Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Structurally defined web or sheet – Including variation in thickness
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-16
2006-05-16
Pyon, Harold (Department: 1772)
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Structurally defined web or sheet
Including variation in thickness
C428S141000, C428S143000, C428S156000, C428S167000, C428S168000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07045195
ABSTRACT:
Composite materials having colloidal photonic crystals patterned in substrates for use in different technologies including lab-on-chip and photonic chip technologies. The colloidal crystals are patterned either on or within surface relief patterns in the substrates of the composite materials and each colloidal crystal exhibits Bragg diffraction.
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Miguez Hernan
Ozin Geoffrey Alan
Yang San Ming
Chevalier Alicia
Governing Council of the University of Toronto
Hill & Schumacher
Pyon Harold
Schumacher Lynn C.
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