Therefore, the object of the disclosure is to provide a light conversion device which can alleviate at least one of the drawbacks of the prior art.
According to the disclosure, a light conversion device includes a light-emitting unit, a photoelectric conversion unit, and an electroconductive bonding layer.
The light-emitting unit includes a first-type region and a second-type region opposite to the first-type region.
The photoelectric conversion unit includes a first-type region and a second-type region opposite to the first-type region. The photoelectric conversion unit is capable of converting an optical signal to an electrical signal when a reverse bias is applied thereto.
The electroconductive bonding layer is disposed between the light-emitting unit and the photoelectric conversion unit for connecting the first-type region of the light-emitting unit with the first-type region of the photoelectric conversion unit or connecting the second-type region of the light-emitting unit with the second-type region of the photoelectric conversion unit. When the light conversion device is operated to receive a bias and an external light to make the light-emitting unit be under a forward bias and the photoelectric conversion unit be under a reverse bias, the external light irradiates the photoelectric conversion unit such that the light-emitting unit generates a modulated light which has a frequency different from that of the external light.
The photoelectric conversion unit further includes a first metal electrode and a second metal electrode respectively disposed at two opposite outer surfaces of the photoelectric conversion unit. The light-emitting unit further includes a third metal electrode and a fourth metal electrode respectively disposed at two opposite outer surfaces of the light-emitting unit.
The effect of the invention lies in that, in this disclosure, the light-emitting unit and the photoelectric conversion unit are first produced individually, then regions of the light-emitting unit and the photoelectric conversion unit having the same conductivity type are interconnected through the electroconductive bonding layer by the flip-chip bonding technique so as to produce the light conversion device. The light conversion device of the disclosure does not involve a complicated heterogeneous epitaxial structure, and high temperature and high pressure conditions used in wafer fusion bonding method are not required in this disclosure. |