US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, The Regents of the University of California on June 2 for "Scalable van der Waals superlattices for absorbers and emitters" (Pennsylvania, California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,257, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Scalable van der Waals superlattices for absorbers and emitters" was invented by Deep Jariwala (Philadelphia), Jason Lynch (Philadelphia), Pawan Kumar (Philadelphia), Francisco Barrera (Miami) and Artur Davoyan (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two-dimensional (2D) crystals have renewed opportunities in artificial lattice design and assembly without the constraints of epitaxy. However, the lack of thickness control in exfoliated van der Waals (vdW) layers...