Chemical reaction device, and method for producing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019217268-A1
Application number	US-201716327509-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 23, 2017
Priority date	Aug 26, 2016
Publication date	Jul 18, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided are a chemical reaction device able to promote a chemical reaction, and a method for producing same. The chemical reaction device has an optical electric field confinement/chemical reaction container structure obtained by integrating an optical electric field confinement structure for forming an optical mode having a frequency identical to or close to a vibrational mode of a chemical substance involved in a chemical reaction, and a chemical reaction container structure having a space for storing a fluid required for the chemical reaction and containing the chemical reaction, the optical mode and the vibrational mode being vibrationally coupled to promote the chemical reaction.

First claim

1 . A chemical reaction device comprising an opto-electrical field confinement chemical reaction container structure integrating an opto-electrical field confinement structure forming an optical mode having a frequency identical to or close to a vibrational mode of a chemical material related to a chemical reaction with a chemical reaction container structure including a space for storing fluid required for the chemical reaction including the chemical material, wherein
a chemical reaction is promoted by vibrationally coupling the optical mode with the vibrational mode.

2 . The chemical reaction device according to claim 1 , wherein
an amount of activation energy of the chemical reaction is reduced by vibrationally coupling the optical mode with the vibrational mode.

3 . The chemical reaction device according to claim 1 , wherein
the chemical reaction container structure includes an inlet and an outlet of the fluid.

4 . The chemical reaction device according to claim 1 , wherein
the chemical reaction device is connected to one or more other chemical reaction devices through the inlet and the outlet.

5 . The chemical reaction device according to claim 1 , wherein
the opto-electrical field confinement structure is a Fabry-Pérot cavity including two mirror planes parallel to each other.

6 . The chemical reaction device according to claim 5 , wherein
the Fabry-Pérot cavity is a linear cavity including a structure with a sufficiently long prismatic shape having one or more sets of two mirror planes parallel to each other as sides, or is an accumulation of the linear cavity.

7 . The chemical reaction device according to claim 1 , wherein
the opto-electrical field confinement structure is a plasmon-polariton structure.

8 . A method for producing a chemical reaction device, the method comprising:
producing a structure including a mirror plane/substrate by forming a mirror plane on a substrate; producing a structure including a protective film/mirror plane/substrate by forming a protective film on the mirror plane; producing a structure including a spacer/protective film/mirror plane/substrate by arranging a spacer defining a cavity length on the protective film; producing a Fabry-Pérot cavity structure including a substrate/mirror plane/protective film/spacer/protective film/mirror plane/substrate by laying a structure including the protective film/mirror plane/substrate on top of a structure including the spacer/protective film/mirror plane/substrate; and producing the chemical reaction device according to claim 5 by housing the Fabry Pérot cavity structure in an enclosure including an inlet, an outlet, and a chamber for storing the Fabry-Pérot cavity structure.

9 . A method for producing a chemical reaction device, the method comprising:
producing an acid-soluble-glass-filled glass tube by filling acid-soluble glass in a glass tube; producing a thinned acid-soluble-glass-filled glass tube from the acid-soluble-glass-filled glass tube; producing a thinned acid-soluble-glass-filled glass tube accumulation by aligning one or more of the thinned acid-soluble-glass-filled glass tubes in such a way that tube axes are parallel to one another and fusion-bonding the thinned acid-soluble-glass-filled glass tubes by heating; producing a re-thinned acid-soluble-glass-filled glass tube accumulation from the thinned acid-soluble-glass-filled glass tube accumulation; producing a re-thinned glass tube accumulation by dissolving the acid-soluble glass from the re-thinned acid-soluble-glass-filled glass tube accumulation by acid; and producing an accumulation of the linear cavity according to claim 6 by forming a mirror plane inside each re-thinned glass tube constituting the re-thinned glass tube accumulation.

10 . The method for producing a chemical reaction device according to claim 9 , further comprising
housing an aggregate of the linear cavity in an enclosure including an inlet, an outlet, and a chamber for storing an aggregate of the linear cavity.

11 . The method for producing a chemical reaction device according to claim 9 , further comprising
forming a protective film on the mirror plane after forming the mirror plane inside the each re-thinned glass tube.

12 . The method for producing a chemical reaction device according to claim 9 , wherein
the thinned acid-soluble-glass-filled glass tube is produced by drawing the acid-soluble-glass-filled glass tube in a tube-axis direction by heating.

13 . The method for producing a chemical reaction device according to claim 9 , wherein
the re-thinned acid-soluble-glass-filled glass tube accumulation is produced by drawing the thinned acid-soluble-glass-filled glass tube accumulation in a tube-axis direction by heating.

Assignees

• Nec Corp

Inventors

• Hiura Hidefumi

Classifications

• G01N21/272

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• G02B5/284

  of etalon type comprising a resonant cavity other than a thin solid film, e.g. gas, air, solid plates (etalons for fibre optic multiplexing G02B6/29358; etalons for spectral measurement G01J3/26) · CPC title

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