US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on Feb. 24 for "Thermally stable metallic glass films via steep compositional gradients" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,834, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Thermally stable metallic glass films via steep compositional gradients" was invented by Jagannathan Rajagopalan (Tempe, Ariz.) and Rohit Berlia (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to grow metallic glass films utilizes engineering steep, spatially modulated compositional gradients during physical vapor deposition. This method can be used to enhance the thermal stability (increase glass transition and crystallization temperature) of thin film metallic glasses or can be used to produce amorphous...