Patents by Inventor Erik M. Herz

Erik M. Herz 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).

  • RESONANT INFRARED LASER-ASSISTED NANOPARTICLE TRANSFER AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME
    Publication number: 20080187683
    Abstract: A method for depositing particles onto a substrate. In one embodiment, the method providing a plurality of particles in a solvent or a matrix of solvents to form a solution; freezing the solution to form a target having a surface; irradiating the target with a light of a wavelength in the infrared region which is resonant with a vibrational mode of the target so as to vaporize the particles in the target without decomposing the particles; and depositing the vaporized particles onto the substrate at a deposition rate to form a film of particles thereon, where the substrate is positioned such that the substrate and the target define a distance therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicants: Vanderbilt University, Naval Research Laboratory, Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard F. HAGLUND, Erik M. Herz, Michael R. Papantonakis, Duane Leslie Simonson, Ulrich B. Wiesner