US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 25 for "Method of forming micro-LEDs with ultra-low leakage current" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,347, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Method of forming micro-LEDs with ultra-low leakage current" was invented by Tal Margalith (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Matthew S. Wong (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Lesley Chan (Goleta, Calif.) and Steven P. DenBaars (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Micro-scale light emitting diodes (micro-LEDs) with ultra-low leakage current results from a sidewall passivation method for the micro-LEDs using a chemical treatment followed by conformal dielectric deposition, which reduces or eliminates sidewall damage and surface recombination...