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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2006
George R. Brandes, Raleigh, NC (US);
Robert P. Vaudo, Cary, NC (US);
Xueping Xu, Stamford, CT (US);
Cree, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
A microelectronic assembly in which a semiconductor device structure is directionally positioned on an off-axis substrate (). In an illustrative implementation, a laser diode is oriented on a GaN substrate () wherein the GaN substrate includes a GaN (0001) surface off-cut from the <0001> direction predominantly towards either the <1120> or the <1100> family of directions. For a <1120> off-cut substrate, a laser diode cavity () may be oriented along the <1100> direction parallel to lattice surface steps () of the substrate () in order to have a cleaved laser facet that is orthogonal to the surface lattice steps. For <1100> off-cut substrate, the laser diode cavity may be oriented along the <1100> direction orthogonal to lattice surface steps () of the substrate () in order to provide a cleave laser facet that is aligned with the surface lattice steps.