Abstract: A light source includes a substrate, an array of semiconductor structures grown on the substrate, and multi-color micro-LEDs grown on surfaces of the array of semiconductor structures. Each semiconductor structure of the array of semiconductor structures has a shape of a truncated pyramid. The light source includes multiple sets of micro-LEDs formed on top surfaces of multiple sets of semiconductor structures of the array of semiconductor structures, or formed on the top surfaces and/or multiple sidewall surfaces of the array of semiconductor structures. The multiple sets of micro-LEDs are configured to emit light of multiple colors.

Abstract: A light emitting diode structure comprising: a p-type region; an n-type region; a gate contact; a first light emitting region for recombination of carriers injectable by the p-type region and the n-type region; and a second light emitting region for recombination of carriers injectable by the p-type region and the n-type region, wherein the first light emitting region and the second light emitting region at least partially overlap to form a light emitting surface associated with the first light emitting region and the second light emitting region; wherein the p-type region is at least partially formed in a first channel through the first light emitting region and the second light emitting region, and the n-type region is at least partially formed in a second channel through the first light emitting region and the second light emitting region, wherein the light emitting device is configured such that the wavelength of light emitted by the light emitting surface is controllable by varying a gate voltage applied

Abstract: A light source includes an array of micro-light emitting diodes (micro-LEDs), an array of micro-lenses, and a bonding layer bonding the array of micro-lenses to the array of micro-LEDs. Each micro-LED of the array of micro-LEDs includes a first mesa structure formed in a plurality of semiconductor layers. The array of micro-lenses is bonded to a first semiconductor layer of the plurality of semiconductor layers by the bonding layer. The first semiconductor layer includes an array of second mesa structures formed therein. The first mesa structure and the second mesa structure are on opposite sides of the plurality of semiconductor layers. Each second mesa structure of the array of second mesa structures is aligned with a respective micro-lens of the array of micro-lenses and the first mesa structure of a respective micro-LED of the array of micro-LEDs.

Abstract: A light source includes an array of core-shell nanowire micro-LEDs. Each core-shell nanowire micro-LED includes: a first semiconductor epitaxial layer including a nanowire core formed therein; a first dielectric material layer in physical contact with and surrounding sidewalls of a bottom portion of the nanowire core, or in physical contact with a bottom surface of the nanowire core; a second dielectric material layer in physical contact with a top surface of the nanowire core; active layers grown only on sidewalls of the nanowire core and configured to emit visible light; and a second semiconductor layer grown on the active layers, where the nanowire core and the second semiconductor layer are oppositely doped.

Abstract: A light source includes a backplane including electrical circuits fabricated thereon, an array of micro-light emitting diodes (micro-LEDs) bonded to the backplane and configured to emit visible light, and an array of micro-lenses aligned with the array of micro-LEDs and configured to collimate the visible light emitted by the array of micro-LEDs. Each micro-lens of the array of micro-lenses has a plurality of discrete thickness levels. A pitch of the array of micro-lenses is equal to or less than about 5 ?m, such as about 2 ?m. The pitch of the array of micro-lenses can be the same as or different from the pitch of the array of micro-LEDs.

Abstract: A method of forming a dielectric collar for semiconductor wires includes providing a layers stack and a semiconductor wires (SW) layer on top of the stack, forming a base layer at a lower part of the SW and a capping layer at an upper part of the SW, the base layer parallel to the basal plane and including a dielectric material surrounding the lower part of the SW, and the capping layer along a contour of the SW and including a dielectric material surrounding the upper part of the SW, the base and capping layers having thicknesses e1 and e2 with e1>2.e2, performing anisotropic etching along the direction normal to the basal plane to remove the dielectric material at a top part of the SW and leaving the dielectric material at least in the lower part of the SW.

Abstract: A light source includes an array of micro-light emitting diodes (micro-LEDs), an array of micro-lenses, and a bonding layer bonding the array of micro-lenses to the array of micro-LEDs. Each micro-LED of the array of micro-LEDs includes a first mesa structure formed in a plurality of semiconductor layers. The array of micro-lenses is bonded to a first semiconductor layer of the plurality of semiconductor layers by the bonding layer. The first semiconductor layer includes an array of second mesa structures formed therein. The first mesa structure and the second mesa structure are on opposite sides of the plurality of semiconductor layers. Each second mesa structure of the array of second mesa structures is aligned with a respective micro-lens of the array of micro-lenses and the first mesa structure of a respective micro-LED of the array of micro-LEDs.

Abstract: A light source comprises a backplane wafer with electrical circuits fabricated thereon, and an array of LEDs coupled to the backplane wafer. Each LED of the array of LEDs comprises a mesa structure including semiconductor epitaxial layers and characterized by inwardly tilted mesa sidewalls, a high-refractive index material region (e.g., with a refractive index greater than about 1.75, such as equal to or greater than a refractive index of the semiconductor epitaxial layers) surrounding the semiconductor epitaxial layers of the mesa structure and including outwardly tilted sidewalls, and a reflective layer on the outwardly tilted sidewalls of the high-refractive index material region. In one example, each LED of the array of LEDs also include a passivation layer on the inwardly tilted mesa sidewalls of the mesa structure.

Abstract: A light source includes an array of micro-light emitting diodes (micro-LEDs) configured to emit light, a first semiconductor layer on the array of micro-LEDs and including porous structures formed therein to diffuse the light emitted by the array of micro-LEDs, and a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer includes a flat surface opposing the first semiconductor layer and is configured to couple the light diffused by the porous structures out of the light source through the flat surface.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a LED precursor and a LED precursor is provided. The LED precursor is manufactured by forming a monolithic growth stack having a growth surface and forming a monolithic LED stack on the growth surface. The monolithic growth stack comprises a first semiconducting layer comprising a Group III-nitride, a second semiconducting layer, and third semi-conducting layer. The second semiconducting layer comprises a first Group III-nitride including a donor dopant such that the second semiconducting layer has a donor density of at least 5×1018 cm-3. The second semiconducting layer has an areal porosity of at least 15% and a first in-plane lattice constant. The third semiconducting layer comprises a second Group III-nitride different to the first Group-III-nitride.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for extracting and collimating light emitted by a light emitting diode (LED). According to certain embodiments, a device includes an LED configured to emit light in a first wavelength range, and an angle-dependent optical filter optically coupled to the LED. A transmission (or reflection) wavelength range of the angle-dependent optical filter varies with an angle of incidence (AOI) of the light incident on the angle-dependent optical filter, such that the angle-dependent optical filter transmits most of light emitted from the LED and having small AOIs, and reflects most of light emitted from the LED and having large AOIs, thereby reducing the divergence angle of the emitted light.

Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) device includes a substrate and a plurality of mesa structures. Each mesa structure includes a layer of a first semiconductor material, a porous layer of the first semiconductor material on the layer of the first semiconductor material, and a layer of a second semiconductor material on the porous layer. The porous layer is characterized by an areal porosity ?15%. The second semiconductor material is characterized by a lattice constant greater than a lattice constant of the first semiconductor material. Each mesa structure also includes an active region on the layer of the second semiconductor material and configured to emit red light, a p-contact layer on the active region, a dielectric layer on sidewalls of the p-contact layer and the active region, and an n-contact layer in physical contact with at least a portion of sidewalls of the layer of the second semiconductor material.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining a first wafer including a first substrate and epitaxial layers that include a first semiconductor layer, a light-emitting region, and a second semiconductor layer; bonding a second substrate to the second semiconductor layer on the first wafer; removing the first substrate from the first wafer to expose the first semiconductor layer; depositing a reflector layer on the first semiconductor layer; forming a first metal bonding layer on the reflector layer; bonding a second metal bonding layer on a backplane wafer to the first metal bonding layer; removing the second substrate to expose the second semiconductor layer; and etching through the second semiconductor layer, the light-emitting region, the first semiconductor layer, the reflector layer, the first metal bonding layer, and the second metal bonding layer to form an array of mesa structures for an array of micro-light emitting diodes.

Abstract: An optoelectronic device including light-emitting components, each light-emitting component being adapted to emit a first radiation at a first wavelength, and photoluminescent blocks, each photoluminescent block facing at least one light-emitting component and comprising a single quantum well or multiple quantum wells, photoluminescent blocks being divided into first photoluminescent blocks adapted to convert by optical pumping the first radiation into a second radiation at a second wavelength, second photoluminescent blocks adapted to convert by optical pumping the first radiation into a third radiation at a third wavelength and third photoluminescent blocks adapted to convert by optical pumping the first radiation into a fourth radiation at a fourth wavelength.

Abstract: A light emitting diode includes an n-type semiconductor layer including a pit structure formed therein, active layers grown only on sidewalls of the pit structure and configured to emit light, and a p-type semiconductor layer on the active layers and at least partially in the pit structure. In one embodiment, the pit structure is characterized by a shape of an inverted pyramid. The pit structure is formed in the n-type semiconductor layer by, for example, etching the n-type semiconductor layer using an etch mask layer having apertures with slanted sidewalls, or growing the n-type semiconductor layer on a substrate through a mask layer having an array of apertures.

Abstract: An optoelectronic device including: a first circuit including a substrate having first and second opposite faces, the first circuit having display pixels, each display pixel having, on the side of the first face, a first light-emitting diode having a first active region adapted to emit a first radiation and, extending from the second face, a second light-emitting diode having a second active region adapted to emit a second radiation, the surface area, viewed from a direction orthogonal to the first face, of the first active region being at least twice as big as the surface area, viewed from the direction, of the second active region; and a second circuit bonded to the first circuit on the side of the first light-emitting diode and electrically linked to the first and second light-emitting diodes.

Abstract: A method of forming a Light Emitting Diode (LED) precursor is provided. The method comprises forming a LED stack comprising a plurality of Group III-nitride layers on a substrate, the LED stack comprising a LED stack surface formed on an opposite side of the LED stack to the substrate, and masking a first portion of the LED stack surface, leaving a second portion of the LED stack surface exposed. The second portion of the LED stack surface is subjected to a resistivity changing process such that a second region of the LED stack below the second portion of the LED stack surface comprising at least one of the Group III-nitride layers of the LED stack has a relatively higher resistivity than a resistivity of the respective Group-III nitride layer in a first region of the LED stack below the first portion of the LED stack surface.

Abstract: A method of forming a monolithic LED precursor is provided. The method comprises: providing a substrate having a top surface; forming a first semiconductor layer comprising a Group III-nitride on the top surface of the substrate; selectively masking the first semiconductor layer with a LED mask layer, the LED mask layer comprising an aperture defining a LED well through a thickness of the LED mask layer to an unmasked portion of the first semiconductor layer, the LED well comprising LED well sidewalls extending from a top surface of the first semiconductor layer to a top surface of the LED mask layer; and selectively forming a monolithic LED stack within the LED well on the unmasked portion of the first semiconductor layer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are light emitting diode devices having one or more high reflectivity wide bonding pad electrodes and methods of fabricating thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are light emitting diode devices having one or more high reflectivity mesa sidewall electrodes and methods of fabricating thereof.