The invention relates to a manufacturing process of semiconductor material of element III nitride from a starting substrate, the process comprising: the formation of an intermediate layer based on silicon on a starting substrate, said intermediate layer comprising at least two adjacent zones of different crystalline orientations, especially a monocrystalline zone and an amorphous or poly-crystalline zone, growth via epitaxy of a layer of element III nitride on said intermediate layer,
the intermediate layer being intended to be vaporised spontaneously during the step consisting of growing the layer of element III nitride via epitaxy.

The present application discloses a nitride semiconductor light-emitting device and a manufacture method thereof. The nitride semiconductor light-emitting device includes an epitaxial structure, wherein the epitaxial structure has a first face and a second face opposite to the first face, the first face is a (0001) nitrogen face and located at the n type side of the epitaxial structure, the second face is located at the p type side of the epitaxial structure, the n type side of the epitaxial structure is electrically contacted with an n type electrode, the p type side is electrically contacted with a p type electrode, and a ridge waveguide structure is formed on the first face. The nitride semiconductor light-emitting device, especially a III-V nitride semiconductor laser or a super-radiance light-emitting diode, of the present application, has the advantages of low resistance, low internal loss, small threshold current, small thermal resistance and good stability and reliability and the like, and meanwhile the preparation process is simple and is easily implemented.

An epitaxial growth process, referred to as metal-semiconductor junction assisted epitaxy, of ultrawide bandgap aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) is disclosed. The epitaxy of AlGaN is performed in metal-rich (e.g., Ga-rich) conditions using plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. The excess Ga layer leads to the formation of a metal-semiconductor junction during the epitaxy of magnesium (Mg)-doped AlGaN, which pins the Fermi level away from the valence band at the growth front. The Fermi level position is decoupled from Mg-dopant incorporation; that is, the surface band bending allows the formation of a nearly n-type growth front despite p-type dopant incorporation. With controlled tuning of the Fermi level by an in-situ metal-semiconductor junction during epitaxy, efficient p-type conduction can be achieved for large bandgap AlGaN.

Micro light-emitting diode (LED) displays, and fabrication and assembly of micro LED displays, are described. In an example, a pixel element for a micro-light emitting diode (LED) display panel includes a blue color nanowire or nanopyramid LED above a first nucleation layer above a substrate, the blue color nanowire or nanopyramid LED including a first GaN core. A green color nanowire or nanopyramid LED is above a second nucleation layer above the substrate, the green color nanowire or nanopyramid LED including a second GaN core. A red color nanowire or nanopyramid LED is above a third nucleation layer above the substrate, the red color nanowire or nanopyramid LED including a GaInP core.

The invention relates to an optoelectronic semiconductor element (100) comprising a semiconductor layer sequence (1) with a first layer (10) of a first conductivity type, a second layer (12) of a second conductivity type, and an active layer (11) which is arranged between the first layer (10) and the second layer (12) and which absorbs or emits electromagnetic radiation when operated as intended. The semiconductor element (100) is equipped with a plurality of injection regions (2) which are arranged adjacently to one another in a lateral direction, wherein the semiconductor layer sequence (1) is doped within each injection region (2) such that the semiconductor layer sequence (1) has the same conductivity type as the first layer (10) within the entire injection region (2). Each injection region (2) passes at least partly through the active layer (11) starting from the first layer (10). Furthermore, each injection region (2) is laterally surrounded by a continuous path of the active layer (11), the active layer (11) being doped less in the path than in the injection region (2) or oppositely thereto. During the operation of the semiconductor element (100), charge carriers reach the injection regions (2) at least partly from the first layer (10) and are directly injected into the active layer (11) from there.

A method of forming a III-Nitride based device comprising: (a) depositing first layers by MOCVD on a substrate, wherein the first layers comprise device layers of III-Nitride material; and (b) depositing epitaxial second layers over the first layers by at least one of sputtering, plasma deposition, pulsed laser deposition, or liquid phase epitaxy, wherein the second layers comprise III-Nitride material and define at least partially a tunnel junction.

A method of producing optoelectronic components includes A) providing a carrier and optoelectronic semiconductor chips including contact elements arranged on a contact side of the semiconductor chip; B) applying the semiconductor chips laterally next to one another on to the carrier, wherein the contact sides face the carrier during application; C) applying an electrically-conductive layer at least on to subregions of the sides of the semiconductor chip not covered by the carrier; D) applying a protective layer at least on to subregions of side surfaces of the semiconductor chips running transversely to the contact surface; E) electrophoretically depositing a converter layer on to the electrically-conductive layer, wherein the converter layer is configured to convert at least part of radiation emitted by the semiconductor chip into radiation of a different wavelength range; and F) removing the electrically-conductive layer from regions between the converter layer and the semiconductor chips.

A solution for fabricating a semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a plurality of semiconductor layers grown over a substrate using a set of epitaxial growth periods. During each epitaxial growth period, a first semiconductor layer having one of: a tensile stress or a compressive stress is grown followed by growth of a second semiconductor layer having the other of: the tensile stress or the compressive stress directly on the first semiconductor layer.

A substrate including a photonic crystal has a compound semiconductor, dielectric layers, and a first semiconductor layer. The dielectric layers are provided on a surface of the compound semiconductor substrate and disposed at each grating point of a two-dimensional diffraction grating, each of the dielectric layers having an asymmetric shape in relation to at least one edge of the two-dimensional diffraction grating and having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the compound semiconductor substrate. The first semiconductor layer includes a flat first face covering the dielectric layers and the surface of the compound semiconductor substrate, a layer constituting the first face containing a material capable of being lattice matched to a material constituting the compound semiconductor substrate.

A method for producing a semiconductor chip (100) is provided, in which, during a growth process for growing a first semiconductor layer (1), an inhomogeneous lateral temperature distribution is created along at least one direction of extent of the growing first semiconductor layer (1), such that a lateral variation of a material composition of the first semiconductor layer (1) is produced. A semiconductor chip (100) is additionally provided.