Study of efficient semipolar (11-22) InGaN green micro-light-emitting diodes on highquality (11-22) GaN/sapphire template

Hongjian Li , Matthew S Wong , Michel Khoury , Bastien Bonef , Haojun Zhang , Yichao Chow , Panpan Li , Jared Kearns , Aidan A Taylor , Philippe de Mierry (1) , Zainuriah Hassan , Shuji Nakamura , Steven P Denbaars

1 CRHEA - Centre de recherche sur l'hétéroepitaxie et ses applications

We investigated the electrical and optical performances of semipolar (11-22) InGaN green µLEDs with a size ranging from 20 × 20 µm 2 to 100 × 100 µm 2 , grown on a low defect density and large area (11-22) GaN template on patterned sapphire substrate. Atom probe tomography (APT) gave insights on quantum wells (QWs) thickness and indium composition and indicated that no indium clusters were observed in the QWs. The µLEDs showed a small wavelength blueshift of 5 nm, as the current density increased from 5 to 90 A/cm 2 and exhibited a size-independent EQE of 2% by sidewall passivation using atomiclayer deposition, followed by an extremely low leakage current of ~0.1 nA at −5 V. Moreover, optical polarization behavior with a polarization ratio of 40% was observed. This work demonstrated long-wavelength µLEDs fabricated on semipolar GaN grown on foreign substrate, which are applicable for a variety of display applications at a low cost.

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Hongjian Li, Matthew S Wong, Michel Khoury, Bastien Bonef, Haojun Zhang, et al.. Study of efficient semipolar (11-22) InGaN green micro-light-emitting diodes on highquality (11-22) GaN/sapphire template. Optics Express, 2019, ⟨10.1364/OE.27.024154⟩. ⟨hal-03023844⟩