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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
May. 01, 2017
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Travis J. Anderson, Alexandria, VA (US);
Boris N. Feygelson, Springfield, VA (US);
Andrew D. Koehler, Alexandria, VA (US);
Karl D. Hobart, Alexandria, VA (US);
Francis J. Kub, Arnold, MD (US);
Jordan Greenlee, Vienna, VA (US);
The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
An method of annealing by: providing a substrate having a III-nitride, sapphire, silicon, diamond, gallium arsenide, or silicon carbide surface; depositing a layer of a transition metal nitride directly on the surface; and annealing the substrate at at least 900° C. in an oxygen-free environment. An article having: a substrate having a III-nitride, sapphire, silicon, diamond, gallium arsenide, or silicon carbide surface; and a layer of a transition metal nitride directly on the surface.