TY - JOUR
T1 - Tapering-induced enhancement of light extraction efficiency of nanowire deep ultraviolet LED by theoretical simulations
AU - Lin, Ronghui
AU - Galan, Sergio Valdes
AU - Sun, Haiding
AU - Hu, Yangrui
AU - Alias, Mohd Sharizal
AU - Janjua, Bilal
AU - Ng, Tien Khee
AU - Ooi, Boon S.
AU - Li, Xiaohang
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): BAS/1/1614-01-01, BAS/1/1664-01-01, BAS/1/1664-01-07
Acknowledgements: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) (KAUST Baseline Fund BAS/1/1614-01-01, KAUST Baseline Fund BAS/1/1664-01-01, KAUST Equipment Fund BAS/1/1664-01-07); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (61774065). The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the KAUST Baseline Fund and KAUST Equipment Fund. Xiaohang Li also appreciates the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
PY - 2018/4/23
Y1 - 2018/4/23
N2 - A nanowire (NW) structure provides an alternative scheme for deep ultraviolet light emitting diodes (DUV-LEDs) that promises high material quality and better light extraction efficiency (LEE). In this report, we investigate the influence of the tapering angle of closely packed AlGaN NWs, which is found to exist naturally in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) grown NW structures, on the LEE of NW DUV-LEDs. It is observed that, by having a small tapering angle, the vertical extraction is greatly enhanced for both transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE) polarizations. Most notably, the vertical extraction of TM emission increased from 4.8% to 24.3%, which makes the LEE reasonably large to achieve high-performance DUV-LEDs. This is because the breaking of symmetry in the vertical direction changes the propagation of the light significantly to allow more coupling into radiation modes. Finally, we introduce errors to the NW positions to show the advantages of the tapered NW structures can be projected to random closely packed NW arrays. The results obtained in this paper can provide guidelines for designing efficient NW DUV-LEDs.
AB - A nanowire (NW) structure provides an alternative scheme for deep ultraviolet light emitting diodes (DUV-LEDs) that promises high material quality and better light extraction efficiency (LEE). In this report, we investigate the influence of the tapering angle of closely packed AlGaN NWs, which is found to exist naturally in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) grown NW structures, on the LEE of NW DUV-LEDs. It is observed that, by having a small tapering angle, the vertical extraction is greatly enhanced for both transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE) polarizations. Most notably, the vertical extraction of TM emission increased from 4.8% to 24.3%, which makes the LEE reasonably large to achieve high-performance DUV-LEDs. This is because the breaking of symmetry in the vertical direction changes the propagation of the light significantly to allow more coupling into radiation modes. Finally, we introduce errors to the NW positions to show the advantages of the tapered NW structures can be projected to random closely packed NW arrays. The results obtained in this paper can provide guidelines for designing efficient NW DUV-LEDs.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/627612
UR - https://www.osapublishing.org/prj/abstract.cfm?uri=prj-6-5-457
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85046378140&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1364/prj.6.000457
DO - 10.1364/prj.6.000457
M3 - Article
SN - 2327-9125
VL - 6
SP - 457
JO - Photonics Research
JF - Photonics Research
IS - 5
ER -