Patent 7459325 was granted and assigned to Texas Instruments on December, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Organic surfactants are employed to passivate the surfaces of MEMS devices, such as digital micromirrors. The binding of these surfactants to the surface is improved by first associating with the surface transition metal atoms or ions from Groups IVB, VB, and IVB of the periodic table.