Journal
ACS PHOTONICS
Volume 2, Issue 7, Pages 980-986Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00216
Keywords
mesoporous; photonic engineering; distributed Bragg reflector; electrochemical etching; gallium nitride; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [CMMI-1129964]
- YINQE
- NSF MRSEC [DMR 1119826]
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A porous medium is a special type of material where voids are created in a solid medium. The introduction of pores into a bulk solid can profoundly affect its physical properties and enable interesting mechanisms. In this paper, we report the use of mesoporous GaN to address a long-standing challenge in GaN devices: tuning the optical index in epitaxial structures without compromising the structural and electrical properties. By controlling the doping and electrochemical etching bias, we are able to control the pore morphology from macro- to meso- and microporous. The meso- and microporous GaN can be considered a new form of GaN with unprecedented optical index tunability. We examine the scattering loss in a porous medium quantitatively using numerical, semiempirical, and experimental methods. It is established that the optical loss due to scattering is well within the acceptable range. While being perfectly lattice-matched to GaN, the porous GaN layers are found to be electrically highly conductive. As an example of optical engineering, we demonstrate record high reflectances (R > 99.5%) from epitaxial mesoporous GaN mirrors that can be controllably fabricated, a result that is bound to impact GaN opto and photonic technologies.
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