US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 25 for "Low loss dielectric metasurface side mirrors for micro-LEDs" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,353, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Low loss dielectric metasurface side mirrors for micro-LEDs" was invented by Paul West (Portland, Ore.) and Khaled Ahmed (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for improving the efficiency of an LED or micro-LED arrangement are described. In the disclosed embodiments, the LED or micro-LED is surrounded by an angled metasurface mirror, comprised of nanoparticles. This metasurface mirror reflect side emissions from the LED or micro-LED towards an observer, reducing light loss and thereby improving the energy efficiency of, as well ...