Patent classifications
H01L33/007
Integrated multi-color light-emitting pixel arrays based devices by bonding
Integrated active-matrix multi-color light emitting pixel arrays based displays and methods of fabricating the integrated displays are provided. An example integrated device includes a backplane device and different color light emitting diodes (LEDs) devices arranged in different height planar layers on the backplane device. The backplane device includes at least one backplane having a number of pixel circuits. Each LED device includes an array of LEDs each operable to emit light with a particular color and conductively coupled to respective pixel circuits in the backplane to form active-matrix LED sub-pixels. The different color LED sub-pixels form an array of active-matrix multi-color display pixels. Plug vias can be arranged in different planar layers to conductively couple upper-level LEDs to respective pixel circuits in respective regions over the backplane device. The plug vias can extend from an upper planar layer into a lower planar layer to fix the two planar layers together.
UV light emitting diode and method of fabricating the same
Exemplary embodiments provide a UV light emitting diode and a method of fabricating the same. The method of fabricating a UV light emitting diode includes growing a first n-type semiconductor layer including AlGaN, wherein growth of the first n-type semiconductor layer includes changing a growth pressure within a growth chamber and changing a flow rate of an n-type dopant source introduced into the growth chamber. A pressure change during growth of the first n-type semiconductor layer includes at least one cycle of a pressure increasing period and a pressure decreasing period over time, and change in flow rate of the n-type dopant source includes increasing the flow rate of the n-type dopant source in the form of at least one pulse. The UV light emitting diode fabricated by the method has excellent crystallinity.
Device including transparent layer with profiled surface for improved extraction
A profiled surface for improving the propagation of radiation through an interface is provided. The profiled surface includes a set of large roughness components providing a first variation of the profiled surface having a characteristic scale approximately an order of magnitude larger than a target wavelength of the radiation. The set of large roughness components can include a series of truncated shapes. The profiled surface also includes a set of small roughness components superimposed on the set of large roughness components and providing a second variation of the profiled surface having a characteristic scale on the order of the target wavelength of the radiation.
Method of forming micro light emitting diode
The present disclosure proposes a micro LED and a method of forming the same. After a body of layers to structure a PN junction is formed sequentially on the outer wall of a buffer layer column, a first electrode is formed on the outer side of the body of layers that structured the PN junction. A second electrode is formed on the inner side of the body of layers that structured the PN junction after the buffer layer column is removed. The first electrode and second electrode are insulating to each other in areas outside of the body of layers structuring the PN junction. The micro LED formed is of a tube structure. The tube-structured micro LED can effectively lower the impedance imposed by the body of layers structuring the PN junction between the first and second electrodes, and thus enhance conductivity and illumination efficiency of the micro LED.
Micro-LED module and method for fabricating the same
A method for fabricating a micro-LED module is disclosed. The method includes: preparing a micro-LED including a plurality of electrode pads and a plurality of LED cells; preparing a submount substrate including a plurality of electrodes corresponding to the plurality of electrode pads; and flip-bonding the micro-LED to the submount substrate through a plurality of solders located between the plurality of electrode pads and the plurality of electrodes. The flip-bonding includes heating the plurality of solders by a laser.
VERTICAL STRUCTURE LEDS
A method for manufacturing a light emitting diode can include forming a GaN-based semiconductor structure with a thickness of less than 5 microns on a substrate, the GaN-based semiconductor structure having a p-type GaN-based semiconductor layer; an active layer on the p-type GaN-based semiconductor layer; and an n-type GaN-based semiconductor layer on the active layer; forming a p-type electrode having multiple metal layers on the GaN-based semiconductor structure; forming a metal support layer on the p-type electrode; removing the substrate from the GaN-based semiconductor structure to expose an upper surface of the GaN-based semiconductor structure; forming an n-type electrode on a flat portion produced by polishing the exposed upper surface of the GaN-based semiconductor structure, not only with overlapping at least a portion of the p-type electrode in a thickness direction of the GaN-based semiconductor structure but also with contacting the flat portion; and forming an insulating layer on the upper surface of the GaN-based semiconductor structure and on an entire side surface of the GaN-based semiconductor structure, in which a first part formed on the upper surface of the GaN-based semiconductor structure in the insulating layer contacts the upper surface of the GaN-based semiconductor structure and a side surface of the n-type electrode, and a second part formed on the entire side surface of the GaN-based semiconductor structure in the insulating layer does not contact the n-type electrode.
OXYGEN CONTROLLED PVD ALN BUFFER FOR GAN-BASED OPTOELECTRONIC AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES
Oxygen controlled PVD AlN buffers for GaN-based optoelectronic and electronic devices is described. Methods of forming a PVD AlN buffer for GaN-based optoelectronic and electronic devices in an oxygen controlled manner are also described. In an example, a method of forming an aluminum nitride (AlN) buffer layer for GaN-based optoelectronic or electronic devices involves reactive sputtering an AlN layer above a substrate, the reactive sputtering involving reacting an aluminum-containing target housed in a physical vapor deposition (PVD) chamber with a nitrogen-containing gas or a plasma based on a nitrogen-containing gas. The method further involves incorporating oxygen into the AlN layer.
OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING THREE-DIMENSIONAL DIODES
An optoelectronic device including a support having a rear surface and a front surface opposite each other, a plurality of nucleation conductive strips forming first polarization electrodes, an intermediate insulating layer covering the nucleation conductive strips, a plurality of diodes, each of which having a first, three-dimensional doped region and a second doped region, and a plurality of top conductive strips forming second polarization electrodes and resting on the intermediate insulating layer, each top conductive strip being disposed in such a way as to be in contact with the second doped regions of a set of diodes of which the first doped regions are in contact with different nucleation conductive strips.
Method for Forming a Semiconductor Structure and a Semiconductor Structure Manufactured Thereof
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the semiconductor structure are provided. The method includes: providing a monocrystalline substrate having an upper surface covered with a masking layer comprising at least one opening exposing the upper surface; filling the opening by epitaxially growing therein a first layer comprising a first Group III-nitride compound; and growing the first layer further above the opening and on the masking layer by epitaxial lateral overgrowth, wherein the at least one opening has a top surface defined by three or more straight edges forming a polygon parallel to the upper surface and oriented in such a way with respect to the crystal lattice of the monocrystalline substrate so as to permit the epitaxial lateral overgrowth of the first layer in a direction perpendicular to at least one of the edges, thereby forming the semiconductor structure as an elongated structure.
SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING ARRAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Provided are a semiconductor light-emitting array and a method of manufacturing the same. The manufacturing method includes forming a plurality of grooves in a region of a substrate and sequentially growing a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the substrate to form a light-emitting structure layer.