Patents by Inventor George Albert SAWATZKY

George Albert SAWATZKY 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).

  • HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20200259066
    Abstract: A superconductor device includes a low-dimensional material with a critical temperature higher than a critical temperature corresponding to a bulk form of the low-dimensional material. The low-dimensional material can include shape and structural modifications of a low-dimensional material. The superconductor device can include various conformational arrangements of the low-dimensional material such as nanoribbons, nanotubes, or helices. The superconductor device can include functional groups, such as hydrogen, attached to the low-dimensional material. The superconductor device can include metallic clusters located in proximity to the low-dimensional material. The superconductor device can include a low-dimensional material which is a monolayer, bilayer or multilayer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Philipp Braeuninger-Weimer, Brian C. Holloway, Vladimir Z. Kresin, Stuart A. Wolf, George Albert Sawatzky, Christoph Heil
  • Optically addressed, thermionic electron beam device
    Patent number: 10741352
    Abstract: An electron beam source is provided that includes a vessel forming a chamber, a cathode disposed within the chamber, the cathode comprising a low dimensional electrically conductive material having an anisotropic restricted thermal conductivity, an electrode disposed in the chamber, the electrode being connectable to a power source for applying a positive voltage to the electrode relative to the cathode for accelerating free electrons away from the cathode to form an electron beam when the cathode is illuminated by electromagnetic (EM) radiation such that the cathode thermionically emits free electrons, and an electron emission window in the chamber for passing a generated electron beam out of the chamber. An electron microscope that incorporates the electron beam source is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    Inventors: Alireza Nojeh, Mike H. C. Chang, Kais Dridi, George Albert Sawatzky, Reuben Levi Paul, R. Fabian W. Pease
  • OPTICALLY ADDRESSED, THERMIONIC ELECTRON BEAM DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190341217
    Abstract: An electron beam source is provided that includes a vessel forming a chamber, a cathode disposed within the chamber, the cathode comprising a low dimensional electrically conductive material having an anisotropic restricted thermal conductivity, an electrode disposed in the chamber, the electrode being connectable to a power source for applying a positive voltage to the electrode relative to the cathode for accelerating free electrons away from the cathode to form an electron beam when the cathode is illuminated by electromagnetic (EM) radiation such that the cathode thermionically emits free electrons, and an electron emission window in the chamber for passing a generated electron beam out of the chamber. An electron microscope that incorporates the electron beam source is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Alireza NOJEH, Mike H.C CHANG, Kais DRIDI, George Albert SAWATZKY, Reuben Levi PAUL, R.Fabian W. PEASE