US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on Jan. 28 for "Method to control the relaxation of thick films on lattice-mismatched substrates" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,955, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Method to control the relaxation of thick films on lattice-mismatched substrates" was invented by Kamruzzaman Khan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Elaheh Ahmadi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Stacia Keller (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Christian Wurm (Isla Vista, Calif.) and Umesh K. Mishra (Montecito, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate comprising a III-N base layer comprising a first portion and a second portion, the first portion of the III-N base layer having a first natural la...