Patents by Inventor Cyril Pernot

Cyril Pernot 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: 20230420600
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer comprising a well layer comprising AlGaN and emitting ultraviolet light; an electron blocking layer being located on the light-emitting layer and comprising AlGaN with a first Al composition ratio higher than an Al composition ratio of the well layer; and a p-type cladding layer being located on the electron blocking layer, comprising AlGaN with a second Al composition ratio higher than the Al composition ratio of the well layer and lower than the first Al composition ratio, and being doped with a predetermined concentration of a p-type dopant. An interface between the electron blocking layer and the p-type cladding layer is doped with not less than a predetermined amount of an n-type dopant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke MATSUKURA, Tetsuhiko INAZU, Cyril PERNOT
  • Publication number: 20230387351
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes an n-type semiconductor layer, an active layer being formed on the n-type semiconductor layer and emitting ultraviolet light, an electron blocking layer formed on the active layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer formed on the electron blocking layer. Pits are formed in the active layer and the electron blocking layer. A density of the pits on an upper surface of the electron blocking layer is not less than 7.0×107 pits/cm2 and not more than 1.8×109 pits/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazufumi TAKAO, Cyril PERNOT
  • Publication number: 20230378393
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element emits ultraviolet light at a central wavelength of more than 320 nm and not more than 365 nm. The nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes a substrate having a c-plane as a growth surface and a nitride semiconductor layer stacked on the growth surface of the substrate. The nitride semiconductor layer includes an n-type semiconductor layer, and an active layer being formed on the n-type semiconductor layer on the opposite side to the substrate and comprising a single quantum well structure with one well layer. The n-type semiconductor layer has an Al composition ratio of not more than 50% and a film thickness of more than 2 ?m. A composition difference obtained by subtracting an Al composition ratio of the well layer from the Al composition ratio of the n-type semiconductor layer is not less than 22%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke MATSUKURA, Cyril PERNOT
  • Patent number: 11799051
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer comprising a well layer comprising AlGaN and emitting ultraviolet light; an electron blocking layer being located on the light-emitting layer and comprising AlGaN with a first Al composition ratio higher than an Al composition ratio of the well layer; and a p-type cladding layer being located on the electron blocking layer, comprising AlGaN with a second Al composition ratio higher than the Al composition ratio of the well layer and lower than the first Al composition ratio, and being doped with a predetermined concentration of a p-type dopant. An interface between the electron blocking layer and the p-type cladding layer is doped with not less than a predetermined amount of an n-type dopant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Nikkiso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsukura, Tetsuhiko Inazu, Cyril Pernot
  • Publication number: 20230246120
    Abstract: A susceptor includes a pocket in which a wafer is placed. A side surface of the pocket comprises a side-surface circumference portion formed in a circumference shape and a side-surface enlarged portion formed to extend toward an outer circumferential side of the pocket beyond the side-surface circumference portion. In a plan view seen from an open side of the pocket, when a straight line passing through a rotational center of the susceptor and a circumferential center of the side-surface circumference portion is defined as a first straight line and a straight line orthogonal to the first straight line and passing through the circumferential center is defined as a second straight line, the side-surface enlarged portion overlaps the second straight line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazufumi TAKAO, Cyril PERNOT
  • Publication number: 20230238475
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes growing a p-type cladding layer with an average Al composition ratio in a thickness direction of not less than 70%, and growing a p-type contact layer with an Al composition ratio of not more than 10%. A flow rate ratio Fp/FIII is a p/III ratio and a flow rate ratio FV/FIII is a V/III ratio. The p-type cladding layer is grown in the growing the p-type cladding layer at a growth rate of not more than 2.5 nm/min, a p/III ratio of not less than 0.0002 and not more than 0.0400 and a VIII ratio of not more than 7000. The p-type contact layer is grown in the growing the p-type contact layer at a growth rate of not more than 3.3 nm/min, a p/III ratio of not less than 0.0200 and a V/III ratio of not less than 10000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miho MATSUZAKI, Yusuke MATSUKURA, Cyril PERNOT
  • Publication number: 20230105525
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes an n-type semiconductor layer; a p-type semiconductor layer; an active layer provided between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer; and an electron blocking layer provided between the active layer and the p-type semiconductor layer. At least one of the p-type semiconductor layer and the electron blocking layer includes an oxygen-containing portion including oxygen. An oxygen concentration at each position of the oxygen-containing portion in a stacking direction of the n-type semiconductor layer, the active layer, the electron blocking layer and the p-type semiconductor layer is not less than 2.5×1016 atoms/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke MATSUKURA, Cyril PERNOT
  • Publication number: 20230105852
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes an n-type semiconductor layer; a p-type semiconductor layer; an active layer provided between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer; and an electron blocking layer provided between the active layer and the p-type semiconductor layer. A film thickness of the electron blocking layer is not more than 100 nm. An average value of a hydrogen concentration over the electron blocking layer in a stacking direction of the n-type semiconductor layer, the active layer, the electron blocking layer and the p-type semiconductor layer is not more than 2.0×1018 atoms/cm3. A boundary portion between the p-type semiconductor layer and the electron blocking layer includes an n-type impurity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke MATSUKURA, Cyril PERNOT
  • Patent number: 11616167
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes an n-type cladding layer including n-type AlGaN, and a multiple quantum well layer including a barrier layer that includes AlGaN and is located on the n-type cladding layer side, wherein the nitride semiconductor light-emitting element further comprises a trigger layer that is located between the n-type cladding layer and the barrier layer and comprises Si, wherein a plural V-pits starting from dislocations in the n-type cladding layer and ending in the multiple quantum well are formed in the n-type cladding layer and the multiple quantum well layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Nikkiso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cyril Pernot, Yusuke Matsukura, Yuta Furusawa, Mitsugu Wada
  • Patent number: 11563139
    Abstract: A deep ultraviolet light emitting device includes: an electron block layer of a p-type AlGaN-based semiconductor material or a p-type AlN-based semiconductor material provided on a support substrate; an active layer of an AlGaN-based semiconductor material provided on the electron block layer; an n-type clad layer of an n-type AlGaN-based semiconductor material provided on the active layer; an n-type contact layer provided on a partial region of the n-type clad layer and made of an n-type semiconductor material containing gallium nitride (GaN); and an n-side electrode formed on the n-type contact layer. The n-type contact layer has a band gap smaller than that of the n-type clad layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuhiko Inazu, Cyril Pernot
  • Publication number: 20230013312
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes an active layer comprising at least one well layer, a p-type semiconductor layer located on one side of the active layer, and an electron blocking stack body located between the active layer and the p-type semiconductor layer. The electron blocking stack body includes a first electron blocking layer and a second electron blocking layer that is located on the p-type semiconductor layer side relative to the first electron blocking layer and has a lower Al composition ratio than that of the first electron blocking layer. When a total number of the well layers in the active layer is N, a film thickness of the first electron blocking layer is a film thickness d [nm] and an Al composition ratio of the second electron blocking layer is an Al composition ratio x [%], relationships 0.1N+0.9?d?0.2N+2.0 and 10N+40?x?10N+60 are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke MATSUKURA, Cyril PERNOT
  • Publication number: 20220384681
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes a first semiconductor layer; an active layer provided on the first semiconductor layer on one side; a second semiconductor layer provided on the active layer on the opposite side to the first semiconductor layer so as to be in contact with the active layer; and a reflective electrode provided on the second semiconductor layer on the opposite side to the active layer so as to be in contact with the second semiconductor layer and reflects light emitted from the active layer. When an optical film thickness of the second semiconductor layer is an optical film thickness L [nm], a central wavelength of the light emitted from the active layer is a wavelength ? [nm], and an arbitrary number between 1 and 2 is a value m, a relationship 0.48 m ??L?0.5 m ?+(?0.05 m+0.3)? is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke MATSUKURA, Cyril PERNOT
  • Patent number: 11476391
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes an n-type cladding layer including n-type AlGaN, and an active layer that includes AlGaN and is located on the n-type cladding layer. Si concentration distribution in a direction of stacking the n-type cladding layer and the active layer has a local peak in the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Nikkiso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsukura, Cyril Pernot
  • Patent number: 11444222
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes an n-type cladding layer including n-type AlGaN and having a first Al composition ratio, and a multiple quantum well layer in which a plurality (number N) of barrier layers including AlGaN having a second Al composition ratio more than the first Al composition ratio and a plural (number N) well layers having an Al composition ratio less than the second Al composition ratio are stacked alternately in this order, wherein the second Al composition ratio of the plurality of barrier layers of the multiple quantum well layer increases at a predetermined increase rate from an n-type cladding layer side toward an opposite side to the n-type cladding layer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Nikkiso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Furusawa, Mitsugu Wada, Yusuke Matsukura, Cyril Pernot
  • Patent number: 11404603
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes an active layer including an AlGaN-based barrier layer, a p-type contact layer located on an upper side of the active layer, and an electron blocking stack body located between the active layer and the p-type contact layer. The electron blocking stack body includes a first electron blocking layer and a second electron blocking layer. The first electron blocking layer is located on the active layer side and has a higher Al composition ratio than an Al composition ratio in the barrier layer. The second electron blocking layer is located on the p-type contact layer side and has a lower Al composition ratio than an Al composition ratio in the barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Nikkiso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsukura, Tetsuhiko Inazu, Cyril Pernot
  • Patent number: 11355670
    Abstract: A deep ultraviolet light emitting device includes: a light extraction surface; an n-type semiconductor layer provided on the light extraction surface; an active layer having a band gap of 3.4 eV or larger; and a p-type semiconductor layer provided on the active layer. Deep ultraviolet light emitted by the active layer is output outside from the light extraction surface. A side surface of the active layer is inclined with respect to an interface between the n-type semiconductor layer and the active layer, and an angle of inclination of the side surface is not less than 15° and not more than 50°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhito Sakai, Noritaka Niwa, Tetsuhiko Inazu, Cyril Pernot
  • Patent number: 11322654
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes an active layer that emits ultraviolet light, a p-type AlGaN-based electron blocking stack body that is located on the active layer and has a structure formed by sequentially stacking a first electron blocking layer, a second electron blocking layer and a third electron blocking layer from the active layer side, and a p-type contact layer located on the electron blocking stack body. An Al composition ratio in the second electron blocking layer is lower than an Al composition ratio in the first electron blocking layer, and an Al composition ratio in the third electron blocking layer decreases from the second electron blocking layer side toward the p-type contact layer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Nikkiso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsukura, Tetsuhiko Inazu, Cyril Pernot
  • Publication number: 20220131043
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes an n-type semiconductor layer, a p-type semiconductor layer, an active layer provided between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer, and an electron blocking layer comprising Al and being provided between the active layer and the p-type semiconductor layer. The electron blocking layer partially includes a high Al composition portion in at least one cross section orthogonal to a stacking direction, the high Al composition portion having an Al composition ratio higher than a surrounding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke MATSUKURA, Cyril PERNOT
  • Publication number: 20220131042
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes an n-type semiconductor layer, a p-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and an electron blocking layer comprising at least one layer. The at least one layer of the electron blocking layer includes a peak-containing layer having an n-type impurity concentration peak in an n-type impurity concentration distribution along a stacking direction. The n-type impurity concentration peak appears as a local maximum in the n-type impurity concentration distribution along the stacking direction in the peak-containing layer and has an n-type impurity concentration of not less than 10 times a smallest value of the n-type impurity concentration in a region along the stacking direction between positions that are separated from a position of the peak in the stacking direction on both sides in the stacking direction by 10% of a thickness of the peak-containing layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke MATSUKURA, Cyril PERNOT
  • Publication number: 20220123174
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element outputs ultraviolet light. The nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes an active layer including a quantum well structure that generates the ultraviolet light, a dislocation suppression structure-containing layer being formed on the active layer and including a dislocation suppression structure that stops or bends a dislocation from the active layer; and a p-type contact layer being formed on the dislocation suppression structure-containing layer and having a thickness of not less than 10 nm and not more than 30 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke MATSUKURA, Cyril PERNOT