Patents by Inventor Andreas Ploessl

Andreas Ploessl has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250113680
    Abstract: In an embodiment a semiconductor arrangement includes at least one semiconductor component with a functional layer stack. The functional layer stack includes a first layer of a first conductivity type, a second layer of a second conductivity type arranged on the first layer, an active zone located between the first and the second layer and an electrically conductive nanowire layer, wherein the electrically conductive nanowire layer is arranged at least in regions on a side of the second layer facing away from the first layer. The semiconductor arrangement further includes a holding layer with at least one elevation, wherein the at least one semiconductor component is arranged on the at least one elevation such that a cavity is formed between the at least one semiconductor component and the holding layer, and wherein the nanowire layer is at least partially exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Andreas Ploessl, Norwin von Malm
  • Patent number: 11892651
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes an optoelectronic semiconductor chip configured to emit electromagnetic radiation; an optically effective element arranged such that electromagnetic radiation emitted by the optoelectronic semiconductor chip passes through the optically effective element; and a housing, wherein the optoelectronic semiconductor chip is arranged in a cavity of the housing, the optically effective element includes a carrier, a first optically effective structure arranged on a top side of the carrier, and a cover arranged above the first optically effective structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Enzmann, Hubert Halbritter, Markus Arzberger, Andreas Ploessl, Roland Schulz, Georg Rossbach, Bernd Boehm, Frank Singer, Matthias Sabathil
  • Publication number: 20220208715
    Abstract: In an embodiment a method includes providing a semiconductor chip, applying a solder metal layer sequence on the semiconductor chip, providing a substrate, applying a metallization layer sequence on the substrate, applying the semiconductor chip on the substrate via the solder metal layer sequence and the metallization layer sequence and heating the applied semiconductor chip on the substrate for fastening the semiconductor chip on the substrate, wherein the solder metal layer sequence includes a first metallic layer including an indium-tin alloy, a barrier layer arranged above the first metallic layer, and a second metallic layer having gold arranged between the barrier layer and the semiconductor chip, and wherein the indium-tin alloy has the following formula: InxSn1-x with 0.04?x?0.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Klaus Mueller, Andreas Ploessl, Mathias Wendt
  • Patent number: 11315898
    Abstract: A method for fastening a semiconductor chip on a substrate and an electronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment a method includes providing a semiconductor chip, applying a solder metal layer sequence on the semiconductor chip, providing a substrate, applying a metallization layer sequence on the substrate, applying the semiconductor chip on the substrate via the solder metal layer sequence and the metallization layer sequence and heating the applied semiconductor chip on the substrate for fastening the semiconductor chip on the substrate. The solder metal layer may include a first metallic layer comprising an indium-tin alloy, a barrier layer arranged above the first metallic layer and a second metallic layer comprising gold arranged between the barrier layer and the semiconductor chip, wherein an amount of substance of the gold in the second metallic layer is greater than an amount of substance of tin in the first metallic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Mueller, Andreas Ploessl, Mathias Wendt
  • Patent number: 11222992
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component, comprising: a structured semiconductor layer, a metallic mirror layer arranged on the semiconductor layer, a diffusion barrier layer arranged on the metallic mirror layer, a passivation layer arranged on the diffusion barrier layer, wherein the semiconductor layer comprises a mesa structure with mesa trenches. The mesa trenches taper from the surface of the semiconductor layer towards the mirror layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Kaiser, Andreas Ploessl
  • Patent number: 11183621
    Abstract: A component may include a semiconductor chip, a buffer layer, a connecting layer, and a metal carrier. The semiconductor chip may include a substrate and a semiconductor body arranged thereon. The metal carrier may have a thermal expansion coefficient at least 1.5 times as great as a thermal expansion coefficient of the substrate or of the semiconductor chip. The chip may be fastened on the metal carrier by the connecting layer, and the buffer layer may have a yield stress ranging from 10 MPa. The buffer layer may have a thickness ranging from 2 um to 10 um and adjoin the chip. The substrate and the metal carrier may have a higher yield strength than the buffer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Paola Altieri-Weimar, Ingo Neudecker, Andreas Ploessl, Marcus Zenger
  • Patent number: 11127890
    Abstract: The method for assembling a carrier comprises a step A), in which a plurality of pigments (100), each with an electronic component (1), is provided. Further, each pigment comprises a meltable solder material (2) directly adjoining a mounting side (10) of the component. At least 63% by volume of each pigment is formed by the solder material. The mounting side of each component has a higher wettability with the molten solder material than a top side (12) and a side surface (11) of the component. In a step B), a carrier (200) with pigment landing areas (201) is provided, the pigment landing areas having higher wettability with the molten solder material of the pigments than the regions laterally adjacent to the pigment landing areas and than the side surfaces and the top sides of the components. In a step C), the pigments are applied to the carrier. In a step D), the pigments are heated so that the solder material melts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Ploessl
  • Publication number: 20210223559
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes an optoelectronic semiconductor chip configured to emit electromagnetic radiation; an optically effective element arranged such that electromagnetic radiation emitted by the optoelectronic semiconductor chip passes through the optically effective element; and a housing, wherein the optoelectronic semiconductor chip is arranged in a cavity of the housing, the optically effective element includes a carrier, a first optically effective structure arranged on a top side of the carrier, and a cover arranged above the first optically effective structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Roland Enzmann, Hubert Halbritter, Markus Arzberger, Andreas Ploessl, Roland Schulz, Georg Rossbach, Bernd Boehm, Frank Singer, Matthias Sabathil
  • Patent number: 10996482
    Abstract: An optically effective element includes a carrier, a first optically effective structure arranged on a top side of the carrier, and a cover arranged above the first optically effective structure. A method of producing an optically effective element includes providing a carrier, forming a first optically effective structure on a top side of the carrier, and arranging a cover above the top side of the carrier and the first optically effective structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Enzmann, Hubert Halbritter, Markus Arzberger, Andreas Ploessl, Roland Schulz, Georg Rossbach, Bernd Boehm, Frank Singer, Matthias Sabathil
  • Patent number: 10854804
    Abstract: A light-emitting component includes a light-emitting chip and a housing including a plastic body and a reflector, the reflector includes an electrically conductive layer, the light-emitting chip includes a top side and an underside, the underside of the light-emitting chip is arranged on the plastic body, an electrical terminal on the top side of the light-emitting chip electrically conductively connects to the reflector by a bond wire, the underside of the light-emitting chip and the reflector are electrically insulated from one another, a conduction region is provided within the plastic body, thermal conductivity of the conduction region is greater than thermal conductivity of the plastic body, the conduction region adjoins the underside of the light-emitting chip, and the conduction region extends from the side of the plastic body facing the light-emitting chip as far as the side of the plastic body facing away from the light-emitting chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Haushalter, Frank Singer, Thomas Schwarz, Andreas Ploessl
  • Publication number: 20200227604
    Abstract: A component may include a semiconductor chip, a buffer layer, a connecting layer, and a metal carrier. The semiconductor chip may include a substrate and a semiconductor body arranged thereon. The metal carrier may have a thermal expansion coefficient at least 1.5 times as great as a thermal expansion coefficient of the substrate or of the semiconductor chip. The chip may be fastened on the metal carrier by the connecting layer, and the buffer layer may have a yield stress ranging from 10 MPa. The buffer layer may have a thickness ranging from 2 um to 10 um and adjoin the chip. The substrate and the metal carrier may have a higher yield strength than the buffer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Paola Altieri-Weimar, Ingo Neudecker, Andreas Ploessl, Marcus Zenger
  • Publication number: 20200211997
    Abstract: A method for fastening a semiconductor chip on a substrate and an electronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment a method includes providing a semiconductor chip, applying a solder metal layer sequence on the semiconductor chip, providing a substrate, applying a metallization layer sequence on the substrate, applying the semiconductor chip on the substrate via the solder metal layer sequence and the metallization layer sequence and heating the applied semiconductor chip on the substrate for fastening the semiconductor chip on the substrate. The solder metal layer may include a first metallic layer comprising an indium-tin alloy, a barrier layer arranged above the first metallic layer and a second metallic layer comprising gold arranged between the barrier layer and the semiconductor chip, wherein an amount of substance of the gold in the second metallic layer is greater than an amount of substance of tin in the first metallic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Klaus Mueller, Andreas Ploessl, Mathias Wendt
  • Patent number: 10651346
    Abstract: An assembly includes a carrier including a glass material, including at least one recess, wherein at least one optoelectronic semiconductor component is arranged in the at least one recess of the carrier, and at least one surface of the semiconductor component connects to the carrier via a melted surface including glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Singer, Andreas Ploessl
  • Patent number: 10483256
    Abstract: An optoelectronic semiconductor device and an apparatus with an optoelectronic semiconductor device are disclosed. In an embodiment the optoelectronic semiconductor component has an emission region including a semiconductor layer sequence having a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active region arranged between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer for generating radiation, and a protection diode region. The semiconductor component has a contact for electrically contacting the semiconductor component externally. The contact has a first contact region that is connected to the emission region in an electrically conductive manner. The contact has further a second contact region that is spaced apart from the first contact region and connected to the protection diode region in an electrically conductive manner. The first contact region and the second contact region can be electrically contacted externally by a mutual end of a connecting line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Juergen Moosburger, Andreas Ploessl
  • Patent number: 10361350
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component and a method for producing an optoelectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment the component includes a semiconductor chip, a molded body and an electrical through-contact constituting an electrically conductive connection through the molded body. The through-contact and the semiconductor chip are embedded alongside one another and are spaced apart in the molded body. A first contact pad of the through-contact is arranged at an underside of the molded body. A second contact pad of the through-contact is arranged at a top side of the molded body. The second contact pad is electrically conductively connected to the electrical contact of the semiconductor chip. The through-contact is arranged such that a molded body is arranged at least in a section between the first and second contact pads on a straight line between the first and second contact pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Ploessl
  • Publication number: 20190123251
    Abstract: A light-emitting arrangement is disclosed. In an embodiment a light-emitting arrangement includes a carrier, an electrical contact pad formed on the carrier, an electrically conductive contact film arranged on the contact pad and a light-emitting component having an electrical terminal on a first side, wherein the component is located with the first side on the contact film, wherein the electrical terminal is connected to the contact film in an electrically conductive manner, and wherein the electrical terminal is connected to the contact pad in an electrically conductive manner by way of the electrically conductive contact film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Ingo Neudecker, Juergen Moosburger, Andreas Ploessl
  • Patent number: 10242974
    Abstract: A method for producing a plurality of optoelectronic semiconductor components (100) is provided, comprising the following steps: a) providing an auxiliary carrier (2); b) providing a plurality of semiconductor chips (10), wherein each of the semiconductor chips has a carrier body (12) and a semiconductor body (4) arranged on an upper side (22) of the carrier body; c) attaching the plurality of semiconductor chips on the auxiliary carrier, wherein the semiconductor chips are spaced apart from one another in a lateral direction (L) and wherein the semiconductor bodies are facing the auxiliary carrier, as seen from the carrier body; d) forming a scattering layer (18), at least in regions between the semiconductor bodies of adjacent semiconductor chips; e) forming a composite package (20); f) removing the auxiliary carrier (2); and g) individually separating the composite package into a plurality of optoelectronic semiconductor components (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Lutz Hoeppel, Juergen Moosburger, Andreas Ploessl, Patrick Rode, Peter Nagel, Dominik Scholz
  • Publication number: 20190013450
    Abstract: The method for assembling a carrier comprises a step A), in which a plurality of pigments (100), each with an electronic component (1), is provided. Further, each pigment comprises a meltable solder material (2) directly adjoining a mounting side (10) of the component. At least 63% by volume of each pigment is formed by the solder material. The mounting side of each component has a higher wettability with the molten solder material than a top side (12) and a side surface (11) of the component. In a step B), a carrier (200) with pigment landing areas (201) is provided, the pigment landing areas having higher wettability with the molten solder material of the pigments than the regions laterally adjacent to the pigment landing areas and than the side surfaces and the top sides of the components. In a step C), the pigments are applied to the carrier. In a step D), the pigments are heated so that the solder material melts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventor: Andreas PLOESSL
  • Publication number: 20180374996
    Abstract: An assembly includes a carrier including a glass material, including at least one recess, wherein at least one optoelectronic semiconductor component is arranged in the at least one recess of the carrier, and at least one surface of the semiconductor component connects to the carrier via a melted surface including glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Frank Singer, Andreas Ploessl
  • Patent number: 10147696
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for producing an electronic device are disclosed. In an embodiment the electronic device includes a first component and a second component and a sinter layer connecting the first component to the second component, the sinter layer comprising a first metal, wherein at least one of the components comprises at least one contact layer which is arranged in direct contact with the sinter layer, which comprises a second metal different from the first metal and which is free of gold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Ploessl