Polarization-engineered high efficiency GaInN light-emitting diodes optimized by genetic algorithm
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- Title
- Polarization-engineered high efficiency GaInN light-emitting diodes optimized by genetic algorithm
- Authors
- Dong Yeong Kim; Guan-bo Lin; Sunyong Hwang; Jun Hyuk Park; David Meyaard; E. Fred Schubert; Han Youl Ryu; Kim, JK
- Date Issued
- 2015-02
- Publisher
- IEEE Photonics Society
- Abstract
- A genetic algorithm is employed to find an optimum epitaxial structure of multiple quantum wells (MQWs) and electron-blocking layer (EBL) for a GaInN-based light-emitting diode (LED). The optimized LED is composed of locally Si-doped quantum barriers (QBs) in the MQWs and a quaternary heterostructured AlGaInN EBL having a polarization-induced electric field directed oppositely to that of a conventional AlGaN EBL. The optimized LED shows 15.6% higher internal quantum efficiency, 24.6% smaller efficiency droop, and 0.21 V lower forward voltage at 200 A/cm(2) comparing to the reference LED, which has fully Si-doped QB and 20-nm-thick Al0.19Ga0.81N EBL. We find that local Si doping near the QB/QW interface compensates the negative polarization-induced sheet charge at the interface and reduces electric field in the QWs, thereby enhancing electron-hole wave function overlap. In addition, the inverted polarization field in the quaternary EBL provides a high barrier for electrons but a low barrier for holes, resulting in enhanced electron-blocking and hole-injection characteristics.
- Keywords
- ight-emitting diodes; genetic algorithm; polarization engineering
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/13068
- DOI
- 10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2387263
- ISSN
- 1943-0655
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL, vol. 7, no. 1, page. 1300209, 2015-02
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