Planar micro- and nano-patterning of GaN light-emitting diodes : guidelines and limitations

Herrnsdorf, Johannes and Xie, Enyuan and Watson, Ian M. and Laurand, Nicolas and Dawson, Martin D. (2014) Planar micro- and nano-patterning of GaN light-emitting diodes : guidelines and limitations. Journal of Applied Physics, 115 (8). 084503. ISSN 0021-8979

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    Abstract

    The emission area of GaN light-emitting diodes can be patterned by etch-free current aperturing methods which exploit the thin and highly resistive nature of the p-doped layer in these devices. Here, the fundamental underlying electrical and optical aspects of high-resolution current aperturing are investigated theoretically. The most critical parameter for the possible resolution is the thickness d of the p-GaN layer, but the interplay of p-GaN resistivity and electrical junction characteristics is also important. A spatial resolution of 1.59d can in principle be achieved, corresponding to about 300 nm in typical epitaxial structures. Furthermore, the emission from such a small emitter will spread by about 600 nm while propagating through the p-GaN. Both values can be reduced by reducing d.

    Author(s):Herrnsdorf, Johannes ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3856-5782, Xie, Enyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7776-8091, Watson, Ian M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8797-3993, Laurand, Nicolas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0486-4300 and Dawson, Martin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6639-2989
    Item type:Article
    ID code:47400
    Notes:(c) American Institute of Physics
    Keywords:electrical resistivity, light emitting diodes, current density, electric currents, GaN micro light emitting diodes, current transmition, Physics, Physics and Astronomy(all)
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:University of Strathclyde > University of Strathclyde
    Faculty of Science > Physics > Institute of Photonics
    Technology and Innovation Centre > Photonics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:09 Apr 2014 10:39
    Last modified:05 Sep 2019 01:46
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/47400
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