After listening to the EC broadcast again I came away with a greater appreciation of just how broad and deep Dr. Taylor's achievements, and knowledge, are. His history of the thyristor and the problems previous attemts encountered with it was worth the price of admission. This paragraph from the March 4, 2014 NR describes IP that in itself must be worth a fair chunk of change to segments of the industry.

By the way, I wasn't in attendence and wouldn't recognise a thyristor if it was floating in my morning coffee.

TORONTO, ONTARIO and STORRS, CONNECTICUT--(Marketwired - March 4, 2014) - POET Technologies Inc. (TSX VENTURE:PTK)(OTCQX:POETF) ("the Company") - announced today the achievement of continuous-wave (cw) operation of its thyristor laser within its proprietary planar optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated electronic and optical devices on a single semiconductor wafer. The Company is also reporting significant progress on several other initiatives on its technical roadmap.

Enjoyed you post Proph.