Patents by Inventor Connie P. Wang
Connie P. Wang 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: 20230170581Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure generally relate to separators, high performance electrochemical devices, such as, batteries and capacitors, including the aforementioned separators, systems and methods for fabricating the same. In one implementation, a separator is provided. The separator comprises a polymer substrate, capable of conducting ions, having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface. The separator further comprises a first ceramic-containing layer, capable of conducting ions, formed on the first surface. The first ceramic-containing layer has a thickness in a range from about 1,000 nanometers to about 5,000 nanometers. The separator further comprises a second ceramic-containing layer, capable of conducting ions, formed on the second surface. The second ceramic-containing layer is a binder-free ceramic-containing layer and has a thickness in a range from about 1 nanometer to about 1,000 nanometers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Connie P. WANG, Wen SI, Yin Let SIM, Torsten DIETER, Roland TRASSL, Subramanya P. HERLE, Christoph DAUBE, Jian ZHU, James CUSHING
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Publication number: 20230170580Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure generally relate to separators, high performance electrochemical devices, such as, batteries and capacitors, including the aforementioned separators, systems and methods for fabricating the same. In one implementation, a separator is provided. The separator comprises a polymer substrate, capable of conducting ions, having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface. The separator further comprises a first ceramic-containing layer, capable of conducting ions, formed on the first surface. The first ceramic-containing layer has a thickness in a range from about 1,000 nanometers to about 5,000 nanometers. The separator further comprises a second ceramic-containing layer, capable of conducting ions, formed on the second surface. The second ceramic-containing layer is a binder-free ceramic-containing layer and has a thickness in a range from about 1 nanometer to about 1,000 nanometers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Connie P. WANG, Wen SI, Yin Let SIM, Torsten DIETER, Roland TRASSL, Subramanya P. HERLE, Christoph DAUBE, Jian ZHU, James CUSHING
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Patent number: 11588209Abstract: Separators, high performance electrochemical devices, such as, batteries and capacitors, including the aforementioned separators, systems and methods for fabricating the same. In one implementation, a separator is provided. The separator comprises a polymer substrate (131), capable of conducting ions, having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface. The separator further comprises a first ceramic-containing layer (136), capable of conducting ions, formed on the first surface. The first ceramic-containing layer (136) has a thickness in arrange from about 1,000 nanometers to about 5000 nanometers. The separator further comprises a second ceramic-containing layer (138), capable of conducting ions, formed on the second surface. The second ceramic-containing layer (138) is a binder-free ceramic-containing layer and has a thickness in arrange from about 1 nanometer to about 1,000 nanometers.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Connie P. Wang, Wen Si, Yin Let Sim, Torsten Dieter, Roland Trassl, Subramanya P. Herle, Christoph Daube, Jian Zhu, James Cushing
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Publication number: 20210328308Abstract: Separators, high performance electrochemical devices, such as, batteries and capacitors, including the aforementioned separators, systems and methods for fabricating the same. In one implementation, a separator is provided. The separator comprises a polymer substrate (131), capable of conducting ions, having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface. The separator further comprises a first ceramic-containing layer (136), capable of conducting ions, formed on the first surface. The first ceramic-containing layer (136) has a thickness in arrange from about 1,000 nanometers to about 5000 nanometers. The separator further comprises a second ceramic-containing layer (138), capable of conducting ions, formed on the second surface. The second ceramic-containing layer (138) is a binder-free ceramic-containing layer and has a thickness in arrange from about 1 nanometer to about 1,000 nanometers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2018Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Connie P. WANG, Wen SI, Yin Let SIM, Torsten DIETER, Roland TRASSL, Subramanya P. HERLE, Christoph DAUBE, Jian ZHU, James CUSHING
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Patent number: 10290399Abstract: An integrated superconductor device may include a substrate base and an intermediate layer disposed on the substrate base and comprising a preferred crystallographic orientation. The integrated superconductor device may further include an oriented superconductor layer disposed on the intermediate layer and a conductive strip disposed on a portion of the oriented superconductor layer. The conductive strip may define a superconductor region of the oriented superconductor layer thereunder, and an exposed region of the oriented superconductor layer adjacent the superconductor region.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATES, INC.Inventors: Connie P. Wang, Paul Murphy, Paul Sullivan
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Publication number: 20190035518Abstract: An integrated superconductor device may include a substrate base and an intermediate layer disposed on the substrate base and comprising a preferred crystallographic orientation. The integrated superconductor device may further include an oriented superconductor layer disposed on the intermediate layer and a conductive strip disposed on a portion of the oriented superconductor layer. The conductive strip may define a superconductor region of the oriented superconductor layer thereunder, and an exposed region of the oriented superconductor layer adjacent the superconductor region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.Inventors: Connie P. Wang, Paul Murphy, Paul Sullivan
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Patent number: 10158061Abstract: In one embodiment, a method to form a superconductor device includes depositing a crystalline layer having a preferred crystallographic orientation on a substrate and forming an oriented superconductor layer comprising an oriented superconductor material on the crystalline layer. A metallic layer is formed on the superconductor layer and a mask is provided proximate the substrate to define a protected portion of the oriented superconductor layer and an exposed portion of the oriented superconductor layer. The exposed portion of the oriented superconductor layer is removed without etching the protected portion of the oriented superconductor layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATES, INCInventors: Connie P. Wang, Paul Murphy, Paul Sullivan
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Publication number: 20180105928Abstract: A method of forming a superconductor tape, includes depositing a superconductor layer on a substrate, forming a metal layer comprising a first metal on a surface of the superconductor layer, and implanting an alloy species into the metal layer where the first metal forms a metal alloy after the implanting the alloy species.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.Inventors: Connie P. Wang, Paul Murphy, Paul Sullivan, Ludovic Godet, Frank Sinclair, Morgan Evans
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Patent number: 9947441Abstract: An integrated superconductor device may include a substrate base and an intermediate layer disposed on the substrate base and comprising a preferred crystallographic orientation. The integrated superconductor device may further include an oriented superconductor layer disposed on the intermediate layer and a conductive strip disposed on a portion of the oriented superconductor layer, The conductive strip may define a superconductor region of the oriented superconductor layer thereunder, and an exposed region of the oriented superconductor layer adjacent the superconductor region.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.Inventors: Connie P. Wang, Paul Murphy, Paul Sullivan
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Patent number: 9911910Abstract: In one embodiment a superconductor tape includes a substrate comprising a plurality of layers, an oriented superconductor layer disposed on the substrate, and an alloy coating disposed upon the superconductor layer, the alloy coating comprising one or more metallic layers in which at least one metallic layer comprises a metal alloy.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.Inventors: Connie P. Wang, Paul Sullivan, Paul Murphy, Kasegn D. Tekletsadik, Bharatwaj Ramakrishnan
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Patent number: 9887342Abstract: A method of forming a superconductor includes exposing a layer disposed on a substrate to an oxygen ambient, and selectively annealing a portion of the layer to form a superconducting region within the layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.Inventors: Connie P. Wang, Paul Murphy, Paul Sullivan, Sukti Chatterjee
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Patent number: 9871240Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to lithium-ion batteries, and more specifically, to batteries having integrated separators and methods of fabricating such batteries. In one embodiment, a lithium-ion battery having an electrode structure is provided. The lithium-ion battery comprises an anode stack, a cathode stack, and a porous electrospun polymer separator comprising a nano-fiber backbone structure. The anode stack comprises an anodic current collector and an anode structure formed over a first surface of the anodic current collector. The cathode stack comprises a cathodic current collector and a cathode structure formed over a first surface of the cathodic current collector. The porous electrospun polymer separator is positioned between the anode structure and the cathode structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Mahendra Christopher Orilall, Raman Talwar, Karl M. Brown, Lu Yang, Hooman Bolandi, Victor Pebenito, Connie P. Wang, Robert Z. Bachrach
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Patent number: 9850569Abstract: A method of forming a superconductor tape, includes depositing a superconductor layer on a substrate, forming a metal layer comprising a first metal on a surface of the superconductor layer, and implanting an alloy species into the metal layer where the first metal forms a metal alloy after the implanting the alloy species.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.Inventors: Connie P. Wang, Paul Murphy, Paul Sullivan, Ludovic Godet, Frank Sinclair, Morgan Evans
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Patent number: 9768370Abstract: A superconductor tape includes a plurality of conductive strips having respective long directions parallel to a long tape direction of the superconductor tape, where each of the plurality of conductive strips separated from one another by a inter-strip region. The superconductor tape further includes a superconductor layer disposed adjacent the plurality of conductive strips, having a length along the long tape direction, where the superconductor layer comprises a plurality of superconductor strips disposed under the respective plurality of conductive strips, and a non-superconductor strip disposed adjacent the inter-strip region.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.Inventors: Connie P. Wang, Paul Sullivan, Paul Murphy, Kasegn D. Tekletsadik, Bharatwaj Ramakrishnan
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Patent number: 9761882Abstract: High capacity energy storage devices and energy storage device components, and more specifically, to a system and method for fabricating such high capacity energy storage devices and storage device components using processes that form three-dimensional porous structures are provided. In one embodiment, an anode structure for use in a high capacity energy storage device, comprising a conductive collector substrate, a three-dimensional copper-tin-iron porous conductive matrix formed on one or more surfaces of the conductive collector substrate, comprising a plurality of meso-porous structures formed over the conductive current collector, and an anodically active material deposited over the three-dimensional copper-tin-iron porous conductive matrix is provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Sergey D. Lopatin, Dmitri A. Brevnov, Eric H. Liu, Robert Z. Bachrach, Connie P. Wang
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Publication number: 20170237074Abstract: High capacity energy storage devices and energy storage device components, and more specifically, to a system and method for fabricating such high capacity energy storage devices and storage device components using processes that form three-dimensional porous structures are provided. In one embodiment, an anode structure for use in a high capacity energy storage device, comprising a conductive collector substrate, a three-dimensional copper-tin-iron porous conductive matrix formed on one or more surfaces of the conductive collector substrate, comprising a plurality of meso-porous structures formed over the conductive current collector, and an anodically active material deposited over the three-dimensional copper-tin-iron porous conductive matrix is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Sergey D. LOPATIN, Dmitri A. BREVNOV, Eric H. LIU, Robert Z. BACHRACH, Connie P. WANG
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Patent number: 9685655Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming battery active material on a substrate are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus for depositing a battery active material on a surface of a substrate includes a substrate conveyor system for transporting the substrate within the apparatus, a material spray assembly disposed above the substrate conveyor system, and a first heating element disposed adjacent to the material spray assembly above the substrate conveyor system configured to heat the substrate. The material spray assembly has a 2-D array of nozzles configured to electrospray an electrode forming solution on the surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Fei C. Wang, Hooman Bolandi, Connie P. Wang, Victor Pebenito, Siqing Lu, Michael C. Kutney, Joseph G. Gordon, Robert Z. Bachrach
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Publication number: 20170133575Abstract: A method of forming a superconductor includes exposing a layer disposed on a substrate to an oxygen ambient, and selectively annealing a portion of the layer to form a superconducting region within the layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2017Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Connie P. Wang, Paul Murphy, Paul Sullivan, Sukti Chatterjee
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Patent number: 9590161Abstract: A method of forming a superconductor includes exposing a layer disposed on a substrate to an oxygen ambient, and selectively annealing a portion of the layer to form a superconducting region within the layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.Inventors: Connie P. Wang, Paul Murphy, Paul Sullivan, Sukti Chatterjee
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Patent number: 9583770Abstract: High capacity energy storage devices and energy storage device components, and more specifically, to a system and method for fabricating such high capacity energy storage devices and storage device components using processes that form three-dimensional porous structures are provided. In one embodiment, an anode structure for use in a high capacity energy storage device, comprising a conductive collector substrate, a three-dimensional copper-tin-iron porous conductive matrix formed on one or more surfaces of the conductive collector substrate, comprising a plurality of meso-porous structures formed over the conductive current collector, and an anodically active material deposited over the three-dimensional copper-tin-iron porous conductive matrix is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Sergey D. Lopatin, Dimitri A. Brevnov, Eric H. Liu, Robert Z. Bachrach, Connie P. Wang