ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,447, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V. (Munich).

"Structural element with improved ferroelectric polarisation switching and reliability and method for producing said structural element" was invented by David Lehninger (Dresden, Germany), Ayse Sunbul (Dresden, Germany), Maximilan Lederer (Dresden, Germany) and Konrad Seidel (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural element may have a ferroelectric or antiferroelectric layer formed on a substrate. The ferroelectric or antiferroelectric layer is doped with a first dopant and at least one second d...