US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation, National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on July 14 for "Nanocomposite-seeded epitaxial growth of single-domain lithium niobate thin films for surface acoustic wave devices" (New Mexico, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,192, issued on July 14, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.) and National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC.

"Nanocomposite-seeded epitaxial growth of single-domain lithium niobate thin films for surface acoustic wave devices" was invented by Haiyan Wang (West Lafayette, Ind.), Robynn-Lynne Paldi (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Aleem Siddiqui (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making LNO film, including the steps of identifying a substrate, identifying a deposition target, placing the substrate and deposition target in a deposition environment, evolving target material i...