HU Jin-yong, HUANG Hua-mao, WANG Hong etc. Light-output Enhancement of GaN-based Light-emitting Diodes with Surface Textured ITO[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2014,35(5): 613-617
HU Jin-yong, HUANG Hua-mao, WANG Hong etc. Light-output Enhancement of GaN-based Light-emitting Diodes with Surface Textured ITO[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2014,35(5): 613-617 DOI: 10.3788/fgxb20143505.0613.
Light-output Enhancement of GaN-based Light-emitting Diodes with Surface Textured ITO
The sophisticated techniques of photolithography and wet-etching are used to fabricate GaN-based LED chips with surface-textured ITO layer to enhance the light output efficiency. It is shown that the light-output power can be efficiently improved by this surface-textured method. After the triangle-lattice of close-packed micro-holes are fabricated
the light-output power of LED chips under the injection current of 20 mA exhibits 11.4% enhancement comparing to the conventional LED chips. However
the forward voltage correspondingly increases 0.178 V. With our proposed micro-structures
the light-output power can also be enhanced by 8.2%
while the forward voltage increases only 0.044 V. It is also shown that the close-packed micro-hole pattern benefits high light-output under small injection current. However
this pattern would induce current-crowding if the injection current become high
and thus the light-output efficiency would decrease significantly. On the other hand
our optimized micro-structure is help for high electric-injection efficiency. This induces a high light-output efficiency
and the efficiency droop can be suppressed. The proposed micro-structure is preferred for high power LED chips under large current injection.
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