Patents Issued in May 24, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070114363
    Abstract: A photoelectric converter includes a plurality of substrates, which are located adjacent to each other and on which a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices are two-dimensionally arranged, and either scan circuits or detection circuits that are arranged on two opposing sides of the photoelectric converter, whereby scanning directions either from the scan circuits or from the detection circuits, which are arranged on the two opposing sides, are capable of being set so as to be performed in like directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: ISAO KOBAYASHI, NORIYUKI KAIFU, SHINICHI TAKEDA, KAZUAKI TASHIRO, TADAO ENDO, TOSHIO KAMESIMA
  • Publication number: 20070114364
    Abstract: A microresonator sensor apparatus has a microcavity resonator that defines equatorial whispering gallery modes (EWGMs), whose frequencies are separated by the free spectral range (FSR). The EWGMs lie in a plane perpendicular to a microcavity resonator axis. A light source is optically coupled to inject light into the microcavity resonator. The light source produces output light having an output spectrum whose bandwidth is approximately equal to or broader than the FSR of the EGWMs. One or more fluorescent materials are excited using the excitation light coupled into the microcavity resonator. A fluorescent signal arising from fluorescence of the one or more fluorescent materials is then detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Xudong Fan, Robert Wilson, Chunmei Guo
  • Publication number: 20070114365
    Abstract: An optical article that can transform from a pre-activated state of functionality to an activated state of functionality is provided. The optical article includes a radio frequency circuitry coupled to the optical article for interacting with a signal, wherein said signal comprises a thermal signal, an electrical signal, or both, and a convertible material in operative association with the radio frequency circuitry for altering the functionality of the optical article from the pre-activated state to the activated state upon interaction with the thermal energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Radislav Potyrailo, Marc Wisnudel, Jerry Pierce, Kenneth Welles, Kyle Litz
  • Publication number: 20070114366
    Abstract: A multi-component structure capable of being removably attached to a plastic element is provided. The multi-component structure includes an adhesive layer having a selectively modifiable tack strength at pre-determined locations on a first surface. The first surface is coupled to the plastic element and defining a first region. The multi-component structure further includes a backing layer coupled to the adhesive layer and defining a second region with a second surface of the adhesive layer. Upon interaction with an external stimulus the multi-component structure is configured to undergo a clean adhesive failure at the first region between the adhesive layer and the plastic element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Marc Wisnudel, Ben Patel, Eugene Boden
  • Publication number: 20070114367
    Abstract: A modular unit is designed for an electronic pen. The modular unit comprises a carrier (70) with a receiver for a writing implement, a printed circuit board (72), a two-dimensional radiation sensor (78) mounted on the printed circuit board, and an imaging unit (82) which defines an image plane. The carrier (70), the printed circuit board (72), and the imaging unit (82) are joined together with the imaging unit (82) facing the radiation sensor (78) to locate the image plane at the radiation sensor (78). The modular unit may comprise an analysis system dedicated to a particular optical analysis application, such as position determination based on images of a position-coding pattern. A radiation source, such as an LED or a laser diode, may be arranged on the printed circuit board or mounted in a holder on the imaging unit. The imaging unit (82) may be implemented as a boresight unit for controlling the spatial origin of radiation transmitted towards the radiation sensor (78).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Craven-Bartle, Ola Wassvik, Peter Gredinger, Ola Stromberg
  • Publication number: 20070114368
    Abstract: A mobile communication device having a keyboard with a set of keys representing alpha-numeric characters, the keyboard comprising a light source, located within said mobile communication device; for providing a light; a set of sensors, associated with said keys, for sensing an amount of said light in a vicinity of each of said set of sensors, to determine which of said set of keys has been selected; and a transparent flat cover, overlying said set of sensors, displaying said set of alpha-numeric characters, for associating said set of alpha-numeric characters with said set of sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Jacek Idzik, Robert Lowles
  • Publication number: 20070114369
    Abstract: A raindrop sensor for sensing water attached to a second surface of a transparent body includes a light emitting element, a light guide body, a light receiving element, and an abnormality determining device. The light emitting element is provided in a first surface side of the transparent body for emitting light toward the transparent body. The light guide body is mounted on a first surface of the transparent body for guiding the light. The light receiving element is provided in first surface side of the transparent body for receiving the reflected light, which is reflected by the second surface of the transparent body. The light receiving element outputs a signal based on an amount of the reflected light received. The abnormality determining device determines an abnormality of the light guide body by comparing a value indicated by the signal with an index value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Tarui
  • Publication number: 20070114370
    Abstract: A system and method for instantaneously determining the absolute position of a linear or rotary actuator. A code plate having a series of digital words thereon is associated with the linear or rotary actuator. A magnetic or optical code plate is utilized, each code plate provided with N tracks. M signal levels are associated with each point on every track. The use of M-ary signal levels would enable the instantaneous determination of the position of the code plate when power is supplied to the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Ronald Smith, William Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20070114371
    Abstract: The present invention relates to optical tweezers having a structure for realizing a great object-trapping force. The optical tweezers form an optical trap for trapping an object in, and in the vicinity of, each of plural trapping positions by converging output beams in each of the trapping positions. The optical tweezers comprise light emitting means for outputting a reading light, hologram generating means for generating an output hologram by arranging plural partial holograms two-dimensionally such that each partial hologram causes an output beam to converge in a corresponding trapping position, and a spatial light modulator for generating plural output beams, each of which has been phase-modulated in accordance with the output hologram, from the reading light which reaches the spatial light modulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Norihiro Fukuchi, Yasunori Igasaki
  • Publication number: 20070114372
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus enable monitoring a hydrocarbon well for water within a flow stream of the well. A water detector includes a light source for emitting into a flow stream infrared light that includes a water absorbent wavelength band. A detector detects attenuation of the water absorbent wavelength band upon the infrared radiation passing through at least a portion of the flow stream. The water detector outputs a presence of water and/or a phase fraction or quantification of water as determined based on the attenuation. Detecting attenuation of a substantially transmissive wavelength band with respect to water simultaneously with detection of the attenuation of the water absorbent wavelength band can enable correction for non-wavelength dependent attenuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: John Lievois, Espen Johansen, Babajide Adejuyigbe
  • Publication number: 20070114373
    Abstract: A method of determining an empirical formula of an analyte ion from a measured mass spectrum including a main peak and one or more isotope peaks. The method comprises comparing a relative isotopic intensity of the measured isotope peak to a calculated relative isotopic intensity of an isotopic ion of a proposed empirical formula and comparing a relative mass defect of the measured isotope peak to a calculated relative mass defect of the isotopic ion of the proposed empirical formula. The proposed empirical formula is identified as a potential candidate for the analyte ion based on these comparisons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Jerry Zweigenbaum, Earl Thurman, Imma Ferrer
  • Publication number: 20070114374
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable media for dynamically controlling a time period of ion detection by an ion detector of a mass spectrometer. A current resulting from conversion of an output of the detector is surveyed during the ion detection by the detector. The time period for the ion detection is terminated upon calculation of a statistically valid accumulation statistic, calculation indicating that satisfactory statistics cannot be achieved over the time period, relative to a predetermined statistical threshold, or elapsing of the entire time period having been preset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Harry Prest, James Foote
  • Publication number: 20070114375
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of post source decay (PSD) or collision induced dissociation (CID) direct tissue (DT) MALDI-TOF or DT-MALDI-TOF-TOF mass spectrographic identification of biological molecules in a tissue or cellular sample without the need for further protein extraction. This method provides for studying cells or tissues by direct tissue MALDI (DT-MALDI), thereby substituting in situ protein release for further protein extraction. Mass/intensity data was processed with Mascot© software interrogation of the NCBI database. These results are proof of principle that DT-MALDI, combined with bioinformatics, can directly identify proteins in cells and tissues from their mass spectra.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Paul Pevsner, Frederick Naftolin, Douglas Miller, Dean Hillman, Brian Stall, Steven Wishnies
  • Publication number: 20070114376
    Abstract: A mass spectrometer system having an ion trap and a downstream mass spectrometer is provided. A plurality of groups of ions are provided to the ion trap and a first mass-to-charge ratio is selected. The downstream mass spectrometer is configured to filter out one of (i) ions having a first unselected mass-to-charge ratio different from the first mass-to-charge ratio, and (ii) mass signals for ions having the first unselected mass-to-charge ratio different from the first mass-to-charge ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicants: Sciex Division of MDS Inc., Applera Corporation
    Inventor: James Hager
  • Publication number: 20070114377
    Abstract: The present invention is a method to determine the composition of a hydrocarbon feedstream from a small sample of hydrocarbons including the steps analyzing the sample with a combination of chromatograph and mass spectrometer, and reconciling output from step a) with other analytical measurements to determine to determine the composition of the hydrocarbon feedstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Kuangnan Qian, William Olmstead, Jason English, Larry Green, Roland Saeger, Stephen Jaffe
  • Publication number: 20070114378
    Abstract: A coordinate difference calculation apparatus of the present invention is a coordinate difference calculation apparatus for calculating a coordinate difference between an i-particle and a j-particle included in one of a plurality of minute cells obtained by dividing a basic cell, includes a first storage section that stores in advance a coordinate value of the i-particle, a second storage section that stores in advance a value obtained by adding the length of one side of the basic cell to the coordinate of the i-particle, a third storage section that stores a value obtained by subtracting the length of one side of the basic cell from the coordinate of the i-particle, a control section that outputs a selection signal to select a value in order to minimize the distance between a minute cell including the i-particle and a minute cell including the j-particle among the values stored in the first to third storage sections and that outputs a coordinate value of the j-particle, a selection section that selects any o
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Baba
  • Publication number: 20070114379
    Abstract: Improved data acquisition systems and methods that enable large numbers of data samples to be accumulated rapidly with low noise are described. In one aspect, a data acquisition system includes an accumulator that has two or more parallel accumulation paths and is configured to accumulate corresponding data samples across a transient sequence through different accumulation paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Randy Roushall, Robert Crawford, August Hidalgo
  • Publication number: 20070114380
    Abstract: Particle storing apparatus including only one electric field restraining charged particles, such as antiprotons, in an ultrahigh vacuum from striking a container surface for a half-life of at least 1 hour. Depending on implementation, restraining can be devoid of a magnetic field, and the container can be devoid of cryogenic cooling or need not include a dewar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventor: Gerald Jackson
  • Publication number: 20070114381
    Abstract: Particle harvesting apparatus and method. The apparatus can include at least one electric field configured to separate charged particles and to confine some of the charged particles. The apparatus can be used to separate desired charged particles from other particles, for example, in space. The apparatus can reduce kinetic energies of the desired charged particles, and can store the desired charged particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventor: Gerald Jackson
  • Publication number: 20070114382
    Abstract: An ion mobility spectrometer comprises a drift tube defining a drift tube inlet configured to receive ions and a drift tube outlet. The drift tube is configured to separate ions in time as a function of ion mobility. The drift tube defines a first ion activation region between the drift tube inlet and the drift tube outlet. The first ion activation region is configured to selectively induce structural changes in at least some of the ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: David Clemmer, Stormy Koeniger, Stephen Valentine
  • Publication number: 20070114383
    Abstract: In a time of flight mass spectrometer (TOFMS) having a flight space in which ions fly in a loop orbit formed by a plurality of electric sector fields, the present invention provides a simple structure that creates a spiral path by deflecting the ions in the axial direction of the electric fields at every turn of the ions. In a mode of the present invention, the TOFMS has cylindrical electrodes 11 and 12 for creating electric sector fields E1 and E2, between which a parallel pair of planer magnetic poles 15a and 15b are provided. The planer magnetic poles 15a and 15b create a deflecting magnetic field B1 for shifting the ions in the axial direction (Y-direction) of the electric sector fields. The ions experience a Lorenz force once every turn when they pass through the deflecting magnetic field B1. This construction uses only one pair of magnetic poles facing each other across the ion path P to deflect every ion irrespective of its number of turns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Ueno
  • Publication number: 20070114384
    Abstract: An apparatus for mass analyzing molecules includes a mass spectrometer configured to select precursor ions having a mass to charge ratio range, a metastable species generator configured to generate a metastable species for introduction into the mass spectrometer, and a mass detector configured to detect a mass of the product ions. The apparatus also includes interaction region in the mass spectrometer where the precursor ions are converted into product ions via interaction of the precursor ions with the metastable species. The mass spectrometer includes at least one of a three-dimensional ion trap, a linear ion trap, or an ion guide. The interaction region is located inside the three-dimensional ion trap, the linear trap, or the ion guide; and at least one of the precursor ions or at least one of the product ions are excited by an alternating electric field or collisionally activated to produce additional product ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: Science & Engineering Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Vadym Berkout, Vladimir Doroshenko
  • Publication number: 20070114385
    Abstract: A microfluidic device including a microfluidic chip assembled to an electrospray structure. The microfluidic chip includes at least one microfluidic channel leading through an outlet aperture to a surface area of the microfluidic chip. The electrospray structure includes at least one thin, planar point provided with a capillary slot that terminates at the end of the point so as to form an aperture for ejection of a liquid to be sprayed. The electrospray structure is arranged on the surface area of the microfluidic chip so that the point is cantilivered with respect to the microfluidic chip and so that the outlet aperture of the microfluidic device leads to the capillary slot of the point, which microfluidic device also has a mechanism to apply an electrospray voltage to the liquid to be sprayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicants: Commissariat A l'Energie Atomique, Unversite Des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
    Inventor: Nicolas Sarrut
  • Publication number: 20070114386
    Abstract: A mass calibration apparatus for a mass spectrometer includes a capillary, an analyte ion source coupled to the capillary at a first point, a reference mass ion source coupled to the capillary at a second point, downstream from the first point and a mass analyzer coupled to the capillary at a third point downstream from the first and second points. The reference mass ion source may be coupled to the capillary via a tee junction. The reference mass ion source includes a chamber, an ionization device situated within the chamber and one or more reference mass sources that are situated internally within the chamber or are situated external to and coupled to the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Steven Fischer, Charles Russ, William Barry
  • Publication number: 20070114387
    Abstract: Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) sample substrates, methods of fabricating MALDI sample substrates, methods of ionizing a sample, and mass spectrometry systems including MALDI sample substrates, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Ying-Lan Chang, Sungsoo Yi, Dan-Hui Yang, Jian Bai
  • Publication number: 20070114388
    Abstract: An imaging mass spectrometer, an image of a sample is generated, and a region in the image is selected in accordance with predetermined criteria. Then, a mass analysis of the region is performed while scanning the sample in the selected region with a laser beam spot. By computing the total or average of the results in the region, a high precision analytical value in the region can be obtained. In a biological sample, by preliminarily performing a staining process on the biological sample using a certain dye, only the objective tissues can be analyzed. Also, a fluorescence microscope can be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Ogawa, Sadao Takeuchi, Takahiro Harada, Yoshihiro Ueno, Fujio Inoue, Mitsutoshi Setou
  • Publication number: 20070114389
    Abstract: A system for the non-contact detection of analyte chemicals, including explosives, chemical warfare agents and the like, employs a non-equilibrium plasma that is maintained at a temperature sufficiently low so as to avoid thermal damage to a surface, such as clothing or skin, that is being examined to thereby produce analyte ions and other charged particles. The ions are collected and passed into a sensor for detection and identification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Timothy Karpetsky, John Berends
  • Publication number: 20070114390
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for enhanced sequencing of complex molecules using surface-induced dissociation (SID) in conjunction with mass spectrometric analysis. Results demonstrate formation of a wide distribution of structure-specific fragments having wide sequence coverage useful for sequencing and identifying the complex molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Julia Laskin, Jean Futrell
  • Publication number: 20070114391
    Abstract: The invention provides an ion trap assembly. In general terms, the ion trap assembly contains: a) a segmented linear ion trap; b) an insulator disposed around the segmented linear ion trap; and c) a bonding material for attaching and spacing the insulator and said segmented linear ion trap. The ion trap assembly is generally made by mounting an elongated conductive workpiece to a set of rigidly connected insulators using a bonding material, and cutting the elongated conductive workpiece into a plurality of rods using wire electrical discharge machining. Also provided is a mass spectrometry system containing the precision segmented linear ion trap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Alexander Mordehai, James Bertsch
  • Publication number: 20070114392
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mass spectrometer, which includes an ion optical system for converging ions and transporting the ions to a subsequent stage. Instead of a conventional rod-shaped electrode, the ion optical system includes an electrode formed of a thin metal plate member. Specifically, each of four electrodes 41a to 41d formed of the metal plate members has an edge surface facing an ion optical axis C and extends along the ion optical axis C. Further, the electrodes 41a to 41d are disposed around the ion optical axis C in a radial pattern while keeping an angle of 90° between the adjacent electrodes. The present invention can provide the ion optical system at a lower cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventor: Kazuo Mukaibatake
  • Publication number: 20070114393
    Abstract: A Q-pole type mass spectrometer can be used under a high-pressure atmosphere of more than 0.1 Pa. The Q-pole type mass spectrometer can analyze the mass of gas molecules continuously, and can separate mass properly even if an ion is injected at high speed in order to reduce the influence of an end electric field near an end face (fringing) of the Q-pole. The motion of the ions to be measured in the diameter direction is independent of the motion of ions in the axial direction within the Q-pole region of the Q-pole type mass spectrometer. In the Q-pole type mass spectrometer installed in a reduced pressure atmosphere, the motion of ions to be measured in the axial direction advancing from an ion source toward a collector, is controlled within the Q-pole region so as to separate the mass of the ions to be measured by Coulomb force generated by a quadrupole high-frequency electric field in the diameter direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventor: Yoshiro Shiokawa
  • Publication number: 20070114394
    Abstract: A system for determining and quantifying specific trace elements in samples of complex materials has a laser ablation (LA) apparatus (1) coupled to a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer (FT-ICR-MS) (2) with a mass range of at least 2 to 300 amu and a mass resolution of at least 8000 for 300 amu.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Gerald Combs, Dean Davis, Hartmut Oesten, Michael Przybylski, Wayne Rimkus
  • Publication number: 20070114395
    Abstract: A photoemissive ion mobility spectrometer is disclosed for of chlorinated hydrocarbons and nitro-organic materials. Backside illumination of a thin gold film by pulsed laser radiation, pulsed ultraviolet xenon flashlamp, or like UV source, is used to produce bursts of low energy photo-emitted electrons. These swarms of thermalized electrons are directly attached by electronegative analytes or by reactant molecules, followed by charge transfer to the more electronegative analyte. Total internal reflection is incorporated for the backside illumination using optical elements such as a fused silica prism. The spectrometer allows for the direct vaporization of adsorbed explosive molecules from surfaces followed by direct injection into the photoemissive ion mobility spectrometer through a heated inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Orven Swenson, Feng Hong
  • Publication number: 20070114396
    Abstract: An effective critical area value of each circuit element of a target product is obtained on the basis of an effective critical area value per unit area or per unit capacity of each circuit element previously calculated and the area or capacity of each circuit element of the target product. The yield of the target product is calculated by using the effective critical area value of each circuit element of the target product, a defect density to be obtained on a fabrication line for the target product and a given yield model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventor: Yoko Tohyama
  • Publication number: 20070114397
    Abstract: The via chain conduction failure due to non-conduction caused by insufficient etching in a contact plug/via plug forming process can be detected precisely in a short time. For its achievement, a defect is detected at high speed by taxing advantage of characteristics of a potential contrast method using a via chain defect inspection structure and an electron beam defect detection apparatus which can perform continuous inspection while changing an inspection direction without rotating a wafer. Accordingly, the capturing efficiency of a critical electric defect and search efficiency of a defect point can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Koichi Hayakawa, Jiro Inoue, Masaaki Nojiri
  • Publication number: 20070114398
    Abstract: A method and device for observing a specimen in which an electron beam is irradiated and scanned from an oblique direction, onto a surface of a calibration substrate on which a pattern with a known shape is formed, and an SEM image of the surface of the calibration substrate is obtained. An angle in an oblique direction of the electron beam irradiated is obtained and is adjusted to a desired angle. The electron beam is irradiated from the adjusted desired angle in the oblique direction, onto a specimen substrate on which a pattern is formed, and an SEM image of the specimen substrate is obtained. The SEM image of the specimen substrate is processed by use of the information of the desired angle, and a 3D image of the pattern on the specimen substrate or a shape of a cross section of the pattern is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Atsushi Miyamoto, Maki Tanaka, Hidetoshi Morokuma
  • Publication number: 20070114399
    Abstract: A pattern measuring method calculates an average pattern shape from a plurality of the same patterns appearing within an image captured using an electron microscope, and compares pattern information at each measuring position with average pattern information to determine roughness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumihiro Sasajima, Yoshihiro Kimura, Osamu Komuro
  • Publication number: 20070114400
    Abstract: Abstract: A probe comprising support (12) of a gold wire and, fixed thereon, intermediate excited medium (18a) having been excited to an excited triplet state by supply of external energy thereto, wherein transfer of excited triplet energy is effected from the intermediate excited medium toward a first molecule having a residue with bonding capability. The first molecule having thus been excited by the transfer of excited triplet energy is bonded with a second molecule having a residue with bonding capability as a bonding target to be bonded with the first molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Incorporated
    Inventors: Akiro Otomo, Seiichi Furumi, Hideki Miki, Hitoshi Suzuki, Shukichi Tanaka, Shinro Mashiko
  • Publication number: 20070114401
    Abstract: A device for sculpting a substrate includes a vertically displaceable probe having a nano-scale dimensioned probe tip. A displacement mechanism is configured to adjust a vertical displacement between the probe tip and the substrate. A heating mechanism selectively heats the probe tip to a preselected temperature that is sufficient to cause a portion of the substrate in contact with the probe tip to decompose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: William King, Clifford Henderson
  • Publication number: 20070114402
    Abstract: A scanning probe microscope system (100) includes an objective lens (147), a clamping circuit (404), a tip deflection measurement circuit (421), a cantilever (136), and a probe (137) for modifying and inspecting an object (102) disposed on a stage (129).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: General Nanotechnology LLC
    Inventor: Victor Kley
  • Publication number: 20070114403
    Abstract: An electron microscope has a spherical aberration correction system having transfer optics inserted between a spherical aberration corrector and the objective lens. The transfer optics consists of first and second lenses each of which is made of a magnetic lens. Electrons passing across a point located at distance r0 from the optical axis are made to enter the first lens within the multipole element. Electrons are made to enter the second lens at distance r1 of the incident point to the objective lens from the optical axis. The ratio M (=r1/r0) is greater than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumio Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20070114404
    Abstract: A method for detecting hidden defects and patterns, the method includes: receiving an object that comprises an opaque layer positioned above an intermediate layer; defining an energy band in response to at least one characteristic of the opaque layer and at least one characteristic of a scanning electron microscope; illuminating the object with a primary electron beam; and generating images from electrons that arrive to a spectrometer having an energy within the energy band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventor: Dror Shemesh
  • Publication number: 20070114405
    Abstract: A system for controlling a tool-to-tool matching between a plurality of scanning electron microscopes for pattern dimension measurement includes a measuring unit for, at regular intervals, measuring a tool-to-tool disparity between scanning electron microscopes based on secondary electron image data, and measuring indicators indicating states of the microscopes, a tool-to-tool-disparity causing factor analyzing unit for analyzing a relationship between the tool-to-tool disparity and the values of the indicators measured by the measuring unit to estimate a factor that has caused said tool-to-tool disparity, and an output unit for displaying and outputting the tool-to-tool disparity causing factor estimated by the tool-to-tool-disparity causing factor analyzing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Mayuka Oosaki, Chie Shishido, Hiroki Kawada, Tatsuya Maeda
  • Publication number: 20070114406
    Abstract: Microscope, in particular a scanning probe microscope, comprising a programmable logic device
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: Witec Wissenschaftliche Instrumente und Technologie GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Spizig, Detlef Sanchen, Jorg Forstner, Joachim Koenen, Othmar Marti, Gerhard Volswinkler
  • Publication number: 20070114407
    Abstract: A system is presented for evaluating the performance of a particle detecting and measuring instrument wherein the instrument receives a specimen and detects the number of particles on the specimen and measures the descriptive parameters of the particles. The system includes a known specimen received by the instrument and wherein the known specimen has known particles on the specimen, with known parameters of each known particle on the specimen. The instrument detects the known particles and measures the parameters thereof. A matching of individual measured particles is made against individual known particles by means of selected known parameters thereof. A comparison is made of the parameters of each measured particle against the parameters of each known particle to which the measured particle was matched and an indication is provided of the instrument's performance as a function of the matching and the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Frederick Schamber, Cornelis van Beek
  • Publication number: 20070114408
    Abstract: There is disclosed a charged-particle beam system equipped with a higher-order aberration corrector capable of correcting fifth-order spherical aberration and third-order chromatic aberration such that the primary trajectory of an electron beam is not affected by the strength of a transfer lens. The corrector is so adjusted that the image point of the corrector is located at a position shifted a distance of L0 from the principal plane of an objective lens toward the electron source. The transfer lens is so disposed that the position of the principal plane is coincident with the image point of the corrector. Therefore, the primary trajectory of the electron beam passes through the center of the transfer lens. Consequently, the primary trajectory is not affected by the strength of the transfer lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Honda, Shinobu Uno
  • Publication number: 20070114409
    Abstract: An electron beam apparatus with an aberration corrector using multipole lenses is provided. The electron beam apparatus has a scan mode for enabling the operation of the aberration corrector and a scan mode for disabling the operation of the aberration corrector and the operation of each of the aberration corrector, a condenser lens, and the like is controlled such that the object point of an objective lens does not change in either of the scan modes. If a comparison is made between the secondary electron images of a specimen in the two modes, the image scaling factor and the focus remain unchanged and evaluation and adjustment can be performed by distinctly recognizing only the effect of the aberration corrector. This reduces the time required to adjust an optical axis which has been long due to an axial alignment defect inherent in the aberration corrector and an axial alignment defect in a part other than the aberration corrector which are indistinguishably intermingled with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Takeshi Kawasaki, Takaho Yoshida, Yoichi Ose, Hideo Todokoro
  • Publication number: 20070114410
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of testing, in the manufacturing process of an LSI (large scale integration) device, a result obtained by the manufacturing process, a testing apparatus therefor, and a semiconductor device suitable for the test. The present invention relates, in particular, to a testing method used to immediately and accurately perform a test of the cross-sectional microstructure of an LSI device obtained by the manufacturing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiya Nishiumi, Koki Ando
  • Publication number: 20070114411
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for generating corona discharges, comprising a corona discharge space (2); a discharge electrode disposed in the corona discharge space; as well as a high voltage source (3, 4), an output of which is connected to the discharge electrode. The object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for generating corona discharges as referred to in the introduction, which on the one hand is of less complex construction, but which is furthermore functionally built up of components that make it possible to use the apparatus with high pulsed power levels as well, and the apparatus is to that end characterized in that at least one element having diode functionality (5) is connected between the high voltage source and the discharge electrode, which element delivers a DC high voltage component comprising a superposed AC high voltage component on the discharge electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventor: Keping Yan
  • Publication number: 20070114412
    Abstract: A fire detector and method for generating an alarm signal in response to a fire uses an NDIR sensor to generate a detector signal based upon one or more absorption bands selected from the 15.1? absorption band of CO2, the 6.27? absorption band of H2O and the 4.67? absorption band for CO and generates an alarm signal when a signal processor receives the detector signal and a preselected criterion is met that is indicative of the onset of a fire based upon an analysis of the detector signal using a detection algorithm that relies upon a trending pattern of the detector signal such as recognizing a substantial drop in the detector signal strength. The fire detector has a waveguide sample chamber (which can be of a re-entrant design) with at least one opening covered by a thin filtering membrane and a heat exchanger thermally connected to the sample chamber with at least one opening covered by another thin filtering membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventor: Jacob Wong