ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,787, issued on May 26, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Laminated structure and method for manufacturing laminated structure" was invented by Takenori Watabe (Annaka, Japan), Hiroshi Hashigami (Annaka, Japan) and Masayuki Tanno (Annaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminated structure includes a crystalline substrate and a crystalline oxide film containing gallium as a main component and having a Beta-gallia structure, wherein the crystalline substrate is a crystalline substrate containing lithium tantalate as a main component. This provides an inexpensive laminated structure having a thermally stable cr...