Patent ID: 7781067

Claim:
A semiconducting structure comprising: a. a glass substrate; b. a nucleation layer contacting the glass substrate, the nucleation layer selected from the group consisting of a silicon oxide film, a silicon nitride film, or a nucleation layer formed by subjecting a surface portion of the glass substrate to ion bombardment with Ar+ having energies in a range of from about 100 eV to about 1000 eV to prepare it for deposition of a template layer thereon; c. a template layer deposited on the nucleation layer, wherein the template layer comprises one of a metal nitride and a metal oxide, wherein the metal nitride has a face-centered cubic crystal structure, wherein the metal oxide has a face-centered cubic crystal structure, and wherein the template layer is deposited by one of ion beam assisted deposition and reactive ion beam assisted deposition; d. at least one biaxially oriented buffer layer epitaxially deposited on the template layer, the buffer layer comprising one of the metal oxide and metal nitride; and e. a biaxially oriented semiconductor layer epitaxially deposited on the buffer layer.