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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2017
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
David P. Bour, Cupertino, CA (US);
Kelly McGroddy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel Arthur Haeger, Fremont, CA (US);
James Michael Perkins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Arpan Chakraborty, San Ramon, CA (US);
Jean-Jacques P. Drolet, San Jose, CA (US);
Dmitry S. Sizov, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/06 (2006.01); H01L 31/00 (2006.01); H01L 33/06 (2010.01); H01L 33/00 (2010.01); H01L 33/30 (2010.01); H01L 33/44 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 33/06 (2013.01); H01L 33/0008 (2013.01); H01L 33/0025 (2013.01); H01L 33/0062 (2013.01); H01L 33/305 (2013.01); H01L 33/44 (2013.01);
Abstract
LED structures are disclosed to reduce non-radiative sidewall recombination along sidewalls of vertical LEDs including p-n diode sidewalls that span a top current spreading layer, bottom current spreading layer, and active layer between the top current spreading layer and bottom current spreading layer.