US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Jan. 27 for "Method of manufacturing vertical cavity surface emitting laser element and vertical cavity surface emitting laser element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,364, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing vertical cavity surface emitting laser element and vertical cavity surface emitting laser element" was invented by Kenichi Terao (Tokushima, Japan) and Daisuke Morita (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a vertical cavity surface emitting laser element including a first reflector including a nitride semiconductor multilayer film, the method includes: growing a first semiconductor layer consisting of a group III semiconductor containing aluminum and indium, the growing of the first semiconductor layer cons...