Thermal droop in III-nitride based light-emitting diodes: Physical origin and perspectives

M Meneghini, C De Santi, A Tibaldi, M Vallone… - Journal of applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This tutorial paper focuses on the physical origin of thermal droop, ie, the decrease in the
luminescence of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) induced by increasing temperature. III-nitride …

The influence of random indium alloy fluctuations in indium gallium nitride quantum wells on the device behavior

TJ Yang, R Shivaraman, JS Speck… - Journal of Applied Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we describe the influence of the intrinsic indium fluctuation in the InGaN
quantum wells on the carrier transport, efficiency droop, and emission spectrum in GaN …

On the uncertainty of the Auger recombination coefficient extracted from InGaN/GaN light-emitting diode efficiency droop measurements

J Piprek, F Römer, B Witzigmann - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
III-nitride light-emitting diodes (LEDs) suffer from a severe efficiency reduction with
increasing injection current (droop). Auger recombination is often seen as primary cause of …

Physics‐based modeling and experimental implications of trap‐assisted tunneling in InGaN/GaN light‐emitting diodes

M Mandurrino, G Verzellesi, M Goano… - … status solidi (a), 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In a combined experimental and numerical investigation, we present the effects of trap‐
assisted tunneling on the sub‐threshold forward bias characteristics of a blue InGaN/GaN …

Role of defects in the thermal droop of InGaN-based light emitting diodes

C De Santi, M Meneghini, M La Grassa… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This paper reports an investigation of the physical origin of the thermal droop (the drop of the
optical power at high temperatures) in InGaN-based light-emitting diodes. We critically …

Progress and challenges in electrically pumped GaN-based VCSELs

Å Haglund, E Hashemi, J Bengtsson… - … Lasers and Laser …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
ABSTRACT The Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) is an established optical
source in short-distance optical communication links, computer mice and tailored infrared …

VENUS: A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser electro-opto-thermal numerical simulator

A Tibaldi, F Bertazzi, M Goano… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The properties of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are investigated by means
of a multiphysical Vcsel Electro-opto-thermal NUmerical Simulator (VENUS). VENUS …

Multiscale approaches for the simulation of InGaN/GaN LEDs

M Auf der Maur - Journal of Computational Electronics, 2015 - Springer
In this work we review basic aspects of multiscale approaches for combining atomistic with
continuous media descriptions and quantum mechanical with semiclassical drift–diffusion …

Reduced dimensionality multiphysics model for efficient VCSEL optimization

A Gullino, A Tibaldi, F Bertazzi, M Goano… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The ICT scene is dominated by short-range intra-datacenter interconnects and networking,
requiring high speed and stable operations at high temperatures. GaAs/AlGaAs vertical …

[HTML][HTML] Looking for Auger signatures in III-nitride light emitters: A full-band Monte Carlo perspective

F Bertazzi, M Goano, X Zhou, M Calciati… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Recent experiments of electron emission spectroscopy (EES) on III-nitride light-emitting
diodes (LEDs) have shown a correlation between droop onset and hot electron emission at …