US 7,728,397 B2Granted

Coupled nano-resonating energy emitting structures

AssigneeVirgin Islands Microsystems, Inc.

InventorsJonathan Gorrell, Mark Davidson, Jean Tokarz

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Abstract

A nano-resonating structure constructed and adapted to couple energy from a beam of charged particles into said nano-resonating structure and to transmit coupled energy outside the nano-resonating structure. A plurality of the nano-resonant substructures may be formed adjacent one another in a stacked array, and each may have various shapes, including segmented portions of shaped structures, circular, semi-circular, oval, square, rectangular, semi-rectangular, C-shaped, U-shaped and other shapes as well as designs having a segmented outer surface or area, and arranged in a vertically stacked array comprised of one or more ultra-small resonant structures. The vertically stacked arrays may be symmetric or asymmetric, tilted, and/or staggered.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A nano-resonating structure comprising:

a substrate;
a source of charged particles supported by the substrate creating a beam of charged particles emanating in a direction outwardly from the substrate;
an ultra-small resonant substructure supported by the substrate above the source of charged particles and having a face proximate to the source of charged particles, the face being indented by a cavity near but not in the path of the beam of charged particles, the cavity constructed and adapted to resonate at a frequency in excess of the microwave frequency when energy from the beam of charged particles passes by the cavity and to thereby transmit electromagnetic radiation at the frequency in excess of the microwave frequency outside the nano-resonating structure, a plurality of the ultra-small resonant substructures positioned next to one another in a stacked array, and a plurality of the stacked arrays positioned next to one another in at least two arrays.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.