Patents by Inventor Gabriele Seguini

Gabriele Seguini 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: 11592289
    Abstract: A reference-standard device (20) for calibration of measurements of length, comprising a substrate (10) that includes a surface (10a) having at least one calibration pattern (11). According to the invention, this pattern comprises a plurality of nanometric structures (14), said nanometric structures (14) having one and the same section in the plane of said surface and having the same nanometric dimensions, in particular less than 50 nm, said nanometric structures (14) being arranged at a distance from one another by a constant pitch of nanometric length, in particular less than 50 nm, in at least one direction, said nanometric structures (14) being arranged within spatial regions (12) delimited in one or more directions in the plane of the substrate (10), said nanometric structures (14) being obtained via application to said substrate (10) of a process of nanostructuring (100) by means of a mask of block copolymers in order to make calibrations of measurements of length of the order of nanometres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica
    Inventors: Luca Boarino, Federico Ferrarese Lupi, Giulia Aprile, Natascia De Leo, Michele Perego, Michele Laus, Giampaolo Zuccheri, Gabriele Seguini
  • Publication number: 20200318957
    Abstract: A reference-standard device (20) for calibration of measurements of length, comprising a substrate (10) that includes a surface (10a) having at least one calibration pattern (11). According to the invention, this pattern comprises a plurality of nanometric structures (14), said nanometric structures (14) having one and the same section in the plane of said surface and having the same nanometric dimensions, in particular less than 50 nm, said nanometric structures (14) being arranged at a distance from one another by a constant pitch of nanometric length, in particular less than 50 nm, in at least one direction, said nanometric structures (14) being arranged within spatial regions (12) delimited in one or more directions in the plane of the substrate (10), said nanometric structures (14) being obtained via application to said substrate (10) of a process of nanostructuring (100) by means of a mask of block copolymers in order to make calibrations of measurements of length of the order of nanometres.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Luca BOARINO, Federico FERRARESE LUPI, Giulia APRILE, Natascia DE LEO, Michele PEREGO, Michele LAUS, Giampaolo ZUCCHERI, Gabriele SEGUINI
  • Patent number: 9962733
    Abstract: Self-assembled block copolymer films having two or more blocks are manufactured by distributing a solution containing at least one block copolymer onto the substrate so as to partially coat a substrate surface, obtaining an intermediate product. A block copolymer is self-assembled by heating the intermediate product. The self-assembling step includes Rapid Thermal Processing, which is performed by heating the intermediate product up to a first target temperature, ranging from a glass transition temperature to an order-disorder transition temperature of the block copolymer, through a temperature rising ramp having a rate of temperature change not lower than 5° C./second; maintaining the intermediate product at the target temperature for a time interval not longer than 60 minutes, whereby a sample is obtained on the surface of which a self-assembled film of the block copolymer has been made; and cooling the sample down to the ambient temperature through a temperature descending ramp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
    Inventors: Michele Perego, Gabriele Seguini, Federico Ferrarese Lupi
  • Publication number: 20160082472
    Abstract: Self-assembled block copolymer films having two or more blocks are manufactured by distributing a solution containing at least one block copolymer onto the substrate so as to partially coat a substrate surface, obtaining an intermediate product. A block copolymer is self-assembled by heating the intermediate product. The self-assembling step includes Rapid Thermal Processing, which is performed by heating the intermediate product up to a first target temperature, ranging from a glass transition temperature to an order-disorder transition temperature of the block copolymer, through a temperature rising ramp having a rate of temperature change not lower than 5° C./second; maintaining the intermediate product at the target temperature for a time interval not longer than 60 minutes, whereby a sample is obtained on the surface of which a self-assembled film of the block copolymer has been made; and cooling the sample down to the ambient temperature through a temperature descending ramp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Michele Perego, Gabriele Seguini, Federico Ferrarese Lupi