Active solid-state devices (e.g. – transistors – solid-state diode – Incoherent light emitter structure – With heterojunction
Reexamination Certificate
2007-05-22
2007-05-22
Potter, Roy (Department: 2822)
Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diode
Incoherent light emitter structure
With heterojunction
C257S103000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11226185
ABSTRACT:
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region. The light emitting layer may be a wurtzite III-nitride layer with a thickness of at least 50 angstroms. The light emitting layer may have a polarization reversed from a conventional wurtzite III-nitride layer, such that across an interface between the light emitting layer and the p-type region, the wurtzite c-axis points toward the light emitting layer. Such an orientation of the c-axis may create a negative sheet charge at an interface within or at the edge of the p-type region, providing a barrier to charge carriers in the light emitting layer.
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Gardner Nathan F.
Krames Michael R.
Shen Yu-Chen
Leiterman Rachel V.
Patent Law Group LLP
Philips Lumileds Lighting Company LLC
Potter Roy
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