Reflector Patents (Class 359/584)
  • Publication number: 20150138641
    Abstract: A method of providing a configuration of a system of interference filters with a visible color shifting effect, includes: a hue matching step of identifying a configuration of a first interference filter including two first metal layers and a first spacer layer therebetween, and a configuration of a second interference filter including two second metal layers and a second spacer layer therebetween, wherein the first and second filters match in hue at the first viewing angle, and the mismatch in hue at the second angle; and a lightness adjustment step which may include modifying the layer material or the layer thickness of one of the metal layers; wherein a difference in lightness at the first viewing angle between the first and second modified filters is less that a difference in lightness at the first viewing angle between the first and second filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Cornelis Jan Delst, Matthew R. WITZMAN, Paul T. KOHLMANN, Charles T. MARKANTES
  • Publication number: 20150116831
    Abstract: An optical element includes a conductive fixed reflection film, a movable reflection film that faces the fixed reflection film, a transmissive second insulating film which is provided on a side of the fixed reflection film opposite to the movable reflection film, and a light receiving unit which is provided on a side of the second insulating film opposite to the fixed reflection film and within a light receiving region where the fixed reflection film, the movable reflection film, and the second insulating film overlap each other in an element plan view when seen from film thickness directions of the fixed reflection film and the movable reflection film, and which receives light emitted from the fixed reflection film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Ryohei KURI
  • Publication number: 20150070768
    Abstract: An optical filter includes a first substrate, a second substrate that is opposed to the first substrate, a first reflecting section that is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a second reflecting section that is disposed between the first reflection section and the second substrate, a first gap existing between the first reflecting section and the second reflecting section, a first electrode that is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a second electrode that is disposed between the first electrode and the second substrate, a second gap existing between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a third electrode that is disposed between the first substrate and the second electrode. The second gap is larger than the first gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: Akira SANO
  • Publication number: 20150062709
    Abstract: An opaque cover is provided for a capacitive sensor. The cover includes a transparent substrate, and at least one white coating layer including white pigments disposed over at least one portion of the transparent substrate. The cover also includes a non-conductive minor structure disposed over the at least one white coating layer. The non-conductive minor structure includes a number of first dielectric layers having a first refractive index interleaved with second dielectric layers having a second refractive index. The first and second dielectric layers have dielectric constants below a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Naoto Matsuyuki, Douglas J. Weber
  • Publication number: 20150029590
    Abstract: An optical filter device includes a wavelength variable interference filter that has a fixed substrate provided with a fixed reflective film and a movable substrate provided with a movable reflective film, a casing that has an inner space for storing the wavelength variable interference filter therein, and a fixation portion that fixes the wavelength variable interference filter to the casing. In addition, the fixation portion is provided between a side surface of the fixed substrate and an inner surface of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Nozomu HIROKUBO
  • Publication number: 20150029591
    Abstract: A wavelength variable interference filter includes a fixed substrate, a movable substrate that faces the fixed substrate, a pair of reflective films, a fixed extraction electrode provided on the fixed substrate, and a movable connection electrode that is provided on the movable substrate and is in contact with the fixed extraction electrode at a connection position, in which the movable substrate includes a first groove that is provided at the connection position in a plan view in which the fixed substrate and the movable substrate are viewed from a substrate thickness direction, and a second groove that has a larger area than an area of the first groove in the plan view and is connected to the first groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Teruyuki NISHIMURA, Tomoki SAKASHITA
  • Publication number: 20150023054
    Abstract: A reflective film includes a first section in which a layer including a resin A and a layer including a resin B are alternately laminated in 200 layers or more, and a second section including a resin C which meets at least one of (I) to (III), the sections arranged laminatedly in the thickness direction, wherein relative average reflectance at a wavelength of 400 to 700 nm of light incident upon the first section side arranged laminatedly is 70% or more, and the reflectance of a specular reflection component is 10% or more of the relative average reflectance: (I) voidage in the second section is 5% to 90%; (II) content of inorganic particles in the second section is 5% to 50% by mass; and (III) content of organic particles in the second section is 3% to 45% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Wataru Goda, Shigetoshi Maekawa, Syunichi Osada, Kozo Takahashi, Hitomi Furukawa, Teruya Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150017574
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mask blank substrate for use in lithography, wherein the main surface on which the transfer pattern of the substrate is formed has a root mean square roughness (Rms) of not more than 0.15 nm obtained by measuring an area of 1 ?m×1 ?m with an atomic force microscope, and has a power spectrum density of not more than 10 nm4 at a spatial frequency of not less than 1 ?m?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Orihara, Kazuhiro Hamamoto, Hirofumi Kozakai, Youichi Usui, Tsutomu Shoki, Junichi Horikawa
  • Patent number: 8934172
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a mirror includes a plurality of dielectric layers stacked in a first direction. A thickness along the first direction of each of the dielectric layers is half a design wavelength. The dielectric layers include a first dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer includes a first portion with a thickness being ? of the design wavelength, a second portion stacked with the first portion with a thickness being ? of the design wavelength, and a third portion provided between the first and second portions with a thickness being ¼ of the design wavelength. The second portion has a refractive index lower than that of the first portion. The third portion has a refractive index gradually decreasing from a side of the first portion toward a side of the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hayato Goto, Kouichi Ichimura
  • Patent number: 8928980
    Abstract: A micromirror arrangement (1) having: at least one micromirror (3) having a reflective surface (11) formed at a mirror substrate (2), and an antireflective coating (7) formed at the mirror substrate (2) outside the reflective surface (11). A reflective coating (8) is formed within the reflective surface (11) and has at least two layer subsystems, wherein the first layer subsystem has layers (8e, 8f) composed of a periodic sequence of alternate high and low refractive index layers composed of a nonmetallic material and is optimized with regard to the reflectivity in respect of a used wavelength of the micromirror arrangement, and wherein the second layer subsystem is optimized with regard to the reflectivity in respect of a measurement wavelength of the micromirror arrangement, said measurement wavelength deviating from the used wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Stefan Weissenrieder, Roland Loercher, Alexandra Pazidis
  • Patent number: 8928979
    Abstract: A method for structuring an omnidirectional non-metal mirror for any predetermined wavelength or range of wavelengths. The mirror having at least two layers of different non-metal materials, with an elementary matrix associated to each layer, including physical parameters of the layer and parameters of the light passing through the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Inventors: Francoise Axel, Jacques Peyriere
  • Publication number: 20140377459
    Abstract: A semiconductor distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) including a first multilayer structure including a plurality of first semiconductor layers and one or more second semiconductor layers each interposed between a corresponding pair of the plurality of first semiconductor layers; a second multilayer structure including a plurality of third semiconductor layers and one or more second semiconductor layers each interposed between a corresponding pair of the plurality of third semiconductor layers; and a protection layer interposed between the first multilayer structure and the second multilayer structure. The second semiconductor layer has a lower decomposition temperature than the first semiconductor layer. The third semiconductor layer has a lower decomposition temperature than the second semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Takeshi Kawashima
  • Patent number: 8917960
    Abstract: An optical switch using a Michelson interferometer and differential onset of optical nonlinearity. Modulation of optical signals can occur at speeds that exceed that of electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Access Optical Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Prucnal
  • Publication number: 20140368918
    Abstract: A multilayer stack displaying a red omnidirectional structural color. The multilayer stack includes a core layer, a semiconductor layer extending across the core layer, and a dielectric layer extending across the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer absorbs more than 70% of incident white light that has a wavelength less than 550 nanometers (nm). In addition, the dielectric layer in combination with the core layer reflects more than 70% of the incident white light with a wavelength greater than 550 nm. In combination, the core layer, semiconductor layer and dielectric layer form an omnidirectional reflector that reflects a narrow band of electromagnetic radiation with a center wavelength between 550-700 nm, has a width of less than 200 nm wide and a color shift of less than 100 nm when the reflector is viewed from angles between 0 and 45 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Debasish Banerjee, Minjuan Zhang, Masahiko Ishii
  • Publication number: 20140362443
    Abstract: In a plurality of asymmetric color-shifting flakes, each flake has an asymmetric magnetic core with a magnetic layer visible on the first side of the core and a non-magnetic reflector layer on the magnetic layer, visible on the second side of the core. The flake has a spacer layer and an absorber layer on the first side of the core, and also a spacer layer and an absorber layer on the second side of the core, for providing color shifting effects. The material of the magnetic layer is different from the material of the reflector layer, and may be more stable when exposed to a chemical. When a coating with the asymmetric color-shifting flakes is exposed to the chemical, it may have better optical performance than a coating with symmetric color-shifting flakes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Charles T. MARKANTES, Cornelis Jan Delst, Vladimir P. Raksha, David de la Fuente, Paul G. Coombs
  • Publication number: 20140346766
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optically variable element as well as a method for the production thereof. In a first area the optically variable element has at least one first color region which in the event of illumination generates a color dependent on the angle of observation and/or angle of illumination. The first color region has two or more zones (41 to 47) arranged next to each other. The two or more zones arranged next to each other have in each case a width and/or length dimension of less than 300 ?m. In at least one first zone (41) of the zones (41 to 47) of the first color region a thin-film interference filter (15) is provided with at least one interference layer (17). The interference layer (17) of the thin-film interference filter (15) has a first average thickness (d1) in the first zone (41).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Wayne Robert Tompkin, Sebastian Mader
  • Publication number: 20140313573
    Abstract: Provided are an optical reflection film that uses an aqueous coating liquid for generating at refractive index, has a low production cost, is able to have a large area, and has a high coating film thermal stability, a method of manufacturing the optical reflection film, and an optical reflection body provided with the optical reflection film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA , INC.
    Inventors: Akihisa Nakajima, Yasuo Taima
  • Patent number: 8861072
    Abstract: A tunable photonic crystal device comprising: alternating layers of a first material and a second material, the alternating layers comprising a responsive material, the responsive material being responsive to an external stimulus, the alternating layers having a periodic difference in refractive indices giving rise to a first reflected wavelength; wherein, in response to the external stimulus, a change in the responsive material results in a reflected wavelength of the device shifting from the first reflected wavelength to a second reflected wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Opalux Incorporated
    Inventors: Andre Arsenault, Geoffrey Alan Ozin, Daniel Patrick Puzzo
  • Patent number: 8861087
    Abstract: A multi-layer photonic structure may include alternating layers of high index material and low index material having a form [H(LH)N] where, H is a layer of high index material, L is a layer of low index material and N is a number of pairs of layers of high index material and layers of low index material. N may be an integer ?1. The low index dielectric material may have an index of refraction nL from about 1.3 to about 2.5. The high index dielectric material may have an index of refraction nH from about 1.8 to about 3.5, wherein nH>nL and the multi-layer photonic structure comprises a reflectivity band of greater than about 200 nm for light having angles of incidence from about 0 degrees to about 80 degrees relative to the multi-layer photonic structure. The multi-layer photonic structure may be incorporated into a paint or coating system thereby forming an omni-directional reflective paint or coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Debasish Banerjee, Benjamin Alan Grayson, Minjuan Zhang, Masahiko Ishii
  • Publication number: 20140285896
    Abstract: Provided are an optical reflective film which is a system that permits the employment of a water-based coating method in view of environmental conservation and which, even in a case where the optical reflective film is produced by simultaneous multilayer coating with high production efficiency, exhibits excellent light reflecting properties at a desired wavelength and a low haze due to the suppression of an interlaminar mixing level and interfacial disorder; and an optical reflector using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Akihito Hisamitsu
  • Publication number: 20140268345
    Abstract: A wavelength tunable interference filter includes a fixed substrate, a fixed reflection film that is provided on the fixed substrate, reflects part of incident light, and transmits at least part of the incident light, a movable reflection film that faces the fixed reflection film, reflects part of incident light, and transmits at least part of the incident light, and a fixed electrode that surrounds the fixed reflection film and has a light absorbing layer and a metal layer, and the light absorbing layer is disposed closer to the fixed substrate than the metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Sano
  • Publication number: 20140263983
    Abstract: An interference filter includes a first substrate on which a fixed reflection film is provided, a second substrate which faces the first substrate and on which a movable reflection film is provided, a first bonding film that bonds the first substrate and the second substrate to each other, and a sealer that is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate in a first interspace that allows a first internal space sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate to communicate with a space outside the interference filter, the sealer sealing the first internal space, and an inter-substrate distance between the first substrate and the second substrate in the first interspace decreases in a direction from outer circumferential edges of the substrates toward an inner portion of the first interspace in a plan view viewed in a substrate thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Nozomu Hirokubo
  • Patent number: 8817267
    Abstract: An Etalon filter includes a first substrate, a second substrate which faces the first substrate, a first optical film which is provided on the first substrate, and a second optical film which is provided on the second substrate to face the first optical film. The reflective characteristic of the first optical film determined by the reflectance of light of each wavelength in a reflective band is different from the reflective characteristic of the second optical film determined by the reflectance of light of each wavelength in the reflective band. The first optical film can have a reflective characteristic with a first wavelength ?1 as a center wavelength, and the second optical film can have a reflective characteristic with a second wavelength ?2 different from the first wavelength as a center wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Matsushita, Tatsuo Urushidani
  • Publication number: 20140226208
    Abstract: A dielectric mirror includes a coating having alternating high and low index layers. The mirror coating has no metallic reflective layer, and may have film side and/or glass side visible reflection of from about 50-90% (more preferably from about 60-80% and most preferably from about 65-75%) and visible transmission of from about 10-50% (more preferably from about 20-40%, and most preferably from about 25-35%).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Centre Luxembourgeois de Recherches Pour le Verre et la Ceramique (CRVC) SaRL
    Inventor: Centre Luxembourgeois de Recherches Pour le Verre et la Ceramique (CRVC) SaRL
  • Publication number: 20140211303
    Abstract: An omnidirectional multilayer thin film is provided. The multilayer thin film includes a multilayer stack having a first layer of a first material and a second layer of a second material, the second layer extending across the first layer. The multilayer stack reflects a narrow band of electromagnetic radiation having a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of less than 300 nanometers (nm) and a color/hue shift of less than 30 degrees when the multilayer stack is exposed to broadband electromagnetic radiation and viewed from angles between 0 and 45 degrees. In some instances, the multilayer stack has a total thickness of less than 2 microns (?m). Preferably, the multilayer thin film has a total thickness of less than 1.5 ?m and more preferably less than 1.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Debasish Banerjee, Minjuan Zhang, Masahiko Ishii
  • Publication number: 20140192413
    Abstract: The object is to obtain an optical reflective film having both productivity and optical characteristic which achieves a lower production cost and a larger area, and reduces unevenness in the reflectivity of visible light regions. An optical reflective film including at least one unit in which a high refractive index layer and a low refractive index layer are alternately laminated on a film support, at least one of the high refractive index layer and the low refractive index layer including a water-soluble polymer and a metal oxide particle, wherein a mixed region of the nigh refractive index layer and the low refractive index layer is formed between the high refractive index layer and the low refractive index layer by a simultaneous multilayer coating of the high refractive index layer and the low refractive index layer, and the optical reflective film has at least one region in visible light wavelength regions and 30% or more and 100% or less of a mean reflectivity thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA , INC.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Kokeguchi
  • Patent number: 8767301
    Abstract: A method of forming a non-polarizing pellicle beamsplitter having a desired power-tap ratio. The method includes the operation of forming a base layer having a base refractive index on a substrate and arranging a plurality of alternating layers having relatively high and low indexes of refraction respectively over the base layer. The thickness of each of the high index and low index layers is selected to substantially eliminate polarization of the optical beam. The method further includes the operation of removing a selected area of the substrate to create an optical pathway comprised of both the base layer and the plurality of alternating layers, and where the optical pathway is configured to transmit and reflect a selected amount of light in the optical beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Renne Ty Tan, Shih-Yuan (SY) Wang, Wei Wu
  • Publication number: 20140177058
    Abstract: An interference filter is fixed with respect to a base substrate by a fixing member which is disposed on one portion which is on the outer side of a filter region. Accordingly, since the periphery end of the interference filter, other than a portion (end portion) in which the fixing member is disposed, becomes a floated state (free end), it is possible to suppress the warping of the interference filter even when there is the difference in coefficients of thermal expansion with the base substrate. Further, spacer portions which are lower than the height of the fixing member are formed outside the filter region and on the portion separated from the fixing member. At the time of the impact, since the spacer portions come in contact with the base substrate to function as stoppers, it is possible to suppress occurrence of peeling-off or cracks on the fixing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shigemitsu Koike
  • Publication number: 20140168775
    Abstract: A movable substrate of a wavelength variable interference filter includes a movable portion and a groove which is provided outside of the movable portion, in a plan view when the movable substrate is seen from a substrate thickness direction, the groove includes a bottom surface having an even groove depth dimension and a side surface which is continued to the bottom surface, and the side surface is configured with arc-like first curved surface portion and second curved surface portion, in a cross-sectional view when the movable substrate is cut along the substrate thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuji Arakawa
  • Patent number: 8736959
    Abstract: An omnidirectional reflector that reflects a band of electromagnetic radiation of less than 100 nanometers when viewed from angles between 0 and 45 degrees is provided. The omnidirectional reflector includes a multilayer stack having a plurality of layers of high index of refraction material and a plurality of layers of low index of refraction material. In addition, the plurality of high index of refraction material layers and low index of refraction material layers are alternately stacked on top of or across each other and provide a non-periodic layered structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Alan Grayson, Debasish Banerjee, Minjuan Zhang, Masahiko Ishii
  • Patent number: 8736896
    Abstract: An optical scanning unit includes a light source including a plurality of light-emitting elements; a light detector to detect a light beam emitted from the light source; a light-flux splitter, angled to the optical axis of the light beam emitted from the light source, having an aperture, a portion of reduced thickness susceptible to warping, a concave face of the warped light-flux splitter as a reflecting face, and a convex face of the warped light-flux splitter opposite the concave face as a non-reflecting face; and a light-flux splitter pressing unit to press the light-flux splitter onto a light-flux splitter holding member without blocking the aperture. Light beam passed the aperture is used as a write-use light flux. The reflecting face reflects a light flux other than the write-use light flux as a monitor-use light flux. The light-flux splitter pressing unit presses a portion of maximum convexity of the non-reflecting face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Susumu Mikajiri
  • Publication number: 20140139924
    Abstract: An optical module includes a first plate-shaped member having a light transmissive optical component which is formed by applying etching to a silicon region, and a second plate-shaped member having light reflective optical components (mirrors) for reflecting light transmitting through the light transmissive optical component. The first and second plate-shaped members are bonded to one another, and an optical path for light transmitting through the light transmissive optical component is along a component forming surface of the first plate-shaped member and a principal surface of the second plate-shaped member. Thereby, realizing an optical module in which it is possible to dispose the light reflective optical component and the light transmissive optical component close to one another, and a manufacturing method for the optical module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Warashina, Tomofumi Suzuki, Kohei Kasamori
  • Publication number: 20140111861
    Abstract: A multilayer stack displaying a red omnidirectional structural color. The multilayer stack includes a reflector layer, a dielectric layer extending across the reflector layer, and an absorbing layer extending across the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer reflects more than 70% of incident white light that has a wavelength greater than 580 nanometers (nm). In addition, the absorbing layer absorbs more than 70% of the incident white light with a wavelength less than 580 nm. In combination, the reflector layer, dielectric layer, and absorbing layer form an omnidirectional reflector that reflects a narrow band of electromagnetic radiation with a center wavelength between 580-680 nm, has a width of less than 200 nm wide and a color shift of less than 100 nm when the reflector is viewed from angles between 0 and 45 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Debasish Banerjee, Minjuan Zhang, Masahiko Ishii, Li Qin Zhou, Yumi Kato
  • Publication number: 20140111851
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to an apparatus mounted with a heat-insulation light-guide film. The apparatus is a support with carriers capable of adjusting the received light quantity. The carrier is such as the slat of a shutter device and whose angle is adjustable. The heat-insulation light-guide film is exemplarily mounted on the slat, and which is made of a multilayer membrane and a surface textural layer in combination. The multilayer membrane includes multiple films and the adjacent layers are with different indexes of refraction. The materials and thicknesses of the membrane are configured to specify an optical band of light to be reflected. The surface textural layer is for guiding an incident light directed to the structure. The apparatus is as required to adjust the angle of the light hitting the film, and is applicable to a window for uses of heat-insulation, anti-glare, and illumination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: EXTEND OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: CHAO-YING LIN, JEN-HUAI CHANG
  • Patent number: 8693098
    Abstract: A projection objective for a microlithographic EUV projection exposure apparatus includes a first mirror and a second mirror. The first mirror includes a mirror substrate and a reflective coating carried by the mirror substrate. The second mirror includes a mirror substrate and a reflective coating carried by the mirror substrate. The first and second mirrors are configured so that, with otherwise equal irradiation by EUV light, the mirror substrate of the first mirror compacts less than the mirror substrate of the second mirror under the effect of the EUV light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Siegfried Rennon, Hans-Juergen Mann, Thomas Schicketanz
  • Patent number: 8678442
    Abstract: A tamper-proof security element includes at least one polymer spacer layer and two metal cluster layers. One or more of the layers, in addition to their function, fulfills a security feature in their color-shift set-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Hueck Folien GES.m.b.h.
    Inventors: Martin Bergsmann, Friedrich Kastner, Jürgen Keplinger, Georg Bauer, Harald Walter
  • Publication number: 20140078503
    Abstract: A spectrometer includes a first reflective film, a second reflective film facing the first reflective film with a gap interposed therebetween, a gap change portion that changes the amount of the gap by changing the relative position of the second reflective film with respect to the first reflective film, and a processing unit that outputs optical characteristic data at a predetermined first wavelength interval on the basis of light of a plurality of the wavelengths to be measured which are extracted by the first reflective film and the second reflective film by changing the gap amount using the gap change portion, wherein a full width at half maximum of a spectrum of at least one component of light among the light of the plurality of wavelengths to be measured which are extracted by the first reflective film and the second reflective film is larger than the first wavelength interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Matsushita, Yoshifumi Arai
  • Publication number: 20140063606
    Abstract: A mirror assembly comprising a carrier substrate; a stack comprising a plurality of alternating monocrystalline semiconductor layers of a first and a second type, wherein the layers of the first type have an index of refraction higher than the layers of the second type thereby forming a Bragg mirror; wherein the carrier substrate is curved having a radius of curvature between 0.1 m and 10 km; wherein the stack is attached to the curved carrier substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Markus Aspelmeyer, Garrett Cole
  • Patent number: 8659822
    Abstract: The invention provides a multilayered infrared light reflective structure. The multilayered infrared light reflective structure includes a transparent substrate. A doped oxide film is disposed on the transparent substrate. An oxide isolated layer is disposed on the doped oxide film, thereby allowing incident light to be incident from a top surface of the transparent substrate into the multilayered infrared light reflective structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chuan Chen, Mei-Ching Chiang, Chin-Ching Lin, Jen-You Chu, Yi-Ping Chen, Pao-Tang Chung
  • Publication number: 20140029103
    Abstract: The present invention relates to optical black material which absorbs light. The device has a plurality or matrix of cells, each cell by a specular and diffuse absorbing material generating mostly specular reflection which is captured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventor: William Frank Budleski
  • Patent number: 8638494
    Abstract: A reflective optical element e.g. for use in EUV lithography, configured for an operating wavelength in the range from 5 nm to 12 nm, includes a multilayer system with respective layers of at least two alternating materials having differing real parts of the refractive index at the operating wavelength. The material having the lower real part of the refractive index is a nitride or a carbide. “Alternatively, the material having the lower real part of the refractive index is thorium, uranium or barium and the material having the higher real part of the refractive index is boron or boron carbide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Tim Tsarfati, Erwin Zoethout, Eric Louis, Frederik Bijkerk
  • Publication number: 20130329294
    Abstract: A light reflection device includes a composite substrate, a mirror plastic film securely affixed to the composite substrate and a reflection coating affixed to the composite substrate with the mirror plastic film sandwiched therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: SHANGHAI HUYU INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiong Kang Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20130293842
    Abstract: Embodiments of the detailed description include optical phantoms for use with ocular surface interferometery (OSI) devices and systems configured to measure tear film layer thickness(es), and related use for calibration. The ocular surface interferometry (OSI) devices, systems, and methods can be used for imaging an ocular tear film and/or measuring a tear film layer thickness (TFLT) in a patient's ocular tear film. The OSI devices, systems, and methods can be used to measure the thickness of the lipid layer component (LLT) and/or the aqueous layer component (ALT) of the ocular tear film. “TFLT” as used herein includes LLT, ALT, or both LLT and ALT. “Measuring TFLT” as used herein includes measuring LLT, ALT, or both LLT and ALT. Imaging the ocular tear film and measuring TFLT can be used in the diagnosis of a patient's tear film, including but not limited to lipid layer and aqueous layer deficiencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: TearScience, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen M. Grenon, Donald R. Korb, William L. Weber, Scott Liddle
  • Publication number: 20130285362
    Abstract: An optical device exhibiting a color shift upon rotation is disclosed. The optical device has a textured surface having a relief structure finer than a human eye resolution but large enough not to exhibit diffraction effects. The textured surface is coated with an interference thin film that exhibits a color shift with tilt. A uniform color seen at one angle of rotation changes to another uniform color when the optical device is rotated in its own plane. A method of manufacturing of such an optical device, as well as the use of the optical device as an optical security and authentication element, is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Matthew R. Witzman, Jason Satern, Roger W. Phillips, Oleg Bouevitch
  • Publication number: 20130279006
    Abstract: A plane-parallel optical window is the spacer of single-cavity filters in the stack used for DWDM applications. Highly reflective quarter-wave stacks are deposited on each side of the optical window and the single-cavity structure so obtained is diced to produce a plurality of filters. Each single-cavity filter so fabricated from the optical window has the same transmission wavelength and is therefore readily stackable for DWDM applications. Alternatively, an optical window with a thickness equal to one half that required for the spacer of a single-cavity filter is coated on a single side. The window is then divided in multiple identical components that can be combined in pairs by placing them in optical contact so as to form individual single-cavity filters with the same transmission-peak wavelength. The transmission peak of the filter can be fine tuned by controlling the temperature of the solid spacer material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: DARYUAN SONG, YUNG-CHIEH HSIEH
  • Publication number: 20130258478
    Abstract: A method of fabrication of a micro-optics device included providing a layer of material; patterning the layer of material by one or more of: locally unzipping and desorbing molecules thereof, with a nano-scale dimensioned probe, to obtain a curved surface for the layer of material, the curved surface having a curved profile in a plane section; and completing a layer structure perpendicular to the plane section by providing one or more additional layers of material in contact with the curved surface to obtain the micro-optics device, wherein the micro-optics device has the layer structure, with a given layer thereof comprising a defect delimited by two surfaces, wherein one of the two surfaces is the curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fei Ding, Urs T. Duerig, Armin W. Knoll, Rainer F. Mahrt, Thilo H. Stoeferle
  • Publication number: 20130250405
    Abstract: A broadband mirror, polarizer, or other reflector includes separate stacks of microlayers. Microlayers in each stack are arranged into optical repeat units, and the stacks are arranged in series. At a design angle of incidence such as normal incidence, the second stack provides a second 1st order reflection band and a distinct second 2nd order reflection band with a second spectral pass band therebetween. The first stack provides a first 1st order reflection band that fills the second spectral pass band such that a single wide reflection band is formed that includes the first 1st order reflection band, the second 1st order reflection band, and the second 2nd order reflection band. In some cases, the single wide reflection band can include a first 2nd order reflection band of the first stack. In some cases, the first and second stacks may have apodized portions which monotonically deviate from respective baseline portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Edward J. Kivel, Timothy J. Nevitt, Michael F. Weber
  • Publication number: 20130215922
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising a multilayer semiconductor structure formed by a periodic structure having a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer, wherein in at least a portion of the multilayer semiconductor structure, the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer have different conduction types. The first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer have different refractive indexes, and the multilayer semiconductor structure functions as a multilayer reflective mirror. As a result, an electronic device, a surface emitting laser, a surface emitting laser array, a light source, and an optical module with decreased parasitic capacitance can be realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130215512
    Abstract: Low loss, high reflectivity wide band mirror films provide a desired mix of specular reflection and diffuse reflection or scattering to provide semi-specular reflectivity. The mirror films generally include both a specularly reflective multilayer optical film (MOF) having a wide reflection band, and a scattering layer. In some cases a low refractive index TIR layer is sandwiched between the MOF and the scattering layer. In other cases the scattering layer contacts the MOF directly. In embodiments that include the TIR layer, the TIR layer preferably has a nanovoided morphology and includes a plurality of particles and a polymer binder. In embodiments wherein the scattering layer contacts the MOF directly, the scattering layer preferably also has a nanovoided morphology and includes a plurality of particles and a polymer binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: William D. Coggio, William B. Black, Michael F. Weber, Huiwen Tai
  • Patent number: RE45442
    Abstract: A multiple wavelength light emitting device is provided wherewith the resonance strength and directivity between colors can be easily adjusted for balance. This light emitting device comprises a light emission means 4 for emitting light containing wavelength components to be output, and a semi-reflecting layer group 2 wherein semi-reflecting layers 2R, 2G, and 2B that transmit some light having specific wavelengths emitted from the light emission means and reflect the remainder are stacked up in order in the direction of light advance in association with wavelengths of light to be output. Light emission regions AR, AG, and AB are determined in association with the wavelengths of light to be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation, Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Tatsuya Shimoda, Tomoko Koyama, Takeo Kaneko, Jeremy Henley Burroughes