US 7,528,418 B2
Light-emitting device
Shunpei Yamazaki, Tokyo (Japan); Junichiro Sakata, Kanagawa (Japan); Takahiro Kawakami, Kanagawa (Japan); Yoshiaki Yamamoto, Kanagawa (Japan); Miki Katayama, Kanagawa (Japan); Kohei Yokoyama, Kanagawa (Japan); and Yasuyuki Arai, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 16, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/707,414.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-049322 (JP), filed on Feb. 24, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0200112 A1, Aug. 30, 2007
Int. Cl. H01L 33/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 257—96  [257/79; 257/E33.013] 49 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A light-emitting device comprising:
a light-emitting element comprising a plurality of light-emitting units and an intermediate conductive layer between a pair of electrodes,
wherein each of the plurality of light-emitting units comprises a light-emitting layer including a base material which is an impurity element and a compound containing an element belonging to group 2 and an element belonging to group 16, and
wherein the plurality of light-emitting units are connected in series with the intermediate conductive layer interposed therebetween.