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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 23, Issue 25, Pages 32274-32288Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.032274
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- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [MOST 103-2120-M-002-002, NSC 102-2221-E-002-204-MY3, MOST 103-2221-E-002-139]
- National Taiwan University [103R890951, 103R890952]
- U.S. Air Force Scientific Research Office [AOARD-14-4105]
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The combined effects of a few mechanisms for emission efficiency enhancement produced in the overgrowth of the transparent conductor layer of Ga-doped ZnO (GaZnO) on a surface Ag-nanoparticle (NP) coated light-emitting diode (LED), including surface plasmon (SP) coupling, current spreading, light extraction, and contact resistivity reduction, are demonstrated. With a relatively higher GaZnO growth temperature (350 degrees C), melted Ag NPs can be used as catalyst for forming GaZnO nanoneedles (NNs) through the vapor-liquid-solid growth mode such that light extraction efficiency can be increased. Meanwhile, residual Ag NPs are buried in a simultaneously grown GaZnO layer for inducing SP coupling. With a relatively lower GaZnO growth temperature (250 degrees C), all the Ag NPs are preserved for generating a stronger SP coupling effect. By using a thin annealed GaZnO interlayer on p-GaN before Ag NP fabrication, the contact resistivity at the GaZnO/p-GaN interface and hence the overall device resistance can be reduced. Although the use of this interlayer blue-shifts the localized surface plasmon resonance peak of the fabricated Ag NPs from the quantum well emission wavelength of the current study (535 nm) such that the SP coupling effect becomes weaker, it is useful for enhancing the SP coupling effect in an LED with a shorter emission wavelength. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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