Epistar Corporation

An-Ju Lin

Chien-Fu Shen

Tsun-Kai Ko

Chen Ou

Hui-Chun Yeh

Schang-Jing Hon

Chien-Kai Chung

An optoelectronic semiconductor device comprises a substrate; a semiconductor system including a first conductivity layer and a second conductivity layer, wherein the second conductivity layer comprises a top surface, and in a top view of the semiconductor system, an outline of the first conductivity layer surrounds an outline of the second conductivity layer; a first electrical connector on the first conductivity layer; a second electrical connector comprising a top view shape and directly contacting the second conductivity layer; a contact layer contacting the top surface of the second conductivity layer and having an outer perimeter at an inner side of the outline of the second conductivity layer in the top view of the semiconductor system; and a discontinuous region contacting the top surface of the second conductivity layer, wherein the contact layer covers a top surface and sidewalls of the discontinuous region.

Optoelectronic semiconductor device

An optoelectronic semiconductor device comprises a substrate; a semiconductor system including a first conductivity layer, a second conductivity layer, and a conversion unit between the first conductivity layer and the second conductivity layer, wherein the first conductivity layer is closer to the substrate than the second conductivity layer is to the substrate, and the second conductivity layer comprises a top surface perpendicular to a thickness direction of the semiconductor system, and in a top view of the semiconductor system, an outline of the first conductivity layer surrounds an outline of the second conductivity layer; a first electrical connector on the first conductivity layer of the semiconductor system; a second electrical connector comprising a shape formed on the second conductivity layer of the semiconductor system; and a contact layer formed on the top surface of the second conductivity layer and having an outer perimeter at an inner side of the outline of the second conductivity layer in the top view of the semiconductor system, wherein the contact layer comprises a discontinuous region exposing the top surface of the second conductivity layer, the discontinuous region is formed along the shape of the second electrical connector.

An optoelectronic semiconductor device in accordance with an embodiment of present invention includes a conversion unit having a first side; an electrical connector; a contact layer having an outer perimeter; and at least three successive discontinuous-regions formed along the outer perimeter and having at least one different factor; wherein the electrical connector, the contact layer, and the discontinuous-regions are formed on the first side of the conversion unit.

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