Intellectual Property Law

US Patent 7884446 - Nanospikes

This patent from Harvard teaches a method of laser processing a silicon substrate to create a nanospiked surface. Claim 1 reads:

1. A semiconductor substrate, comprising a surface layer having at least a portion exhibiting an undulating topography characterized by a plurality of submicron-sized features having an average height less than about 1 micrometer and an average width in a range of about 100 nm to about 500 nm.

Full post as published by TinytechIP on February 10, 2011 (boomark / email).