Active solid-state devices (e.g. – transistors – solid-state diode – Incoherent light emitter structure – With reflector – opaque mask – or optical element integral...
Reexamination Certificate
2008-06-24
2008-06-24
Whitehead, Jr., Carl (Department: 2813)
Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diode
Incoherent light emitter structure
With reflector, opaque mask, or optical element integral...
C257SE33068, C977S950000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07391059
ABSTRACT:
Devices, such as light-emitting devices (e.g., LEDs), and methods associated with such devices are provided. A light-emitting device may include an interface through which emitted light passes therethrough. The interface having a dielectric function that varies spatially according to a pattern, wherein the pattern is arranged to provide light emission that has a substantially isotropic emission pattern and is more collimated than a Lambertian distribution of light.
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Erchak Alexei A.
Lidorikis Elefterios
Lim Michael
Nemchuk Nikolay I.
Venezia Jo A.
Dolan Jennifer M
Jr. Carl Whitehead
Luminus Devices, Inc.
Wolf Greenfield & Sacks P.C.
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