US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Jan. 13 for "Micro light emitting diodes with nanostructures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,121, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Micro light emitting diodes with nanostructures" was invented by Guangru Li (La Jolla, Calif.) and Zhaowei Liu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting diode may include a light emission layer and a charge transport layer disposed on the light emission layer. One or more nanostructures may be formed by removing a portion of the charge transport layer and/or the light emission layer and depositing a plasmonic metamaterial on a remaining portion of the charge transport layer and/or the light emission layer. The one ...