US Patent Issued to SMARTKEM on Jan. 13 for "Sputter protective layer for organic electronic devices" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,146, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SMARTKEM Ltd. (Manchester, Great Britain).

"Sputter protective layer for organic electronic devices" was invented by Ian Lowman (Eccles, Great Britain), John Morgan (Blackley, Great Britain), Soad Mohialdin-Khaffaf (Altrincham, Great Britain), Colin Watson (Llanfairfechan, Great Britain) and Beverley Brown (Warrington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an organic gate insulator (OGI) layer having a low dielectric constant (k), said organic gate insulator layer being over-coated with a cross-linked organic layer (OSPL) having a relatively high permittivi...