US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on July 8 for "Light emitting device" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,761, issued on July 8, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Light emitting device" was invented by Ayush Pandey (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Zetian Mi (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presented devices and methods are directed to efficient and effective photon emission. In one embodiment, high-performance tunnel junction deep ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are created using plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. The device heterostructure was grown under slightly Ga-rich conditions to promote the formation of nanoscale clusters in the active region. The nanoscale ...