With Particular Dopant Material (e.g., Zinc As Dopant In Gaas) Patents (Class 257/102)
  • Patent number: 8030681
    Abstract: A group III nitride substrate in one embodiment has a surface layer. The surface layer contains 3 at. % to 25 at. % of carbon and 5×1010 atoms/cm2 to 200×1010 atoms/cm2 of a p-type metal element. The group III nitride substrate has a stable surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Keiji Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 8030680
    Abstract: Disclosed are a nitride semiconductor light emitting device and a method for manufacturing the same. The nitride semiconductor light emitting device includes a first nitride layer, an active layer including at least one delta-doping layer on the first nitride layer through delta-doping, and a second nitride layer on the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae-Yun Kim
  • Patent number: 8030682
    Abstract: A zinc-blende nitride semiconductor free-standing substrate has a front surface and a back surface opposite the front surface. The distance between the front and back surfaces is not less than 200 ?m. The area ratio of the zinc-blende nitride semiconductor to the front surface is not less than 95%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Fujikura
  • Patent number: 8021763
    Abstract: The present invention relates to phosphorescent stacked OLEDs having an interlayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton University
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kanno, Stephen Forrest
  • Patent number: 8008686
    Abstract: An LED chip includes a substrate, a semiconductor device layer, a wall structure, and a number of electrodes. The semiconductor device layer is disposed on the substrate and includes a first-type doped semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, an active layer disposed on a portion of the first-type doped semiconductor layer, and a second-type doped semiconductor layer disposed on the active layer and having a first top surface. The wall structure is disposed on the first-type doped semiconductor layer that is not covered by the active layer and surrounds the active layer. Besides, the wall structure has a second top surface higher than the first top surface of the second-type doped semiconductor layer. Additionally, the electrodes are disposed on and electrically connected with the first-type doped semiconductor layer and the second-type doped semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Lextar Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Kuo-Lung Fang, Chien-Sen Weng, Chih-Wei Chao
  • Publication number: 20110198666
    Abstract: Provided are organic n-doped electron transport layers comprising at least one electron transport material and at least one electron rich dopant material and organic p-doped hole transport layers comprising at least one hole transport material and at least one electron deficient dopant material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: SHIVA PRAKASH, CHE-HSIUNG HSU
  • Patent number: 7989569
    Abstract: Provided are a polyvinyl pyrrole host material emitting highly efficient phosphorescence, a luminescent layer using the material, and an organic electroluminescent display device. The polyvinyl pyrrole host material shows highly efficient luminescence having improved energy transfer, and thus is useful for an organic electroluminescent display device and other various light emitting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Jin Park, Byoung-Ki Choi, Tae-Yong Noh, O-Hyun Kwon, Myeong-Suk Kim, Yu-Jin Kim, Sang-Heon Hyun, Boris Aleksandrovich Trofimov
  • Patent number: 7982210
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) having a modulation doped layer. The LED comprises an n-type contact layer, a p-type contact layer and an active region of a multiple quantum well structure having an InGaN well layer. The n-type contact layer comprises a first modulation doped layer and a second modulation doped layer, each having InGaN layers doped with a high concentration of n-type impurity and low concentration of n-type impurity InGaN layers alternately laminated. The InGaN layers of the first modulation doped layer have the same composition, and the InGaN layers of the second modulation doped layer have the same composition. The second modulation doped layer is interposed between the first modulation doped layer and the active region, and an n-electrode is in contact with the first modulation doped layer. Accordingly, an increase in process time is prevented and strains induced in a multiple quantum well structure are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Seoul Opto Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hwa Mok Kim
  • Publication number: 20110169045
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes a plurality of organic semiconductor layers including an organic light-emitting layer and layered or disposed between a pair of anode and cathode opposed to each other. The device includes n-type-dopant-containing electron transport layer disposed between the cathode and the organic light-emitting layer. The n-type-dopant-containing electron transport layer includes an organic compound capable of transporting electrons as a first component which mixed with an n-type dopant of an electron donor of metallic atom or ion thereof as a second component. The organic electroluminescence device further includes an n-type-dopant blocking layer having an interface contacting with the n-type-dopant-containing electron transport layer to block the n-type dopant. The n-type-dopant blocking layer includes a heavy atom compound including at least one kind of heavy atoms with an atomic weight of 79 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Takahito Oyamada, Taishi Tsuji, Yasuhiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7972541
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a doped organic semiconductor material comprising at least one organic matrix material, which is doped with at least one dopant, the matrix material being selected from a group consisting of certain phenanthroline derivatives; and also an organic light-emitting diode which comprises such a semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Novaled AG
    Inventors: Ansgar Werner, Andrea Lux, Josef Salbeck
  • Patent number: 7968905
    Abstract: A ZnO-containing semiconductor layer contains Se or S added to ZnO and has an emission peak wavelength of ultraviolet light and an emission peak wavelength of visual light. By combining the ZnO-containing semiconductor layer with phosphor or semiconductor which is excited by the emitted ultraviolet light and emits visual light, visual light at various wavelengths can be emitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Yamamuro, Michihiro Sano, Naochika Horio, Hiroyuki Kato, Akio Ogawa, Hiroshi Kotani
  • Patent number: 7968893
    Abstract: Disclosed are a semiconductor light emitting device, which can improve characteristics of the semiconductor light emitting device such as a forward voltage characteristic and a turn-on voltage characteristic, increase light emission efficiency by lowering an input voltage, and increase reliability of the semiconductor light emitting device by a low-voltage operation, and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor light emitting device includes: an n-type GaN semiconductor layer; an active layer formed on a gallium face of the n-type GaN semiconductor layer; a p-type semiconductor layer formed on the active layer; and an n-type electrode formed on a nitrogen face of the n-type GaN semiconductor layer and including a lanthanum (La)-nickel (Ni) alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung LED Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Yeob Song, Jin Hyun Lee, Yu Seung Kim, Kwang Ki Choi, Pun Jae Choi, Hyun Soo Kim, Sang Bum Lee
  • Patent number: 7968362
    Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device has a semiconductor layer containing Al between a substrate and an active layer containing nitrogen, wherein Al and oxygen are removed from a growth chamber before growing said active layer and a concentration of oxygen incorporated into said active layer together with Al is set to a level such that said semiconductor light-emitting device can perform a continuous laser oscillation at room temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Takahashi, Morimasa Kaminishi, Shunichi Sato, Akihiro Itoh, Naoto Jikutani
  • Patent number: 7964884
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gallium nitride (GaN) compound semiconductor light emitting element (LED) and a method of manufacturing the same. The present invention provides a vertical GaN LED capable of improving the characteristics of a horizontal LED by means of a metallic protective film layer and a metallic support layer. According to the present invention, a thick metallic protective film layer with a thickness of at least 10 microns is formed on the lateral and/or bottom sides of the vertical GaN LED to protect the element against external impact and to easily separate the chip. Further, a metallic substrate is used instead of a sapphire substrate to efficiently release the generated heat to the outside when the element is operated, so that the LED can be suitable for a high-power application and an element having improved optical output characteristics can also be manufactured. A metallic support layer is formed to protect the element from being distorted or damaged due to impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignees: Seoul Opto Device Co., Ltd., Postech Foundation
    Inventor: Jong-Lam Lee
  • Patent number: 7964868
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor light-emitting device wherein a pn junction is formed by forming, as a p-type layer (11), a semiconductor thin film which is composed of a ZnO compound doped with nitrogen on an n-type ZnO bulk single crystal substrate (10) whose resistance is lowered by being doped with donor impurities. It is preferable to form the p-type layer (11) on a zinc atom containing surface of the n-type ZnO bulk single crystal substrate (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignees: Citizen Tohoku Co., Ltd., Incorporated National University Iwate University
    Inventors: Akira Nakagawa, Yasube Kashiwaba, Ikuo Niikura
  • Patent number: 7956353
    Abstract: By introducing new concepts into a structure of a conventional organic semiconductor element and without using a conventional ultra thin film, an organic semiconductor element is provided which is more reliable and has higher yield. Further, efficiency is improved particularly in a photoelectronic device using an organic semiconductor. Between an anode and a cathode, there is provided an organic structure including alternately laminated organic thin film layer (functional organic thin film layer) realizing various functions by making an SCLC flow, and a conductive thin film layer (ohmic conductive thin film layer) imbued with a dark conductivity by doping it with an acceptor and a donor, or by the like method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tsutsui, Hiroko Yamazaki, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 7943244
    Abstract: A display device comprises an anode, a cathode, and a luminescent region disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the anode comprises a metal-organic mixed layer operatively combined with an electron-accepting material. An anode may comprise a mixture of a metal-organic mixed layer and an electron-accepting material within a single layer of the anode. Alternatively, the anode may have a multilayer configuration comprising a metal-organic mixed layer and a buffer layer adjacent the metal-organic mixed layer, wherein the buffer layer comprises an electron-accepting material and optionally a hole transport material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hany Aziz, Nemanja Stefanovic, Jennifer A. Coggan, Anthony J. Paine, Zoran D. Popovic
  • Patent number: 7939929
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes a supporting substrate; a semiconductor laser device portion which is formed on a surface of the supporting substrate, and which includes a pair of cavity surfaces; an adhesive layer with which the supporting substrate and the semiconductor laser device portion are adhered to each other; and areas, in which no adhesive layer exists, the areas being near the ends respectively of the cavity surfaces, the ends being closer to the supporting substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayuki Hata
  • Patent number: 7932512
    Abstract: Fabrication of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) including active elements such as a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and passive elements such as a floating rib waveguide. Selective area doping through ion implantation or thermal diffusion before semiconductor epitaxial growth is used in order to define the contact and lateral current transport layers for each active device, while leaving areas corresponding to the passive devices undoped. InP wafers are used as the substrate which may be selectively doped with silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Yakov I. Royter, Rajesh D. Rajavel, Stanislav I. Ionov, Irina Ionova, legal representative, Sophi Ionova, legal representative
  • Patent number: 7914907
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic EL device utilizing phosphorescence which can be driven at a low voltage, which realizes high luminance and high efficiency, and which has a long lifetime. The organic EL device of the present invention includes an organic light-emitting layer composed of at least a host material and a dopant, wherein the dopant is a phosphorescent compound containing a halogen atom, and the host material is a linear aromatic compound having no aromatic substituent at a side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hironobu Iwawaki, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Satoshi Igawa, Masashi Hashimoto, Jun Kamatani, Kengo Kishino, Minako Nakasu, Ryota Ooishi
  • Patent number: 7915633
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a p-type semiconductor layer formed over the semiconductor substrate, made of a nitride semiconductor, and containing first impurities; and an insulating film contacting the p-type semiconductor layer and having an impurity region containing second impurities for trapping hydrogen. Since residual hydrogen in the p-type semiconductor layer is trapped in the impurity region, the hydrogen concentration in the impurity region is higher than that in the insulating film excluding the impurity region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Ishida
  • Patent number: 7915625
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a semiconductor light emitting device including: a light emitting part formed of a multilayer structure arising from sequential stacking of a first compound semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second compound semiconductor layer; a current block layer; and a burying layer, wherein a planar shape of the active layer is a strip shape in which a width of a center part is smaller than a width of both end parts, the current block layer is composed of third and fourth compound semiconductor layers, the burying layer is formed of a multilayer structure arising from sequential stacking of a first burying layer and a second burying layer, and an impurity for causing the second burying layer is such that a substitution site of the impurity in the second burying layer does not compete with a substitution site of an impurity in the third compound semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Sachio Karino, Eiji Takase, Makoto Oogane, Tsuyoshi Nagatake, Michiru Kamada, Hironobu Narui, Nobukata Okano
  • Patent number: 7915634
    Abstract: A laser diode epitaxial wafer includes an n-type GaAs substrate, an n-type cladding layer formed on the n-type GaAs substrate, an active layer formed on the n-type cladding layer, and a p-type cladding layer formed on the active layer. The n-type cladding layer, the active layer, and the p-type cladding layer include an AlGaInP-based material. The p-type cladding layer has carbon as a p-type impurity. The p-type cladding layer has a carrier concentration between 8.0×1017 cm?3 and 1.5×1018 cm?3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ken Kurosu
  • Patent number: 7906228
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds for electronic material, and organic electroluminescent devices or organic solar cells comprising the same. Specifically, the compounds for electronic material according to the invention are characterized in that they are represented by Chemical Formula (1): Since the compounds for electronic material, when being applied to an organic electroluminescent device, show good luminous efficiency and excellent life property of material, OLED's having very good operation life can be manufactured therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Gracel Display Inc.
    Inventors: Mi Ae Lee, Young Jun Cho, Hyuck Joo Kwon, Bong Ok Kim, Sung Min Kim, Seung Soo Yoon
  • Patent number: 7906225
    Abstract: A substituted fluoranthene, a light emitting layer including the substituted fluoranthene, a diode including the substituted fluoranthene, and a visual display unit including the substituted fluoranthene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Florian Doetz, Reinhold Schwalm, Joachim Roesch
  • Patent number: 7906226
    Abstract: An organic EL device 100 including a plurality of emitting layers (15) and (17) between a cathode (18) and (19) and an anode (12), each of the emitting layers (15) and (17) made of a host material having a triplet energy gap of 2.52 eV or more and 3.7 eV or less, and a dopant having a light emitting property related to a triplet state, the dopant containing a metal complex with a heavy metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Matsuura, Chishio Hosokawa, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Keiko Yamamichi
  • Patent number: 7902564
    Abstract: A ceramic body is disposed in a path of light emitted by a light source. The light source may include a semiconductor structure comprising a light emitting region disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region. The ceramic body includes a plurality of first grains configured to absorb light emitted by the light source and emit light of a different wavelength, and a plurality of second grains. For example, the first grains may be grains of luminescent material and the second grains may be grains of a luminescent material host matrix without activating dopant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignees: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Philips Lumileds Lighting Company, LLC
    Inventors: Regina B. Mueller-Mach, Gerd O. Mueller, Michael R. Krames, Peter J. Schmidt, Hans-Helmut Bechtel
  • Patent number: 7902561
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nitride semiconductor light emitting device including: a first nitride semiconductor layer having a super lattice structure of AlGaN/n-GaN or AlGaN/GaN/n-GaN; an active layer formed on the first nitride semiconductor layer to emit light; a second nitride semiconductor layer formed on the active layer; and a third nitride semiconductor layer formed on the second nitride semiconductor layer. According to the present invention, the crystallinity of the active layer is enhanced, and optical power and reliability are also enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Suk Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 7901960
    Abstract: A group III nitride substrate on which an epitaxially grown layer of good quality can be formed, and a method of manufacturing the same are obtained. A GaN substrate is one of the following: a group III nitride substrate, wherein the number of atoms of an acid material per square centimeter of a surface is not more than 2×1014, and the number of silicon atoms per square centimeter of the surface is not more than 3×1013; a group III nitride substrate, wherein the number of silicon atoms per square centimeter of a surface is not more than 3×1013, and a haze level of the surface is not more than 5 ppm; and a group III nitride substrate, wherein the number of atoms of an acid, material per square centimeter of a surface is not more than 2×1014, and a haze level of the surface is not more than 5 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Ishibashi, Akihiro Hachigo, Masato Irikura, Seiji Nakahata
  • Patent number: 7899103
    Abstract: Provided is a side light emitting type semiconductor laser diode in which a dielectric layer is formed on an active layer. The side light emitting type semiconductor laser diode includes an n-clad layer, an n-light guide layer, an active layer and a p-light guide layer sequentially formed on a substrate, and a dielectric layer with a ridge structure formed on the p-light guide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung LED Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han-youl Ryu, Kyoung-ho Ha
  • Patent number: 7888693
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor light emitting device and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor light emitting device comprises: a first conductive type semiconductor layer; an active layer on the first conductive type semiconductor layer; an undoped semiconductor layer on the active layer; a first delta-doped layer on the undoped semiconductor layer; and a second conductive type semiconductor layer on the first delta-doped layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Yun Kim, Hyo Kun Son
  • Patent number: 7888863
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel organic electroluminescent compounds, and organic electroluminescent devices employing the same as electroluminescent material. Specifically, the organic electroluminescent compounds according to the invention are characterized in that they are represented by Chemical Formula (1): wherein, A and B independently represent CR7 or N, provided that both A and B cannot be CR7 or N at the same time; and X is O or S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Gracel Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hyo Nim Shin, Young Jun Cho, Hyuck Joo Kwon, Bong Ok Kim, Sung Min Kim, Seung Soo Yoon
  • Patent number: 7888669
    Abstract: A light-emitting nitride/zinc oxide based compound semiconductor device of double heterostructure. The double-heterostructure includes a light-emitting layer formed of an Al1-x-yInxGayN; 0?x<1, 0<y?1, and x+y=0.1 to 1 compound semiconductor doped an impurity. Single or multi quantum well light-emitting active layers Al1-x-yInxGayN/GaN; 0?x<1, 0<y?1, and x+y=0.1 to 1 are positioned between p-type GaN and n-type ZnO substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Gon Namkoong, William Alan Doolittle
  • Patent number: 7884388
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) and a method for fabricating the same, capable of improving brightness by forming a InGaN layer having a low concentration of indium, and whose lattice constant is similar to that of an active layer of the LED, is provided. The LED includes: a buffer layer disposed on a sapphire substrate; a GaN layer disposed on the buffer layer; a doped GaN layer disposed on the GaN layer; a GaN layer having indium disposed on the GaN layer; an active layer disposed on the GaN layer having indium; and a P-type GaN disposed on the active layer. Here, an empirical formula of the GaN layer having indium is given by In(x)Ga(1?x)N and a range of x is given by 0<x<2, and a thickness of the GaN layer having indium is 50-200 ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Seong Jae Kim
  • Patent number: 7883785
    Abstract: The present invention describes novel organometallic compounds which are phosphorescent emitters. Such compounds can be used as active components (=functional materials) in a variety of different applications which can in the widest sense be considered part of the electronics industry. The compounds of the invention are described by the formulae (I), (Ia), (II) and (IIa).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stössel, Ingrid Bach, Hubert Spreitzer
  • Patent number: 7883914
    Abstract: The invention relates to fabrication of VCSELs. It provides a method for fabricating a VCSEL that contains a micro/nano-structured mode selective lateral layer, where the micro/nano-structured layer is obtained by well controlled local etching. The invention enables control of the micro/nano-structured layer thickness with very high precision. In particular, the invention relates to a method for fabricating a VCSEL with a micro/nano-structured mode selective layer for controlling the VCSELs transverse electromagnetic modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Alight Technologies A/S
    Inventors: Dan Birkedal, Svend Bischoff, Michael Juhl, Magnus Hald Madsen, Francis Pascal Romstad
  • Patent number: 7880186
    Abstract: In a device, a III-nitride light emitting layer is disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region. A first spacer layer, which is disposed between the n-type region and the light emitting layer, is doped to a dopant concentration between 6×1018 cm?3 and 5×1019 cm?3. A second spacer layer, which is disposed between the p-type region and the light emitting layer, is not intentionally doped or doped to a dopant concentration less than 6×1018 cm?3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignees: Koninklijke Phllips Electronics N.V., Phillips Lumileds Lighting Company, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan F. Gardner, Gangyi Chen, Werner K. Goetz, Michael R. Krames, Gerd O. Mueller, Yu-Chen Shen, Satoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7880187
    Abstract: Radiation occurs when current is injected into an active layer from electrodes. A pair of clad layers is disposed sandwiching the active layer, the clad layer having a band gap wider than a band gap of the active layer. An optical absorption layer is disposed outside at least one clad layer of the pair of clad layers. The optical absorption layer has a band gap wider than the band gap of the active layer and narrower than the band gap of the clad layer. A spread of a spectrum of radiated light can be narrowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Sasakura, Keizo Kawaguchi, Hanako Ono
  • Patent number: 7875366
    Abstract: The present invention provides a luminescent device using a luminescent material which has high luminescence efficiency and high stability, and is available at a low cost. The luminescent device is characterized in that as a luminescent material is used a binuclear copper coordination compound having a partial structure represented by the general formula (1): Cu-A-Cu, wherein Cu is a copper ion and A is a bidentate ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Jun Kamatani, Manabu Furugori, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 7859007
    Abstract: To provide a light-emitting device using a nitride semiconductor which can attain high-power light emission by highly efficient light emission and a manufacturing method thereof, the light-emitting device includes a GaN substrate and a light-emitting layer including an InAlGaN quaternary alloy on a side of a first main surface of GaN substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., RIKEN
    Inventors: Hideki Hirayama, Katsushi Akita, Takao Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7854998
    Abstract: The present organic EL devices have at least one luminescent layer and a cathode sequentially provided on their anode, which luminescent layer contains an electron-transporting material, a hole-transporting material, and a luminescent dopant. Preferably, an electron-transporting layer is further provided between the luminescent layer and the cathode. According to the present invention, organic EL devices can be provided giving improved whiteness, colour reproducibility, luminescent efficiency, and lifetime compared to conventional ones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nagara, Ichiro Yamamoto, Kenji Mori, Takanori Murasaki
  • Patent number: 7851821
    Abstract: A group III nitride semiconductor device having a gallium nitride based semiconductor film with an excellent surface morphology is provided. A group III nitride optical semiconductor device 11a includes a group III nitride semiconductor supporting base 13, a GaN based semiconductor region 15, an active layer active layer 17, and a GaN semiconductor region 19. The primary surface 13a of the group III nitride semiconductor supporting base 13 is not any polar plane, and forms a finite angle with a reference plane Sc that is orthogonal to a reference axis Cx extending in the direction of a c-axis of the group III nitride semiconductor. The GaN based semiconductor region 15 is grown on the semipolar primary surface 13a. A GaN based semiconductor layer 21 of the GaN based semiconductor region 15 is, for example, an n-type GaN based semiconductor, and the n-type GaN based semiconductor is doped with silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kyono, Yusuke Yoshizumi, Yohei Enya, Katsushi Akita, Masaki Ueno, Takamichi Sumitomo, Takao Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7846557
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting diode made of a polymer nanocomposite doped with quantum dots to improve luminescence efficiency and to increase stability and electrical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: National Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Kung-Hwa Wei, Chia-Hung Chou
  • Patent number: 7842527
    Abstract: A method of device growth and p-contact processing that produces improved performance for non-polar III-nitride light emitting diodes and laser diodes. Key components using a low defect density substrate or template, thick quantum wells, a low temperature p-type III-nitride growth technique, and a transparent conducting oxide for the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Mathew C. Schmidt, Kwang-Choong Kim, Hitoshi Sato, Steven P. DenBaars, James S. Speck, Shuji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7833633
    Abstract: Disclosed is a full color organic electroluminescence display device, comprising a substrate; a first electrode; organic film layers including red, green and blue emission layers and an electron transporting layer; and a second electrode. The thickness of the electron transporting layer, which is preferably formed as a common layer, is different in the red and green emission regions from that in the blue emission region so that the device has an excellent purity of color and improved luminous efficiency of red and green colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-Yeob Lee, Yong-Joong Choi
  • Patent number: 7829881
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device including a first electrode contact layer, an active layer formed on the first electrode contact layer, a second electrode contact layer formed on the active layer, and a first roughness layer formed on at least one of the first and second electrode contact layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ho Sang Yoon
  • Patent number: 7811679
    Abstract: A display device comprising a light-absorbing layer comprising metal nanoparticles in a matrix material. Suitable matrix materials include organic materials, inorganic materials, polymeric materials, and combinations thereof. The metal nanoparticles may have various regular or irregular shapes and/or two-dimensional or three-dimensional structures. The metal nanoparticles may have a particle size of from about 2 to about 20 nm. In embodiments, the particle size distribution of the nanoparticles does not exceed +/?75%. The light-absorbing layer may have a multiple layer configuration comprising 2 or more individual light-absorbing layers. The light-absorbing layer(s) reduces the reflection of ambient light in a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hany Aziz, Anthony J. Paine, Zoran D. Popovic
  • Patent number: 7811837
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an electroluminescent device includes, on a prepared substrate, depositing a rare earth-doped silicon-rich layer on gate oxide layer as a light emitting layer; and annealing and oxidizing the structure to repair any damage caused to the rare earth-doped silicon-rich layer; and incorporating the electroluminescent device into a CMOS IC. An electroluminescent device fabricated according to the method of the invention includes a substrate, a rare earth-doped silicon-rich layer formed on the gate oxide layer for emitting a light of a pre-determined wavelength; a top electrode formed on the rare earth-doped silicon-rich layer; and associated CMOS IC structures fabricated thereabout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tingkai Li, Wei Gao, Yoshi Ono, Sheng Teng Hsu
  • Patent number: 7799440
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device including an anode on a substrate, an organic luminescent layer on the anode and a cathode on the organic luminescent layer is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ruey-min Chen, Chung-yu Chen, Chin-in Wu, Wu-jen Hsieh
  • Patent number: RE42561
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device structure having an organic light emitting device (OLED) over a substrate, where the OLED has, for example, an anode, a hole transporting layer (HTL), a first electron transporting layer (ETL) that is doped with a phosphorescent material, a second electron transporting layer (ETL), and a cathode. The OLEDs of the present invention are directed, in particular, to devices that include an emissive layer comprised of an electron transporting host material having a triplet excited state energy level that is higher than the emissive triplet excited state energy level of the phosphorescent dopant material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignees: The University of Southern California, The Trustees of Princeton University
    Inventors: Chihaya Adachi, Marc A. Baldo, Stephen R. Forrest