Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Device comprising a light-emitting diode and a Schottky barrier diode rectifier, and method of fabrication
An integrated circuit is provided with a (bridge) rectifier circuit configured to couple to an alternating current (AC) supply to a (string of) LEDs monolithically fabricated on substrate, preferably on a patterned sapphire substrate (PSS). The rectifier including at least one schottky barrier diode configured to have a reverse-bias breakdown voltage substantially equal to or greater than half a peak voltage of the AC supply. Further embodiments include a method for fabricating an integrated Schottky barrier diode (SBD) with a LED on a LED wafer. Some embodiments can include etching processes to a wafer that may include a plurality of processing cycles. Some embodiments can further include a wafer having a patterned substrate. The wafer with the patterned substrate may have an interface layer configured to facilitate increasing a forward bias current density of the SBD.
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Liu Xu