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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhang, Yuewei
• Krishnamoorthy, Sriram
• Akyol, Fatih
• Johnson, Jared M.
• Allerman, Andrew A.
• Moseley, Michael W.
• Armstrong, Andrew M.
• Hwang, Jinwoo
• Rajan, Siddharth

Titel

Reflective metal/semiconductor tunnel junctions for hole injection in AlGaN UV LEDs

Ist Teil von

• Applied physics letters, 2017-07, Vol.111 (5)

Ort / Verlag

Melville: American Institute of Physics

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

AIP Scitation Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this work, we investigate the use of nanoscale polarization engineering to achieve efficient hole injection from metals to ultra-wide bandgap AlGaN, and we show that UV-reflective aluminum (Al) layers can be used for hole injection into p-AlGaN. The dependence of tunneling on the work function of the metal was investigated, and it was found that highly reflective Al metal layers can enable efficient hole injection into p-AlGaN, despite the relatively low work function of Al. Efficient tunneling hole injection was confirmed by light emission at 326 nm with an on-wafer peak external quantum efficiency and a wall-plug efficiency of 2.43% and 1.33%, respectively. A high power density of 79.0 W/cm2 was measured at 1200 A/cm2. The metal/semiconductor tunnel junction structure demonstrated here could provide significant advantages for efficient and manufacturable device topologies for high power UV emitters.