TraskBritt: Technology Areas

TraskBritt Materials Science Practice Group attorneys possess extensive legal and technical experience in materials science-related fields such as metallurgy, ceramics, composites, polymers, and semiconductor materials technology. The Materials Science Practice Group participates in the preparation and prosecution of a wide variety of materials science patent applications encompassing the technologies of traditional metallurgical industries, aerospace structural composites, rocket propellant formulations, ceramic fuel cells, ultra-high hardness cutting materials, advanced structural alloys, ceramics, and semiconductor materials, among many others.

Professionals of the Materials Science Practice Group have extensive industrial and academic experience, drawing on a broad base of skills, knowledge and research in materials science, as well as related technological fields such as mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, biotechnology, and bioengineering.

Representative Patents:

Semiconductor Materials and Processing

6,541,067	Solvated ruthenium precursors for direct liquid injection of ruthenium and ruthenium oxide and method of using the same
6,238,994	Method of creating a rough electrode (high surface area) from Ti and TiN and resulting article
6,063,705	Precursor chemistries for chemical vapor deposition of ruthenium oxide

Ceramic Materials and Processing

6,521,174	Method of forming polycrystalline diamond cutters having modified residual stresses
6,216,805	Dual grade carbide substrate for earth-boring drill bit cutting elements, drill bits so equipped, and methods
5,952,102	Diamond coated WC and WC-based composites with high apparent toughness
5,580,430	Selective metal cation-conducting ceramics
4,829,027	Liquid phase sintering of silicon carbide

Polymeric and Composite Materials and Processing

6,544,367	Overwrap tape end-effector for fiber placement/winding machines
6,495,259	Rubber-epoxy bonding via an interfacial layer containing acrylates
6,290,799	Method for producing fiber reinforced structure

Materials Science Practice Group Professionals