Light extraction improvement of blue light-emitting diodes with a Metal-distributed Bragg reflector current blocking layer

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• 作者：Na Liu ; Xiaoyan Yi ; Li Wang ; Xuejiao Sun ; Lei Liu ; Zhiqiang Liu…
• 刊名：Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：March 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：118
• 期：3
• 页码：863-867
• 全文大小：3,047 KB
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• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Physics
  Condensed Matter
  Optical and Electronic Materials
  Nanotechnology
  Characterization and Evaluation Materials
  Surfaces and Interfaces and Thin Films
  Operating Procedures and Materials Treatment
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-0630

文摘

The p-electrode of blue light-emitting diodes (LED) chips has a low transmittance on the blue light spectrum. The blue light emitted from the quantum wells under the p-electrode will be severely absorbed by p-electrode, which cause a decrease in blue light extraction efficiency (LEE). In this study, we first designed a current blocking layer (CBL) structure with the blue light reflection through the simulation software. The simulation results show that this structure can effectively improve blue LEE, and then, this structure was verified by experiment. Electroluminescence measurement results show that LED with Metal-distributed Bragg reflector (M-DBR) CBL exhibited better optical performance than the LED with SiO2 CBL and DBR CBL. It was found that M-DBR CBL can effectively increase the blue light reflectivity and prevent the light absorption from the metal p-electrode to improve LED-blue LEE.