IP Library Granted Patent US 10,418,530
Granted Patent B2
US 10,418,530 · App. 15/531,349 · Granted Sep 17, 2019

Optoelectronic semiconductor chip, method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor chip, conversion element and phosphor for a conversion element

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Patent No.
US 10,418,530
App. No.
15/531,349
Granted
Sep 17, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optoelectronic semiconductor chip having a semiconductor body ( 1 ) that is suitable for emitting electromagnetic radiation in a first wavelength range from a radiation exit face ( 3 ) is specified. Furthermore, the semiconductor chip comprises a ceramic or monocrystalline conversion platelet ( 6 ) that is suitable for converting electromagnetic radiation in the first wavelength range into electromagnetic radiation in a second wavelength range, which is different from the first wavelength range, and a wavelength-converting joining layer ( 7 ) that connects the conversion platelet ( 6 ) to the radiation exit face ( 3 ), wherein the wavelength-converting joining layer ( 7 ) has luminescent material particles ( 4 ) that are suitable for converting radiation in the first wavelength range into radiation in a third wavelength range, which is different from the first wavelength range and the second wavelength range. The wavelength-converting joining layer ( 7 ) furthermore has a thickness of no more than 30 micrometers. A method for fabricating an optoelectronic semiconductor chip, a further semiconductor chip, conversion element and luminescent material are specified.

Claims (24)

1. An optoelectronic semiconductor chip comprising:

a semiconductor body suitable for emitting electromagnetic radiation in a first wavelength region from a radiation exit surface;

a ceramic or monocrystalline conversion plate suitable for converting electromagnetic radiation in the first wavelength region into electromagnetic radiation in a second wavelength region, which differs from the first wavelength region; and

a wavelength-converting joining layer that bonds the conversion plate to the radiation exit surface,

wherein the wavelength-converting joining layer comprises phosphor particles which are suitable for converting radiation in the first wavelength region into radiation in a third wavelength region, which differs from the first wavelength region and from the second wavelength region,

wherein the phosphor particles have the general chemical formula Sr x Ca 1-x AlSiN 3 :Eu, where 0.8<x<1, where between 0.1% and 5% of the Sr, Ca and/or Sr/Ca lattice sites are replaced by Eu, and where in X-ray crystallography, the phosphor exhibits in the orthorhombic description a reflex having the Miller index 1 2 1,

wherein the wavelength-converting joining layer has a thickness between at least 5 micrometers and at most 30 micrometers; and

wherein the concentration of the phosphor particles in the wavelength-converting joining layer is between 50 wt % and 70 wt %.

2. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in the claim 1 , wherein the wavelength-converting joining layer has a maximum thickness of 10 micrometers.

3. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the radiation in the first wavelength region is blue light, the radiation in the second wavelength region is green or green-yellow light, and the radiation in the third wavelength region is red light.

4. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the phosphor particles are doped with europium as activator, where the concentration of the europium equals at least 1 mol %.

5. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 , wherein phosphor particles are doped with europium as activator, where the concentration of the europium equals at least 1 mol %, and

wherein and the wavelength-converting joining layer has a maximum thickness of 15 micrometers.

6. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip as claimed in claim 1 , which emits mixed-color radiation composed of radiation in the first, the second and the third wavelength region, wherein a color location of the mixed-color radiation lies in the warm-white region.

7. An optoelectronic semiconductor chip comprising:

a semiconductor body suitable for emitting electromagnetic radiation in a first wavelength region from a radiation exit surface;

a ceramic or monocrystalline conversion plate suitable for converting electromagnetic radiation in the first wavelength region into electromagnetic radiation in a second wavelength region, which differs from the first wavelength region; and

a wavelength-converting joining layer that bonds the conversion plate to the radiation exit surface,

wherein the wavelength-converting joining layer comprises phosphor particles which are suitable for converting radiation in the first wavelength region into radiation in a third wavelength region, which differs from the first wavelength region and from the second wavelength region,

wherein the wavelength-converting joining layer has a thickness between at least 5 micrometers and at most 30 micrometers, and

wherein the phosphor particles have the general chemical formula Sr x Ca 1-x AlSiN 3 :Eu, where 0.8<x<1, where between 0.1% and 5% of the Sr, Ca and/or Sr/Ca lattice sites are replaced by Eu, and where in X-ray crystallography, the phosphor exhibits in the orthorhombic description a reflex having the Miller index 1 2 1, where the concentration of the europium equals at least 1 mol %, and

wherein the concentration of the phosphor particles in the wavelength-converting joining layer is between 50 wt % and 70 wt %.

8. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor particles are doped with europium as activator, where the concentration of the europium is at least 3 mol %.

9. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip according to claim 7 , wherein the phosphor particles are doped with europium as activator, where the concentration of the europium is at least 3 mol %.

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 Aug 25, 2017
From: WINDISCH, REINER; SORG, JOERG ERICH; WIRTH, RALPH
To: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
Reel/Frame 043407/0834 →