Patents by Inventor Linda Spentzouris

Linda Spentzouris 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).

  • Low-workfunction photocathodes based on acetylide compounds
    Patent number: 8729799
    Abstract: A low-workfunction photocathode includes a photoemissive material employed as a coating on the photocathode. The photoemissive material includes AnMC2, where A is a first metal element, the first element is an alkali metal, an alkali-earth element or the element Al; n is an integer that is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; M is a second metal element, the second metal element is a transition metal or a metal stand-in; and C2 is the acetylide ion C22?. The photoemissive material includes a crystalline structure or non-crystalline structure of rod-like or curvy 1-dimensional polymeric substructures with MC2 repeating units embedded in a matrix of A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: U.S. Department of Energy
    Inventors: Joseph Z. Terdik, Linda Spentzouris, Jeffrey H. Terry, Jr., Katherine C. Harkay, Karoly Nemeth, George Srajer