Patents by Inventor Christoph Buchal

Christoph Buchal 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).

  • Patent number: 5882400
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method of producing a surface layer structure by doping a matrix with metal ions. The aim of the invention is to provide a method of this kind in which the depth distribution of the metal ions in the substrate can be regulated, thus optimumizing the doping without incurring any of the disadvantages inherent in the prior art methods. This is achieved by first depositing matrix material on a suitable substrate by laser ablation in an atmosphere of oxygen, thus forming a on surface of the substrate a first layer a matrix material. Dopant is then deposited on the surface of the first layer, followed by more matrix material. The result is a uniform doping of the deposited matrix at a defined depth in the surface layer structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Stefanie Bauer, Martin Fleuster, Willi Zander, Jurgen Schubert, Christoph Buchal
  • Patent number: 5859464
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component has an Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 or Si substrate having a surface on which a buried CoSi.sub.2 layer is provided, a Si layer overlying the buried CoSi.sub.2 layer. A metal layer on a portion of this latter Si layer forms a diode between the metal layer, the underlying portion of the Si layer and the buried CoSi.sub.2 layer and a waveguide for a transparent portion of the metal layer delivers photon energy to the underlying portion of the Si layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Hollricher, Frank Ruders, Christoph Buchal, Hartmut Roskos, Jens Peter Hermanns, Elard Stein Von Kamienski, Klaus Rademacher
  • Patent number: 5420101
    Abstract: The invention relates to a structured superconductive track and a process for making it from epitaxial high temperature superconductor (HTSC) layers using lift off technique, in which a HTSC track deposited on an elevated substrate region is surrounded by an insulating layer of doped HTSC lying on a lower substrate region, and the substrate region with the superconductive track formed thereon is elevated such that the superconductive track is isolated from the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1995
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Carlo Copetti, Jurgen Schubert, Willi Zander, Christoph Buchal
  • Patent number: 5282260
    Abstract: An optical electronic component, in which strip waveguides of limited depth and lateral width are formed in undoped dielectric substrate, e.g. an undoped crystal, by implantation of rare-earth ions or ions of transition metals, preferably laser-active ions with energies of 50 keV to 10 MeV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1994
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Buchal, Wolfgang Sohler
  • Patent number: 5174876
    Abstract: An optical electronic component, in which strip waveguides of limited depth and lateral width are formed in undoped dielectric substrate, e.g. an undoped crystal, by implantation of rare-earch ions or ions of transition metals, preferably laser-active ions with energies of 50 keV to 10 MeV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Buchal, Wolfgang Sohler