ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,400, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Fabrication technique for wire grid polarizer" was invented by Junjie Yao (Fuzhou, China), Jianying Zhang (Fuzhou, China), Xiaolian Zhou (Fuzhou, China), Xu Jia (Fuzhou, China), Lei Lin (Fuzhou, China) and Guanglong Yu (Fuzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proposed fabrication technique for a polarization-absorbing wire grid polarizer avoids the need to etch through the multilayer stack of materials to form the grid structure. Initial reflective metal and dielectric buffer layers are patterned and etched in a conventional manner to create the d...