US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 25 for "Laser removal of defects in a dielectric for modulating an adjoining atomically two-dimensional material" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,240, issued on March 25, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Laser removal of defects in a dielectric for modulating an adjoining atomically two-dimensional material" was invented by Carlos Manuel Torres Jr. (San Diego), Brad Chun-Ting Liu (San Diego) and Bienvenido Melvin L. Pascoguin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method removes defects in a dielectric layer, such as during fabrication of a device that emits light from hot electrons injected into an atomically two-dimensional material. An atomically two-dimensional material and the dielectric layer are ad...