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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/715 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/715 ;
Abstract
An injected current restriction region for restricting an increase in defects by restricting an injected current for light emission is provided inside a ZnSe-based LED. When an end of a light transmitting Au electrode is separated from a cleavage plane, a region near the cleavage plane serves as the injected current restriction region.