Patents Assigned to Osram Opto Semiconductor GmbH
  • Patent number: 12183261
    Abstract: The invention relates to various driver circuits, controls and arrangements for supplying loads, in particular light-emitting diodes, displays or even video walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Baumheinrich, Christopher Soell
  • Patent number: 12176444
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optoelectronic component comprising a carrier, an optoelectronic semiconductor chip arranged on the upper side of the carrier, and a frame which is arranged on the upper side of the carrier and which frames the optoelectronic semiconductor chip. An underside of the frame, which faces the upper side of the carrier, has at least one recess. In a spatial area framed by the frame on the upper side of the carrier, there is arranged a potting material which is in contact with the frame and at least partly fills the recess in the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Zeljko Pajkic, Michael Müller
  • Patent number: 12176469
    Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Biebersdorf, Laura Kreiner, Stefan Illek, Ines Pietzonka, Petrus Sundgren, Christoph Klemp, Felix Feix, Christian Berger, Ana Kanevce
  • Patent number: 12176380
    Abstract: An optoelectronic semiconductor device may include a plurality of picture elements, each of which include a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type arranged one above the other to form a semiconductor layer stack. The optoelectronic semiconductor device further includes separating elements arranged between adjacent picture elements and extend in a horizontal direction along a boundary of the adjacent picture element, adjoin the first and the second semiconductor layers, respectively, and extend in the vertical direction through the first and the second semiconductor layers, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Guido Weiss
  • Patent number: 12176330
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an optoelectronic device includes a carrier, at least one optoelectronic semiconductor component arranged on an upper side of the carrier and at least one light channel associated with the optoelectronic semiconductor component which extends between a first end of the light channel which is distant from a light-active surface of the semiconductor component and which includes an opening into the outer space and a second end of the light channel including an opening directed towards the light-active surface of the semiconductor component, wherein the at least one light channel extends between its respective first and second ends in a non-rectilinear manner, wherein the light channel includes a cavity extending between the two ends, wherein an inner wall surrounds the cavity, and wherein at least a section of the inner wall is reflective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Claus Jaeger
  • Patent number: 12170342
    Abstract: In an embodiment an optoelectronic semiconductor component includes a first semiconductor layer of an n-conductivity type, the first semiconductor layer being of AlxGa1-xN composition, with 0.3?x?0.95, a second semiconductor layer of a p-conductivity type, an active zone between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, the active zone including a quantum well structure and an intermediate layer between the first semiconductor layer and the active zone, wherein the intermediate layer includes a semiconductor material of AlyGa1-yN composition, with x*1.05?y?1, and wherein the intermediate layer is located directly adjacent to the active zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Mohammad Tollabi Mazraehno
  • Patent number: 12155023
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optoelectronic semiconductor chip comprising a semiconductor layer sequence with a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer and an active layer between the first and the second semiconductor layers. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip further comprises a first contact structure with a plurality of first contact pins and a first contact layer for electrically contacting the first semiconductor layer and a second contact structure for electrically contacting the second semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer is disposed between the first contact layer and the active layer. The first contact pins are disposed between the first contact layer and the first semiconductor layer and are separated and spaced at a distance from one another in the lateral direction. An electrical connection with an electrical resistance between the first contact layer and the first semiconductor layer is formed by each first contact pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Barthel, Anna Nirschl
  • Patent number: 12152181
    Abstract: A quantum dot material may include a quantum dot having at least two ligand where each ligand includes a first and a second functional group bound to each other by a bridge. The bridge may include a system of conjugated double bonds. In at least one ligand, the second functional group may have an electron transport structure. In at least one ligand, the second functional group may have a hole transport structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventor: Niels Gerlitzki
  • Patent number: 12152185
    Abstract: A luminophore having the empirical formula A3M*OxF9-2x:Mn4+ where A may be or include Li, Na, Rb, K, Cs, or combinations thereof. M* may be or include Cr, Mo, W, or combinations thereof. x may be or include 0<x<4.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Seibald, Dominik Baumann, Christiane Stoll, Ion Stoll, Hubert Huppertz, Gunter Heymann, Klaus Wurst
  • Patent number: 12136692
    Abstract: A method of producing an optoelectronic component includes providing a semiconductor wafer with a functional semiconductor layer that has electronic control elements, and a growth layer; generating a plurality of recesses in the semiconductor wafer exposing the growth layer in places; and epitaxially growing a plurality of semiconductor layer stacks on the exposed growth layer, wherein a surface of the exposed growth layer is used as a growth surface for the semiconductor layer stacks, and the growth surface is inclined to a main extension plane of the semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Plößl
  • Patent number: 12132158
    Abstract: In an embodiment an optoelectronic component includes a first joining partner including an LED chip with a structured light-emitting surface and a compensation layer applied to the light-emitting surface, wherein the compensation layer has a surface facing away from the light-emitting surface and spaced apart from the light-emitting surface, and wherein the surface forms a first connecting surface, a second joining partner having a second connecting surface, the first and second connecting surfaces being arranged such that they face each other and a bonding layer made of a film of low-melting glass having a layer thickness of not more than 1 ?m, wherein the bonding layer bonds the first and second connecting surfaces together, wherein the structure of the light-emitting surface is embedded in the compensation layer, and wherein the first and second connecting surfaces are smooth such that their surface roughness, expressed as center-line roughness, is less than or equal to 50 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Scheicher, Thomas Huettmayer, Ivar Tangring, Angela Eberhardt, Florian Peskoller
  • Patent number: 12128821
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a radiation source for the emission of electromagnetic radiation and a converter element on which the electromagnetic radiation impinges in a first surface region and which, excited by the impinged electromagnetic radiation, emits visible light into an environment in a second surface region which differs at least partially from the first surface region. The wavelength of the light emitted into the environment differs from the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation impinged on the converter element. The converter element includes a luminous element including a textile with a converter material. The converter material due to excitation by the electromagnetic radiation with a first wavelength emits visible light with a second wavelength differing from the first wavelength. The radiation source realizes a background illumination for the converter element. The first surface region is formed by a side surface or a back surface of the converter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Brandl, Peter Brick, Uli Hiller, Sebastian Stigler, Armin Wetterer
  • Patent number: 12125951
    Abstract: A structure comprising a nanoparticle converting electromagnetic radiation of a first wavelength into electromagnetic radiation of a second wavelength range, an interlayer at least partially surrounding the nanoparticle, and an encapsulation at least partially surrounding the interlayer is specified, wherein the interlayer comprises a plurality of first amphiphilic ligands and a plurality of second amphiphilic ligands and the first ligands and the second ligands are intercalated. Furthermore, an agglomerate comprising a plurality of structures, an optoelectronic device as well as methods for producing a structure and an agglomerate are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Erik Johansson, Robert Fitzmorris, Kevin Wiese, James Wyckoff
  • Patent number: 12125773
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lead frame assembly comprising a plurality of regularly arranged lead frames, each of which is suitable for electrically contacting components, comprises at least two lead frame elements distanced laterally by a recess and which are provided as electrical connections of different polarity, and has at least one anchoring element, which is suitable for anchoring a housing body of the component, the lead frame elements being thinned, flat regions of the lead frame, and the at least one anchoring element protrudes from a plane of the lead frame elements in the form of a pillar, and a plurality of connection elements, which in each case connects two lead frame elements of adjacent lead frames to one another, the two connected lead frame elements being provided as terminals of different polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Hien, Michael Zitzlsperger
  • Patent number: 12119236
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a connection structure may include forming an opening in a first main surface of a first substrate, forming a galvanic seed layer over a first main surface of a carrier substrate, and connecting the first main surface of the first substrate to the first main surface of the carrier substrate, such that the galvanic seed layer is arranged between the first main surface of the first substrate and the first main surface of the carrier substrate. The method may further include galvanically forming a conductive material over the galvanic seed layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Rudolph, Teresa Baur, Christoph Klemp
  • Patent number: 12119620
    Abstract: The invention relates to an edge emitting laser diode comprising a semiconductor layer stack whose growth direction defines a vertical direction, and wherein the semiconductor layer stack comprises an active layer and a waveguide layer. A thermal stress element is arranged in at least indirect contact with the semiconductor layer stack, the thermal stress element being configured to generate a thermally induced mechanical stress in the waveguide layer that counteracts the formation of a thermal lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventor: Jens Ebbecke
  • Patent number: 12112968
    Abstract: In an embodiment a method includes providing a growth substrate with a plurality of semiconductor bodies for the semiconductor devices, wherein each semiconductor body comprises electrical contact structures and a separation layer arranged towards the growth substrate, arranging a rigid first auxiliary carrier on a side of the semiconductor bodies facing away from the growth substrate, wherein the first auxiliary carrier comprises a first detachment layer, detaching the growth substrate by laser radiation, wherein the laser radiation is absorbed in the separation layer, arranging a rigid second auxiliary carrier on a side of the semiconductor bodies facing away from the first auxiliary carrier, wherein the second auxiliary carrier comprise a second detachment layer, detaching the first auxiliary carrier by laser radiation, wherein the laser radiation is absorbed in the first detachment layer and the separation layer still extending continuously over the growth substrate while detaching and mechanically and el
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Ralph Wagner
  • Patent number: 12113156
    Abstract: A radiation-emitting device may include a radiation-emitting semiconductor chip configured to emit electromagnetic radiation of a first wavelength range from a radiation exit surface, a first phosphor configured to convert electromagnetic radiation of the first wavelength range into electromagnetic radiation of a second wavelength range. The second wavelength range may be or include infrared light. The device may further include an up-converting phosphor configured to convert infrared light of the second wavelength range into visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTOR GMBH
    Inventors: Tomin Liu, T'ing Qi'ao Leow, Keng Chong Lim
  • Patent number: 12106980
    Abstract: In an embodiment an adhesive transfer stamp for transferring semiconductor chips includes a volume region including an electrically insulating material, at least one adhesive surface configured to receive a semiconductor chip and an electrically conductive element configured to electrically conductively connected to a ground conductor during operation and to dissipate electrical charges from the semiconductor chip to the ground conductor, wherein the volume region is embodied as a solid body, and wherein the volume region has at least one stepped structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Halbritter, Alexander Pfeuffer, Mikko Peraelae
  • Patent number: 12107197
    Abstract: Semiconductor structures having a nanocrystalline core and corresponding nanocrystalline shell and insulator coating, wherein the semiconductor structure includes an anisotropic nanocrystalline core composed of a first semiconductor material, and an anisotropic nanocrystalline shell composed of a second, different, semiconductor material surrounding the anisotropic nanocrystalline core. The anisotropic nanocrystalline core and the anisotropic nanocrystalline shell form a quantum dot. An insulator layer encapsulates the nanocrystalline shell and anisotropic nanocrystalline core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Juanita Kurtin, Brian Theobald, Matthew J. Carillo, Oun-Ho Park, Georgeta Masson, Steven M. Hughes