Research

UVC-LED Development for Disinfection

• Deep UV for safer disinfection
• Novel epitaxial process for AlGaN alloys
• UVA, UVB and UVC light emitters
• Advanced UV device design for high power and higher efficiency light;
  UV FAQ: https://media.ies.org/docs/standards/IES%20CR-2-20-V1a-20200507.pdf
  For UVC-LED details, go to: https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/019949/uv-lights-way. 
  If interested in supporting the UVC-LED research, please click: https://gauchoboost.ucsb.edu/project/21466

Micro-LED Development for Mobile Displays

• Blue, green, yellow, and red
• Advanced MOCVD growth
• Low voltage tunnel junctions
• Advanced packaging for light extraction

High Efficiency, High Power LEDs for Lighting (>280 lm/Watt)

Lasers for Lighting and Communication

• Blue (415-450 nm) and green (525 nm) high-power directional laser diodes
• DFB laser designs
• Novel phosphor materials and matrices for high-power applications

Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELS), compact, hight-brightness, high-efficiency, directional sources

• 3D light sources
• Fully polarized arrays

Power Electronics using AlGaN/GaN (98% efficient >2kV)

• High breakdown voltage
• Low on-resistance
• Vertical transistors