Appeal No. 1998-0765
Application No. 08/451,853
and about 0.3 mole percent lanthanum doping on said
electrically conductive buffer layer;
(c) forming a barium strontium titanate
dielectric layer on said lanthanum doped barium
strontium titanate layer; and
(d) forming an upper electrode on said barium
strontium titanate layer.
The examiner relies upon the following references:
Kaiser et al. (Kaiser) 3,305,394 Feb. 21,
1967
Brauer et al. (Brauer) 3,569,802 Mar. 09,
1971
McSweeney 4,309,295 Jan.
05,
1982
Miyasaka et al. (Miyasaka) 5,053,917 Oct. 01,
1991
Peng et al. (Peng), “Compensation Effect in
Semiconducting Barium Tatanate”, Communications of
the American Ceramic Society, 71(1) Journal of
American Ceramic Society, pp. C-44 to C-46 (1988).
Uchino, “Electrodes for Piezoelectric Actuators”,
Ceramics, vol. 21 (3), pp. 229-236 (1986).
Claims 16 to 19, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28, and 32 to 36 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C § 103 as being unpatentable over
Kaiser, McSweeney and Miyasaka. Claims 20, 22, 24 and 27
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C § 103 as being unpatentable over
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