Structural, electrical and luminescent characteristics of ultraviolet light emitting structures grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy

• Main Authors: A.Y. Polyakov, Jin-Hyeon Yun, A.S. Usikov, E.B. Yakimov, N.B. Smirnov, K.D. Shcherbachev, H. Helava, Y.N. Makarov, S.Y. Kurin, N.M. Shmidt, O.I. Rabinovich, S.I. Didenko, S.A. Tarelkin, B.P. Papchenko, In-Hwan Lee
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2017-03-01
• Series: Modern Electronic Materials
• Subjects: Electrical properties; Optical properties; Nitrides
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452177916300688
• ISSN: 2452-1779

Electrical and luminescent properties of near-UV light emitting diode structures (LEDs) prepared by hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) were studied. Variations in photoluminescence and electroluminescence efficiency observed for LEDs grown under nominally similar conditions could be attributed to the difference in the structural quality (dislocation density, density of dislocations agglomerates) of the GaN active layers, to the difference in strain relaxation achieved by growth of AlGaN/AlGaN superlattice and to the presence of current leakage channels in current confining AlGaN layers of the double heterostructure.