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Vertical geometry ingan LED

Patent 6459100 Issued on October 1, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject September 16, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 154363 filed on 09/16/1998

US Classes:

257/97, More than two heterojunctions in same device257/103, With particular semiconductor material257/E33.028Including nitride (e.g., AlGaN) (EPO)

Examiners

Primary: Jackson, Jerome

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 0541373 EP. 05/25/1993
  • 0599224 EP. 06/25/1994
  • 0622858 EP. 11/25/1994
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  • WO 96/09653 WO. 03/25/1996

International Class

H01L 033/00

Abstract

A vertical geometry light emitting diode is disclosed that is capable of emitting light in the red, green, blue, violet and ultraviolet portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The light emitting diode includes a conductive silicon carbide substrate, an InGaN quantum well, a conductive buffer layer between the substrate and the quantum well, a respective undoped gallium nitride layer on each surface of the quantum well, and ohmic contacts in a vertical geometry orientation.

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  • Amano et al MRS Symp Proc vol. 395 pp. 869-877 "Fabrication . . . 6H-SiC (0001)si", Dec. 1995.
  • Doverspike, K., Status of Nitride Based Light Emitting and Laser Diodes on SiC; Nitride Semiconductors Symposium, Nitride Semiconductors Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, Dec. 1-5, 1997, pp. 1169-117
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