Abstract:
An EM antenna for location on a pipe (10) surrounded by a casing (12). The antenna has a power source (21) for injecting a current across a first insulated section (25) of the pipe (10) and an electrode (22) for conducting the current from the pipe (10) to the casing (12). There is also a second insulated section (23) of the pipe arranged to operate together with the electrode (22) and first insulated section (25) for directing a path flow of the current. Such antennas are described both in relation to repeater arrangements as well as land and sea applications.
Abstract:
A method of producing a substrate that has a transfer crystalline layer transferred from a donor wafer onto a support. The transfer layer can include one or more foreign species to modify its properties. In the preferred embodiment an atomic species is implanted into a zone of the donor wafer that is substantially free of foreign species to form an embrittlement or weakened zone below a bonding face thereof, with the weakened zone and the bonding face delimiting a transfer layer to be transferred. The donor wafer is preferably then bonded at the level of its bonding face to a support. Stresses are then preferably applied to produce a cleavage in the region of the weakened zone to obtain a substrate that includes the support and the transfer layer. Foreign species are preferably diffused into the thickness of the transfer layer prior to implantation or after cleavage to modify the properties of the transfer layer, preferably its electrical or optical properties. The preferred embodiment produces substrates with a thin InP layer rendered semi-insulating by iron diffusion.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit for the processing of digitized signals which are representative of a source image which is defined by image elements which are encoded on M bits and which are arranged in I rows and J columns. The image is processed by means of M sliding windows (W.sub.1 to W.sub.M) which consist of N rows and P columns and which step-wise slide past each image element along I rows, but which have been shifted through one row with respect to one another. Processing is performed by bit serial operators which successively act on the bits of each of the N+N-1 image elements. The signals may be serially applied via Q contact pads, where Q=N+M-1, or in parallel via Q contact pads where Q is the first multiple of M which is equal to or larger than N+M-1, the integrated circuit then also comprising a parallel to serial converter circuit.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method of receiving and/or transmitting information in a well drilled in a geological formation between a first location and a second location, the well comprising a casing communicating with the geological formation. The method comprises placing a first transducer at a first location, placing a second transducer at a second location. Transmitting an electric signal between the first and second transducers.
Abstract:
A method of producing a substrate that has a transfer crystalline layer transferred from a donor wafer onto a support. The transfer layer can include one or more foreign species to modify its properties. In the preferred embodiment an atomic species is implanted into a zone of the donor wafer that is substantially free of foreign species to form an embrittlement or weakened zone below a bonding face thereof, with the weakened zone and the bonding face delimiting a transfer layer to be transferred. The donor wafer is preferably then bonded at the level of its bonding face to a support. Stresses are then preferably applied to produce a cleavage in the region of the weakened zone to obtain a substrate that includes the support and the transfer layer. Foreign species are preferably diffused into the thickness of the transfer layer prior to implantation or after cleavage to modify the properties of the transfer layer, preferably its electrical or optical properties. The preferred embodiment produces substrates with a thin InP layer rendered semi-insulating by iron diffusion.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of transferring useful layers from a donor wafer which includes a multi-layer structure on the surface of the donor wafer that has a thickness sufficient to form multiple useful layers for subsequent detachment. The layers may be formed of materials having sufficiently different properties such that they may be selectively removed. The layers of material may also include sub-layers that can be selectively removed from each other.
Abstract:
This invention provides a composite substrate that has a transparent mechanical support, for example of glass or quartz, a film or thin layer of monocrystalline semi-conductive material and an intermediate antireflective layer located between the thin layer or the semi-conductive film and the support. The composition of the intermediate antireflective layer varies between the support and the semi-conductive film, so that the refractive index similarly varies.
Abstract:
A donor wafer resulting from a method of recycling the wafer after detaching at least one useful layer. The donor wafer includes a substrate; a buffer structure on the substrate; a protective layer associated with the buffer structure; and a post detachment layer located above the buffer structure and presenting projections or rough portions on its surface. The protective layer prevents removal of the entire buffer structure when the post detachment layer is removed.
Abstract:
There is described a method for generating an image view from at least one input image for a 3D display using a backward processing enabling post processing for handling holes in the image view.
Abstract:
There is described a method for generating an image view from at least one input image for a 3D display using a backward processing enabling post processing for handling holes in the image view.