Semiconductor light-emitting device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9793436-B2
Application number	US-201615332730-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 24, 2016
Priority date	Jan 16, 2015
Publication date	Oct 17, 2017
Grant date	Oct 17, 2017

Abstract

A semiconductor light-emitting device comprises an epitaxial structure for emitting a light and comprises an edge, a first portion and a second portion surrounding the first portion, wherein a concentration of a doping material in the second portion is higher than that of the doping material in the first portion, a main light-extraction surface on the epitaxial structure and comprises a first light-extraction region corresponding to the first portion and a second light-extraction region corresponding to the second portion and an edge, wherein the second portion is between the edge and the first portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A semiconductor light-emitting device comprising:
an epitaxial structure for emitting a light and comprises an edge, a first portion and a second portion surrounding the first portion, wherein a concentration of a doping material in the second portion is higher than that of the doping material in the first portion; and a main light-extraction surface on the epitaxial structure and comprises a first light-extraction region corresponding to the first portion and a second light-extraction region corresponding to the second portion;
wherein the second portion is between the edge and the first portion.

2. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein, as the light passes through the main light-extraction surface, a near-field luminous intensity in the first light-extraction region is larger than a near-field luminous intensity in the second light-extraction region.

3. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the epitaxial structure comprising a first semiconductor stack, a second semiconductor stack, and an active layer between the first semiconductor stack and the second semiconductor stack for emitting the light, and the main light-extraction surface is on the first semiconductor stack.

4. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 2 , wherein the main light-extraction surface further comprises a maximum near-field luminous intensity, and the near-field luminous intensity distributing in the first light-extraction region is between 70% and 100% of the maximum near-field luminous intensity, the near-field luminous intensity distributing in the second light-extraction region is between 0% and 70% of the maximum near-field luminous intensity, and a ratio of an area of the first light-extraction region to an area of the second light-extraction region is between 0.25 and 0.45.

5. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 3 , wherein the epitaxial structure further comprises a lower surface opposite to the main light-extraction surface, and a side surface connecting the lower surface and the main light-extraction surface.

6. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 5 , wherein the second portion surrounds the first portion and exposes on the side surface.

7. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 5 , wherein the epitaxial structure further comprises a control layer, and the second portion is between the control layer and the lower surface.

8. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the doping material comprises Zn, Te or Sb.

9. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 8 , wherein the concentration of the doping material in the second portion decreases along a direction from the lower surface to the control layer.

10. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 3 , wherein an area of the first semiconductor stack is the same as an area of the second semiconductor stack.

11. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the second light-extraction region is between the first light-extraction region and the edge.

12. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein a shape of the first light-extraction region is the same as a shape of the main light-extraction surface.

13. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein a shape of the main light-extraction surface comprises a circle or a regular polygon.

14. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 5 , further comprising an upper electrode connecting the main light-extraction surface and a second ohmic contact structure connecting the lower surface.

15. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 14 , wherein the upper electrode, the second ohmic contact structure, and the first portion are overlapped in a vertical direction.

16. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 14 , wherein an area of the upper electrode is between 1% and 10% of an area of the main light-extraction surface, and an area of the second ohmic contact structure is between 1% and 10% of the area of the lower surface.

17. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 14 , wherein a material of the second ohmic contact structure comprises transparent conductive material.

18. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 14 , further comprising a reflective stack covering the second ohmic contact structure and the second semiconductor stack.

19. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 18 , further comprising a conductive substrate and an adhesive layer between the reflective stack and the conductive substrate.

20. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the main light-extraction surface comprises a circumference and a ratio of a thickness of the epitaxial structure to the circumference is between 2% and 20%.

Assignees

• Epistar Corp

Inventors

• Chiu Hsin-Chih
• Chen Shih-I
• Chang You-Hsien
• Ku Hao-Min
• Tsai Ching-Yuan
• Kuo Kuan-Chih
• Hsiao Chih-Hung
• Lee Rong-Ren

Classifications

• H01L33/30

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L33/38

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L33/24

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L33/145

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L33/42

  Electricity · mapped topic