A Novel Transparent Electrodes for VCSELs - TRAVEL

Project summary

The project involves functional materials applied to semiconductor vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) that are the smallest coherent light sources, widely used in very fast-growing photonics industry including LIDARs, time-of-flight sensors, autonomous vehicles, robots and drones. The product will benefit from considerably lower electrical power consumption and higher performance compared to the existing solutions. As VCSELs sector is developing dynamically with lasers’ production expected to double in the next five years, the Proposal has the potential to significantly contribute to the reduction of lasers’ global energy consumption and to the decrease of harmful and hard-to-obtain materials required in their production. We expect that proposed transparent electrode will outperform existing solutions for electroluminescent diodes, detectors, solar cells and interactive optoelectronics.