METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A COLOUR-CONVERSION OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE, INCLUDING A STEP OF POLARISING AN ELECTRET LAYER IN A LOCALISED MANNER BY MEANS OF THE UPPER ELECTRODES OF THE DIODES
20250081685 · 2025-03-06
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Inventors
- François TEMPLIER (Grenoble cedex 09, FR)
- Stéphane ALTAZIN (Grenoble Cedex 09, FR)
- Aurélien SUHM (Grenoble Cedex 09, FR)
- Jérémy BILDE (Grenoble Cedex 09, FR)
- Etienne QUESNEL (Grenoble cedex 09, FR)
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an optoelectronic device (1) including an array of diodes (D1, D2, D3) and an array of colour conversion portions (P1, P2), including the following steps: providing the array of diodes (D1, D2, D3), and the upper electrode layers (E1, E2, E3); depositing a dielectric layer (26) having a substantially zero surface potential; applying a potential difference between an electrode (2) and the first upper electrode layers (E1), resulting in the formation of first patterns (M1) with non-zero surface potential in the dielectric layer (26); producing the first colour conversion portions (P1), by contacting the dielectric layer (26) with a colloidal solution (S1) containing first photoluminescent particles (p1).
Claims
1. Method for manufacturing an optoelectronic device, which includes: an array of diodes, having mutually opposite rear and front faces, the front face being intended to receive or transmit light radiation; an array of colour conversion portions disposed on the front face, including first colour conversion portions disposed facing diodes referred to as first diodes of the diode array; the method including the following steps: providing an optoelectronic structure including: the array of diodes; at least one lower electrode layer disposed at the rear face and configured to polarise the diodes; and upper electrode layers disposed at the front face and configured to polarise the diodes, including first upper electrode layers configured to polarise the first diodes and distinct from the other upper electrode layers; depositing a dielectric layer, of which an upper face opposite the front face has a substantially zero surface potential, covering the array of diodes and the upper electrode layers; applying a potential difference between, on one hand, a temporary electrode disposed on the dielectric layer, and, on the other, the first upper electrode layers, resulting in the formation of first patterns with non-zero surface potential in the dielectric layer located only facing the first upper electrode layers; then removing the temporary electrode; producing the first colour conversion portions, by contacting the dielectric layer with a first colloidal solution containing first photoluminescent particles, which are deposited on the dielectric layer only facing the first patterns with non-zero surface potential, thus forming the first colour conversion portions.
2. Manufacturing method according to claim 1, the array of colour conversion portions including second colour conversion portions, distinct from the first colour conversion portions (P1), and disposed facing diodes referred to as second diodes of the diode array; the optoelectronic structure including, among the upper electrode layers, second upper electrode layers configured to polarise the second diodes; the method including, after producing the second colour conversion portions, the following steps: applying a potential difference between, on one hand, a temporary electrode disposed on the dielectric layer, and, on the other, the second upper electrode layers, resulting in the formation of second patterns with non-zero surface potential in the dielectric layer located only facing the second upper electrode layers; then removing the temporary electrode; producing the second colour conversion portions, by contacting the dielectric layer with a second colloidal solution containing second photoluminescent particles distinct from the first photoluminescent particles, which are deposited on the dielectric layer only facing the second patterns with non-zero surface potential, thus forming the second colour conversion portions.
3. Manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein each upper electrode layer entirely covers the diode on top of which it is located.
4. Manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein, during the step of applying a potential difference between the temporary electrode and the upper electrode layers, the lower electrode layers are non-polarised.
5. Manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein, during the step of applying a potential difference between the temporary electrode and the upper electrode layers, said lower electrode layers then polarised are interconnected.
6. Manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein the diodes are in contact with lower electrode layers, the lower electrode layers being distinct from each other, so as to be able to activate each diode selectively.
7. Manufacturing method according to claim 1, including, after producing the colour conversion portions, a step of interconnecting the first and second upper electrode layers.
8. Manufacturing method according to claim 1, including, after producing the colour conversion portions, a step of interconnecting all of the upper electrode layers.
9. Manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein the diodes have mutually identical light radiation emission or absorption properties.
10. Manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein the diodes are produced based on an organic or inorganic semiconductor compound.
11. Method for collectively and simultaneously manufacturing several optoelectronic devices from the same substrate, including the simultaneous implementation of the steps of the method according to claim 1 for each optoelectronic device.
12. Collective manufacturing method according to claim 11, wherein, during the step of applying a potential difference between the temporary electrode and the upper electrode layers, the temporary electrode continuously covers all the diode arrays, and wherein said lower electrode layers then polarised are interconnected.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0030] Other aspects, aims, advantages and features of the invention will become more apparent upon reading the following detailed description of preferred embodiments thereof, given as a non-limiting example, and made with reference to the appended drawings, wherein:
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DETAILED DISCLOSURE OF PARTICULAR EMBODIMENTS
[0035] In the figures and in the remainder of the description, the same references represent identical or similar elements. In addition, the various elements are not shown to scale so as to promote clarity of the figures. Moreover, the different embodiments and variants are not mutually exclusive and can be combined together. Unless indicated otherwise, the terms substantially, approximately, in the order of mean within a 10% margin, and preferably within a 5% margin. Moreover, the terms between . . . and . . . and equivalents mean that the bounds are included, unless stated otherwise.
[0036] The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an optoelectronic device including an array of diodes, of which at least a part of the diodes is covered by colour conversion portions, so as to form an array of luminous pixels of different colours. The diodes may be emitting diodes such that the optoelectronic device may be for example a display screen, or may be detecting diodes such that the optoelectronic device may be an array photodetector. Moreover, the diodes may be organic (OLED) or inorganic (LED) light-emitting diodes, or organic or inorganic photodetectors.
[0037] The production of the colour conversion portions is obtained by localised deposition of photoluminescent particles on an electret dielectric layer where patterns of non-zero surface potential are previously defined. As detailed hereinafter, the formation of these surface potentials is performed by means in particular of the upper electrode layers which moreover provide the electric polarisation of the diodes during their activation. As detailed hereinafter, these upper electrode layers may be common for each type of colour pixel and are distinct from one type of colour pixel to the other. On the other hand, once the colour conversion portions are produced, the upper electrode layer may remain common for each type of colour pixel, or may be common for all the colour pixels, or may be rendered distinct for each pixel. Common means that they are interconnected to apply the same electric potential.
[0038] As a general rule, an electret layer is a dielectric layer containing electric charges or a quasi-permanent dipolar polarisation. Also, the electret dielectric layer has, on its upper face, a non-zero surface potential. This results in the electret dielectric layer emitting an external electric field in the absence of an applied field. Within the scope of the invention, the upper face of the electret dielectric layer has zones (called patterns) where the surface electric potential is non-zero. Outside these patterns, the surface potential is substantially zero.
[0039] Thus, during the production of the colour conversion portions, the upper electrode layers are distinct, and distributed by colour conversion pixel type. Thus, patterns of non-zero surface potential are formed where photoluminescent particles will then naturally be deposited, in a localised manner, by electrophoresis or dielectrophoresis during the formation of the colour conversion portions. Also, the light conversion portions are naturally located facing (i.e. perpendicular to) the surface potential patterns, and are not located outside these predefined patterns. This method then makes it possible to precisely define the surface potential patterns on the upper face of the electret dielectric layer, even if the diode array has a large size (in particular when it is produced with 200 mm wafer technology) and/or the pixel pitch of the diode array is small (for example of the order of 5 m).
[0040] Thus, for example, in the case of an array of red, green, blue pixels (RGB) where the diodes are identical and all emit the same blue light, during the production of the red colour conversion portions, only the upper electrode layers of the red pixels are activated, whereas the upper electrode layers of the other pixels (green and blue) are not activated. Similarly, during the production of the green colour conversion portions, only the upper electrode layers of the green pixels are activated, whereas the upper electrode layers of the other pixels (red and blue) are not activated.
[0041] The colour conversion portions are formed of particles made of at least one photoluminescent material, and preferably nanoparticles of which a maximum dimension is between 0.2 nm and 1000 nm, for example between 0.2 nm and 100 nm, and for example between 1 nm and 30 nm. The size and/or the composition of the photoluminescent particles are chosen according to the desired luminescence wavelength. The particles may be any shape, for example spherical, angular, flattened, elongated, etc.
[0042] The photoluminescent particles may be quantum dots, i.e. semiconductor nanocrystals in which the quantum confinement is substantially three-dimensional. The average size of the quantum dots may then be between 0.2 nm and 50 nm, for example between 1 nm and 30 nm. They may also be nanoplatelets, i.e. nanoparticles having an essentially two-dimensional shape. Also, the smallest dimension (thickness) is less than the two other length and width dimensions, preferably by a ratio of at least 1.5.
[0043] The photoluminescent particles may in particular be formed of at least one semiconductor compound, which may be chosen, for example from cadmium selenide (CdSe), indium phosphide (InP), indium gallium phosphide (InGaP), cadmium sulphide (CdS), zinc sulphide (ZnS), cadmium oxide (CdO) or zinc oxide (ZnO), cadmium zinc selenide (CdZnSe), zinc selenide (ZnSe) doped for example with copper or manganese, graphene or from other potentially suitable semiconductor materials. The nanoparticles may also have a core/shell type structure, such as CdSe/ZnS, CdSe/CdS, CdSe/CdS/ZnS, PbSe/PbS, CdTe/CdSe, CdSe/ZnTe, InP/ZnS or other. The particles may also have a perovskite crystalline structure including atoms such as those listed for nanoparticles but also Cs, Mn, Br.
[0044] Moreover, the light conversion portions are adapted to convert at least partially an incident light radiation of a first wavelength .sub.1 into a luminescence light radiation of a greater wavelength .sub.2. By way of illustration, they may be adapted to absorb blue light, i.e. the wavelength of which is between approximately 440 nm and 490 nm, and to emit in green, i.e. at a wavelength between approximately 495 nm and 560 nm, or in red, i.e. at a wavelength between 600 nm and 650 nm. Wavelength means here the wavelength at which the emission spectrum has an intensity peak.
[0045] Purely by way of illustration, the diodes may be emitting and have an emission spectrum in the visible or infrared (for example NIR or SWIR), or even ultraviolet (200-400 nm) ranges. In the case of an emitting diode array, the incident light radiation is the radiation emitted by the diodes, whereas in the case of photodiodes, it consists of the light radiation from an external environment and aimed at the photodiodes. In the latter case, the diodes are adapted to absorb incident light radiations of different lengths all contained in the same predefined absorption spectrum.
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[0047] An orthogonal three-dimensional direct reference frame XYZ is defined here and for the following description, where the X and Y axes form a main plane wherein a control substrate 10 extends, and where the Z axis is oriented along the thickness of the diode array in the direction of the front face. The terms lower and upper are defined with respect to an increasing positioning along the direction +Z.
[0048] With reference to
[0049] In this example, the control substrate 10 carries out several functions: mechanical support of the diode array, electric polarisation of the upper electrode layers E1, E2 during the steps of producing the light conversion portions P1, P2, and electric polarisation of the diodes D1, D2, D3 during the operation of the optoelectronic device. It includes here a CMOS type control circuit, and has electrical connection pads 11 which are flush with the upper face and come into contact with lower electrode layers 21 of the diodes D1, D2, D3. These lower electrode layers 21 are here mutually distinct layers, in that each lower electrode layer 21 of a diode is physically distinct from that of the adjacent diode. This configuration is described in detail in document WO2017/194845 A1.
[0050] The diodes D1, D2, D3 are here inorganic light-emitting diodes. They may be produced conventionally, for example by epitaxy of semiconductor layers from a growth substrate, then by transferring on the control substrate 10. Each diode D1, D2, D3 may be formed of a stack of: a lower semiconductor portion 22 (oriented towards the control substrate 10) doped with a first type of conductivity, for example p type, in electrical contact with a lower electrode layer 21; an active zone 23 where the light radiation of the light-emitting diode is emitted; and an upper semiconductor portion 24 doped with a second type of conductivity, for example n type, in electrical contact with an upper electrode layer E1, E2 or E3. The diodes D1, D2, D3 may be produced from the same semiconductor compound, for example based on a III-V compound such as GaN, InGaN, AlGaN.
[0051] Preferably, the diodes D1, D2, D3 are structurally identical, such that the light radiation emitted is identical from one diode to the other in terms of wavelength. In this example, the diodes D1, D2, D3 are adapted to emit a light radiation in the blue range, i.e. the emission spectrum of which has an intensity peak at a wavelength between approximately 440 nm and 490 nm.
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[0053] Preferably, the electrode layers E1 cover the diodes D1 entirely in the plane XY, as the electrode layers E2 cover the diodes D2 entirely, and the electrode layers E3 cover the diodes D3 entirely. Obviously, the electrode layers of the same type (e.g. E1) do not extend facing the diodes of the other types (e.g. D2 and D3).
[0054] The lower and upper electrode layers are made of an electrically conductive material. The lower electrode layers 21 may be made of at least one metallic material chosen from Ti, Ni, Pt, Sn, Au, Ag, Al, Pd, W, Pb, Cu, AuSn, TiSn or an alloy of these elements. They may preferably be reflective to the light radiation emitted by the diodes, and may thus be made based on Ag. Moreover, the material of the upper electrode layers E1, E2, E3 is at least partially transparent to the light radiation emitted by the diodes, and may be for example ITO (indium tin oxide), or semi-transparent fine metallic materials (e.g. Ag).
[0055] With reference to
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[0060] The preceding steps may then be repeated to produce the colour conversion portions P2 located facing the diodes D2, here forming green pixels. Indeed, the colour conversion portions P1 are adapted here to convert a blue light (wavelength between approximately 440 nm and 490 nm) into a red light (wavelength between 600 nm and 650 nm). On the other hand, the colour conversion portions P2 are adapted here to convert the blue light into a green light (wavelength between approximately 495 nm and 560 nm).
[0061] With reference to
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[0065] Therefore, this avoids having to use a step of localised injection of electric charges in a dielectric layer initially without electric charges, by means of an AFM tip or a conductive buffer. Also, the method is fast and production of the light conversion portions is spatially precise, even in the context of an array of diodes made of substrate of large dimension (for example 200 mm) and/or in which the pixel pitch is very small (for example 5 m).
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[0067] Here, each upper electrode layer E1 of the different pixels is connected electrically to the same connection pad 3.sub.1 by a lateral conductive strip E1l which extends on the edge of the emitting surface. This connection pad 3.sub.1 may be a conductive via which passes through the dielectric filling layer 25 of the optoelectronic structure to come into contact with a conductive pad 11 of the control substrate 10 (see
[0068] Furthermore, in this example, each upper electrode layer E3 comes into contact with a conductive via 3.sub.3 connected to the control substrate 10. Here, the diodes D3 are not covered by light conversion portions insofar as the pixels are here blue pixels.
[0069] Thus, during the step of localised and self-aligned deposition of the photoluminescent particles p1, the upper electrode layers E1 are all interconnected and polarised simultaneously, whereas the upper electrode layers E2 and E3 are non-polarised. And during the step of localised deposition of the photoluminescent particles p2, the upper electrode layers E2 are all interconnected and polarised simultaneously, whereas the upper electrode layers E1 and E3 are non-polarised.
[0070] Finally, at the end of the manufacture of the optoelectronic device 1, the upper electrode layers E1 and E2 may be interconnected to form a common upper electrode for the diodes D1 and D2. This may be performed by means of a lateral conductive strip E12l, which extends here from the lateral conductive strip E1l of the layers E1 in the direction of a lateral conductive strip E2l of the layers E2. A conductive pad 4 (dotted line) may then be deposited to connect the interconnection lateral conductive strip E12l to the lateral conductive strip E2l. This may consist of a conductive paste deposited using an ink jet type technique. Thus, the upper electrode layers E1 and E2 form a single interdigital upper electrode which may be brought to an electric potential, during the activation of the diodes D1 and D2. The selective activation of the diodes D1 and D2 may then be performed to polarising a particular lower electrode layer 21.
[0071] Note moreover that the upper electrode layers E3 may also be connected to the upper electrode layers E1 and E2, so as to form a single interdigital common upper electrode. Different conventional techniques may be used (deposition of conductive pads to provide interconnection, laser shot, etc.).
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[0073] In this example, the method relates to the collective and simultaneous manufacture of identical optoelectronic devices 1, on the scale of the same substrate 5 (or wafer) of large dimension, for example having a diameter of 200 or 300 mm.
[0074] Here, during the production of the colour conversion portions P1, the upper electrode layers E1 are all interconnected and are polarised together during the step of
[0075] Similarly, during the production of the colour conversion portions P2, the upper electrode layers E2 are all interconnected and are polarised together during the step of
[0076] At the end of the manufacturing method, the substrate 5 is cut to individualize the optoelectronic devices 1.
[0077] Also, the manufacturing method makes it possible to produce the colour conversion portions P1, P2 by localised and self-aligned deposition of the photoluminescent particles with respect to the desired diodes, at the scale of the substrate 5.
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[0083] Particular embodiments have just been described. Various variants and modifications will become apparent to a person skilled in the art.