Optoelectronic component and method for producing an optoelectronic component

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12199224-B2
Application number	US-202017421950-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 9, 2020
Priority date	Jan 11, 2019
Publication date	Jan 14, 2025
Grant date	Jan 14, 2025

Abstract

In an embodiment an optoelectronic component includes a carrier, an optoelectronic semiconductor chip and an encapsulation, wherein the semiconductor chip is fixed on a mounting surface of the carrier and is electrically conductively connected with the carrier, wherein the encapsulation is located around the semiconductor chip and covers the mounting surface at least partially, wherein the encapsulation includes a first layer and a second layer, wherein the first layer is arranged between the mounting surface and the second layer, wherein each of the first layer and the second layer is based on a silicone, and wherein the first layer and the second layer are directly adjacent to each other in a region of an interface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An optoelectronic component comprising:
a carrier;
an optoelectronic semiconductor chip; and
an encapsulation,
wherein the semiconductor chip is fixed on a mounting surface of the carrier and is electrically conductively connected with the carrier,
wherein the encapsulation is located around the semiconductor chip and covers the mounting surface at least partially,
wherein the encapsulation comprises a first layer formed from a first material and a second layer formed from a second material,
wherein the first layer is arranged between the mounting surface and the second layer,
wherein each of the first layer and the second layer is based on a silicone,
wherein at least 50% of polymers of the second material are silane and/or silanol functionalized,
wherein the first layer and the second layer are directly adjacent to each other in a region of an interface,
wherein the mounting surface at least partially comprises silver and/or a silver alloy and/or copper, and
wherein, on average at least 3% of functionalities of silane and/or silanol functionalized polymers are silane or silanol functionalities.

2. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first layer covers all regions of the mounting surface laterally adjacent to the semiconductor chip, and
wherein each path from outside the component to the first layer that passes exclusively through silicone-based material also passes through the interface.

3. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 ,
wherein the semiconductor chip is embedded in the first layer, and
wherein, viewed in a top view of the mounting surface, the semiconductor chip is covered by the interface.

4. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the first layer and the second layer are based on the same silicone.

5. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the first layer and the second layer are based on different silicones.

6. The optoelectronic component according to claim 5 , wherein the silicone of the second layer comprises a smaller refractive index than that of the first layer.

7. The optoelectronic component according to claim 5 , wherein the silicone of the second layer comprises a higher permeability for gases than that of the first layer.

8. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the interface extends over the entire mounting surface of the carrier.

9. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the first layer is surface-treated in the region of the interface.

10. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , further comprising an inorganic encapsulation layer at least partially covering the mounting surface.

11. The optoelectronic component according to claim 10 , wherein the inorganic encapsulation layer is arranged between the encapsulation and the carrier.

12. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the semiconductor chip is a volume emitter.

13. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 ,
wherein the semiconductor chip is electrically conductively connected with the carrier via at least one contact wire, and
wherein the contact wire is embedded in the first layer and, as viewed in a top view, is covered by the interface.

14. The optoelectronic component according to claim 13 , wherein the contact wire comprises silver.

15. A method for producing an optoelectronic component, the method comprising:
providing a carrier with a mounting surface;
applying an optoelectronic semiconductor chip to the mounting surface and electrically connecting the semiconductor chip with the carrier;
forming a silicone-based first layer on the mounting surface by applying a silicone-based first material in a liquid or viscous state to the mounting surface and by at least partially curing the first material, wherein the first layer subsequently forms around the semiconductor chip; and
forming a silicone-based second layer directly on a side of the first layer opposite the mounting surface by applying a silicone-based second material in a liquid or viscous state directly on the first layer and subsequently curing the second material,
wherein at least 50% of polymers of the second material are silane and/or silanol functionalized,
wherein the mounting surface at least partially comprises silver and/or a silver alloy and/or copper, and
wherein, on average at least 3% of functionalities of silane and/or silanol functionalized polymers are silane or silanol functionalities.

16. The method according to claim 15 , further comprising surface treating a surface of the first layer facing away from the mounting surface prior to forming the silicone-based second layer.

17. The method according to claim 15 , further comprising applying an inorganic encapsulation layer to the mounting surface prior to forming the silicone-based first layer.

18. The method according to claim 15 wherein at least 75% of the polymers of the second material are the silane and/or silanol functionalized, and wherein, on average, at least 50% of the functionalities of the silane and/or silanol functionalized polymers are the silane or silanol functionalities.

19. The method according to claim 15 , wherein the carrier is a carrier composite having a plurality of interconnected carriers, and wherein the carrier composite is singulated after forming the silicone-based second layer.

Assignees

• Osram Opto Semiconductors Gmbh

Inventors

• Reeswinkel Thomas
• Eberhard Jens

Classifications

• H10H20/0364

  of interconnections · CPC title

• H10H20/0362

  of encapsulations · CPC title

• H10H20/8506

  Containers · CPC title

• H10H20/857

  Interconnections, e.g. lead-frames, bond wires or solder balls · CPC title

• H10H20/01

  Manufacture or treatment · CPC title