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Advantages of Blue LEDs With Graded-Composition AlGaN/GaN Superlattice EBL
(2013-11-01)
Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Chen, Kuo-Ju
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Han, Hau-Vei
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Lan, Yu-Pin
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Chiu, Ching-Hsueh
InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with graded-composition AlGaN/GaN superlattice (SL) electron blocking layer (EBL) were designed and grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. The simulation results demonstrated that the LED with a graded-composition AlGaN/GaN SL EBL have superior hole injection efficiency and lower electron leakage over the LED with a conventional AlGaN EBL or normal AlGaN/GaN SL EBL. Therefore, the efficiency droop can be alleviated to be similar to 20% from maximum at an injection current of 15-120 mA, which is smaller than that for conventional AlGaN EBL (30%). The corresponding experimental results also confirm that the use of a graded-composition AlGaN/GaN SL EBL can markedly enhance the light output power by 60%.
Efficiency and Droop Improvement in GaN-Based High-Voltage Flip Chip LEDs
(2014-01-01)
Chiang, Yen-Chih
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Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Chen, Kuo-Ju
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Chiu, Sheng-Huan
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Lin, Chien-Chung
The GaN-based high-voltage flip chip light-emitting diode (HVFC-LED) is designed and developed for the purpose of efficiency enhancement. In our design, the distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) is deposited at the bonded substrate to increase the light extraction. After the flip chip process, the general current-voltage characteristics between the flip chip sample and the traditional sample are essentially the same. With the help of great thermal conductive silicon substrate and the bottom DBR, the HVFC-LED is able to enhance the power by 37.1% when compared to the traditional high-voltage LEDs. The wall-plug efficiencies of the HVFC-LED also show good droop reduction as high as 9.9% compared to the traditional devices.
Efficiency and Droop Improvement in GaN-Based High-Voltage Flip Chip LEDs
(2014-01-01)
Chiang, Yen-Chih
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Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Chen, Kuo-Ju
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Chiu, Sheng-Huan
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Lin, Chien-Chung
The GaN-based high-voltage flip chip light-emitting diode (HVFC-LED) is designed and developed for the purpose of efficiency enhancement. In our design, the distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) is deposited at the bonded substrate to increase the light extraction. After the flip chip process, the general current-voltage characteristics between the flip chip sample and the traditional sample are essentially the same. With the help of great thermal conductive silicon substrate and the bottom DBR, the HVFC-LED is able to enhance the power by 37.1% when compared to the traditional high-voltage LEDs. The wall-plug efficiencies of the HVFC-LED also show good droop reduction as high as 9.9% compared to the traditional devices.
Efficiency droop behavior improvement through barrier thickness modification for GaN-on-silicon light-emitting diodes
(2015-03-05)
Tzou, An-Jye
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Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Lee, Chia-Yu
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Lin, Da-Wei
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Liao, Yu-Kuang
Crack-free GaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) were grown on 150-mm-diameter Si substrates by using low-pressure metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. The relationship between the LED devices and the thickness of quantum barriers (QBs) was investigated. The crystal quality and surface cracking of GaN-on-Si were greatly improved by an AlxGa1-xN buffer layer composed of graded Al. The threading dislocation density of the GaN-on-Si LEDs was reduced to < 7 x 10(8) cm(-2), yielding LEDs with high internal quantum efficiency. Simulation results indicated that reducing the QB thickness improved the carrier injection rate and distribution, thereby improving the droop behavior of the LEDs. LEDs featuring 6-nm-thick QBs exhibited the lowest droop behavior. However, the experimental results showed an unanticipated phenomenon, namely that the peak external quantum efficiency (EQE) and light output power (LOP) gradually decreased with a decreasing QB thickness. In other words, the GaN-on-Si LEDs with 8-nm-thick QBs exhibited low droop behavior and yielded a good peak EQE and LOP, achieving a 22.9% efficiency droop and 54.6% EQE. (C) 2015 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Efficiency improvement of GaN-based ultraviolet light-emitting diodes with reactive plasma deposited AlN nucleation layer on patterned sapphire substrate
(2014-09-16)
Lee, Chia-Yu
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Tzou, An-Jye
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Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Lan, Yu-Pin
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Chiu, Ching-Hsueh
The flip chip ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (FC UV-LEDs) with a wavelength of 365 nm are developed with the ex situ reactive plasma deposited (RPD) AlN nucleation layer on patterned sapphire substrate (PSS) by an atmospheric pressure metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (AP MOCVD). The ex situ RPD AlN nucleation layer can significantly reduce dislocation density and thus improve the crystal quality of the GaN epitaxial layers. Utilizing high-resolution X-ray diffraction, the full width at half maximum of the rocking curve shows that the crystalline quality of the epitaxial layer with the (RPD) AlN nucleation layer is better than that with the low-temperature GaN (LT-GaN) nucleation layer. The threading dislocation density (TDD) is estimated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), which shows the reduction from 6.8 x 10(7) cm(-2) to 2.6 x 10(7) cm(-2). Furthermore, the light output power (LOP) of the LEDs with the RPD AlN nucleation layer has been improved up to 30 % at a forward current of 350 mA compared to that of the LEDs grown on PSS with conventional LT-GaN nucleation layer.
Greatly Improved Efficiency Droop for InGaN-Based Green Light Emitting Diodes by Quaternary Content Superlattice Electron Blocking Layer
(2015)
Lin, Da-Wei
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Tzou, An-Jye
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Huang, Jhih-Kai
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Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Chang, Chun-Yen
We presented a low efficiency droop behavior green light emitting diodes (LEDs) with a quaternary content InAlGaN/GaN superlattice electron blocking layer (SL-EBL). The light output power shows a 57% enhancement and only 30% efficiency droop, which is attributed to a smooth band bending with a uniform carrier distribution.
High-Efficiency and Crack-Free InGaN-Based LEDs on a 6-inch Si (111) Substrate With a Composite Buffer Layer Structure and Quaternary Superlattices Electron-Blocking Layers
(2014-05-01)
Li, Zhen-Yu
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Lee, Chia-Yu
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Lin, Da-Wei
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Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Shen, Kun-Ching
In this paper, a composite buffer layer structure (CBLS) with multiple AlGaN layers and grading of Al composition/u-GaN1/(AlN/GaN) superlattices/u-GaN2 and InAlGaN/AlGaN quaternary superlattices electron-blocking layers (QSLs-EBLs) are introduced into the epitaxial growth of InGaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on 6-inch Si (111) substrates to suppress cracking and improve the crystalline quality and emission efficiency. The effect of CBLS and QSLs-EBL on the crystalline quality and emission efficiency of InGaN-based LEDs on Si substrates was studied in detail. Optical microscopic images revealed the absence of cracks and Ga melt-back etching. The atomic force microscopy images exhibited that the root-meansquare value of the surface morphology was only 0.82 nm. The full widths at half maxima of the (0002) and (1012) reflections in the double crystal X-ray rocking curve were similar to 330 and 450 arcs, respectively. The total threading dislocation density, revealed by transmission electron microscopy, was <6 x 10(8) cm(-2). From the material characterizations, described above, blue and white LEDs emitters were fabricated using the epiwafers of InGaNbased LEDs on 6-inch Si substrates. The blue LEDs emitter that comprised blue LEDs chip and clear lenses had an emission power of 490 mW at 350 mA, a wall-plug efficiency of 45% at 350 mA, and an efficiency droop of 80%. The white LEDs emitter that comprised blue LEDs chip and yellow phosphor had an emission efficiency of similar to 110 lm/W at 350 mA and an efficiency droop of 78%. These results imply that the use of a CBLS and QSLs-EBL was found to be very simple and effective in fabricating high-efficiency InGaN-based LEDs on Si for solid-state lighting applications.
High-performance InGaN-based green light-emitting diodes with quaternary InAlGaN/GaN superlattice electron blocking layer
(2016-05-30)
Tzou, An-Jye
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Lin, Da-Wei
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Yu, Chien-Rong
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Li, Zhen-Yu
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Liao, Yu-Kuang
In this study, high-performance InGaN-based green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with a quaternary InAlGaN/GaN superlattice electron blocking layer (QSL-EBL) have been demonstrated. The band structural simulation was employed to investigate the electrostatic field and carriers distribution, show that the efficiency and droop behavior can be intensively improved by using a QSL-EBL in LEDs. The QSL-EBL structure can reduce the polarization-related electrostatic fields in the multiple quantum wells (MQWs), leading to a smoother band diagram and a more uniform carriers distribution among the quantum wells under forward bias. In comparison with green LEDs with conventional bulk-EBL structure, the light output power of LEDs with QSL-EBL was greatly enhanced by 53%. The efficiency droop shows only 30% at 100 A/cm(2) comparing to its peak value, suggesting that the QSL-EBL LED is promising for future white lighting with high performance. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America
Hole injection and electron overflow improvement in InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes by a tapered AlGaN electron blocking layer
(2014-01-13)
Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Chen, Kuo-Ju
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Wang, Chao-Hsun
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Chiu, Ching-Hsueh
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Lan, Yu-Pin
A tapered AlGaN electron blocking layer with step-graded aluminum composition is analyzed in nitride-based blue light-emitting diode (LED) numerically and experimentally. The energy band diagrams, electrostatic fields, carrier concentration, electron current density profiles, and hole transmitting probability are investigated. The simulation results demonstrated that such tapered structure can effectively enhance the hole injection efficiency as well as the electron confinement. Consequently, the LED with a tapered EBL grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition exhibits reduced efficiency droop behavior of 29% as compared with 44% for original LED, which reflects the improvement in hole injection and electron overflow in our design. (C)2014 Optical Society of America
Improving the Angular Color Uniformity of Hybrid Phosphor Structures in White Light-Emitting Diodes
(2013-10-01)
Chen, Kuo-Ju
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Han, Hau-Vei
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Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Chen, Hsin-Chu
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Shih, Min-Hsiung
This letter examines a hybrid phosphor structure for white light-emitting diodes. The hybrid phosphor structure produces more efficient luminosity and more uniform angular correlated color temperature (CCT) than the conventional dispensing method. The experimental results show that the CCT deviation improved from 453 to 280 K between -70 degrees and 70 degrees. This was likely caused by the large blue light divergent angle. The lumen output produced was higher than that produced by dispense and conformal phosphor structures. Therefore, the results show that the hybrid phosphor structure can be used in solid-state lighting.
Innovative Fabrication of Wafer-Level InGaN-Based Thin-Film Flip-Chip Light-Emitting Diodes
(2015-07-01)
Chiang, Yen-Chih
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Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Chen, Kuo-Ju
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Lin, Chien-Chung
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Lee, Po-Tsung
In this letter, an innovative fabrication method for InGaN-based light-emitting diode (LED) was proposed, and the produced optical device was called the wafer-level InGaN-based thin-film flip-chip LEDs (wTFFC-LEDs). Packaging technologies, such as wafer-to-wafer bonding, laser lift-off, textured surface, and interconnection techniques, were applied to complete the device. Through this architecture, the absorption caused by electrodes in traditional vertical injection LEDs (V-LEDs) can be minimized, as well as the light extraction efficiency can be improved. Light-output power of wTFFC-LEDs (350 mA) was increased by 36.5% and 17.2% compared with the V-LEDs and flip-chip LEDs. Furthermore, the external quantum efficiency was also relatively enhanced by 36.3% and 15.5% higher than those of reference devices.
Luminous efficiency enhancement of white light-emitting diodes by using a hybrid phosphor structure
(2015-02-19)
Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Huang, Jhih-Kai
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Chen, Kuo-Ju
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Chiu, Sheng-Huan
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Tu, Zong-Yi
This paper presents a "hybrid" structure for the coating of yellow YAG: Ce3(+) phosphor on blue GaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The luminous efficiency of the hybrid phosphor structure improved by 5.9% and 11.7%, compared with the conventional remote and conformal phosphor structures, respectively, because of the increased intensity of the yellow component. The hybrid structure also has an advantage in the phosphor usage reduction for the LEDs. Furthermore, the electric intensity of the hybrid phosphor structure was calculated for various thicknesses by conducting TFCalc32 simulation, and the enhanced utilization of blue rays was verified. Finally, the experimental results were consistent with the simulation results performed using the Monte-Carlo method. (C) 2015 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Numerical analysis on the effect of electron blocking layer in 365-nm ultraviolet light-emitting diodes
(2015-01-01)
Chen, Fang-Ming
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Chang, Jih-Yuan
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Kuo, Yen-Kuang
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Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Kuo, Hao-Chung
For 365-nm ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV LEDs), an electron blocking layer (EBL) is usually utilized to mitigate electron overflow. However, using EBL might obstruct holes from injecting into the active region. Moreover, the large polarization field in conventional EBL might also pull down the effective barrier height for electrons, and thus the electrons could easily overflow to the p-side region. To solve the above drawbacks, in this study, the Al content and p-doping concentration of the EBL in typical 365-nm UV LEDs are investigated systematically. Specifically, designs of AlGaN/GaN superlattice EBL and Al-content-graded EBL are explored in detail.
Numerical Study of (0001) Face GaN/InGaN p-i-n Solar Cell With Compositional Grading Configuration
(2012-06-15)
Kuo, Yen-Kuang
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Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Chang, Jih-Yuan
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Chen, Fang-Ming
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Kuo, Hao-Chung
The advantages of a (0001) face GaN/InGaN p-i-n solar cell with compositional grading configuration between i-InGaN/p-GaN layers are studied numerically. With the use of the grading layer, the conversion efficiency is markedly promoted due to the reduction of potential barrier height for holes and due to the decrease of polarization. Optimized conversion efficiency is obtained when the thickness of the grading layer increases to a critical value. This critical thickness is strongly influenced by the polarization charges and doping concentration of the grading layer. When the density of the polarization charges is high or the doping concentration is low, a thick grading layer is required to achieve high efficiency.
Simulation and Experimental Study on Barrier Thickness of Superlattice Electron Blocking Layer in Near-Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes
(2016-08-01)
Kuo, Yen-Kuang
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Chen, Fang-Ming
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Lin, Bing-Cheng
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Chang, Jih-Yuan
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Shih, Ya-Hsuan
The optical performance and relevant physical properties of near-ultraviolet (NUV) GaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are investigated. Specifically, the influence of traditional AlGaN bulk electron blocking layer (EBL) and AlGaN/GaN superlattice (SL) EBL with various thicknesses of AlGaN layers on NUV LEDs is explored. It is indicated from the band diagrams, electrostatic field profile, electron reflecting and hole transmitting spectra, and carrier concentrations profile that the use of a thin AlGaN layer of AlGaN/GaN SL EBL is beneficial to the electron confinement and hole injection in the active region, which results in the high internal quantum efficiency and low efficiency droop at high injection current. Moreover, the experimental results show that replacing the traditional AlGaN bulk EBL with the AlGaN/GaN SL EBL can markedly improve the optical performance. When compared with the NUV LED with traditional AlGaN bulk EBL, the output power of the NUV LED with the proposed AlGaN/GaN SL EBL increases from 13.5 to 48.7 mW at 100 mA.