摘要:
A thermal management system for reducing or eliminating heat-mediated degradation of LED performance and/or operating life. The system may include a thermal controller arranged to respond to an LED operating condition, and to responsively limit temperature in the LED. The thermal controller in one implementation includes a bypass circuit containing a bypass control element, such as a varistor, Zener diode, or antifuse device, and arranged to divert current from flowing to the LED so that the LED remains in a cool state, e.g., below 75° C. The system may be arranged to (I) at least partially attenuate the power supplied to an LED so as to reduce heat generation in such LED and maintain the LED below a threshold temperature and/or (II) remove heat from the LED to maintain temperature of the LED below a threshold temperature.
摘要:
The present invention relates to various switching device structures including Schottky diode, P-N diode, and P-I-N diode, which are characterized by low defect density, low crack density, low pit density and sufficient thickness (>2.5 um) GaN layers of low dopant concentration ( 2 KV).
摘要:
A microelectronic assembly in which a semiconductor device structure is directionally positioned on an off-axis substrate. In an illustrative implementation, a laser diode is oriented on a GaN substrate wherein the GaN substrate includes a GaN (0001) surface off-cut from the direction predominantly towards either the or the family of directions. For a off-cut substrate, a laser diode cavity may be oriented along the direction parallel to lattice surface steps of the substrate in order to have a cleaved laser facet that is orthogonal to the surface lattice steps. For a off-cut substrate, the laser diode cavity may be oriented along the direction orthogonal to lattice surface steps of the substrate in order to provide a cleaved laser facet that is aligned with the surface lattice steps.
摘要:
A microelectronic device that in operation generates or includes component(s) that generate heat, in which the device comprises a heat conversion medium that converts such heat into a light emission having a shorter wavelength than such heat, to thereby cool the device and dissipate the unwanted heat by such light output. The heat conversion medium can include an upconverting luminophoric material, e.g., an anti-Stokes phosphor or phosphor composition. The provision of such heat conversion medium enables thermal management of microelectronic devices, e.g., optoelectronic devices, to be achieved in an efficient manner, to prolong the operational service life of devices such as LEDs, laser diodes, etc. that are degraded in performance by excessive heat generation in their operation.
摘要:
A solid state emitter or emitter package has an associated information containing element including machine readable encoded information that may be indicative of or enable retrieval of information useful for operation and/or control of at least one emitter An information containing element may be dynamically updateable, and may receive signals from at least one sensor arranged to sense a condition or characteristic of an emitter device. Operation of at least one emitter may be adjusted responsive to sensed values and predeveloped operating settings correlated to such values to mitigate degradation of output characteristics. A lighting device such as a lamp or light fixture may include an information exchange element arranged to communicate with an information containing element of an emitter or emitter package. Operation of a lighting device may depend on authentication of an emitter by a lighting.
摘要:
A substrate comprising a trench lateral epitaxial overgrowth structure including a trench cavity, wherein the trench cavity includes a growth-blocking layer or patterned material supportive of a coalescent Pendeo layer thereon, on at least a portion of an inside surface of the trench. Such substrate is suitable for carrying out lateral epitaxial overgrowth to form a bridged lateral overgrowth formation overlying the trench cavity. The bridged lateral overgrowth formation provides a substrate surface on which epitaxial layers can be grown in the fabrication of microelectronic devices such as laser diodes, high electron mobility transistors, ultraviolet light emitting diodes, and other devices in which low dislocation density is critical. The epitaxial substrate structures of the invention can be formed without the necessity for deep trenches, such as are required in conventional Pendeo epitaxial overgrowth structures.
摘要:
A III-nitride electronic device structure including doped material, an active region and a barrier material arranged to suppress transport of dopant from the doped material into the active region, wherein the barrier material comprises high-Al content AlxGayN, wherein x+y=1, and x≧0.50. In a specific aspect, AIN is used as a migration/diffusion barrier layer at a thickness of from about 5 to about 200 Angstroms, to suppress flux of magnesium and/or silicon dopant material into the active region of the III-nitride electronic device, e.g., a UV LED optoelectronic device.
摘要翻译:一种III族氮化物电子器件结构,包括掺杂材料,有源区和阻挡材料,其被布置成抑制掺杂剂从掺杂材料转移到有源区中,其中阻挡材料包括高Al含量的Al x 其中x + y = 1,x> = 0.50。 在一个具体方面,将AIN用作厚度为约5至约200埃的迁移/扩散阻挡层,以抑制镁和/或硅掺杂剂材料流入III族氮化物电子器件的有源区, 例如,UV LED光电器件。
摘要:
Amorphous silicon carbide thin film structures, including: protective coatings for windows in infrared process stream monitoring systems and sensor domes, heated windows, electromagnetic interference shielding members and integrated micromachined sensors; high-temperature sensors and circuits; and diffusion barrier layers in VLSI circuits. The amorphous silicon carbide thin film structures are readily formed, e.g., by sputtering at low temperatures.
摘要:
A cathode structure suitable for a flat panel display is provided with coated emitters. The emitters are formed with material, typically nickel, capable of growing to a high aspect ratio. These emitters are then coated with carbon containing material for improving the chemical robustness and reducing the work function. One coating process is a DC plasma deposition process in which acetylene is pumped through a DC plasma reactor to create a DC plasma for coating the cathode structure. An alternative coating process is to electrically deposit raw carbon-based material onto the surface of the emitters, and subsequently reduce the raw carbon-based material to the carbon containing material. Work function of coated emitters is typically reduced by about 0.8 to 1.0 eV.
摘要:
A cathode structure suitable for a flat-panel display contains an emitter layer (213) divided into emitter lines, a plurality of electron emitters (229, 239, or 230) situated over the emitter lines, and a gate layer (215A) having an upper surface spaced largely above the electron emitters. The gate layer has a plurality of gate holes (215B) each corresponding to one of the electron emitters. The cathode structure further includes a carbon-containing layer (340, 240, or 241) coated over the electron emitters and directly on at least part of the upper surface of the gate layer such that at least part of the carbon-containing layer extending along and above the gate layer is exposed.