US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Sept. 30 for "Elimination of waveguide modes in organic light-emitting diodes using an ultrathin transparent conductor" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,257, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Elimination of waveguide modes in organic light-emitting diodes using an ultrathin transparent conductor" was invented by Yongbum Park (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Changyeong Jeong (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Lingjie Jay Guo (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of increasing light emission efficiency in an organic light emitting diode (OLED) eliminates or reduces at least one waveguide mode selected from the group consisting of: transverse electric (TE0) mode, transverse magnetic (TM1) mode, and combinations thereof by disp...