Light-emitting device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10290773-B2
Application number	US-201213614405-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2012
Priority date	Sep 13, 2012
Publication date	May 14, 2019
Grant date	May 14, 2019

Abstract

A light-emitting device is disclosed and comprises: a substrate; a light-emitting stack comprising a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, an active layer over the first conductivity type semiconductor layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer over the active layer; a transparent conductive layer over the a light-emitting stack; a first trench dividing the transparent conductive layer into a first block and a second block; a connecting layer electrically connecting the two blocks of the transparent conductive layer; a first conductivity type contact layer between the substrate and the first conductivity type semiconductor layer, wherein the conductivity of the first conductivity type contact layer is greater than the conductivity of the first conductivity type semiconductor layer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A light-emitting device, comprising:
a substrate;
a light-emitting stack comprising a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, an active layer over the first conductivity type semiconductor layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer over the active layer;
a transparent conductive layer over the light-emitting stack;
a first trench dividing the transparent conductive layer into a first block and a second block;
a second trench under the first trench and dividing the light-emitting stack into a first portion and a second portion, wherein each of the first portion and the second portion comprises a portion of the first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a portion of the active layer and a portion of the second conductivity type semiconductor layer, and the first portion and the second portion form parallel connection;
a connecting layer electrically connecting the first and the second blocks of the transparent conductive layer;
a first conductivity type contact layer between the substrate and the first conductivity type semiconductor layer;
a first electrode over and directly contacting the first conductivity type contact layer and electrically connected to the first conductivity type semiconductor layer, wherein the first electrode is devoid of extending to the second trench from a top view of the light-emitting device; and
a second electrode, wherein the second electrode and the transparent conductive layer locate on the same side of the second conductivity type semiconductor layer, and the second electrode is separated from the connecting layer.

2. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first electrode is devoid of any finger-type electrode.

3. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a shape of the light-emitting device from its top view is a rectangle having a longitudinal direction, and the first electrode is disposed near one end of the longitudinal direction of the rectangle.

4. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein a ratio of a length to a width of the rectangle is not smaller than 2.

5. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the first block and the second block are arranged along the longitudinal direction of the rectangle.

6. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the connecting layer comprises a first segment along the longitudinal direction.

7. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the connecting layer further comprises a secondary segment along a direction different from the longitudinal direction.

8. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the secondary segment is perpendicular to the first segment at a joint.

9. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein a shape of the secondary segment comprises a curve.

10. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second electrode comprises the same material as that of the connecting layer.

11. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the transparent conductive layer comprises transparent conductive oxide.

12. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a non-conductive material filled in the first trench, and the non-conductive material comprises SiN x ,SiO x , or SOG.

13. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a first current flow through the first portion is equal to a second current flow through the second portion when driving the light-emitting device.

14. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the connecting layer comprises a conductivity different from a conductivity of the transparent conductive layer.

15. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the conductivity of the connecting layer is larger than the conductivity of the transparent conductive layer.

16. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first portion is under the first block and the second portion is under the second block.

17. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a shape of the first trench and a shape of the second trench in a cross section of the light-emitting device are different.

18. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first trench comprises a first width along a horizontal direction perpendicular to a stacking direction of the first conductivity type semiconductor layer, the active layer and the second conductivity type semiconductor layer from a cross section view of the light-emitting device, and the second trench comprises a second width along the horizontal direction perpendicular to the stacking direction from the cross section view of the light-emitting device, and the first width is larger than the second width.

19. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first conductivity type contact layer is exposed by the second trench.

Assignees

• Ou Chen
• Chi Liang Sheng
• Chang Chun Wei
• Wu Chih Wei
• Epistar Corp

Inventors

• Ou Chen
• Chi Liang Sheng
• Chang Chun Wei
• Wu Chih-Wei

Classifications

• H01L33/38

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L33/08

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L33/14

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L33/42 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H10H20/831

  characterised by their shape · CPC title