US Patent Issued to IQE on Aug. 5 for "Structure and method using a single crystalline bixbyite oxide layer in a orientation" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,690, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to IQE plc (Cardiff, Great Britain).

"Structure and method using a single crystalline bixbyite oxide layer in a orientation" was invented by Andrew Clark (Mountain View, Calif.) and Rytis Dargis (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layered structure including a substrate in [100] crystal orientation, a crystalline bixbyite oxide layer in [111] orientation, and a metal-containing layer crystallographically matched to the crystalline bixbyite oxide layer. Also a method of fabricating a layered structure comprising steps to: epitaxially deposit a crystalline bixbyite oxide in [111] orient...