ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,413, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Opnovix Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Relaxed Wurtzite Ingan layers" was invented by Michael R. Krames (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yao Chen (Lausanne, Switzerland), Jean-Francois Carlin (Lausanne, Switzerland), Etienne Giraud (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Nicolas Grandjean (Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bulk relaxed Wurtzite In-containing III-nitride layers having a smooth and substantially pit-free surface morphology and an interface region having a substantially relaxed in-plane a-lattice parameter and characterized by a single-phase gallium-polar (0001) orientation are disclosed. M...