Patents by Inventor Meredith Earl

Meredith Earl 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 fidelity nano-structures and arrays for photovoltaics and methods of making the same
    Patent number: 9214590
    Abstract: A photovoltaic device includes an electron accepting material and an electron donating material. One of the electron accepting or donating materials is configured and dimensioned as a first component of a bulk heterojunction with a predetermined array of first structures, each first structure is substantially equivalent in three dimensional shape, has a substantially equivalent cross-sectional dimension, and where each first structure of the array of first structures has a substantially equivalent orientation with respect to adjacent first structures of the predetermined array forming a substantially uniform array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Joseph M. DeSimone, Ginger Denison Rothrock, Zhilian Zhou, Edward T. Samulski, Meredith Earl, Stuart Williams
  • HIGH FIDELITY NANO-STRUCTURES AND ARRAYS FOR PHOTOVOLTAICS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20130249138
    Abstract: A photovoltaic device includes an electron accepting material and an electron donating material. One of the electron accepting or donating materials is configured and dimensioned as a first component of a bulk heterojunction with a predetermined array of first structures, each first structure is substantially equivalent in three dimensional shape, has a substantially equivalent cross-sectional dimension, and where each first structure of the array of first structures has a substantially equivalent orientation with respect to adjacent first structures of the predetermined array forming a substantially uniform array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicants: Liquidia Technologies, Inc., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Joseph M. DeSimone, Ginger Denison Rothrock, Zhilian Zhou, Edward T. Samulski, Meredith Earl, Stuart Williams