US Patent Issued to NTT on July 7 for "Light-emitting element and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,508, issued on July 7, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Light-emitting element and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Kazuyuki Hirama (Tokyo), Yoshitaka Taniyasu (Tokyo) and Kazuhide Kumakura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting element includes: a light emitting layer formed of an i-type layered nitride semiconductor; a first semiconductor layer that is disposed on one surface of the light emitting layer, and is formed of a p-type layered nitride semiconductor or p-type diamond; and a second semiconductor layer that is disposed on the other surface of the light emitting layer, and is formed of an n...