US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 12 for "Dopant-vacancy centers in materials and methods of making thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,683, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Dopant-vacancy centers in materials and methods of making thereof" was invented by Thomas Schenkel (San Francisco), Arun Persaud (El Cerrito, Calif.) and Edward Barnard (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to color centers. In one aspect, a method includes providing diamond doped with a dopant. A heavy-ion is directed to the diamond that passes through the diamond. The heavy-ion forms a line of dopant-vacancy centers as it passes through the diamond."

The...