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Packaging of light-emitting diode

US6531328B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 11, 2001
Grant dateMar 11, 2003
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Expiry dateOct 11, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH10H20/8581
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention of “Packaging of Light-Emitting Diode” is mainly to use silicon wafer as the substrate, whose crystal surface has a specific orientation for etching to form grooves. On the back of silicon substrate, dry etching is used for through-hole electrodes. Meanwhile, the insulating oxide layer or the nitride layer on silicon surface is plated with a reflective layer and an electrode layer, so the LED substrate is actually made of “silicon substrate”. Through the procedures including placement of LED chips in the grooves of a silicon substrate, die bonding, wire bonding, encapsulation and cutting, SMD LED can be formed. Compared to traditional LED packaging that uses circuit boards or metal leadframes as main packaging substrates, the present invention is a breakthrough, which uses silicon wafers as substrates, so it has several advantages including good heat dissipation, high heat resistance and easy miniaturization, which are not seen in common LED presently.

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