Title:
【発明の名称】マイクロNMRコイル、マイクロトランスフォーマおよび血管内ステントとしてのファイバ内格子、電磁石の生成のため、光ファイバ上のフォトマスクとして微小コイルおよび帯材の製造
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2000515477
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
Techniques for fabrication of small-scale metallic structures such as microinductors, microtransformers and stents are described. A chemically active agent such as a catalyst is applied from an applicator in a pattern to an exterior surface of an article, metal is deposited according to the pattern and optionally, removed from the substrate. Where the substrate is cylindrical, the pattern can serve as a stent. Alternatively, a pattern of a self-assembled monolayer can be printed on a surface, which pattern can dictate metal plating or etching resulting in a patterned metal structure that can be cylindrical. In another embodiment, a structure is patterned on a surface that serves as a phase-modulating pattern or amplitude-modulating pattern. The article subsequently is exposed to radiation that can induce a change in refractive index within the article, and the phase-modulating or amplitude-modulating pattern results in different indices of refraction being created in different portions of the article. By this technique, a grating can be written into a core of an optical fiber.
Inventors:
Rogers, John A
Jackman, Rebecca Jay
White size, George M
Jackman, Rebecca Jay
White size, George M
Application Number:
JP54250997A
Publication Date:
November 21, 2000
Filing Date:
May 09, 1997
Export Citation:
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard College
International Classes:
A61F2/91; A61F2/915; B05D1/28; B81B1/00; B81C99/00; C03B37/10; C03C15/00; G02B6/02; G01R33/32; G03F7/00; G03F7/16; G03F7/18; G03F7/24; H01F41/04; (IPC1-7): C03B37/10; B81B1/00; B81C5/00; C03C15/00; G01R33/32; G02B6/10; H01F41/04
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kazuo Shamoto (5 outside)