Structural and optical properties of semi-polar (11-22) InGaN/GaN green light-emitting diode structure

Abstract

Semi-polar (11-22) InGaN multiple quantum well (MQW) green light-emitting diode (LED) structures have been realized by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition on an m-plane sapphire substrate. By introducing double GaN buffer layers, we improve the crystal quality of semi-polar (11-22) GaN significantly. The vertical alignment of the diffraction peaks in the (11-22) X-ray reciprocal space mapping indicates the fully strained MQW on the GaN layer. The photoluminescence spectra of the LED structure show stronger emission intensity along the [1-100] InGaN/GaN direction. The electroluminescence emission of the LED structure is very broad with peaks around 550 nm and 510 nm at the 100 mA current injection for samples A and B, respectively, and exhibits a significant blue-shift with increasing drive current.