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Granted Patent B2
US 9,899,567 · App. 15/244,724 · Granted Feb 20, 2018

Light emitting device

Inventors: Hwan Hee Jeong (Seoul, KR); Sang Youl Lee (Seoul, KR); June O Song (Seoul, KR); Kwang Ki Choi (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
H01L33/22H01L33/005H01L33/36H01L33/38H01L33/405H01L33/42H01L33/60H01L33/62H01L2224/45139H01L2224/48091H01L2924/12032H01L2933/0016
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Patent No.
US 9,899,567
App. No.
15/244,724
Granted
Feb 20, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A light emitting device includes a metal layer, a light emitting structure, an electrode disposed on a first upper portion of a second conductive type semiconductor layer, a current spreading portion disposed on a second upper portion of the second conductive type semiconductor layer, an adhesive layer disposed under a first conductive type semiconductor layer, an insulating layer disposed between the electrode and the adhesive layer, a passivation layer disposed on a side surface of the light emitting structure and on a at least one upper surface of the light emitting structure, and a reflective layer disposed between the metal layer and the first conductive type semiconductor layer.

Claims (50)

1. A light emitting device comprising:

a light emitting structure comprising a first semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second semiconductor layer;

a first conductive member, and a second conductive member comprising a first portion and a second portion disposed on the light emitting structure; and

a conductive layer disposed on the first conductive member and the first portion of the second conductive member;

wherein the conductive layer is directly in contact with an upper surface of the first portion, an upper surface of the second portion and an upper surface of the light emitting structure,

wherein the first conductive member has a multi-layered structure having a first layer and a second layer, and

wherein the first layer is a lowermost layer of the conductive member and the second layer is directly in-contact with the first layer which has Ag.

2. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first conductive member, the first portion and the second portion has an inclined surface.

3. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein an upper surface of the conductive layer has a roughness.

4. The light emitting device of claim 3 , wherein at least one portion of the upper surface of the light emitting structure is exposed from the second conductive member.

5. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein a width of the first conductive member is wider than a width of a contact region between the conductive layer and the light emitting structure.

6. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the first conductive member comprises Ti.

7. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the first portion and the second portion comprise ITO (indium tin oxide).

8. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the conductive layer comprises Al and Ni.

9. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein a distance between a top surface of the conductive layer and a top surface of the light emitting structure is longer than a distance between a top surface of the first conductive member and the top surface of the light emitting structure.

10. A light emitting device comprising:

a transparent layer;

a light emitting structure on the transparent layer;

a first conductive member, and a second conductive member comprising a first portion and a second portion disposed on the light emitting structure;

a conductive layer disposed on the first conductive member, and the first portion and the second portions of the second conductive member;

wherein at least one of the first conductive member, the first portion and the second portion has an inclined surface,

wherein the conductive layer is directly contact with an upper surface of the first portion, an upper surface of the second portion and an upper surface of the light emitting structure,

wherein the first conductive member has a multi-layered structure which has a first layer and a second layer,

wherein the first layer is a lowermost layer of the conductive member and the second layer is directly in-contact with the first layer which has Ag, and

wherein the transparent layer comprises a first sub-layer and a second sub-layer on the first sub-layer.

11. The light emitting device of claim 10 , wherein the first sub-layer comprises Ti and the second sub-layer comprises SiO 2 and the second sub-layer vertically overlaps with the first conductive member.

12. The light emitting device of claim 10 , wherein an upper surface of the second sub-layer is lower than the upper surface of the light emitting structure.

13. The light emitting device of claim 10 , wherein an upper surface of the conductive layer is higher than an upper surface of the first conductive member, the upper surface of the first portion and the upper surface of the second portion.

14. The light emitting device of claim 10 , wherein a side surface of the light emitting structure has an inclined surface.

15. The light emitting device of claim 10 , wherein a width of the first conductive member is wider than a width of contact region between the conductive layer and the light emitting structure.

16. A light emitting device comprising:

a first electrode comprising one of Au and Ni;

a transparent layer;

a light emitting structure on the transparent layer;

a first conductive member, and a second conductive member comprising a first portion and a second portion disposed on the light emitting structure;

a conductive layer disposed on the first conductive member, and the first portion and the second portion of the second conductive member;

wherein at least one of the first conductive member, the first portion and the second portion has an inclined surface,

wherein the conductive layer is directly contact with an upper surface of the first portion, an upper surface of the second portion and an upper surface of the light emitting structure,

wherein the first conductive member has a multi-layered structure which has a first layer and a second layer,

wherein the first layer is a lowermost layer of the conductive member and the second layer is directly in-contact with the first layer has Ag,

wherein the transparent layer has a first sub-layer comprising Ti and a second sub-layer comprising SiO 2 on the first sub-layer,

wherein the second sub-layer vertically overlaps with the first conductive member,

wherein an upper surface of the conductive layer is higher than an upper surface of the first conductive member, the first portion and the second portion,

wherein the conductive layer is spaced apart from an edge of a top surface of the light emitting structure,

wherein a side surface of the light emitting structure has an inclined surface, and

wherein at least one portion of the upper surface of the light emitting structure is exposed from the conductive layer.

17. The light emitting device of claim 16 , wherein the conductive layer comprises Al and Ni.

18. The light emitting device of claim 16 , wherein a distance between a top surface of the conductive layer and the top surface of the light emitting structure is longer than a distance between a top surface of the first conductive member and the top surface of the light emitting structure.

19. The light emitting device of claim 16 , wherein the first portion and the second portion comprise ITO (indium tin oxide).

20. The light emitting device of claim 16 , wherein a width of the first conductive member is wider than a width of contact region between the conductive layer and the light emitting structure.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 25, 2021
From: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
To: SUZHOU LEKIN SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 056366/0335 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2010-0021289 · Mar 10, 2010 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 14179420 · Feb 12, 2014
Continuation 12943628 · Nov 10, 2010
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