KR20130094621A - Light emitting diode having improved light extraction efficiency and method of fabricating the same - Google Patents
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Abstract
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The present invention relates to a light emitting diode and a method of manufacturing the same, and more particularly to a light emitting diode having an improved light extraction efficiency and a method of manufacturing the same.
In general, a light emitting diode is fabricated by growing gallium nitride based semiconductor layers on a sapphire substrate. However, the sapphire substrate and the gallium nitride layer have a large difference in coefficient of thermal expansion and lattice constant, so that many crystal defects such as threading dislocations are generated in the grown gallium nitride layer. Such crystal defects make it difficult to improve the electro-optical properties of light emitting diodes.
In order to solve this problem, there is an attempt to use a gallium nitride substrate as a growth substrate. Since the gallium nitride substrate is the same as the gallium nitride semiconductor layer grown thereon, the gallium nitride layer of good crystal quality can be grown.
However, since the gallium nitride substrate has a higher refractive index than the sapphire substrate, the light generated in the active layer is not emitted to the outside through the substrate, and the problem of loss inside the substrate becomes more serious.
An object of the present invention is to provide a light emitting diode that can reduce the light loss generated in the substrate and improve the light extraction efficiency.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a light emitting diode comprising: a substrate including an upper surface, a lower surface, and side surfaces connecting the upper surface and the lower surface; And a gallium nitride based semiconductor disposed on an upper surface of the substrate and including an active layer disposed between a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, and the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer. It includes a light emitting structure. In addition, a side surface of the substrate includes a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface, the first inclined surface is inclined so that the width of the substrate becomes wider from the upper surface side toward the lower surface, the second inclined surface of the substrate The substrate is inclined so that the width of the substrate becomes wider from the lower surface to the upper surface.
Further, the substrate may be a gallium nitride substrate.
According to another aspect of the present invention, a light emitting diode includes: a gallium nitride substrate including an upper surface, a lower surface, and a side surface connecting the upper surface and the lower surface; And a gallium nitride based semiconductor disposed on an upper surface of the substrate and including an active layer disposed between a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, and the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer. It includes a light emitting structure. Here, the side surface of the substrate includes a first inclined surface inclined so that the width of the substrate becomes wider from the upper surface side toward the lower surface.
Furthermore, the light emitting diode may further include a reflector positioned on the bottom surface of the substrate.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a light emitting diode manufacturing method including forming semiconductor layers on an upper surface side of a gallium nitride substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface, and partially removing the substrate from an upper surface side of the substrate. And forming a first inclined surface in the substrate, and partially removing the substrate from the lower surface side of the substrate to form a second inclined surface in the substrate. Here, the first inclined surface is inclined so that the width of the substrate becomes wider from the upper surface side toward the lower surface, and the second inclined surface is inclined so that the width of the substrate becomes wider from the lower surface side toward the upper surface.
Light may be emitted to the outside through the inclined surfaces formed on the side of the substrate, thereby improving light extraction efficiency of the light emitting diode. Furthermore, by adopting the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface, light loss due to total internal reflection can be greatly reduced, and the light extraction efficiency can be further improved.
1 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a light emitting diode according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a cross-sectional view for describing a light emitting diode according to still another embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a schematic cross-sectional view for explaining the blade.
4 to 6 are cross-sectional views illustrating a method of manufacturing a light emitting diode according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following embodiments are provided by way of example so that those skilled in the art can fully understand the spirit of the present invention. Therefore, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described below, but may be embodied in other forms. In the drawings, the width, length, thickness, etc. of components may be exaggerated for convenience. Like numbers refer to like elements throughout.
1 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a light emitting diode according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 1, the light emitting diode includes a
The
Side surfaces of the
The first
The first
The
In the present exemplary embodiment, the second
Meanwhile, a semiconductor light emitting structure is disposed on an upper surface of the
The
Furthermore, the
The upper
In addition, the
According to the present embodiment, part of the light generated in the
In addition, a part of the light generated in the
As described above, by forming the first
In the present embodiment, only one of the inclined surfaces of the first
In the present embodiment, a light emitting diode having a horizontal structure is shown and described, but the present invention is not limited to the horizontal structure, and may be applied to a flip chip structure. In this case, the
2 is a cross-sectional view for describing a light emitting diode according to still another embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 2, the light emitting diode according to the present embodiment is generally similar to the light emitting diode described with reference to FIG. 1, but the
That is, the first
The first
Referring to FIG. 3, the
In the present embodiment, a case in which the first
4 to 5 are cross-sectional views illustrating a method of manufacturing a light emitting diode according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 4, gallium nitride based semiconductor layers including a first
Thereafter, an upper insulating
In addition, a
Referring to FIG. 5, the lower surface of the
When the
Here, the formation of the
Referring to FIG. 6, the
Here, the grooves on which the
In the present embodiment, the light emitting diode in which the
In the present embodiment, the
In the present embodiment, the formation of the
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A gallium nitride-based semiconductor light emitting device comprising a gallium nitride-based semiconductor light emitting device comprising a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, and an active layer positioned between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer on an upper surface of the substrate Contains a structure,
The side surface of the substrate includes a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface, the first inclined surface is inclined so that the width of the substrate becomes wider from the upper surface side toward the lower surface, the second inclined surface is the lower surface of the substrate The light emitting diode inclined so that the width of the substrate becomes wider toward the upper surface in.
The side surface of the substrate comprises a surface perpendicular to the lower surface.
The vertical surface is a light emitting diode connecting the upper surface of the substrate and the first inclined surface.
The vertical surface is a light emitting diode connecting the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface.
The vertical surface is a light emitting diode connecting the lower surface of the substrate and the second inclined surface.
The first inclined surface is connected to the upper surface of the substrate, the second inclined surface is a light emitting diode connected to the lower surface of the substrate.
And a reflector positioned on the bottom surface of the substrate.
The substrate is a light emitting diode that is a gallium nitride substrate.
A gallium nitride-based semiconductor light emitting device comprising a gallium nitride-based semiconductor light emitting device comprising a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, and an active layer positioned between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer on an upper surface of the substrate Contains a structure,
The side surface of the substrate includes a first inclined surface inclined so that the width of the substrate becomes wider from the upper surface side toward the lower surface.
The side surface of the substrate further comprises a vertical surface connecting the upper surface and the first inclined surface.
And a reflector positioned on the bottom surface of the substrate.
Partially removing the substrate from the upper surface side of the substrate to form a first inclined surface on the substrate,
And partially removing the substrate from the lower surface side of the substrate to form a second inclined surface on the substrate,
The first inclined surface is inclined so that the width of the substrate becomes wider from the upper surface side to the lower surface,
And the second inclined surface is inclined so that the width of the substrate becomes wider from the lower surface side to the upper surface.
The first inclined surface is formed using a blade.
Forming the second inclined surface,
Forming a mask pattern having an opening exposing the substrate on a lower surface of the substrate,
A method of manufacturing a light emitting diode comprising wet etching the substrate through the opening.
The mask pattern is a light emitting diode manufacturing method formed of a distributed Bragg reflector.
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