Simulation of deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes

Yen-Kuang Kuo; Sheng-Horng Yen; Yu-Wen Wang

doi:10.1117/12.734086

14 September 2007 Simulation of deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes

Yen-Kuang Kuo, Sheng-Horng Yen, Yu-Wen Wang

Proceedings Volume 6669, Seventh International Conference on Solid State Lighting; 66691J (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.734086
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Optical characteristics of deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes with the consideration of spontaneous and piezoelectric polarizations are studied in this article with the APSYS (Advanced Physical Model of Semiconductor Devices) simulation program. The amounts of surface charges caused by different polarizations are calculated and compared. Moreover, the band diagram, carrier distribution, radiative recombination current, and light-current performance curves of the InAlGaN UV LED structures with different polarizations are also discussed and investigated. According to the simulated results, we find that the influence of the spontaneous polarization is more apparent than the piezoelectric polarization on band properties, carrier distribution, radiative recombination and output power in deep UV spectral region. In other words, for nitride materials in deep UV region, the polarization resulted from lattice-mismatch is smaller than that caused by asymmetry of the structure along the c-axis. This conclusion is quite different from the situation of blue InGaN light-emitting diodes. For blue LEDs, the piezoelectric polarization is the dominant polarization mechanism because the lattice mismatch between compound layers is a severe problem for these long-wavelength LED devices.

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Yen-Kuang Kuo, Sheng-Horng Yen, and Yu-Wen Wang "Simulation of deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes", Proc. SPIE 6669, Seventh International Conference on Solid State Lighting, 66691J (14 September 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.734086

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