US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on May 27 for "Method of fabricating layers of single-crystal material" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,295, issued on May 27, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method of fabricating layers of single-crystal material" was invented by Marie Bousquet (Grenoble, France), Pierre Perreau (Grenoble, France) and Alexandre Reinhardt (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for fabricating a component includes an operation of transferring at least one layer of one or more piezoelectric or pyroelectric or ferroelectric materials forming part of a donor substrate to a final substrate, the process comprising a prior step of joining the layer to a temporary substrate via produ...