WO2004100278A2 - Light-emitting devices having an antireflective layer that has a graded index of refraction and methods of forming the same - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates generally to microelectronic devices and fabrication methods therefor, and, more particularly, to light-emitting devices and fabrication methods therefor.
- LEDs Light-emitting diodes
- a light-emitting diode generally includes a diode region on a microelectronic substrate.
- the microelectronic substrate may comprise, for example, gallium arsenide, gallium phosphide, alloys thereof, silicon carbide, and/or sapphire.
- a conventional GaN-based LED 100 comprises a SiC substrate 105 that has first and second opposing surfaces 110a and 110b, respectively, and is at least partially transparent to optical radiation.
- a diode region comprising an n-type layer 115, an active region 120, and a p-type layer 125 is disposed on the second surface 110b and is configured to emit optical radiation into the SiC substrate 105 upon application of a voltage across the diode region, for example across ohmic contacts 130 and 135.
- the diode region including the n-type layer 115, the active region 120, and/or the p-type layer 125 may comprise gallium nitride-based semiconductor layers, including alloys thereof, such as indium gallium nitride and/or aluminum indium gallium nitride.
- gallium nitride-based semiconductor layers including alloys thereof, such as indium gallium nitride and/or aluminum indium gallium nitride.
- the fabrication of gallium nitride on silicon carbide is known to those skilled in the art, and is described, for example, in U.S. Patent 6,177,688, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
- a buffer layer or layers comprising aluminum nitride for example, may be provided between the n-type gallium nitride layer 115 and the silicon carbide substrate 105, as described in U.S.
- the active region 120 may comprise a single layer of n-type, p-type, or intrinsic gallium nitride-based materials, another homostructure, a single heterostructure, a double heterostructure, and/or a quantum well structure, all of which are well known to those skilled in the art. Moreover, the active region 120 may comprise a light-emitting layer bounded by one or more cladding layers.
- the n-type gallium nitride layer 115 may comprise silicon-doped gallium nitride, while the p-type gallium nitride layer 125 may comprise magnesium-doped gallium nitride.
- the active region 120 may include at least one indium gallium nitride quantum well.
- the ohmic contact 135 for the p-type gallium nitride layer 125 comprises platinum, nickel and/or titanium gold. In other LEDs, a reflective ohmic contact comprising, for example, aluminum and/or silver, may be used.
- the ohmic contact 130 to the n-type gallium nitride layer 115 may comprise aluminum and/or titanium.
- ohmic contacts 135 and 130 may be used for ohmic contacts 135 and 130, respectively.
- ohmic contacts 135 and 130 examples of ohmic contacts to n-type gallium nitride layers and p-type gallium nitride layers are described, for example, in U.S. Patent 5,767,581, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
- TIR total internal reflection
- nisin ⁇ i n 2 sin ⁇ 2 , where nj is the index of refraction for medium 1 and n is the index of refraction for medium 2.
- ⁇ cr i t i ca i sn 'f ⁇ /nt.
- a light-emitting device comprises a substrate that is at least partially transparent to optical radiation and has a first index of refraction.
- a diode region is disposed on a first surface of the substrate and is configured to emit light responsive to a voltage applied thereto.
- An antireflective layer is disposed on a second surface of the substrate and has a graded index of refraction having values in a range between about the first index of refraction at a first surface of the antireflective layer and about a second index of refraction corresponding to an index of refraction of an encapsulation material at a second surface of the antireflective layer.
- the encapsulation material may be omitted and the antireflective layer may separate the substrate, which has a first index of refraction, from air, which has a second index of refraction.
- the antireflective layer may transition between a first medium, e.g., the substrate, and a second medium, e.g., the encapsulation material or air, abrupt index of refraction changes may be avoided, which may reduce the amount of light reflected internally at boundaries of the substrate and/or the encapsulation material.
- the substrate may comprise SiC and/or Al 2 O 3
- the antireflective layer may comprise (SiC) x (SiO 2 ) 1-x and/or (Al 2 O ) x (SiO ) ⁇ -x .
- the antireflective layer may comprise a polymer.
- the substrate may comprise SiC with an index of refraction of about 2.6 and the encapsulation material has an index of refraction of about 1.5.
- the substrate may also comprise Al 2 O 3 with an index of refraction of about 1.8 and the encapsulation material has an index of refraction of about 1.5.
- the graded index of refraction may be represented as a function f(x), where x represents a thickness of the antireflective layer beginning at the first surface of the antireflective layer and ending at the second surface of the antireflective layer.
- f(x) is linear.
- the antireflective layer may be formed on the substrate using a deposition process, such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and/or plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) according to some embodiments.
- CVD chemical vapor deposition
- PECVD plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition
- the antireflective layer may be formed on the substrate using, for example, thermal evaporation, e-beam evaporation, sputtering, spin-coating, sol-gel spin coating, and/or plating.
- the antireflective layer may be formed by applying (SiC) x (SiO 2 ) ⁇ -x to the SiC substrate by decreasing the value of x during an application time interval.
- the antireflective layer may be formed by applying (Al 2 O 3 ) x (SiO 2 ) 1-x to the Al O substrate by decreasing the value of x during an application time interval.
- the value of x may be about 1.0 at a beginning of the application time interval and about 0 at the end of the application time interval.
- the antireflective layer comprises (Al 2 O 3 ) x (SiO 2 ) 1-x
- the value of x may be about 1.0 at a beginning of the application time interval and about 0 at the end of the application time interval.
- Embodiments of the present invention are not limited to flip-chip structures in which light is extracted through a substrate that is at least partially transparent to optical radiation.
- a light-emitting device comprises a substrate and a diode region on a surface of the substrate that is configured to emit light responsive to a voltage applied thereto.
- a light extraction layer is disposed on a the diode region that has a first index of refraction and an antireflective layer is disposed on the light extraction layer that has a graded index of refraction having values in a range between about the first index of refraction at a first surface of the antireflective layer and about a second index of refraction associated with a second medium adjacent to a second surface of the antireflective layer.
- the light extraction layer comprises platinum, and the first index of refraction is about 2.33.
- FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional diagram that illustrates a conventional GaN-based light-emitting diode (LED);
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional diagram that illustrates light traveling between two mediums having different indices of refraction
- FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional diagram that illustrates light-emitting devices and fabrication methods therefor, in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention
- FIG. 4 is a graph that illustrates plots of the graded index of refraction versus thickness of an antireflective layer for various substrate materials, in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention
- FIGS. 5 and 6 are flowcharts that illustrate exemplary operations for fabricating light-emitting devices, in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional diagram that illustrates light-emitting devices and fabrication methods therefor, in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention. Detailed Description of Preferred Embodiments
- first, second, etc. may be used herein to describe various elements, components, regions, layers and/or sections, these elements, components, regions, layers and/or sections should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one element, component, region, layer or section from another region, layer or section. Thus, a first region, layer or section discussed below could be termed a second region, layer or section, and, similarly, a second without departing from the teachings of the present invention.
- Embodiments of the present invention will now be described, generally, with reference to GaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on SiC-based and sapphire (Al O 3 )-based substrates. The present invention, however, is not limited to such structures.
- Embodiments of the invention may use any substrate that is generally non- absorbing or at least partially transparent to optical radiation and a diode region that emits light responsive to a voltage applied thereto.
- Examples of light-emitting devices that may be used in embodiments of the present invention include, but are not limited to, the devices described in the following U. S. Patent Nos.: 6,201,262, 6,187,606, 6,120,600, 5,912,477, 5,739,554, 5,631,190, 5,604,135, 5,523,589, 5,416,342, 5,393,993, 5,338,944, 5,210,051, 5,027,168, 5,027,168, 4,966,862 and/or 4,918,497, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- Other suitable LEDs and/or lasers are described in United States Patent Application Serial No.
- phosphor coated LEDs such as those described in United States Patent Application Serial No. 10/659,241 entitled "PHOSPHOR-COATED LIGHT EMITTING DIODES INCLUDING TAPERED SIDEWALLS, AND FABRICATION METHODS
- the LEDs and/or lasers may be configured to operate in a "flip-chip” configuration such that light emission occurs through the substrate.
- the substrate may be patterned so as to enhance light output of the devices as is described, for example, in United States Patent Application Serial No. 10/057,821, filed January 25, 2002 entitled “LIGHT EMITTING DIODES INCLUDING SUBSTRATE MODIFICATIONS FOR LIGHT EXTRACTION AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREFOR” the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference as if set forth fully herein.
- the light-emitting device 300 comprises a GaN-based LED similar to the GaN LED described above with respect to FIG. 1. Shown in a flip-chip configuration in FIG. 3, the GaN-based LED comprises a substrate 305 that has first and second opposing surfaces 310a and 310b, respectively, and is at least partially transparent to optical radiation.
- the substrate 305 may be, for example, but is not limited to, a SiC substrate or a sapphire (Al 2 O 3 ) substrate.
- a diode region comprising an n-type layer 315, an active region 320, and a p-type layer 325 is disposed on the second surface 310b and is configured to emit optical radiation into the substrate 305 upon application of a voltage across the diode region, for example across ohmic contacts 330 and 335.
- the diode region including the n-type layer 315, the active region 320, and/or the p-type layer 325 may comprise gallium nitride-based semiconductor layers, including alloys thereof, such as indium gallium nitride and/or aluminum indium gallium nitride. The fabrication of gallium nitride on silicon carbide is described, for example, in the above-incorporated U.S.
- Patent 6,177,688 A buffer layer or layers comprising aluminum nitride, for example, may be provided between the n-type gallium nitride layer 315 and the silicon carbide substrate 305, as described in the above-incorporated U.S. Patents 5,393,993, 5,523,589, 6,177,688, and Application Serial No. 09/154,363 entitled Vertical Geometry InGaN Light Emitting Diode.
- the active region 320 may comprise a single layer of n-type, p-type, or intrinsic gallium nitride-based materials, another homostructure, a single heterostructure, a double heterostructure, and/or a quantum well structure.
- the active region 320 may comprise a light-emitting layer bounded by one or more cladding layers.
- the n-type gallium nitride layer 315 may comprise silicon-doped gallium nitride, while the p-type gallium nitride layer 325 may comprise magnesium- doped gallium nitride.
- the active region 320 may include at least one indium gallium nitride quantum well.
- the ohmic contact 335 for the p-type gallium nitride layer 325 comprises platinum, nickel and/or titanium/gold. In other embodiments, a reflective ohmic contact comprising, for example, aluminum and/or silver, may be used.
- the ohmic contact 330 to the n-type gallium nitride layer 315 may comprise aluminum and/or titanium.
- Other suitable materials that form ohmic contacts to p- type gallium nitride and n-type gallium nitride may be used for ohmic contacts 335 and 330, respectively. Examples of ohmic contacts to n-type gallium nitride layers and p-type gallium nitride layers are described, for example, in the above-incorporated U.S. Patent 5,767,581.
- the LED is shown in flip-chip or upside-down configuration mounted on a mounting support 340, such as a heat sink, using bonding regions 345 and 350.
- the bonding regions 345 and 350 may include solder preforms that are attached to the diode region and/or the mounting support 340, and that can be reflowed to attach the ohmic contacts 335 and 330 to the mounting support 340 using conventional solder reflowing techniques.
- Other embodiments of bonding regions 345 and 350 may comprise gold, indium, and/or braze.
- An anode lead 355 and a cathode lead 360 may be provided for external connections.
- the flip-chip or upside-down packing configuration places the substrate 305 away from the mounting support 340 and places the diode region down, adjacent to the mounting support 340.
- a barrier region (not shown) may be included between the ohmic contacts 335, 330 and the bonding regions 345, 350.
- the barrier region may comprise nickel, nickel/vanadium, and/or titanium/tungsten. Other barrier regions may also be used.
- an antireflective layer 365 is disposed on the substrate surface 310a and has a graded index of refraction that assumes values in a range between about a first index of refraction associated with a first medium that is adjacent thereto (e.g., the substrate 305) and a second index of refraction associated with a second medium that is adjacent thereto.
- the second medium may be air or an encapsulation material 370 as shown in FIG. 3.
- the antireflective layer has a graded index of refraction that assumes values in a range between two different indices of refraction associated with different optical transmission mediums.
- abrupt index of refraction changes may be avoided, which may reduce the amount of light reflected internally at boundaries of one or both of the mediums.
- the antireflective layer 365 may comprise (SiC) x (SiO 2 ) ⁇ -x . In embodiments in which the substrate 305 is sapphire (Al 2 O 3 ), the antireflective layer 365 may comprise (Al 2 O 3 ) x (SiO ) 1-x . In other embodiments, the antireflective layer 365 may comprise a polymer, such as a sol-gel polymer combination supplied by Waveguide Solutions, Inc. of Charlotte, NC. In some embodiments of the present invention illustrated in FIG.
- the antireflective layer 365 may comprise a graded index of refraction that is based on a difference between first and second indices of refraction associated with first and second mediums respectively.
- the index of refraction of SiC may be about 2.6 and the index of refraction of sapphire (Al O 3 ), may be about 1.8.
- the index of refraction of an encapsulation material that may comprise plastic, glass, silicone gel, and/or other materials, may be about 1.5.
- the index of refraction of air may be about 1.0. As illustrated in FIG.
- the index of refraction for the antireflective layer 365 is plotted against the thickness x of the antireflective layer 365 in which the antireflective layer 365 is disposed between a SiC substrate and an encapsulation material and in which the antireflective layer 365 is disposed between a sapphire (Al 2 O 3 ) substrate and an encapsulation material. Similar graphs may be plotted for other substrate materials and/or encapsulation materials. In addition, graphs may be plotted for various substrate materials and no encapsulation material, i.e., embodiments in which the antireflection layer separates the substrate 305 from air.
- the graded index of refraction may be represented as a function f(x), where x represents a thickness of the antireflective layer beginning at a first surface of the antireflective layer 365 (e.g., a surface adjacent a first light transmission medium) and ending at a second surface of the antireflective layer 365 (e.g., a surface adjacent a second light transmission medium).
- f(x) may be linear to increase the amount of optical radiation that is transmitted out of the light-emitting device 300.
- FIG. 5 operations begin at block 500 where a substrate 305 is provided.
- a diode region i.e., layers 315, 320, and 325, is formed on the substrate surface 310b at block 505.
- An antireflective layer 365 that has a graded index of refraction is formed on the substrate surface 310a at block 510.
- the antireflective layer 365 may be formed on the substrate 305 using a deposition process such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and/or plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) according to some embodiments. In other embodiments, the antireflective layer 365 may be formed on the substrate 305 using a process such as thermal evaporation, e-beam evaporation, sputtering, spin-coating, sol-gel spin coating, and/or plating. Optionally, the encapsulation material 370 may be formed on the antireflective layer 365 and the substrate 305 at block 515.
- CVD chemical vapor deposition
- PECVD plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition
- the antireflective layer 365 may be formed on the substrate 305 using a process such as thermal evaporation, e-beam evaporation, sputtering, spin-coating, sol-gel spin coating, and/or plating.
- the encapsulation material 370 may be formed on the antire
- the antireflective layer 365 may be formed by applying a compound that comprises
- the substrate 305 may comprise, for example, SiC or sapphire (Al 2 O 3 ) as discussed above, in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention.
- the value of x may be about 1.0 at a beginning of the application time interval and about 0 at the end of the application time interval.
- the value of x may be about 1.0 at a beginning of the application time interval and about 0 at the end of the application time interval.
- a light-emitting device 700 in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, may provide for the extraction of light through a light extraction layer, such as a transparent electrode.
- the light-emitting device 700 comprises a substrate 705 and a diode region disposed thereon, which comprises an n- type layer 710, an active region 715, and a p-type layer 720.
- the light-emitting device 700 further comprises a light extraction layer 725 that is disposed on the p-type layer 720 and may comprise a thin, at least partially transparent, ohmic contact, such as platinum.
- the index of refraction of platinum may be about 2.33.
- the diode region is configured to emit optical radiation out through the light extraction layer 725 upon application of a voltage across the diode region using, for example, ohmic contacts 730 and 735, respectively.
- an antireflective layer 740 such as, for example, the antireflective layer 365 discussed above with respect to FIG. 3, is disposed on the light extraction layer 725 and has a graded index of refraction that assumes values in a range between about a first index of refraction associated with a first medium that is adjacent thereto (e.g., the light extraction layer 725) and a second index of refraction associated with a second medium that is adjacent thereto (e.g., air, encapsulation material, such as plastic, glass, silicone gel, etc.)
- the antireflective layer may be used to transition between different mediums to avoid abrupt changes in the index of refraction, which may reduce the amount of light reflected internally at boundaries of one or both of the mediums.
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