KR20080083829A - Nitride semiconductor light emitting device and fabrication method thereof - Google Patents
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a GaN-based nitride light emitting device having improved electrostatic discharge (ESD) characteristics, and a method of manufacturing the same, wherein the first conductive nitride is formed on the substrate and includes a dielectric layer therein. A semiconductor layer, an active layer formed on the first conductivity type nitride semiconductor layer, a second conductivity type nitride semiconductor layer formed on the active layer, a transparent electrode layer formed on the second conductivity type nitride semiconductor layer, and the first The present invention provides a nitride semiconductor light emitting device including first and second electrodes formed on a second conductive nitride semiconductor, and a method of manufacturing the same.
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1 is a cross-sectional view showing the structure of a nitride semiconductor light emitting device (LED) according to the prior art.
2 is a cross-sectional view showing the structure of a nitride semiconductor light emitting device according to the present invention.
3 to 5 are exemplary views showing various forms of dielectric layers according to the present invention.
6A to 6F are process flowcharts showing a method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor light emitting device according to the present invention.
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a nitride semiconductor light emitting device, and more particularly, to a nitride semiconductor light emitting device and a method of manufacturing the same to improve electrostatic discharge (ESD) characteristics of a GaN based nitride light emitting device.
GaN-based light emitting devices are generally known to have poor electrostatic properties compared to other compound light emitting devices. This is because a GaN light emitting device is formed on a sapphire substrate having a large lattice mismatch, and thus many crystal defects are formed in the GaN thin film due to a large lattice mismatch (16%) between the substrate and the grown thin film.
These crystal defects increase the leakage current of the device and when the external static electricity enters, the active layer of the light emitting device having many crystal defects is destroyed by the strong field. In general, it is known that crystal defects of about 10 10 to 10 12 / cm 2 exist in the GaN thin film.
The electrostatic breakdown characteristics of the light emitting device are very important in relation to the application range of the GaN light emitting device. In particular, the design of the device to withstand the static electricity generated from the equipment and the operator when packaging the light emitting device is a very important variable to improve the yield of the final device.
In particular, since the GaN-based light emitting device has been applied to a condition that is poor in outdoor signage and automotive lighting environment in recent years, electrostatic properties are considered more important. In general, ESD of conventional GaN light emitting devices can withstand up to thousands of volts in the forward direction under human body mode (HBM), but it is difficult to withstand hundreds of volts in the reverse direction.
The reason for this is that as mentioned earlier, the crystal defect of the device is the main reason, and the electrode design of the device is also very important. In particular, GaN light emitting device adopts sapphire substrate, which is a non-conductor, so that N-electrode and P-electrode are formed on the same surface. Worse. In order to improve these ESD characteristics, the conventional method is approaching from the device side. In some cases, a protection diode (generally a zener diode) is connected in reverse with the GaN light emitting device to prevent high voltage ESD from being injected into the GaN device in reverse, and a large capacitor is connected in parallel with the GaN light emitting device. Another method is to allow high voltage to flow through the capacitor.
However, adding additional ESD protection devices external to the device as described above is not desirable in terms of cost and yield. The most preferable method is to improve the ESD characteristics of the light emitting device itself by improving the thin film characteristics or the structure of the light emitting device. For this purpose, it is desirable to increase the quality of the GaN thin film fundamentally, but this is limited. To date, there is not much data on how to grow thin films to improve the ESD characteristics of GaN devices.
1 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a conventional nitride semiconductor light emitting device.
As shown in the drawing, the nitride semiconductor
The first
In addition, a
The conventional nitride semiconductor
In order to solve this problem, in Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0448351, when the first conductivity type
Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, to provide a nitride semiconductor light emitting device and a method of manufacturing the same, which can improve the electrostatic voltage breakdown characteristics of the nitride semiconductor light emitting device to the level required by the current market There is.
The present invention for achieving the above object, the first conductive nitride semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, the dielectric layer therein, the active layer formed on the first conductive nitride semiconductor layer and A second conductive nitride semiconductor layer formed on the active layer, a transparent electrode layer formed on the second conductive nitride semiconductor layer, and first and second electrodes formed on the first and second conductive nitride semiconductors, respectively. It provides a nitride semiconductor light emitting device comprising a.
The dielectric layer is formed over the entire surface of the first conductive nitride semiconductor layer except for the contact region of the first electrode, and the dielectric layer may have a stripe pattern or a circular pattern. In addition, the dielectric layer may be formed in a pattern form of a polygonal structure.
In this case, the dielectric layer contains at least one or more of Zr, Si, Hf, Sr, Ti, and Ba, and is composed of at least one layer.
The first conductivity type nitride semiconductor layer is n type, the first conductivity type nitride semiconductor layer is p type, and the first conductivity type nitride semiconductor layer is a doped n type nitride semiconductor layer and n + type nitride semiconductor layer. The second conductive nitride semiconductor layer is formed by lamination, and includes an electron blocking layer.
The present invention also provides an active layer having a substrate, an n-type nitride semiconductor layer formed on the substrate and including a capacitor therein, a multi-quantum well structure formed on the n-type nitride semiconductor layer, and the active layer. A p-type nitride semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, a transparent electrode layer formed on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer, an n-type electrode formed on the n-type nitride semiconductor layer, and a p-type electrode formed on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer It provides a nitride semiconductor light emitting device comprising a.
The capacitor may be formed of a dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer may be formed in a stripe pattern or a pattern of a circular structure or a polygonal structure. The dielectric layer may include at least one of Zr, Si, Hf, Sr, Ti, and Ba, and may be composed of at least one layer.
In addition, the n-type nitride semiconductor layer includes an n-type GaN layer and an n + -type GaN layer, and the p-type nitride semiconductor layer includes an electron blocking layer. In this case, the electron blocking layer is preferably composed of an AlGaN layer.
The present invention also provides a method of preparing a substrate, forming an n-type nitride semiconductor layer including a dielectric layer on the substrate, forming an active layer on the n-type nitride semiconductor layer, and forming an active layer on the active layer. Forming a p-type nitride semiconductor layer, forming a transparent electrode on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer, and forming an n-type contact region in which an upper surface of the n-type nitride semiconductor layer is partially exposed; And forming an n-type electrode in the n-type contact region, and forming a p-type electrode on the transparent electrode.
Forming an n-type nitride semiconductor layer including the dielectric layer includes forming an undoped GaN (U-GaN) layer on the substrate; Forming a first n-type GaN layer on the U-GaN layer; Forming a dielectric layer on the first n-type GaN layer; And forming a second n-type GaN layer identical to the first n-type GaN layer on the dielectric layer.
Also, forming an n-type nitride semiconductor layer including the dielectric layer may include forming an undoped GaN (U-GaN) layer on the substrate; Forming a first n-type GaN layer on the U-GaN layer; Forming a dielectric layer on the first n-type GaN layer; Patterning the dielectric layer; And forming a second n-type GaN layer identical to the first n-type GaN layer on the first n-type GaN layer including the dielectric layer.
In this case, the forming of the dielectric layer may include forming an oxide layer including at least one or more of Zr, Si, Hf, Sr, Ti, and Ba, which may be formed by at least one layer.
In addition, the dielectric layer may be formed in a pattern like a stripe structure, a circular structure, or a polygonal structure.
The forming of the p-type nitride semiconductor layer may include forming an electron blocking layer formed of a p-type AlGaN layer; And forming a p-type GaN layer on the electron blocking layer.
In the nitride semiconductor light emitting device of the present invention as described above, the dielectric layer is formed separately in the n-type nitride semiconducting body, and the dielectric layer acts as a capacitance to increase the rebound speed of the device when momentary static electricity enters in the opposite direction. This prevents the destruction of the device due to static electricity. At this time, the thickness of the dielectric layer is formed so that the electrons can be tunneled, and does not interfere with the flow of electrons, the present invention can improve the electrostatic breakdown characteristics of ESD level up to 1KV or several KV.
Hereinafter, a nitride semiconductor light emitting device and a method of manufacturing the same according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
2 is a cross-sectional view showing a nitride semiconductor light emitting device according to the present invention.
As shown in the figure, the nitride semiconductor
An n-
In addition, a
The substrate 101 is a substrate suitable for growing a nitride semiconductor single crystal, and is preferably formed using a transparent material including sapphire. In addition to sapphire, the
The
The n-type
In addition, the thickness of the
In addition, the
3 to 5 illustrate various shapes that the
3 to 5 show some examples of various forms in which the dielectric layer may be formed, the present invention may be various polygonal structures, which are not shown in the drawings.
The
Referring to FIG. 2, the structure of the nitride semiconductor
On the other hand, the
The p-type
The
Since the
In the nitride semiconductor
Hereinafter, a method of manufacturing the nitride semiconductor light emitting device of the present invention configured as described above will be described with reference to the drawings.
6A through 6F are flowcharts illustrating a method of manufacturing the nitride semiconductor light emitting device according to the present invention.
First, as shown in FIG. 6A, a
As described above, the
The
Subsequently, an n-type nitride semiconductor layer in which a
The
Subsequently, when the
As then shown in Figure 6c, the
In this case, the
In addition, the
The p-type
Then, a
Thereafter, the
Subsequently, an n-
In the present invention, the semiconductor layer may be formed through the MOCVD method, and various other known methods such as the MBE method may be used.
In the nitride semiconductor light emitting device of the present invention manufactured by the method as described above, a large capacitance is formed by inserting a nitride semiconductor, that is, a dielectric layer having a higher dielectric constant than GaN, in the n-type nitride semiconductor layer. Therefore, when such a large capacitor is present under the active layer, when the instantaneous static electricity flows in the reverse direction, the rebound speed of the device becomes long, reducing the peak intensity of the static electricity to protect the active layer, thereby preventing the light emitting device from static electricity. It can be safely protected from.
In addition, the dielectric layer may increase current spreading by preventing current crowding, thereby increasing current spreading to further improve characteristics of a light emitting device.
Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible therefrom. Accordingly, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concept of the present invention as defined in the following claims also fall within the scope of the present invention.
As described above, the nitride semiconductor light emitting device according to the present invention forms a large capacitance by inserting a dielectric having a higher dielectric constant than the nitride semiconductor layer in the n-type nitride semiconductor layer, so that the instantaneous static electricity enters in the opposite direction, and thus the revolving speed of the device It is possible to increase the ESD level up to several KV by increasing the dielectric layer, and the dielectric layer has an effect of further improving the characteristics of the device by increasing the diffusion of current.
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