IP Library › Granted Patent US 11,973,318
Granted Patent B2
US 11,973,318 · App. 17/499,847 · Granted Apr 30, 2024

Light emitting device and projector

Inventors: Takafumi Noda (Matsumoto, JP); Shunsuke Ishizawa (Tokyo-to, JP); Katsumi Kishino (Akiruno, JP)
Assignees: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION; SOPHIA SCHOOL CORPORATION
H01S5/34333H01S5/11H01S5/185H01S5/34346G03B21/2033H01S5/0218H01S5/04257
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Patent No.
US 11,973,318
App. No.
17/499,847
Granted
Apr 30, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A light emitting device includes a substrate, and a laminated structure provided to the substrate, and including a columnar part, wherein the columnar part includes a first GaN layer having a first conductivity type, a second GaN layer having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, and a light emitting layer disposed between the first GaN layer and the second GaN layer, the first GaN layer is disposed between the substrate and the light emitting layer, the light emitting layer has a first well layer as an InGaN layer, the first GaN layer has a c-face region, the first GaN layer has a crystal structure of a cubical crystal, and has a first layer constituting the c-face region, and a second layer as a GaN layer having a crystal structure of a hexagonal crystal is disposed between the first layer and the first well layer.

Claims (40)

1. A light emitting device comprising:

a substrate; and

a laminated structure provided to the substrate, and including a columnar part, wherein

the columnar part includes

a first GaN layer having a first conductivity type,

a second GaN layer having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, and

a light emitting layer disposed between the first GaN layer and the second GaN layer,

the first GaN layer is disposed between the substrate and the light emitting layer,

the light emitting layer has a first well layer as an InGaN layer,

the first GaN layer has a c-face region,

the first GaN layer has a crystal structure of a cubical crystal, and has a first layer constituting the c-face region, and

a second layer as a GaN layer having a crystal structure of a hexagonal crystal is disposed between the first layer and the first well layer.

2. The light emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein

the light emitting layer includes

a second well layer as an InGaN layer, and

a first barrier layer disposed between the first well layer and the second well layer,

first barrier layer is a GaN layer,

first well layer is disposed between the substrate and the second well layer,

first barrier layer includes

a third layer and a fourth layer each having a crystal structure of a hexagonal crystal, and

a fifth layer which is disposed between the third layer and the fourth layer, and has a crystal structure of a cubical crystal,

the third layer is disposed between the first well layer and the fifth layer, and

the fourth layer is disposed between the second well layer and the fifth layer.

3. The light emitting device according to claim 2 , wherein

the light emitting layer has a second barrier layer disposed between the second well layer and the second GaN layer,

the second barrier layer is a GaN layer,

the second barrier layer includes

a sixth layer and a seventh layer each having a crystal structure of a hexagonal crystal, and

an eighth layer which is disposed between the sixth layer and the seventh layer, and has a crystal structure of a cubical crystal,

the sixth layer is disposed between the second well layer and the eighth layer, and

the seventh layer is disposed between the second GaN layer and the eighth layer.

4. The light emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein

the second layer has a c-face region and a facet face region, and

an area of the light emitting layer disposed in the c-face region of the second layer is larger than an area of the light emitting layer disposed in the facet face region of the second layer.

5. The light emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein

the second layer has the first conductivity type.

6. The light emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein

the second layer is a barrier layer.

7. A projector comprising:

the light emitting device according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 13, 2021
From: NODA, TAKAFUMI; ISHIZAWA, SHUNSUKE; KISHINO, KATSUMI
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION; SOPHIA SCHOOL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057771/0885 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-172418 · Oct 13, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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