US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on June 30 for "Ir photodetector with graphene and phase change layers and related methods" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,364, issued on June 30, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Ir photodetector with graphene and phase change layers and related methods" was invented by Michael N. Leuenberger (Orlando, Fla.) and Muhammad Waqas Shabbir (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IR photodetector includes an electrically conductive layer, a first dielectric layer over the electrically conductive layer, and a phase change material layer over the first dielectric layer. The IR photodetector further includes first and second electrically conductive contacts coupled to the phase change material laye...