US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Jan. 13 for "Piezoelectric device with hydrogen getter" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,223, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Piezoelectric device with hydrogen getter" was invented by Chih-Ming Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chung-Yi Yu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to a device. The device includes a first electrode on a substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the piezoelectric layer. A layer of hydrogen getter material is disposed on the first electrode and is separated from the piezoelectric layer by the first electrode. The layer of hydrogen ...