Lumera Awarded Patent; Protects Fabrication Process for Proprietary Electro-Optic Device Processing
March 08 2005 - 3:57PM
PR Newswire (US)
Lumera Awarded Patent; Protects Fabrication Process for Proprietary
Electro-Optic Device Processing BOTHELL, Wash., March 8
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lumera Corporation (NASDAQ:LMRA), an
emerging leader in the field of nanotechnology, was recently
granted another patent protecting the company's growing
intellectual property portfolio of polymer electro-optic materials
and devices. This most recent patent covers a unique fabrication
process used to develop electro-optic devices that, until recently,
have been unachievable and offers greater design flexibility as
well as the ability to scale for large volumes of production. "This
novel process gives us the flexibility to fabricate devices that
fit our customers' design needs," said Tom Mino, Lumera CEO. "It is
a unique piece of our proprietary platform technology that
addresses a large, growing market for electro-optic devices to
optical interconnects." Lumera currently has 4 issued and 3 allowed
patents and has over 30 patent applications pending that address
markets such as fiber optic communications, biotechnology, and
wireless communications. The most recently issued patent number is
6,852,563, which joins the related patents 6,822,384, 6,750,603 and
6,716,995. Technical Advantages Previous processes for fabricating
electrodes on a surface used wet etching of thick metal layers.
However, these processes offer limited dimensional control since
the etching occurs in all directions. Other methods such as "lift
off" procedures require metal deposition that is difficult to
practically achieve or "scale-up" in large volumes. The new method
developed by Lumera scientists and engineers avoids the use of wet
etching of thick electrodes and challenging metal deposition
techniques. Lumera's unique fabrication process uses metal
deposition on a polymer micro-ridge to form an electrode on a
substrate. The resulting polymer sustained microelectrodes can have
a variety of dimensions and sizes of electrode gaps. The polymer
micro-ridge can be formed in ways that allow smooth surfaces,
dimensional control, and high volume processing. The process is
completed when an electro-optic polymer is used to fill the gap
between electrodes. The new fabrication technique enables devices
with horizontally related electrodes, whereas most electro-optic
polymer devices use vertically related electrodes. Utilizing the
techniques of this patent, Lumera has developed flexible devices
that can conform to curved surfaces, such as an aircraft body.
Similarly, such devices could apply to large optically controlled
phased-array antennas for use in space that are unrolled after the
satellite is in orbit. The total optical components market is
currently estimated to reach $1 billion by 2008. About Lumera
Lumera is an emerging leader in the field of nanotechnology. The
company designs proprietary molecular structures and polymer
compounds for a broad range of electro-optic, bioscience, RF and
specialty nanotechnology applications. The company also has
developed proprietary processes for fabricating such devices. For
more information, please visit http://www.lumera.com/. Certain
statements contained in this release are forward-looking statements
that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those
projected in the company's forward-looking statements include the
following: market acceptance of our technologies and products; our
ability to obtain financing; our financial and technical resources
relative to those of our competitors; our ability to keep up with
rapid technological change; government regulation of our
technologies; our ability to enforce our intellectual property
rights and protect our proprietary technologies; the ability to
obtain additional contract awards and to develop partnership
opportunities; the timing of commercial product launches; the
ability to achieve key technical milestones in key products; and
other risk factors identified from time to time in the company's
SEC reports, including in its registrations statement on Form S-1,
dated July 22, 2004 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
DATASOURCE: Lumera Corporation CONTACT: Todd Wolfenbarger of The
Summit Group Communications, +1-801-595-1155, or cell,
+1-801-244-9600, for Lumera Corporation Web site:
http://www.lumera.com/
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