Comprising Window Layer (epo) Patents (Class 257/E33.07)
  • Patent number: 7723732
    Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a substrate having two main surfaces; and an active layer forming part, which is made of a compound semiconductor material, formed on one of the main surfaces, and includes an active layer. A plurality of holes, which pass through the active layer, are formed from the upper surface of the active layer forming part; a plurality of hollow parts, each of which corresponds to each hole, are provided between the active layer and the substrate; and the area of each hollow part is larger than that of the corresponding hole in plan view, and spreads on the lower surface of the active layer forming part, so as to expose a part of the lower surface of the active layer forming part, which overlaps the hollow part in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Tazima, Yoshiki Tada
  • Publication number: 20090278151
    Abstract: In a method of forming an LED semiconductor device, and in an LED semiconductor device, an LED is provided on a substrate. A first encapsulant material layer is provided on the LED, and the first encapsulant material layer is firstly annealed. A luminescence conversion material layer is provided on the firstly annealed first encapsulant material layer, and the first encapsulant material layer and the luminescence conversion material layer and secondly annealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: YuSik Kim
  • Publication number: 20090250684
    Abstract: A semiconductor element is disclosed having a layered body of a first conductivity type, a light emitting layer, a layered body of a second conductivity type, a constriction layer having a constriction hole, and a first electrode having a lighting hole, a second electrode positioned such that charge traveling between the first and second electrodes passes through the light emitting layer. The constriction hole area is larger than the lighting hole area, and the lighting hole and the constriction hole expose a part of the layered body of the second conductivity type. A mirror is positioned such that the mirror receives light emitted from the light emitting layer that passes through the layered body of the first conductivity type, and the mirror is constructed to have a high reflection ratio for light having peak wavelengths between 200 nm to 350 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yutaka Ohta, Yoshikazu Ooshika
  • Patent number: 7598528
    Abstract: A high power Light Emitting Diode (LED) package and a method of producing the same. The high power LED package according to the present invention includes a plurality of light emitting diode chips, a first lead frame with the light emitting diode chips mounted thereon, and a second lead frame disposed at a predetermined interval from the first lead frame. The LED package also includes a package body fixing the first and second lead frames and bonding wires for electrically connecting the plurality of LED chips. The package body includes at least one first reflecting part separately surrounding each of the plurality of LED chips with upward-inclined inner side walls thereof and a second reflecting part surrounding the entire plurality of LED chips with an upward-inclined inner side wall thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung Seob Oh, Jae Ky Roh, Jung Kyu Park, Jong Hwan Baek, Seung Hwan Choi
  • Publication number: 20090212310
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for surface relief output coupling in organic light emitting diodes is provided. The method includes forming a pattern in a surface of an elastomer (310) and laminating at least a portion of the pattern to a surface of an organic light emitting diode (305).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Anne Shim, John Rogers, Feng Hua
  • Patent number: 7491977
    Abstract: An LED comprises: a chip substrate formed with a die bond pattern and electrode terminals; an LED chip mounted on the chip substrate; a reflective frame arranged on the chip substrate to enclose a circumference of the LED chip and having an opening at a part of its side walls and on an upper surface; reflecting surfaces formed on inner circumferential surfaces of the side walls of the reflective frame; a light transmissive resin body formed in the reflective frame and using the opening in the side wall as a light emission face; and a reflecting film covering an upper surface of the light transmissive resin body exposed on an upper surface side of the reflective frame; wherein light produced by the LED chip is reflected by a reflecting surface of the refractive frame and by the reflecting film and is emitted outward from the light emission face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koichi Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20090039365
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes an active region configured to emit light upon the application of a voltage thereto, a window layer configured to receive the light emitted by the active region, and a plurality of discrete phosphor-containing regions on the window layer and configured to receive light emitted by the active region and to convert at least a portion of the received light to a different wavelength than a wavelength of light emitted by the active region. Methods of forming a semiconductor structure including an active region configured to emit light and a window layer include forming a plurality of discrete phosphor-containing regions on the window layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Peter S. Andrews, Ronan P. Le Toquin
  • Patent number: 7476908
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a light emitting device in which the variation in emission spectrum depending on an angle for seeing a surface through which light is emitted is reduced. The light emitting device of the invention includes a first insulating layer formed over a substrate, a second insulating layer formed over the first insulating layer, and a semiconductor layer formed over the second insulating layer. A gate insulating layer is formed to cover the second insulating layer and the semiconductor layer. A gate electrode is formed over the gate insulating layer. A first interlayer insulating layer is formed to cover the gate insulating layer and the gate electrode. An opening is formed through the first interlayer insulating layer, the gate insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A second interlayer insulating layer is formed to cover the first insulating layer and the opening. A light emitting element is formed over the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hideto Ohnuma, Aya Anzai, Masayuki Sakakura, Hiromichi Godo
  • Patent number: 7468293
    Abstract: In a method for the production of window elements which can be soldered into a housing in a hermetically tight manner and of a window element sealing a housing, the object of the invention is to achieve an improved hermetic sealing between window and housing through increased adherence and homogeneity in the metal coating and to prevent penetration of scattered light and unwanted radiation. Optically transparent, flat substrate material whose size is sufficient for a plurality of window elements is provided on at least one surface with an optical coating from which frame-like portions on a coated surface which enclose optically active surfaces of the window elements are subsequently removed, whereupon a metal coating that is used for producing a solder connection to the housing is applied to the generated portions having no coating, and the window elements are separated from the substrate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Weyh, Elvira Gittler, Wolfgang Brode
  • Patent number: 7446344
    Abstract: A radiation-emitting semiconductor chip, having a multilayer structure (100) containing a radiation-emitting active layer (10), and having a window layer (20), which is transmissive to a radiation emitted by the active layer (10) and is arranged downstream of the multilayer structure (100) in the direction of a main radiating direction of the semiconductor component. The window layer (20) has at least one peripheral side area (21), which, in the course from a first main area (22) facing the multilayer structure (100) in the direction toward a second main area (23) remote from the multilayer structure (100), firstly has a first side area region (24) which is beveled, curved or stepped in such a way that the window layer widens with respect to the size of the first main area (22). A peripheral side area (11) of the multilayer structure (100) and at least a part of the beveled, curved or stepped first side area region (24) are coated with a continuous electrically insulating layer (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Fehrer, Volker Harle, Frank Kuhn, Ulrich Zehnder
  • Patent number: 7435999
    Abstract: A semiconductor chip for optoelectronics having a thin-film layer, in which a zone that emits electromagnetic radiation is formed and which has an emission side, a rear side and side faces that connect the rear side to the emission side. A carrier for the thin-film layer is arranged at the rear side thereof and is connected thereto. At least one electrical front side contact structure is formed on the emission side and at least one trench is formed on the rear side. The trench defines at least a single partial region which essentially does not overlap the front side contact structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Reiner Windisch, Ralph Wirth, Walter Wegleiter
  • Publication number: 20080116473
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device is provided which allows emission light from a light source to efficiently outgo from the semiconductor light emitting device so that the light emission intensity of the semiconductor light emitting device is increased. A penetrating opening is formed in the substantially central part of a cap member to communicate the interior side to the exterior side the cap member. The penetrating opening has an inclined portion. The inclined portion is opposed to and spaced away from a semiconductor light emitting element and includes a light entering portion through which emission light from the semiconductor light emitting element passes. The opening width of the inclined portion is getting wider from the light entering portion in the light traveling direction so that the inclined portion is tapered. The emission light from the semiconductor light emitting element can effectively outgo from the semiconductor light emitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: Nichia Corporation
    Inventor: Takafumi SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20080089697
    Abstract: An integrated DWDM transmitter apparatus includes a silica-on-silicon substrate which includes a silica layer and a silicon layer. A plurality of input waveguides and a plurality of gratings are provided within the silica layer. Each of the plurality of gratings is coupled to a corresponding one of the input waveguides. An arrayed waveguide grating within the silica layer is coupled to the plurality of input waveguides, and at least an output waveguide within the silica layer are coupled to the arrayed waveguide grating. The transmitter also includes a plurality of lasers disposed in a recessed region of the silica-on-silicon substrate, and each of the lasers is optically coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of input waveguides. The integrated transmitter also includes plurality of photodiodes, each of the plurality of photodiodes overlying a corresponding one of the plurality of grating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: XIAO ANDY SHEN, Yu Sheng Bai
  • Patent number: 7294897
    Abstract: Microelectronic imagers, methods for packaging microelectronic imagers, and methods for forming electrically conductive through-wafer interconnects in microelectronic imagers are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a microelectronic imaging die can include a microelectronic substrate, an integrated circuit, and an image sensor electrically coupled to the integrated circuit. A bond-pad is carried by the substrate and electrically coupled to the integrated circuit. An electrically conductive through-wafer interconnect extends through the substrate and is in contact with the bond-pad. The interconnect can include a passage extending completely through the substrate and the bond-pad, a dielectric liner deposited into the passage and in contact with the substrate, first and second conductive layers deposited onto at least a portion of the dielectric liner, and a conductive fill material deposited into the passage over at least a portion of the second conductive layer and electrically coupled to the bond-pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Salman Akram, Charles M. Watkins, Kyle K. Kirby, Alan G. Wood, William M. Hiatt
  • Patent number: 7208773
    Abstract: In a cap for a semiconductor device in which a light transmissive window is fixed to a cap body provided with a light transmissive opening using low-melting glass as a fixing material so that the light transmissive window covers the light transmissive opening, the low-melting glass is leadless vanadate-series low-melting glass, and the light transmissive window is fixed to the cap body through an eutectic alloy layer formed by an eutectic reaction of vanadium contained in the low-melting glass and metal applied on the surface of the cap body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasushi Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 7144748
    Abstract: An LED display assembly, comprising a grid of electrical conductors; light emitting diodes in association with the grid and in electrical communication with the conductors that provide power for LED operation, the grid operable to receive heat from the diodes during diode operation, and the array configured for passing coolant fluid for transfer of heat to the fluid. LED packages adjustable relative to a mounting grid, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: OnScreen Technologies
    Inventor: John M. Popovich
  • Patent number: 7105858
    Abstract: An LED display assembly, comprising a grid of electrical conductors; light emitting diodes in association with the grid and in electrical communication with the conductors that provide power for LED operation, the grid operable to receive heat from the diodes during diode operation, and the array configured for passing coolant fluid for transfer of heat to the fluid. LED packages adjustable relative to a mounting grid, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: OnScreen Technologies
    Inventor: John M. Popovich
  • Patent number: 6890784
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device with high reliability which has TFT of adequate structure arranged according to the circuit performance required. The semiconductor has the driving circuit and the pixel portion on the same substrate. It is characterized in that the storage capacitance is formed between the first electrode formed on the same layer as the light blocking film and the second electrode formed from a semiconductor film of the same composition as the drain region, and the first base insulating film is removed at the part of the storage capacitance so that the second base insulating film is used as the dielectric of the storage capacitance. This structure provides a large storage capacitance in a small area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama, Hiroshi Shibata, Takeshi Fukunaga