CA2057977A1 - Semiconductor light emitting device - Google Patents

Semiconductor light emitting device

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CA2057977A1
CA2057977A1 CA2057977A CA2057977A CA2057977A1 CA 2057977 A1 CA2057977 A1 CA 2057977A1 CA 2057977 A CA2057977 A CA 2057977A CA 2057977 A CA2057977 A CA 2057977A CA 2057977 A1 CA2057977 A1 CA 2057977A1
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emitting device
light emitting
conductivity type
cladding layer
yas
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CA2057977C (en
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Tetsuya Yagi
Tsuneo Okada
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Mitsubishi Electric Corp
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Tetsuya Yagi
Tsuneo Okada
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L33/00—Semiconductor devices with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier specially adapted for light emission; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof
    • H01L33/36—Semiconductor devices with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier specially adapted for light emission; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof characterised by the electrodes
    • H01L33/38—Semiconductor devices with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier specially adapted for light emission; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof characterised by the electrodes with a particular shape
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L33/00—Semiconductor devices with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier specially adapted for light emission; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof
    • H01L33/0004—Devices characterised by their operation
    • H01L33/002—Devices characterised by their operation having heterojunctions or graded gap
    • H01L33/0025—Devices characterised by their operation having heterojunctions or graded gap comprising only AIIIBV compounds
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L33/00—Semiconductor devices with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier specially adapted for light emission; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof
    • H01L33/02—Semiconductor devices with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier specially adapted for light emission; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof characterised by the semiconductor bodies
    • H01L33/26—Materials of the light emitting region
    • H01L33/30—Materials of the light emitting region containing only elements of group III and group V of the periodic system
    • H01L33/305—Materials of the light emitting region containing only elements of group III and group V of the periodic system characterised by the doping materials
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L33/00—Semiconductor devices with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier specially adapted for light emission; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof
    • H01L33/36—Semiconductor devices with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier specially adapted for light emission; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof characterised by the electrodes
    • H01L33/40—Materials therefor

Abstract

An AlGaAs/GaAs system light emitting device comprises a GaAs substrate doped with a first conductivity type impurity, a first conductivity type AlyGa1-yAs first cladding layer, an AlxGa1-xAs (0 < x < y) active layer, and an AlyGa1-yAs second cladding layer having a conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type, which are successively disposed on the substrate. The light emitting device further comprises an AlzGa1-zAs (z 0) buffer layer which is disposed between the GaAs substrate and the first cladding layer, to which a first conductivity impurity is doped to such a high dopant concentration that the intensity of photoluminescence light generated due to band to band transitions is reduced, and has a smaller energy band gap than the energy of the light emitted from the light emitting device. Therefore, a long lifetime semiconductor light emitting device having no sub peak in the light emission spectrum can be easily produced with good yield.
CA002057977A 1991-02-12 1991-12-18 Semiconductor light emitting device Expired - Fee Related CA2057977C (en)

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JP3042706A JPH04258182A (en) 1991-02-12 1991-02-12 Semiconductor light emitting device
JPHEI.3-042706 1991-02-12

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CA2057977A1 true CA2057977A1 (en) 1992-08-13
CA2057977C CA2057977C (en) 1997-02-25

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JP (1) JPH04258182A (en)
CA (1) CA2057977C (en)
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DE4203134A1 (en) 1992-08-13
GB2253303B (en) 1995-07-12
JPH04258182A (en) 1992-09-14
US5272362A (en) 1993-12-21
CA2057977C (en) 1997-02-25
GB2253303A (en) 1992-09-02
GB9126843D0 (en) 1992-02-19

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