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MICROMACHINES
Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/mi11020125
Keywords
compound semiconductor; nanostructure; ultraviolet; light-emitting diode (LED); molecular beam epitaxy; GaN; AlN
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN-2019-04726]
- NSERC [DGECR-2019-00494]
- McGill University
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In this paper, we discuss the recent progress made in aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) nanowire ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The AlGaN nanowires used for such LED devices are mainly grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD); and various foreign substrates/templates have been investigated. Devices on Si so far exhibit the best performance, whereas devices on metal and graphene have also been investigated to mitigate various limitations of Si substrate, e.g., the UV light absorption. Moreover, patterned growth techniques have also been developed to grow AlGaN nanowire UV LED structures, in order to address issues with the spontaneously formed nanowires. Furthermore, to reduce the quantum confined Stark effect (QCSE), nonpolar AlGaN nanowire UV LEDs exploiting the nonpolar nanowire sidewalls have been demonstrated. With these recent developments, the prospects, together with the general challenges of AlGaN nanowire UV LEDs, are discussed in the end.
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