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Granted Patent B2
US 10,192,858 · App. 15/911,693 · Granted Jan 29, 2019

Light emitting structure

Inventors: John A. Higginson (Santa Clara, CA); Andreas Bibl (Los Altos, CA); Hsin-Hua Hu (Los Altos, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H01L25/167H01L23/3171H01L25/0753H01L25/50H01L27/1214H01L27/1248H01L27/1262H01L33/005H01L33/06H01L33/42H01L33/44H01L33/54H01L33/62H01L21/56H01L2924/0002H01L2933/005H01L2933/0016H01L2933/0025H01L2933/0033H01L2933/0066
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Patent No.
US 10,192,858
App. No.
15/911,693
Granted
Jan 29, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and structure for receiving a micro device on a receiving substrate are disclosed. A micro device such as a micro LED device is punched-through a passivation layer covering a conductive layer on the receiving substrate, and the passivation layer is hardened. In an embodiment the micro LED device is punched-through a B-staged thermoset material. In an embodiment the micro LED device is punched-through a thermoplastic material.

Claims (26)

1. A display comprising:

a substrate;

a first bottom electrode line on the substrate;

a passivation layer over the display substrate;

a first plurality of vertical semiconductor-based light emitting diodes (LEDs) coupled with the first bottom electrode line and embedded within the passivation layer such that the passivation layer laterally surrounds a quantum well within each of the first plurality of vertical semiconductor-based LEDs;

a second plurality of vertical semiconductor-based LEDs embedded within the passivation layer such that the passivation layer laterally surrounds a quantum well within each of the second plurality of vertical semiconductor-based LEDs, wherein the second plurality of vertical semiconductor-based LEDs and the first plurality of vertical semiconductor-based LEDs share a same vertical semiconductor-based LED; and

a first top electrode line in electrical contact with the second plurality of vertical semiconductor-based LEDs.

2. The display of claim 1 , wherein the first bottom electrode line is coupled with a driving circuit.

3. The display of claim 2 , wherein the first plurality of vertical semiconductor-based light emitting diodes (LEDs) is designed for a first color emission.

4. The display of claim 2 , wherein the first top electrode line is formed of a transparent conductive oxide material and is directly over the second plurality of vertical semiconductor-based LEDs.

5. The display of claim 2 , further comprising one or more transparent conductor layers directly over and electrically connecting the second plurality of vertical semiconductor-based LEDs to the first top electrode layer.

6. The display of claim 3 , wherein the second plurality of vertical semiconductor-based light emitting diodes (LEDs) includes the same vertical semiconductor-based LED designed for the first color emission and a second LED designed for a second color emission different from the first color emission.

7. The display of claim 6 , wherein the first color emission is blue, and the second color emission is green.

8. The display of claim 6 , wherein the second LED designed for the second color emission is coupled with a second bottom electrode line on the substrate.

9. The display of claim 8 , wherein the first plurality of vertical semiconductor-based LEDs is bonded to first bottom electrode line with a corresponding plurality of bonding layers, and the second LED is bonded to the second bottom electrode line with a corresponding bonding layer.

10. The display of claim 9 , wherein each bonding layer is an alloy bonding layer.

11. The display of claim 10 , wherein each alloy bonding layer is an alloy of a first bonding layer on a corresponding vertical semiconductor-based LED with a second bonding layer on a corresponding first or second bottom electrode line.

12. The display of claim 11 , wherein the alloy bonding layer has a higher melting temperature than both of the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer.

13. The display of claim 1 , wherein the passivation layer comprises a thermoset material.

14. The display of claim 1 , wherein the first top electrode line is connected to ground.

15. The display of claim 1 , wherein each vertical semiconductor-based LED comprises sidewalls and a conformal dielectric barrier layer spanning along the sidewalls.

16. The display of claim 15 , wherein the conformal dielectric barrier layer is 50-600 angstroms thick.

17. The display of claim 1 , wherein the display substrate has a pixel density of greater than 300 pixels per inch.

18. The display of claim 17 , wherein each vertical semiconductor-based LED has a maximum width of 1 to 100 μm.

19. The display of claim 1 , further comprising a second passivation layer over the substrate and underneath the passivation layer.

20. The display of claim 19 , wherein the second passivation layer comprises a material selected form the group consisting of silicon oxide (SiO 2 ), silicon nitride (SiN x ), poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), benzocyclobutene (BCB), polyimide, and polyester.

Continuity (5)
Continuation 15405042 · Jan 12, 2017
Continuation 15008372 · Jan 27, 2016
Continuation 14563763 · Dec 8, 2014
Division 13562184 · Jul 30, 2012
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