DocumentCode :
3508706
Title :
Influence of strains on the optical properties of non-polar and semi-polar gallium nitride based LEDs
Author :
Han Yan ; Zhiyin Gan ; Sheng Liu
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. for Digital Manuf. Equip. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
fYear :
2012
fDate :
13-16 Aug. 2012
Firstpage :
1620
Lastpage :
1623
Abstract :
Currently, most gallium nitride based light emitting diodes (LEDs) are fabricated with polar c-plane [0001] direction. This orientation of gallium nitride has a large polarization electric field. Therefore, the device performance is adversely affected by strain induced piezoelectric polarization. The strain affects crystalline quality as well as optical and electrical properties of LED epitaxial film. In this paper, we report on the effects of strains on the optical properties of non-polar and semi-polar gallium nitrides by means of first principle calculation. As results, the band-gap energies of non-polar (1-100) gallium nitride are smaller than that of non-polar (11-20) and that of semi-polar (11-22) gallium nitride under the same scale tensile strains. And it is shown that an opposite trend under compressive strains is observed. Besides, non-polar (1-100) gallium nitride based LED device will have more significant shift of emission wavelength than non-polar (11-20) and semi-polar (11-22) gallium nitride under the same strain states.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; energy gap; epitaxial layers; gallium compounds; light emitting diodes; piezoelectric semiconductors; polarisation; semiconductor device models; LED epitaxial film; band-gap energy; compressive strain; crystalline quality; device performance; electrical property; emission wavelength; first principle calculation; gallium nitride based light emitting diode; nonpolar gallium nitride based LED device; optical property; polar c-plane direction; polarization electric field; semipolar gallium nitride; strain effect; strain induced piezoelectric polarization; tensile strain; Abstracts; Computational modeling; Epitaxial growth; Light emitting diodes; Performance evaluation; Strain;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Electronic Packaging Technology and High Density Packaging (ICEPT-HDP), 2012 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guilin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1682-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1680-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICEPT-HDP.2012.6474918
Filename :
6474918
Link To Document :
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