US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 17 for "Narrowband sensors based on plasmonic metasurfaces integrated on piezoelectric plates" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,504, issued on March 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Narrowband sensors based on plasmonic metasurfaces integrated on piezoelectric plates" was invented by Jeronimo Segovia-Fernandez (San Jose, Calif.) and Corina Nistorica (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical detector system includes a light source configured to emit light having a frequency spectrum and modulated in time, and an optical detector configured to detect an intensity of the light at a wavelength range within the frequency spectrum. The optical detector includes a piezoelectric layer, a first metal layer coupled to a first sur...