US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on June 16 for "2D-doped surface passivation structure and method of manufacture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,335, issued on June 16, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"2D-doped surface passivation structure and method of manufacture" was invented by Michael E. Hoenk (Valencia, Calif.), April D. Jewell (Los Angeles), Todd J. Jones (Altadena, Calif.) and Shouleh Nikzad (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of coating a detector. The method includes: providing the detector including a detector surface; performing a planarization process to the detector surface; performing a piranha clean process to the planarized surface; performing a slight etch to the piranha cleane...