ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,834, issued on April 15, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).
"Single photon source" was invented by Urcan Guler (Avon, Conn.), Alexander Kildishev (West Lafayette, Ind.), Vladimir M. Shalaev (West Lafayette, Ind.), Alexei S. Lagutchev (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Andrey N. Smolyaninov (Moscow region, Russia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a single photon source includes functionalizing a top surface of a plasmonic thin film to form a functionalized thin film, depositing a polymer on top of the functionalized thin film, lithographically patterning the polymer to form patterned function...