Patents by Inventor Dorothee Christine Hermes
Dorothee Christine Hermes 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: 20210273230Abstract: A substrate comprises carbon nanotubes, oriented largely parallel in a direction away from the substrate. In a plane along a surface of said substrate carbon nanotubes are formed in first cells of a connected structure of carbon nanotubes. Said first cells formed within a second structure of second cells, the carbon nanotubes are thereby patterned in a structure of first cells, nested in a structure of second cells. The first cells comprise at least one opening, without carbon nano tubes, to provide access to the surface of the substrate. Second cells are separated from each other by a trench to prevent carbon nanotubes of a second cell from contacting carbon nanotubes of another second cell across a first gap formed by said trench. The trench provides access to the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Evert Jonathan VAN DEN HAM, Lucas Augustinus HAVERKATE, Dorothee Christine HERMES, Michal TULODZIECKI, Sandeep UNNIKRISHNAN
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Patent number: 10923724Abstract: A method for manufacturing a electronic device is provided having a current collector capable of a high specific charge collecting area and power, but is also achieved using a simple and fast technique and resulting in a robust design that may be flexed and can be manufactured in large scale processing. To this end the electronic device comprising an electronic circuit equipped with a current collector formed by a metal substrate having a face forming a high-aspect ratio structure of pillars having an interdistance larger than 600 nm. By forming the high-aspect structure in a metal substrate, new structures can be formed that are conformal to curvature of a macroform or that can be coiled or wound and have a robust design.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2016Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNOInventors: Harmannus Franciscus Maria Schoo, Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Dorothee Christine Hermes, Edsger Constant Pieter Smits, Sami Sabik
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Patent number: 10818927Abstract: A method of manufacturing a Lithium battery with a substrate current collector formed of pillars on a substrate face, wherein the method comprises: forming elongate and aligned structures forming electrically conductive pillars on the substrate face with upstanding pillar walls; wherein the pillars are formed with a first electrode, a solid state electrolyte layer provided on the first electrode; and a second electrode layer, wherein the pillars are dimensioned in such a way that adjacent pillars are merged and a topstrate current collector is formed of complementary interspace structures between the merged pillars.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Lucas Augustinus Haverkate, Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Dorothee Christine Hermes
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Patent number: 10770756Abstract: A method of manufacturing a battery with a substrate current collector, wherein the method comprises: forming elongate and aligned electrically conductive structures on the substrate face with upstanding walls; wherein the walls are formed with a first electrode layer covering said walls, and a solid state electrolyte layer provided on the first electrode layer; and wherein a second electrode layer is formed by covering the electrolyte layer with an electrode layer; and forming a top current collector layer in electrical contact with the second electrode layer, wherein the second electrode layer is shielded from the conductive structure by an insulator covering a part of said conductive structure adjacent an end side thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Lucas Augustinus Haverkate, Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Dorothee Christine Hermes
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Publication number: 20190245239Abstract: A method of manufacturing a battery with a substrate current collector, wherein the method comprises: forming elongate and aligned electrically conductive structures on the substrate face with upstanding walls; wherein the walls are formed with a first electrode layer covering said walls, and a solid state electrolyte layer provided on the first electrode layer; and wherein a second electrode layer is formed by covering the electrolyte layer with an electrode layer; and forming a top current collector layer in electrical contact with the second electrode layer, wherein the second electrode layer is shielded from the conductive structure by an insulator covering a part of said conductive structure adjacent an end side thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2017Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Lucas Augustinus Haverkate, Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Dorothee Christine Hermes
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Publication number: 20180375100Abstract: A method of manufacturing a Lithium battery with a substrate current collector formed of pillars on a substrate face, wherein the method comprises: forming elongate and aligned structures forming electrically conductive pillars on the substrate face with upstanding pillar walls; wherein the pillars are formed with a first electrode, a solid state electrolyte layer provided on the first electrode; and a second electrode layer, wherein the pillars are dimensioned in such a way that adjacent pillars are merged and a topstrate current collector is formed of complementary interspace structures between the merged pillars.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2016Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Lucas Augustinus Haverkate, Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Dorothee Christine Hermes
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Publication number: 20180159133Abstract: An method for manufacturing a electronic device is provided having a current collector capable of a high specific charge collecting area and power, but is also achieved using a simple and fast technique and resulting in a robust design that may be flexed and can be manufactured in large scale processing. To this end the electronic device comprising an electronic circuit equipped with a current collector formed by a metal substrate having a face forming a high-aspect ratio structure of pillars having an interdistance larger than 600 nm. By forming the high-aspect structure in a metal substrate, new structures can be formed that are conformal to curvature of a macroform or that can be coiled or wound and have a robust design.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Harmannus Franciscus Maria Schoo, Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Dorothee Christine Hermes, Edsger Constant Pieter Smits, Sami Sabik
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Patent number: 9450205Abstract: An opto-electric device includes an opto-electric layer structure having an anode and a cathode layer and an opto-electric layer arranged between the anode and cathode layers, and having a light-transmission side. A dual electrically conductive layer structure is arranged at a side of the opto-electric layer structure opposite the light-transmission side, the dual electrically conductive layer structure having a first and a second electrically conductive layer mutually insulated by a first electrically insulating layer. A second electrically insulating layer is arranged between the light emitting layer structure and the dual electrically conductive layer structure, wherein the first electrically conductive layer is electrically connected by at least a first transverse electrical conductor with the anode layer and the second electrically conductive layer is electrically connected by at least a second transverse electrical conductor with the cathode layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNOInventors: Jeroen van den Brand, Joanne Sarah Wilson, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Dorothee Christine Hermes, Edward Willem Albert Young
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Patent number: 9093666Abstract: A light-emitting device is disclosed comprising an organic light-emitting diode structure and an encapsulation comprising a light-transmitting window with at least a first inorganic layer, an organic layer and a second inorganic layer, the organic layer comprising domains of a dispersed first organic component embedded by a second component, the first and the second component having a mutually different refractive index, the organic layer being sandwiched between the first and the second inorganic layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignees: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO, Huntsman Advanced Materials (Switzerland) GmbHInventors: Edward Willem Albert Young, Joanne Sarah Wilson, Stephan Harkema, Dorothee Christine Hermes, Jasper Joost Michels, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Emilie Galand, Richard Frantz, Dimiter Lubomirov Kotzev
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Publication number: 20150179973Abstract: A foil comprises a substrate carrying an electrically conductive structure. The electrically conductive structure is embedded in a barrier layer structure having a first inorganic layer, a second inorganic layer and an organic layer between said inorganic layers, and the organic layer is partitioned by the electrically conductive structure into organic layer portions. The electrically conductive structure comprises an enclosing mesh and a plurality of mutually insulated electrically conductive elements. The enclosing mesh encloses mutually separate zones wherein respective ones of the mutually insulated electrically conductive elements are arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2015Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Edward Willem Albert YOUNG, Dorothee Christine HERMES, Leonardus Maria TOONEN, Herbert LIFKA
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Patent number: 8963193Abstract: The present invention relates to an opto-electric device having a stack of layers subsequently comprising a first electrode layer (20) of a material having a first work function, deposited on a substrate (10) or forming a substrate (20), an organic opto-electric layer (30) on the first electrode layer (20), a patterned electrically conductive layer (40) printed on the opto-electric layer (30), a transparent, second electrode layer (50) of a material having a second work function on the opto-electric layer (30) provided with the patterned electrically conductive layer (40), the second work function having a value lower than the first work function.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Dorothee Christine Hermes, Joanne Sarah Wilson
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Publication number: 20150008474Abstract: An opto-electric device includes an opto-electric layer structure having an anode and a cathode layer and an opto-electric layer arranged between the anode and cathode layers, and having a light-transmission side. A dual electrically conductive layer structure is arranged at a side of the opto-electric layer structure opposite the light-transmission side, the dual electrically conductive layer structure having a first and a second electrically conductive layer mutually insulated by a first electrically insulating layer. A second electrically insulating layer is arranged between the light emitting layer structure and the dual electrically conductive layer structure, wherein the first electrically conductive layer is electrically connected by at least a first transverse electrical conductor with the anode layer and the second electrically conductive layer is electrically connected by at least a second transverse electrical conductor with the cathode layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2013Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Jeroen van den Brand, Joanne Sarah Wilson, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Dorothee Christine Hermes, Edward Willem Albert Young
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Patent number: 8912532Abstract: The invention relates to a top-emissive organic light-emitting diode (OLED) (10) arranged to emit light having different emission colors, comprising a multi-layered structure provided with a first electrode, a second electrode and a functional layer enabling light emission disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein thickness (H1, H2) of the functional layer is modulated by allowing at least a portion of the functional layer to interact with a thickness modulator (5a, 5b, 5c), wherein the functional layer comprises a hole injection layer or the electron injection layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Dorothee Christine Hermes, Joanne Sarah Wilson, Petrus Alexander Rensing
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Publication number: 20130214255Abstract: The present invention relates to an opto-electric device having a stack of layers subsequently comprising a first electrode layer (20) of a material having a first work function, deposited on a substrate (10) or forming a substrate (20), an organic opto-electric layer (30) on the first electrode layer (20), a patterned electrically conductive layer (40) printed on the opto-electric layer (30), a transparent, second electrode layer (50) of a material having a second work function on the opto-electric layer (30) provided with the patterned electrically conductive layer (40), the second work function having a value lower than the first work function.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast- natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Dorothee Christine Hermes, Joanne Sarah Wilson
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Publication number: 20130207083Abstract: A light-emitting device is disclosed comprising an organic light-emitting diode structure and an encapsulation comprising a light-transmitting window with at least a first inorganic layer, an organic layer and a second inorganic layer, the organic layer comprising domains of a dispersed first organic component embedded by a second component, the first and the second component having a mutually different refractive index, the organic layer being sandwiched between the first and the second inorganic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2011Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicants: Huntsman Advanced Materials (Switzerland) GmbH, Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Edward Willem Albert Young, Joanne Sarah Wilson, Stephan Harkema, Dorothee Christine Hermes, Jasper Joost Michels, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Emilie Galand, Richard Frantz, Dimiter Lubomirov Kotzev
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Publication number: 20120126252Abstract: The invention relates to a top-emissive organic light-emitting diode (OLED) (10) arranged to emit light having different emission colours, comprising a multi-layered structure provided with a first electrode, a second electrode and a functional layer enabling light emission disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein thickness (H1, H2) of the functional layer is modulated by allowing at least a portion of the functional layer to interact with a thickness modulator (5a, 5b, 5c), wherein the functional layer comprises a hole injection layer or the electron injection layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Inventors: Dorothee Christine Hermes, Joanne Sarah Wilson, Petrus Alexander Rensing