US Patent Issued on May 20 for "Non-c-plane group III-nitride-based VCSELs with nanoporous distributed Bragg reflector mirrors" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,615, issued on May 20.

"Non-c-plane group III-nitride-based VCSELs with nanoporous distributed Bragg reflector mirrors" was invented by Daniel F. Feezell (Albuquerque, N.M.), Morteza Monavarian (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Saadat M. Mishkat-Ul-Masabih (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically injected vertical-cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) and a method of manufacturing the same is disclosed. The electrically injected VCSEL includes a non-c-plane substrate and a nanoporous bottom distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) comprising a plurality of alternating highly doped III-nitride layers and unintentionally doped ...