A method of manufacturing an electronic device, including the successive steps of: a) performing an ion implantation of indium or of aluminum into an upper portion of a first single-crystal gallium nitride layer, to make the upper portion of the first layer amorphous and to preserve the crystal structure of a lower portion of the first layer; and b) performing a solid phase recrystallization anneal of the upper portion of the first layer, resulting in transforming the upper portion of the first layer into a crystalline indium gallium nitride or aluminum gallium nitride layer.

An optoelectronic device a substrate, a first doped contact layer arranged on the substrate, a multiple quantum well layer arranged on the first doped contact layer, a boron nitride alloy electron blocking layer arranged on the multiple quantum well layer, and a second doped contact layer arranged on the boron nitride alloy electron blocking layer.

A method making it possible to obtain, on an upper surface of a crystalline substrate, a semipolar layer of nitride material comprising any one from among gallium, aluminium or indium, the method comprises the following steps: obtaining, on the upper surface of the crystalline substrate, a plurality of parallel grooves which extend in a first direction, one of the two opposite facets exhibiting a crystal orientation; etching a plurality of parallel slices which extend in a second direction that has undergone a rotation with respect to the first direction of the grooves in such a way as to obtain individual facets exhibiting a crystal orientation; epitaxial growth of the material from the individual facets.

Micro light-emitting diode (LED) display fabrication and assembly are described. In an example, a micro-light emitting diode (LED) display panel includes a display backplane substrate having a plurality of metal bumps thereon. A plurality of LED pixel elements includes ones of LED pixel elements bonded to corresponding ones of the plurality of metal bumps of display backplane substrate. One or more of the plurality of LED pixel elements has a graphene layer thereon. The graphene layer is on a side of the one or more of the plurality of LED pixel elements opposite the side of the metal bumps.

The present invention provides materials, structures, and methods for III-nitride-based devices, including epitaxial and non-epitaxial structures useful for III-nitride devices including light emitting devices, laser diodes, transistors, detectors, sensors, and the like. In some embodiments, the present invention provides metallo-semiconductor and/or metallo-dielectric devices, structures, materials and methods of forming metallo-semiconductor and/or metallo-dielectric material structures for use in semiconductor devices, and more particularly for use in III-nitride based semiconductor devices. In some embodiments, the present invention includes materials, structures, and methods for improving the crystal quality of epitaxial materials grown on non-native substrates. In some embodiments, the present invention provides materials, structures, devices, and methods for acoustic wave devices and technology, including epitaxial and non-epitaxial piezoelectric materials and structures useful for acoustic wave devices. In some embodiments, the present invention provides metal-base transistor devices, structures, materials and methods of forming metal-base transistor material structures for use in semiconductor devices.

Semiconductor structures and methods for forming those semiconductor structures are disclosed. For example, a semiconductor structure with a p-type superlattice region, an i-type superlattice region, and an n-type superlattice region is disclosed. The semiconductor structure can have a polar crystal structure with a growth axis that is substantially parallel to a spontaneous polarization axis of the polar crystal structure. In some cases, there are no abrupt changes in polarisation at interfaces between each region. At least one of the p-type superlattice region, the i-type superlattice region and the n-type superlattice region can comprise a plurality of unit cells exhibiting a monotonic change in composition from a wider band gap (WBG) material to a narrower band gap (NBG) material or from a NBG material to a WBG material along the growth axis to induce p-type or n-type conductivity.

A light emitting device including first and second electrodes spaced apart from each other on a substrate, at least one bar-type LED having a first end on the first electrode and a second end on the second electrode, and an insulative support body between the substrate and the bar-type LED. The at least one bar-type LED has a length greater than a width.

A light emitting element includes: a semiconductor structure including: a substrate, an n-side nitride semiconductor layer located on the substrate, and a p-side nitride semiconductor layer located on the n-side nitride semiconductor layer, wherein a p-side nitride semiconductor side of the semiconductor structure is a light extraction face side, and an n-side nitride semiconductor side of the semiconductor structure is a mounting face side; a first protective layer located on and in direct contact with an upper face of the p-side nitride semiconductor layer in a region corresponding to the peripheral portion of the p-side nitride semiconductor layer; and a current diffusion layer located on and in direct contact with an upper face of the p-side nitride semiconductor layer in a region corresponding to the area inside of the peripheral portion. The current diffusion layer does not overlap the first protective layer in a top view.

Direct-bonded LED arrays and applications are provided. An example process fabricates a LED structure that includes coplanar electrical contacts for p-type and n-type semiconductors of the LED structure on a flat bonding interface surface of the LED structure. The coplanar electrical contacts of the flat bonding interface surface are direct-bonded to electrical contacts of a driver circuit for the LED structure. In a wafer-level process, micro-LED structures are fabricated on a first wafer, including coplanar electrical contacts for p-type and n-type semiconductors of the LED structures on the flat bonding interface surfaces of the wafer. At least the coplanar electrical contacts of the flat bonding interface are direct-bonded to electrical contacts of CMOS driver circuits on a second wafer. The process provides a transparent and flexible micro-LED array display, with each micro-LED structure having an illumination area approximately the size of a pixel or a smallest controllable element of an image represented on a high-resolution video display.

Provided is a technique for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor substrate with which it is possible to manufacture a nitride semiconductor substrate having sufficiently reduced dislocation density with a large area even if manufactured on an inexpensive substrate made of sapphire, etc. A nitride semiconductor substrate in which a nitride semiconductor layer formed on a substrate is formed by laminating an undoped nitride layer and a rare earth element-added nitride layer to which a rare earth element is added as a doping material, and the dislocation density is of the order of 106 cm−2 or less. A method for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor substrate in which a step for growing GaN, InN, AlN, or a mixed crystal of two or more thereof on a substrate to form an undoped nitride layer, and a step for forming a rare earth element-added nitride layer to which a rare earth element is added so as to be substituted for Ga, In, or Al are performed via a series of formation steps using an organic metal vapor epitaxial technique at a temperature of 900 to 1200° C. without extraction from a reaction vessel.