標題: Mesoporous GaN for Photonic Engineering-Highly Reflective GaN Mirrors as an Example
作者: Zhang, Cheng
Park, Sung Hyun
Chen, Danti
Lin, Da-Wei
Xiong, Wen
Kuo, Hao-Chung
Lin, Chia-Feng
Cao, Hui
Han, Jung
光電工程學系
Department of Photonics
關鍵字: mesoporous;photonic engineering;distributed Bragg reflector;electrochemical etching;gallium nitride;vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser
公開日期: 1-七月-2015
摘要: A porous medium is a special type of material where voids are created in a solid medium. The introduction of pores into a bulk solid can profoundly affect its physical properties and enable interesting mechanisms. In this paper, we report the use of mesoporous GaN to address a long-standing challenge in GaN devices: tuning the optical index in epitaxial structures without compromising the structural and electrical properties. By controlling the doping and electrochemical etching bias, we are able to control the pore morphology from macro- to meso- and microporous. The meso- and microporous GaN can be considered a new form of GaN with unprecedented optical index tunability. We examine the scattering loss in a porous medium quantitatively using numerical, semiempirical, and experimental methods. It is established that the optical loss due to scattering is well within the acceptable range. While being perfectly lattice-matched to GaN, the porous GaN layers are found to be electrically highly conductive. As an example of optical engineering, we demonstrate record high reflectances (R > 99.5%) from epitaxial mesoporous GaN mirrors that can be controllably fabricated, a result that is bound to impact GaN opto and photonic technologies.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00216
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/128054
ISSN: 2330-4022
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00216
期刊: ACS PHOTONICS
起始頁: 980
結束頁: 986
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