US Patent Issued to Northwestern University, UChicago Argonne on May 27 for "Oxygen- and fluorine-doped cesium and rubidium lead perovskite compounds for hard radiation detection" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,796, issued on May 27, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) and UChicago Argonne LLC (Chicago).

"Oxygen- and fluorine-doped cesium and rubidium lead perovskite compounds for hard radiation detection" was invented by Wenwen Lin (Willowbrook, Ill.), Duck Young Chung (Bolingbrook, Ill.) and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (Wilmette, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inorganic perovskites doped with oxygen atoms or fluorine atoms, methods for making the doped perovskites, and hard radiation detectors incorporating the doped perovskites as photoactive layers are provided. The doped perovskites utilize lead oxide, lead fluorid...