Patents Assigned to Progress Technology Corporation
  • Broadband superconducting detector
    Patent number: 4894542
    Abstract: A broadband photon detector device which operates using a superconducting material is biased at the temperature where the material changes from a superconducting to a non-superconducting state. Photons which strike said material cause a temperature rise and a measurable increase in resistivity of the material. Measuring the increase in resistivity allows the detection of the incident photons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1990
    Assignee: Progress Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Richard T. Schneider
  • Magnetic superconducting detector
    Patent number: 4873443
    Abstract: A photon detector which uses a superconducting material to detect photons of a specific frequency. The superconducting material is kept in its superconducting state so that resistance in the material does not appear, but incident photons produce a detectable magnetic field within the superconducting material. Sensing this magnetic field in the superconducting in its superconducting state allows for the detection of photons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Progress Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Richard T. Schneider