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Ingan Staircase Electron Injector For Reduction Of Electron Overflow In Ingan Light Emitting Diodes, X. Ni, X. Li, J. Lee, S. Liu, Vitaliy Avrutin, Ü. Özgür, Hadis Morkoç, A. Matulionis, T. Paskova, G. Mulholland, K. R. Evans Jan 2010

Ingan Staircase Electron Injector For Reduction Of Electron Overflow In Ingan Light Emitting Diodes, X. Ni, X. Li, J. Lee, S. Liu, Vitaliy Avrutin, Ü. Özgür, Hadis Morkoç, A. Matulionis, T. Paskova, G. Mulholland, K. R. Evans

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Ballistic and quasiballistic electron transport across the active InGaN layer are shown to be responsible for electron overflow and electroluminescence efficiency droop at high current levels in InGaN light emitting diodes both experimentally and by first-order calculations. An InGaN staircase electron injector with step-like increased In composition, an “electron cooler,” is proposed for an enhanced thermalization of the injected hot electrons to reduce the overflow and mitigate the efficiency droop. The experimental data show that the staircase electron injector results in essentially the same electroluminescence performance for the diodes with and without an electron blocking layer, confirming substantial …


Hot Electron Effects On Efficiency Degradation In Ingan Light Emitting Diodes And Designs To Mitigate Them, X. Ni, X. Li, J. Lee, S. Liu, V. Avrutin, Ü. Özgür, H. Morkoç, A. Matulionis Jan 2010

Hot Electron Effects On Efficiency Degradation In Ingan Light Emitting Diodes And Designs To Mitigate Them, X. Ni, X. Li, J. Lee, S. Liu, V. Avrutin, Ü. Özgür, H. Morkoç, A. Matulionis

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Hot electrons and the associated ballistic and quasiballistic transport, heretofore neglected endemically, across the active regions of InGaN light emitting diodes (LEDs) have been incorporated into a first order simple model which explains the experimental observations of electron spillover and the efficiency degradation at high injection levels. The model is in good agreement with experiments wherein an adjustable barrier hot electron stopper, commonly called the electron blocking layer (EBL), is incorporated. The model is also in agreement with experiments wherein the electrons are cooled, eliminating hot electrons, inside a staircase electron injector (SEI) prior to their injection into the active …


Infrared Optical Absorbance Of Intersubband Transitions In Gan/Algan Multiple Quantum Well Structures, Qiaoying Zhou, Jiayu Chen, B. Pattada, M. O. Manasreh, Faxian Xiu, Steve Putigan, K. S. Ramaiah, Hadis Morkoç Jan 2003

Infrared Optical Absorbance Of Intersubband Transitions In Gan/Algan Multiple Quantum Well Structures, Qiaoying Zhou, Jiayu Chen, B. Pattada, M. O. Manasreh, Faxian Xiu, Steve Putigan, K. S. Ramaiah, Hadis Morkoç

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Intersubband transitions in Si-doped molecular beam epitaxygrown GaN/AlGaN multiple quantum wells on c-plane sapphire were investigated using the Fourier-transform infrared optical absorption technique. Several GaN quantum well samples were grown with either AlGaN bulk or GaN/AlGaN short period superlattice barriers. The measurements were made in a waveguide configuration utilizing a facet polished at 45° to the c plane. The integrated area of the intersubband transitions in several waveguides cut from different location of the wafer was measured, from which we estimated the two-dimensional electron gas density (σ). The measured values of σ are about two orders of magnitude larger …