A red LED includes a semiconductor LED layer having an active InGaN layer with intrinsic emission spectrum having L.sub.Dom in a range of from 580 nm to 620 nm. A filter is positioned over the semiconductor LED layer to filter shorter wavelengths of the intrinsic emission spectrum and shift L.sub.Dom by between 5 nm to 20 nm to a longer wavelength.

Disclosed herein is a light emitting diode (LED) including: a gallium nitride substrate; a gallium nitride-based first contact layer disposed on the gallium nitride substrate; a gallium nitride-based second contact layer; an active layer having a multi-quantum well structure and disposed between the first and second contact layers; and a super-lattice layer having a multilayer structure and disposed between the first contact layer and the active layer. By employing the gallium nitride substrate, the crystallinity of the semiconductor layers can be improved, and in addition, by disposing the super-lattice layer between the first contact layer and the active layer, a crystal defect that may be generated in the active layer can be prevented.

A semiconductor light emitting device package includes a light emitting structure having a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, a first surface, and a second surface, a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on the second surface of the light emitting structure; an insulating layer, a first metal pad and a second metal pad disposed on the insulating layer, and each having a surface with a first fine uneven pattern so as to have a first surface roughness, a first bonding pad and a second bonding pad disposed on the first metal pad and the second metal pad, respectively, and each having a surface with a second fine uneven pattern so as to have a second surface roughness, and an encapsulant encapsulating the first bonding pad, the second bonding pad, the first metal pad, and the second metal pad.

A semiconductor light emitting device includes a conductive substrate and a first metal layer disposed on the substrate. The first metal layer is formed so as to be electrically connected with the substrate, and the first metal layer includes an Au based material. A joining layer is formed on the first metal layer. The joining layer includes a second metal layer including Au and a third metal layer including Au. A metallic contact layer and an insulating layer are formed on the joining layer. A semiconductor layer is formed on the metallic contact layer and the insulating layer and includes a red-based light emitting layer. An electrode is formed on the semiconductor layer and is made of metal. The insulating layer includes a patterned aperture, and at least a part of the metallic contact layer is formed in the aperture.

Solid state transducer devices with independently controlled regions, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A solid state transducer device in accordance with a particular embodiment includes a transducer structure having a first semiconductor material, a second semiconductor material and an active region between the first and second semiconductor materials, the active region including a continuous portion having a first region and a second region. A first contact is electrically connected to the first semiconductor material to direct a first electrical input to the first region along a first path, and a second contact electrically spaced apart from the first contact and connected to the first semiconductor material to direct a second electrical input to the second region along a second path different than the first path. A third electrical contact is electrically connected to the second semiconductor material.

Methods of forming III-V LED structures on silicon fin templates are described. Those methods and structures may include forming an n-doped III-V layer on a silicon (111) plane of a silicon fin, forming a quantum well layer on the n-doped III-V layer, forming a p-doped III-V layer on the quantum well layer, and then forming an ohmic contact layer on the p-doped III-V layer.

A red light emitting device, a fabricating method of the light emitting device, a light emitting device package and a lighting system are provided. The red light emitting device according to an embodiment may include a first conductive type first semiconductor layer 112; an active layer 114 on the first conductive type first semiconductor layer 112; a second conductive type third semiconductor layer 116 on the active layer 114; a second conductive type fourth semiconductor layer 124 on the second conductive type third semiconductor layer 116; and a second conductive type fifth semiconductor layer 125 on the second conductive type fourth semiconductor layer 124. The second conductive type fifth semiconductor layer 125 may include a superlattice structure of a GaP layer 125a/In.sub.xGa.sub.1-xP layer (0≦x≦1) 125b.

A light emitting device includes a backplane, an array of light emitting diodes attached to a frontside of the backplane, a positive tone, imageable dielectric material layer, such as a positive photoresist layer, located on the frontside of the backplane and laterally surrounding the array of light emitting diodes, such that sidewalls of the light emitting diodes contacting the positive tone, imageable dielectric material layer have a respective reentrant vertical cross-sectional profile, and at least one common conductive layer located over the positive tone, imageable dielectric material layer and contacting the light emitting diodes.

A nanostructured hybrid particle, a manufacturing method thereof, and a device including the nanostructured hybrid particle are disclosed. The nanostructured hybrid particle includes a hydrophobic base particle having a convex-concave nanopattern on a surface thereof; a hydrophobic light-emitting nanoparticle disposed in a concave portion of the convex-concave nanopattern on the surface of hydrophobic base particle; and a coating layer covering the hydrophobic base particle and the hydrophobic light-emitting nanoparticle. In the nanostructured hybrid particle, light extraction may occur in all 3-dimensional directions, and thus, the nanostructured hybrid particle can exhibit high light extraction efficiency compared to light extraction occurring on a two-dimensional plane.

A semiconductor heterostructure for an optoelectronic device is disclosed. The semiconductor heterostructure includes at least one stress control layer within a plurality of semiconductor layers used in the optoelectronic device. Each stress control layer includes stress control regions separated from adjacent stress control regions by a predetermined spacing. The stress control layer induces one of a tensile stress and a compressive stress in an adjacent semiconductor layer.