A display device is provided. The display device includes a first substrate; a first transistor and a second transistor disposed over the first substrate; a common electrode disposed over the first substrate; and a light-emitting diode chip (LED chip) disposed over the first substrate and disposed corresponding to the first transistor and the second transistor. The light-emitting diode chip includes a first light-emitting unit and a second light-emitting unit, wherein the first light-emitting unit is electrically connected to the first transistor and the common electrode, and the second light-emitting unit is electrically connected to the second transistor and the common electrode.

A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device comprises: a light-emitting stack having an active layer emitting first light having a peak wavelength nm; and an adjusting element stacked electrically connected to the active layer in series for tuning a forward voltage of the light-emitting device; wherein the forward voltage of the light-emitting device is between (1240/0.8) volt and (1240/0.5) volt.

A contact to a semiconductor heterostructure is described. In one embodiment, there is an n-type semiconductor contact layer. A light generating structure formed over the n-type semiconductor contact layer has a set of quantum wells and barriers configured to emit or absorb target radiation. An ultraviolet transparent semiconductor layer having a non-uniform thickness is formed over the light generating structure. A p-type contact semiconductor layer having a non-uniform thickness is formed over the ultraviolet transparent semiconductor layer.

An epitaxial group-ill-nitride buffer-layer structure is provided on a heterosubstrate, wherein the buffer-layer structure has at least one stress-management layer sequence including an interlayer structure arranged between and adjacent to a first and a second group-ill-nitride layer, wherein the interlayer structure comprises a group-ill-nitride interlayer material having a larger band gap than the materials of the first and second group-ill-nitride layers, and wherein a p-type-dopant-concentration profile drops, starting from at least 11018 cm-3, by at least a factor of two in transition from the interlayer structure to the first and second group-ill-nitride layers.

A quantum dot having core-shell structure, including a core formed of ZnO.sub.zS.sub.1-z of wurtzite crystal structure of hexagonal crystal system; a first shell covering the core, and formed of Al.sub.xGa.sub.yIn.sub.1-x-yN of wurtzite crystal structure of hexagonal crystal system; and a second shell covering the first shell, and formed of ZnO.sub.vS.sub.1-v of wurtzite crystal structure of hexagonal crystal system. At least one of v, x, y, and z is not zero and is not one; differences between the lattice constants along a-axis of the core, the first shell and the second shell are not greater than 1%; and the core, the first shell and the second shell form band offset structure of type II.

A light emitting device includes a metal support structure comprising Cu; an adhesion structure on the metal support structure and comprising Au; a reflective conductive contact on the adhesion structure; a GaN-based semiconductor structure on the reflective conductive contact, the GaN-based semiconductor structure comprising a first-type GaN layer, an active layer, and a second-type GaN layer; a top interface layer on the GaN-based semiconductor structure and comprising Ti; and a contact pad on the top interface layer and comprising Au, wherein the GaN-based semiconductor structure is less than 1/20 thick of a thickness of the metal support structure.

A light emitting heterostructure including one or more fine structure regions is provided. The light emitting heterostructure can include a plurality of barriers alternating with a plurality of quantum wells. One or more of the barriers and/or quantum wells includes a fine structure region. The fine structure region includes a plurality of subscale features arranged in at least one of: a growth or a lateral direction.

A light emitting diode (LED) device includes a semiconductor nanowire core, and an In(Al)GaN active region quantum well shell located radially around the semiconductor nanowire core. The active quantum well shell contains indium rich regions having at least 5 atomic percent higher indium content than indium poor regions in the same shell. The active region quantum well shell has a non-uniform surface profile having at least 3 peaks. Each of the at least 3 peaks is separated from an adjacent one of the at least 3 peaks by a valley, and each of the at least 3 peaks extends at least 2 nm in a radial direction away from an adjacent valley.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor light emitting device is provided. The method includes forming a first region of a lower semiconductor layer on a substrate, etching an upper surface of the first region using at least one gas used in forming the first region, in-situ in a chamber in which a process of forming the first region has been performed, forming a second region of the lower semiconductor layer on the first region, forming an active layer on the lower semiconductor layer, and forming an upper semiconductor layer on the active layer.

A heterostructure for use in fabricating an optoelectronic device is provided. The heterostructure includes a layer, such as an n-type contact or cladding layer, that includes thin sub-layers inserted therein. The thin sub-layers can be spaced throughout the layer and separated by intervening sub-layers fabricated of the material for the layer. The thin sub-layers can have a distinct composition from the intervening sub-layers, which alters stresses present during growth of the heterostructure.