US Patent Issued to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CANADA on Jan. 27 for "Octahedral perovskite materials with small radius metal center and uses thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,697, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CANADA Co. LTD. (Kanata, Canada).

"Octahedral perovskite materials with small radius metal center and uses thereof" was invented by Amin Morteza Najjariyan (Toronto), Sjoerd Hoogland (Toronto) and Edward Sargent (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ge-centered octahedral perovskites have heretofore not been achievable due to collapse of the perovskite structure into non-octahedral units due to a lack of B site support from the small-radius Ge atom, which breaks Goldschmidt's rules for constructing octahedral perovskites. To overcome this shortcoming, a strategy was develo...