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Title: Optoelectronic fiber codrawn from conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1532133
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The invention provides techniques for drawing fibers that include conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials in intimate contact and prescribed geometries. The resulting fiber exhibits engineered electrical and optical functionalities along extended fiber lengths. The invention provides corresponding processes for producing such fibers, including assembling a fiber preform of a plurality of distinct materials, e.g., of conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials, and drawing the preform into a fiber.

Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-99ER45778; Y77011
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Patent Number(s):
8,863,556
Application Number:
11/906,607
OSTI ID:
1532133
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2007-10-03
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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