency range; and —a structure made of at least one photoactive material defining a photo-active area (Ga) arranged to absorb light radiation impinging thereon. The focus area of the at least one antenna branch (A1; A1, A2) is dimensionally equal or smaller than the photo-active area (Ga).Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES FOTÓNIQUES, INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS, ASOCIACIÓN CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN COOPERATIVA EN NANOCIENCIAS, CIC NANOGUNEInventors: Klaas-Jan Tielrooij, Frank Koppens, Rainer Hillenbrand, Marta Autore
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Publication number: 20210376181Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for operating with THz and/or IR and/or MW radiation, comprising:—an antenna having one or more antenna branches (A1; A1, A2) and adapted to operate in the THz and/or IR and/or MW frequency range; and—a structure made of at least one photoactive material defining a photo-active area (Ga) arranged to absorb light radiation impinging thereon. The focus area of the at least one antenna branch (A1; A1, A2) is dimensionally equal or smaller than the photo-active area (Ga).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2018Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicants: FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES FOTÒNIQUES, FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES FOTÒNIQUES, INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS, INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS, ASOCIACIÓN CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN COOPERATIVA EN NANOCIENCIAS, CIC NANOGUNE, ASOCIACIÓN CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN COOPERATIVA EN NANOCIENCIAS, CIC NANOGUNEInventors: Klaas-Jan Tielrooij, Frank Koppens, Rainer Hillenbrand, Marta Autore
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Patent number: 10442907Abstract: A method for producing a barrier layer and a carrier body including such a barrier layer are disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes providing a carrier body including a polymer film having at least one polymer, drying the barrier interface, exposing the barrier interface to one reagent gas, or to a plurality of reagent gases which do not chemically react with each other, so that the at least one reagent gas chemically reacts with the at least one polymer at least inside the polymer film in at least one chemical reaction thereby forming the barrier layer, and removing at least one product gas of the at least one chemical reaction.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignees: OSRAM OLED GmbH, CIC NANOGUNE CONSOLIDERInventors: Frank Vollkommer, Klaus-Dieter Bauer, Juergen Bauer, Mato Knez, Keith Edward Gregorczyk
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Patent number: 10295560Abstract: The invention relates to a device for conducting near-field optical measurements of a sample comprising a wavelength-tunable monochromatic light source. Further the invention relates to methods for measuring the near-field using such a device.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: ASOCIACION CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN COOPERATIVA EN NANOSCIENCIAS (CIC NANOGUNE)Inventors: Edward Yoxall, Martin Schnell, Rainer Hillenbrand
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Patent number: 10267836Abstract: Devices and methods for determining the quality thin film materials are disclosed. The thin film materials are provided on substrates forming thin film material structures. The devices comprise a housing, a THz module with a THz source emitter and a THz detector, and a reflective base moveable relative to the THz module and configured to support the thin film material structures. The THz source emitter is configured to irradiate the thin film materials. The THz detector is configured to measure at least one reflection of the irradiation. The device is configured to calculate a parameter indicative of the quality of the thin film material based on said reflection measurements.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignees: DAS-NANO, S.L., ASOCIACION CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION COOPERATIVE EN NANOCIENCIAS (CIC NANOGUNE), GRAPHENEA, S.A.Inventors: Eduardo Azanza Ladrón, Magdalena Chudzik, Alex López Zorzano, David Etayo Salinas, Luis Eduardo Hueso Arroyo, Amaia Zurutuza Elorza
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Patent number: 9784736Abstract: Disclosed herein is a biosensor for optical detection of Brownian relaxation dynamics of magnetic particles measured by light transmission. The magnetic particles can be functionalized with biological ligands for the detection of target analytes in a sample.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignees: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, CIC NanoGuneInventors: Marco Donolato, Mikkel Fougt Hansen, Paolo Vavassori
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Patent number: 9213313Abstract: Methods and apparatus for imaging a phase or amplitude that characterizes a scattered field emanating from a physical medium. A local probe is stepped to a plurality of successive probe positions and illuminated with an illuminating beam, while a specified phase function is imposed on a reference beam relative to the illuminating beam. A field associated with the scattered field is superimposed with the reference beam and the detection of both yields a detected signal which is recorded as a function of probe position in order to obtain a hologram. The holograph is transformed, filtered, and retransformed to generate an image. Alternatively, the illuminating beam may directly illuminate successive positions of the physical medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignees: Asociación Centre De Investigación Cooperativa en Nanociencias, CIC Nanogune, The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Martin Schnell, Rainer Hillenbrand, Paul Scott Carney
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Patent number: 8878638Abstract: A system and a method for the controlled manipulation of any number of magnetic particles in solution are shown. The system and the method of the present invention are based on the employment of magnetic conduits properly structured in order to inject, move and annihilate with high precision magnetic domain walls and on the fact that said magnetic domain walls exert a high attraction force on magnetic particles. The injection, movement and annihilation of domain walls along said magnetic conduit result, therefore, in the trapping, movement and release, respectively, of single magnetic particles placed in solution in proximity of said magnetic conduits. The devices of the present invention guarantee the possibility of a digital transfer of magnetic particles along conduits formed by linear segments as well as high control and nanometric precision in the manipulation of said magnetic particles on curved conduits.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2010Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Asociacion-Centro de Investigacion Cooperativa en Nanociencias-CIC NanoguneInventors: Ricardo Bertacco, Matteo Cantoni, Marco Donolato, Marco Gobbi, Stefano Brivio, Paolo Vavassori, Daniela Petti