Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Thermoelectric – Having housing – mounting or support
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-22
2010-11-16
Barton, Jeffrey T (Department: 1795)
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Thermoelectric
Having housing, mounting or support
C136S203000, C136S205000, C136S236100
Reexamination Certificate
active
07834264
ABSTRACT:
One-dimensional nanostructures having uniform diameters of less than approximately 200 nm. These inventive nanostructures, which we refer to as “nanowires”, include single-crystalline homostructures as well as heterostructures of at least two single-crystalline materials having different chemical compositions. Because single-crystalline materials are used to form the heterostructure, the resultant heterostructure will be single-crystalline as well. The nanowire heterostructures are generally based on a semiconducting wire wherein the doping and composition are controlled in either the longitudinal or radial directions, or in both directions, to yield a wire that comprises different materials. Examples of resulting nanowire heterostructures include a longitudinal heterostructure nanowire (LOHN) and a coaxial heterostructure nanowire (COHN).
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Nakamura
Fan Rong
Feick Henning
Huang Michael
Kind Hannes
Majumdar Arun
Barton Jeffrey T
O'Banion John P.
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