Geometrical instruments – Distance measuring – Single contact with a work engaging support
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-16
2011-08-16
Guadalupe-McCall, Yaritza (Department: 2841)
Geometrical instruments
Distance measuring
Single contact with a work engaging support
Reexamination Certificate
active
07997002
ABSTRACT:
A probe capable of measuring recesses in features such as apertures and/or trench-like structures of very small size is comprised of one or more carbon nanotubes (CNTs) which is oriented at an angle and, if two or more CNTs are employed, such that they cross (with or without touching each other) at a location separated from ends of the carbon nanotubes which approximates the depth of the aperture or trench-like structure and at an angle such that the ends of the carbon nanotubes extends by a lateral distance greater than a dimension of a recess of a feature to be measured or in excess of a sidewall angle or an angle of a crystal lattice of a material in which a feature to be measured is formed.
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Guadalupe-McCall Yaritza
International Business Machines - Corporation
Whitman Curtis Christofferson & Cook, P.C.
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