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High Brightness LEDs. Chapter5 Chapter6 屠嫚琳. Contents. Bandgap Energies Band Offsets Quantum Well Devices Substrate Absorption Distributed Bragg Reflector LEDs. Bandgap Energies.
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High Brightness LEDs Chapter5 Chapter6 屠嫚琳
Contents • Bandgap Energies • Band Offsets • Quantum Well Devices • Substrate Absorption • Distributed Bragg Reflector LEDs
Bandgap Energies • At room-temperature the direct-indirect crossover occurs for an alloy composition of x =0.53,corresponding to an emission wavelength of 555 nm. The(AlxGa1-x)0.5In0.5P alloy is direct from 555 to 650 nm. The direct() bandgap and indirect(X) bandgap vari-ation with composition is given by E(x) = 1.91+0.61x (eV) EX(x) = 2.19+0.085x (eV)
Band Offsets A least squares fit to these data points results in expressions for the conduc-tion band offsets given by ΔEc(x) = 0.369x (eV) x≦0.53 ΔEc(x) = 0.285-0.157x (eV) x≦0.53 and valence band offsets given by ΔEv(x) = 0.241x (eV)
Quantum Well Devices • Quantum wells employed in (AlxGa1-x)0.5In0.5P have numerous improvements in device performance,including: • Reduced threshold currents • Shortened wavelength cw operation • Increased characteristic, operating temperatures and increased power conversion efficiencies • “thin” QW LED devices offer the potential of higher injected carrier densities, and hence more efficient radiative recombination. • Quantum well structures utilizing quantum size effects(QSE) to shorten the emission wavelength.
Substrate Absorption (cont.) • The (AlxGa1-x)0.5In0.5P alloy lattice-matched to GaAs is the material of choice for visible AlGaInP LED.However, the GaAs substrate absorbs at least half of the light emitted by the active layer. • So, in order to circumvent absorption of light by the GaAs substrate, many attempts have been made to grow the AlGaInP alloy lattice-mismatched on transparent substrates. Such as GaP. • But the cost of transparent substrate(TS) is higher than absorbing substrate(AS), we can grow distributed bragg reflector between GaAs substrate and active layer.
Distributed Bragg Reflector LEDs • The DBR LED structure is well-suited to minimize the absorption of light by the GaAs substrate in high-efficiency (AlxGa1-x)0.5In0.5P visible LEDs. • A highly reflective DBR mirror is generally formed from a repeated periodic stack of alternating high and low index quarter-wavelength layers.
Applications for High-Brightness LEDs • Automotive signal lighting • Automotive interior lighting • Traffic signal lights • Large-area displays • Liquid -crystal display backlighting • Fiber-optic LED backlighting techiniques
Fiber-optic LED backlighting techiniques • Using LED lamps to backlight an LCD display is to pipelight into a bundle of plastic fiber optics. • The fiber-optic bundle is formed into a flat sheet behind the diffuser-transflector film. • Then the fiber-optic sheet to evenly backlight the LCD display.