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- a wafer-scaled light-emitting device and manufacturing method thereof is disclosed, especially is related to a wafer-scaled light-emitting diode with narrow dominant wavelength distribution and a method of enabling convergent distribution of dominant wavelength of the wafer-scaled light-emitting device.
- the light-generating mechanism of a light-emitting diode is that the difference of the energy of electrons moving between an n-type semiconductor and a p-type semiconductor is released through the form of light.
- This light-generating mechanism of the LED is different from that of incandescent lamps so the LED is titled a cold light source.
- LED has advantages like high reliability, long life span, small dimensions, and electricity saving so the LED has been deemed as an illumination source of a new generation.
- FIG. 1A to FIG. 1E show a conventional process flow of manufacturing a light-emitting device.
- a substrate 10 is provided.
- a plurality of epitaxial stacked layers 12 is formed on the substrate 10 , and the plurality of epitaxial stacked layers 12 is etched by lithography to form a plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 14 , as FIG. 1C shows.
- electrodes 16 are formed on the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 14 to form an LED wafer 100 .
- the LED wafer 100 is diced to form LED chips 18 .
- the distribution of the dominant wavelengths of the light-emitting stacked layers 14 is not uniform.
- the difference of the dominant wavelength can be 15 nm-20 nm or even more so the difference of the dominant wavelength of the LED chips 18 formed by the light-emitting stacked layers 14 is large as well.
- the problem of non-uniform distribution of the dominant wavelengths further influences the consistency of characteristics of the products utilizing the LED chips 18 .
- the distribution range of the dominant wavelengths of the blue LED chips on the same LED wafer reaches 20 nm, namely the dominant wavelengths are between 450 nm and 470 nm, the distribution of the color temperatures of the white lights formed by mixing the light from the blue LED chips and the yellow wavelength-converting materials having 570 nm excited wavelength is also influenced.
- FIG. 2 shows, because the wide distribution of the dominant wavelengths of each light-emitting stacked layer on the LED wafer, the color temperatures of the white lights formed by mixing the light from the LED chips and the wavelength-converting materials distribute between 6500K and 9500K. With the difference of the color temperatures, which is about 3000K, the consistency of the quality of the products is affected significantly.
- the probing, sorting, and binning processes can reduce the influence upon the consistence of the quality caused by non-uniform distribution of the dominant wavelength, when the products to which the LED chips 18 are applied strictly require a tight distribution of the dominant wavelength, such as the back-light unit having the LED chips in the large size display, the ratio of the available LED chips 18 on the LED wafer 100 is low.
- sorting and binning processes are time-consuming and laborious, and increase the cost and time of manufacturing the LED chips.
- the present application provides an LED wafer with narrow dominant wavelength distribution including a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting stacked layers formed on the substrate, and a wavelength transforming layer formed on the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers to converge and convert the dominant wavelengths emitted from the light-emitting stacked layers.
- the present application further discloses a method of converging the dominant wavelength distribution of the LED wafer, including the steps of providing a substrate, forming a plurality of light-emitting stacked layers on the substrate, and forming a wavelength transforming layer on the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers to converge the dominant wavelength distribution of each of the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers on the LED wafer.
- the present application also provides a method of manufacturing a light-emitting device, including forming a wavelength transforming layer to converge the variation of the dominant wavelengths of the light-emitting stacked layers to improve the usage efficiency.
- Another purpose of the present application is to provide a method of manufacturing a light-emitting device, including forming a wavelength transforming layer to converge the variation of the dominant wavelengths of the light-emitting stacked layers to eliminate sorting and binning processes in the manufacturing process of LED chips.
- FIGS. 1A-1E illustrate a conventional process flow of manufacturing LED chips.
- FIG. 2 illustrates a conventional CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram of a blue LED combining with yellow phosphor powders.
- FIG. 3 illustrates a conventional schematic view of probing of the LED chips.
- FIGS. 4A-4F illustrate a process flow of manufacturing LED chips in accordance with an embodiment of the present application.
- FIG. 5 illustrates a cross-sectional view of the LED chips in accordance with another embodiment of the present application.
- FIG. 6 illustrates a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram in accordance with the embodiment of the present application.
- FIG. 7 illustrates a cross-sectional view of the LED chips in accordance with another embodiment of the present application.
- FIGS. 8A-8B illustrate cross-sectional views of the LED chips in accordance with other embodiments of the present application.
- FIG. 9 illustrates a schematic view of dicing steps in accordance with another embodiment of the present application.
- FIGS. 4A-4F illustrate a process flow in accordance with an embodiment of the present application.
- a substrate 20 is provided, wherein the substrate 20 can be an electrical conductive substrate.
- a plurality of epitaxial layers 22 is formed on the substrate 20 , wherein each of the plurality of epitaxial layers 22 at least includes a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer 220 , an active layer 222 , and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer 224 .
- the material of the plurality of epitaxial layers 22 can be a material including at least one element of Al, Ga, In, N, P, or As, such as GaN series or AlGaInP series material, for example.
- the embodiment below takes GaN series material as an example for explanation.
- FIG. 4C shows, a plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 24 is formed on the substrate 20 by etching the plurality of epitaxial layers 22 with lithography.
- FIG. 4D shows, a plurality of electrodes 26 is formed on the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 24 by evaporation, and an LED wafer 200 is formed.
- the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 24 can emit a plurality of first lights 210 , wherein the dominant wavelengths of the first lights 210 are between 390 nm and 430 nm. There is a first difference of the dominant wavelengths between any two first lights 210 , wherein the maximum of the first difference of the dominant wavelengths is a first dominant wavelength variation V 1 .
- a plurality of wavelength transforming layers 28 is formed to cover the surfaces of the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 24 , wherein the material of the plurality of wavelength transforming layers 28 contains fluorescent material or phosphor material.
- the plurality of wavelength transforming layers 28 can be composed of phosphor powder.
- the material of the wavelength transforming layer 28 can be blue phosphor powder containing one or more than one materials selected from a group consisting of Si 3 MgSi 2 O 8 :Eu, BaMgAl 10 O 17 :Eu, (SrBaCa) 5 (PO 4 ) 3 Cl:Eu, Sr 3 (Al 2 O 5 )Cl 2 :Eu 2+ and Sr 4 Al 14 O 25 :Eu.
- the phosphor powder is uniformly or partially spread on the surface of the light-emitting stacked layer 24 so the wavelength transforming layer 28 absorbs substantially the whole first light 210 emitted from the light-emitting stacked layer 24 and converts the first light 210 into a second light 220 .
- the dominant wavelengths of the second lights 220 are between 450 nm and 470 nm which are blue lights of long wavelength. There is a second difference of the dominant wavelengths between any two second lights 220 , wherein the maximum of the second difference of the dominant wavelengths is a second dominant wavelength variation V 2 .
- the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 24 is diced to form a plurality of LED chips 30 .
- the first dominant wavelength variation V 1 is between 15 nm and 20 nm
- the second dominant wavelength variation V 2 is less than 10 nm, preferably less than 5 nm.
- the difference of the dominant wavelengths of the lights from any two of the plurality of light-emitting layers 24 can be reduced by forming the plurality of wavelength transforming layers 28 on the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 24 .
- the distribution of the dominant wavelengths of the plurality of LED chips 30 from the same LED wafer 200 can be convergent to improve the usage efficiency of the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 24 on the LED wafer 200 .
- the above embodiment can skip sorting and binning processes in the manufacturing process of the LED chips to further reduce the cost of production.
- the present application can include the step of forming a wavelength converting layer 32 on the wavelength transforming layer 28 after forming the wavelength transforming layer 28 .
- the wavelength converting layer 32 includes one or more than one kind of phosphor powders, wherein the phosphor powders include a material selected from a group consisting of yellow phosphor powders including yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) or alkaline-earth halide aluminate, green phosphor powders including BaMgAl 10 O 17 :Eu, MnBa 2 SiO 4 :Eu, (Sr,Ca)SiO 4 :Eu, CaSc 2 O 4 :Eu, Ca 8 Mg(SiO 4 ) 4 Cl 2 :Eu, Mn, SrSi 2 O 2 N 2 :Eu, LaPO 4 :Tb,Ce, Zn2SiO 4 :Mn, ZnS:Cu, YBO 3 :Ce,Tb
- the wavelength converting layer 32 includes at least one yellow phosphor powder.
- the wavelength converting layer 32 can absorb the second light 220 and convert the second light 220 into third light 230 in yellow color, wherein the dominant wavelength of the third light 230 is about 570 nm. Then, the third light 230 of yellow color and the second light 220 which is not absorbed by the wavelength converting layer 32 are mixed to generate a fourth light 240 in white light.
- FIG. 6 illustrates a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram of the fourth light 240 .
- the color temperature of the fourth light 240 which is generated by mixing the second light 220 and the third light 230 is about between 6500K and 8500K (the intersection point of the black curve and the solid line in FIG. 6 ).
- the difference of the color temperature of the fourth light 240 is less than 2000K, preferably less than 1000K.
- the embodiment of the present application significantly increases the uniformity of the light emitted from each light-emitting stacked layer of an LED wafer.
- FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of another embodiment of the present application.
- an LED wafer 500 includes a substrate 50 , and a plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 52 , a plurality of first electrodes 54 , a plurality of second electrodes 56 , and a plurality of wavelength transforming layers 58 formed on the substrate 50 , wherein each of the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 52 at least includes a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer 520 , an active layer 522 , and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer 524 .
- Each of the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 52 includes a plane exposing the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer 524 .
- Each of the plurality of first electrodes 54 and each of the plurality of second electrodes 56 are located on the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer 520 and the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer 524 respectively.
- the plurality of wavelength transforming layers 58 covers the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 52 .
- FIGS. 8A and 8B are cross-sectional views of other embodiments of the present application.
- the embodiments can further include an electrical connection structure 60 to connect the adjacent light-emitting stacked layers 52 / 52 ′ in series connection.
- the electrical connection structure 60 is a metal wire.
- the wire bonding technology is utilized to electrically connect the second electrode 56 of a light-emitting stacked layer 52 and the first electrode 54 of another light-emitting stacked layer 52 ′ to form a series connection between different light-emitting stacked layers 52 and 52 ′.
- the electrical connection structure 60 can also include an insulating layer 62 formed between the adjacent light-emitting stacked layers 52 and 52 ′, and a metal layer 64 formed on the insulating layer 62 to electrically connect the second electrode 56 of a light-emitting stacked layer 52 and the first electrode 54 of another light-emitting stacked layer 52 ′.
- an insulating layer 62 formed between the adjacent light-emitting stacked layers 52 and 52 ′
- a metal layer 64 formed on the insulating layer 62 to electrically connect the second electrode 56 of a light-emitting stacked layer 52 and the first electrode 54 of another light-emitting stacked layer 52 ′.
- each of the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 52 can be diced along the dicing line A to form the LED chip in the step of dicing the LED wafer.
- the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 52 and 52 ′ which are connected by the electrical connection structure 60 in series connection are diced along the dicing line B to form an LED array chip 70 .
- the voltage drop of each of the plurality of light-emitting stacked layer 52 and 52 ′ is about 3.5V.
- Fourteen light-emitting stacked layers 52 and 52 ′ which are in series connection are diced to form an LED array chip 70 and can be directly applied to the vehicle application which is 48 V in the alternating current power supply.
- thirty light-emitting stacked layers 52 and 52 ′ connected in series can also be diced to form the LED array chip 70 and can be directly applied to the household application with 100V in the alternating current power supply. Because there is a wavelength transforming layer on each of the light-emitting stacked layers 52 and 52 ′, the dominant wavelengths of each of the light-emitting stacked layers 52 and 52 ′ are more consistent. Thus, the process of sorting and binning based on the distribution of the dominant wavelengths can be eliminated in the conventional manufacturing process of the LED array chip to reduce the cost of production.
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- A wafer-scaled light-emitting device and manufacturing method thereof is disclosed, especially is related to a wafer-scaled light-emitting diode with narrow dominant wavelength distribution and a method of enabling convergent distribution of dominant wavelength of the wafer-scaled light-emitting device.
- 2. Reference to Related Application
- This application claims the right of priority based on TW application Ser. No. 098106259, filed “Feb. 25, 2009”, entitled “LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE WITH NARROW DOMINANT WAVELENGTH DISTRIBUTION AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME” and the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- 3. Description of the Related Art
- The light-generating mechanism of a light-emitting diode (LED) is that the difference of the energy of electrons moving between an n-type semiconductor and a p-type semiconductor is released through the form of light. This light-generating mechanism of the LED is different from that of incandescent lamps so the LED is titled a cold light source. Besides, LED has advantages like high reliability, long life span, small dimensions, and electricity saving so the LED has been deemed as an illumination source of a new generation.
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FIG. 1A toFIG. 1E show a conventional process flow of manufacturing a light-emitting device. AsFIG. 1A shows, asubstrate 10 is provided. AsFIG. 1B shows, a plurality of epitaxial stackedlayers 12 is formed on thesubstrate 10, and the plurality of epitaxial stackedlayers 12 is etched by lithography to form a plurality of light-emitting stackedlayers 14, asFIG. 1C shows. Next, asFIG. 1D shows,electrodes 16 are formed on the plurality of light-emitting stackedlayers 14 to form anLED wafer 100. Finally, asFIG. 1E shows, theLED wafer 100 is diced to formLED chips 18. - The distribution of the dominant wavelengths of the light-emitting stacked
layers 14, however, is not uniform. The difference of the dominant wavelength can be 15 nm-20 nm or even more so the difference of the dominant wavelength of theLED chips 18 formed by the light-emitting stackedlayers 14 is large as well. The problem of non-uniform distribution of the dominant wavelengths further influences the consistency of characteristics of the products utilizing theLED chips 18. Taking the conventional blue LED chip with the 460 nm dominant wavelength cooperating with the yellow phosphors to generate white light as an example, if the distribution range of the dominant wavelengths of the blue LED chips on the same LED wafer reaches 20 nm, namely the dominant wavelengths are between 450 nm and 470 nm, the distribution of the color temperatures of the white lights formed by mixing the light from the blue LED chips and the yellow wavelength-converting materials having 570 nm excited wavelength is also influenced. - As
FIG. 2 shows, because the wide distribution of the dominant wavelengths of each light-emitting stacked layer on the LED wafer, the color temperatures of the white lights formed by mixing the light from the LED chips and the wavelength-converting materials distribute between 6500K and 9500K. With the difference of the color temperatures, which is about 3000K, the consistency of the quality of the products is affected significantly. - To solve the problem of non-uniform distribution of the dominant wavelength of the light-emitting stacked
layers 14, there are probing, sorting, and binning processes in the conventional manufacturing process of theLED chips 18 to screen out theLED chips 18 having similar dominant wavelengths for various application demanding different wavelengths, asFIG. 3 shows. - Although the probing, sorting, and binning processes can reduce the influence upon the consistence of the quality caused by non-uniform distribution of the dominant wavelength, when the products to which the
LED chips 18 are applied strictly require a tight distribution of the dominant wavelength, such as the back-light unit having the LED chips in the large size display, the ratio of theavailable LED chips 18 on theLED wafer 100 is low. Besides, sorting and binning processes are time-consuming and laborious, and increase the cost and time of manufacturing the LED chips. - The present application provides an LED wafer with narrow dominant wavelength distribution including a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting stacked layers formed on the substrate, and a wavelength transforming layer formed on the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers to converge and convert the dominant wavelengths emitted from the light-emitting stacked layers.
- The present application further discloses a method of converging the dominant wavelength distribution of the LED wafer, including the steps of providing a substrate, forming a plurality of light-emitting stacked layers on the substrate, and forming a wavelength transforming layer on the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers to converge the dominant wavelength distribution of each of the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers on the LED wafer.
- The present application also provides a method of manufacturing a light-emitting device, including forming a wavelength transforming layer to converge the variation of the dominant wavelengths of the light-emitting stacked layers to improve the usage efficiency.
- Another purpose of the present application is to provide a method of manufacturing a light-emitting device, including forming a wavelength transforming layer to converge the variation of the dominant wavelengths of the light-emitting stacked layers to eliminate sorting and binning processes in the manufacturing process of LED chips.
- The foregoing aspects and many of the attendant purpose, technology, characteristic, and function of this application will become more readily appreciated as the same becomes better understood by reference to the following embodiments detailed description, when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings
- The accompanying drawings are included to provide easy understanding of the application, and are incorporated herein and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the application and, together with the description, serve to illustrate the principles of the application.
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FIGS. 1A-1E illustrate a conventional process flow of manufacturing LED chips. -
FIG. 2 illustrates a conventional CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram of a blue LED combining with yellow phosphor powders. -
FIG. 3 illustrates a conventional schematic view of probing of the LED chips. -
FIGS. 4A-4F illustrate a process flow of manufacturing LED chips in accordance with an embodiment of the present application. -
FIG. 5 illustrates a cross-sectional view of the LED chips in accordance with another embodiment of the present application. -
FIG. 6 illustrates a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram in accordance with the embodiment of the present application. -
FIG. 7 illustrates a cross-sectional view of the LED chips in accordance with another embodiment of the present application. -
FIGS. 8A-8B illustrate cross-sectional views of the LED chips in accordance with other embodiments of the present application. -
FIG. 9 illustrates a schematic view of dicing steps in accordance with another embodiment of the present application. - Reference is made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present application, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers are used in the drawings and the description to refer to the same or like parts.
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FIGS. 4A-4F illustrate a process flow in accordance with an embodiment of the present application. AsFIG. 4A shows, asubstrate 20 is provided, wherein thesubstrate 20 can be an electrical conductive substrate. AsFIG. 4B shows, a plurality ofepitaxial layers 22 is formed on thesubstrate 20, wherein each of the plurality ofepitaxial layers 22 at least includes a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer 220, anactive layer 222, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer 224. The material of the plurality ofepitaxial layers 22 can be a material including at least one element of Al, Ga, In, N, P, or As, such as GaN series or AlGaInP series material, for example. The embodiment below takes GaN series material as an example for explanation. - As
FIG. 4C shows, a plurality of light-emittingstacked layers 24 is formed on thesubstrate 20 by etching the plurality ofepitaxial layers 22 with lithography. AsFIG. 4D shows, a plurality ofelectrodes 26 is formed on the plurality of light-emittingstacked layers 24 by evaporation, and anLED wafer 200 is formed. - The plurality of light-emitting
stacked layers 24 can emit a plurality offirst lights 210, wherein the dominant wavelengths of thefirst lights 210 are between 390 nm and 430 nm. There is a first difference of the dominant wavelengths between any twofirst lights 210, wherein the maximum of the first difference of the dominant wavelengths is a first dominant wavelength variation V1. - As
FIG. 4E shows, after forming theelectrodes 26, a plurality ofwavelength transforming layers 28 is formed to cover the surfaces of the plurality of light-emittingstacked layers 24, wherein the material of the plurality ofwavelength transforming layers 28 contains fluorescent material or phosphor material. In this embodiment, the plurality ofwavelength transforming layers 28 can be composed of phosphor powder. The material of thewavelength transforming layer 28 can be blue phosphor powder containing one or more than one materials selected from a group consisting of Si3MgSi2O8:Eu, BaMgAl10O17:Eu, (SrBaCa)5(PO4)3Cl:Eu, Sr3(Al2O5)Cl2:Eu2+ and Sr4Al14O25:Eu. The phosphor powder is uniformly or partially spread on the surface of the light-emittingstacked layer 24 so thewavelength transforming layer 28 absorbs substantially the wholefirst light 210 emitted from the light-emittingstacked layer 24 and converts thefirst light 210 into asecond light 220. - In this embodiment, the dominant wavelengths of the
second lights 220 are between 450 nm and 470 nm which are blue lights of long wavelength. There is a second difference of the dominant wavelengths between any twosecond lights 220, wherein the maximum of the second difference of the dominant wavelengths is a second dominant wavelength variation V2. Finally, asFIG. 4F shows, the plurality of light-emittingstacked layers 24 is diced to form a plurality ofLED chips 30. - In the above embodiment, the first dominant wavelength variation V1 is between 15 nm and 20 nm, and the second dominant wavelength variation V2 is less than 10 nm, preferably less than 5 nm. The difference of the dominant wavelengths of the lights from any two of the plurality of light-emitting
layers 24 can be reduced by forming the plurality ofwavelength transforming layers 28 on the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 24. The distribution of the dominant wavelengths of the plurality ofLED chips 30 from thesame LED wafer 200 can be convergent to improve the usage efficiency of the plurality of light-emittingstacked layers 24 on theLED wafer 200. Moreover, the above embodiment can skip sorting and binning processes in the manufacturing process of the LED chips to further reduce the cost of production. - In addition, as
FIG. 5 shows, the present application can include the step of forming awavelength converting layer 32 on thewavelength transforming layer 28 after forming thewavelength transforming layer 28. The wavelength converting layer 32 includes one or more than one kind of phosphor powders, wherein the phosphor powders include a material selected from a group consisting of yellow phosphor powders including yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) or alkaline-earth halide aluminate, green phosphor powders including BaMgAl10O17:Eu, MnBa2SiO4:Eu, (Sr,Ca)SiO4:Eu, CaSc2O4:Eu, Ca8Mg(SiO4)4Cl2:Eu, Mn, SrSi2O2N2:Eu, LaPO4:Tb,Ce, Zn2SiO4:Mn, ZnS:Cu, YBO3:Ce,Tb, (Ca,Sr,Ba)Al2O4:Eu, Sr2P2O7:Eu,Mn, SrAl2S4:Eu, BaAl2S4:Eu, Sr2Ga2S5:Eu, SiAlON:Eu, KSrPO4:Tb, or Na2Gd2B2O7:Ce,Tb, and red phosphor powders including Y2O3:Eu, YVO4:Eu, CaSiAlN3:Eu, (Sr,Ca)SiAlN3:Eu, Sr2Si5N8:Eu, CaSiN2:Eu, (Y,Gd)BO3:Eu, (La,Y)2O2S:Eu, La2TeO6:Eu, SrS:Eu, Gd2MoO6:Eu, Y2WO6:Eu,Bi, Lu2WO6:Eu,Bi, (Ca,Sr,Ba)MgSi2O6:Eu,Mn, Sr3SiO5:Eu, SrY2S4:Eu, CaSiO3:Eu, Ca8MgLa(PO4)7:Eu, Ca8MgGd(PO4)7:Eu, Ca8MgY(PO4)7:Eu, or CaLa2S4:Ce. The above phosphor powders are uniformly or partially spread on thewavelength transforming layer 28. - In this embodiment, the
wavelength converting layer 32 includes at least one yellow phosphor powder. Thewavelength converting layer 32 can absorb thesecond light 220 and convert thesecond light 220 into third light 230 in yellow color, wherein the dominant wavelength of thethird light 230 is about 570 nm. Then, thethird light 230 of yellow color and thesecond light 220 which is not absorbed by thewavelength converting layer 32 are mixed to generate afourth light 240 in white light. - Because the dominant wavelength of the
second light 220 is about 460 nm and the second dominant wavelength variation V2 is less than 10 nm, preferably less than 5 nm. In the embodiment, the distribution range of the second dominant wavelengths is between 455 nm and 465 nm.FIG. 6 illustrates a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram of thefourth light 240. AsFIG. 6 shows, the color temperature of thefourth light 240 which is generated by mixing thesecond light 220 and thethird light 230 is about between 6500K and 8500K (the intersection point of the black curve and the solid line inFIG. 6 ). The difference of the color temperature of thefourth light 240 is less than 2000K, preferably less than 1000K. - Comparing to the conventional technology that the blue LED whose dominant wavelength is between 450 nm and 470 nm combines with the yellow phosphor powder to generate the white light of which the difference of the color temperature is 3000K (the intersection point of the black curve and the dotted line in
FIG. 6 ), the embodiment of the present application significantly increases the uniformity of the light emitted from each light-emitting stacked layer of an LED wafer. - Furthermore, although the LED chip which is a vertical structure is taken as an example in the above embodiment, the scope of the present application is not limited to the LED of the vertical structure.
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of another embodiment of the present application. AsFIG. 7 shows, anLED wafer 500 includes asubstrate 50, and a plurality of light-emittingstacked layers 52, a plurality offirst electrodes 54, a plurality ofsecond electrodes 56, and a plurality ofwavelength transforming layers 58 formed on thesubstrate 50, wherein each of the plurality of light-emittingstacked layers 52 at least includes a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer 520, anactive layer 522, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer 524. Each of the plurality of light-emittingstacked layers 52 includes a plane exposing the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer 524. Each of the plurality offirst electrodes 54 and each of the plurality ofsecond electrodes 56 are located on the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer 520 and the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer 524 respectively. The plurality ofwavelength transforming layers 58 covers the plurality of light-emitting stacked layers 52. - Moreover,
FIGS. 8A and 8B are cross-sectional views of other embodiments of the present application. The embodiments can further include anelectrical connection structure 60 to connect the adjacent light-emittingstacked layers 52/52′ in series connection. AsFIG. 8A shows, theelectrical connection structure 60 is a metal wire. The wire bonding technology is utilized to electrically connect thesecond electrode 56 of a light-emittingstacked layer 52 and thefirst electrode 54 of another light-emittingstacked layer 52′ to form a series connection between different light-emittingstacked layers FIG. 8B shows, theelectrical connection structure 60 can also include an insulatinglayer 62 formed between the adjacent light-emittingstacked layers metal layer 64 formed on the insulatinglayer 62 to electrically connect thesecond electrode 56 of a light-emittingstacked layer 52 and thefirst electrode 54 of another light-emittingstacked layer 52′. Thus, there is a series connection between different light-emittingstacked layers - Additionally, as
FIG. 9 shows, each of the plurality of light-emittingstacked layers 52 can be diced along the dicing line A to form the LED chip in the step of dicing the LED wafer. The plurality of light-emittingstacked layers electrical connection structure 60 in series connection are diced along the dicing line B to form anLED array chip 70. In general, the voltage drop of each of the plurality of light-emittingstacked layer stacked layers LED array chip 70 and can be directly applied to the vehicle application which is 48V in the alternating current power supply. Moreover, thirty light-emittingstacked layers LED array chip 70 and can be directly applied to the household application with 100V in the alternating current power supply. Because there is a wavelength transforming layer on each of the light-emittingstacked layers stacked layers - The foregoing description has been directed to the specific embodiments of this application. It will be apparent, however, that other variations and modifications may be made to the embodiments without escaping the spirit and scope of the application.
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