Light-emitting device and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10312423-B2
Application number	US-201715679966-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 17, 2017
Priority date	Aug 17, 2016
Publication date	Jun 4, 2019
Grant date	Jun 4, 2019

Abstract

A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element, a wavelength converting layer and a light-adjusting layer. The light-emitting element has a first upper surface, a bottom surface, and a lateral surface between the first upper surface and the bottom surface. The wavelength converting layer includes a plurality of wavelength converting particles, and has a second upper surface on the first upper surface. The light-adjusting layer surrounds the lateral surface and has a first composition or a second composition. The first composition includes a first binder and a plurality of first light-diffusing particles. The second composition includes a second binder, a plurality of second light-diffusing particles, and a plurality of light-scattering particles.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A light-emitting device, comprising:
a light-emitting element, comprising a first upper surface, a bottom surface and a plurality of first lateral surfaces between the upper surface and bottom surface;
a wavelength conversion layer comprising a plurality of wavelength conversion particles and a second upper surface arranged on the first upper surface of the light-emitting element; and
a light-adjusting layer, surrounding the plurality of first lateral surfaces in a configuration of exposing the second upper surface, and comprising an inner surface and an outer lateral surface, and a first composition or a second composition wherein the light-adjusting layer allows light to enter into the inner surface, travel through the light-adjusting layer, and depart from the outer lateral surface,
wherein the first composition includes a first binder and a plurality of first light-diffusing particles, and a weight percentage of the first light-diffusing particles to the light-adjusting layer is not less than 20%; wherein the second composition includes a second binder, a plurality of second light-diffusing particles, and a plurality of light-scattering particles, a weight percentage of the second light-diffusing particles to the light-adjusting layer is not less than 5%, and a weight percentage of the light-scattering particles to the light-adjusting layer is not less than 0.4%.

2. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the weight percentage of the first light-diffusing particles is ranged from 30% to 50%.

3. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the first light-diffusing particles has an average particle size not greater than 10μm.

4. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the first light-diffusing particles has two particle sizes, wherein one of the average particle size is ranged from 1μm to 10μm, and the other one average particle size is ranged from 15μm to 50μm.

5. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the weight percentage of the second light-diffusing particles is ranged from 5% to 20% and that of the light-scattering particles is ranged from 0.4% to 3%.

6. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the wavelength conversion layer has an individual lateral thickness and an average lateral thickness, and a variation between the individual lateral thickness and the average lateral thickness is greater than 10%.

7. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , further comprising a outermost surface, and a distance between the outermost surface and one of the first lateral surfaces is less than 0.35 mm.

8. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the wavelength conversion layer comprising a first upper thickness and a first lateral thickness, and the first upper thickness is greater than the first lateral thickness.

9. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the wavelength conversion layer comprising a first upper thickness and the light-adjusting layer comprising a second upper thickness, and a ratio of the first upper thickness to the second upper thickness is ranged from 0.8 to 2.4.

10. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the wavelength conversion layer comprises a second lateral surface and a first lateral thickness extended from the first lateral surface to the second lateral surface, the light-adjusting layer comprises a second lateral thickness extended from the second lateral surface to the outer lateral surface, and a ratio of the first lateral thickness to the second lateral thickness is ranged from 0.2 to 0.8.

11. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the light-emitting device has a Δu′v′ less than 0.0040 when the angle of view is in a range of 0° to 70°.

12. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the light-adjusting layer does not cover the second upper surface.

13. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , further comprising a color-presenting layer covering the light-adjusting layer.

14. The light-emitting device according to claim 13 , wherein the light-adjusting layer comprising a second lateral surface and the color-presenting layer exposes the second lateral surface.

15. The light-emitting device according to claim 13 , wherein the color-presenting layer is white.

16. The light-emitting device according to claim 13 , wherein the color-presenting layer comprising a white colorant.

17. The light-emitting device according to claim 13 , wherein the color-presenting layer comprises a top surface and a lower surface, and the lower surface has a width greater than that of the top surface.

18. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , further comprising a color-presenting layer covering the wavelength conversion layer and the light-adjusting layer.

19. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein a difference of the refractive index between the first binder and the first light-diffusing particles is less than 0.1.

20. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein a difference of the refractive index between the second binder and the second light-diffusing particles is less than 0.1.

21. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of light-scattering particles has a refractive index greater than that of the plurality of second light-diffusing particles.

22. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of light-scattering particles has a refractive index greater than that of the plurality of second light-diffusing particles of 0.5.

Assignees

• Epistar Corp

Inventors

• Cheng Ching-Tai
• Lai Lung-Kuan
• Kuo Ju-Lien
• Shih Chun-Hua
• PENG Hsuan-Tzu
• Renn Yih-Hua

Classifications

• H10W70/60

  Insulating or insulated package substrates; Interposers; Redistribution layers (leadframes H10W70/40) · CPC title

• H01L33/62

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L33/60

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L2933/0091

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L2933/0033

  Electricity · mapped topic