US Patent Issued to Bruker HTS on Nov. 9 for "Method and Apparatus for Producing Biaxially Oriented Thin Films" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 7,829,156, issued on Nov. 9, was assigned to Bruker HTS GmbH (Hanau, Germany).

"Method and Apparatus for Producing Biaxially Oriented Thin Films" was invented by Alexander Usoskin (Gottingen, Germany) and Lutz Kirchhoff (Hattorf, Germany).

According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus serve to produce thin films having a biaxial crystal orientation.

The method includes the steps of: depositing atoms on a substrate, the atoms having a composition corresponding to the thin film to be produced; bombarding the deposited atoms with an energized beam, the energized beam being oriented with respect to the substrate at an angle of a defined range of angles, the step of bombarding substantially taking place during a different time period than the step of depositing; and alternately repeating the step of depositing and the step of bombarding for a plurality of times."

The patent was filed on Feb. 16, 2006, under Application No. 11/355,427.

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