Doped Superlattice (e.g., Nipi Superlattice) (epo) Patents (Class 257/E33.01)
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Publication number: 20100279446Abstract: A phase-conjugating resonator that includes a semiconductor laser diode apparatus that comprises a phase-conjugating array of retro-reflecting hexagon apertured hexahedral shaped corner-cube prisms, an electrically and/or optically pumped gain-region, a distributed bragg reflecting mirror-stack, a gaussian mode providing hemispherical shaped laser-emission-output metalized mirror. Wherein, optical phase conjugation is used to neutralize the phase perturbating contribution of spontaneous-emission, acoustic phonons, quantum-noise, gain-saturation, diffraction, and other intracavity aberrations and distortions that typically destabilize any stimulated-emission made to undergo amplifying oscillation within the inventions phase-conjugating resonator. Resulting in stablized high-power laser-emission-output into a single low-order fundamental transverse cavity mode and reversal of intra-cavity chirp that provides for high-speed internal modulation capable of transmitting data at around 20-Gigabits/ps.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2009Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventor: Joseph Reid Henrichs
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Publication number: 20100207100Abstract: A radiation-emitting semiconductor body includes a contact layer and an active zone. The semiconductor body has a tunnel junction arranged between the contact layer and the active zone. The active zone has a multi-quantum well structure containing at least two active layers that emit electromagnetic radiation when an operating current is impressed into the semiconductor body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2008Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBHInventors: Martin Strassburg, Lutz Hocppel, Matthias Sabathil, Matthias Peter, Uwe Strauss
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Patent number: 7750364Abstract: A light-emitting device includes an active region, an n-type region, a p-type region, an n-electrode and a p-electrode. The active region is formed from a semiconductor material. The semiconductor material has a tetrahedral structure and includes an impurity. The impurity creates at least two energy levels connected with the allowed transition within a band gap of the semiconductor material. The n-type and p-type regions in contact with the active region are disposed between the n-type and p-type regions. An excitation element is configured to inject an electron from the n-type region and inject a hole from the p-type region so as to generate an electron-hole pair in the active region. The active region has a thickness no less than an atomic distance of the semiconductor and no more than 5 nm.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2008Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazushige Yamamoto, Tatsuo Shimizu
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Publication number: 20100163892Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) device including a transparent substrate, a plurality of LED chips, a circuit, and a transparent encapsulant is provided. The LED chips are fixed on the transparent substrate, and utilized for radiating at least a light beam. The circuit is disposed on the transparent substrate and electrically connected to the LED chips. The transparent encapsulant is utilized for packaging the LED chips. The light beam of the LED chips can propagate from two opposite sides of the transparent substrate. Blue LED chips and the circuit of the transparent substrate can be directly soldered, and the phosphors are arranged to convert the wavelength of blue light, so a dual-side white light emitting device can therefore be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2009Publication date: July 1, 2010Inventor: Yu-Huan Liu
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Patent number: 7745869Abstract: A thin film capacitance element composition, wherein a bismuth layer compound having a c-axis oriented vertically with respect to a substrate surface is expressed by a composition formula of (Bi2O2)2+(Am?1BmO3m+1)2? or Bi2Am?1BmO3m+3, wherein “m” is an even number, “A” is at least one element selected from Na, K, Pb, Ba, Sr, Ca and Bi, and “B” is at least one element selected from Fe, Co, Cr, Ga, Ti, Nb, Ta, Sb, V, Mo and W; and Bi in the bismuth layer compound is excessively included with respect to the composition formula of (Bi2O2)2+(Am?1BmO3m+1)2? or Bi2Am?1BmO3m+3, and the excessive content of Bi is in a range of 0<Bi<0.5×m mol in of Bi.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2004Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: TDK CorporationInventor: Yukio Sakashita
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Publication number: 20100155704Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light emitting device, and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The nitride semiconductor light emitting device includes a substrate, an n-type nitride semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of V-shaped pits in a top surface thereof, an active layer disposed on the n-type nitride semiconductor layer and including depressions conforming to the shape of the plurality of V-shaped pits, and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer disposed on the active layer and including a plurality of protrusions on a top surface thereof. Since the plurality of V-shaped pits are formed in the top surface of the n-type nitride semiconductor layer, the protrusions can be formed on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer as an in-situ process. Accordingly, the resistance to ESD, and light extraction efficiency are enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Jeong Tak Oh, Yong Chun Kim
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Patent number: 7700936Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of producing an optoelectronic nanostructure includes preparing a substrate; providing a quantum well layer on the substrate; etching a volume of the substrate to produce a photonic crystal. The quantum dots are produced at multiple intersections of the quantum well layer within the photonic crystal. Multiple quantum well layers may also be provided so as to form multiple vertically aligned quantum dots. In another embodiment, an optoelectronic nanostructure includes a photonic crystal having a plurality of voids and interconnecting veins; a plurality of quantum dots arranged between the plurality of voids, wherein an electrical connection is provided to one or more of the plurality of quantum dots through an associated interconnecting vein.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2006Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: University of DelawareInventors: Janusz Murakowski, Garrett Schneider, Dennis W. Prather
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Patent number: 7692181Abstract: A number of light-emitting layer structures for the GaN-based LEDs that can increase the lighting efficiency of the GaN-based LEDs on one hand and facilitate the growth of epitaxial layer with better quality on the other hand are provided. The light-emitting layer structure provided is located between the n-type GaN contact layer and the p-type GaN contact layer. Sequentially stacked on top of the n-type GaN contact layer is the light-emitting layer containing a lower barrier layer, at least one intermediate layer, and an upper barrier layer. That is, the light-emitting layer contains at least one intermediate layer interposed between the upper and lower barrier layers. When there are multiple intermediate layers inside the light-emitting layer, there is an intermediate barrier layer interposed between every two immediately adjacent intermediate layers.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2006Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Formosa Epitaxy IncorporationInventors: Cheng-Tsang Yu, Liang-Wen Wu, Tzu-Chi Wen, Fen-Ren Chien
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Publication number: 20100040100Abstract: A semiconductor laser includes an active layer, a first GaAs layer formed on the active layer, the first GaAs layer including a plurality of recessed portions periodically arranged, each of the recessed portions including a bottom surface of a (100) crystal surface and a slope including a (111) A crystal surface at least in parts, the recessed portion being disposed in contact with each other or with a minimal gap between each of adjacent ones of the recessed portions, the width of the bottom surface being greater than the minimal gaps, an InGaP layer formed on the recessed portion, and a second GaAs layer formed on the InGaAs layer over the recessed portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2009Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kan TAKADA, Manabu Matsuda, Takeshi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20090291519Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light emitting device. The light emitting device includes an n-type nitride semiconductor layer; an active layer on the n-type semiconductor layer, an AlN/GaN layer of a super lattice structure formed by alternately growing an AlN layer and a GaN layer on the active layer, and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer on the AlN/GaN layer of the super lattice structure. At least one of the AlN layer and the GaN layer is doped with a p-type dopant. A method for manufacturing the light emitting device is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: SEOUL OPTO DEVICE CO., LTD.Inventors: Gyu Beom KIM, Sang Joon Lee, Chang Suk Han, Kwang Choong Kim
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Publication number: 20090242874Abstract: A GaN based semiconductor light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first GaN based compound semiconductor layer of an n-conductivity type; an active layer; a second GaN based compound semiconductor layer; an underlying layer composed of a GaN based compound semiconductor, the underlying layer being disposed between the first GaN based compound semiconductor layer and the active layer; and a superlattice layer composed of a GaN based compound semiconductor doped with a p-type dopant, the superlattice layer being disposed between the active layer and the second GaN based compound semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Goshi Biwa, Hiroyuki Okuyama
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Publication number: 20090206325Abstract: A GaN based semiconductor light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first GaN based compound semiconductor layer of an n-conductivity type; an active layer; a second GaN based compound semiconductor layer; an underlying layer composed of a GaN based compound semiconductor, the underlying layer being disposed between the first GaN based compound semiconductor layer and the active layer; and a superlattice layer composed of a GaN based compound semiconductor doped with a p-type dopant, the superlattice layer being disposed between the active layer and the second GaN based compound semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2006Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Goshi Biwa, Hiroyuki Okuyama
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Patent number: 7576363Abstract: In a group III nitride compound semiconductor light emitting device comprising an n-type semiconductor layer, a p-type semiconductor layer having a superlattice structure in which a first layer comprising at least Al and a second layer having a different composition from that of the first layer are laminated repetitively, and an active layer interposed between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer, wherein an Al composition of the first layer which is the closest to the active layer is set to be lower than that of each of the other first layers, and wherein a doping amount of a p-type impurity in the first layer which is the closest to the active layer is set to be smaller than that of the p-type impurity of each of the other first layers or non-doped.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2005Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiya Uemura, Katsuhisa Sawazaki, Masahito Nakai, Yuhei Ikemoto
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Patent number: 7498612Abstract: A pn-heterojunction compound semiconductor light-emitting device includes a crystalline substrate 101, a lower cladding layer 102 formed on a surface of the crystalline substrate and composed of an n-type Group III-V compound semiconductor, a light-emitting layer 103 formed on a surface of the lower cladding layer and composed of an n-type Group III-V compound semiconductor, an upper cladding layer 105 formed on a surface of the light-emitting layer and composed of p-type boron phosphide, an n-type electrode 106 attached to the lower cladding layer and a p-type electrode 107 attached to the upper cladding layer. The lower and upper cladding layers are opposed to each other and sandwich the light-emitting layer to form, in cooperation with the light-emitting layer, a light-emitting portion of a pn-heterojunction structure. The light-emitting device has an intermediate layer 104 composed of an n-type boron-containing Group III-V compound between the light-emitting layer and the upper cladding layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2004Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.Inventors: Michiya Odawara, Akira Kasahara, Takashi Udagawa
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Publication number: 20090050875Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light emitting device includes n-type and p-type nitride semiconductor layers, and an active layer disposed between the n-type and p-type nitride semiconductor layers and having a stack structure in which a plurality of quantum barrier layers and one or more quantum well layers are alternately stacked. A net polarization of the quantum barrier layer is smaller than or equal to a net polarization of the quantum well layer. A nitride semiconductor light emitting device can be provided, which can realize high efficiency even at high currents by minimizing the net polarization mismatch between the quantum barrier layer and the quantum well layer. Also, a high-efficiency nitride semiconductor light emitting device can be achieved by reducing the degree of energy-level bending of the quantum well layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2008Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD., RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEInventors: Min-Ho Kim, Martin F. Schubert, Jong Kyu Kim, E. Fred Schubert, Yongjo Park, Cheolsoo Sone, Sukho Yoon
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Patent number: 7449723Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed in which a barrier layer is deposited on the sides of the mesa. The barrier layer may comprise a semiconductor material. The barrier layer reduces diffusion of dopants into the active region of the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2004Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: Avago Technologies Fiber IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Stephen Massa, Simon Andrew Wood
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Patent number: 7446348Abstract: A light emitting device includes an active layer including atoms A of a matrix semiconductor having a tetrahedral structure, a heteroatom D substituted for the atom A in a lattice site, and a heteroatom Z inserted into an interstitial site positioned closest to the heteroatom D, the heteroatom D having a valence electron number differing by +1 or ?1 from that of the atom A, and the heteroatom Z having an electron configuration of a closed shell structure through charge compensation with the heteroatom D, and an n-electrode and a p-electrode adapted to supply a current to the active layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2006Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazushige Yamamoto, Tatsuo Shimizu, Shigeru Haneda
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Publication number: 20080191194Abstract: A light-emitting diode includes a substrate, a lower cladding layer, an active layer having a quantum well of a thirty percent concentration of indium on the lower cladding layer, and an upper cladding layer. A method of manufacturing light-emitting diodes includes forming a lower cladding layer on a substrate, forming an active layer on the lower cladding layer such that the active layer has a quantum well of thirty percent indium, forming an upper cladding layer on the active layer, and forming a metal cap on the upper cladding layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2008Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicant: PHOSEON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Jules Braddell
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Publication number: 20080128678Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2005Publication date: June 5, 2008Inventor: Suk Hun Lee
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Patent number: 7288422Abstract: A photonic integrated device using a reverse-mesa structure and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. The photonic integrated device includes a first conductive substrate on which a semiconductor laser, an optical modulator, a semiconductor optical amplifier, and a photo detector are integrated, a first conductive clad layer and an active layer sequentially formed on the first conductive substrate in the form of a mesa structure, a second conductive clad layer formed on the active layer in the form of a reverse-mesa structure, an ohmic contact layer formed on the second clad layer in such a manner that the ohmic contact layer has a width narrower than the width of an upper surface of the second conductive clad layer, a current shielding layer filled in a sidewall having a mesa and reverse-mesa structure, and at least one window area formed between the above elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2004Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byeong-Hoon Park, Yu-Dong Bae, In Kim, Byung-Kwon Kang, Young-Hyun Kim, Sang-Moon Lee
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Patent number: 7282741Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vertical type nitride semiconductor light emitting diode. The nitride semiconductor light emitting diode comprises an n-type nitride semiconductor layer, an active layer formed under the n-type nitride semiconductor layer, a p-type nitride semiconductor layer formed under the active layer, and an n-side electrode which comprises a bonding pad formed adjacent to an edge of an upper surface of the n-type nitride semiconductor layer and at least one extended electrode formed in a band from the bonding pad. The bonding pad of the n-side electrode is formed adjacent to the edge of the upper surface of the n-type nitride semiconductor layer acting as a light emitting surface, thereby preventing a wire from shielding light emitted from the active layer. The extended electrode can be formed in various shapes, and prevents concentration of current density, thereby ensuring effective distribution of the current density.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2005Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong Woo Kim, Yong Chun Kim, Hyun Kyung Kim
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Patent number: 7202510Abstract: A first principal plane faces a second principal plane of a p-type Ga N compound semiconductor that is in contact with an MQW luminescent layer. On the surface of the first principal plane, a first region made up of the p-type Ga N compound semiconductor including at least Ni is formed. On the surface of the first region, an electrode composed of an alloy including Ni and Aluminum is formed. On the electrode, a pad electrode for external connection consisting of Al or Au is formed.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2005Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiki Tada, Tetsuji Moku, Arei Niwa, Yasuhiro Kamii, Junji Sato, Takasi Kato
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Patent number: 6890780Abstract: The present invention provides a method and associated structure for forming an electrostatically-doped carbon nanotube device. The method includes providing a carbon nanotube having a first end and a second end. The method also includes disposing a first metal contact directly adjacent to the first end of the carbon nanotube, wherein the first metal contact is electrically coupled to the first end of the carbon nanotube, and disposing a second metal contact directly adjacent to the second end of the carbon nanotube, wherein the second metal contact is electrically coupled to the second end of the carbon nanotube.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Ji Ung Lee