中高温GaN插入层厚度对蓝光LED光电性能的影响

利用金属有机气相化学沉积(MOCVD)技术在蓝宝石图形衬底上生长GaN基蓝光LED,并系统研究了不同中高温GaN插入层厚度对其光电性能的影响。利用芯片测试仪和原子力显微镜(AFM)表征了GaN基蓝光LED外延片的光电性能以及表面形貌。当中高温GaN插入层厚度从60 nm增加至100 nm时,V形坑尺寸从70~110 nm增加至110~150 nm。当注入电流为20 mA时,LED芯片的光功率从21.9 mW增加至24.1mW;当注入电流为120 mA时,LED芯片的光功率从72.4 mW增加至82.4 mW。对V形坑尺寸调控LED光电性能的相关物理机制进行了分析,结果表明:增大V形坑尺寸有利于增加空穴注入面积和注入效率,进而提高LED器件的光功率。     

GaN基高压直流发光二极管制备及其性能分析

GaN基高压直流发光二极管工艺制备, 采用蓝宝石图形衬底(PSS) 外延片制备正梯形芯粒结构的GaN基高压直流LED.相对其他结构器件, 该结构器件发光效率最高, 封装白光后, 在色温4500 K, 驱动电流20 mA时, 光效116.06 lm/W, 对应电压50 V. 测试其I-V曲线表明, 开启电压为36 V, 对应驱动电流为1.5 mA; 在电流15 mA至50 mA时, 光功率随驱动电流增加近似于线性增加, 在此区域光效随电流增加而降低的幅度比较缓慢, 表明GaN基高压直流LED适宜于采用大电流密度驱动, 而不会出现驱动电流密度增加导致量子效率明显下降(efficiency droop), 为从芯片层面研究解决量子效率下降难题提供了一种新思路.     

注入电流对绿光高压LED光电特性的影响

设计并制备了12 V的GaN基绿光高压发光二极管(LED),并对其进行了变电流测试。研究了绿光高压LED的正向电压、峰值波长、光功率以及光效等重要参数随注入电流的变化关系,电流变化范围为3~50mA,测试温度为25℃。实验结果表明:电流对绿光高压LED的光电特性有很大影响。在驱动电流为20 mA时,对应电压为14 V。随着注入电流的增大,峰值波长蓝移了2 nm。随着电流的增大,光功率近似于线性增加。在注入电流从3 mA增大到20 mA的过程中,光效降低了约61%;在注入电流从20 mA增大到50 mA的过程中,光效降低了约39%。这说明高压LED在大电流驱动时,光效降低的幅度比较缓慢。上述结果对GaN基绿光高压LED的改进优化具有一定的参考价值。     

电流阻挡层对大功率LED光电热特性的影响

LED芯片作为LED光源的核心,其质量直接决定了器件的性能、寿命等,因此在内量子效率已达到高水平的情况下,致力于提高光提取效率是推动LED芯片技术发展的关键一步。由于蓝宝石衬底具有绝缘特性,传统LED将N和P电极做在芯片出光面的同一侧,而芯片出光面上的P电极焊盘金属会遮挡吸收其正下方发光区发出的大部分光而造成光损失,为改善这一现象并缓解P电极周围的电流拥挤效应,本文设计制备了在P电极正下方的氧化铟锡(ITO)透明导电层和p-GaN之间插入SiO_2薄膜作为电流阻挡层(CBL)的大功率LED,并与无CBL结构的大功率LED相比较。对未封装的有无CBL结构的LED在350 mA电流下进行正向偏压,辐射通量,主波长等裸芯性能测试,结果显示两种芯片的正向偏压均集中在3～3.1 V,而有CBL结构的LED光输出功率有明显提升,这是因为CBL阻挡了电流在P电极正下方的扩散,减少流向有源区的电流密度,故减小了P电极对光的吸收和遮挡,且电流通过CBL引导至远离P电极的区域,缓解了电极周围的电流拥挤。对两种芯片进行相同结构和工艺条件的封装,并对封装样品进行热特性及10～600 mA的变电流光电特性测试,得到两种器件的发光光谱及光功率等光学特性。结果表明随着电流增加,两种器件的光谱曲线均发生蓝移,且有CBL结构的LED主波长偏移量较无CBL结构LED少10 nm,可见有CBL结构的LED光谱受驱动电流变化的影响更小,因此其显色性能更为稳定。而在小电流条件下, CBL对器件光功率的影响不大,随着工作电流的增大, CBL对器件光功率的改善效果逐渐提升。在大电流条件下,无CBL结构的LED结温更高,正向电压更低,随电流的增大二者之间的电压差增大。在25℃的环境温度, 350 mA工作电流下,加入CBL结构使器件电压升高约0.04 V,但器件光功率最高提升了9.96%,且热阻明显小于无CBL结构器件,说明有CBL结构LED产热更少。因此CBL结构大大提高了器件的光提取效率,并使其光谱漂移更小,显色性能更为稳定。     

ITO表面粗化提高GaN基LED芯片出光效率

使用现有生产线上工艺成熟且成本低廉的技术实现ITO粗化以提高GaN基LED蓝光芯片的出光效率是产业界重要的研究课题。本文通过普通光刻技术和湿法腐蚀技术,实现ITO表面粗化,有效地提高了LED芯片的输出光功率。输入电流为20 mA时,ITO层制备密集分布的三角周期圆孔阵列后,芯片输出光功率提升11.4%,但正向电压升高0.178 V;微结构优化设计后,芯片输出光功率提升8.2%,正向电压仅升高0.044 V。小电流注入时,密集分布的三角周期圆孔阵列有利于获得较高的输出光功率。大电流注入时,这种结构将导致电流拥挤,芯片的电光转化效率衰减严重。经过优化设计后的微结构阵列器件,具有较高的电注入效率,因此芯片的出光效率较高且随输入电流的增加而衰减的趋势较慢,因此更适合大电流下工作。     

Si衬底功率型GaN基绿光LED性能

对本实验室在Si(111)衬底上MOCVD法生长的芯片尺寸为400 μm×600μm功率型绿光LED的光电性能进行研究.带有银反射镜的LED在20 mA的电流下正向工作电压为3.59 V,主波长518 nm,输出光功率为7.3 mW,90 mA下达到28.2 mW,发光功率效率为7.5%,光输出饱和电流高达600 mA.在200 mA电流下加速老化216 h,有银反射镜的LED光衰小于尤银反射镜的LED,把这一现象归结于Ag反射镜在提高出光效率的同时,降低了芯片奉身的温度.本器件有良好的发光效率,光衰和光输出饱和电流等综合特性表明,Si衬底GaN基绿光LED具有诱人的发展前景.     

电流主动导引结构倒装AlGaInP LED

设计并制备了一种带有电流导引结构的新型倒装AlGaInP LED。实验结果表明,在20mA直流电流注入下,器件的电压为2.19V,输出光功率与普通倒装器件相比提高了17.33%。通过电流导引结构,使得器件注入电流被主动引导到电极以外部分,有效增大了上电极以外部分有源区中用于发光的有效载流子数目的比例,同时减轻了电流密度过大现象,大大提高了器件的出光效率。     

铝/氧化铝复合基板封装的LED光源的光热特性

为获得具有高出光效率、高导热性能的发光二极管(LED)封装基板,采用直接敷铝(Al)工艺制备了铝/氧化铝(Al_2O_3)复合陶瓷基板并对其表面进行化学机械抛光处理。运用光学模拟软件Tracepro和热学模拟软件ANSYS对该陶瓷基板封装的LED光源的光学性能和热学性能进行了模拟计算,并和传统氧化铝陶瓷基板封装的LED光源进行了对比分析,最后将所制备的铝/氧化铝陶瓷基板封装成板上芯片直装(COB)型LED光源进行测试。模拟和实验测试结果均表明:直接敷铝工艺制备的铝/氧化铝陶瓷基板热传递速度更快,导热性能更加优异,更适合用于大功率LED光源的封装;铝/氧化铝陶瓷基板封装的的LED光源比基于传统氧化铝陶瓷基板的LED光源的光通量大,出光效率更高。     

条形叉指n阱和p衬底结的硅LED设计及分析

采用0.35μm双栅标准CMOS工艺最新设计和制备了叉指型SiLED发光器件。器件结构采用n阱和p衬底结,n阱为叉指结构,嵌入到p衬底中而结合成Sipn结LED。观察了SiLED发光显微图形及实际器件的版图,并在对器件进行了正、反向I-V特性测试、光功率及光谱特性的测量。SiLED的正向偏置时开启电压为0.9V,反向偏置时在15V左右可观察到发光。器件在室温下反向偏置时,10V,100mA电流下所得输出光功率为12.6nW,发光峰值在758nm处。     

基于离子注入隔离的微缩化发光二极管阵列性能

基于F离子注入隔离技术实现一种新型微缩化发光二极管(micromicro-LED)阵列器件,并系统研究注入能量及发光孔径对micro-LED阵列器光电性能的影响.研究结果表明:相比于F离子50 ke V单次注入器件, 50/100 ke V两次注入器件具有更好的光电性能,器件反向漏电降低8.4倍,光输出功率密度提升1.3倍.同时,在不同的发光孔径(6, 8, 10μm)条件下,器件反向漏电流均为3.4×10–8 A,但正向工作电压随孔径增大而减小,分别为3.3, 3.1, 2.9 V.此外,器件不同发光孔径的有效发光面积比(实际发光面积与器件面积之比)分别为85%, 87%, 92%.与传统台面刻蚀micro-LED器件相比,离子注入隔离技术实现的micro-LED器件具有较低反的向漏电流密度、较高的光输出密度及有效发光面积比.     

Guided-Wave Two-Dimensional Acousto-Optic Scanner Using Proton-Exchanged Lithium Niobate Waveguide

Two-dimensional scanning of a 0.6328 mum guided-light beam has been realized using noncolinear acousto-optic (AO) coplanar Bragg diffraction together with colinear AO guided-mode to substrate radiation-mode conversion in a Z-cut Xpropagation LiNbO3 proton-exchanged (PE) waveguide. The two surface acoustic (SAW) waves utilized are at the center frequencies of 500 and 200 MHz, propagating in the Y and X axes, respectively. Two-dimensional scanning of approximately 720 resolvable light beam spots, namely, 18 40 (horizontal vertical) scanning, has been demonstrated using a light beam of 1.0 mm aperture. The total number of resolvable beam spots can be greatly increased from 720 by simply utilizing SAW transducers of larger bandwidth and a light beam of greater aperture. It should also be possible to significantly increase the diffraction efficiency from 3 % by optimizing the parameters of the PE waveguide and the SAWs.     

Effect ofγ-radiation on the spectral luminescence characteristics of impure cadmium tungstate crystals

Results of a study of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of cadmium tungstate crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations are presented. Spectral characteristics of the nondnnnoped crystals are briefly described. Absorption and photo and X-ray luminescence spectra of the crystals taken before and after exposure to γ-radiation (5.5·10⁴ Gy) are compared. It is found that the spectral characteristics of the crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations do not change markedly after the exposure. The relation between the type of impurity-induced defects, individual characteristics of the impurity cations, and the character of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of impure crystals is analyzed (preliminarily). Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 55–60, January–February, 1997.     

Measurement of nonlinear coefficient of optical fiber based on small chirped soliton transmission

We measure the waveform and phase curves of short optical pulses before and after transmission over different lengths of fibers by use of the pulse analyzer with the frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG),and numerically simulate pulse evolution under the experimental conditions.The nonlinear coefficient of the fiber is given by comparing the experimental results with the numerical ones.Difference between the experiment and numerical simulation is analyzed.     

Resonance scattering of canonical elastic shells in absorbing fluid medium

Resonance scattering of elastic spherical shell and cylindrical shell while the surrounding fluid medium has absorption is studied. The normal mode solution derived using exact elastic theory and the separation of variables is still applicable. However, the scattering form function has to be modified for the absorbing medium, otherwise the unreasonable result would be obtained. The backscattering form function in the absorbing medium is redefined, and the form function of elastic spherical and cylindrical shell with vacuum or solid matter filled is calculated in various absorption conditions. The results show that the absorption of surrounding fluid leads to notable attenuation of the coincidence resonances in the mid-frequency, but it has a little influence on the low-frequency resonance scattering induced by the filler inside the shell.     

Single-beam self-referenced phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance sensor with high detection resolution

A versatile and low-cost single-beam self-referenced phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance(SPR)sensing system with ultra-high resolution performance is presented.The system exhibits a root-mean-square phase fluctuation of ±0.0028.over a period of 45 min.i.e.a resolution of±5.2×10-9 refractive index units.The enhanced performance has been achieved through the incorporation of three design elements:a true single-beam configuration enabling complete self-referencing so that only the phase change associated with SPR gets detected,a differential measurement scheme to eliminate spurious signals not related to the sensor response,and the elimination of retardation drifts by incorporating temperature stabilization in the liquid crystal phase modulato .Our design should bring the detection sensitivity of non-labeling SPR biosensing closer to that achievable by conventional fluorescence-based techniques.     

Influences of SiO2 protective layers and annealing on the laser-induced damage threshold of Ta2O5 films

Ta2O5 films are prepared on BK7 substrates with conventional electron beam evaporation deposition.The effects of SiO2 protective layers and annealing on the laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) of the films are investigated.The results show that SiO2 protective layers exert little influence on the electric field intensity(EFI)distribution,microstructure and microdefect density but increase the absorption slightly.Annealing iS effective on decreasing the microdefect density and the absorption of the films.Both SiO2 protective layers and annealing are beneficial to the damage resistance of the films and the latter is more effective to improve the LIDT.Moreover,the maximal LIDT of Ta2O5 films is achieved by the combination of SiO2 protective layers and annealing.     

A stereo matching algorithm using multi-peak candidate matches and geometric constraints

Gray cross correlation matching technique is adopted to extract candidate matches with gray cross correla- tion coefficients less than some certain range of maximal correlation coefficient called multi-peak candidate matches. Multi-peak candidates are extracted corresponding to three closest feature points at first. The corresponding multi-peak candidate matches are used to construct the model polygon. Correspondence is determined based on the local geometric relations between the three feature points and the multi-peak candidates. The disparity test and the global consistency checkout are applied to eliminate the remaining ambiguous matches that are not removed by the local geometric relational test. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is feasible and accurate.     

Fiber Modal Index Measurements Based on Fiber Gratings

A novel method based on fiber gratings for measuring the effective indices of fiber modes is proposed. The effective index difference between the core mode and a cladding mode was obtained by analyzing the interference fringe of a pair of cascaded long-period fiber gratings. In order to extract the core mode index from the measured index difference, an index matching oil immersion method is proposed. By analyzing the interaction between the cladding mode and the oil applied on the cladding surface, the mode order and the effective index of the involved cladding mode might be calculated. Experimental results about the interference fringe shifts induced by the oil index and the oil-applied length are also presented.     

Optical Pulse Compression Schemes That Use Nonlinear Bragg Gratings

Nonlinear optical pulse compression of picosecond pulses typically requires long lengths of optical fiber and multiple components. Periodic structures, such as fiber Bragg gratings, are highly dispersive at wavelengths outside of the photonic bandgap. This implies that such gratings can be used as very short all-fiber compressors. In this paper a number of such compression schemes are reviewed involving uniform and nonuniform fiber Bragg gratings, relying on both soliton and nonsoliton compression principles. Experimental results supporting the corresponding underlying theory are also presented. Finally, an extension of one of the compression schemes is shown, which allows the generation of adjustable high-repetition rate soliton trains.