Improving emission uniformity of ingan/gan-based vertical leds by using reflective ito/ag n-contact

  • Woong Sun Yum
  • , Ji Hyun Koo
  • , Dae Hee Lee
  • , Young Hoon Kim
  • , Young Kyu Jeong
  • , Se Yeon Jung
  • , Sang Youl Lee
  • , Hwan Hee Jeong
  • , Tae Yeon Seong*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    We investigated the effect of Ti/Al and ITO/Ag n-type contacts on the emission uniformity and light output of different chip-size vertical-geometry light-emitting diodes (VLEDs) for vehicle headlamp application. The forward voltage of the Ti/Al-based reference VLEDs decreased from 3.38 to 3.20 V at 1500 mA with increasing chip size from (1280 × 1000 µm2) to (1700 × 1700 µm2), whereas that of the ITO/Ag-based samples changed from 3.37 to 3.15 V. Regardless of chip size, the ITO/Ag-based samples revealed higher light output power than the reference samples. For example, the ITO/Ag-based samples (chip size of 1700 × 1700 µm2) exhibited 3.4% higher light output power at 1500 mA than the reference samples. The ITO/Ag samples underwent less degradation in the Wall-plug efficiency (WPE) than the reference sample. For instance, the ITO/Ag-based samples (1700 × 1700 µm2) gave 4.8% higher WPE at 1500 mA than the reference samples. The ITO/Ag-based samples illustrated more uniform emission than the Ti/Al-based sample. Both the reference and ITO/Ag-based samples underwent no degradation when operated at 1500 mA for 1000 h.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number975
    JournalElectronics (Switzerland)
    Volume10
    Issue number8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021 Apr 2

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    Keywords

    • ITO/Ag
    • InGaN
    • Light emitting diode
    • Ohmic contact
    • Reflector
    • Vertical geometry

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Control and Systems Engineering
    • Signal Processing
    • Hardware and Architecture
    • Computer Networks and Communications
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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