Patents by Inventor Nicolas Chaix

Nicolas Chaix 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).

  • Patent number: 9515205
    Abstract: A method for creating electrically conducting or semiconducting patterns on a textured surface including plural reliefs of amplitude greater than or equal to 100 nanometers, including: preparing a substrate during which at least the textured surface of the substrate is made electrically conducting; coating during which at least one layer of an imprintable material is laid on the textured surface, made electrically conducting, of the substrate; pressing a mold including valleys or protrusions to transfer the valleys or the protrusions of the mold into the imprintable material to form patterns therein; removing the mold while leaving the imprint of the patterns in the imprintable material; exposing the textured surface, made electrically conducting, of the substrate, at a bottom of the patterns; and electrically depositing an electrically conducting or semiconducting material into the patterns to form conducting or semiconducting patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Carole Pernel, Nicolas Chaix, Stefan Landis
  • Publication number: 20140034125
    Abstract: A method for creating electrically conducting or semiconducting patterns on a textured surface including plural reliefs of amplitude greater than or equal to 100 nanometers, including: preparing a substrate during which at least the textured surface of the substrate is made electrically conducting; coating during which at least one layer of an imprintable material is laid on the textured surface, made electrically conducting, of the substrate; pressing a mold including valleys or protrusions to transfer the valleys or the protrusions of the mold into the imprintable material to form patterns therein; removing the mold while leaving the imprint of the patterns in the imprintable material; exposing the textured surface, made electrically conducting, of the substrate, at a bottom of the patterns; and electrically depositing an electrically conducting or semiconducting material into the patterns to form conducting or semiconducting patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Carole Pernel, Nicolas Chaix, Stefan Landis
  • Publication number: 20130098437
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photovoltaic cell (1) which includes at least one wafer (2) of a semi-conductor material, with a front surface (21) intended for receiving incident light and a back surface (22) opposite said front surface, as well as to methods for manufacturing said photovoltaic cell. The back surface (22) includes an electric contact (32) and a structure (4), referred to as an optical structure, which is discrete and capable of redirecting the incident light towards the core of the wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Philippe Thony, Nicolas Chaix, Jean-Paul Garandet
  • Publication number: 20110151607
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an OLED and an electrode for an OLED, said electrode comprising a surface comprising a first dielectric nanostructuration and a second metal nanostructuration, on a substrate, wherein the following successive steps are carried out: a) a metal layer is deposited on a planar surface of a substrate; b) on the metal layer, a dielectric layer comprising said first dielectric nanostructuration which includes cavities which extend from the upper surface of the dielectric layer as far as the upper surface of the metal layer, is prepared; c) the cavities of the first dielectric nanostructuration are at least partially filled with a metal, whereby the second metal nanostructuration is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Stefan Landis, Nicolas Chaix, Valentina Ivanova-Hristova, Carole Pernel