US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 24 for "Optical detector including plasmonic metasurfaces and bulk acoustic wave resonators" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,042, issued on March 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Optical detector including plasmonic metasurfaces and bulk acoustic wave resonators" was invented by Jeronimo Segovia Fernandez (San Jose, Calif.), Ting-Ta Yen (San Jose, Calif.) and Hassan Omar Ali (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for an optical detector includes a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator including a piezoelectric layer and a metal layer, an acoustic Bragg mirror on the BAW resonator and including a first acoustic impedance layer and a second acoustic impedance layer different than the first acoustic impedance layer, and ...