LEDs-On-Chips Will Give Us Lower Cost Optoelectronics

A MIT team has demonstrated a CMOS device that integrates a practical silicon LED. It may not yet be ready for market but it already displays some interesting properties such as a very fast switching speed.

Perhaps more importantly, further integration of what have traditionally been discrete components would have a huge impact on reducing manufacturing costs.

The research was presented last month at the IEDM Conference in a talk entitled Low Voltage, High Brightness CMOS LEDs.