Optical properties of InGaN-based LEDs investigated using high hydrostatic pressure dependent techniques

High pressure electroluminescence (EL) measurements were carried out on blue and green emitting InGaN-based light emitting diodes (LEDs). The weak pressure coefficient of the peak emission energy of the LEDs is found to increase with increasing injection current. Such behaviour is consistent with an enhancement of the piezoelectric fields under high pressure which become increasingly screened at high currents. A subsequent increase in the quantum confined Stark effect (QCSE) is expected to cause a reduction of the light output power as pressure is applied at a fixed low current density (∼10Acm). A similar proportional reduction of light output power as pressure is applied at a fixed high current density (260Acm) suggests that there is a non-radiative loss process in these devices which is relatively insensitive to pressure. Such behaviour is shown to be consistent with a defect-related recombination process which increases with increasing injection. © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

Optical properties of InGaN-based LEDs investigated using high hydrostatic pressure dependent techniques

High pressure electroluminescence (EL) measurements were carried out on blue and green emitting InGaN-based light emitting diodes (LEDs). The weak pressure coefficient of the peak emission energy of the LEDs is found to increase with increasing injection current. Such behaviour is consistent with an enhancement of the piezoelectric fields under high pressure which become increasingly screened at high currents. A subsequent increase in the quantum confined Stark effect (QCSE) is expected to cause a reduction of the light output power as pressure is applied at a fixed low current density (∼10Acm). A similar proportional reduction of light output power as pressure is applied at a fixed high current density (260Acm) suggests that there is a non-radiative loss process in these devices which is relatively insensitive to pressure. Such behaviour is shown to be consistent with a defect-related recombination process which increases with increasing injection. © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

Optical properties of InGaN�based LEDs investigated using high hydrostatic pressure dependent techniques

High pressure electroluminescence (EL) measurements were carried out on blue and green emitting InGaN-based light emitting diodes (LEDs). The weak pressure coefficient of the peak emission energy of the LEDs is found to increase with increasing injection current. Such behaviour is consistent with an enhancement of the piezoelectric fields under high pressure which become increasingly screened at high currents. A subsequent increase in the quantum confined Stark effect (QCSE) is expected to cause a reduction of the light output power as pressure is applied at a fixed low current density (∼10Acm). A similar proportional reduction of light output power as pressure is applied at a fixed high current density (260Acm) suggests that there is a non-radiative loss process in these devices which is relatively insensitive to pressure. Such behaviour is shown to be consistent with a defect-related recombination process which increases with increasing injection. © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

Strain dependence of internal displacement and effective charge in wurtzite III-N semiconductors

The elastic and dielectric properties of binary III-N wurtzite semiconductors have been investigated as a function of strain. Using an ab initio density functional theory (DFT), we concentrate on the internal displacement (u) and Born effective charge (Z*) and show that our model provides a unique non linear dependence of the III-N material properties as a function of strain

Enhancement of efficiency of InGaN-based light emitting diodes through strain and piezoelectric field management

We report calculations of the strain dependence of the piezoelectric field within InGaN multi-quantum wells light emitting diodes. Such fields are well known to be a strong limiting factor of the device performance. By taking into account the nonlinear piezoelectric coefficients, which in particular cases predict opposite trends compared to the commonly used linear coefficients, a significant improvement of the spontaneous emission rate can be achieved as a result of a reduction of the internal field. We propose that such reduction of the field can be obtained by including a metamorphic InGaN layer below the multiple quantum well active region. © 2013 AIP Publishing LLC