ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,656, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Soitec (Bernin, France).
"Hybrid structure and a method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Didier Landru (Le Champ-pres-Froges, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid structure includes a support substrate having a first coefficient of thermal expansion and a support thickness, and an effective layer disposed on and molecularly bonded to the support substrate along a bonding interface having a bonding energy greater than or equal to 1000 mJ/m2. The effective layer has an effective thickness and a second coefficient of thermal expansion greater than the first coefficient of therma...