Patents by Inventor Kenneth Edward Hrdina
Kenneth Edward Hrdina 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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Patent number: 8987155Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a silica-titania-niobia glass and to a method for making the glass. The composition of the silica-titania-niobia (SiO2—TiO2—Nb2O5) glass, determined as the oxides, is Nb2O5 in an amount in the range of 0.005 wt. % to 1.2 wt. %, TiO2 in an amount in the range of 5 wt. % to 10 wt. %, and the remainder of glass is SiO2. In the method, the STN glass precursor is consolidated into a glass by heating to a temperature of 1600° C. to 1700° C. in flowing helium for 6 hours to 10 hours. When this temperature is reached, the helium flow can be replaced by argon for the remainder of the time. Subsequently the glass is cooled to approximately 1050° C., and then from 1050° C. to 700° C. followed by turning off the furnace and cooling the glass to room temperature at the natural cooling rate of the furnace.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Sezhian Annamalai, Steven Bruce Dawes, Kenneth Edward Hrdina
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Publication number: 20150062713Abstract: An antireflection article including: a transparent substrate having a refractive index of from 1.48 to 1.53; a binder layer associated with the substrate, the binder having a refractive index of from 1.55 to 1.75; and a nanoparticulate monolayer or near monolayer associated with the binder layer, the nanoparticulate layer having an effective refractive index less than the refractive index of binder. Methods of making and using the article are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Dmitri Vladislavovich Kuksenkov, Daniel Aloysius Nolan, Ellen Marie Kosik Williams
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Publication number: 20140373571Abstract: A fused silica glass article having greater resistance to damage induced by exposure to laser radiation such as laser induced wavefront distortion at deep ultraviolet (DUV) wavelengths, and behaviors such as fluence dependent transmission, which are related to intrinsic defects in the glass. The improved resistance to laser damage may be achieved in some embodiments by loading the glass article with molecular hydrogen (H2) at temperatures of about 400° C. or less, or 350° C. or less. The combined OH and deuteroxyl (OD) concentration may be less than 10 ppm by weight. In other embodiments, the improved resistance may be achieved by providing the glass with 10 to 60 ppm deuteroxyl (OD) species by weight. In still other embodiments, improved resistance to such laser damage may be achieved by both loading the glass article with molecular hydrogen at temperatures of about 350° C. or less and providing the glass with less than 10 ppm combined OH and OD, or 10 to 60 ppm OD by weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Changyi Lai, Lisa Anne Moore, Ulrich Wilhelm Heinz Neukirch, William Rogers Rosch
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Patent number: 8901019Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a doped silica-titania glass, DST glass, consisting essentially of 0.1 wt. % to 5 wt. % halogen, 50 ppm-wt. to 6 wt. % one or more oxides of Al, Ta and Nb, 3 wt. % to 10 wt. % TiO2 and the remainder SiO2. In an embodiment the halogen content can be in the range of 0.2 wt. % to 3 wt. % along with 50 ppm-wt. to 6 wt. % one or more oxides of Al, Ta and Nb, 3 wt. % to 10 wt. % TiO2 and the remainder SiO2. In an embodiment the DST glass has an OH concentration of less than 100 ppm. In another embodiment the OH concentration is less than 50 ppm. The DST glass has a fictive temperature Tf of less than 875° C. In an embodiment Tf is less than 825° C. In another embodiment Tf is less than 775° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Seshian Annamalai, Carlos Alberto Duran, Kenneth Edward Hrdina
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Publication number: 20140194271Abstract: The disclosure describes a silica-titania glass having a selected titania content in the range of 5-20 wt % that has zero crossover temperature (Tzc) associated with the selected titania content withing this range, and the Tzc is adjustable by ±10° C. or less. The disclosure also describes a method by which the Tzc of a silica-titania glass article, for example, a mirror substrate, can be tuned to within a specification range by means of a selected final anneal that shifts Tzc of the article or substrate to the desired Tzc value. In addition, since different mirrors in a set can be specified at different values of Tzc, this process the method can be on used glass samples or pieces from a single glass boule to make parts with different Tzc values, thus reducing the number of separate boules required to fill an order.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Carlos Alberto Duran, Kenneth Edward Hrdina
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Publication number: 20140155246Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a doped silica-titania glass, DST glass, consisting essentially of 0.1 wt. % to 5 wt. % halogen, 50 ppm-wt. to 6 wt. % one or more oxides of Al, Ta and Nb, 3 wt. % to 10 wt. % TiO2 and the remainder SiO2. In an embodiment the halogen content can be in the range of 0.2 wt. % to 3 wt. % along with 50 ppm-wt. to 6 wt. % one or more oxides of Al, Ta and Nb, 3 wt. % to 10 wt. % TiO2 and the remainder SiO2. In an embodiment the DST glass has an OH concentration of less than 100 ppm. In another embodiment the OH concentration is less than 50 ppm. The DST glass has a fictive temperature Tf of less than 875° C. In an embodiment Tf is less than 825° C. In another embodiment Tf is less than 775° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Sezhian Annamalai, Carlos Alberto Duran, Kenneth Edward Hrdina
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Patent number: 8713969Abstract: The disclosure describes a method by which the Tzc of a silica-titania glass article, for example, a EUVL mirror substrate, can be tuned to within a specification range by means of a selected final anneal that shifts Tzc of the article or substrate to the desired Tzc value. In addition, since different mirrors in a set can be specified at different values of Tzc, this process can be on used glass samples or pieces from a single glass boule to make parts with different Tzc values, thus reducing the number of separate boules required to fill an order.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Carlos Duran, Kenneth Edward Hrdina
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Publication number: 20140066286Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a silica-titania-niobia glass and to a method for making the glass. The composition of the silica-titania-niobia (SiO2—TiO2—Nb2O5) glass, determined as the oxides, is Nb2O5 in an amount in the range of 0.005 wt. % to 1.2 wt. %, TiO2 in an amount in the range of 5 wt. % to 10 wt. %, and the remainder of glass is SiO2. In the method, the STN glass precursor is consolidated into a glass by heating to a temperature of 1600° C. to 1700° C. in flowing helium for 6 hours to 10 hours. When this temperature is reached, the helium flow can be replaced by argon for the remainder of the time. Subsequently the glass is cooled to approximately 1050° C., and then from 1050° C. to 700° C. followed by turning off the furnace and cooling the glass to room temperature at the natural cooling rate of the furnace.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Sezhian Annamalai, Steven Bruce Dawes, Kenneth Edward Hrdina
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Patent number: 8596094Abstract: A method of making a silica glass having a uniform fictive temperature. The glass article is heated at a target fictive temperature, or heated or cooled at a rate that is less than the rate of change of the fictive temperature, for a time that is sufficient to allow the fictive temperature of the glass to come within 3° C. of the target fictive temperature. The silica glass is then cooled from the target fictive temperature to a temperature below the strain point of the glass at a cooling rate that is greater than the relaxation rate of the glass at the target fictive temperature. The silica glass has a fictive temperature that varies by less than 3° C. after the annealing step. A silica glass made by the method is also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Carlos Duran, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Ulrich Wilhelm Heinz Neukirch
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Patent number: 8541325Abstract: In one embodiment the present disclosure is directed to a silica-titania glass with an internal transmission of >90%/cm at wavelengths from 340 nm to 840 nm. In another embodiment the internal transmission is >93%/cm at wavelengths from 340 nm to 840 nm. In a further embodiment the internal transmission is >95%/cm at wavelengths from 340 nm to 840 nm. In another embodiment the disclosure is directed to a silica-titania glass with an overall transmission through an optic made of the glass is >84% at wavelengths from 340 nm to 840 nm. In another embodiment overall transmission through an optic made of the glass is >86% at wavelengths from 340 nm to 840 nm. In a further embodiment the overall transmission through an optic made of the glass is >88% at wavelengths from 330 nm to 840 nm. In a further embodiment the silica-titania glass has a Ti+3 concentration level [Ti3+] less than 3 ppm by weight.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Carlos Duran, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Michael A Mueller
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Publication number: 20130133745Abstract: Leaching alkali ions from a glass substrate to form a glass substrate having an intrinsic alkali barrier layer includes providing a glass substrate comprising alkali metal ions and having at least two opposing surfaces and a thickness between the surfaces, and contacting at least one of the surfaces of the substrate with a solution comprising alkaline earth salts in either water or as a melted salt bath such that at least a portion of the alkali metal ions are replaced by alkaline earth metal ions in the at least one surface and into the thickness to form the glass substrate having an intrinsic alkali barrier layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2012Publication date: May 30, 2013Inventors: James Patrick Hamilton, Kenneth Edward Hrdina
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Publication number: 20120267280Abstract: The disclosure relates to vessels configured to contain molten semiconducting materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2011Publication date: October 25, 2012Inventors: Glen Bennett Cook, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Christopher Scott Thomas, John Forrest Wight, JR.
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Patent number: 8268740Abstract: A fused silica glass having a refractive index homogeneity of less or equal to about 5 ppm over an aperture area of at least about 50 cm2. The fused silica glass is also substantially free of halogens and has an adsorption edge of less than about 160 nm. The glass is dried by exposing a silica soot blank to carbon monoxide before consolidation, reducing the combined concentration of hydroxyl (i.e., OH, where H is protium (11H) and deuteroxyl (OD), where D is deuterium (12H)) of less than about 20 ppm by weight in one embodiment, less than about 5 ppm by weight in another embodiment, and less than about 1 ppm by weight in a third embodiment.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Richard Michael Fiacco, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Rostislav Radievich Khrapko, Lisa Anne Moore, Charlene Marie Smith
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Patent number: 8261578Abstract: A method of making a fused silica article that is loaded with hydrogen. A fused silica glass near net shape part is provided and is loaded with a molecular hydrogen in a range from about 0.1×1017 molecules/cm3 up to about 1×1019 molecules/cm3. The thinner shape of the near net shape part enables the shape to be loaded more quickly than previous methods. A fused silica article loaded with hydrogen using the method is also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Michael A Mueller, Susan Schiefelbein
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Patent number: 8263511Abstract: A fused silica glass article having a low absolute refractive index and low concentrations of hydroxyl groups, halogens, and metal having a low absolute refractive index. The glass article contains less than about 10 ppm protium-containing and deuterium-containing hydroxyl groups by weight and less than about 20 ppm halogens by weight. The silica glass article also has an absolute refractive index (ARI) less than or equal to 1.560820. In one embodiment, the ARI of the fused silica article is achieved by lowering the fictive temperature of the fused silica. A method of lowering the fictive temperature is also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Carlos Duran, Richard Michael Fiacco, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Daniel Raymond Sempolinski
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Publication number: 20120216569Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for producing constancy of the ion-exchanged product stress profile through adjustment of ion-exchange conditions by taking account of the influence of salt bath poisoning on the bath's useful lifetime. The present disclosure is directed to a method of ion-exchange in which the salt bath temperature and salt bath time are adjusted as a function of the amount of alkali metal ions that exchange in the bath. That is, temperature and time are adjusted as a function of salt bath poisoning. Temperature is set to its highest value and time to its shortest value in the starting unpoisoned salt bath, those values chosen to hit target values of surface compressive stress and exchange depth of layer. Temperature is then reduced and time lengthened as salt bath poisoning proceeds, those changes chosen to maintain the same surface compressive stress and exchange depth of layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2011Publication date: August 30, 2012Inventors: Douglas Clippinger Allan, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, William Rogers Rosch
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Publication number: 20120216565Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for producing constancy of the ion-exchanged product stress profile through adjustment of ion-exchange conditions by taking account of the influence of salt bath poisoning on the bath's useful lifetime. The present disclosure is directed to a method of ion-exchange in which the salt bath temperature and salt bath time are adjusted as a function of the amount of alkali metal ions that exchange in the bath. That is, temperature and time are adjusted as a function of salt bath poisoning. Temperature is set to its highest value and time to its shortest value in the starting un-poisoned salt bath, those values chosen to hit target values of surface compressive stress and exchange depth of layer. Temperature is then reduced and time lengthened as salt bath poisoning proceeds, those changes chosen to maintain the same surface compressive stress and exchange depth of layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Inventors: Douglas Clippinger Allan, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, William Rogers Rosch
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Publication number: 20120210749Abstract: A method of chemically strengthening a glass article having an antireflective coating in which the reflectance of the coating is not significantly degraded by chemical strengthening. The glass article having the antireflective coating is strengthened using an ion exchange medium that comprises potassium nitrate and at least about 5 wt % potassium nitrite. Also provided are a glass article having an antireflective surface that is not degraded by such ion exchange and an ion exchange medium comprising potassium nitrate and at least about 5 wt % potassium nitrite.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Inventors: Jiangwei Feng, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Yawei Sun
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Patent number: 8047023Abstract: A method for producing a fused silica glass containing titania includes synthesizing particles of silica and titania by delivering a mixture of a silica precursor and a titania precursor to a burner, growing a porous preform by successively depositing the particles on a deposition surface while rotating and translating the deposition surface relative to the burner, and consolidating the porous preform into a dense glass.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2001Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Bradford Giles Ackerman, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Lisa Anne Moore, Nikki Jo Russo, C. Charles Yu
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Patent number: 8021755Abstract: A low thermal expansion glass includes a base glass material having a front surface, a back surface, and a thickness and a glass coating material applied on at least the front surface of the base glass material. The base glass material consists essentially 10 wt % to 20 wt % titania and 80 wt % to 90 wt % silica. The glass coating material also consists essentially of titania and silica, but the total amount of titania in the glass coating material is lower than the total amount of titania in the base glass material. A silica-titania glass element suitable for extreme ultraviolet lithography applications consists of 12 wt % to 20 wt % titania and 80 wt % to 88 wt % silica and has a coefficient of thermal expansion of essentially 0 ?L/L in a temperature range of ?20° C. to +100° C.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Michael A Mueller, Barbara L Stainbrook