US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on May 20 for "Nanotwinned nickel films with high strength and ductility" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,273, issued on May 20, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Nanotwinned nickel films with high strength and ductility" was invented by Jagannathan Rajagopalan (Tempe, Ariz.) and Rohit Berlia (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synthesis of high SFE nanotwinned metallic films with varying distributions of twin widths on a low SFE metallic layer using magnetron sputtering is disclosed. In various embodiments, a method for forming a nanotwinned metal film may include providing a single crystal silicon wafer, etching the single crystal silicon wafer, depositing a si...