US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma on Sept. 30 for "Lead salt thin films, devices, and methods of manufacture" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,057, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.).

"Lead salt thin films, devices, and methods of manufacture" was invented by Binbin Weng (Norman, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a lead salt thin film on a substrate by seeding a substrate with a lead salt solution (e.g., PbSe, PbS, or PbTe) to form a seeded substrate comprising lead salt seed crystals, and growing the lead salt thin film upon the substrate by exposing the seeded substrate to a chemical bath comprising the lead salt solution at a predetermined growth temperature. A lead salt thi...