Concave-Convex Electrode Structure for LED Chip Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing light emitting devices face reliability issues due to misalignment and twisting of light emitting chips during bonding processes, which can lead to reduced performance and efficiency.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a light emitting device structure featuring a package body with concave portions on electrodes and a light emitting chip with corresponding convex portions, ensuring accurate and secure attachment through eutectic bonding or adhesive bonding, thereby preventing twisting and enhancing reliability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional bonding processes are used to attach light emitting chips to package bodies, then the bonding process is simple and fast, but misalignment and twisting occur leading to reduced reliability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebonding reliabilityVSAvoidchip structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-forming concave portions on the package body electrodes and convex portions on the light emitting chip bottom surface before the bonding process. These pre-formed geometric features guide the chip-electrode alignment during bonding, preventing misalignment and twisting that would otherwise occur during the attachment process. This preliminary structural preparation ensures reliable bonding without requiring complex real-time alignment control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If conventional flat electrode structures are used, then the manufacturing process is simple, but misalignment and twisting occur during bonding reducing positioning accuracy

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvechip positioning precisionVSAvoidelectrode structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies asymmetry by introducing non-planar geometric features (concave portions on electrodes and corresponding convex portions on the chip) to the otherwise symmetric flat bonding interface. This asymmetric structural design creates a unique fit between the chip and electrode, providing mechanical guidance that prevents rotation and misalignment during bonding, thereby significantly improving positioning precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #4Asymmetry

3Reliability

If conventional bonding without geometric interlocking is used, then the bonding process is fast and simple, but twisting occurs leading to reduced device reliability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice reliabilityVSAvoidbonding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies the nesting principle by creating a hierarchical geometric interlocking structure where the convex portion on the chip fits into the concave portion on the electrode, forming a nested configuration. This nested geometric relationship provides mechanical constraint that prevents twisting during and after bonding, enhancing device reliability while maintaining a relatively simple bonding process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Data Source

PatentUS8698185B2Light emitting device and light unit having improved electrode and chip structures with concave/convex shapes
Publication Date: 2014.04.15 SUZHOU LEKIN SEMICON CO LTD
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  • US8698185B2 patent drawing
  • US8698185B2 patent drawing

AI summary

Provided are a light emitting device and a light unit. The light emitting device includes a package body including a body, a plurality of electrodes on the body, and a concave portion on at least one of the plurality of electrodes, a light emitting chip including a convex portion corresponding to the concave portion to couple and attach the concave portion to the convex portion, the light emitting chip including a first conductive type semiconductor layer, a second conductive type semiconductor layer, and an active layer between the first conductive type semiconductor layer and the second conductive type semiconductor layer, and an adhesion layer on a bottom surface of the light emitting chip.