ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,771, issued on July 7, was assigned to VERSITECH Ltd. (Hong Kong).
"Methods and apparatus for integrating diamond with LED towards on-chip quantum sensing" was invented by Zhiqin Chu (Hong Kong), Jixiang Jing (Hong Kong) and Feng Xu (Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A small volume optoelectronic chip contains an LED chip with a diamond having nitrogen-vacancy centers embedded therein. The LED chip generates light having a first wavelength, and the diamond with nitrogen-vacancy centers generates light having a second wavelength after excitement with light having the first wavelength. The diamond may also be on or adjacent the L...