US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on Aug. 12 for "Bottom-emitting emitter array with a bottom side metal layer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,236, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Bottom-emitting emitter array with a bottom side metal layer" was invented by Ajit Vijay Barve (San Jose, Calif.) and Eric R. Hegblom (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an emitter array may include a substrate, an epitaxial structure on the substrate, a plurality of bottom-emitting emitters defined in the epitaxial structure, a first electrical contact positioned at a top side of the epitaxial structure, a second electrical contact positioned at the top side of the epitaxial structure, and a metal layer dispose...