Growth of monolithic full-color GaN-based LED with intermediate carrier blocking layers

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作者
El-Ghoroury, Hussein S. [1 ]
Yeh, Milton [1 ]
Chen, J. C. [1 ]
Li, X. [1 ]
Chuang, Chih-Li [1 ]
机构
[1] Ostendo Technol Inc, EPI Lab, 679 Brea Canyon Rd, Walnut, CA 91789 USA
关键词
Organic chemicals - Color - Organometallics - Gallium nitride - Metallorganic chemical vapor deposition - III-V semiconductors;
D O I
10.1063/1.4959897
中图分类号
TB3 [工程材料学];
学科分类号
0805 ; 080502 ;
摘要
Specially designed intermediate carrier blocking layers (ICBLs) in multi-active regions of III-nitride LEDs were shown to be effective in controlling the carrier injection distribution across the active regions. In principle, the majority of carriers, both holes and electrons, can be guided into targeted quantum wells and recombine to generate light of specific wavelengths at controlled current-densities. Accordingly we proposed and demonstrated a novel monolithic InGaN-based LED to achieve three primary colors of light from one device at selected current densities. This LED structure, which has three different sets of quantum wells separated with ICBLs for three primary red-green-blue (RGB) colors, was grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). Results show that this LED can emit light ranging from 460 to 650 nm to cover the entire visible spectrum. The emission wavelength starts at 650 nm and then decreases to 460 nm or lower as the injection current increases. In addition to three primary colors, many other colors can be obtained by color mixing techniques. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of monolithic full-color LED grown by a simple growth technique without using re-growth process. (C) 2016 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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