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Class 257/103 - With particular semiconductor material


Subclass of Class 257 - Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes)
Definition: Subject matter wherein the active junction is in or between
No. of patents: 1997
Last issue date: 05/29/2012


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NumberTitleIssue Date
8188510Semiconductor light-emitting device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light-emitting device having high light extraction efficiency is provided. The semiconductor light-emitting device includes a light transmissive substrate; a nitride semiconductor layer of a first conduction type formed o...
05/29/2012
8178896Light emitting element
A light emitting device includes a pair of electrodes facing to each other and a phosphor layer which is sandwiched between the pair of electrodes and includes phosphor particles placed therein. The phosphor particles include an n-type nitride semiconductor part and...
05/15/2012
8143643Light device and fabrication method thereof
The present invention discloses a light device and a fabrication method thereof. An object of the present invention is to provide the light device and the fabrication method thereof an electric/thermal/structural stability is obtained, and a P-type electrode and an ...
03/27/2012
8134175Nanocrystals including III-V semiconductors
Semiconductor nanocrystals including III-V semiconductors can include a core including III-V alloy. The nanocrystal can include an overcoating including a II-VI semiconductor.teh ...
03/13/2012
8134176Light-emitting diode and light-emitting diode lamp
The present invention provides a light-emitting diode (10) including a substrate (101) made of a first conductive type silicon (Si) single crystal, a pn junction structured light-emitting section (40) composed of a III-group nitride semiconducto...
03/13/2012
8125001Method for manufacturing gallium oxide based substrate, light emitting device, and method for manufacturing the light emitting device
A light emitting device includes a gallium oxide based substrate, a gallium oxynitride based layer on the gallium oxide based substrate, a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer on the gallium oxynitride based layer, an active layer on the first conductivity-ty...
02/28/2012
8115230Light emitting device, light emitting device package and lighting system
Disclosed are a light emitting device, a light emitting device package, and a lighting system. The light emitting device includes an oxide including gallium aluminum over a gallium oxide substrate, a nitride including gallium aluminum over the oxide including galliu...
02/14/2012
8110849Light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same
A light emitting device is provided. The light emitting device comprises a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer, and an InNO layer. The active layer is disposed on the first conductive semiconductor layer...
02/07/2012
8110848Substrate for epitaxy and method of preparing the same
The substrate is used for opto-electric or electrical devices and comprises a layer of nitride grown by means of vapor phase epitaxy growth wherein both main surfaces of the nitride substrate are substantially consisting of non N-polar face and N-polar face respecti...
02/07/2012
8110851Nitride-based semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting device 100 includes a GaN substrate 10, of which the principal surface is an m-plane 12, a semiconductor multilayer structure 20 that has been formed on the m-plane 12 of the GaN-based s...
02/07/2012
8110850Semiconductor light emitting device
A semiconductor light emitting device is provided. The semiconductor light emitting device comprises a plurality of compound semiconductor layers including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second conductive semiconductor layer, and a lay...
02/07/2012
8106420Light emitting device including semiconductor nanocrystals
A light emitting device can have a layered structure and include a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals. The layers of the device can be covalently bonded to each other. The device can include continuous chain of covalent bonds extending from the first electrode ...
01/31/2012
8106419Group-III nitride compound semiconductor light-emitting device, method of manufacturing group-III nitride compound semiconductor light-emitting device, and lamp
A group-III nitride compound semiconductor light-emitting device, a method of manufacturing the group-III nitride compound semiconductor light-emitting device, and a lamp. The method includes the steps of: forming an intermediate layer (12) made of a group-II...
01/31/2012
8101968Group III nitride substrate, epitaxial layer-provided substrate, methods of manufacturing the same, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A group III nitride substrate on which an epitaxially grown layer of good quality can be formed, and a method of manufacturing the same are obtained. A GaN substrate is one of the following: a group III nitride substrate, wherein the number of atoms of an acid mater...
01/24/2012
8084781Compound semiconductor device
A compound semiconductor device (1) includes a compound semiconductor having a stacked structure (100) of a hexagonal single crystal layer (101), a boron phosphide-based semiconductor layer (102) formed on a surface of the hexagonal singl...
12/27/2011
8084782Light-emitting film, light-emitting device and production method thereof
Provided is a light-emitting film having controllable resistivity, and a high-luminance light-emitting device, which can be driven at a low voltage, using such light-emitting film. The light-emitting film includes Cu as an addition element in a zinc sulfide compound...
12/27/2011
8076694Nitride semiconductor element having a silicon substrate and a current passing region
It is an object of the present invention to provide a nitride semiconductor element, which uses Si as a substrate, and whose voltage in the forward direction (Vf) is lower than in the prior art. In the nitride semiconductor element which has a nitride semiconductor ...
12/13/2011
8067785Organic light emitting apparatus and method of producing the same
Provided are an organic light emitting apparatus for use in, for example, a flat device display, and a method of producing the apparatus. The organic light emitting apparatus has sides formed by division at ends of its substrate. Three-dimensional portions are forme...
11/29/2011
8067786Gallium nitride material devices including conductive regions
Semiconductor structures comprising a III-nitride (e.g., gallium nitride) material region and methods associated with such structures are provided. In some embodiments, the structures include an electrically conductive material (e.g., gold) separated from certain ot...
11/29/2011
8030682Zinc-blende nitride semiconductor free-standing substrate, method for fabricating same, and light-emitting device employing same
A zinc-blende nitride semiconductor free-standing substrate has a front surface and a back surface opposite the front surface. The distance between the front and back surfaces is not less than 200 μm. The area ratio of the zinc-blende nitride semiconductor to the f...
10/04/2011
8017972Multilayered white light emitting diode using quantum dots and method of fabricating the same
A multilayered white light emitting diode and a method of fabricating the same include forming a phosphor mixture layer including a green phosphor and a blue phosphor on a UV light emitting diode and forming a red quantum dot layer on the phosphor mixture layer. In ...
09/13/2011
8017973Nitride semiconductor light-emitting device including a buffer layer on a substrate and method for manufacturing the same
There are provided a nitride semiconductor light-emitting device and a method for manufacturing the same. The nitride semiconductor light-emitting device includes a buffer layer on a sapphire substrate, wherein the buffer layer includes a plurality of layers having ...
09/13/2011
7977702Surface textured LEDs and method for making the same
A light-emitting device that includes an LED and a light extraction layer and the method for making the same are disclosed. The LED includes a substrate on which an active layer is sandwiched between a p-type layer and an n-type layer, the active layer generating li...
07/12/2011
7977703Nitride semiconductor device having a zinc-based substrate
A nitride semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer provided on the semiconductor substrate; a mask layer having opening portions, provided on the first nitride semiconductor layer; a second nitride semiconductor la...
07/12/2011
7964891Light-emitting element, display device, and electronic appliance
The present invention provides a light-emitting element having a structure in which the drive voltage is comparatively low and a light-emitting element in which the increase in the drive voltage over time is small. Further, the present invention provides a display d...
06/21/2011
7964890Epitaxial substrate, method of making same and method of making a semiconductor chip
Proposed is an epitaxial substrate, particularly for making thin-film semiconductor chips based on III-V semiconductors, comprising a sacrificial layer that is applied to a wafer substrate and whose band gap is smaller than the band gap of the surrounding substrate,...
06/21/2011
7928468Buffer structure for semiconductor device and methods of fabrication
Embodiments of the present invention describe a semiconductor device having an buffer structure and methods of fabricating the buffer structure. The buffer structure is formed between a substrate and a quantum well layer to prevent defects in the substrate and quant...
04/19/2011
7928467Nitride semiconductor light emitting device and manufacturing method of the same
There is provided a nitride semiconductor light emitting device including: a light emitting structure including n-type and p-type nitride semiconductor layers and an active layer disposed therebetween; n- and p-electrodes electrically connected to the n-type and p-t...
04/19/2011
7923749III-nitride compound semiconductor light emitting device
The present invention relates a III-nitride compound semiconductor light emitting device in which a first layer composed of a carbon-containing compound layer, such as an n-type or p-type silicon carbide (SiC), silicon carbon nitride (SiCN) or carbon nitride layer (...
04/12/2011
7915635Semiconductor light-emitting element and substrate used in formation of the same
For a semiconductor laser, a stacked member comprising an active layer is formed on the surface of a GaN single-crystal substrate, a defect aggregation portion is formed on the rear face of the GaN single-crystal substrate, and an electrode is formed so as to be ele...
03/29/2011
7915636III-nitride semiconductor light emitting device
The present disclosure relates to a III-nitride semiconductor light emitting device which improves external quantum efficiency by using a p-type nitride semiconductor layer with a rough surface, the p-type nitride semiconductor layer including: a first nitride semic...
03/29/2011
7897993GaN based luminescent device on a metal substrate
A compound semiconductor luminescent device characterized by comprising an electroconductive substrate, a compound semiconductor function layer including a GaN layer, an electrode, an adhesiveness-enhancing layer, and a bonding layer, which are stacked in this order...
03/01/2011
7888700Quantum dot light emitting device
An inorganic light emitting device including a transparent substrate; a first electrode; a second electrode opposed to the first electrode; a polycrystalline inorganic light emitting layer including core/shell quantum dots within an inorganic semiconductor matrix an...
02/15/2011
7884388Light emitting diode having a first GaN layer and a first semiconductor layer each having a predetermined thickness and fabrication method therof
A light emitting diode (LED) and a method for fabricating the same, capable of improving brightness by forming a InGaN layer having a low concentration of indium, and whose lattice constant is similar to that of an active layer of the LED, is provided. The LED inclu...
02/08/2011
7880192Nitride semiconductor light emitting element and nitride semiconductor light emitting device
A nitride semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a n-GaN substrate 10 and a semiconductor multilayer structure arranged on the principal surface of the n-GaN substrate 10 and including a p-type region, an n-type region and an ...
02/01/2011
7868351Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes a pair of electrodes, wherein at least one electrode is transparent or semi-transparent, and an phosphor layer provided between the pair of electrodes, wherein the phosphor layer includes a layer having nitride semiconductor particle...
01/11/2011
7868350Nitride semiconductor light-emitting device and method for manufacturing the same
Provided is a nitride semiconductor light-emitting device. The device includes a buffer layer, a first conduction type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conduction type semiconductor layer. The buffer layer comprises amorphous metal. The first condu...
01/11/2011
7859008Crystalline composition, wafer, device, and associated method
A crystalline composition is provided that includes gallium and nitrogen. The crystalline composition may have an amount of oxygen present in a concentration of less than about 3×1018 per cubic centimeter, and may be free of two-dimensional planar bounda...
12/28/2010
7847314Gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor light-emitting device
It is an object of the present invention to provide a gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor light-emitting device that is excellent in light output efficiency and needs only a low driving voltage (Vf). The inventive gallium nitride-based compound semiconducto...
12/07/2010
7842966Compound semiconductor light-emitting diode and method for fabrication thereof
A compound semiconductor light-emitting diode includes a light-emitting layer (133) formed of aluminum-gallium-indium phosphide, a light-emitting part (13) having component layers individually formed of a Group III-V compound semiconductor, a transpare...
11/30/2010
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