An enhanced surface passivation effect in InGaN/GaN disk-in-nanowire light emitting diodes for mitigating Shockley–Read–Hall recombination
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Zhao, Chao
Ng, Tien Khee

Prabaswara, Aditya

Conroy, Michele
Jahangir, Shafat
Frost, Thomas
O'Connell, John
Holmes, Justin D.
Parbrook, Peter
Bhattacharya, Pallab
Ooi, Boon S.

KAUST Department
Photonics LaboratoryImaging and Characterization Core Lab
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2015Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/561164
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We present a detailed study on the effects of dangling bond passivation and the comparison of different sulfides passivation process on the properties of InGaN/GaN quantum-disk (Qdisk)-in-nanowire based light emitting diodes (NW-LEDs). Our results demonstrated the first organic sulfide passivation process for nitride nanowires (NWs). The results from Raman spectroscopy, photoluminescence (PL) measurements, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) showed octadecylthiol (ODT) effectively passivated the surface states, and altered the surface dynamic charge, thereby recovered the band-edge emission. The effectiveness of the process with passivation duration was also studied. Moreover, we also compared the electro-optical performance of NW-LEDs emitting at green wavelength before and after ODT passivation. We have shown that the Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) non-radiative recombination of NW-LEDs can be greatly reduced after passivation by ODT, which led to a much faster increasing trend of quantum efficiency, and higher peak efficiency. Our results highlighted the research opportunity in employing this technique for further design and realization of high performance NW-LEDs and NW-lasers.Citation
Chao Zhao, Tien Khee Ng, Aditya Prabaswara, M. Conroy, S. Jahangir, T. Frost, J. O'Connell, J. D. Holmes, P. Parbrook, P. Bhattacharya and B. S. Ooi, "An enhanced surface passivation effect in InGaN/GaN disk-in-nanowire light emitting diodes for mitigating Shockley–Read–Hall recombination", Nanoscale, (2015).Sponsors
The work is supported by KAUST Competitive Research Grant and baseline funding.Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)Journal
NanoscalePubMed ID
26242178Additional Links
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2015/NR/C5NR03448Eae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1039/C5NR03448E
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