US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on June 17 for "Visible light-emitting device and laser with improved tolerance to crystalline defects and damage" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,714, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Visible light-emitting device and laser with improved tolerance to crystalline defects and damage" was invented by Minjoo Lawrence Lee (Urbana, Ill.) and Pankul Dhingra (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Visible spectrum quantum dot (QD) light emitting sources integrable with integrated silicon photonics include a plurality of epitaxially grown InP QDs within an active region. The light emitting sources include light emitting diodes (LEDs) and semiconductor lasers."

The patent was filed on May 23, 2022, under Applic...