YANG De-chao, LIANG Hong-wei, QIU Yu, SONG Shi-wei, SHEN Ren-sheng, LIU Yang, XIA Xiao-chuan, YU Zhen-nan, DU Guo-tong. The Influence of Substrate Bow on The Properties of GaN-based Light Emitting Diode Chips[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2013,34(3): 340-344
YANG De-chao, LIANG Hong-wei, QIU Yu, SONG Shi-wei, SHEN Ren-sheng, LIU Yang, XIA Xiao-chuan, YU Zhen-nan, DU Guo-tong. The Influence of Substrate Bow on The Properties of GaN-based Light Emitting Diode Chips[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2013,34(3): 340-344 DOI: 10.3788/fgxb20133403.0340.
The Influence of Substrate Bow on The Properties of GaN-based Light Emitting Diode Chips
GaN-based light emitting diodes (LEDs) were grown on the sapphire substrates with different bow values by low pressure metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). LED chips were fabricated and the optic and electronic parameters were characterized. The influence of different bow values on the performances of LED was investigated. The analysis results show that the substrates with bow could relax part of the stress in the epilayer beforehand
which improved the quality of epilayer. Hence
the performances of the LED chips got better. During the growth of LEDs
the InGaN material in the active layer suffered the compressive stress that resulted from the underneath GaN layer. With the increase of bow values
the compressive stress that acted on the InGaN material decreased
which leads to the blue shift of the dominant wavelength.
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