KR20150062179A - Light emitting diode having enlarged reflecting layer - Google Patents
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a light emitting diode. More particularly, the present invention relates to a light emitting diode that increases a light efficiency by extending a reflective layer to an entire area of a diode.
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are elements that convert electrical energy into light, and light is generated in at least one active layer between layers doped with impurities, which are generally of opposite polarity. That is, when a bias is applied to both sides of the active layer, holes and electrons are injected into the active layer and recombined to generate light. On both sides of the active layer, an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer are positioned to form a light emitting structure. A reflective layer is provided on one side of the light emitting structure to change the direction in which the light emitted from the active layer exits. On the other hand, a metal material having a high reflectivity of about 90% or more in a visible light region is mainly used as the reflective layer.
On the other hand, efforts have been made to increase the light efficiency by extending the reflective layer in the light emitting diode. However, since the reflective layer functions as a conductive layer and reflects output light, it is difficult to design a reflective layer to extend over the entire surface of the diode. Accordingly, a light emitting diode in which a reflective layer exists in front of a diode is not yet realized. When the area of the reflective layer is small, the reflected output light is relatively inadequate to improve the light efficiency as compared with the case where the reflective layer exists on the front surface. Accordingly, a light emitting diode having a reflective layer extended over the entire surface of the diode is required. Meanwhile, Korean Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2013-0024852 discloses a structure in which a reflective layer is extended, but there is no discontinuity in the extended reflective layer, so that light efficiency can not be effectively improved.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a light emitting diode having an extended reflection layer that improves light efficiency by allowing a reflection layer to exist on the front surface of a diode without discontinuity.
A light emitting diode having a reflective layer for solving the problems of the present invention includes a light emitting structure including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, a second semiconductor layer, a second reflective layer positioned on the first semiconductor layer, And a second reflective layer disposed on the second reflective layer. At this time, the front surface of the light emitting structure is covered without discontinuity by the combination of the first reflective layer and the second reflective layer.
In the diode of the present invention, the first reflective layer may be electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer, and the second reflective layer may be electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer. The light emitting structure may include a mesa region in which the first semiconductor layer and the active layer are etched, the first reflective layer may extend to the mesa region, and the second reflective layer may extend to the top of the second semiconductor layer. The first insulating layer may further include a first insulating layer having a first contact hole formed therein for electrically connecting the first reflective layer and the second semiconductor layer. The first reflective layer may be formed on the first contact hole and the first insulating layer As shown in FIG. The second reflective layer may extend to have the same profile as the mesa region.
The first barrier layer and the second barrier layer are formed on the first reflective layer except for the region where the first barrier layer is formed; A first bonding pad disposed on the second insulating layer, a second barrier layer positioned on the second reflective layer, and a second bonding pad disposed on the second barrier layer. The first reflective layer and the second reflective layer may be insulated by a second insulating layer. The second reflective layer may be directly connected to the second barrier layer and the second bonding pad. Further, a pattern or protrusions can be formed on at least one of the surface of the first insulating layer constituting the layer with the first reflective layer and the surface of the second insulating layer constituting the layer with the second reflective layer.
According to the light emitting diode having the reflective layer of the present invention, by arranging the pair of reflective layers so as to cover the entire surface of the diode, the light efficiency can be improved by making the reflective layer exist on the front surface of the diode without discontinuity. In addition, since the light generated in the active layer is completely reflected by the reflective layer, the light can be utilized to the maximum without unnecessarily consuming the light.
1 is a perspective view illustrating a first light emitting diode having an extended reflective layer according to the present invention.
2 is a cross-sectional view taken along line II-II in FIG.
3 is a graph showing an increase rate (%) of an optical output PO according to a percent area increase (%) of a reflection layer of a flip-type light emitting diode having an extended reflection layer according to the present invention.
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The embodiments described below can be modified into various other forms, and the scope of the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described below. The embodiments of the present invention are provided to enable those skilled in the art to more fully understand the present invention. The above and below referred to in this embodiment include everything formed directly or through another layer. In addition, the above or below standards will be described with reference to the drawings.
Embodiments of the present invention propose a light emitting diode having an extended reflective layer that improves light efficiency by arranging a pair of reflective layers to cover the entire surface of the diode so that the reflective layer is present at the front of the diode without discontinuity. To this end, a light emitting diode structure in which a pair of reflective layers are disposed on the front surface of a diode will be described in detail, and the effect of improving the light efficiency will be described in detail. Here, the front means that the pair of reflection layers exist on the front surface of the diode without discontinuity when viewed from the bonding pad or the substrate.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a light emitting diode having an extended reflection layer according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along a line II-II in FIG. Here, although the light emitting diode is shown as a flip type, it may be applied to other types of diodes within the scope of the present invention.
1 and 2, the light emitting diode of the present invention includes a
The first
The first
The first
The first and second
At least one of the surface of the first insulating
According to the light emitting diode according to the embodiment of the present invention, the combination of the first and second
The
The first and second semiconductor layers 12 and 16 may include different impurities to have different conductivity types. For example, the
Since the
The first and second
3 is a graph showing an increase rate (%) of an optical output PO according to a percent area increase (%) of a reflection layer of a flip-type light emitting diode having an extended reflection layer according to an embodiment of the present invention.
In this case, 0% of the reflective layer refers to a case where the reflective layer is 92.2% in the whole chip area, and 7.8% refers to the case where the reflective layer covers the entire surface of the diode (100%) as in the embodiment of the present invention. Further, the current injected into the light emitting diode was 350 mA. Ag is used as the material of the reflective layer. To increase the area, a PR pattern is formed on the insulating layer to form the first
According to FIG. 3, as the area of the reflective layer increases, the optical output (PO) also increases. The optical output (PO) was 483.53 mW, 498.18 mA, 504.78 mW, 511.27 mW and 517.50 mW, respectively, as the area increase rates of the reflective layer increased to 0%, 3.2%, 5.0%, 6.4% and 7.8%. As a result, the optical power (PO) increase rates were 3.0%, 4.4%, 5.7%, and 7.0%, respectively, when the area increase rates of the reflective layers were 3.2%, 5.0%, 6.4%, and 7.8%. In particular, when the reflective layer covers the entire surface of the diode as in the embodiment of the present invention, the optical output (PO) is improved to 7.0%. Therefore, when the reflective layer is present on the front surface of the light emitting diode without discontinuity as in the embodiment of the present invention, the light efficiency can be remarkably increased.
While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but many variations and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It is possible.
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A second reflective layer positioned on the first semiconductor layer; And
And a first reflective layer disposed on the second semiconductor layer,
And an extended reflective layer covering the entire surface of the light emitting structure without discontinuity due to the combination of the first reflective layer and the second reflective layer.
A second insulating layer located on the first reflective layer except for the region where the first barrier layer is formed;
A first bonding pad disposed on the first barrier layer and the second insulating layer;
A second barrier layer positioned on the second reflective layer; And
Further comprising a second bonding pad located on the second barrier layer. ≪ RTI ID = 0.0 > 11. < / RTI >
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