By Kalwinder KaurJul 31 2012
Arradiance has declared that two patents have been issued by the US Patent Office related to the use of nanofilm technologies for large area detection, which will be instrumental in revolutionizing applications in the homeland security, security and medical imaging markets.
The patent for invention number 8,227,965 and invention number 8,237,129 describes MCP devices with tunable resistive films and polymer substrate-based MCP devices to be used in fast neutron detection, respectively.
According to the CEO of Arradiance, these patents cover conductive nanofilms, which are critical for substrate independence ensuring that high gain, noiseless detectors achieve the large areas needed for sophisticated medical imaging, homeland security and scientific markets. This enables the patent portfolio to increase to 11, confirming the leadership position held by Arradiance in large area detection.
These patents encompass the technology in GEM-R2 and GEM-R2D2 nanofilms from Arradiance that functionalize bare detector substrates of any insulating material or size to enable low signal, noiseless amplification.
Along with having developed and designed the Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) process equipment for these functional nanofilms, Arradiance also possesses patents applying to composition and substrate formation. This intellectual property suite enables complete productization of the enabling nanofilm technology.
There is a growing demand for large area, low noise detection systems as homeland security and medical imaging applications strive to bring down imaging dose and enhance device throughput.
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