Patent ID: 7728397

Claim:
A nano-resonating structure comprising: a substrate; a source of charged particles supported by the substrate creating a beam of charged particles emanating in a direction outwardly from the substrate; an ultra-small resonant substructure supported by the substrate above the source of charged particles and having a face proximate to the source of charged particles, the face being indented by a cavity near but not in the path of the beam of charged particles, the cavity constructed and adapted to resonate at a frequency in excess of the microwave frequency when energy from the beam of charged particles passes by the cavity and to thereby transmit electromagnetic radiation at the frequency in excess of the microwave frequency outside the nano-resonating structure, a plurality of the ultra-small resonant substructures positioned next to one another in a stacked array, and a plurality of the stacked arrays positioned next to one another in at least two arrays.