US Patent Issued to ETH ZURICH on March 3 for "Method for producing a nano-structured element made of hexagonal boron nitride and device comprising such an element" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,372, issued on March 3, was assigned to ETH ZURICH (Zurich).

"Method for producing a nano-structured element made of hexagonal boron nitride and device comprising such an element" was invented by David J. Norris (Zurich, Switzerland), Nolan Lassaline (Zurich, Switzerland) and Deepankur Thureja (Untersiggenthal, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is indicated for producing a nano-structured element (1) made of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). The method comprises the steps of a.) generating a relief structure (4) in the surface (31) of a resist (3), the resist in particular being a polymer resist (3); of b.) placing the...