Formation of low-resistance and transparent indium tin oxide ohmic contact for high-brightness GaN-based light-emitting diodes using a Sn-Ag interlayer

June O. Song; Kyung Kook Kim; Hyunsoo Kim; Yong Hyun Kim; Hyun Gi Hong; Hyeonseok Na; Tae Yeon Seong

doi:10.1016/j.mssp.2007.12.001

Formation of low-resistance and transparent indium tin oxide ohmic contact for high-brightness GaN-based light-emitting diodes using a Sn-Ag interlayer

June O. Song, Kyung Kook Kim, Hyunsoo Kim, Yong Hyun Kim, Hyun Gi Hong, Hyeonseok Na, Tae Yeon Seong

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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Abstract

We report on the formation of low-resistance and highly transparent indium tin oxide (ITO) ohmic contacts to p-GaN using a Sn-Ag alloy interlayer. Although the as-deposited Sn-Ag(6 nm)/ITO(200 nm) contacts show non-ohmic behaviors, the scheme becomes ohmic with specific contact resistance of 4.72×10^-4 Ω cm² and produce transmittance of ∼91% at wavelength of 460 nm when annealed at 530 °C. Blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) fabricated with the Sn-Ag/ITO contacts give forward-bias voltage of 3.31 V at injection current of 20 mA. LEDs with the Sn-Ag/ITO contacts show the improvement of the output power by 62% (at 20 mA) compared with LEDs with Ni/Au contacts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	211-214
Number of pages	4
Journal	Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing
Volume	10
Issue number	4-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2007.12.001
Publication status	Published - 2007 Aug

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This work was supported by the basic research program of the Korea Science & Engineering Foundation (Grant no. R01-2006-000-10904-0).

Keywords

Ag-Sn alloy
GaN
Indium tin oxide
Light-emitting diode
Ohmic contact

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Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering

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