US Patent Issued to Scintil Photonics on Feb. 3 for "Photonic device for providing light radiation comprising an optical mode in a wave guide" (Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,417, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Scintil Photonics (Grenoble, France).

"Photonic device for providing light radiation comprising an optical mode in a wave guide" was invented by Sylvie Menezo (Grenoble, France) and Torrey Thiessen (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic device for providing light radiation comprises a wave guide, an N-type semiconductor layer covering the wave guide and an active region formed by a stack of layers made of III-V materials. The photonic device also comprises a plurality of P-type semiconductor pillars arranged on and in contact with the active region. At least a first metal pad is in oh...