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Transparent electrode design for AlGaN deep-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes
(2017-12-11)
Hrong, Ray-Hua
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Zeng, Yu-Yuan
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Wang, Wei-Kai
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Tsai, Chia-Lung
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Fu, Yi-Keng
Zinc gallate (ZnGa2O4; ZGO) thin films were employed as the p-type transparent contact layer in deep-ultraviolet AlGaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to increase light output power. The transmittance of 200-nm-thick ZGO in deep-ultraviolet wavelength (280 nm) was as high as 92.3%. Two different ohmic contact structures, a dot-LED (D-LED; ZGO/dot-ITO/LED) and whole-LED (W-LED; ZGO/ITO/LED), exhibited improved light output power and current spreading compared to a conventional ITO-LED (C-LED). At an injection current of 20 mA, the D-LED and W-LED exhibited 33.7% and 12.3% enhancements in light output power, respectively, compared to the C-LED. The enhanced light output power of the D-LED can be attributed to an improvement in current spreading and enhanced light-extracting efficiency achieved by introducing ZGO/dot-ITO. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement