US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Nov. 18 for "Superlattice electro-optic device including reconfigurable optical elements" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,602, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Superlattice electro-optic device including reconfigurable optical elements" was invented by Jamal I. Mustafa (Goleta, Calif.), Justin Gordon Adams Wehner (Goleta, Calif.) and Christopher R. Koontz (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for operating one or more one solid-state electro-optic device to provide an electrically switching shutter. The method includes forming an alternating stack of first semiconductor layers having a first dopant and second semiconductor layers having a second dopant to form at least one superlat...