LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE

• US 20130043500A1
• Filed: 10/19/2012
• Published: 02/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: ORITA, Kenji
• Application Number:
  US13/656,351
• Publication Number:
  US 20130043500A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 257/98
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1336 Illuminating devices
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133602 Direct backlight
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133606 including a specially adapted diffusing, scattering or light controlling members
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133614 using photoluminescence, e.g. phosphors illuminated by UV or blue light
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133615 Edge-illuminating devices, i.e. illuminating from the side
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133617 Illumination with ultraviolet light; Luminescent elements or materials associated to the cell
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13362 providing polarized light, e.g. by converting a polarisation component into another one
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/465 with a resonant cavity structure
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/505 characterised by the shape, e.g. plate or foil

Abstract

A light emitting device includes: a semiconductor multilayer film formed on a principal surface of a substrate, and including an active layer configured to generate light at a first wavelength; and a fluorescent material layer formed on the semiconductor multilayer film, and forming a first two-dimensional periodic structure. The fluorescent material layer generates light at a second wavelength by being excited by the first wavelength light, the semiconductor multilayer film has an optical waveguide through which the first wavelength light and the second wavelength light are guided, and the light radiated from an end face of the optical waveguide includes a higher proportion of light having an electric field oriented in a direction horizontal to the principal surface than a proportion of light having an electric field oriented in a direction perpendicular to the principal surface.

Claims

1. A light emitting device comprising:

a semiconductor multilayer film formed on a principal surface of a substrate, and including an active layer configured to generate light at a first wavelength; and

a fluorescent material layer formed on the semiconductor multilayer film, and forming a first two-dimensional periodic structure, wherein

the fluorescent material layer generates light at a second wavelength by being excited by the first wavelength light,

the semiconductor multilayer film has an optical waveguide through which the first wavelength light and the second wavelength light are guided, and

the first wavelength light and the second wavelength light which are radiated from an end face of the optical waveguide include a higher proportion of light having an electric field oriented in a direction horizontal to the principal surface than a proportion of light having an electric field oriented in a direction perpendicular to the principal surface.

2. The light emitting device of claim 1, wherein

the first two-dimensional periodic structure forms a photonic band gap for the second wavelength light having an electric field oriented in a direction perpendicular to the principal surface.

3. The light emitting device of claim 1, wherein

a portion of the fluorescent material layer formed over a central portion of the optical waveguide forms the first two-dimensional periodic structure,

a portion of the fluorescent material layer formed over an outer portion of the optical waveguide forms a second two-dimensional periodic structure, and

periods of the first and second two-dimensional periodic structures, or sizes or shapes of base units forming the periodic structures are different from each other.

4. The light emitting device of claim 3, wherein

the second two-dimensional periodic structure forms a photonic band gap for the second wavelength light having an electric field oriented in a direction parallel to the principal surface.

5. The light emitting device of claim 1, further comprising:

a transparent electrode formed between the semiconductor multilayer film and the fluorescent material layer.