TSMC Solid State Lighting Ltd.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp. Ltd.

Epistar Corporation

Tien-Ming Lin

Hsiao-Wen Lee

Wei-Yu Yeh

Chih-Hsuan Sun

Min-Sheng Wu

Chi Xiang Tseng

Sheng-Shin Guo

Yu-Sheng Tang

Chi-Xiang Tseng

Shang-Yu Tsai

Hsin-Hung Chen

Chyi Shyuan Chern

Chung Yu Wang

Hsin-Hsien Wu

Ching-Yi Chen

Hao-Yu Yang

Fu-Wen Liu

Huai-En Lai

Hao-Wei Ku

A lighting device includes a multi-faceted heat sink with facets in a center portion facing outward. The facets form a central enclosed portion, and the heat sink further has a plurality of fins, where each of the fins is placed between adjacent facets and protrudes outwardly from the heat sink. The lighting device also has a plurality of circuit boards with semiconductor emitters mounted thereon. Each of the circuit boards is mounted on a respective facet of the heat sink. The lighting device also has a light-diffusion housing covering the plurality of circuit boards, a power module in communication with the circuit boards and operable to convert power to be compatible with the semiconductor emitters, and a power connector assembly in electrical communication with the power module.

LED lamp and method of making the same

The present disclosure provides a light emitting diode (LED) apparatus. The LED apparatus includes an LED emitter having a top surface; and a phosphor feature disposed on the LED emitter. The phosphor feature includes a first phosphor film disposed on the top surface of the LED emitter and having a first dimension defined in a direction parallel to the top surface of the LED emitter; a second phosphor film disposed on the first phosphor film and having a second dimension defined in the direction; and the second dimension is substantially less than the first dimension.

Structure and method for LED with phosphor coating

The present disclosure involves lighting apparatus. The lighting apparatus includes a first doped semiconductor layer. A light-emitting layer is disposed over the first doped semiconductor layer. A second doped semiconductor layer is disposed over the light-emitting layer. The second doped semiconductor layer has a different type of conductivity than the first doped semiconductor layer. A photo-conversion layer is disposed over the second doped semiconductor layer and over side surfaces of the first and second doped semiconductor layers and the light-emitting layer. The photo-conversion layer has an angular profile.

Method and apparatus for fabricating phosphor-coated LED dies

A lamp includes a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting devices located over the substrate, and a cap that is located over the light-emitting devices. The plurality of light-emitting devices include a first subset of light-emitting devices and a second subset of light-emitting devices. Each light-emitting device in the first subset is free of a phosphor coating. Each light-emitting device in the second subset includes a phosphor coating. The cap has both photo-conversion properties and light-scattering properties, and the cap is located over the first subset of the light-emitting devices but exposes the second subset of the light-emitting devices.

LED lamp with remote phosphor on a cap structure

Two or more molded ellipsoid lenses are formed on a packaged LED die by injecting a glue material into a mold over the LED die and curing the glue material. After curing, the refractive index of the lens in contact with the LED die is greater than the refractive index of the lens not directly contacting the LED die. At least one phosphor material is incorporated into the glue material for at least one of the lenses not directly contacting the LED die. The lens directly contacting the LED die may also include one or more phosphor material. A high refractive index coating may be applied between the LED die and the lens.

Refractive index tuning of wafer level package LEDs

A semiconductor structure includes a module with a plurality of die regions, a plurality of light-emitting devices disposed upon the substrate so that each of the die regions includes one of the light-emitting devices, and a lens board over the module and adhered to the substrate with glue. The lens board includes a plurality of microlenses each corresponding to one of the die regions, and at each one of the die regions the glue provides an air-tight encapsulation of one of the light-emitting devices by a respective one of the microlenses. Further, phosphor is included as a part of the lens board.

Systems and methods providing semiconductor light emitters

The present disclosure involves a method of packaging a light-emitting diode (LED). According to the method, a group of metal pads and a group of LEDs are provided. The group of LEDs is attached to the group of metal pads, for example through a bonding process. After the LEDs are attached to the metal pads, each LED is spaced apart from adjacent LEDs. Also according to the method, a phosphor film is coated around the group of LEDs collectively. The phosphor film is coated on top and side surfaces of each LED and between adjacent LEDs. A dicing process is then performed to slice through portions of the phosphor film located between adjacent LEDs. The dicing process divides the group of LEDs into a plurality of individual phosphor-coated LEDs.

The present disclosure involves an LED lamp. The LED lamp includes a plurality of light-emitting diode (LED) light sources located on a substrate. At least a subset of the LED light sources is free of a phosphor coating. The LED lamp includes a multi-layered cap structure located over at least the subset of the LED light sources. The cap structure contains a phosphor material and a diffuser material. The cap structure is physically separated from the subset of the LED light sources by a gap. The LED lamp includes a cover structure positioned over and surrounding the LED light sources and the cap structure.

LED lamp with improved light output

An optical emitter is fabricated by bonding a Light-Emitting Diode (LED) die to a package wafer, electrically connecting the LED die and the package wafer, forming a phosphor coating over the LED die on the package wafer, molding a lens over the LED die on the package wafer, molding a reflector on the package wafer, and dicing the wafer into at least one optical emitter.

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Hsinchu, Taiwan

Tien-Ming Lin