Semiconductor device manufacturing: process – Having magnetic or ferroelectric component
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-03
2006-01-03
Pert, Evan (Department: 2826)
Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
Having magnetic or ferroelectric component
C438S677000, C029S829000, C977S726000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06982174
ABSTRACT:
A ferroelectric substrate (10) is patterned using local electric fields from an apparatus (14) to produce nanometer sized domains with controlled surface charge (12), that allow site selective metalization (22) and subsequent reaction with functional molecules (18), resulting in nanometer-scale molecular devices.
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Alvarez Rodolfo Antonio
Bonnell Dawn A.
Kalinin Sergei V.
Pert Evan
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Woodcock & Washburn LLP
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