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Article Dans Une Revue Applied Physics Letters Année : 2021

Quantitative Correlation of Hot Electron Emission to Auger Recombination in the Active Region of c-plane blue III-N LEDs

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Using Electron Emission Spectroscopy (EES), measurement and analysis were conducted on the energy distribution of vacuum emitted electrons from an electrically driven InGaN/GaN commercial blue c-plane (peak wavelengths λ ≈ 465 nm) light emitting diode (LED) with 60 nm of p-GaN on top of the active region. The signal-to-noise ratio of semiconductor peaks are improved on the thin p-GaN LED compared to previous published data on thicker p-GaN samples and is attributed to reduced loss of electrons en route to emission into vacuum during transit through the p-GaN. This further proves that hot electrons are generated in the bulk region and not by light or other hot electron generation mechanism at the surface. Using square root of the light output power (LOP) as a proxy for the active region carrier density, n, the hot electron integrated peak intensity is shown to be proportional to n 3 and thus is directly attributed to a 3-body Auger process. Since there are significant Auger recombination currents even at low injection current densities, it is expected that Auger recombination current will dominate over radiation recombination and Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) currents at higher current densities. This identifies Auger recombination as the dominant cause of efficiency droop.
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hal-03452309 , version 1 (26-11-2021)

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Wan Ying Ho, Yi Chao Chow, Daniel J Myers, Feng Wu, Jacques Peretti, et al.. Quantitative Correlation of Hot Electron Emission to Auger Recombination in the Active Region of c-plane blue III-N LEDs. Applied Physics Letters, 2021. ⟨hal-03452309⟩
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