Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 54, Issue 33, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ac021a
Keywords
deep UV LED; AlGaN; reflective contact; ray-tracing simulation; light extraction efficiency
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the 'Advanced UV for life' project
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the Collaborative Research Centre 'Semiconductor Nanophotonics' [SFB 787]
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The light extraction efficiency, external quantum efficiency, and current-voltage characteristics of deep ultraviolet light emitting diodes with different aluminum mole fractions in the p-AlGaN layers were investigated. Optimization of the p-AlGaN layer composition requires a tradeoff between reducing absorption losses and limiting increases in p-contact resistance and operation voltage. Experimental comparison showed DUV-LEDs with UV-transparent p-SPSL and UV-reflective indium contacts had increased operating voltage and a five-fold increase in on-wafer EQE.
The light extraction efficiency (LEE), external quantum efficiency (EQE), and current-voltage characteristics of deep ultraviolet light emitting diodes (DUV-LEDs) with different aluminum mole fractions in the p-AlGaN layers have been investigated. Optimizing the p-AlGaN layer composition requires a tradeoff between reducing the absorption losses and limiting the increases in the p-contact resistance and operation voltage. AlGaN multiple quantum well LEDs emitting around 263 nm with different AlGaN:Mg short period super lattices (p-SPSL) ranging from x = 33% (UV-absorbing) to x = 68% (UV-transparent) average aluminum mole fraction have been explored. DUV-LEDs with different p-contact metals and UV-reflectivities have been characterized by electroluminescence measurements and analyzed by ray-tracing simulations. The comparison shows an increased operating voltage and a five-fold increase of the on-wafer EQE with a maximum value of 3.0% for DUV-LEDs with UV-transparent p-SPSL (x = 68%) and UV-reflective indium contacts in comparison to LEDs with a UV-absorbing p-SPSL (x = 33%). Ray-tracing simulations show that the increase in EQE can be partially ascribed to a 2.5-fold improved LEE in combination with a two-fold increase in internal quantum efficiency.
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