US Patent Issued to Washington University, the Trustees of Boston College on Aug. 25 for "Method of controlling charge doping in van der Waals heterostructures" (Missouri, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,789, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis) and the Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Morocco).

"Method of controlling charge doping in van der Waals heterostructures" was invented by Erik Henriksen (St. Louis), Jesse Balgley (St. Louis), Kenneth S. Burch (Newton, Mass.) and Yiping Wang (Brighton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to controlling charge transfer in 2D materials. A charge-transfer controlled 2D device comprises a 2D active conducting material, a 2D charge transfer source material, and at least one overlapping portion wherein the 2D active cond...