US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 14 for "III-nitride LED with UV emission by auger carrier injection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,899, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"III-nitride LED with UV emission by auger carrier injection" was invented by Vincent Rienzi (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Christian J. Zollner (Goleta, Calif.), Steven P. DenBaars (Goleta, Calif.) and Shuji Nakamura (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A III-nitride LED with simultaneous visible and ultraviolet (UV) emission, in which the visible emission is due to conventional InGaN active region mechanisms and the UV emission occurs due to Auger carrier injection into a UV light emitting region, such as impurity-doped...