Microtube Light-Emitting Diode Arrays with Metal Cores

Youngbin Tchoe; Chul Ho Lee; Jun Beom Park; Hyeonjun Baek; Kunook Chung; Janghyun Jo; Miyoung Kim; Gyu Chul Yi

doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b07905

Microtube Light-Emitting Diode Arrays with Metal Cores

Youngbin Tchoe, Chul Ho Lee, Jun Beom Park, Hyeonjun Baek, Kunook Chung, Janghyun Jo, Miyoung Kim, Gyu Chul Yi

KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology

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Abstract

We report the fabrication and characteristics of vertical microtube light-emitting diode (LED) arrays with a metal core inside the devices. To make the LEDs, gallium nitride (GaN)/indium gallium nitride (In_xGa_1-xN)/zinc oxide (ZnO) coaxial microtube LED arrays were grown on an n-GaN/c-aluminum oxide (Al₂O₃) substrate. The microtube LED arrays were then lifted-off the substrate by wet chemical etching of the sacrificial ZnO microtubes and the silicon dioxide (SiO₂) layer. The chemically lifted-off LED layer was then transferred upside-down on other supporting substrates. To create the metal cores, titanium/gold and indium tin oxide were deposited on the inner shells of the microtubes, forming n-type electrodes inside the metal-cored LEDs. The characteristics of the resulting devices were determined by measuring electroluminescence and current-voltage characteristic curves. To gain insights into the current-spreading characteristics of the devices and understand how to make them more efficient, we modeled them computationally.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3114-3120
Number of pages	7
Journal	ACS nano
Volume	10
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b07905
Publication status	Published - 2016 Mar 22

Keywords

current spreading
gallium nitride
light-emitting diodes
metal core
nanoarchitecture

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Materials Science(all)
Engineering(all)
Physics and Astronomy(all)

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