Applied Plasmonics, a fabless semiconductor company, has invented a practical, mass-market use for devices based on surface plasmons. The new technology employs nano-antennas manufactured in a single layer to generate visible light.

Our mission is to create selected, innovative, products that exploit surface plasmons. We develop intellectual property that enables the design, development, and fabrication of light emission devices on standard CMOS silicon, and other substrates, by exploiting the lithographic capabilities of mainstream semiconductor processing in combination with vacuum microelectronics.

Our devices are the first to permit efficient light generation on a CMOS process without the use of specialty processes. Light is generated without the need for external light sources.