IP Library Granted Patent US 10,520,164
Granted Patent B2
US 10,520,164 · App. 15/547,789 · Granted Dec 31, 2019

Device for converting the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation

Inventors: I-Hsin Lin-Lefebvre (Regensburg, DE); Reinhard Streitel (Laaber, DE); Michael Schmal (Schmidmühlen, DE); Urs Heine (Regensburg, DE); Eric Lefebvre (Regensburg, DE); Markus Keidler (Pettendorf, DE)
Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
F21V9/30B32B7/12B32B15/04F21V7/05
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Patent No.
US 10,520,164
App. No.
15/547,789
Granted
Dec 31, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A device for converting the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation is disclosed. In an embodiment the device includes a carrier, a conversion layer configured to at least partly convert a wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation and an intermediate layer, wherein the conversion layer is connected to the carrier via the intermediate layer, and wherein the intermediate layer, at least in partial regions, includes a solid layer and a connection layer.

Claims (39)

1. A device for converting a wavelength of electromagnetic radiation, the device comprising:

a carrier;

a conversion layer configured to at least partly convert the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation; and

an intermediate layer, wherein the conversion layer is connected to the carrier via the intermediate layer,

wherein the intermediate layer, at least in partial regions, comprises a solid layer and a connection layer, and

wherein the solid layer comprises at least one layer composed of aluminum oxide, AlON, AlN tantalum oxide, tantalum oxynitride, titanium dioxide or zinc oxide.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the solid layer comprises a first solid layer, a second solid layer, and a third solid layer, wherein the first solid layer faces the conversion layer, wherein the second solid layer is arranged on the first solid layer, wherein the third solid layer is arranged on the second solid layer, and wherein the third solid layer faces the carrier.

3. The device according to claim 2 , wherein the first solid layer has a smaller coefficient of thermal expansion than the second solid layer, and/or wherein the first solid layer and the third solid layer are thinner than the second solid layer.

4. The device according to claim 2 , wherein the first solid layer and the third solid layer comprise Al 2 O 3 , and the second solid layer comprises AlON or AlN.

5. The device according to claim 1 , further comprising a mirror layer arranged between the conversion layer and the intermediate layer.

6. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the solid layer is arranged in a plurality of partial surface regions, and wherein the connection layer is arranged in further partial surface regions.

7. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the connection layer comprises a metal layer or an adhesive layer, and wherein the metal layer covers surfaces of solid layers of partial regions and further partial regions.

8. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the connection layer comprises a metal layer and an adhesive layer, and wherein the adhesive layer is arranged on the metal layer in further partial regions.

9. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the connection layer comprises an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer comprises a filling material, and wherein the filling material is a white-reflecting filling material.

10. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the conversion layer comprises two layers that comprises a ceramic material, wherein a first layer of the two layers is a converting layer, and a second layer of the two layers is a non-converting layer, wherein the conversion layer is free of polymer material, and wherein the ceramic material in the first layer comprises a sintering material.

11. A device for converting a wavelength of electromagnetic radiation, the device comprising:

a carrier;

a conversion layer configured to at least partly convert the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation; and

an intermediate layer, wherein the conversion layer is connected to the carrier via the intermediate layer,

wherein the intermediate layer, at least in partial regions, comprises a solid layer and a connection layer,

wherein the conversion layer and the intermediate layer are transmissive to the electromagnetic radiation,

wherein the connection layer and the carrier form a frame arranged on the solid layer, and

wherein the frame circumvents a transmission region of the conversion layer and of the intermediate layer.

12. The device according to claim 11 , wherein the solid layer comprises at least one layer composed of AlN, indium tin oxide, aluminum oxide, AlON, tantalum oxide, tantalum oxynitride, titanium dioxide, or zinc oxide.

13. The device according to claim 11 , wherein the solid layer comprises a first solid layer, a second solid layer, and a third solid layer, wherein the first solid layer faces the conversion layer, wherein the second solid layer is arranged on the first solid layer, wherein the third solid layer is arranged on the second solid layer, and wherein the third solid layer faces the carrier.

14. The device according to claim 13 , wherein the first and third solid layers comprise Al 2 O 3 , and the second solid layer comprises AlON or AlN.

15. A device for converting a wavelength of electromagnetic radiation, the device comprising:

a carrier;

a conversion layer configured to at least partly convert the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation; and

an intermediate layer,

wherein the conversion layer is connected to the carrier via the intermediate layer,

wherein the intermediate layer comprises a solid layer in predetermined first partial surface areas of the intermediate layer,

wherein the solid layer connects the conversion layer with the intermediate layer in the first partial surface areas, and

wherein the intermediate layer is free of the solid layer in further partial surface areas.

16. The device of claim 15 , wherein the intermediate layer further comprises a connection layer between the solid layer and the carrier, and wherein the connection layer comprises a metal layer.

17. The device according to claim 15 , wherein in the solid layer comprises a first solid layer, a second solid layer, and a third solid layer, wherein the first solid layer faces the conversion layer, wherein the second solid layer is arranged on the first solid layer, wherein the third solid layer is arranged on the second solid layer, and wherein the third solid layer faces the carrier.

18. The device according to claim 17 , wherein the first and third solid layers comprise Al 2 O 3 , and the second solid layer comprises AlON or AlN.

19. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the solid layer comprises at least one layer composed of AlON, tantalum oxide, tantalum oxynitride or titanium dioxide.

20. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the solid layer comprises at least one layer consisting essentially of aluminum oxide, AlON, AlN, tantalum oxide, tantalum oxynitride, titanium dioxide or zinc oxide.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 3, 2020
From: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
To: OSRAM OLED GMBH
Reel/Frame 051464/0504 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE APPLICATION SERIAL NUMBER ON THE ORIGINAL ASSIGNMENT PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 043475 FRAME 0333. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Oct 13, 2017
From: LIN-LEFEBVRE, I-HSIN, DR; STREITEL, REINHARD, DR; SCHMAL, MICHAEL; HEINE, URS, DR; LEFEBVRE, ERIC, DR; KEIDLER, MARKUS, DR
To: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
Reel/Frame 044205/0085 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 1, 2017
From: LIN-LEFEBVRE, I-HSIN; STREITEL, REINHARD; SCHMAL, MICHAEL; HEINE, URS; LEFEBVRE, ERIC; KEIDLER, MARKUS
To: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
Reel/Frame 043475/0333 →