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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2005
Applicants:
David E. Stevenson, Dexter, MI (US);
LI Q. Zhou, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Inventors:
David E. Stevenson, Dexter, MI (US);
Li Q. Zhou, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
Wintek Electro Optics Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 14/34 (2006.01); H01B 1/16 (2006.01); B22F 5/00 (2006.01); B22F 3/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Silicon oxide and electrically conductive doped silicon materials are sintered in a protective environment to yield a composite SiO:Si material that exhibits the properties of SiOx, and yet is electrically conductive due to the presence of Si. Such a composite material finds many uses, such as a target for DC and/or AC sputtering processes to produce silicon oxide thin films for touch-screen applications, barrier thin films in LCD displays and optical thin films used in a wide variety of applications.