WEI LIU, ZHU-XIN LI, JUN-JIE WANG, et al. Regulation of Electroluminescent Properties of ZnO/GaN Light Emitting Diodes by Er3+ Doping. [J]. Chinese journal of luminescence, 2021, 42(6): 863-870.
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WEI LIU, ZHU-XIN LI, JUN-JIE WANG, et al. Regulation of Electroluminescent Properties of ZnO/GaN Light Emitting Diodes by Er3+ Doping. [J]. Chinese journal of luminescence, 2021, 42(6): 863-870. DOI: 10.37188/CJL.20210125.
Regulation of Electroluminescent Properties of ZnO/GaN Light Emitting Diodes by Er3+ Doping增强出版
doped ZnO nanorod arrays were prepared by hydrothermal method
the morphology and luminescence properties were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy
X-ray single crystal diffraction
transmission electron microscopy and micro spectrometer. The experimental results show that Er
3+
is successfully and uniformly doped into ZnO nanorods
and the formation of Er
2
O
3
is not found. After Er
3+
doped
the photoluminescence spectrum shows a broad band peaked at 400 nm. With the increasing of Er
3+
concentration
the proportion of the blue part decreases
which indicates that Er
3+
fills part of the Zn vacancy defects and suppresses part of the O vacancy defects. At the same time
combined with the fluorescence lifetime spectrum
it can also be found that the lifetime of the radiative part is prolonged
which indicates that the fluorescence radiation efficiency is improved. Finally
ZnO nanorod contented Er
3+
with a mass concentration of 30% was selected to fabricate ZnO/GaN light-emitting diodes. Compared with the samples without Er
3+
the electroluminescence intensity of ZnO/GaN light-emitting diodes increased by five times. This paper provides a simple and feasible method to improve the performance of ZnO based electroluminescent devices.
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