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    Impact of roughening density on the light extraction efficiency of thin-film flip-chip ultraviolet LEDs grown on SiC

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    Authors
    Saifaddin, Burhan K.
    Iza, Michael
    Foronda, Humberto
    Almogbel, Abdullah
    Zollner, Christian J.
    Wu, Feng
    Alyamani, Ahmed
    Albadri, Abdulrahman
    Nakamura, Shuji
    DenBaars, Steven P.
    Speck, James S.
    Date
    2019-07-10
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/668097
    
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    Abstract
    Discovering ways to increase the LED light extraction efficiency (LEE) should help create the largest performance improvement in the power of UV AlGaN LEDs. Employing surface roughening to increase the LEE of typical AlGaN UV LEDs is challenging and not well understood, yet it can be achieved easily in AlGaN LEDs grown on SiC. We fabricate thin-film UV LEDs (~294-310 nm) grown on SiC—with reflective contacts and roughened emission surface—to study and optimize KOH roughening of N-face AlN on the LEE as a function of roughened AlN pyramid size and KOH solution temperature. The LEE increased the most (2X) when the average AlN pyramid base diagonals (d) were comparable to the electroluminescence (EL) wavelength in the AlN layer (d ~λEL; 42–52 pyramids/µm2), but the LEE enhancement diminished when d was much larger than λEL (d ~5.5λEL; 2–3 pyramids/µm2). The UV LEDs had a 10 nm p-GaN contact layer, and the forward voltage was ~6 V at ~8 A/cm2, with a voltage efficiency (VE) of ~70%. The VE of the LEDs did not change after KOH roughening. This work suggests important implications to increase the LEE of AlGaN LEDs.
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    Saifaddin, B. K., Iza, M., Foronda, H., Almogbel, A., Zollner, C. J., Wu, F., … Speck, J. S. (2019). Impact of roughening density on the light extraction efficiency of thin-film flip-chip ultraviolet LEDs grown on SiC. Optics Express, 27(16), A1074. doi:10.1364/oe.27.0a1074
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    King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) Technology Innovations Center (TIC) program; KACST-KAUST-UCSB Solid State Lighting Program; Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) at UCSB; UCSB-Collaborative Research in Engineering, Science and Technology (CREST) Malaysia project; NSF NNIN network (ECS-0335765); NSF MRSEC Program (1650114); National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (1650114). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and may not reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The authors would like to thank Claude Weisbuch for useful discussions and the cleanroom staff at UCSB nanofabrication facility.
    Publisher
    The Optical Society
    Journal
    Optics Express
    DOI
    10.1364/oe.27.0a1074
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    https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-27-16-A1074
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    10.1364/oe.27.0a1074
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