US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on March 18 for "Enhanced room temperature mid-IR LEDs with integrated semiconductor 'metals'" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,264, issued on March 18, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Enhanced room temperature mid-IR LEDs with integrated semiconductor 'metals'" was invented by Daniel Wasserman (West Lake Hills, Texas), Seth Bank (Austin, Texas), Andrew Briggs (Austin, Texas) and Leland Nordin (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mid-IR light emitting diodes (LEDs) based on type-II quantum dot (QD) active regions grown with monolithically integrated semiconductor metal layers are provided. These LEDs comprise layers of type-II semiconductor (e.g., InGaSb) quantum dots integrated into a pn junction d...