US Patent Issued to Newport Fab on March 11 for "Integration of optoelectronic devices comprising lithium niobate or other Pockels materials" (New Hampshire, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,206, issued on March 11, was assigned to Newport Fab LLC (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"Integration of optoelectronic devices comprising lithium niobate or other Pockels materials" was invented by Edward Preisler (San Clemente, Calif.) and Oleg Martynov (Lebanon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of integrating an optoelectronic device comprising a Pockels material, such as lithium niobate (LiNbO3), includes forming an optoelectronic device layer over a semiconductor layer. The optoelectronic device layer includes a patterned optoelectronic device segment in an interlayer dielectric. A window is etched in the interlayer dielec...