LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE

• US 20160013383A1
• Filed: 07/10/2015
• Published: 01/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Epistar Corporation (Ennostar, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Epistar Corporation (Ennostar, Inc.)
• Inventors: WU, Chien-Ming, LEE, Rong-Ren, HSU, Tzu-Chieh, CHANG, Ming-Nam
• Application Number:
  US14/796,654
• Publication Number:
  US 20160013383A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/10 with a light reflecting structure, e.g. semiconductor Bragg reflector
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/30 containing only elements of Group III and Group V of the Periodic Table
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/38 with a particular shape
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/46 Reflective coating, e.g. dielectric Bragg reflector

Abstract

A light-emitting device comprising a substrate; a semiconductor stack capable of emitting a light; a first reflecting structure between the substrate and the semiconductor stack to reflect the light; and a second reflecting structure between the substrate and the semiconductor stack, wherein the first reflecting structure has a maximum reflectivity when the light is incident to the first reflecting structure at a first incident angle, the second reflecting structure has a maximum reflectivity when the light is incident to the second reflecting structure at a second incident angle.

Claims

1. A light-emitting device, comprising:

a substrate;

a semiconductor stack capable of emitting a light;

a first reflecting structure between the substrate and the semiconductor stack to reflect the light; and

a second reflecting structure between the substrate and the semiconductor stack, wherein the first reflecting structure has a maximum reflectivity when the light is incident to the first reflecting structure at a first incident angle, the second reflecting structure has a maximum reflectivity when the light incident to the second reflecting structure at a second incident angle, and the second incident angle is larger than the first incident angle.

2. The light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the second reflecting structure is between the substrate and the first reflecting structure, the material of the second reflecting structure comprises Al_xGa_(1-x)As, and 0.8≦

x≦

1.

3. The light-emitting device of claim 2, wherein the second reflecting structure comprises an un-oxidized region and an oxidized region surrounding the un-oxidized region;

wherein the un-oxidized region comprises Al_xGa_(1-x)As and the oxidized region comprises aluminum oxide.

4. The light-emitting device of claim 3, wherein the oxidized region comprises a critical angle smaller than the second incident angle, and the first incident angle is smaller than the critical angle.

5. The light-emitting device of claim 3, further comprising a current blocking layer and an extension electrode on the semiconductor stack, wherein a position of the current blocking layer is approximately align to that of the un-oxidized region, a position of the extension electrode is approximately align to that of the oxidized region.

6. The light-emitting device of claim 5, wherein an outer periphery of the current blocking region is separated from an inner periphery of the oxidized region with a distance.

7. The light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the first reflecting structure comprises a first stack comprising a pair provided with a first layer having a first refractive index and a second layer having a second refractive index, the second reflecting structure comprises a second stack comprising a pair provided with a third layer having a third refractive index and a fourth layer having a fourth refractive index, any layer of the first reflecting structure and the second reflecting structure comprises a thickness approximately multiple of one-quarter of the wavelength of the light.

8. The light-emitting device of claim 7, wherein the first reflecting structure comprises a first number of the pair of the first stack, the second reflecting structure comprises a second number of the pair of the second stack, the first number is different from the second number, or a first thickness of the pair of the first stack is different from a second thickness of the pair of the second stack.

9. The light-emitting device of claim 7, wherein a difference between the first refractive index and the second refractive index is between 0.4 and 1, a difference between the third refractive index and the fourth refractive index is between 0.4 and 1.

10. The light-emitting device of claim 7, further comprising a third reflecting structure between the first reflecting structure and the second reflecting structure, wherein the third reflecting structure has a maximum reflectivity when the light incident to the third reflecting structure at a third incident angle, the third incident angle is between the first incident angle and the second incident angle, the third reflecting structure comprises a third stack comprising a pair provided with a fifth layer comprising a fifth refractive index and a sixth layer comprising a sixth refractive index, a third thickness of the pair of the third stack is between the first thickness and the second thickness.

11. A light-emitting device, comprising:

a substrate;

a semiconductor stack capable of emitting a light having a dominant wavelength;

a first reflecting structure between the substrate and the semiconductor stack, wherein the first reflecting structure has a first maximum reflectivity to the dominant wavelength normally incident to the first reflecting structure; and

a second reflecting structure between the substrate and the semiconductor stack, wherein the second reflecting structure comprises a second maximum reflectivity to a reference wavelength incident normally to the second reflecting structure and to the dominant wavelength obliquely incident to the second reflecting structure.

12. The light-emitting device of claim 11, wherein each of the first reflecting structure and the second reflecting structure comprises one or more DBR pairs, each DBR pair is formed by a high refractive index layer and a low refractive index layer.

13. The light-emitting device of claim 12, wherein the high refractive index layer in the DBR pair of the first reflecting structure is abutting the semiconductor stack.

14. The light-emitting device of claim 12, wherein the low refractive index layer in the DBR pair of the second reflecting structure is closer to the substrate than the high refractive index layer in the DBR pair of the second reflecting structure is to the substrate.

15. The light-emitting device of claim 12, wherein a thickness of one pair of the high refractive index layer and the low refractive index layer of the second reflecting structure is larger than a thickness of one pair of the high refractive index layer and the low refractive index layer of the first reflecting structure.

16. The light-emitting device of claim 12, wherein a thickness of the low refractive index layer in the DBR pair is thicker than that of the high refractive index layer in the DBR pair.

17. The light-emitting device of claim 12, wherein a refractive index of the high refractive index layer and the low refractive index layer is larger than that of the semiconductor stack and lower than that of the substrate.

18. The light-emitting device of claim 11, wherein the reference wavelength is longer than the first dominant wavelength.

19. The light-emitting device of claim 11, wherein the second reflecting structure is transparent to the dominant wavelength.

20. The light-emitting device of claim 11, wherein the dominant wavelength is obliquely incident to the second reflecting structure at an angle larger than 0 degree and smaller than 90 degrees.