A semiconductor light emitting device comprising a light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region is combined with a ceramic layer which is disposed in a path of light emitted by the light emitting layer. The ceramic layer is composed of or includes a wavelength converting material such as a phosphor. Luminescent ceramic layers according to embodiments of the invention may be more robust and less sensitive to temperature than prior art phosphor layers. In addition, luminescent ceramics may exhibit less scattering and may therefore increase the conversion efficiency over prior art phosphor layers.

A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element for emitting primary light, and a wavelength conversion unit for absorbing part of the primary light and emitting secondary light having a wavelength longer than that of the primary light, wherein the wavelength conversion unit includes plural kinds of phosphors having light absorption characteristics different from each other, and then at least one kind of phosphor among the plural kinds of phosphors has an absorption characteristic that can absorb the secondary light emitted from at least another kind of phosphor among the plural kinds of phosphors.

Networks of semiconductor structures with fused insulator coatings and methods of fabricating networks of semiconductor structures with fused insulator coatings are described. In an example, a semiconductor structure includes an insulator network. A plurality of discrete semiconductor nanocrystals is disposed in the insulator network. Each of the plurality of discrete semiconductor nanocrystals is spaced apart from one another by the insulator network.

A manufacturing method of a display apparatus includes providing a backlight unit under a display panel to provide a light to the display panel. The providing of the backlight unit includes disposing a light source on a substrate to emit the light, disposing a mask above the light source, which includes a first opening and a second opening greater than the first opening disposed under the first opening, and providing a transparent resin including a wavelength converting material on the light source through the first and second openings to form a wavelength converting member. A width in a cross section of the wavelength converting member along a direction substantially vertical to the substrate becomes smaller as a distance from the substrate becomes greater.

Small LED sources with high brightness and high efficiency apparatus including the small LED sources and methods of using the small LED sources are disclosed.

An ink composition, including a quantum dot; a metal catalyst; an aromatic halide compound; an ene compound including at least one C—H moiety and a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond; and optionally, a metal oxide particle, wherein the metal catalyst is a metal salt, a metal coordination complex, or a combination thereof, wherein the metal catalyst comprises a metal that is palladium, nickel, ruthenium, rhodium, iridium, iron, cobalt, chromium, copper, platinum, silver, gold, or a combination thereof.

A wavelength converting element according to the present disclosure includes: a wavelength converting body including an incident surface and an exit surface and configured to perform wavelength conversion on a primary light in a first wavelength band, entered from the incident surface, thereby generating a secondary light in a second wavelength band, which differs from the first wavelength band, the wavelength converting body emitting the secondary light from the exit surface; a metallic antenna group provided in a close vicinity of the wavelength converting body and including a plurality of metallic antennas disposed so as to be spaced apart from each other at a distance of substantially an optical wavelength of the secondary light in the wavelength converting body; and a dielectric antenna group including a plurality of dielectric antennas and provided so as to face the exit surface of the wavelength converting body.

A light emitting device including a board, light emitting elements, a wavelength conversion member, and first and second metal plates. The board has a first surface and an opposite second surface, and is longer in a first direction than in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The light emitting elements are mounted on the first surface and are arrayed in a row along the first direction. The wavelength conversion member includes a first portion covering the light emitting elements and a second portion covering the second surface. The light emitting elements includes a first light emitting element located closest to the first metal plate, and a second light emitting element located closest to the second metal plate. The light emitting elements on the first surface are located between a first end surface of the first metal plate and a first end surface of the second metal plate.

A display apparatus includes: a substrate; a light-emitting diode (“LED”) disposed above the substrate; a pixel-defining layer disposed above the substrate and including a concave portion which defines a space in which the LED is disposed; a light guider disposed in the space and between the LED and a first inner side surface of the concave portion; and a light blocker disposed above the pixel-defining layer to cover a top portion of the LED. The LED is disposed a second inner side surface of the concave portion, which is opposite to the first inner side surface, and spaced apart from a center of the concave portion, and the light guider guides light emitted from the LED to a region adjacent to the second inner side surface of the concave portion.

An electromagnetic radiation emitting assembly includes a carrier, an electromagnetic radiation emitting component arranged above the carrier, and a potting material at least partly surrounding the electromagnetic radiation emitting component and into which are embedded phosphor that converts the electromagnetic radiation and heat-conducting particles that conduct heat arising during operation of the electromagnetic radiation emitting assembly, wherein a phosphor concentration in the potting material near the electromagnetic radiation emitting component is greater than a particle concentration of the heat-conducting particles in the potting material near the electromagnetic radiation emitting component, and a particle concentration of the heat-conducting particles in the potting material near the electromagnetic radiation emitting component is greater than in the potting material remote from the electromagnetic radiation emitting component.