Surface control alloy substrates and methods of manufacture therefor

US6730410B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignees

• Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. · US
• The Regents of the University of California · US

Inventors

• Leslie G. Fritzemeier · Mendon, US
• Qi Li · Mountain View, US
• Martin W. Rupich · Framingham, US
• Elliott Thompson · West Greenwich, US
• Edward J. Siegal · Malden, US
• Cornelis Leo Hans Thieme · Westborough, US
• Suresh Annavarapu · Edgewater, US
• Paul N. Arendt · Los Alamos, US
• Stephen R. Foltyn · Los Alamos, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 14, 2000
• Grant date: May 4, 2004
• Expiry date: Oct 2, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S428/93

Abstract

Methods and articles for controlling the surface of an alloy substrate for deposition of an epitaxial layer. The invention includes the use of an intermediate layer to stabilize the substrate surface against oxidation for subsequent deposition of an epitaxial layer.