US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on March 24 for "High-density micro-LED arrays with reflective sidewalls" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,329, issued on March 24, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"High-density micro-LED arrays with reflective sidewalls" was invented by Kai Ding (Cupertino, Calif.), Lisong Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Mingwei Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Zhiyong Li (Foster City, Calif.), Hou T. Ng (Campbell, Calif.), Sivapackia Ganapathiappan (Los Altos, Calif.) and Nag Patibandla (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Micro-LED structures include an LED epilayer that may be formed before the micro-LED structure is coupled to a backplane substrate. In order to prevent light leakage and maximize light output, the sidewalls and ...