With Particular Semiconductor Material Patents (Class 257/103)
  • Patent number: 8981393
    Abstract: An object is to provide a light-emitting element which uses a plurality of kinds of light-emitting dopants and has high emission efficiency. In one embodiment of the present invention, a light-emitting device, a light-emitting module, a light-emitting display device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each having reduced power consumption by using the above light-emitting element are provided. Attention is paid to Förster mechanism, which is one of mechanisms of intermolecular energy transfer. Efficient energy transfer by Förster mechanism is achieved by making an emission wavelength of a molecule which donates energy overlap with the longest-wavelength-side local maximum peak of a graph obtained by multiplying an absorption spectrum of a molecule which receives energy by a wavelength raised to the fourth power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Shunpei Yamazaki, Takahiro Ishisone
  • Patent number: 8969883
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a light device and a fabrication method thereof. An object of the present invention is to provide the light device and the fabrication method thereof an electric/thermal/structural stability is obtained, and a P-type electrode and an N-type electrode can be simultaneously formed. In order to achieve the above object, the inventive light device includes: a GaN-based layer; a high concentration GaN-based layer formed on the GaN-based layer; a first metal-Ga compound layer formed on the high concentration GaN-based layer; a first metal layer formed on the first metal-Ga compound layer; a third metal-Al compound layer formed on the first metal layer; and a conductive oxidation preventive layer formed on the third metal-Al compound layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Ho Choo, Ja Soon Jang
  • Patent number: 8969854
    Abstract: To provide a highly efficient organic light-emitting element. An extremely thin layer (a monomolecular film or the like) containing an organic light-emitting material such as an iridium complex is provided between a layer of an n-type organic material (an organic material having a high electron-transport property) and a layer of a p-type organic material (an organic material having a high hole-transport property). In a structure described above, in a layer of the organic light-emitting material, electrons are injected from the LUMO of the n-type organic material to the LUMO of the organic light-emitting material, and holes are injected from the HOMO of the p-type organic material to the HOMO of the organic light-emitting material, whereby the organic light-emitting material is brought into an excited state and emits light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Takemura, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8969865
    Abstract: A semiconductor film composition includes an oxide semiconductor material. At least one polyatomic ion is incorporated into the oxide semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gregory Herman, David Punsalan, Randy Hoffman, Jeremy Anderson, Douglas Keszler, David Blessing
  • Patent number: 8963122
    Abstract: In a semiconductor light emitting element outputting light indicating green color by using a group III nitride semiconductor, light emission output is improved. A semiconductor light emitting element includes: an n-type cladding layer containing n-type impurities (Si); a light emitting layer laminated on the n-type cladding layer; and a p-type cladding layer containing p-type impurities and laminated on the light emitting layer. The light emitting layer has a barrier layer including first to fifth barrier layers and a well layer including first to fourth well layers, and has a multiple quantum well structure to sandwich one well layer by two barrier layers. The light emitting layer is configured such that the first to fourth well layers are set to have a composition to emit green light, and the first barrier layer is doped with n-type impurities, whereas the other barrier layers are not doped with n-type impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuki Kusunoki, Hisao Sato
  • Patent number: 8963166
    Abstract: Toward making available III nitride crystal substrates advantageously employed in light-emitting devices, and light-emitting devices incorporating the substrates, a III nitride crystal substrate has a major face whose surface area is not less than 10 cm2 and is characterized by: edge dislocations in the crystal being concentrated along propagation lines forming an angle of some 0° to 5° with a given {0001} plane of the crystal; screw dislocations in the crystal being concentrated along propagation lines forming an angle of some 45° to 60° with the given {0001} plane; and in a major-face principal region excluding the peripheral margin of the major face from its outer periphery to a 5 mm separation from its outer periphery, the total dislocation density being between 1×104 cm?2 to 3×106 cm?2 inclusive, and the ratio of screw-dislocation density to the total dislocation density being 0.5 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Fujiwara, Hiroaki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8963125
    Abstract: Provided is an LED device which is capable of reducing the emission size without changing the size of an LED and is capable of switching the emission size arbitrarily. The LED device includes, on a substrate, a carrier control layer, a lower current confinement layer, an active layer, and an upper current confinement layer. A p-type electrode is provided on the upper current confinement layer. Two n-type electrodes are arranged on the carrier control layer so as to dispose the p-type electrode between the two n-type electrodes in an in-plane direction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 8963143
    Abstract: The invention provides an OLED device with improved light out-coupling comprising an electroluminescent layer stack (2) on top of a substrate (1), where the electroluminescent layer stack (2) comprises an organic light-emitting layer stack (6) with one or more organic layers sandwiched between a first electrode (3) facing towards the substrate (1) and a second electrode (7) to apply a driving voltage to the organic light-emitting layer stack (6), and a first electron transport layer stack (4a) arranged between the organic light emitting layers stack (6) and the second electrode (7), wherein the electron transport layer stack (4a) comprises an electron transport layer (41) made of a first electron transport material having a low refractive index and at least one n-doped layer (40, 42). The invention further relates to a method to manufacture these OLED devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijkle Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Loebl, Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Claudia Michaela Goldmann
  • Patent number: 8956737
    Abstract: The invention relates to a red phosphorescent compound represented by the following Formula (1) and an organic electroluminescent (EL) device using the same: wherein
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun Gun Park, Jung Keun Kim, Hyun Cheol Jeong, Jong Kwan Bin, Sung Hoon Pieh, Do Han Kim, Yong Kwan Kim
  • Patent number: 8957426
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a crystalline aluminum carbide layer, a laminate substrate having the crystalline aluminum carbide layer formed thereon, and a method of fabricating the same. The laminate substrate has a GaN layer including a GaN crystal and an AlC layer including an AlC crystal. Further, the method of fabricating the laminate substrate, which has the AlN layer including the AlN crystal and the AlC layer including the AlC crystal, includes supplying a carbon containing gas and an aluminum containing gas to grow the AlC layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shiro Sakai
  • Patent number: 8957437
    Abstract: An OLED display including: a substrate main body; a first transflective electrode formed on the substrate main body; an organic emission layer formed on the first transflective electrode; a second transflective electrode formed on the organic emission layer; and a dual brightness enhancement film (DBEF) disposed on a dual brightness enhancement film (DBEF) on at least one of a side of the first transflective electrode facing away from the organic emission layer, or a side of the second transflective electrode facing away from the organic emission layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Soo Koh, Hee-Seong Jeong, Chul-Woo Jeong, Soon-Ryong Park, Woo-Suk Jung, Il-Ryong Cho, Tae-Kyu Kim, Jae-Yong Kim
  • Patent number: 8956896
    Abstract: A method of device growth and p-contact processing that produces improved performance for non-polar III-nitride light emitting diodes and laser diodes. Key components using a low defect density substrate or template, thick quantum wells, a low temperature p-type III-nitride growth technique, and a transparent conducting oxide for the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Mathew C. Schmidt, Kwang Choong Kim, Hitoshi Sato, Steven P. DenBaars, James S. Speck, Shuji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8952401
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes a first semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a low refractive index layer. The first semiconductor layer has a first major surface and a second major surface being opposite to the first major surface. The light emitting layer has an active layer provided on the second major surface. The second semiconductor layer is provided on the light emitting layer. The low refractive index layer covers partially the first major surface and has a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the first semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Naoharu Sugiyama, Taisuke Sato, Hiroshi Ono, Satoshi Mitsugi, Tomonari Shioda, Jongil Hwang, Hung Hung, Shinya Nunoue
  • Patent number: 8952399
    Abstract: Various embodiments of light emitting devices with efficient wavelength conversion and associated methods of manufacturing are described herein. In one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a first semiconductor material, a second semiconductor material spaced apart from the first semiconductor material, and an active region between the first and second semiconductor materials. The active region is configured to produce a light via electroluminescence. The light emitting device also includes a conversion material on the second semiconductor material, the conversion material containing aluminum gallium indium phosphide (AlGaInP) doped with an N-type dopant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir Odnoblyudov, Martin F. Schubert
  • Patent number: 8952411
    Abstract: A light emitting diode device may include a carrier, a p-type and n-type semiconductor layers, an active layer, a first electrode and a second electrode is provided. The carrier has a growth surface and at least one nano-patterned structure on the growth surface, in which the carrier includes a substrate and a semiconductor capping layer disposed between the substrate and the n-type semiconductor layer. The n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer are located over the growth surface of the carrier. The active layer is located between the n-type and p-type semiconductor layers, in which a wavelength ? of light emitted by the active layer is 222 nm???405 nm, and a defect density of the active layer is less than or equal to 5×1010/cm2. The first and second electrodes are respectively connected to the n-type and p-type semiconductor layers. A carrier for carrying a semiconductor layer is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yi-Keng Fu, Rong Xuan, Hsun-Chih Liu
  • Patent number: 8946751
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device includes a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer sequentially stacked on a substrate. A first electrode is disposed on a portion of the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer. A current diffusion layer is disposed on the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer and includes an opening exposing a portion of the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer. A second electrode covers a portion of the current diffusion layer and the exposed portion of the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, wherein the portion of the current diffusion layer is near the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Bock Lee, Ki Seok Kim, Je Won Kim, Ju-Bin Seo, Seong Seok Yang, Sang Seok Lee, Joon Sub Lee
  • Patent number: 8946765
    Abstract: Semiconductor structures comprising a III-nitride (e.g., gallium nitride) material region and methods associated with such structures are provided. In some embodiments, the structures include an electrically conductive material (e.g., gold) separated from certain other region(s) of the structure (e.g., a silicon substrate) by a barrier material in order to limit, or prevent, undesirable reactions between the electrically conductive material and the other component(s) which can impair device performance. In certain embodiments, the electrically conductive material may be formed in a via. For example, the via can extend from a topside of the device to a backside so that the electrically conductive material connects a topside contact to a backside contact. The structures described herein may form the basis of a number of semiconductor devices including transistors (e.g., FET), Schottky diodes, light-emitting diodes and laser diodes, amongst others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Rectifier Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Therrien, Jerry Wayne Johnson, Allen W. Hanson
  • Patent number: 8946698
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a light emitting element that realizes a high contrast. It is another object of the present invention to provide a light emitting device that realizes a high contrast by using the light emitting element with an excellent contrast. The light emitting element has a layer containing a light emitting substance interposed between a first electrode and a second electrode, and the layer containing the light emitting substance includes a light emitting layer, a layer containing a first organic compound, and a layer containing a second organic compound. The first electrode has a light-transmitting property, and the layer containing the first organic compound and the layer containing the second organic compound are interposed between the second electrode and the light emitting layer. Furthermore, color of the first organic compound and color of the second organic compound are complementary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuharu Ohsawa, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 8940409
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting material having the following chemical formula, for improving luminous efficiency, where R1, R2, R3 and R4 denote materials selected from an aromatic group with 6-24 carbon atoms (C6-C24), the group being independently substituted or unsubstituted, preferably, an aromatic group with 6-24 carbon atoms (C6-C24), the group consisting of trimethylsilane (TMS), CN, halogen (F, Cl, Br) alkyl groups with 1-4 carbon atoms (C1-C4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Kwan Bin, Soon-Wook Cha, Seung-Jae Lee, In-Bum Song, Jung-Keun Kim, Do-Han Kim, Chun-Gun Park, Nam-Sung Cho
  • Publication number: 20150021653
    Abstract: Provided is a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element having a low contact resistance between an n-type nitride semiconductor layer and an n-side electrode. A portion of the n-type nitride semiconductor layer is removed by a plasma etching process using a gas containing halogen to expose a surface region 102a of the n-type nitride semiconductor layer 102. Next, such an exposed surface region 102a is further subjected to a plasma treatment using a gas containing oxygen. After that, the n-side electrode 109 formed of aluminum is formed so as to be in contact with the surface region 102a. In the surface region 102a, a carrier concentration is decreased from the inside of the n-type nitride semiconductor layer 102 toward the n-side electrode 109.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: MITSUAKI OYA, TOSHIYA YOKOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150021652
    Abstract: The present invention improves luminous efficiency of a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element. In the nitride semiconductor light-emitting element, a non-polar or semi-polar Alx2Iny2Gaz2N layer having a thickness of t1 is interposed between the Alx1Iny1Gaz1N layer included in the p-type nitride semiconductor layer and the active layer (0<x2?1, 0?y2<1, 0<z2<1, x2+y2+z2=1). The Alx2Iny2Gaz2N layer has first and second interfaces located close to or in contact with the active layer and the Alx1Iny1Gaz1N layer, respectively. The Alx2Iny2Gaz2N layer has a hydrogen concentration distribution along its thickness direction in the inside thereof in such a manner that the hydrogen concentration is increased from the first interface to a thickness t2 (t2<t1), reaches a peak at the thickness t2, and is decreased from the thickness t2 to the second interface. Magnesium contained in the Alx1Iny1Gaz1N layer is prevented from being diffused into the active layer to improve the luminous efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: AKIO UETA, MASAAKI YURI, TOSHIYA YOKOGAWA, RYOU KATO
  • Patent number: 8937303
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device comprising: a pair of electrodes comprising an anode and a cathode, and one or more layers of organic compound arranged between the pair of electrodes, wherein the organic compound layer, or one or more of the organic compound layers, comprises a compound represented by a substituted imidazole. The substituents on the imidazole ring may be selected from a range of suitable substituents, including: substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups, substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic groups, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl groups or cyano groups. In various aspects of the invention, at least one of the substituent groups may be a substituted or unsubstituted imidazole or thiophene group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: James Matthew MacDonald, Kazunori Ueno, Karl Peter Weber, Tadahiko Hirai, Juo-Hao Li
  • Patent number: 8937333
    Abstract: A white organic light-emitting diode (WOLED) includes a transparent electrode, a blue-complementary light-emitting layer, a translucent electrode, a blue light-emitting layer, and a non-transparent electrode. The blue-complementary light-emitting layer is disposed on the transparent electrode. The transparent electrode and the translucent electrode include a first voltage. The blue light-emitting layer is disposed on the translucent layer. The non-transparent electrode is disposed on the blue light-emitting layer. The translucent electrode and the non-transparent electrode include a second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Liang Lin, Chieh-Wei Chen, Chung-Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20150014697
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprises a substrate, a semiconductor body, and a transition layer. The semiconductor body is configured to generate light and comprises an n-type layer disposed on the substrate, a p-type layer disposed on the n-type layer, and an active layer disposed between the n-type layer and the p-type layer. The transition layer is disposed on the substrate and located between the n-type layer and the substrate, and comprises a plurality of sub-layers. The plurality of the sub-layers comprise compositions different from each other, and each sub-layer comprise the composition including IIIA metal, transition metal, and nitrogen. The light emitting device further comprises a p-contact layer disposed on the p-type layer of the semiconductor body. A substrate structure and a method for making the light emitting device are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Yangang Xi
  • Patent number: 8928026
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device comprises a semiconductor stack comprising a first semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second semiconductor layer, a first electrode electrically connecting with the first semiconductor layer, a second electrode electrically connecting with the second semiconductor layer, wherein there is a smallest distance D1 between the first electrode and the second electrode, a third electrode formed on a portion of the first electrode and electrically connecting with the first electrode and a fourth electrode formed on a portion of the first electrode and on a portion of the second electrode, and electrically connecting with the second electrode, wherein there is a smallest distance D2 between the third electrode and the fourth electrode, and the smallest distance D2 is smaller than the smallest distance D1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Chao-Hsing Chen, Chien-Fu Shen, Schang-Jing Hon, Tsun-Kai Ko, Wei-Yo Chen
  • Patent number: 8928017
    Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to light-emitting devices (LEDs) and methods of manufacturing the same. The LED includes a first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer; an active layer formed between the first and second semiconductor layers; and an emission pattern layer including a plurality of layers on the first semiconductor layer, the emission pattern including an emission pattern for externally emitting light generated from the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Su-hee Chae, Young-soo Park, Bok-ki Min, Jun-youn Kim, Hyun-gi Hong
  • Patent number: 8921885
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming an ohmic electrode in a semiconductor light emitting element, comprising: forming a semiconductor layer having a light emitting structure on a substrate, sequentially laminating a bonding layer, a reflective layer and a protective layer on the semiconductor layer, and forming an ohmic electrode by performing a heat treatment process to form ohmic bonding between the semiconductor layer and the bonding layer and to form an oxide film on at least a portion of the protective layer; and a semiconductor light emitting element using the ohmic electrode. According to the present invention, since a reflective layer is formed of Ag, Al and an alloy thereof with excellent light reflectivity, the light availability is enhanced. Further, since contact resistance between a semiconductor layer and a bonding layer is small, it is easy to apply large current for high power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jong-Lam Lee
  • Patent number: 8920942
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent element having high luminous efficiency and long life. Also disclosed are a display device and an illuminating device respectively using such an organic electroluminescent element. Specifically disclosed is an organic electroluminescent element comprising an electrode and at least one or more organic layers on a substrate. This organic electroluminescent element is characterized in that at least one of the organic layers is a light-emitting layer containing a phosphorescent compound and a host compound, the phosphorescent compound has a HOMO of ?5.15 to ?3.50 eV and a LUMO of from ?1.25 to +1.00 eV, and the host compound has a 0-0 band of the phosphorescence spectrum at not more than 460 nm and a glass transition temperature of not less than 60° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Otsu, Hiroshi Kita, Eisaku Katoh
  • Patent number: 8920939
    Abstract: Regioregular polythiophenes having heteroatoms in the substituents can be used in hole injection layer and hole transport layers for electroluminescent devices. Copolymers and organic oxidants can be used. Homopolymers can be used. Metallic impurities can be removed. The heteroatom can be oxygen and can be substituted at the 3-position. Advantages include versatility, synthetic control, and good thermal stability. Different device designs can be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Solvay USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn P. Williams, Darin W. Laird, Troy D. Hammond
  • Patent number: 8921886
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes a stacked structure body and an electrode. The stacked structure body has a first conductivity type first semiconductor layer including a nitride-based semiconductor, a second conductivity type second semiconductor layer including a nitride-based semiconductor, and a light emitting layer provided between the first and second semiconductor layers. The electrode has first, second and third metal layers. The first metal layer is provided on the second semiconductor layer and includes silver or silver alloy. The second metal layer is provided on the first metal layer and includes at least one element of platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, osmium. The third metal layer is provided on the second metal layer. A thickness of the third metal layer along a direction from the first toward the second semiconductor layer is equal to or greater than a thickness of the second metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katsuno, Yasuo Ohba, Shinji Yamada, Mitsuhiro Kushibe, Kei Kaneko
  • Patent number: 8916904
    Abstract: In a semiconductor light emitting element having a sapphire substrate, and a lower semiconductor layer and an upper semiconductor layer laminated on the sapphire substrate, the sapphire substrate includes a substrate top surface, a substrate bottom surface, first substrate side surfaces and second substrate side surfaces; plural first cutouts and plural second cutouts are provided at border portions between the first substrate side surface and the substrate top surface and between the second substrate side surface and the substrate top surface; the lower semiconductor layer includes a lower semiconductor bottom surface, a lower semiconductor top surface, first lower semiconductor side surfaces and second lower semiconductor side surfaces; plural first projecting portions and plural first depressing portions are provided on the first lower semiconductor side surface; and plural second protruding portions and second flat portions are provided on the second lower semiconductor side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironao Shinohara, Kensuke Hirano
  • Patent number: 8916850
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting element comprising: a carbon layer comprising a graphene; a plurality of fine structures having grown toward the upper side of the carbon layer; and a light-emitting structure layer formed on the surface of the fine structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: SNU R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Gyuchul Yi, Chulho Lee, Yongjin Kim
  • Patent number: 8916857
    Abstract: A light-emitting element disclosed in the present invention includes a light-emitting layer and a first layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, in which the first layer is provided between the light-emitting layer and the first electrode. The present invention is characterized by the device structure in which the first layer comprising a hole-transporting material is doped with a hole-blocking material or an organic compound having a large dipole moment. This structure allows the formation of a high performance light-emitting element with high luminous efficiency and long lifetime. The device structure of the present invention facilitates the control of the rate of the carrier transport, and thus, leads to the formation of a light-emitting element with a well-controlled carrier balance, which contributes to the excellent characteristics of the light-emitting element of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoko Shitagaki, Satoshi Seo, Ryoji Nomura
  • Patent number: 8907359
    Abstract: An optoelectronic semiconductor component comprising a semiconductor layer sequence (3) based on a nitride compound semiconductor and containing an n-doped region (4), a p-doped region (8) and an active zone (5) arranged between the n-doped region (4) and the p-doped region (8) is specified. The p-doped region (8) comprises a p-type contact layer (7) composed of InxAlyGa1-x-yN where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and x+y?1. The p-type contact layer (7) adjoins a connection layer (9) composed of a metal, a metal alloy or a transparent conductive oxide, wherein the p-type contact layer (7) has first domains (1) having a Ga-face orientation and second domains (2) having an N-face orientation at an interface with the connection layer (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Strassburg, Lutz Höppel, Matthias Peter, Ulrich Zehnder, Tetsuya Taki, Andreas Leber, Rainer Butendeich, Thomas Bauer
  • Publication number: 20140353712
    Abstract: Embodiments of a monolithically integrated optical resonator are disclosed. In one embodiment, the optical resonator is a nanopillar optical resonator that is formed directly on a substrate and promotes a helically-propagating cavity mode. The helically-propagating cavity mode results in significant reflection or, in some embodiments, total internal reflection at an interface of the nanopillar optical resonator and the substrate even if refractive indices of the nanopillar optical resonator and the substrate are the same or similar. As a result, strong optical feedback, and thus strong resonance, is provided in the nanopillar optical resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Connie Chang-Hasnain, Forrest Sedgwick, Roger Chen, Thai-Truong Du Tran, Kar Wei Ng, Wai Son Ko
  • Patent number: 8901600
    Abstract: The invention relates to light-emitting devices; in particular, to highly effective light-emitting diodes on the base of nitrides of III group elements of the periodic system. The light-emitting device includes a substrate, a buffer layer formed on the substrate, a first layer from n-type semiconductor formed on the buffer layer, a second layer from p-type semiconductor and an active layer arranged between the first and second layers. The first, second and active layers form interlacing of the layers with zinc blend phase structure and layers with wurtzite phase structure forming heterophase boundaries therebetween. Technical result of the invention is increasing the effectiveness (efficiency) of the light-emitting device at the expense of heterophase boundaries available in the light-emitting device which allow to eliminate formation of the potential wells for holes, to increase the uniformity of the hole distribution in the active layer and to ensure suppression of nonradiative Auger recombination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Inventors: Yuri Georgievich Shreter, Yuri Toomasovich Rebane, Aleksey Vladimirovich Mironov
  • Patent number: 8900489
    Abstract: The present application provides nitride semiconductor nanoparticles, for example nanocrystals, made from a new composition of matter in the form of a novel compound semiconductor family of the type group II-III-N, for example ZnGaN, ZnInN, ZnInGaN, ZnAlN, ZnAlGaN, ZnAlInN and ZnAlGaInN. This type of compound semiconductor nanocrystal is not previously known in the prior art. The invention also discloses II-N semiconductor nanocrystals, for example ZnN nanocrystals, which are a subgroup of the group II-III-N semiconductor nanocrystals. The composition and size of the new and novel II-III-N compound semiconductor nanocrystals can be controlled in order to tailor their band-gap and light emission properties. Efficient light emission in the ultraviolet-visible-infrared wavelength range is demonstrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Peter Neil Taylor, Jonathan Heffernan, Stewart Edward Hooper, Tim Michael Smeeton
  • Patent number: 8901599
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor light emitting device. The semiconductor light emitting device includes a first conductive semiconductor layer including a first carrier blocking layer of semiconductor material; an active layer below the first conductive semiconductor layer; and a second conductive semiconductor layer below the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyung Jo Park
  • Patent number: 8901551
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) structure including a substrate, a polymer layer, and an epitaxy layer is provided. The polymer layer is disposed on the substrate, wherein the polymer layer has a chemical formula of: wherein M represents sodium, zinc, magnesium, or potassium. The epitaxy layer is disposed on the polymer layer. The epitaxy layer is bonded to the substrate via the polymer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Genesis Photonics Inc.
    Inventors: Kuan-Chieh Huang, Tung-Lin Chuang
  • Patent number: 8900897
    Abstract: Devices are described including a component comprising an alloy of AlN and AlSb. The component has an index of refraction substantially the same as that of a semiconductor in the optoelectronic device, and has high transparency at wavelengths of light used in the optoelectronic device. The component is in contact with the semiconductor in the optoelectronic device. The alloy comprises between 0% and 100% AlN by weight and between 0% and 100% AlSb by weight. The semiconductor can be a III-V semiconductor such as GaAs or AlGaInP. The component can be used as a transparent insulator. The alloy can also be doped to form either a p-type conductor or an n-type conductor, and the component can be used as a transparent conductor. Methods of making and devices utilizing the alloy are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Kraus, Thai Cheng Chua, Yoga Saripalli
  • Publication number: 20140346557
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes a layered semiconductor body which is made of a group III nitride semiconductor, and includes a light-emitting facet, and a multilayer protective film which is formed to cover the light-emitting facet of the layered semiconductor body, and includes a plurality of insulating films. The multilayer protective film includes a first protective film and a second protective film covering the first protective film. The first protective film is a crystalline film which is made of nitride containing aluminum, and is at least partially crystallized. The second protective film is a crystalline film which is made of oxide containing aluminum, and is at least partially crystallized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Shinji YOSHIDA, Atsunori MOCHIDA
  • Patent number: 8896100
    Abstract: A III nitride structure includes a film 108 having a surface composed of a metal formed in a predetermined region on the surface of a substrate 102, and a fine columnar crystal 110 composed of at least a III nitride semiconductor formed on the surface of the substrate 102, wherein the spatial occupancy ratio of the fine columnar crystal 110 is higher on the surface of the substrate 102 where the film 108 is not formed than that on the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sophia School Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Kishino, Akihiko Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8896020
    Abstract: Bulk single crystals of AlN having a diameter greater than about 25 mm and dislocation densities of about 10,000 cm?2 or less and high-quality AlN substrates having surfaces of any desired crystallographic orientation fabricated from these bulk crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Crystal IS, Inc.
    Inventors: Leo Schowalter, Glen A. Slack, Juan Carlos Rojo, Robert T. Bondokov, Kenneth E. Morgan, Joseph A. Smart
  • Patent number: 8896017
    Abstract: A vertical structure light-emitting device includes a conductive support, a light-emitting semiconductor structure disposed on the conductive support structure, the semiconductor structure having a first semiconductor surface, a side semiconductor surface and a second semiconductor surface, a first electrode electrically connected to the first-type semiconductor layer, a second electrode electrically connected to the second-type semiconductor layer, wherein the second electrode has a first electrode surface, a side electrode surface and a second electrode surface, wherein the first electrode surface, relative to the second electrode surface, is proximate to the semiconductor structure; and wherein the second electrode surface is opposite to the first electrode surface, and a passivation layer disposed on the side semiconductor surface and the second semiconductor surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Lam Lee, In-kwon Jeong, Myung Cheol Yoo
  • Patent number: 8895955
    Abstract: Provided may be a display apparatus that uses oxide diodes having a nano rod structure, for example, nano-rod diodes formed of a ZnO group material. The display apparatus may include a substrate, a thin film transistor layer on the substrate, and a light emitting layer on the thin film transistor layer, wherein the light emitting layer may include a plug metal layer on the thin film transistor layer, a plurality of nano-rod diodes vertically formed on the plug metal layer, and a transparent electrode on the nano-rod diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoungkook Kim, Youngsoo Park, Jaechul Park
  • Patent number: 8895996
    Abstract: A light-emitting device and a lighting device each including a light-emitting element which can recover from a short circuit between a pair of electrodes by itself without adversely affecting the characteristics of the element is provided. An oxide layer is provided so as to be in contact with an electrode of the light-emitting element, whereby, due to heat generated when a short circuit is caused between a pair of electrodes, oxygen in the oxide layer and an electrode material in a short-circuited part are reacted with each other and the electrode material in the short-circuited part can be an insulator. Further, by providing an oxide layer in contact with an electron-injection layer containing an alkaline earth metal, an oxide of the alkaline earth metal can be formed, whereby moisture that enters the insulator formed by an insulation phenomenon in the short-circuited part can be adsorbed and removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 8890196
    Abstract: A solid-state light source has light emitting diodes embedded in a thermally conductive translucent luminescent element. The thermally conductive translucent luminescent element has optically translucent thermal filler and at least one luminescent element in a matrix material. A leadframe is electrically connected to the light emitting diodes. The leadframe distributes heat from the light emitting diodes to the thermally conductive translucent luminescent element. The thermally conductive translucent luminescent element distributes heat from light emitting diodes and the thermally conductive translucent luminescent element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Goldeneye, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott M. Zimmerman, William R. Livesay, Richard L. Ross, Eduardo DeAnda
  • Patent number: 8890177
    Abstract: An electronic or optoelectronic device fabricated from a crystalline material in which a parameter of a bandgap characteristic of said crystalline material has been modified locally by introducing distortions on an atomic scale in the lattice structure of said crystalline material and the electronic and/or optoelectronic parameters of said device are dependent on the modification of said bandgap is exemplified by a radiation emissive optoelectronic semiconductor device which comprises a junction (10) formed from a p-type layer (11) and an n-type layer (12), both formed from indirect bandgap semiconductor material. The p-type layer (11) contains a array of dislocation loops which create a strain field to confine spatially and promote radiative recombination of the charge carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: University of Surrey
    Inventors: Kevin Peter Homewood, Russell Mark Gwilliam, Guosheng Shao
  • Patent number: 8889268
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element that includes a pair of electrodes and an organic light emitting functional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ichinori Takada, Tadahiko Yoshinaga, Emiko Kambe, Shigeyuki Matsunami, Yasunori Kijima
  • Patent number: 8890175
    Abstract: A nitride-based semiconductor element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a p-type contact layer, of which the growing plane is an m plane; and an electrode which is arranged on the growing plane of the p-type contact layer. The p-type contact layer is a GaN-based semiconductor layer which has a thickness of 26 nm to 60 nm and which includes oxygen at a concentration that is equal to or higher than Mg concentration of the p-type contact layer. In the p-type contact layer, the number of Ga vacancies is larger than the number of N vacancies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiya Yokogawa, Naomi Anzue, Akira Inoue, Ryou Kato