Red, green and blue InGaN micro-LEDs for display application: temperature and current density effects

Micro-LED has attracted tremendous attention as next-generation display, but InGaN red-green-blue (RGB) based high-efficiency micro-LEDs, especially red InGaN micro-LED, face significant challenges and the optoelectronic performance is inevitably affected by environmental factors such as varying temperature and operating current density. Here, we demonstrated the RGB InGaN micro-LEDs, and investigated the effects of temperature and current density for the InGaN RGB micro-LED display. We found that temperature increase can lead to the changes of electrical characteristics, the shifts in electroluminescence spectra, the increase of full width at half maximum and the decreases of light output power, external quantum efficiency, power efficiency, and ambient contrast ratios, while current density increase can also give rise to different changing trends of the varieties of parameters mentioned just above for the RGB micro-LED display, creating great challenges for its application in practical scenarios. Despite of the varying electrical and optical charateristics, relatively high and stable colour gamut of the RGB display can be maintained under changing temperature and current density. Based on the results above, mechanisms on the temperature and current density effects were analyzed in detail, which would be helpful to predict the parameters change of micro-LED display caused by temperature and current density, and provided guidance for improving the performance of InGaN micro-LED display in the future.(c) 2022 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement

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This study demonstrates the characteristics of RGB InGaN micro-LEDs and investigates the effects of temperature and current density on their display performance. The results show that changes in temperature and current density affect electrical characteristics, electroluminescence spectra, and power parameters, presenting challenges for practical applications. However, the RGB display maintains a relatively high and stable color gamut under varying temperature and current density.