Patents by Inventor Martina Gerken

Martina Gerken 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).

  • Publication number: 20220336779
    Abstract: An OLED waveguide assembly including an organic light emitting diode assembly, a waveguide layer and a substrate. The organic light emitting diode assembly is separated from the waveguide layer by a spacer layer, and the organic light emitting diode assembly has a maximum emission at a wavelength of 470 nanometers. The waveguide layer is nanostructured. The substrate has pixel-dependent nanostructures with a lattice constant of approximately 400±50 nanometers, suitable for the emissions of the waveguide layer. The waveguide layer or a layer situated in front of the waveguide has the function of a wavelength converter having a maximum absorption at 470 nanometers and having a maximum emission at 620 nanometers. The lattice structure does not match the emission of the installed OLED. Ideally, all of the primary light is converted or any residual is filtered out. Further an OLED-waveguide assembly production method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Martina Gerken, Janek Buhl, Matthias Bremer, Sabrina Hein
  • Patent number: 9730788
    Abstract: A device for optically representing intraocular pressure, having an arrangement which is implanted into the eye with a membrane that curves outwards when the intraocular pressure changes, and a contact surface, these altering the polarization for a spectral range of incident and reflected light in the region of their contact with one another, as well as a read-out arrangement that optically reproduces a planar image of the light which is reflected by the photonic crystal and whose polarization has been altered, and that comprises a polarization filter for the irradiated light and the light reflected by the photonic crystal. Also, a method for measuring intraocular pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Christian-Alberts-Universitaet zu Kiel
    Inventors: Yousef Nazirizadeh, Martina Gerken, Torben Karrock, Johann Roider
  • Publication number: 20150157453
    Abstract: A device for optically representing intraocular pressure, having an arrangement which is implanted into the eye with a membrane that curves outwards when the intraocular pressure changes, and a contact surface, these altering the polarization for a spectral range of incident and reflected light in the region of their contact with one another, as well as a read-out arrangement that optically reproduces a planar image of the light which is reflected by the photonic crystal and whose polarization has been altered, and that comprises a polarization filter for the irradiated light and the light reflected by the photonic crystal. Also, a method for measuring intraocular pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Yousef Nazinzadeh, Martina Gerken, Torben Karrock, Johann Roider
  • Patent number: 8613872
    Abstract: A charge-carrier transport layer for an electro-optical component includes an organic charge-carrier transport material. A plurality of first particles having a diameter ranging from 1 nm to 100 nm is incorporated in the organic charge-carrier transport material and contains a first transparent oxide. A plurality of second particles having a diameter between 100 nm and 1000 nm is also incorporated into the organic charge-carrier transport material and contains a second transparent oxide. The index of refraction of the plurality of second particles differs from the index of refraction of the organic charge-transport material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie
    Inventors: Uli Lemmer, Julian Hauss, Boris Riedel, Martina Gerken
  • Publication number: 20120293800
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for detecting biological materials, comprising a light source (1) that radiates light (2) into an object (5), a photonic crystal brought into contact with the object, a detector (8) that detects light (7) transmitted through the photonic crystal (6) and the object, a first polarization filter (3) arranged between the light source (1) and the photonic crystal (6), and a second polarization filter (4) arranged between the object (5) and the detector (8) and rotated 90° relative to the first polarization filter (3), wherein the source (1) and the photonic crystal (6) are matched to each other such that the resonances caused by the photonic crystal (6) and the resonances caused by the interaction of the photonic crystal (6) with the object (5) lie in an edge range of the emission spectrum of the light source (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: CHRISTIAN-ALBRECHTS-UNIVERSITAET ZU KIEL
    Inventors: Martina Gerken, Yousef Nazirizadeh
  • Publication number: 20110045392
    Abstract: A charge-carrier transport layer for an electro-optical component includes an organic charge-carrier transport material. A plurality of first particles having a diameter ranging from 1 nm to 100 nm is incorporated in the organic charge-carrier transport material and contains a first transparent oxide. A plurality of second particles having a diameter between 100 nm and 1000 nm is also incorporated into the organic charge-carrier transport material and contains a second transparent oxide. The index of refraction of the plurality of second particles differs from the index of refraction of the organic charge-transport material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE
    Inventors: Uli Lemmer, Julian Hauss, Boris Riedel, Martina Gerken
  • Patent number: 7088884
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for spatially shifting a light using a multilayer thin-film stack of at least two materials having unequal optical properties, such as indices of refraction and absorption coefficients. The apparatus has an input face for admitting the light into the apparatus and an impedance matching mechanism for maximizing the in-coupling of the light into the multilayer thin-film stack at a non-normal incidence. The non-normal incidence is sufficient to generate a spatial shift of the light in the multilayer thin-film stack as a function of at least one light parameter, such as wavelength and/or polarization of the light, thereby separating the light into light components. The spatial shift is achieved by any one or any combination of effects including superprism, turning point and energy confinement. These effects are achieved in the multilayer thin-film stack by appropriately engineering its layer sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Martina Gerken, David A. B. Miller
  • Publication number: 20040008928
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for spatially shifting a light using a multilayer thin-film stack of at least two materials having unequal optical properties, such as indices of refraction and absorption coefficients. The apparatus has an input face for admitting the light into the apparatus and an impedance matching mechanism for maximizing the in-coupling of the light into the multilayer thin-film stack at a non-normal incidence. The non-normal incidence is sufficient to generate a spatial shift of the light in the multilayer thin-film stack as a function of at least one light parameter, such as wavelength and/or polarization of the light, thereby separating the light into light components. The spatial shift is achieved by any one or any combination of effects including superprism, turning point and energy confinement. These effects are achieved in the multilayer thin-film stack by appropriately engineering its layer sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Martina Gerken, David A.B. Miller
  • Patent number: 6591035
    Abstract: A novel method and device for separating light of differing wavelengths (wavelength demultiplexing) uses a very simple and compact multilayer dielectric structure having high angular dispersion at certain wavelengths and angles of incidence. The structure is composed of alternating layers of dielectric materials of different refractive indices, and is designed to operate just outside the main reflection region rather than within the main reflection region. In this region just outside the main reflection region there is strong group velocity dispersion, causing different wavelengths of light to travel at different angles through the dielectric stack. As a consequence, different wavelength components of a polychromatic beam are separated as they pass through the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: David A. B. Miller, Martina Gerken, Bianca E. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20020018298
    Abstract: A novel method and device for separating light of differing wavelengths (wavelength demultiplexing) uses a very simple and compact multilayer dielectric structure having high angular dispersion at certain wavelengths and angles of incidence. The structure is composed of alternating layers of dielectric materials of different refractive indices, and is designed to operate just outside the main reflection region rather than within the main reflection region. In this region just outside the main reflection region there is strong group velocity dispersion, causing different wavelengths of light to travel at different angles through the dielectric stack. As a consequence, different wavelength components of a polychromatic beam are separated as they pass through the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Inventors: David A. B. Miller, Martina Gerken, Bianca E. Nelson