硅衬底InGaN/GaN基蓝光发光二极管droop效应的研究

刘木林; 闵秋应; 叶志清

doi:10.7498/aps.61.178503

摘要

InGaN/GaN基阱垒结构LED当注入的电流密度较大时, LED的量子效率随注入电流密度增大而下降, 即droop效应.本文在Si (111)衬底上生长了 InGaN/GaN 基蓝光多量子阱结构的LED,通过将实验测量的光电性能曲线与利用ABC模型模拟的结果进行对比, 探讨了droop效应的成因.结果显示:温度下降会阻碍电流扩展和降低空穴浓度, 电子在阱中分布会越来越不平衡,阱中局部区域中因填充了势能越来越高的电子而溢出阱外, 从而使droop效应随着温度的降低在更小的电流密度下出现且更为严重, 不同温度下实验值与俄歇复合模型模拟的结果在高注入时趋势相反.这此结果表明,引起 droop效应的主因不是俄歇非辐射复合而是电子溢出,电子溢出的本质原因是载流子在阱中分布不均衡.

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Abstract

InGaN/GaN based light emitting diodes (LEDs) suffer from decrease in efficiency at a high injection current level which is called efficiency droop. In this paper, blue InGaN/GaN multiple quantum well light emitting diodes on Si (111) substrates are prepared, and their electroluminescence spectra are tested. Comparing the experimental measurements with the simulating results based on simple ABC model, the cause for quantum efficiency droop is investigated. The results show that the light emitting diode has worse electron spreading and less hole concentration with temperature decreasing, and the electrons will overflow frome the well after filled up in higher and higher state for their inhomogeneous distribution, thus efficiency droop will happen at a lower injection more severely for electron leakage under lower injection, and experimental measurements are in disagreement with simulation results of Auger recombination at high injection current levels under different temperatures. The results confirm that the main factor for efficiency droop is not Auger nonradiative recombination but electron leakage, and the essential cause for electron leakage is severe carrier localization.

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作者及机构信息

1.
南昌大学材料科学与工程学院, 南昌 330031;

2.
江西师范大学物理与通信电子学院, 南昌 330022

基金项目: 国家自然科学基金(批准号: 60967002)资助的课题.

Authors and contacts

1.
School of Material Science and Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China;

2.
College of Physics and Communication Electronics, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China

Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60967002).

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施引文献

[1]	Mukai T, Yamada M, Nakamura S 1999 Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 38 3976
[2]	Schubert M F, Chhajed S, Kim J K, Schubert E F, Koleske D D, Crawford M H, Lee S R, Fischer A J, Thaler G, BanasM A 2007 Appl. Phys. Lett. 91 231114
[3]	Chernyakov A E, Sobolev M M, Ratnikov V V, Shmidt N M, Yakimov E B 2009 Superlattices and Microstructures 45 301
[4]	Shen Y C, Mueller G O, Watanabe S, Gardner N F, Munkholm A, Krames M R 2007 Appl. Phys. Lett. 91 141101
[5]	Kioupakis E, Rinke P, Delaney K T, Van de Walle C G 2011 Appl. Phys. Lett. 98 161107
[6]	Kim M H, Schubert M F, Dai Q, Kim J K, Schubert E F, Piprek J, Park Y 2007 Appl. Phys. Lett. 91 183507
[7]	Xu J, Schubert M F, Noemaun A N, Zhu D, Kim J K, Schubert E F, Kim M H, Chung H J, Yoon S, Sone C, Park Y 2009 Appl. Phys. Lett. 94 011113
[8]	Vampola K J, Iza M, Keller S, DenBaars S P, Nakamura S 2009 Appl. Phys. Lett. 94 061116
[9]	Piprek J 2010 Phys. Status Solidi A 207 2217
[10]	Özgür Ü, Liu H Y, Li X, Ni X F, Morkoc H 2010 Proceedings of the IEEE 98 1180
[11]	Ryu H Y, Kim H S, Shim J I 2009 Appl. Phys. Lett. 95 081114
[12]	Mo C L, Fang W Q, Pu Y, Liu H C, Jiang F Y 2005 J. Cryst. Growth 285 312
[13]	Xiong C B, Jiang F Y, Fang W Q, Wang L, Mo C L 2008 Acta Phys. Sin. 57 3176 (in Chinese) [熊传兵, 江风益, 方文卿, 王立, 莫春兰 2008 物理学报 57 3176]
[14]	Xiong C B, Jiang F Y, Wang L, Fang W Q, Mo C L 2008 Acta Phys. Sin. 57 7861 (in Chinese) [熊传兵, 江风益, 王立, 方文卿, 莫春兰 2008 物理学报 57 7861]
[15]	Mao Q H, Jiang F Y, Cheng H Y, Zheng C D, 2010 Acta Phys. Sin. 59 8078 (in Chinese) [毛清华, 江风益, 程海英, 郑畅达 2010 物理学报 59 8078]
[16]	Basu P K 1997 Theory of Optical Processes in Semiconductors: Bulk and Microstructures (Oxford: Oxford University Press) p192, 213, 231
[17]	Zhang M, Bhattacharya P, Singh J, Hinckley J 2009 Appl. Phys. Lett. 95 201108
[18]	Meneghini M, Trivellin N, Meneghesso G, Zanoni E, Zehnder U, Hahn B 2009 Appl. Phys. Lett. 106 114508

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