Bridging the "green gap" of LEDs: Giant light output enhancement and directional control of LEDs via embedded nano-void photonic crystals

Yu Lin Tsai; Che Yu Liu; Chirenjeevi Krishnan; Da Wei Lin; You Chen Chu; Tzu Pei Chen; Tien Lin Shen; Tsung-Sheng Kao; Martin D.B. Charlton; Pei-Chen Yu; Chien-Chung Lin; Hao-Chung Kuo; Jr Hau He

doi:10.1039/c5nr05555e

Bridging the "green gap" of LEDs: Giant light output enhancement and directional control of LEDs via embedded nano-void photonic crystals

Yu Lin Tsai, Che Yu Liu, Chirenjeevi Krishnan, Da Wei Lin, You Chen Chu, Tzu Pei Chen, Tien Lin Shen, Tsung-Sheng Kao, Martin D.B. Charlton, Pei-Chen Yu, Chien-Chung Lin^*, Hao-Chung Kuo, Jr Hau He

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Green LEDs do not show the same level of performance as their blue and red cousins, greatly hindering the solid-state lighting development, which is the so-called "green gap". In this work, nano-void photonic crystals (NVPCs) were fabricated to embed within the GaN/InGaN green LEDs by using epitaxial lateral overgrowth (ELO) and nano-sphere lithography techniques. The NVPCs act as an efficient scattering back-reflector to outcouple the guided and downward photons, which not only boost the light extraction efficiency of LEDs with an enhancement of 78% but also collimate the view angle of LEDs from 131.5° to 114.0°. This could be because of the highly scattering nature of NVPCs which reduce the interference giving rise to Fabry-Perot resonance. Moreover, due to the threading dislocation suppression and strain relief by the NVPCs, the internal quantum efficiency was increased by 25% and droop behavior was reduced from 37.4% to 25.9%. The enhancement of light output power can be achieved as high as 151% at a driving current of 350 mA. Giant light output enhancement and directional control via NVPCs point the way towards a promising avenue of solid-state lighting.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1192-1199
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nanoscale
Volume	8
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c5nr05555e
State	Published - 14 Jan 2016

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Tsai, Y. L., Liu, C. Y., Krishnan, C., Lin, D. W., Chu, Y. C., Chen, T. P., Shen, T. L., Kao, T-S., Charlton, M. D. B., Yu, P-C., Lin, C-C., Kuo, H-C., & He, J. H. (2016). Bridging the "green gap" of LEDs: Giant light output enhancement and directional control of LEDs via embedded nano-void photonic crystals. Nanoscale, 8(2), 1192-1199. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5nr05555e

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