This application claims the priority of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2010-0134474 filed on Dec. 24, 2010, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a light emitting device package and a method of manufacturing the same.
2. Description of the Related Art
In general, a light emitting device package containing a light emitting diode (LED) in which a light emission operation is performed in response to an electrical signal is widely used in various kinds of electronic products including a mobile communications terminal such as a personal mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or the like.
A package structure, according to the related art, having an LED installed therein, generally has a cup-shaped cavity formed in a package body thereof formed of a highly reflective material to reduce light loss in light emitted from a light emitting device and has the cavity filled with a silicon-based resin after mounting a light emitting device chip within the cavity.
In particular, since an encapsulant part to encapsulate and protect a wire connecting a chip to a lead generally has a composition in which a fluorescent substance is dispersed in a silicon resin, there may be difficulties in securing the bonding reliability of a wire in a high temperature and high humidity environment, due to a relatively weak bonding force and the deterioration of the mechanical and physical properties of the silicon resin.
In addition, according to the related art, since a package body may be formed through a pre-molding method in which a mold is previously formed in lead frames, the periphery of a chip to later be mounted may not be encapsulated by a mold material, and a color quality of emitted light may be degraded depending on a fluorescent substance density in an upper part and the side surface of the chip due to an approximately 20%-30% emission of light through the side surface of the chip.
An aspect of the present invention provides a light emitting device package and a method of manufacturing the same, in which a molding material having a relatively high reflectivity may be used in encapsulating the periphery of a chip in a post molding process in which a molding process is performed after chip bonding and wire bonding processes so as to form a package body, thereby obtaining significantly increased light extraction efficiency by preventing light from being emitted sidewardly and ensuring the light is emitted in an upward direction through internal reflection, and providing light having a uniform color quality through a fluorescent substance layer having a uniform thickness formed on a chip.
Another aspect of the present invention provides a light emitting device package and a method of manufacturing the same, which is capable of enhancing the reliability in a bonding force with a wire by encapsulating a chip and the wire by using a molding material having prominent mechanical, electrical and physical properties instead of using an encapsulating material.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a light emitting device package including: a plurality of lead frames disposed to be separated from one another; at least one light emitting device mounted on the lead frames and electrically connected to the lead frames through a bonding wire provided on a wire bonding pad, the wire bonding pad being disposed on the same surface as a light emission surface provided as an upper surface of the light emitting device; a body part formed to encapsulate and support the wire bonding pad, the bonding wire, the light emitting device and the lead frames, and having a reflective groove formed in an upper surface thereof to expose the light emission surface to the outside therethrough; and a lens part disposed on the body part, to cover the light emitting device.
The body part may be formed to encapsulate the bonding wire, a side surface of the light emitting device, and a portion of an upper surface of the light emitting device, including the wire bonding pad.
In addition, the wire bonding pad may be disposed in plural at an edge of the upper surface of the light emitting device.
The light emitting device package may further include an encapsulant part formed in the reflective groove to cover the light emission surface.
The encapsulant part may contain any one of a fluorescent material, a diffusion material and a mixture thereof.
The light emitting device package may further include a fluorescent substance layer formed on the light emission surface of the light emitting device.
The light emitting device package may further include a heat dissipating unit disposed in a lower part of the light emitting device and disposed to be exposed to a lower part of the body part so as to discharge heat produced by the light emitting device to the outside.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing a light emitting device package including: preparing a light emitting device provided with a wire bonding pad attached to the same surface as a light emission surface provided as an upper surface of the light emitting device; mounting at least one light emitting device on a plurality of lead frames disposed to be separated from one another; electrically connecting the light emitting device to the lead frames by bonding one end of the bonding wire to the wire bonding pad and bonding the other end thereof to the lead frame; forming a body part through a molding process to encapsulate the light emitting device mounted on the lead frames together with the bonding wires by injecting a resin into a mold, the body part being formed to have a reflective groove formed in an upper surface thereof to expose the light emission surface therethrough; and forming a lens part on the body part to cover the light emitting device.
The method of manufacturing a light emitting device package may further include arranging a frame sheet on which the plurality of lead frames are formed to be separated from one another, before the mounting of the light emitting device.
In addition, the method may further include bonding a heat dissipating unit to a lower surfaces of the lead frames on which the light emitting device is mounted, such that the heat dissipating unit may be disposed at a lower part of the light emitting device, before the forming of the body part . The heat dissipating unit may be exposed to a lower part of the body part to be formed later.
The forming of the body part may be performed to encapsulate the bonding wire and a side surface of the light emitting device, and a portion of the upper surface of the light emitting device, including the wire bonding pad, through the molding process.
Further, the forming of the body part may be performed to dispose a single light emitting device in the reflective groove or a plurality of light emitting devices therein through the molding process.
In addition, the method may further include forming a fluorescent substance layer on the light emission surface of the light emitting device between the forming of the body part and the forming of the lens part.
The method may further include dicing along a cutting line so as to form separate light emitting device packages.
The above and other aspects, features and other advantages of the present invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings such that they could be easily practiced by those having skill in the art to which the present invention pertains. However, in describing the exemplary embodiments of the present invention, detailed descriptions of well-known functions or constructions will be omitted so as not to obscure the description of the present invention with unnecessary detail.
In addition, like reference numerals denote like elements throughout the drawings.
Unless explicitly described to the contrary, the word “comprise” and variations such as “comprises” or “comprising,” will be understood to imply the inclusion of stated elements but not the exclusion of any other elements.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a light emitting device package will be described with reference to
Referring to
The lead frames 10 may be provided in plural and spaced apart from each other so as not to be electrically connected.
The light emitting device 20 may be one of various kinds of semiconductor devices emitting light having a given wavelength in response to an electrical signal applied from the outside, and may be a light emitting chip or a light emitting device package having a light emitting device chip mounted therein. The light emitting device 20 may emit blue light, red light or green light depending on materials contained therein, and may emit white light.
The light emitting device 20 may emit light to the outside through a light emission surface 21 provided as an upper surface thereof as shown in
The light emitting device 20 may be bonded to an upper surface of the lead frame 10 through a bonding member 70 that is disposed in a gap between the light emitting device 20 and the lead frame 10. The bonding member 70 may be formed of a tape type adhesive layer on the lead frames 10, and may also be formed as a paste type layer for the covering thereof using a spraying method, a printing method, a dispensing method, or the like. In this case, the tape or paste may have a high density as a heat conductive filler. Further, the light emitting device 20 may be directly bonded to the upper surface of the lead frame 10 through a metal bonding, and at this time, heat conductivity between the light emitting device 20 and the lead frame 10 may be relatively prominent. The light emitting device 20 may be mounted singly as shown in
The body part 30 maybe formed to encapsulate and support the light emitting device 20 and the lead frame 10, including the wire bonding pad 23 and the bonding wire 25. In detail, the body part 30 may be formed to encapsulate the bonding wire 25 and a side surface 22 of the light emitting device 20, and a portion of the upper surface of the light emitting device 20, including the wire bonding pad 23. That is, the light emitting device 20 and the bonding wire 25 may be encapsulated by the body part 30 having relatively prominent mechanical and physical properties, instead of using an encapsulant part having relatively deteriorated mechanical and physical properties according to the related art, thereby securing connection reliability therebetween.
A reflective groove 31 maybe formed in an upper surface of the body part 30, to which the light emission surface 21 of the light emitting device 20 may be exposed. As shown in
The lens part 40 may be disposed on the body part 30 to cover and protect the light emitting device 20. The lens part 40 may be formed of a transparent resin material so as to evenly discharge light emitted from the light emitting device 20 to the outside. The lens part 40 may be formed to have an upwardly convex dome shape to improve an orientation angle of emitted light as shown in the drawings, but is not limited thereto, and may be formed to have other various kinds of structures in consideration of orientation angle properties. The lens part 40 may be formed directly on the body part 30 through a molding method such as a compression molding, transfer molding or the like or through a porting method of using a dispenser; or may be manufactured through a separate process so as to be bonded to the upper surface of the body part 30 using an adhesive.
A fluorescent substance layer 50 containing at least one kind of fluorescent material may be formed on the light emission surface 21 of the light emitting device 20, by which a wavelength of light emitted from the light emitting device 20 may be converted into a wavelength of a desired color. For example, blue light may be converted in white light. As shown in the drawings, since in the light emitting device 20, only the light emission surface 21 may be exposed through the reflective groove 31, in the fluorescent substance layer 50 containing a fluorescent material, the fluorescent material may only be distributed on the light emission surface 21, thereby reducing a required quantity of high-cost fluorescent material. In addition, only the light emission surface 21 of the light emitting device 20 maybe exposed through the reflective groove 31 such that the fluorescent substance layer 50 may only be formed on the light emission surface 21.
Meanwhile, as shown in
The heat dissipating unit 60 may be disposed in a lower part of the light emitting device 20, to be exposed to a lower part of the body part 30 so as to discharge heat produced by the light emitting device 20 to the outside. The heat dissipating unit 60 may be bonded to a lower surface of the lead frame 10 as the surface opposite to an upper surface of the lead frame 10 on which the light emitting device 20 is mounted, through the bonding member 70, or may be directly bonded to the lead frame 10 through eutectic bonding. The heat dissipating unit 60 may be formed of a metal or a ceramic material so as to enhance light emission efficiency or formed of a heat conductive silicon material.
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device package according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to
Referring to
The light emitting device 20 may be obtained by singulating a light emitting laminate having an n-type semiconductor layer, an active layer and a p-type semiconductor layer sequentially grown through a chemical vapor deposition apparatus (not shown) and the like into separate dies on a wafer level.
Meanwhile, the method of manufacturing a light emitting device package may further include arranging a frame sheet F on which the plurality of lead frames 10 are formed before the mounting of the light emitting device 20. In detail, the plurality of lead frames 10 may be formed to be separated from one another by a predetermined interval by performing repeated patterning on a metal plate formed of a material having relatively large electrical conductivity and heat conductivity properties as shown in
Subsequently, the heat dissipating unit 60 may be bonded to lower surfaces of the lead frames 10 on which the light emitting device 20 is mounted, such that the heat dissipating unit may be disposed at a lower part of the light emitting device 20, as shown in
Then, as shown in
Subsequently, as shown in
The body part 30 may be formed to encapsulate the bonding wire 25, the side surface 22 of the light emitting device 20, and a portion of the upper surface of the light emitting device 20, including the wire bonding pad 23, through the molding process as shown in
As described above, in a post molding method of forming the body part 30 after the light emitting device 20 is mounted on the lead frames 10 and the wire bonding process is completed, an overall process may be simplified since a non-value added process, such as baking and the like before introducing resin material, is omitted, unlike in a pre-molding method of mounting a light emitting device in a state in which the existing body part has been formed and of performing a wire bonding process. In addition, the molding process may be performed by controlling the structure of the reflective groove 31 to control a degree of exposure of the light emitting device 20, that is, only an upper surface thereof may be exposed, thereby preventing an unnecessary waste of space and significantly facilitating miniaturization and light collection efficiency.
Then, with reference to
Next, the lens part 40 may be formed on the body part 30 as shown in
Then, a plurality of light emitting device packages may be manufactured by dicing along a cutting line C shown in FIGS. 13 and 14 so as to separate light emitting device packages and then bending end parts of the lead frames 10 of the respective light emitting device packages.
As set forth above, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a molding material prominent in mechanical and physical properties is used for the package body including a chip and wires in the encapsulating process, thereby enhancing bonding reliability between the wire and chip even in high temperature and humidity operating environment.
Furthermore, since in a general epi-up (eg, p-side up) chip, light is also emitted from a side surface of a growth substrate, a fluorescent layer should be applied to cover not only an upper part of chip but a side surface thereof; however, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a fluorescent layer may be formed only on an upper part of chip by using a light reflection mold material encapsulating the periphery of the chip, thereby relatively easily forming a fluorescent layer and implementing light having a uniform color quality.
Further, according to an embodiment of the present invention, since the molding process is performed after chip bonding and wire bonding processes, a non-value added process such as bake processing and the like before introducing molding material may be omitted, thereby simplifying an overall process.
While the present invention has been shown and described in connection with the exemplary embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications and variations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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10-2010-0134474 | Dec 2010 | KR | national |