Effect of multiple quantum well periods on structural properties and performance of extended short-wavelength infrared LEDs
Phuc Dinh Nguyen,
Minkyeong Kim,
Yeongho Kim,
Jiyeon Jeon,
Suho Park,
Chang Soo Kim,
Quang Liem Nguyen,
Byong Sun Chun,
Sang Jun Lee
Affiliations
Phuc Dinh Nguyen
Division of Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea; Department of Nano Science, University of Science & Technology, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea; Institute of Materials Science, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi 10000, Viet Nam
Minkyeong Kim
Division of Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea; Korea Spectral Products, Seoul 08381, Republic of Korea
Yeongho Kim
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea
Jiyeon Jeon
Division of Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
Suho Park
Division of Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea; Department of Nano Science, University of Science & Technology, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
Chang Soo Kim
Division of Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
Quang Liem Nguyen
Institute of Materials Science, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi 10000, Viet Nam
Byong Sun Chun
Division of Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea; Corresponding author.
Sang Jun Lee
Division of Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea; Department of Nano Science, University of Science & Technology, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea; Corresponding author. Division of Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea.
We present research on the role of multiple quantum well periods in extended short-wavelength infrared InGaAs/InAsPSb type-I LEDs. The fabricated LEDs consisted of 6, 15, and 30 quantum well periods, and we evaluated the structural properties and device performance through a combination of theoretical simulations and experimental characterization. The strain and energy band offset was precisely controlled by carefully adjusting the composition of the InAsPSb quaternary material, achieving high valence and conduction band offsets of 350 meV and 94 meV, respectively. Our LEDs demonstrated a high degree of relaxation of 94–96 %. Additionally, we discovered that the temperature-dependent dark current characterization attributed to generation-recombination and trap-assign tunneling, with trap-assign tunneling being more dominant at lower current injections. Electroluminescence analysis revealed that the predominant emission mechanism of the LEDs originated from localized exciton and free exciton radiative recombination, which the 30 quantum wells LED exhibited the highest contribution of the localized exciton/free exciton radiative recombination. We observed that increasing the quantum well periods from 6 to 15 led to an increase in the 300 K electroluminescence intensity of the LED. However, extending the quantum well period to 30 resulted in a decline in emission intensity due to the degradation of the epitaxial film quality.
