Appeal No. 96-3592
Application 08/381,335
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s final rejection of claims
18 through 30, which constitute all the claims in the application.
Representative claim 18 is reproduced below:
18. A II-VI compound semiconductor electroluminescent device including:
a plurality of layers of II-VI semiconductor forming a pn junction;
a short-period strained-layer superlattice (SPSLS) active layer within the pn
junction, the SPSLS layer including a plurality of overlaying single crystal thickness layers
of elements and having a form described by the notation ((X) (Y) ) , where X and Y are
m n p
binary II-VI semiconductor compounds and m, n and p are integers;
a substrate for supporting the layers of II-VI semiconductor; and
first and second electrodes for coupling electrical energy to the device.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Jeon et al. (Jeon), "Blue and green diode lasers in ZnSe-based quantum wells," Applied
Physics Letters, Vol. 60, no. 17, pp. 2045-47 (April 27, 1992)
Claims 18 to 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of
obviousness, the examiner relies upon Jeon alone.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the examiner, reference is
made to the briefs and the answers for the respective details thereof.
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