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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 114, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5063735
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- Five-Star Alliance
- JSPS KAKENHI, Japan [JP16H06427, JP17H02907, JP17H04809]
- Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Nagoya University
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The microscopic structural and optical characteristics of AlGaN-based light-emitting diodes grown on AIN templates with macrosteps were evaluated. Cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy in the high-angle annular dark field scanning mode and microscopic energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy reveal that the AlGaN cladding layer under the AlGaN quantum wells (QWs) has microscopic compositional modulations originating from the macrosteps at the AIN template surface. The Ga-rich oblique zones in the cladding layer likely behave as current micropaths. These micropaths are connected to the carrier localization structure, which is formed by the modulation of both the well widths and the compositions of the QWs. In-plane spatially resolved cathodoluminescence (CL) spectroscopy indicated significant inhomogeneity of the CL characteristics: the brighter emission with a lower peak photon energy confirms the existence of the carrier localization structure in the QWs. Carrier localization in the QWs along with the current micropaths in the AlGaN cladding layer appears to increase the external quantum efficiency of AlGaN LEDs. Published under license by AIP Publishing.
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