Tunnel-injected ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (Conference Presentation)

Siddharth Rajan; Yuewei Zhang; Zane Jamal-Eddine; Fatih Akyol; Jinwoo Hwang; Jared Johnson

doi:10.1117/12.2292553

14 March 2018 Tunnel-injected ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (Conference Presentation)

Siddharth Rajan, Yuewei Zhang, Zane Jamal-Eddine, Fatih Akyol, Jinwoo Hwang, Jared Johnson

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Proceedings Volume 10532, Gallium Nitride Materials and Devices XIII; 105320Y (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292553
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report on the design, demonstration and current status of tunnel-injected ultra-violet light emitting diodes (UV LEDs). III-Nitride ultraviolet light emitting diodes (UV LEDs) are promising in various applications including sterilization, water purification and medical sensing. However, both the light extraction efficiency and electrical efficiency face fundamental challenges for the conventional UV LED structures. This stems from the poor p-type conductivity and high p-type contact resistance. Hole injection using interband tunneling provides an elegant solution to the fundamental issues of UV LEDs, and can resolve both the hole injection and light extraction issues that have been the primary problems for UV LEDs. In this talk, we will discuss in detail the heterostructure design and demonstration through polarization engineering to realize efficient interband tunneling in ultra-wide band gap AlGaN material. We will then outline some of the growth and fabrication challenges, and discuss our approaches to overcome these. Finally, we will present our results on tunnel-injected UV LEDs that have enabled us to achieve efficient UV light emission in the UVA and UVB wavelength ranges with on-wafer efficiencies comparable to state-of-the-art values [1,2,3]. References: 1. Yuewei Zhang, et al. ''Interband tunneling for hole injection in III-nitride ultraviolet emitters", Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 141103 (2015); 2. Yuewei Zhang, et al. "Design of p-type cladding layers for tunnel-injected UV-A light emitting diodes", Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 191105 (2016); 3. Yuewei Zhang, et al. “Tunnel-injected sub-260 nm ultraviolet light emitting diodes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 110, 201102 (2017).

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Siddharth Rajan, Yuewei Zhang, Zane Jamal-Eddine, Fatih Akyol, Jinwoo Hwang, and Jared Johnson "Tunnel-injected ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10532, Gallium Nitride Materials and Devices XIII, 105320Y (14 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292553

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Ultraviolet light emitting diodes

Ultraviolet radiation

Light emitting diodes

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