M.G. Bawendi, N.E. Stott
Preparation of nanocrystallites
U.S. Patent 7,138,098
Industrial Outreach - Section in Development :: _Type of activity/partnership
Preparation of nanocrystallites - U.S. Patent 7,138,098
Seminar on confocal technology for metrology applications/Olympus Industrial America.
A seminar on confocal technology for metrology applications, co-sponsored by Olympus Industrial America.
Wide Net Technologies
Kolodziejski and Ippen have begun new work with Wide Net Technologies on the use of supercollimating photonic crystal devices for chemical sensing applications.
OmniGuide Inc
IRG-I: Fink and Joannopoulos collaborate with OmniGuide Inc. to develop self-monitoring high-power optical photonic band gap fibers.
Research and Development Programs
Researchers at the MIT MRSEC are engaged currently in a number of R&D partnerships with industry:
IRG-I: Fink and Joannopoulos collaborate with OmniGuide Inc. to develop self-monitoring high-power optical photonic band gap fibers. Kolodziejski and Ippen have begun new work with Wide Net Technologies on the use of supercollimating photonic crystal devices for chemical sensing applications.
IRG-II: Rubner and Cohen have recently launched a number of new collaborations with industry that are a direct outgrowth of fundamental research in the MRSEC. They work with Toyota on the development of structural color pigments for car paint, with Essilor Corporation on the development of anti-fog coatings for eyewear, with Bayer Corporation on functional coatings for use in architectural elements, with Teledyne on self-decontaminating surfaces, and with Agilitron on a NASA program to create UV-anti-reflection coatings for space telescopes. All of these projects were made possible by basic discoveries made within IRG-II.
IRG-IV: Sadoway is involved with Zinc Matrix Power on the manufacturing of zinc-silver batteries– an important collaboration with industry that includes adoption of materials developed in the MRSEC.
Workshop in the X-ray Diffraction lab / PANalytical
The MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering shared experimental facilities offer equipment workshops on a regular basis that are jointly sponsored by the MIT MRSEC and industry, and attended by individuals from the local R&D community.
Recent examples of these sorts of interactions include: a workshop in the X-ray Diffraction lab, co-sponsored by PANalytical; and a seminar on confocal technology for metrology applications, co-sponsored by Olympus Industrial America.
Technology Licensing Opportunities
Over the past several years, MIT MRSEC research has resulted in at least 24 active licenses. For example, the following patents were granted to MIT MRSEC researchers in 2007 and are available for licensing. Interested parties should please contact the MIT Technology Licensing Office for more information.
M.G. Bawendi, N.E. Stott
Preparation of nanocrystallites
U.S. Patent 7,138,098
H.J. Eisler, V.C. Sundar, M.E. Walsh, M.E. Klimov, M.G. Bawendi, H.I. Smith
Nanocrystal structures
U.S. Patent 7,150,910
M.G. Bawendi, S. Kim, N.E. Stott
Stabilized semiconductor nanocrystals
U.S. Patent 7,160,613
J.V. Frangioni, M.G. Bawendi, S. Kim, Y.T. Lim
Materials and methods for near-infrared and infrared lymph node mapping
U.S. Patent 7,181,266
V. Sundar, H.J. Eisler, M.G. Bawendi
Semiconductor nanocrystal composite
U.S. Patent 7,190,870
N.E. Stott, K.F. Jensen, M.G. Bawendi, B.K.H. Yen
Method of preparing nanocrystals
U.S. Patent 7,229,427
Y.T. Chan, J.P. Zimmer, M.G. Bawendi
Microspheres including nanoparticles
U.S. Patent 7,229,690
M.G. Bawendi, V.C. Sundar, F.V. Mikulec
Biological applications of quantum dots
U.S. Patent 7,235,361
M.G. Bawendi, J. Heine, K.F. Jensen, J.N. Miller, R.L. Moon
Quantum dot white and colored light-emitting devices X
U.S. Patent 7,264,527
J.S. Steckel, J.P. Zimmer, S. Coe-Sullivan, N.E. Stott, V. Bulovic, M.G. Bawendi
Blue light emitting semiconductor nanocrystal materials
U.S. Patent 7,253,452
G. Ceder, C. Fischer, K. Tibbetts, D. Morgan, S. Curtarolo
Systems and methods for predicting materials properties
U.S. Patent 7,292,958
M. Bayindir, F. Sorin, A.F. Abouraddy, D.S. Hinczewski, O. Shapira, J. Arnold, J.F. Viens, Y. Fink, J.D. Joannopoulos
Optoelectronic fiber photodetector
U.S. Patent 7,292,758
A. Karalis, D. Chan, Y. Fink, K.C. Huang, M. Ibanescu, J.D. Joannopoulos, E. Lidorikis, E. Reed, M. Soljacic
Surface-plasmon index guided (SPIG) waveguides and surface-plasmon effective index guided (SPEIG) waveguides
U.S. Patent 7,184,641
E. Anderson, W.A. King, Y. Fink, L. Pressman
Fiber waveguide formed from chalcogenide glass and polymer
U.S. Patent 7,190,875
B. Temelkuran, C. Anastassiou, D. Torres, G. Shapira, M. Shurgalin, G. Dellemann, O. Weisberg, S.A. Jacobs, T. Wang, U. Kolodny, R. Payne, Y. Fink
Photonic crystal fibers and medical systems using photonic crystal fibers
U.S. Patent 7,167,622
G. Benoit, Y. Fink, J.D. Joannopoulos, S. Hart, B. Temelkuran, G. Maskaly
Fiber waveguides and methods of making the same
U.S. Patent 7,272,285
M. Bayindir, F. Sorin, D.S. Hinczewski, S.D. Hart, Y. Fink, J.D. Joannopoulos
Optoelectronic fiber codrawn from conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials
U.S. Patent 7,295,734
S. Asseffa, R. Bryant, A. Erchack, S. Fan, E. Ippen, J. Joannopoulos, S. Johnson, L. Kolodziejski, E. Lidorikis, G. Petrich, M. Povinelli
Nano-electromechanical high index contrast switch
U.S. Patent 7,260,287
M. Povinelli, S. Johnson, S. Assefa, L.A. Kolodziejski, J. Joannopoulos
Metamaterials employing photonic crystal
U.S. Patent 7,177,513
S. Assefa, L.A. Kolodziejski, G.S. Petrich,
Electrically-activated photonic crystal microcavity laser
U.S. Patent 7,248,615
E. Lidorikis, M. Soljacic, M. Ibanescu, Y. Fink, J.D. Joannopoulos
Gap-soliton photonic crystal fibers
U.S. Patent 7,187,832
LumArray Inc.
Lumarray is a lithography company with a patented technology developed at MIT, Zone-Plate-Array Lithography (ZPAL), that integrates recent advances in microfabrication, micromechanics and fast computing that would allow for the possibility to transfer a design drawn on a computer screen directly onto a substrate. Much of the fundamental research on this technology was supported through IRG-I of the MRSEC.
OmniGuide Inc.
OmniGuide Inc. was founded by MIT Professors Fink, Joannopoulos, and Thomas. The key to OmniGuide’s technology is a revolutionary photonic bandgap fiber that was originally invented and developed at MIT. The company holds an exclusive license from MIT and has added an extensive portfolio of related US and international patents. The technology was first published in Nature in 2002, based on research supported by the MRSEC.
Luminus Devices Inc.
Luminus Devices, co-founded by students who worked on MIT MRSEC IRG-I research, has patented a photonic lattice technology called PhlatLight™, which is the world’s first single-chip solid-state lighting source powerful enough to be used in high definition TVs.