Chalcogenide glass nanostructures

US7211296B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Battelle Memorial Institute · CH

Inventors

• Bradley R. Johnson · Richland, US
• Michael Schweiger · Orlamünde, DE
• Brett D. MacIsaac · Kennewick, US
• S. Kamakshi Sundaram · Richland, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 22, 2003
• Grant date: May 1, 2007
• Expiry date: Jan 8, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S977/734
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Chalcogenide nanowires and other micro-and nano scale structures are grown on a preselected portion of on a substrate. They are amorphous and of uniform composition and can be grown by a sublimation-condensation process onto the surface of an amorphous substrate. Among other uses, these structures can be used as coatings on optical fibers, as coatings on implants, as wispering galleries, in electrochemical devices, and in nanolasers.