Improvement of blue InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes with graded indium composition wells and barriers

Ho Young Chung; Kie Young Woo; Su Jin Kim; Tae Geun Kim

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2014.06.010

Improvement of blue InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes with graded indium composition wells and barriers

Ho Young Chung
, Kie Young Woo
, Su Jin Kim
, Tae Geun Kim^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We present a numerical study on the effect of graded indium well and barrier structures having different compositions in InGaN/GaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on their optical and electrical properties. Compared with conventional LEDs, the output power of the proposed LEDs was found to increase by a factor of ~2.4, and the efficiency droop reduced greatly. In addition, the turn-on voltage was reduced by using an InGaN well and barrier structure having a graded indium composition. These improvements are believed to result from the enhancement in the hole-injection efficiency, as well as the spatial distribution overlap between the electrons and holes in multiple quantum wells.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	282-286
Number of pages	5
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	331
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2014.06.010
Publication status	Published - 2014 Nov 15

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Korean government (No. 2011-0028769 ).

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Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Keywords

Efficiency droop
Internal quantum efficiency
Light-emitting diodes
Numerical simulation
Quantum well and barrier

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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