US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on June 10 for "Method for manufacturing a layer of textured aluminum nitride" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,032, issued on June 10, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for manufacturing a layer of textured aluminum nitride" was invented by Stephane Cadot (Grenoble, France), Francois Martin (Grenoble, France) and Remy Gassiloud (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for manufacturing a thin layer of textured AlN comprising the following successive steps: a) providing a substrate having an amorphous surface, b) forming a polycrystalline nucleation layer of MS2 with M=Mo, W or one of the alloys thereof, on the amorphous surface of the substrate, the polycrystalline n...