Owner General Electric Company

Inventors Tsakalakos, Loucas; Korevaar, Bastiaan Arie; Butterfield, Eric Gardner; Srivastava, Alok Mani

Agent Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

Pub. Number AU-A-2010202874

Priority 12/503,390 15.07.09 US

Filing date 7 July 2010

Wipo publication date 3 February 2011

H01L 31/055 (2006.01) Semiconductor devices sensitive to infra-red radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength, or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation

B82B 1/00 (2006.01) Nano-structures

G02B 1/11 (2006.01) Optical elements characterised by the material of which they are made

H01L 31/0216 (2006.01) Semiconductor devices sensitive to infra-red radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength, or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation - Coatings

H01L 33/44 (2010.01) Semiconductor devices with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier specially adapted for light emission