Fabrication of planar GaN-based micro-pixel light emitting diode arrays

Massoubre, D. and McKendry, J. and Guilhabert, B.J.E. and Gong, Z. and Watson, I.M. and Gu, E. and Dawson, M.D. (2009) Fabrication of planar GaN-based micro-pixel light emitting diode arrays. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting. pp. 84-85. ISSN 1092-8081 (https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343456)

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Abstract

Micro-pixelated GaN light-emitting diodes (‘micro-LED’s) offer attractions for a wide range of applications including microdisplays, mask-free photolithography, lab-on-a-chip and bioinstrumentation [1]. Mesa dry etching methods have underpinned the development of this technology to date. Here we propose and demonstrate a new planar process which simplifies the process flow and permits individually-addressable pixelated devices to be fabricated without any obvious degradation of electrical and optical performance. The approach is based on the intrinsic high resistivity of the p-type GaN layer for pixel to pixel electrical isolation and on a CHF3 plasma treatment to dramatically reduce current leakage through the p-GaN/metal interface. Consequently, this process requires a lower number of fabrication steps than previously used processes using mesa etching for pixel definition and dielectric deposition for electrical insulation [2]. It leads to a planar active area well suited for further integration of functional micro-elements, including microfluidic-channels, microoptics or luminescent materials for colour conversion [3, 4]. This new fabrication route has been validated by fabricating and characterizing an individually addressable micro-stripe LED array emitting at 470 nm.

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Massoubre, D., McKendry, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6379-3955, Guilhabert, B.J.E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3986-8566, Gong, Z., Watson, I.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8797-3993, Gu, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7607-9902 and Dawson, M.D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6639-2989;
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