Improved electrostatic discharge protection in GaN-based vertical light-emitting diodes by an internal diode

Hwan Hee Jeong, Sang Youl Lee, Jung Hyeok Bae, Kwang Ki Choi, June O. Song, Sung Jin Son, Yong Hyun Lee, Tae Yeon Seong

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    Abstract

    We first fabricated GaN-based vertical light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection internal diode. Despite the reduced emitting area due to the internal diode, the LEDs with the internal diode give a forward voltage of 3.42 V at 350 mA similar to that (3.40) of LEDs without the internal diode. It is shown that the output power of the LEDs with the internal diode is reduced by about 6% at 350 mA compared to reference LEDs without the internal diode. It is, however, further shown that the LEDs without the internal diode give a yield of 0% at the reverse voltages above 400 V, while the LEDs with the internal diode show a yield of ∼90% at reverse voltages of 2-4 kV.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number5688221
    Pages (from-to)423-425
    Number of pages3
    JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
    Volume23
    Issue number7
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    Manuscript received November 08, 2010; revised December 27, 2010; accepted January 08, 2011. Date of publication January 13, 2011; date of current version March 16, 2011. This work was supported by LED Biz division of LG Innotek (LGIT) Co., Ltd. The work of T.-Y. Seong was supported by the World Class University program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the MEST (R33-2008-000-10025-0) and by the Industrial Technology Development Program funded by MKE, Korea.

    Keywords

    • Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection
    • gallium nitride
    • vertical light-emitting diodes (LEDs)

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
    • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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