Summary of the invention
The present invention provides a kind of light-emitting diode and manufacturing approach thereof, makes the problem that the light-emitting diode area reduces with the manufacturing approach that solves prior art p, n electrode.
For addressing the above problem, light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit of the present invention comprises: the luminous extension lamination on substrate and the substrate, and said luminous extension lamination comprises successively: n type boundary layer; Luminescent layer on the n type boundary layer; P type boundary layer on the luminescent layer, wherein,
Said p type boundary layer is identical with the area of said luminescent layer, n type boundary layer; Has the p electrode on the said p type boundary layer; The back side of said substrate has the external electrode layer; The sidewall of said n type boundary layer is electrically connected with said external electrode layer through conductive part.
Alternatively, the concentration impurity ion at said n type boundary layer edge is greater than the concentration impurity ion at center.
Correspondingly, the present invention also provides a kind of manufacturing approach of light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit, comprising:
On substrate, form luminous extension lamination, comprise successively: on substrate, form n type boundary layer; On said n type boundary layer, form luminescent layer; On said luminescent layer, form p type boundary layer;
Substrate to having said luminous extension lamination carries out scribing;
Substrate back after the scribing and external electrode layer is bonding, and the sidewall of the n type boundary layer after scribing formation conductive part, said conductive part makes said n type boundary layer be electrically connected with said external electrode layer;
On the p type boundary layer after the scribing, form the p electrode.
Alternatively, the concentration impurity ion at said n type boundary layer edge is greater than the concentration impurity ion at center.
Compared with prior art, above-mentioned light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit and manufacturing approach thereof have the following advantages:
1) make n type boundary layer be electrically connected through conductive part with the external electrode layer; Bear the conducting function of n electrode with the external electrode layer; Thereby the entire area of p type boundary layer and n type boundary layer all is positioned at the luminous zone, has increased the actual light-emitting area of light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit;
2) some manufacturing process and the scribing process of light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit are integrated, thereby need not to adopt etch process, saved manufacturing cost;
3) in the possibility, said n type boundary layer sidewall has than high impurity concentration, makes that the inner CURRENT DISTRIBUTION of light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit is more even, has improved the luminous efficiency of light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit.
Embodiment
Inventor of the present invention finds that through the analysis to the prior art method for manufacturing light-emitting prior art all is produced on p, n electrode with one side when the p that makes light-emitting diode, n electrode.For p, n electrode being produced on one side, the area of just having to sacrifice a part of n type boundary layer is to settle the n electrode.Thereby the actual light-emitting area of light-emitting diode reduces.And, settle the part n type boundary layer of n electrode to expose for making, in manufacture process, also need introduce etch process, so also caused the raising of manufacturing cost.
In view of this, inventor of the present invention is electrically connected said n type boundary layer through the conductive part that is formed at n type boundary layer sidewall with the external electrode layer of substrate back, bear the conducting function of n electrode with said external electrode layer.By this kind mode, make p, n electrode be positioned at different facial, and all need not to take each self-corresponding p type, n type boundary layer, so that actual light-emitting area increases.In addition, inventor of the present invention is the scribing process in the chip manufacturing also, makes the sidewall of n type boundary layer expose, and need not as prior art, to adopt etch process.Thereby the cost of making light-emitting diode reduces greatly.
With reference to shown in Figure 2, a kind of execution mode of method for manufacturing LED chip of the present invention comprises:
Step s1 forms luminous extension lamination on substrate, comprise successively: on substrate, form n type boundary layer; On said n type boundary layer, form luminescent layer; On said luminescent layer, form p type boundary layer;
Step s2 forms conductive layer on said luminous extension lamination;
Step s3 carries out scribing to the substrate with said luminous extension lamination and conductive layer;
Step s4, substrate back after the scribing and external electrode layer is bonding;
Step s5, the sidewall of the n type boundary layer after scribing forms conductive part, and said conductive part makes said n type boundary layer be electrically connected with said external electrode layer;
Step s6 forms the p electrode on the conductive layer after the scribing.
Technology below in conjunction with blue light-emitting diode further specifies the execution mode of above-mentioned method for manufacturing light-emitting for example.
With reference to shown in Figure 3, on substrate 100, form resilient coating 200.Said substrate 1 00 can be Sapphire Substrate or silicon carbide substrates.The method that forms said resilient coating 200 can be metal-organic chemical vapor deposition equipment (MOCVD).The material of said resilient coating 200 can be GaN.
Shown in Fig. 4 a, on said resilient coating 200, form n type boundary layer 301.The distribution of concentration impurity ion can be uniformly in the said n type boundary layer 301, perhaps also can be uneven.Shown in Fig. 4 b, in one embodiment, the concentration impurity ion at the edge of said n type boundary layer 301 is greater than the concentration impurity ion at center.
Shown in Fig. 4 c and 4d, the step that forms said concentration impurity ion n type pockety boundary layer 301 can comprise:
At first, on said resilient coating 200, form the first boundary layer 301a.The method that forms the said first boundary layer 301a can be metal-organic chemical vapor deposition equipment, and the material of the said first boundary layer 301a can be GaN.
Then, the said first boundary layer 301a is carried out the n type ion injection first time, form a n type boundary layer 301b.At this moment, the foreign ion of a said n type boundary layer 301b distributes still uniformly, and promptly the concentration impurity ion of margin and center is identical or basic identical.Alternatively, after the said n type ion injection first time, can also carry out annealing in process one time.。
Then, cover a M of mask portion at a said n type boundary layer 301b, the said mask M of portion has hidden the core of a n type boundary layer 301b, only exposes the marginal portion.The said mask M of portion can be soft mask, for example photoresist; Perhaps also can be hard mask, for example silicon nitride hard mask.
Behind the M of coverage mask portion, a said n type boundary layer 301b is proceeded n type ion inject, form final n type boundary layer 301.Alternatively, after the said n type ion injection second time, can also carry out annealing in process one time.
In the said process that the second time, ion injected, because the core of a n type boundary layer 301b has the M of mask portion to hide, thereby the concentration impurity ion of core does not change.And relatively, the marginal portion is because outside being exposed to, after the said ion injection second time, the concentration impurity ion of marginal portion increases.Consequently, the concentration impurity ion of edge and core just presents the distribution like Fig. 4 b.
With reference to shown in Figure 5, on said n type boundary layer 301, form luminescent layer 302.The method that forms said luminescent layer 302 can be metal-organic chemical vapor deposition equipment.The material of said luminescent layer 302 is GaN or InGaN.Particularly, said luminescent layer 302 can be single quantum well (SQW) or MQW (MQW) structure.
Continue with reference to shown in Figure 5, on said luminescent layer 302, form p type boundary layer 303.Forming said p type boundary layer 303 steps can comprise:
At first, on said luminescent layer 302, form the second contact surface layer.The method that forms said second contact surface layer can be metal-organic chemical vapor deposition equipment, and the material of said second contact surface layer can be GaN.
Then, said second contact surface layer is carried out p type ion inject, form p type boundary layer 303.
After forming p type boundary layer 303, the luminous extension lamination 300 of light-emitting diode has just completed, and it comprises successively: n type boundary layer; Luminescent layer on the n type boundary layer; P type boundary layer on the luminescent layer.
With reference to shown in Figure 6, on said luminous extension lamination 300, form conductive layer 400.Specifically, depositing electrically conductive film on said p type boundary layer 303.The material of said conductive film can be Sn
xO
y, SnO for example
2Perhaps also can be other conductive film materials, for example tin indium oxide (ITO), indium zinc oxide (IZO), zinc oxide aluminum (AZO) etc.
After forming conductive layer 400, the substrate 100 with luminous extension lamination 300 and conductive layer 400 is carried out scribing.Said scribing can be adopted traditional mechanical scribing technology, for example adopts the scribing technology of diamond pen or diamond blade; Perhaps, also can adopt laserscribing, for example Ultra-Violet Laser scribing technology; Perhaps, also can adopt water to lead laser (Water Jet Guided Laser) scribing technology.For the quite hard substrate of materials such as sapphire, laser scribing or water are led laserscribing and are had better scribing effect.
With reference to shown in Figure 7, after scribing, luminous extension lamination 300 and conductive layer 400 on the substrate 100 all have area identical.And via scribing, the sidewall of each layer also comes out.
With reference to shown in Figure 8, after scribing, the back side and the metallic plate 500 of substrate 100 is bonding, and said metallic plate 500 is as the external electrode layer of light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit.The back side of said substrate 100 is the opposite face of corresponding said luminous extension lamination on the substrate.
After the back side of substrate 100 is adhered to said metallic plate 500, at each layer sidewall coated with conductive material from substrate 100 to n type boundary layers 301 places.Said electric conducting material can be elargol, aluminium glue or silver-colored aluminium glue.The electric conducting material of said coating is promptly as conductive part 600.
With the elargol is example, and after coating, said n type boundary layer 301 has just been set up with said metallic plate 500 and has been electrically connected.Said metallic plate 500 has then been born the function that external power source is communicated with n type boundary layer 301, has also promptly born the conducting function of n electrode originally.
Continue with reference to shown in Figure 8, after this, on conductive layer 400, form the p electrode.Particularly, definition p electrode zone on said conductive layer 400, and at p electrode zone sputter formation p electrode.
So far, light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit forms, and it comprises: the luminous extension lamination 300 on substrate 100 and the substrate 100, and said luminous extension lamination 300 comprises successively: n type boundary layer 301; Luminescent layer 302 on the n type boundary layer 301; P type boundary layer 303 on the luminescent layer 302, wherein,
Said p type boundary layer 303 is identical with the area of said luminescent layer 302, n type boundary layer 301; Has the p electrode on the said p type boundary layer 303; The back side of said substrate 100 has external electrode layer 500; The sidewall of said n type boundary layer 301 is electrically connected with said external electrode layer 500 through conductive part 600.
When said p electrode and metallic plate 500 were connected to two ends V+, the V-of power supply, p type boundary layer 303 had just been set up with the two ends of said power supply respectively with n type boundary layer 301 and has been electrically connected.Thereby, make the light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit that constitutes by this sandwich construction send blue light.
This shows that the electrode that said light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit is connected with power supply lays respectively at top and bottom, thereby and vacant light-emitting zone, thereby the actual light-emitting area of said light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit is bigger compared to prior art.
And, because the concentration impurity ion at said n type boundary layer 301 edges is greater than the concentration impurity ion at center.Said light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit in Fig. 8 for example is with after power supply is electrically connected, and the CURRENT DISTRIBUTION that concentrates on the p electrode originally relatively also will change at n type boundary layer 301 places to the edge of n type boundary layer 301 to be concentrated.Thereby, make that via the change of this kind CURRENT DISTRIBUTION the inner CURRENT DISTRIBUTION of light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit is more even, improved luminous efficiency.
In addition, need to prove that above-mentioned method for manufacturing light-emitting is only given an example with the technology of blue light-emitting diode, wherein layers of material is also considered glow color and is decided.Those skilled in the art should be able to adjust layers of material according to the difference of the required glow color of light-emitting diode chip for backlight unit; It is red for example needing glow color, and the material of corresponding resilient coating, n type boundary layer, luminescent layer and p type boundary layer just can be adjusted into the material that AlInGaP etc. can produce ruddiness.
More than disclose many aspects of the present invention and execution mode, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that others of the present invention and execution mode.Disclosed many aspects and execution mode just are used to illustrate among the present invention, are not to be to qualification of the present invention, and real protection range of the present invention and spirit should be as the criterion with claims.