IP Library Granted Patent US 8,710,512
Granted Patent B2
US 8,710,512 · App. 12/922,577 · Granted Apr 29, 2014

Optoelectronic semiconductor chip comprising a reflective layer

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Patent No.
US 8,710,512
App. No.
12/922,577
Granted
Apr 29, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optoelectronic semiconductor chip, comprising a first contact location ( 1 ) and a second contact location ( 2 ), and a reflective layer ( 3 ), which is directly electrically conductively connected to the second contact location. The reflective layer contains a metal that tends toward migration, and the reflective layer is arranged in such a way that a migration path ( 4 ) for the metal can form between the second and the first contact location. A means ( 6 ) which, during operation of the semiconductor chip, forms an electric field that counteracts the migration of the metal is provided at the semiconductor chip.

Claims (25)

1. An optoelectronic semiconductor chip comprising:

a semiconductor body, having a top side with a first contact location and an underside with a second contact location;

a reflective layer in direct contact with the semiconductor body and directly electrically conductively connected to the second contact location, wherein the reflective layer contains a metal that tends toward migration;

the semiconductor chip having a chip sidewall extending between the top side and the underside of the semiconductor body; and

an electrically conductive material arranged at the chip sidewall, the electrically conductive material being directly electrically conductively connected to the second contact location and the reflective layer;

wherein said electrically conductive material comprises a radiation-transmissive, conductive oxide, and

wherein the radiation-transmissive conductive oxide forming the electrically conductive material arranged at the chip sidewall is in direct contact with the reflective layer.

2. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a trench is structured into the semiconductor body around the first contact location from the top side of the semiconductor body.

3. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the trench severs an active zone of the optoelectronic semiconductor chip.

4. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the trench extends to the reflective layer.

5. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an electrically insulating material is arranged between the chip sidewall and the electrically conductive material, the electrically insulating material preventing contact from being made with the semiconductor body by the electrically conductive material.

6. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, during operation of the optoelectronic semiconductor chip:

the first contact location is at a first electrical potential;

the second contact location, the reflective layer and the electrically conductive material are at a common second electrical potential; and

the first electrical potential is different than the common second electrical potential.

7. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the reflective layer contains silver or consists of silver.

8. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the reflective layer is structured such that the underside of the semiconductor body is free of the reflective layer in a region of a projection of the first contact location onto the underside.

9. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the optoelectronic semiconductor chip comprises a thin-film semiconductor chip.

10. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 9 , wherein a growth substrate is removed from the semiconductor body and the semiconductor body is fixed on a carrier by the second contact layer.

11. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein a means which, during operation of the optoelectronic semiconductor chip, forms an electric field that counteracts the migration of the metal is provided at the optoelectronic semiconductor chip; and

wherein the means is formed with the electrically conductive material which extends between the first and second contact locations.

12. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an underside of the reflective layer which faces away from the semiconductor body is free of the radiation-transmissive conductive oxide.

13. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 , wherein only the top surface of the reflective layer which faces the semiconductor body is in contact with the electrically conductive material comprising the radiation-transmissive conductive oxide.

14. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the reflective layer projects beyond the chip sidewalls.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 3, 2020
From: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
To: OSRAM OLED GMBH
Reel/Frame 051467/0906 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 13, 2010
From: ALBRECHT, TONY; WEIMAR, ANDREAS; KASPRZAK-ZABLOCKA, ANNA; EICHINGER, CHRISTIAN; NEVELING, KERSTIN
To: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
Reel/Frame 025495/0808 →